Miners End Strike Warnings In Pittsburgh Area
Miners in western Pennsylvania and Alabama voted to return to work after government fines of $1 a day for walkouts. The move followed Ickes order changes on fines and wage talks with the United Mine Workers. Local unions urged presidential veto and called for settlement of portal to portal pay.
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Pittsburgh
Wincher
Alabama
Solid Fuels
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Central Pennsylvania Cola Producers Association
Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
James Mark
UMW District 2
Russell Foltz
War Labor Board
Uniontown
Michael J. Honus
District 4
John P. Busarello
District 5
Cambria County
Roosevelt
Smith- Connelly
Culver
Wired
William H. Davis
The
French leaders vow alliance advance from Africa to Europe
Gen. Henri Giraud on Algiers radio said France will go with the allies to Rome Berlin and Tokio. Gen. Charles de Gaulle on the same program said the battle of Africa is over and the battle of Europe begins with France at her post.
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London
Henri Giraud
Algiers
Rome
Berlin
Tokio
Charles de Gaulle
Africa
Europe
France
Geiger Young Folks Circumvent O P A
A dozen Geiger youths ignored no ban on pleasure riding as they arrived in Somerset in two ancient vehicles a buggy and a carriage. They followed traffic signals and continued after green lights on a route via North Center avenue to West Main street en route to a picnic.
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Geiger
OPA
Somerset
North Center Avenue
Main Street
Three Somerset youths to face judge today
Three Somerset county youths will face Judge Norman T. Boose in juvenile court today on burglary charges for breaking into the Hooversville freight station on June 7 and stealing about $12. Police from Jenners Town arrested Robert D Kemp 15 Meyersdale Earl C Trevorrow 16 and Birch 16 Hooversville. They were released to their parents pending court appearance.
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Somerset County
Norman T. Boose
Hooversville
Jennerstown
Robert D Kemp
Mé¢yersdale
Earl C Trevorrow
Birch
A. D. Shaffer
Gov Martin Declaims on Government as Business at Drexel
Governor Edward Martin warned graduates that government is becoming the nation’s largest employer and lender while not being fit for business. He cited rising costs, growing public payrolls, and a debt flood, urging limit and caution to protect free enterprise. He received honorary degrees along with U S Army generals.
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Philadelphia
Edward Martin
America
Drexel Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania
Martin
Francis Biddle
United States
Edward Paul Simon
Dawson Olmstead
U. S. Army
Eugene Reybold
Sungtze Port Falls to Chinese Troops Near Ichang
Chinese forces storm Sungtze port along the Yangtze river downriver from Ichang, after overrunning several Japanese positions. The communique reports entering towns, killing many Japanese, destroying communications, and capturing prisoners as part of a broader drive northwest of Hankow along the Yangtze.
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Chungking
Yangtze
Sungtze
Ichang
Shasi
Hankow
Yantze River
Police Find Bowden In Mountains
John Bowden a Somerset County fugitive captured by state police after hiding in dense underbrush near Jennerstown. He had escaped from the Allegheny county workhouse on June 3 and lived in the forest for over a week, cooking fish at a stone fireplace before surrendering to Corporal H A Stephens and Pvt Leon Gage. Bowden faced return to the workhouse to serve a two to four year sentence.
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John Bowden
Boswell R
Allegheny County
Bowden
Somerset Courts
Jennerstown
H. A. Stephens
Pvt
Leon Gage
Casa Nova
Charges Dropped If Restitution Made in Meter Theft Case
At a hearing before Justice of the Peace C J Harrison Jr three county youths pleaded guilty to stealing five borough parking meters in late winter. Restitution of 73.95 is arranged, with Carolus paying his share, Bittner paying today, and Humbert paying monthly. Pritts in the army pledges $10 monthly, and Allen Bittner will pay his portion. The meters cost 65 each. without restitution the borough would prosecute fully.
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Justice of the Peace
C. J. Harrison, Jr
Richard Pile
Edward Alman
Squire Harrison
Samuel Bittner
Rockwood
R. D
United States Army
Pritts
Allen Bittner
Samuel
Clerk Pile
Ammonia Fumes Sickened Eleven at Meadow Gold Dairy
In Pittsburgh a fog of ammonia fumes in an ice cream room left two of eleven survivors in serious condition at a city hospital. The victims are Mrs. Jean White 22 and Mrs. Jean Ranello 29. Mary Ruane 22 died Saturday from the fumes' effects.
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Pittsburgh
Meadow Gold Dairy
Pittsburgh Hospital
Jean White
Jean Ranello
Mary Ruane
Pope Pius XII Calls for Discipline and Faith Among Workers
The pope urged 20 000 Italian workers at the Vatican to maintain discipline and faith while rejecting propaganda claiming he supports the war. He said funds from charity aid widows and orphans, not to finance conflict, and promised future documents would reveal truth about peacemaking efforts.
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Pope Pius Sunday
Associated Press
Pius XII
Papacy
Vatican
Belvedere
Pope Pius
Holy See
United States
Vatican City
Steelton furnaces resume after brief shutdowns
Bethlehem Steels three Steelton blast furnaces returned to production today ending a stoppage that idle two furnaces for 24 to 57 hours. Management and union spokesmen blamed each other for the outage which ended at 8 am with the firing up of the third furnace. The second unit had gone back on line Friday night while the third had remained in operation.
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Steelton
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Gasoline supply cut sparks shortage fear in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh district faced a projected gasoline shortage as the Petroleum Administration for War ordered a 30 percent cut in supplies to dealers. The move followed earlier reductions and aimed to curb consumption during wartime.
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Pittsburgh
the Petroleum Administration For War
Rommel Establishes HQ in Perpignan Reorganizes coast defenses
The Algiers radio reported Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has set up headquarters at Perpignan in southern France and is reorganizing French coastal defenses as World War II moves unfold.
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London
Erwin Rommel
Perpignan
France
Algiers
Allied Bombing Blitz Hits Kiel Bremen and Sicilian Targets
Allied air forces raid Kiel and Bremen in daylight attacks while RAF bombers hit Bochum in the Ruhr. The strikes inflict heavy losses on German and Italian air defenses, with 26 American bombers missing and fighters and anti aircraft fire thick over Bremen. Russians reportedly prepare major German bombing support as Mussolini’s Sicily faces intensified bombing and land offensives in Italy.
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Associated Press
Germany
Kiel
Bremen
RAF
Bochum
Ruhr
Italy Loses Linosa Island Outpost in Mid Mediterranean
Allied forces report the surrender of Linosa, the third Italian island outpost in three days, without combat. Aboard the destroyer Nubian, Commander Tyrwhitt accepted the capitulation as American air power shifted focus to Sicily. The Linosa garrison, about 140 troops, evacuated to Allied camps. Pantelleria and Lampedusa had fallen earlier amid heavy bombing.
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Mediterranean
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Sicily
Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Italy
Linosa
Nubian
J. R. J. Tyrwhitt
Marzamimi
Malta
Comiso
Aurora
Orio
Penelope
Newfoundland
Laforey
Loyal
Lookout
Trobridge
Queen
Bremen Kiel Blasted by U S Bombers In Major Air Battle
The 8th U S Air Force launched a daylight raid on Bremen and Kiel, destroying many enemy fighters and damaging U boat bases, at a cost of 26 four engined bombers. British night raids and further attacks across France and the Low Countries followed as P 47s claimed several enemy planes.
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Milo Field
Trapani
Sicilian
Pantelleria
United Nations
Roosevelt
Germany
Moscow
Solomons
Navy
Kiska
Aleutian
Yangtze River
Sangtze
Kiel
Bremen
France
Milo
Castelvetrano
Bocca di Falco
Lewis Hawkins
London
U. S. Air Force
8Th Ai Force
8Th Air Force
Hitler
RAF
Bochum
Ruhr
Churchill
Duesseldorf- Muenster
Duesseldorf-Muenster
Allies Bomb Mandalay in Day and Night Raids
United States and British bomber squadrons attacked Mandalay Burma with B 24 Liberators and Blenheims. Daytime strikes hit railway facilities and Sagaing across the Irrawaddy while night raids damaged railway yards and caused large fires. No Allied aircraft were lost.
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New Delhi
Burma
Mandalay
Sagaing
Irrawaddy River
RAF
One
Humbert Wounded in Africa in World War II
Mrs. Mary A Humbert of near Rockwood received word from the war department that her son Private Oran M Humbert was wounded in action in the North African theater.
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Humbert
Africa
Mary A. Humbert
Rockwood
War Department
Oran M. Humbert
Reds Press for Action in French Liberation Debate
Six Communist deputies denounced the French Committee for National Liberation for ignoring them and called for immediate fulfillment of its promises. The dispute pits de Gaulle and Giraud over army control and purging pro Vichy officers as ouster plans intensify.
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Algiers
Twen
French Committee For National Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Petain
Bonaparte
Bizaine
Boulanger
French Committee of Liberation
France
de Gaullist
Giraud
Alphonse Juin
Twenty five Japanese Zeros destroyed in Solomon Islands action
The navy announces the destruction of 25 Japanese Zero fighters in air combat over Russell Island in the Solomons. The communique also notes one Mitsubishi bomber shot down west of Buka Island near Bougainville, and another bomber added to a prior total of four shot down over Falait a island.
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Washington
Russell Island
Solomons
Navy
Buka Island
Bougainville
Falaita Island
Weather Forecast for Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland
A cooler Monday and Monday evening expected across eastern and western Pennsylvania and Maryland with lower temperatures and lighter winds. Expect sunshine early with cloud cover increasing later, bringing a chance of isolated showers in the far west portion.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
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International Soundphoto
U.S
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Palermo
Mid-Mediterranean
Tiny Isle
Lampione
Pelagie Group
Sky
Reds
Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Petit Sin
U. S. Weather Bureau
Boston
Chicago
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Cleveland
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