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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1944
Page
2
New Castle women urged to attend Victory Garden demonstrations on Thursday at 1 30 P M at George Washington Junior High and Ben Franklin School. Mary Emish Emergency War Bond Preservation Assistant explains best quick methods for canning fruits and vegetables with pre-pieced lids jars and rubber rings.
Campaign reports show Lawrence County nearing a five million bond total with Webbster Products staff contributing strongly. Arthur Keizmann aides the tour with an amphibious jeep as Mayor Haven and four councilmen ride to show support. The outlook brightens as industry payroll deductions yield extra bonds and two million dollars remain to meet the quota.
Analysis argues that Allied forces may push toward Brittany and Brittany ports Brest Lorient St Nazaire and St Malo to create invasion bridges. A successful capture could allow rapid advance inland to confront German armies while Cherbourg remains isolated. The writer notes fortifications weaker in Brittany and stresses it reflects personal view, not Navy Department.
Soviet communique says troops cut the German grouping in two and strive for annihilation as Russian columns push west and southwest of Vitebsk to seize Beshenkovichi. More than 2,000 Nazis killed. Col Gen Ivan Kernyakhovsky promoted. Russians capture Koivisto and Tiurinsaari islands in the Gulf of Finland.
Principal Clare Book announces that senior high school offices will close for the entire week of July 3. A recess is called during this period for employees to observe the break.
Allied troops led by Lieut. Gen. Omar N. Bradley captured Cherbourg after a week-long assault backed by artillery, tanks, and air power. German defenses near Cape Levy and Cherbourg docks were destroyed or blown up. captured German units included the 77th, 243rd, and 709th.
The report notes General Von Schlieben and Admiral Hennicke, tall and dignified, captured underground after refusing to order retreat on the Cherbourg surrender ultimatum. They offered no reply to being asked why they quit, recalling Russian campaigns where small German units delayed Soviet advances. They stood with evident distaste for American photographers.
A reader asks if a soldier sailor or airman may use a personal car and be covered for driving in case of an accident. The article offers to answer questions about automobile insurance coverage for service members and their vehicles.
Dewey will fly to the convention on Wednesday after being nominated last May, with a double draft ticket likely pairing Dewey with Governor Earl Warren. Delegates back a world peace platform, while Bricker counters with plans to block the ticket. Warren’s keynote boosts Dewey’s push as Bricker and Dewey aides clash over strategy and the party’s next chairman race unfolds.
Obituaries report multiple deaths and funerals in Ellwood City and nearby towns. August Binder of Ellwood City dies at the local hospital with services at St. Agatha's Church and burial in St. Philomena's Cemetery. Thomas Rocco, a beer distributor, dies at home. his requiem mass set for B V M Church Ellwood City with interment Locust Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Domenick DeChristopher of Carbon dies after short illness. requiem mass at St. Lawrence Church Hillaville. Other notices include Johnny Schuster, James Wesley Winger, John H. Lamb and other local residents, with call times, funeral homes, and interment details.
Navy reports from Commander Nimitz say Japanese losses mount as air battles over Saipan continue. Carrier task force claims two probable kills and ten damaged aircraft during Guam Rota raid while Kagman peninsula falls to American forces and mop up proceeds at Nafian point on Saipan. Aslito airfield becomes operational in consolidated American positions.
Erie Pa Pfc. Helen V Wallace now serves in a postwar assignment sponsored by the U S Army public relations section. She travels to British schools to answer questions about America. The Great Banks of Newfoundland are noted as a major global fishing ground.
The report mentions PA NEWC observations on animal and crop activity with birds hatchings on gravel roofs and crops like oats advancing in June. It notes traffic stop signs ignored by motorists, summertime scenes of children heading to country fruit farms, and a worker sleeping on office steps. Goldie E. Koonce counts sixteen shades of sweet peas on her Pennsylvania avenue fence.
Card of thanks from Antonin Cassella and children for kindness during illness and death of wife and mother, and for floral tributes and cars. In memoriam for Eleanor L Crawford five years after her death with poetry lines and family farewell. Also a note that sweet potatoes were used as food in the Americas with ancient Peru graves referenced.
Fifth Army advances along Highway 71 with fighting east and west of Lake Trasimeno. Castiglione Del Lago is defended as air support supports ground advances. NATO air strikes hit oil installations and an aircraft factory in Austria and Trieste refineries. About 2,000 sorties flown. 55 enemy planes destroyed. 36 heavy bombers and eight planes missing. Sweden reports Russian capture of Koivisio south of Vilpurt on the Baltic coast.
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