Somerset to Dim Out Town as Air Raid Drill Planned
Somerset officials prepare for a district blackout with a dim-out starting 8:30 and a one half hour blackout window. Fire sirens will signal the start, with traffic lights adjusted to ensure darkness except railroad yards. Local defense leaders say residents must carry on while lights are out.
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Frances Orndorf
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George J. Krebs
Thomas McCullough
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Somerset Borough Street Department
Pennsylvania
Conemaugh Township
Benscreek-Thomas Mills
Berlin
Philson National Bank
Decapitated Donora Man Identified in Pittsburgh River
The decapitated body of Ernest Alonzo, 28, an unemployed Donora resident, was found in the Monongahela River near the 10th Street Bridge. Fingerprints identified him. autopsy noted the head severed after death. Police doubt the Mad Butcher case linked to this killing. Alonzo, born in Mexico City, had lived in Donora 22 years.
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10Th Street
Ernest Alonzo
Donora
Leo Dumont
Bertillon
Harrisburg
State Motor Police
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Dumont
Kingsbury Road
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Frank Alonzo
Mexico City
McGranery Elected to Bolands Seat on Ways and Means
A House Democratic caucus chose Rep. James P. McGranery of Pennsylvania to fill the late J Boland's vacancy on the Ways and Means Committee. The selection was made by Pennsylvania members who preferred a fellow Pennsylvanian for the post.
Somerset County Prepares Wide Scale Blackout Drill
Extensive plans outlined by Somerset county communities for a midweek blackout and dimout drill across central Pennsylvania counties. Fire sirens church bells and telephones form alarm methods as Windber and Cone maugh districts mobilize hundreds of volunteers, doctors nurses and police for the test event.
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Richard J. Darling
Somerset County
Somerset
Pennsylvania
Somerset County Civilian Defense Council
G. R. Groninger
Shanksville
Stonycreek Township
Charles Heinmeyer
Milton Lowry
William Lowry
Charles E. Platt
John Fox
Groninger
Roxbury
Downey
Friedens-Shanksville Road
USO Drive Off To Good Somerset Start
Somerset borough begins USO fund drive with 80 volunteers in new blue uniforms. Less than a third of homes contacted yields over $200 as coordinators plan broader canvassing and expect total reach toward $1200 to $1500. Local campaigns cover Berlin Jennertown Central City Cairnbrook and southern townships with leaders outlining use of funds.
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United Service Organizations
USO
George W. Haines
Haines
Chamber of Commerce
Berlin
A. B. Cober
S. Elizabeth Zimmerman
Central City
I. B. Spangler
L. S. Williams
Shade Township
Cairnbrook
Woman Hitchhiker Killed in Slippery Rock Crash
An early morning crash on the Grove City Slippery Rock road killed an unidentified woman hitchhiker about 25 with a heart shaped tattoo bearing L. U. on her chest. Vehicle occupants Clarence Mackey and Marvin Connell were injured. Coroner J. Charles Dengler investigated.
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Grove City
Clarence Mackey
Harrisville
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British MPs move no confidence in Churchill war leadership
In London on June 23 insurgent Conservative MPs led by Sir John Wardlaw Milne pushed a motion denying confidence in Churchill's war direction. Signers include Hore Belisha Lloyd George Winterton Greenwood as the party debates the policy amid Libyan setbacks and imminent reshuffle risk.
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Earl Winterton
Arthur Greenwood
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Morning Post
Singapore
London Times
Tobruk
Argentina vows action after Rio Tercero sinking
Buenos Aires reports the 4800 ton Rio Tercero was torpedoed by German U-boat Innsbruck near New York. Five lives lost, survivors rescued, and Argentina considers steps for satisfaction while tightening embassy security and weighing neutrality policy under Castillo.
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Roberto Gache
Gache
Luis P. Scalese
New York
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Francisco Aranbarri
Ministry of Marine
Innsbruck
Ramon Castillo
Roberto Ortiz
Castillo
Argentina
Chile
Ortiz
Minstry of Marine
Foreign Office
Otto Meynen
North Atlantic
French Aid For Hitler Forms Tricolor Legion
Laval government backs a Tricolor Legion to fight Russian, American, and Anglo-Saxon forces. The collab press says the enlarged group replaces the prior unit and will defend French interests globally from Europe to Africa and the Middle East, including Mers El Kebir, Dakar, Damascus, and Diego Suarez.
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Damascus
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Tricolor Legion
House Ways and Means approves tax plan to refund excess profits
The committee backs a 94 percent excess profits tax with a 14 percent refund to corporations. Net rate becomes 80 percent after the rebate as they move toward peacetime economy.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Robertson
D-Va
Thirteen Allied Merchant Ships Sunk In Caribbean
The navy reported 13 United Nations merchant vessels were victims of enemy submarine action in the Caribbean over a 12 day period from June 3. Survivors stories from nine sinkings describe 23 dead, 186 missing, and 354 rescued with accounts of heroism and peril.
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Caribbean
United States
Associated Press
H. G. Beck
Houston
Texas
Robert M. Pierce
San Pedro
Calif
Abe Ediger
Kansas City
Daring dock blast hinders Nazi supplies near Tobruk
British forces report two anonymous heroes blew up docks and supplies at Tobruk harbor to deny German access. The blast killed the bombers and disrupted a large German and Italian convoy, as escapees recount their perilous crossing and prisoner rescues along the Egyptian frontier.
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Harry Crockett
Tobruk
Parktown
el Adem
Trigh Capuzzo
RAF Bombs Emden Again in Major Night Raid
London reports a massive RAF assault on Emden, a key U boat base, with several hundred bombers dropping hundreds of tons of explosives and thousands of incendiaries during a raid lasting under an hour. Docks at Dunkerque were also targeted in daylight operations.
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Rostock
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Civil War Veteran Darius D Holiday Dies at 102
Wellsboro resident Darius D Holiday aged 102 died at his home from infirmities of age. A Civil War veteran who enlisted in 1861, he moved from Holiday to Wellsboro in 1956 to work in a hotel run by his uncle. He is survived by his wife. Funeral services set for Friday afternoon.
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Darius D. Holiday
Holiday
Axis Subs in Caribbean Pressed by U S Convoys
A Caribbean port reports Axis submarine activity from the U S east coast through the convoy system. In a 12 day period June 3 14 thirteen ships were sunk with 770 aboard, including 135 passengers. Seventy five survivors have been brought ashore, many needing clothing. Dozens remain missing or adrift. Lifebelts saved lives as crews returned to sea aboard other vessels.
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United Nations
Caribbean
Navy
Renewed German Offense Hit Kharkov Front and Sevastopol Hold
Moscow reports a fresh German push on the Kharkov front forcing Soviet repositioning while Sevastopol defenses resist numerically superior Nazi forces. Russians claim counterattacks near Izyum Barvenkova, heavy fighting for oil routes to the Caucasus, and aid from the Black Sea fleet though airbases suffer shelling.
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Tueasday
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Russian Black Sea
Flanders Fields
Black Sea
Caen
Weather Outlook for Mid-Atlantic States Cooler Wednesday
The forecast calls for cooler conditions across eastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Western Pennsylvania is also expected to see a cooler day. Maryland and West Virginia may experience even cooler temperatures Wednesday as a frontal boundary impacts the region.
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