Five Reffner Sons Serve Nation From Somerset Family
A widowed Somerset mother, Mrs James Reffner, has five of seven sons in the armed services and two more employed as miners. Sons Roy, Robert, and David are listed along with their service details, while the family continues to honor their wartime sacrifice as the nation mobilizes.
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Mary Hause
Somerset
Armed Services
James Reffner
West Main Street
Reffner
Jennerstown
Consolidation Coal Company
Jenners
Miss Dodie
Pop
Roy
Roy P
Camp Saxton N. C
J. C. Penney Company
Bluefield
W. Va
Yeoman
Robert C
Atlantic
Navy
Esso
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Pvt
David J
Northern Ireland
David
Donora
Ethel Mae
KDKA
Somerset Post Office Tops First Class With Record Receipts
Postmaster Oscar F. Sutliffe reports Somerset postal receipts reached 583,329.02 in the past year, over 5,000 higher than 1942 and fueling the move to first class status. Windber also gains first class classification as receipts rise to 45,347.62, amid service member mail surge and expanded local business contributions.
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Somerset West Office
Oscar F. Sutliffe
Somerset Post Office
Somerset
Windkhar
M. A. Shaffer
Washington, D. C
Windser
Armed Services
Windber
Somerset Newspapers, Inc
Sutliffe
Impersonator of FHA Held on Bond in Beaver Falls Scams
Stephen Block, 50, was bound over on grand jury charges for impersonating an FHA official to defraud Beaver Falls property owners. FBI agents and residents testified he took payments as an FHA representative but did not perform the contracted repair work.
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Pittsburgh
U. S
Stephen Block
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Beaver Falls
FBI
Block
Somerset County Men Wounded in Mediterranean Action
Two Somerset county men were among 35 Pennsylvanians wounded in the Mediterranean theater of action. Pvt. Andrew Martin, kin Mrs. Julia Lesosky, Windber R. D. 2, and Pvt. Robert W. Snyder, kin Mrs. William Snyder, Cairnbrook R. D. 1, were listed by the War Department.
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Somerset County
Andrew Martin
Julia Lesosky
Windber R. D
Robert W. Snyder
William Snyder
R. D
Cairnbrook
War Department
DuPont Accused in Antitrust Civil Suit
The U S justice department charged E I du Pont de Nemours Remington Arms and Imperial Chemical Industries with conspiring to restrain trade in chemical products arms and ammunition The suit seeks abrogation of illegal contracts and a perpetual injunction against Imperial while detailing exclusive sales territories and a cartel style division of world markets by the firms
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New York
Justice Department
E. I. du Pont de Nemours
Remington Arms Company
Britain
Imperial Chemical Industries
Dr. Pont
Walter S. Carpenter
Wilmington
Del
Biddle
Wendell Berge
Antitrust
Carpenter
Ilmington
du Pont
du Pont Company
Berge
United States
Central America
Imperial
Canada
Newfoundland
South America
Bookies Take Money Judge Takes Blood
In New York on a January day 26 men faced disorderly conduct charges after being found poring over racing sheets in a club room. Eighteen men promised Magistrate Nicholas H. Pin they would donate blood to the Red Cross to have the charges dismissed, prompting a quip about bookmakers taking money and the judge taking blood.
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New York
Nicholas H. Pinto
Red Cross
Vital Statistics for Mount Washington 1943
Washington Massachusetts reports Mount Washington population 57 for 1943 with one birth two deaths and no marriages recorded.
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Washington
Mass
Mount Washington
RAF feints German defenses for Stettin raid
London reports a two wave air strike with Mosquito decoy over Berlin to lure German fighters away, allowing Lancasters to hit Stettin with over 1000 tons of bombs. RAF claims Berlin was targeted as a main route, with minimal British losses and one Canadian crewed bomber diverted to Kalmar, Sweden.
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W. W. Hercher
London
RAF
Berlin
Baltic
Stettin
Air Ministry
Leningrad
Germany
France
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Sweden
Kalmar
Yugoslav Partisans Drive Nazis From Getina Valley
Yugoslavs report driving Germans from a 60 mile Getina river valley reaching to Omis near Split. Bitter street battles continue in Banja Luka as Partisans take one building after another. In Slovenia fighting at Novomesto persists with 50 German soldiers killed in an encirclement attempt. December losses include 600 enemy soldiers slain in Macedonia with many wounded or captured.
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London
Getina
Adriatic Sea
Omis
Split
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Banja Luka
Novomesto
Slovenia
Macedonia
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Supply Dump Destroyed on Ganogga Island by Patrol
Pfc. Richard Spon of Sharon Pennsylvania and five man infantry patrol destroyed a large Japanese supply depot on Ganogga Island New Georgia. Led by Sgt. James B. Dowdy they traveled from Vella Lavella with six natives through jungle to surprise Japanese troops. They wounded two, found a depot of rations blankets ammunition rifles and dynamite and destroyed it with dynamite before returning safely despite night air raids.
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Washington
Richard Spon
Sharon
Ganogga Island
New Georgia
James B. Dowdy
Salisbury
Vella Lavella
Notice to Automobile Owners in Somerset Borough
Ordinance No. 571 prohibits overnight parking on borough streets and alleys. Compliance ensures snow plowing is not hindered. penalties apply for violations.
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Borough
Somerset
Borough of
Fifth Army launches on 10 mile front near Cassino
Allied HQ reports American and British infantry advancing about a mile on a 10 mile front from Venafro to Rome around Cassino. German defenses hold snaking lines while A 36 aircraft bombed and strafed, with fierce hand to hand clashes at San Vittore where Americans hold half the village. Canadian forces secure point 59 near Ortona as Lt General Leese warns of fighting a winter line.
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Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
Cassino
Salin
Siegfried Line
Venafro
Rocca
D'Evaniiro
Via Casilina
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Eternal City
San Vittore
Clark
Adriatic
Ortona
Oliver William Leese
Eighth Army
Eighth
Jervis
Janus
Pesaro
Pescara
Battle for San Vittore Rages as U S Troops Inch In
On January 6 near San Vittore the Fifth Army fights house to house against youthful Nazis in a miniature Stalingrad. Americans, blocked from artillery to avoid friendly fire, edge into gray stone blocks while armor engages from the valley under heavy shelling.
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Don Whitehead
Fifth Army
San Vittore
Stalingrad
Cassino
U. S
Reward Offered for Meter Theft in Somerset Borough
A reward of $25.00 is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who stole a parking meter in front of Reed's Sandwich Shoppe in Somerset Borough. Jacob C. Pile, Chief of Police.
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Reed
Somerset Borough
Liberators Out In New Guinea Battles
Six hundred Japanese slain as heavy fighting continues at Cape Gloucester New Britain with marine and air support. U S spokesman reports enemy losses over 2 000 since Dec 26 as forces push toward Bergen Bay. RAF, carrier planes strike Kavieng Rabaul area and Ra baul raids cost Japan many planes. Brig Gen Matheny and Col Wilson participate in bomber missions near Bougainville Buka area.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Bergen Bay
MacArthur
Cape
Madang
Kavieng
New Ireland
Rabaul
Kavieng-Rabaul
Toronkina Field
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Japan
Williams. Matheny
Spokane
Solomons
Buka
Harry Wilson
West Point
Mass killings reported in Kalavrita and Greek towns
Exiled Greek government charges a German mass slaughter of over 1,000 townspeople including males over 12 in Kalavrita on the Peloponnesus. The claim details women and children burned in a school, convent looting, and mistreatment of monks, with other guerrilla successes cited against the Nazis.
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Cairo
Kalavrita
Peloponnesus
Mega Spileon
Agia Larva
Berlin Tests New Heavy Shore Battery
The Berlin radio reported that Germany is testing a heavy shore battery capable of shelling ships at sea and firing on approaching bomber formations with newly designed high velocity shells at long range and altitude.
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Berlin
London
Red Army pushes into old Poland with wider front
Allied war report from London says the Red Army swept 10 miles into Poland capturing Rakitno and halting German forces as they push toward the Warsaw Odessa railway. Soviet offensives under Vatutin and Konev are described as widening the front with heavy losses to German units and significant prisoner gains.
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James M. Long
London
Red
Old Poland
Rakitno
Warsaw-Odessa
Berlin
Germany
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ivan S. Konev
Moscow
Vatutin
Poland
Rumania
Dnieper
Pripet Marshes
Gorodnitsa
Sluch River
Novograf-Volynski
Ludwig Sertorious
Lipovets
Vinnitsa
Zhmerinka
Associated Press
Belaya Tserkov
Cherkasy
Konev
Second
Russia
Romania
Nevel
Baltic States
Propoisk
Ann
Underground Polish Government Declared Active In Poland
Premier Mikolajczyk broadcast from London says a fully organized Polish underground government operates in Poland headed by a deputy premier answering the exiled cabinet. He asserts the underground spans political military social and economic sectors and pledges ongoing resistance against the Germans.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Mikolajczyk
Partisans Expect Liberation From Second Front
An escaped South African officer who fled a German camp after Tobruk says Tito's Partisans prefer a decisive second front elsewhere to immediate Allied landings in their area. He claims Yugoslavs aim to crush Germany swiftly from a superior attack point after two months travel through Tito county.
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Cairo
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Tobruk
Tito County
Germany
Weather Outlook for Mid Atlantic States Friday
Eastern Pennsylvania sees a fair day with colder temperatures. Western Pennsylvania and Maryland expect cloudy skies and moderately cold conditions. West Virginia reports a fair, moderately cold Friday.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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