Bondwagon Arrives Tonight for Somerset War Bond Drive
The KDKA Bandwagon with about 50 performers and staff will roll into Somerset for a 7 PM 30 minute broadcast from public square to boost Fifth War Loan drive sales. Directors Evelyn Gardiner Janet Ross and Homer H Martz lead the event with local crowds expected around 6000, after dinner at the Somerset Country Club.
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Somerset
KDKA
Diamond
Somerset Country Club
Pittsburgh
Public Square
Evelyn Gardiner
Janet Ross
Homer H. Martz
Miss Gardiner
Miss Ross
Mr. Martz
Tristate
WAC Commander Col Hobby to Visit Ferner Hotel Today
Col Oveta Culp Hobby director of the women's army corps will speak at the Ferner hotel today from 4 to 5 p.m. She is en route from Washington to Connellsville for the bond drive and will attend Fort Necessity Sunday July 2 for a sunrise patriotic and religious program. Women from Meyersdale Windber Central City Berlin Brookwood Jennertown Confluence and other areas will meet her at the Ferner hotel.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
Women's Army Corps
Ferner Hotel
Col. Hobby
Washington, D. C
Connellsville
Bond Drive
Fort Necessity
Meyersdale
Windber
Central City
Berlin
Biookwood
Jennertown
Confluence
Somerset
6500 Idle In War Plants By Strikes
A wave of strikes in Pennsylvania halts operations across a steel mill and seven other plants including five coal mines leaving more than 6500 workers idle. Some 2550 workers returned to work as other disputes ended.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Homestead
CIO
Clairton
McKees Rocks
Monongahela
Army Ordnance
Leggett Spring and Axle Co
East Monongahela
Transformer Department
Pennsylvania Transformer v
Pittsburgh North Side
Bridgeport
H. C. Frick Coke Co
U. S. Steel
Brownsville
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Vesta
Dewey and Brownell Move Toward National Campaign
The Dewey Brownell team formally advances toward a presidential bid following decisive New York governorship victory. The Republican National Committee unanimously elected Brownell its chairman and outlined a broad campaign structure with new officers and a staged national effort to unite the party for war-time aims.
Dewey heads campaign team en route to Albany
In Indiana speed journey to Albany Governor Thomas E Dewey with Herbert Brownell Jr new GOP chairman maps a nationwide campaign network. A press conference aboard the train shows Dewey has no fixed plans but will spend the July 4 holiday in Albany receiving a home state greeting and delivering an impromptu speech from the capitol steps. Brownell, 40, was elected GOP chairman at Chicago to lead the organizational effort.
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Dewey
Albany
N. Y
Indiana
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert Brownell
G.O.P
Capitol
Brownell
National Committee
Chicago
Wanted Boy to Learn Printing Trade at Somerset American
Advertisement seeks a boy aged 16 to 17 to train in the printing trade at Somerset American after 7 PM. Employer invites applications, outlining apprenticeship details and timing.
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Somerset American
Red Russian Offense Rolls Through White Russia Front
Moscow reports a broad White Russian offensive with 183,930 German losses in the first week and major advances near Borisov Disna Slutsk and Minsk. Russian forces seize rail centers and push toward Warsaw Berlin as 700 localities are liberated including areas near Viipuri and Lake Onega.
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Russia
Moscow
Ol “Ripyat
Borisov
Minsk
Sdisna
Olid
Poland
Looklutsk
Mins Poutin
Berezina Rive Rerch
Borisoying
Ligrust
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
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Mogiev
Ilone
Cerman
Mmuuscow
Guerin
Lale
White Ilingsia
Ivan C. Bagramian
Disna
Folotsk
Konstantin K. Rokossovky
Slutsk
Dobruisk
Warsaw
Berlin
Priypat
Petrikov
Polessye
Finland
Viipuri
Ladoga
Onezhskoe
Onega
Reds Capture Strongholds Of Germans
The American Red Cross reports seven overseas staff members missing since June 14 after a flight from Italy to Sardinia. One missing crew member is Burt Harris 44 of Brookline Pittsburgh assistant field director, a World War I veteran and attorney who studied at Pennsylvania State College and the University of Pittsburgh.
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Alexandria
American Red Cross
Italy
Sardinia
Burt Harris
Brookline
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania State College
University of Pittsburgh
Thunderbolt escort storms Leipzig targets in heavy bombing
Thunderbolt airmen escort U S. heavy bombers through German skies at Leipzig. They drop partly empty spare fuel tanks as improvised incendiaries striking a German factory and leaving it ablaze.
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London
Thunderbolt
Leipzig
U. S
Saipan Devastation Tops Pacific Casualty Toll
U S Pacific Fleet reports Saipan invasion tolls from June 14 to mid week: 1 474 killed 7 400 wounded 878 missing among U S Marines and Army. enemy losses exceed 4 951 dead with heavy cave fighting and bombardments near Charan Danshu Garapan and Mt Tapotchau as Saipan remains under siege.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Pacific
Marianas
Chester W. Nimitz
Tarawa
Gilberts
Guadalcanal
Nimitz
Nimit
Charan Danshu
Tanapag Harbor
Garapan
Hinian
Rota
Caroline
Marshall Island
Mt. Tapotchau
Yap Island
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Tanks Mow Down Japs at Saipan Forward Post
At Hell's pocket on Mt. Tapotchau southeastern slope, 16 Americans in four tanks crushed a Japanese effort to reinforce besieged troops, mowing down a 150-man company in a 15 minute dusk battle. Earlier, nearly 300 Japanese were killed at Nafutan point after breaking American lines. An American crewman called the scene like shooting pigeons on a roost.
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Saipan
Hell's Pocket
Mt. Tapotchau
Nafutan Point
Danes Battle Germans In Copenhagen
Stockholm reports Danes and Germans clashed in Copenhagen with machine guns as thousands flee the city. A general strike halted traffic and shut shops and banks while patriots built barricades against German attempts to quell disturbances.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Copenhagen
Free Danish Press Service
Allied air power mounts major bombing push around Normandy
Allied heavy and medium bombers launched 3000 sorties from dawn to dusk targeting German reinforcements near the Normandy front. RAF Lancasters bombed launch ramps for Nazi rockets while pilots reported net losses. Italian bases aided raids reaching Vienna, Zagreb, and Budapest as the battle extended into Trans-Danubia.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Normandy Battle Zone
RAF
Normandy
France
Belgium
England
Caen
Villers-Bocage
Balkans
Vienna
Zagreb
Yugosavia
Feuersbrunn
MTI
Greater
Budapest
Kapsovar
Trans-Danubia
Allied Breakthrough Presses Toward Gothic Line In Italy
Allied forces advance on a broad front from the Tyrrhenian coast toward the Gothic line. American, French, and British units push toward Siena and Pisa as German resistance crumbles, with Livorno and Florence within reach and Casiglione del Lago captured on Lake Trasimeno.
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Noland
Norgard
Rome
Rosteq
Tyrrhenian State
Lake Trasimeno
Mark W. Clark
Livorno
Leghorn
Pisa
Siena
Florence
Eighth Army
Lake
Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
Albert Kesselring
Garigliano
FHA Loans Set for Tornado Counties in Three States
FHA loans insured by the federal housing administration will aid families in West Virginia Pennsylvania and Maryland to restore homes businesses and farms after the tornado disasters. Commissioner Abner H. Ferguson announced the measure.
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FHA
Washington
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Federal Housing Administration
Abner H. Ferguson
Allied drive presses Caen as German reserves arrive
Allied forces push toward the Orne and Caen with heavy armored fighting south of the city. British gains widen the Odon front while German counterattacks are repelled by artillery and air strikes. Rodney shells threaten German positions as Normandy fight tightens around Caen.
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James M. Long
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Orne River
Orne
Normandy
Russia
U. S
St. Lo
Odon
High Command
Bernard L. Montgomery
Odon River
Rodney
Marcelet
Troarn
Somerset Weather Report Summary
Daily weather data from 5:30 p.m. Thursday to 5:30 p.m. Friday includes maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation notes. reporter is David Grove, A. S. Weather Observer. The legible figures show a maximum near 49 and a minimum value not clearly stated. some OCR text is garbled.
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David Grove
A. S. Weather Observer
Weather Forecast For Maryland And Nearby Regions
Saturday fair and cooler across Maryland. Western Pennsylvania West Virginia and eastern Pennsylvania also expect Saturday fair and continued cool conditions.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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