Strikes Spread as Supervisory Workers Demand Union Recognition
Pittsburgh reports indicate 11 000 miners idle in Pennsylvania as a union push for supervisor and foreman recognition spreads. About 60 strike votes are planned Aug 30 to Sept 7 across western Pennsylvania West Virginia and Kentucky with 15 to 65 workers involved per mine.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Robert Condra
District 50
United Mine Workers of America
Condra
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
West Virginia
Kentucky
War Labor Board
WLB
Wounded Lieut Donald Critchfield Praised for War Service
First Lieutenant Donald A. Critchfield of Somerset was wounded in action on August 1 in France while serving with armored infantry. He had been overseas since January 1943, fighting in North Africa and Sicily before moving to England and then Normandy on D‑Day. His training was at Fort Knox, and a brother serves in the Army Air Corps in Sardinia. another brother is training as a cadet in Marianna, Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald A. Critchfield
Somerset
Armored Infantry
France
War Department
J. A. Critchfield
West Union Street
Critchfield
England
Normandy
Fort Knox
Robert Critchfield
Army Air Corps
Sardinia
Pope Pius
Vatican City
Aviatidh
James, Jr
Marianna, Florida
War Industries Employ 48 947 in Pennsylvania
The war manpower commission announced that essential war industries in Pennsylvania employed 48 947 workers last month, with 55 175 men and women placed by U S employment offices in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
U. S
Pennsylvania
War Manpower Commission
Wreck Blocks P. R. R. 14 Hours Near Vandergrift
A 16 car of 61 freight train derailed at Butler Junction near Vandergrift causing a 14 hour shutdown of two Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. No injuries were reported. The wreck due to a broken rail damaged several cars and spilled steel cable along the right of way.
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Vandergrift
Pennsylvania Railroad
Butler Junction
Here
Parents Of Geisel Girl Are Jailed
Lorraine Geisel, 13, was taken to Maryland with her parents Owen Geisel 54 and Gertrude 46 who were arrested on charges of concealing the death of an illegitimate child and being accessories to the act. Police seek Lorraine to hear her story as investigations continue in Somerset county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorraine Geisel
Pocahontas City
Owen Geisel
Gertrude
H. A Stephens
Jennertown
Justice of the Peace
C. J. Harrison, Jr
Geisels
Maryland
Stephens
William Dively
Stella Cook
Somerset
Geisel
Somerset County
Mike Honaros
Resumes Rescue Work At Powhatan Mine
Rescuers in Bellaire Ohio resume efforts to recover 66 men killed in the Powhatan mine fire on July 5. Work targets the 7 left tunnel and a vein off the main shaft where bodies are expected. removal may take 12 to 18 hours after reach. A barricade will be built and the tunnel flushed with fresh air before stretcher bears enter.
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Bellaire
Powhatan
Grasshoppers Take to the Skies In Idaho Flight Tale
Grasshoppers are described as air minded in Idaho. Clyde Bryant of Salt Lake City reports a grasshopper smashing into his plane window at 10 000 feet during a flight to Elko Nevada.
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Grasshoppers
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Clyde Bryant
Salt Lake City
Hopper
Elko
Nev
House Plan For Surplus Sales OK'd
The House approved legislation creating a disposal agency for surplus war property valued at up to 100 billion dollars. The plan establishes one man directing the program with a three month Congress report, plus an advisory board of top officials. Amendments require congressional approval to sell key assets and to allot small business priority for small lots.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate Military Committee
Will L. Clayton
Congress
Advisory Board
Departments of Interior and Agriculture
Office of War Food
Marvin Jones
Halmahera Bombed as Pacific War Runs Aerial Offensive
Allied air forces attacked Halmahera in the Moluccas west of New Guinea with 135 tons of bombs. Liberators and Mitchells hit Wasile and Kape, destroying or damaging eight parked planes, while a Davao bombardment hit a 7,000 ton freighter in the Davao gulf. Biak mop up claimed 253 Japanese killed and 30 captured.
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Richard Bergholz
SW Pacific
Molucca Islands
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Halmahera
Liberators
Wasile
Kape
Davao
Philippines
Davao Gulf
Mopup
Biak Island
Dutch New Guinea
Steelworker dies after molten mold explosion at Edgar Thomson
Burns suffered when a mold of molten metal exploded at the Edgar Thomson works of Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. The death of Howard J. Gordon, 57, occurred last night in West Penn hospital.
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Pittsburgh
Edgar Thomson
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Howard J. Gordon
West Penn Hospital
Allied victory in Florence preserves culture and city
Allied forces completed occupation of Florence with minimal cultural damage after probing Nazi positions beyond the city. General Alexander said the Arno bridges were largely intact and the city would soon return to normal with allied support, as fighting focused along the Adriatic front and Polish troops advanced near the Metauro river.
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Roms
Florence
Harold Alexasuver
Eighth Army
Arno
Alexander
Adriatic
Metauro
Ug. 1
Desperate fighting around Hengyang and Tengchung gains
Chinese forces fend off a Japanese envelopment near Hengyang Hunan while reinforcing thrusts clash 18 and 25 miles northwest of the city. Elsewhere in Yunnan they seize Tengchung positions as Chinese drive along the Yangtze corridor toward Ichang. Near the Burma border they seize the British consulate compound as a step toward the trapped Japanese remnants.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Hengyang
Hunan
Canon-Hankow
Yunnan
Burma
O Tengchung
Leiyang
Yangtze River
Kingmen
Ichang
Chungsiang
Hankow
Langford Kiss Busts Camera With a Kiss Scene
S/Sgt. James S. Oldham of South Hanover Mass a U S Army veteran in the Southwest Pacific had not seen a white girl in 31 months Frances Lanford of the Bob Hope show kissed him and Pvt Clyde Hodges Chicago photographer on the job a camera bulb exploded showering glass as Oldham exclaimed what a kiss breaking the camera during the moment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Oldham
South Hanover
Mass
Frances Lanford
Bob Hope
Frances
Clyde Hodges
Chicago
Noncom Hodges
Oldham
Japs Flee On Tiddim Road
Allied forces press the Japanese retreat along the Tiddim road in Burma as units chase them five miles inside Burma after pursuit from India. Headquarters report a major enemy withdrawal with contact not yet established.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Tiddim Road
Burma
India
I’ Army
Petain seized and moved to Wiesbaden by German forces
reports from the Franco Swiss border say Marshal Petain was kidnapped from his Vichy villa and confined in Wiesbaden. Nazis mass troops around Belfort to defend a gateway to the Rhineland as Laval seeks a puppet government. Paris reports French interior forces attacking German positions while Koenig’s units liberate departments and towns across central France.
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London
The
Nam
Marshal Petain
Vichy
Wiesbaden
Belfort
Rhineland
Germany
Pierre Laval
Laval
Algiers
Paris
Bern
Switzerland
der Bund
Petain
Wilhelmstrasse
Berimany
France
Otto Abetz
Associated Press
Thomas Hawkins
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Interior
Place de la Republique
Boulevard
Bonne Vouvelle
Koenig
Indre
Haute Vienne
Dordogne
Correze
Cantal
Lot St. Garonne
Lot
Avergon
Tarn Et Garonne
Gers
Busses
Pyrenees
Haute Garonne
Tarn
Haute Loire
Chateauroux
Limoges
Perigueux
Tulle
Aurillac
Agen
Montauban
Rodez
Auch
Pau
Toulouse
Albi
le Puy
Allied Third Landing Near Bordeaux in France
French authorities report a third Allied landing near Bordeaux with American motorized forces and a volunteer French division advancing from the Loire region. German resistance collapses as towns along the coast are freed and prisoners surrender in growing numbers.
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Hendaye
France
Bordeaux
Nantes
Loire River
St. Jean de Luz
Biarritz
Bayonne
Dax
Deepest Penetration Of France Is Made By American Troops
American armored and infantry forces pushed toward Germany across France with a major drive from Sens toward Troyes, racing past towns along the Seine and smashing across the Loring and Yonne rivers. Allied units closed on Caen’s coast areas while British Canadian Belgian Dutch forces surged west of Paris, seizing towns like Pont L Eveque and Deauville outskirts as the push continued.
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France
James M. Long
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Germany
Sens
Paris
Normandy
Saar
Neunkirchen
Rhine
Omar N. Bradley
Seine
Cabourg
Houlgate
Dozule
Gace
Etampes
Pithiviers
Deauville
Liseux
Troyes
Allied Air Strikes Hit German Oil, Front Retreats Probed
Clouds lifted over the western front as Allied air forces renewed attacks. Normandy bombers struck German troops while Italian based Allied aircraft hit Odertal refinery and Vienna area oil facilities. RAF Mosquitos bombed trains near Dijon as daylight blows reduced enemy air strength in southeastern Europe.
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London
Western Front
Guenther von Kluge
German Armes
D-Day
Lisieux
Seine
Breux
France
Germany
Austria
Odertal
Breslau
Vienna
Chagny
Dijon
Europe
Germans Told Blunt Facts In France Fighting Report
A Nazi spokesman told German listeners that current fighting in France threatens to undermine key military claims. Lt. Kurt Ditmar said German command faced extraordinary difficulties in delaying the Allied advance and asserted German fighting efficiency remained generally successful despite surrounding enemy actions.
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London
France
DNB
Associated Press
Kurt Ditmar
Allies Press Toward Marseille After Toulon Breaks
American and French troops push beyond Toulon toward Marseille and the Rhone valley as Nazi resistance near Toulon and Marseille collapses. General Patch orders rapid pursuit, with Marseille expected to fall within hours as allied columns move from Aix en Provence and Aubagne toward the port city.
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Rome
Toulon
Marseille
Rhone Valley
Alexander M. Patch
Touon
France
Aubagne
Aix en-Provence
Weather forecast for Maryland and neighboring states
Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania expect considerable cloudiness with moderate temperatures Wednesday and Thursday. Western Pennsylvania will also have extensive cloud cover with moderate temperatures, Thursday turning partly cloudy and cooler in the west and north. West Virginia may see scattered thunder showers with moderate temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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Andrei A. Gromyko
Moscow
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Sir Alexander Cadogan
LT. Critchfield
Farmers! Truckers
Somerset Montgomery Ward
Geisel Girl
Bittner’s Greenhouse
George Tucker
Langford
Gestapo
Alex
ETON
JAP Home Industries
New York
United Kingdom
BBC
NBC Tonight
Pont L’eveque
Caen
Gov. Collines
China
Nagasaki
Shanghai
Kyushu
Japan
Tokyo
Pacific Ocean
Yawata
Kyushu Island
Shikoku Island
West Front
Austin Bealmear
Patch
Frank Unchanged
Noland Norgaard
Seventh Army
Mediterranean
Aes
Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Bureau
Boston
Cleveland
Denver Tenner
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