Reading Mines man given stiff sentence in fur theft case
John Alex Rubinski of Reading Mines received six months to a year in county jail after confessing to stealing $170 worth of fur from summer cottages in Quemahoning township near Randolph. He must also pay court costs and restitution. The case was bolstered by police and a cottage owners’ complaints.
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Norman T. Boose
John Alex Rubinski
Reading Mines
Quemahoning Township
Randolph
Rubinski
H. C. Jacobs
Harry Hambley
E. W. Larson
Somerset Chiropractor
Larson
Boose
State of
Pennsylvania
Peter Moskovich
Berlin
R. D
Pennsylvania Motor Police
Metro Julia
Moskovich
Julia
Merle K. Glessner
Arthur
Ernest Black
Windber
Raymond Fisher
Shade Township
Grange Groups Urged to Support USO War Contact Effort
County USO drive chair Charles R. Blatt asks Somerset Grange associations to organize canvasses in their districts. Letters signed by C. C. McDowell and Claude R. Bauermaster urge workers, with a dollar per earner or household, to fund wartime services sustaining soldiers' morale and recreation.
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Charles R. Blatt
USO
Somerset County
C. C. McDowell
Claude R. Bauermaster
Grange
Jimmy Doolittle
Blatt
United States
Two Seniors Die Within Nine Days In Local Area
Washington PA June 8 Mildatd Blackwell 18 of Houston died in an auto crash on the Canonsburg Muse Highway less than a week after a Chartiers Township high school classmate Dolores Messack 18 of Midland was found shot to death with her boyfriend Samuel Gaido Jr. in Wellsburg West Virginia Memorial Day. Blackwell had just graduated last Tuesday and was among seven injured when the car skidded overturned and caught fire during a trip from South Park in Allegheny County.
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Washington, Pa
Mildatd Blackwell
Houston
Canonsburg
Chartiers Township
Dolores M. Messack
Midland
Washington County
Samuel L. Gaido, Jr
Wellsburg
W. Va
Allegheny County
South Park
Windber
Paint Borough
Paint Township
Ogle Township
Shade Township
Quemahoning
Stoystown
Hooversville
Central City
Somerset
Somerset Township
Jefferson Township
Lincoln Township
Jenner Town
Jenner Township
Boswell
Conema
Boswell High School
Middlecreek Township
Upper Turkeyfoot Township
Lower Turkeyfoot
Ursina
Confluence
Addison Township
Somerfield
Addison
Elk Lick
Salisbury Rough
Summit Township
Meyersdale
Garrett Borough
Black Township
Milford Township
New Centerville
Rockwood
Casselman
Brothersvalley
Berlin
Stonycreek Township
Shanksville
Allegheny Township
New Baltimore
Fairhope Township
Northampton Township
Southampton Township
Construction Workers Vote to Stay with CIO in Philadelphia
George Bucher regional director reports 2000 local members of the union chose direct affiliation with the CIO over joining District 50 of the United Mine Workers. The decision was announced today in Philadelphia.
Sugar Ration Boards Overwhelmed In Registration Rush
Somerset county residents flood ration boards on the first day of sugar for canning registration. Officials warn many believed registration runs only Monday to Wednesday. Registration continues at local boards or district centers through the week and beyond.
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Somerset County
Somerset
Somerset County Rationing Board
Britain urges French evacuation of coastal zones from Belgiu to Pyrenees
In a BBC French broadcast London urged the French to evacuate the entire coast from the Belgian frontier to the Spanish border. It warned of imminent Allied operations and the grave danger to civilians while noting four recent Allied raids on the French coast and major RAF attacks.
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Drew Middleton
London
Britain
France
Pyrenees
BBC
Wille
Somerset Scrap Exceeds Quota
Pennsylvania farmers contributed 47,755 tons of scrap metal in the farm scrap drive, surpassing the goal by 7,500 tons. Lancaster county led with 5,233 tons against a 2,112 ton target, as 30 counties exceeded quotas.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Colley S. Baker
Lancaster County
Adams
Bradford
Bucks
Clarion
Clinton
Delaware
Huntingdon
Lackawanna
Lawrence
Lebanon
Lehigh
Lycoming
McKean, Mifflin
Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northumberland
Philadelphia
Potter
Schuylkill
Somerset
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union
Washington
Westmoreland
York
Connellsville jumper injured after 50 foot fall at bridge
Richard Richardson, 45, known as the towns “Steve Brodie,” leaped from a railroad bridge into the Youghiogheny River during a wager. He struck a stone abutment, injuring his back and head, and was rescued by Fire Chief William Deboldt and two firefighters who rushed him to a local hospital in fair condition.
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Connellsville
Richard Richardson
Steve Brodie
Richardson
Youghiogheny River
William Deboldt
Arrest Guards in Death of Patient at Torrance State Hospital
Greensburg June 8 Two guards at Torrance state hospital were taken into custody for investigation in the death of 62 year old James Tilulia District Attorney Edward Bauer reported Tilulia died Saturday three days after transfer from Westmoreland County home Coroner H A McMurray said Tilulia suffered fractured wrists and internal injuries Dr Wise man acting superintendent said an attendant was responsible McMurray scheduled an inquest for tomorrow
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Greensburg
Torrance State Hospital
James Tilulia
Edward Bauer
Tilulia
Westmoreland County
H. A. McMurray
Tilolia
John Wiseman
McMurray
Twenty Five Survivors Landed At Ponce Puerto Rico
Twenty five survivors of a sunken allied ship landed at Ponce Puerto Rico. Five required hospital treatment.
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Ponce
Perto Rico
Midway Battle Echoes as Japanese Fleet Withdraws
After last week's clash, the Midway victory stands among America's greatest naval feats. Official word says at least three Japanese warships were sunk with many damaged while American losses included a destroyer and a damaged aircraft carrier. Admiral Nimitz notes contact with the enemy was lost as forces withdrew, hinting at renewed Japanese efforts north and west of Hawaii.
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Clark Lee
Pearl Harbor
Midway Island
Pacific Ocean
Ac- See
Carrie
Washington
United States
Alaska
Australia
United Nations
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Midway
The
Coral Sea
Hawaii
Ernest J. King
United States Fleet
Dutch Harbor
US Value in Desert Felt Steadily More
Edward Kennedy reports that US support in North Africa grows as American planes, trucks, and 28 ton General Grant tanks aid British and Allied forces. American observers and repair crews work behind the front while Grant tanks prove resilient against German armor, boosting Allied capabilities in the desert.
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Edward Kennedy
Libyan
United States
RAF
Maryland
Indiana
Hussar Regiment
Grant
Afrika Korps
Limits Light Production
The War Production Board banned the manufacture of lights for Christmas trees advertising decorations or displays effective immediately in Washington.
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Washington
War Production Board
Kalinin City Rebuilds After Bitter Winter War
Reporter Henry C. Cassidy visits Kalinin after German occupation. Mayor Varvara Gorbunova, a former textile worker, leads restoration. City’s population has risen to 170,000 as streets, water and sewage return, 15 schools reopen, two hospitals repaired, and 5.7 million rubles allocated for homes.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Kalinin
Russia
France
Kamin
Moscow
Varvara Mikhailovna Gorbunova
Vokzhanov
Red Army
Aruba Club House Burns in Major Fire at Lago Oil Plant
The Lago oil company clubhouse on Aruba burned to the ground in a 24 hour blaze lasting into Monday with losses estimated at 276000. No casualties were reported. The article notes prior Axis attacks on Aruba including shelling and torpedo fire near the refinery area.
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St, Nicholas
Aruba
Dutch West Indies
Lago Oil Company
Venezuela
Navy official dismisses Japanese mini submarines
Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer described the small Japanese subs used at Pearl Harbor and Sydney as evolution reversed and of little strategic value. He cited his wartime work on 110 foot subchasers that helped break the German U-boat blockade.
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Ottawa
Julius A. Furer
U. S. Navy
Pearl Harbor
Sydney
Four Army Aviators Die in Prairie Plane Crash
Four army aviators were killed when a twin engine training plane crashed near Prairie Mississippi late today. William G. Sanders, former reporter for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, said the aircraft went into a spin from about 1 000 feet and dived. One flyer bailed out at the start of the dive, but the parachute ropes were clipped about 200 feet above the ground.
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Prairie
Miss
Army
Here
William G. Sanders
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Life sentence for husband murder in Reading case
Jacobs L Hoffman, 32, found guilty of first degree murder for strangling his common law wife Ruth Victoria Walk, 36, in their apartment on May 10. He received a life imprisonment term in the eastern penitentiary.
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Reading
Jacobs L. Hoffman
Ruth Victoria Walk
Eyewitness account of Midway fromfloat in the sea
Ensign G H Gay of Houston Texas describe his torpedo attack on a Kaga class carrier during the Midway battle. He watched American dive bombers strike from the sea while his plane was shot and sank. Gay survived with injuries and clung to a life raft as the carrier burned.
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Walter B. Clausen
Pearl Harbor
Battle of
Midway
Adoreo Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
G. H. Gay
Houston
Tex
Gay
Ensign Gray
Sea Cody
Igns
Two Brazilian Ship Alegrete Sunk in Atlantic Fight
The Alegrete, a Brazilian government vessel used for merchant training, sank off South America after a torpedo strike. Eleven crewmen were injured or missing, and forty six passengers and crew members were unaccounted for as survivors arrived in Venezuela. The Caribbean also reported a U. S. merchant vessel torpedoed on May 19 with three dead and thirty four survivors reaching a Caribbean port.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
South America
la Graira
Venezuela
Navy
U. S
Caribbean
Rommel Tank Drive Halted Near Knightsbridge in Egypt
Cairo report says Rommel’s armored column halted by heavy artillery fire in new assault on Knightsbridge to reach Tobruk. Axis attacks previously failed Saturday and Sunday as Free French repelled German forces at Bir Hacheim. Local British efforts reportedly plan a knockout blow west of Knightsbridge.
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Cairo
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Knightsbridge
Rommel
Tobruk
Bir Hacheim
Y Neil M. Ritchie
Axis Bombs for Malta in daylight raids
Malta reports two daylight air sweeps by axis fighters with a quiet morning after a night of bombs. The activity is mild compared with the heavy assaults of the past two months as German and Italian airmen struggle to make gains. German executions alleged by a Stockholm report aired by CBS.
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Valletta
Malta
Reds Repulse Nazis In Crimea
Moscow reports Russian troops repelled continued German attacks on Sevastopol in Crimea and inflicted heavy losses on the Nazis in a midnight official announcement.
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Crimea
Moscow
Sevastopol
Somerset Weather Report Summary
Daily temperature range from 5:30 p and 5:30 p next day. Data show minimum readings and precipitation notes. Report sourced from David Grove U S Weather Observer.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Forecast for Eastern and Western Pennsylvania
Eastern and Western Pennsylvania see somewhat warmer conditions on Tuesday. Maryland and West Virginia will experience mild temperatures for the same period.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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