Japanese Raid Dutch Harbor Again In Six Hours
Japanese air forces attacked Dutch Harbor Alaska twice within six hours the first strike at 6 a m local time set warehouses ablaze and caused casualties while a second raid occurred about noon local time no details were released officials noted Japan may be attempting a face saving attack after Doolittle raid and questioned if this signals a larger offensive toward North Pacific bases as Navy officials prepared for further reports from Washington and Seattle
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Washington
Dutch Harbor
United States Naval Base
Alaska
Pacific
Navy Department
Alaskan
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokio
Japan
Connolly
Dtex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
North Pacific
Seattle
C. S. Freeman
19Th Naval District
Nar
Unalaska Island
Aleutian Chain
Kurile Islands
Aleutian
Kuriles
America
Uns
Ber
Domind
Dimond
Unalaska
Governor says rationing operation is fully separated
Harrisburg June 3 Governor James declared the state administration is now entirely divorced from rationing. He criticized the Washington setup as a deluxe WPA move and said the OPA shift eliminates the state rationing administrator role. He would withdraw state employes from rationing unless needed for limited tasks and noted new paid staff costs while expanding district offices in major cities.
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Harrisburg
James
Pennsylvania
Office of Price Administration
T. Elmer Trafiseau
Philadelphia
Jones
Washington
WPA
U. S
Joseph F. Guffey
OPA
Ashenfelter
Joseph
Pittsburgh
Erie
Scranton
Lancaster
Park
Bethlehem
Allentown
Ashenfelter Named OPA Director for Pennsylvania
Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced Raymond F. Ashenfelter of Pittsburgh as the state OPA director with headquarters in Philadelphia. Ashenfelter has been with Joseph Horne company of Pittsburgh since 1928.
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Ashenfelter
OPA
Washington
Price
Leon Henderson
Raymond F. Ashenfelter
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Henderson
Philadelphia
Joseph Horne Company
Vichy Cabinet Moves Up Regular Meeting
London reports the Vichy cabinet’s weekly meeting was advanced to Friday. A British broadcast from Libya said there is reason to believe Mussolini may be in North Africa to review his troops.
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London
British Radio
British Broadcasting Corporation
Libya
Mussolini
North Africa
Saxman Mine Reopens After Eight Years Idle
The Saxman Coal and Coke mine at Quecreek resumes operations after an eight year shutdown. About 250 workers will be available within weeks, with around 50 currently employed. Water removal and new track were required for reconditioning, aiming for 1200 tons of C prime coal daily again.
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Saxman Coal and Coke
Quecreek
Bus Rolls Over Bank Injuring 13 Near Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh bound Penn-Ohio bus fell 50 feet down an embankment on Route 19 twelve miles north of Pittsburgh injuring 13 of the 20 passengers. The crash at Pine Creek hill occurred at 8 15 p m on a slippery pavement. A student driver from New Castle operated the bus. Passengers listed include John Kankarnosel sailor Norfolk Va Martin Neamchock Chagrin Falls Charles McNally East Chicago Ind James Butts Moreland Ind Winfield Summers Philadelphia William B Grazatt Arnold Mrs W B Grazatt Arnold Harper Rodge Ben Avon Heights Lettie Brushell McDonald. McNally and Butts suffered back injuries and were not in critical condition.
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Pittsburgh
Here
John Kankarnosel
Norfolk
Pine Creek Hill
Kingstown
New Castle
Martin Neamchock
Chagrin Falls
Charles McNally
Chicago
Ind
James Butts
Moreland
Winfield Summers
Philadelphia
Sailor
William B. Grazatt
Arnold
W. B. Grazatt
Harper Rodge
O. Coach Co
McDonald
Lettie E. Brushell
Ben Avon Heights
McNally
Butts
Three Youths Killed at R R Crossing Near Mars
Three youths Nick Oscire 22 Joe Urich 19 and Bob Bastian 20 all of Mars died when their auto was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger engine at Cemetery Crossing about half a mile from Mars in Butler County. The car was carried about 500 yards before the locomotive stopped after departing Pittsburgh at 5 25 p m.
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Mars
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cemetery Crossing
Butler County
Nick Oscire
Joe Urich
Bob Bastian
Pittsburgh
Mussolini Calls Council Of Ministers To Meet Saturday
Berlin radio says Premier Mussolini has summoned his cabinet to convene Saturday. An inter-ministerial committee for supplies and prices is also due to meet the same day.
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Mussolini
Council
Slum Sanitation Probe Exposes Meyersdale Health Menace
Health officials and Somerset county authorities report 110 homes in Meyersdale lacking inside toilet facilities. Inspection reveals unboarded, floorless shacks with outside privies behind North street and near the high school. Families endure poor sanitation, water carrying, and crowded conditions as orders await state action.
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Meyersdale Borough
Somerset County
Meyersdale Council
Meyersdale Health
John M. Weimer
Weimer
North Street
Meyersdale High School
Meyersdale
Indictments in Mercer County Holdup Murders
Mercer county grand jury indicted four youths for murder and manslaughter in the death of James Suppice a Sharpsville dispatcher shot during a motor freight office holdup on March 22. The defendants are William Johannes from Youngstown Charles Brown Floya Stainbrook and Lewis Osborn from Sharon. A separate indictment charges George Brown from Farrell with murder and manslaughter in Thurman Haynes death after a rent dispute on March 26.
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Mercer
Mercer County
James Suppice
Sharpsville
William Johannes
Youngstown
Charles Brown
Floya Stainbrook
Lewis Osborn
Sharon
George Brown
Farrell
Thurman Haynes
Haynes
Meyersdale Youths Hurt In Route 219 Crash
Four Meyersdale youths were injured when a car driven by William D. Baer Jr. left Route 219 and hit a cement bridge abutment in Summit township. Baer, 16, was charged with operating without a license. Leonard Forrest, 19, suffered major facial injuries and shock. Paul Forrest, 18, and William Greig, 16, had facial lacerations and contusions. Car damage was about 300 dollars.
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Meyersdale
Summit Township
Meyersdale-Garrett Road
William D. Baer, Jr
R. D
Somerset
Baer
Hazel McGilvery
Route 3
Leonard Forrest
Paul Forrest
Meyersdale Hospital
William S. Greig
Young Baer
Nazis Execute 46 More Czechs in Reprisal Wave
London reports 46 additional Czechs were executed by German firing squads, raising the weekly total to 1635. Among the dead were 29 women charged with aiding anti Axis agents or praising Heydrich's assassination, with 21 executed today including seven Jews and an agriculture ministry official. Brno and Prague accounts indicate further executions.
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London
Reinard Heydrich
Gestapo
Prague Radio
Haydrich
Agriculture Ministry
Prague Voice of Death
Prague
Brno
Went With Husband Even In Death Hollywood Tragedy
Houston oil man Louis A. Donaldson and his wife were found in a California tourist court with the car running ten days after they bought two crypts. Donaldson died by asphyxiation while his wife survived. later she was found dead in a hotel room with a note claiming the death was not her own action and that she was following him.
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Hollywood
Louis A. Donaldson
San Gabriel
Donaldson
Houston
General Martin Praises Women Support After Nomination
General Edward Martin thanked Pennsylvania women for backing his GOP gubernatorial bid. He noted 90 percent of leadership at the south central regional conference of the Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women supported him during the primary campaign.
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Harrisburg
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
GOP
Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women
Legion Chooses Kansas City for 1942 National Convention
Indianapolis June 34 The national executive committee of the American Legion selected Kansas City Missouri as host for the 1942 convention to be held September 19 to 21.
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Legion
Kansas City
Indianapolis
The
American Legion Today
Kansas City, Mo
Score Still Stand-Off in Libya Desert
Nine day Libyan battle remains a savage stand-off between British Highth army tanks and German African corps. Axis forces push from Ain El Gazala line and seize Rotunda Segnali as Rommel seeks fresh supplies while British rear-ward pressure disrupts the German supply column. Fighting rages under sand storms as Bir Hacheim repels Rommel’s second attack and Free French forces defend.
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Edward Kennedy C4srio
Libya
Highth Army
Ain el Gazala-Bir Hacheim
Rotunda Segnali
Erwin Rommel
Ain el- Gabala
Bir Hacheim
Ramel
Abe
Ain el Gazala
Tengeder
General Grant
United States
Tobruk
Chuhsien's Fate Hangs in Balance
Japanese reinforcements pressed toward the city of Chuhsien in western Chekiang as Chinese forces resisted. A fall would sever a 200 mile stretch of the Hangchow Nanchang trunk line. Reports from Tokio and Chinese communiques described heavy fighting across Kiangsi Hupeh and Kwangtun fronts with scattered riverine strikes and counterattacks.
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Spenser Moosa
Chungking
Chuhsien
Chekiang
Kinhwa
Hangchow-Nanchang
Tokio
Domei
Kiangsi
Kwangtun
Hupeh
Yangtze River
Tuchang
Nanchang
Shansi
Two Deaths Over Holiday Highlight Rural Road Safety
Harrisburg report shows an 86 percent drop in automobile fatalities on rural highways during Memorial Day weekend. Commissioner Lynn G. Adams notes two deaths last Saturday and Sunday versus 13 in 1941, praising stricter motor vehicle law enforcement though calling two deaths still too many.
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Harrisburg
Lynn G. Adams
Pennsylvania Motor Police
Col. Adams
Adams
RAF aims for 2,000 planes a night in Germany strike plan
London reports the RAF crowding toward an objective of 30,000 bombing aircraft per month with as many as 2,000 planes in a single night. British raids pound Ruhr area while fighters sweep across the Channel attack Luftwaffe airfields and rail hubs from Holland to Britain.
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Crew Middleton
London
RAF Belayver Command
Essen
Germany
Cologne
Ruhr
RAF
Channel
Holland
Brittany
Cherbourg
le Havre
Rhine-Ruhr
Britain
England
Berlin
Canterbury
High Command
Allied Submarine Attacks Hit Vessels Near Australia
Allied HQ says Japanese submarines attacked two small cargo ships 35 miles east of Sydney and a third vessel 225 miles south. The communique notes possible links to a prior midget submarine raid on Sydney harbor. In Rabaul air forces started large fires at wharf and military camp areas.
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Allied
Australia
Sydney
General MacArthur
Sydney Harbor
Rabaul
New Britain
Britain Seizes Mines in Coal Rationing Plan
London reports the government will take control of coal mines starting July 1 to fuel factory rationing. Mine owners keep ownership and receive compensation while owners and operators cut fuel use through a sharp voluntary reduction.
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London
Canal Zone alert intensified after Dutch Harbor attack
U S army authorities announced a day coincident with receipt of news that Japan attacked Dutch Harbor and that alert status in the Canal Zone had been intensified since last night.
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Balboa
C. Z
U. S
Dutch Harbor
Canal Zone
Gruening Urges Alaska Civilians to Stay Alert
Alaska Governor Ernest Gruening called on all civilian defense units to remain vigilant after Japan raided Dutch Harbor marking the first attack on Alaska. He said authorities would release further details as advised while reporting an air raid began this morning with enemy planes over Dutch Harbor.
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Juneau
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Dutch Harbor
Fetcuson
Navy
Norih Pacific
Emergency alert issued in Los Angeles after Dutch Harbor attack
Los Angeles defense council issued an emergency alert order on June 3 following reports of a Japanese air attack on Dutch Harbor. The directive aims to coordinate civil defense and public safety responses amid escalating tensions in the Pacific theater.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Defense Council
Dutch Harbor
Americans Urged to Report Disguised Japanese
Western Defense Command and Fourth Army asked WesternState residents to report to authorities any person in an American Army uniform who appears to be Japanese. The notice was issued in San Francisco on June 3.
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San Francisco
Western Defense Command
Fourth Army
RAF Raids Stir Reds to Bomb More
Moscow reports say Soviet air forces intensified bombing on German airfields on the eastern front after British raids on the Rhineland. Russian bombers destroyed eleven aircraft on the ground and damaged others. German losses rose as fighters were downed and planes damaged. Maj. Gen. Nikolai Zhuravlev praised the improving air situation and noted reduced German flight effectiveness. Land fronts remained comparatively quiet as both sides maneuvered for position.
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Moscow
Rhineland
Theattlc
Leningrad
Red
Nikolai Zhuravlev
Russia
Sma
Seven UN Merchant Ships Sunk Off India in April Battle
The navy announced seven United Nations merchant vessels were shelled and sunk in the Bay of Bengal off India on April 6. One United States ship was involved, with seven survivors landing at Norfolk, Virginia.
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Washinngton
Navy
United Nations
United States
Bay of Bengal
India
Norfolk
Somerset Weather Report By David Grove
The daily weather summary notes a 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Tuesday to 5 30 p m Wednesday with maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation figures recorded by David Grove as Somerset weather observer.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
Weather Observer
Weather Outlook for Pennsylvania and Nearby States
Eastern and western Pennsylvania to see warmer Thursday. West Virginia expected to have a few widely scattered thundershowers as heat continues. Maryland to experience higher temperatures in the eastern portion Thursday.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
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Trent Park
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