Army seizes Philadelphia transit to end three day walkout
The army took control of Philadelphia's transportation system to end a three day walkout that halted war production. Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes ordered the return to regular starts at 5 am tomorrow. Police and troops were stationed as violence between white and Black workers eased after clashes and hospitalizations.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Roosevelt
Philip Hayes
3Rd Service Command
War Department
Phiadelphia War
War Labor Board
Hayes
Gen. Hayes
PTC
Transportation Company
Roosevult
Secretary of War
United States of America
Charles E. Evert
Army
Norman Randolph
Pennsylvania
3D Service Command
Aluminum Cut Back Closes Two Plants and Curtails Third
The War Production Board announced a new aluminum cutback with two government plants at Riverbank California and Burlington New Jersey closing entirely and the Los Angeles plant reduced by one third. The move follows an overall 1944 armament completion of 48 percent at mid year and aims to align output with an increasing aluminum ingot surplus.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Aluminum Company of America
ALCOA
Riverbank
Calif
Burlington
N. J
Los Angeles
Donald M. Nelson
Judge Scores Mrs. Mazer At Hearing
Habeas corpus hearing to determine custody of two young boys ends with Judge Boose urging Mrs. Mazer to reconcile with her husband. He notes farm labor strains and family tensions, postponing a decision until the criminal case on desertion and non support is resolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auon
Mazer
John Peck
Somerset
Pvt Tressler Wounded Near St Lo France
Mrs William Tressler of Rockwood reports her husband Pvt William Tressler was wounded in action July 12 two miles from St Lo France. He was hit by a mortar shell and evacuated by plane to a hospital in England.
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William Tressler
W. W. Ringer
Rockwood
R. D
Pvt
Wm. Tressler
St. Lo
France
England
Somerset Borough Weed Ordinance Notice
Notice to property owners under Ordinance 568 prohibits weeds on borough lots after August 1 with penalties. If weeds remain, the borough may abate the nuisance, enter land, and charge the costs plus 20 percent to the owner or party in control by legal action or municipal claim collection.
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Borough of
Somerset
Governors Indict New Deal for Ills
Governors charge the Roosevelt administration with courting a national disaster in the conversion of industries. The headline frames the indictment amid debates over the New Deal policies and economic transformation.
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Roosevelt
Governors Close In On Dewey Victory Policy Draft
Republican governors meeting in St. Louis endorsed most of a 14 point declaration and forecast wins for the Dewey Bricker ticket. They called for state control of insurance and unemployment services while criticizing New Deal restraints and urging free agriculture and coordinated campaigns with the national party. Brownell predicted a GOP victory in November if the plan is carried out.
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ST. Louis
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
New Deal
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Brownell
Dewey- Bricker
United Party
Dewey-Bricker
Dewey
Chinese forces seize Tengchung in Yunnan as Hing battles rage
Chinese high command reports Tengchung, the largest city west of the Salween, fell after a battle with Japanese garrison. In Hunan, Hengyang remains encircled though Pingjiang was breached. Ningjiang fell with garrison wiped out. Allied planes targeted Haikow and Canton air power bases.
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Chungking
Yunnan
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
India
China
Tengchung
Salween
Hankow
Canton
Four Jap Attacks Repulsed on New Guinea Front
General headquarters reported four more Japanese assaults on the left flank of American lines in British New Guinea were repulsed. About 602 Japanese were counted dead in fighting near the Driniumor river east of Aitape, while 92 surrendered at Sansapor. Coastal strikes sank a Japanese freighter and damaged a destroyer, with Yap airfield strikes destroying four planes. Total Japanese dead in New Guinea exceeds 4,009 since last month’s breakout attempt.
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Marlin Spencer
Southwest Pacific
British New Guinea
Afua
Driniumor River
Aitape
Sansapor
New Guinea
Philippines
Sixth Army
Ceram
Yap
18Th
Imperial Army
Atrocities of Nazi Exposed in Slavuta Hospital
The Ukraine state atrocities committee reports 150000 deaths at a Slavuta hospital during Nazi occupation two years long. Only 525 survived when Slavuta was retaken by the Russians 160 miles west of Kyiv. German doctors allegedly starved patients and spread typhoid and tuberculosis.
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Moscow
Slavuta
Ukraine
Salvuta
Kiev
Red Army
Man shrinks wife shoes to stop alleged infidelity
Mrs. Very Perry won a divorce in Oakland on the grounds her husband Joaquin Perry soaked her shoes in water and baked them in the oven to shrink them. He testified he did it to stop her from running around at night with other men, according to Superior Judge Frank Ogden.
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Oakland
Calif
Very Perry
Joaquin Perry
Frank Ogden
Red Army Drives Through Poland and Baltic Front Advances
Soviet forces shattered the Vistula line in Poland, crossing near Koprzywnica and Polaniec, threatening Krakow and Kielce as gains spread west and toward East Prussia. Moscow reports said 500 towns fell on all fronts, with Russian groups hammering Estonia Latvia and Lithuania while advancing near Lyck Tilsit Insterburg and Konigsberg.
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London
Vistula
Poland
Germany
Warsaw
Silesia
West Bank
Warka
Moscow
Koprzywnica
Polaniec
Staszow
Krakow
Kielce
Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Lithuania
East Prussia
Virbalis
Wizainy
Konev
Rokossovsky
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Augustow
Polnaa
Lyck
Masurian
Tilsit
Insterburg
Konigsberg
George Lindemann
Nazis Between Yanks British Fight Near Avranches
American troops push northeast of Avranches within four miles of Vire where a British force is present. Elements of six German divisions flee toward Mortain, as Mortain falls to an American column. First Army reports 70,516 German POWs in one day with 163 tanks 54 self propelled guns 51 halftracks and armored cars abandoned.
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Wes Gallagher
U. S
France
Avranches
Vire
Mortain
First
Bradford County Reports 4 More Infantile Paralysis Cases
Towanda Bradford county health officials reported four new cases of infantile paralysis today, bringing the total since the outbreak began to 12. The update notes the continuing epidemic and the affected age group in the region.
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Towanda
Bradford County
Capture Rennes In Cyclonic Offensive Across Peninsula
RAF heavy bombers led a daylight raid hammering three robot depots in France while American four engined bombers struck German aircraft and communications targets. About 5 000 Allied aircraft took part dropping an estimated 8 000 tons.
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Rennes
London
RAF
France
Britain
Italy
Watten
Pas de Calais
German forces retreat as Allied push nears Florence
Front dispatches report German troops pulling back behind the Greve river near Florence as British Eighth Army closes to within three miles. New Zealand and South African units advance on the right while air forces claim 750 Nazi planes shot down in July and American bombers hit targets in southern France with nine planes lost.
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Britain
Saarbrucken
Mulhouse
Strasbourg
Merkwiller
France
U.S
Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Friedrichshafen
U. S
Brussels
Normandy
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Manzell Aircraft Factory
Rome
Greve
Florence
Eighth Army
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Arno
Pisa
Heinzerling
New Zealand
Mediterranean Air Forces
Mail plane crash injures two near Yorkville
Two men were seriously injured when a mail plane on a Pittsburgh to Huntington route crashed and burned near Scott Field at Yorkville. Pilot Captain G. E. Linderuth, 38, and aviator Ralph Monaco, 26, both of Pittsburgh, were taken to Martins Ferry hospital in fair condition.
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Bellaire, O
Pittsburgh
Huntington
W. Va
Scott Field
Yorkville
G. E. Linderuth
Ralph Monaco
Martins Ferry
Guam Advance Reported by Nimitz From Pearl Harbor
U S Pacific Fleet reports a two mile American advance on Guam aided by carrier aircraft. Forces hold Tumon bay area with objective near Sassayan Point. Guam and Tinian flag raised. enemy dead pass 7,983 with 7,000 civilians seeking protection. Nimitz notes Pony Peak airstrip at Tigan field and continued Marianas gains.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
W. Nimitzy
al Ches
Marianas
Tumon Bay
Sassayan Point
Nimitz
Tinian Island
Ponape
Caroline Islands
Marshall Islands
Tigan Field
Chester W. Nimitz
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Wewak-Aitape
British New Guinea
Nazis Reverse War Maps Show New French Defense Lines
A Supreme Headquarters officer said Germany turned over invasion maps and printed back maps of French territory. He displayed a captured St Lo map on a England invasion map, noting paper shortages and doubts about Britian landings. In Idaho, sailor Nial Tidball added the name Thomas to his own, signaling a name change for his son.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
England
France
St. Lo
Britain
Engand
Faragut
Idaho
Nial Tidball
Thomas
Tidball
Thomas Nial Tidball
Allied sweep toward Brest and St Nazaire gates
American forces drive across Brittany toward the prize ports of Brest and St Nazaire after breaking through at Rennes and pushing from Avranches toward Mortain. German withdrawals widen the corridor as Allied air and ground pressure seal off the Loire valley and hinder counterattacks. General Eisenhower makes his tenth visit to the Allied command.
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James M. Long
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Brittany
Renes
Brest
St. Nazaire
Rennes
Breton
Dinan
Rance
France
Normandy
Avranches
Mortain
Paris
Granville
Vire
St. Sever-Calvados
Villedieu-les-Poeles
Normandy-Brittany
Loire- Seine
Tak
Conde-sur-Noireau
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Somerset Weather Report From 5:30 PM Wednesday to 5:30 PM Thursday
The 24 hour period shows a maximum temperature of 90 and a minimum of 57. Data collected by David Grove the U S Weather Observer. A year ago the maximum was 85.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Weather forecast for Maryland and Pennsylvania regions
A cloudy, slightly warmer Friday afternoon is forecast for Maryland and eastern and western Pennsylvania with mild temperatures and light winds.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
Weather highs and lows across U S cities
The U S Weather Bureau reports temperatures for Teerstee and major cities including Boston 74 69, Chicago 98 71, Cleveland 8F FO, Denver 96 65, Miami 85 75, New York 82 70, Philadelphia 86 70, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington 88.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Teerstee
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Denver
Miami
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Washington
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ASF
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H. Everett Musser
Burgess
Douglas B. Cornell
Sind
Stilwell
Spencer Moosa
BOY Scout
Somerset Boro Salvage Committee
ED. Morin
REDS
W. W. Hercher
Bradford
Polly Jane Svyop
Judson O'Quinn
Greve River
Noland Norgaard
J. Edward Gump
NEW York Life Insurance CO
Charles H. M’murty
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