Troops Guard Ford Rouge Amid Riot Fallout Detroit
Federal troops moved into the Ford Rouge aircraft engine plant to guard against further disturbances after bitter race riots left 29 dead and more than 1,700 injured. Gov. Kelly and Mayor Jeffries vowed to hunt inciters as Army troops remained on duty through the week while normal war production resumed and public order held.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft
William E. Guthner
Guthner
Harry F. Kelly
Edward J. Jeffries
John P. Scallen
Recorder’s Court
Scallen
Selly
Kelly
Jeffries
Detroit Tigers
Cleveland Indians
State Fair Grounds
Sixth Service Command
John S. Bugas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Paul H. Wencel
War Production Board
C. M. Bolds
WPB
Musto Found Guilty of Wife Murder at Hollidaysburg
Michael Musto a small Altoona barber was convicted of murdering his wife on courthouse stairs in Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania. The jury recommended the death penalty by electrocution after ninety minutes of deliberation amid testimony of insanity and memory loss from a prior head injury. Defense attorney J Banks Kurtz cried during plea for mercy.
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Hollidaysburg
Michael Musto
Altoona
Musto
Italy
J. Banks Kurtz
Fianna Fail Reversals Highlight Irish General Election
Early returns show the Farmers party winning seven seats in the new Dail Eireann, cutting Fianna Fail’s lead. De Valera's government appears set to lose majority as Fianna Fail holds 36 seats to Fine Gael 14, Labor 10, Farmers seven, and Independents three. De Valera won East Clare. Cosgrave and Norton also elected.
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Dublin
Farmers Party
Dail Eireann
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
de Valera
Farmers
East Clare
William T. Cosgrave
Irish Free State
Fine
Fire destroys major Pottstown store. $80,000 damage
Fire at the New York department store in Pottstown caused about $80,000 in damage after a 5:30 p.m. blaze on the third floor stockroom. Fire Chief Lindauer and 10 to 12 firefighters were overcome by smoke. four hospitalized. Adjacent building walls burned and candy kitchen equipment damaged.
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Pottstown
New York
Richard B. Lindauer
Pottstown Candy Kitchen
Destoyed
Curtin Government Survives No-Confidence Vote
In Canberra on June 24 supporters of Prime Minister John Curtin won a no confidence motion 27 to 26 after opposition leader Arthur Fadden charged the government with bonetime food and manpower problems.
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Australia
Canberra
John Curtin
Arthur W. Fadden
Fayette County Commissioners Acquitted in Misconduct Case
A jury acquitted the three Fayette county commissioners of misbehavior in office over overspending at the county home. Earlier, a jury failed to reach a verdict on related charges and prior trials found four counts of malfeasance in gas purchases while two other trials were acquitted.
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Uniontown
Fayette County
Dies To Probe Race Riots
Washington June 23 The Dies committee will broaden hearings next week to include recent racial disturbances such as the Detroit riot that killed many. Chairman Dies said foreign and domestic propaganda groups may have spurred the violence and that Japanese agents linked to organizations promoted prejudice to disrupt war production and morale. He noted Klan members were reported in Detroit.
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Washington
Detroit
Dies Committee
Dies
D-Tex
Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Creamed ham sickens over a hundred at Philadelphia General
Philadelphia General Hospital reported more than 100 patients ill from contaminated food. Dr. W G Turnbull identified the noon serving of creamed ham as the likely cause. Staff and police quarters were not affected. The hospital said a separate kitchen serves the wards and that the severity of illness could not yet be determined.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia General Hospital
W. G. Turnbull
Turnbull
Special election ordered to fill York County Senate seat
Lieutenant Governor John C. Bell announced a special election to elect a York county senator to finish the term of the late Henry E. Lanius. The vote will be held with the general election on November 2, 1946, and the term ends November 30, 1946.
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Harrisburg
John C. Bell
York County
Henry E. Lanius
Train Youth For Defense Says Martin
Governor Ed ward Martin urged a postwar selective military training plan for American youth. Speaking at the governors conference in Columbus he proposed high school graduates serve in the regular army or national guard then enter a reserve. He urged a three-part postwar force with regular army national guard and reserve plus munitions industries. He warned future defense policy depends on war outcome and world policing choices.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania
Edward Martin
America
Keystone
National Guard
Martin
Governors’ Conference
United States
State Heads Scores Strikes Strikes by Governors Condemned
In Columbus Ohio on June 23 governors meeting at the 35th annual conference unanimously adopted a resolution condemning any strike or stoppage in essential industries during the war. They warned such actions threaten national security and the war effort.
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Arthur Bostwick
Columbus
America
President 10 Seek Weapon to End Coal Strike
President Roosevelt proposed a potent option to quell the coal strike by seeking Congress authority to draft miners up to age 65 for noncombat service if needed. He stressed the move would come only if strikes threaten government wartime operations and reiterated no promise to alter wartime labor terms.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers Leadership
Congress
Organized Labor
John L. Lewis
UMW
Armed Services
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Smith
War Labor Board
Lewis
Burke
Edward R. Burke
White House
William H. Davis
WLB
United Mine Workers Coal Mining
Connally
New Giraud De Gaullist Scrap Nears
Algiers report on June 23 states rivalries rise within the new permanent military committee as Generals Giraud and de Gaulle clash over troop recruitment and control of the Fighting French. A defense communique counters claims of an old guard and notes a 23 man expeditionary corps aged average 52 14. The joint commission frees prisoners and Spanish Republican refugees held since the Allied landings last November.
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Daniel DE Luce
Algiers
Henri Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Liberation
Giraud
de Gaulle
de Gaullists
France
de Gaullist
North Africa
Joint Commission For
U. S
Rickenbacker In Moscow On War Mission
Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker arrives in Moscow on a mission for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and may meet Premier Stalin en route to world battlefields. He was welcomed after a Kremlin ceremony with U S Ambassador William H. Stanley, as Molotov marked Russia’s war entry anniversary and called for a second front.
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Moscow
Edward V. Rickenbacker
Henry L. Stimson
Vyacheslav Molotov
Russia
Germany
Molotov
Rickenbaker
Mussolini reshuffles Fascist secretaries across Italy
London dispatch says Premier Mussolini named new Fascist secretaries at 71 centers in Italy including Bologna, Mantova, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Udine and Regenna and in Sicily and Sardinia amid aerial bombing. Changes to syndicate directors announced without reasons.
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London
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
Associated Press
Bologna
Aosta
Mantova
Reggio
Emilia
Parma
Grosseto
Terni
Udine
Regenna
Caltanisetta
Catania
Syracuse
Trapani
Lubpana
Former
Yugoslavia
Cagliari
Sessari
Sardina
Factory Talk Set for Boswell Meeting Friday Night
Local businessmen and the Jenner Chamber of Commerce plan a Friday 7 p.m. meeting at the Boswell municipal building to discuss establishing a local factory. A New York firm is expected to attend regarding the J. A. Kudasick project in south Boswell.
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Boswell
Businessmen and Jenner Chamber of Commerce
Boswell Municipal
New York
J. A. Kudasick
South Boswell
RAF raids devastate Maelheim and hit Ruhr targets
Allied bombers struck Maelheim in the Ruhr in a massive saturation raid with hundreds of four engined aircraft. The attack joined a two day wave of round the clock bombing against German industrial centers including Krefeld, Essen and Duesseldorf with 35 RAF bombers lost and aerial victories over Holland and France noted.
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James M. Long
London
RAF
Ruhr
Maelheim
Folkstone
Meaulte
St. Omer
Maupertus
France
Air Ministry
Ministry of Information
Cologne
Essen
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Duisberg-Ruhrport
Hamborn
Hamm
Krefeld
Gelsenkirchen
Huls
Muelheim
Duisburg
Holland
Germany
Oberhausen
le Creusot
Friedrichshafen
Hull
Reds Break Nazi Lines Across Central and Northwestern Fronts
Russian reconnaissance units breached German trenches west of Moscow and on the northwest front, taking prisoners after heavy fighting. In the Leningrad area, Soviet air activity intensified with bombers hitting the Pskov railway junction and German airfields. Earlier reports claim 20 German planes destroyed on the ground near Leningrad, with 17 shot down and nine Soviet losses.
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London
Russian Information Bureau
Moscow
Red Army
Leningrad
Moscow Radio
Russian Monitor
Pskov
Baltic
Weather Halts Operations At Kiska In Aleutians
Weather in the Aleutians has halted raids against Kiska, with thick fog preventing air and transport flights. June through July show little flying weather and only May, September and October offer hope, leaving Attu operations ongoing but limited by moody conditions.
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William L. Worden
Alaska Defense Command
Kiska
Attu
Aleutians
Amchitka
Adak
Aleutian
Foster Zeigler Appointed Special County Detective
Judge Norman T. appoints Foster Zeigler of Shanksville borough as special county detective to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harry Sellers who previously held the office in Somerset county.
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove
Daily weather summary from Somerset citing David Grove US Weather Observer. Observes the 24 hour period ending 5 38 p m Tuesday with reported temperature range and conditions. Includes maximum and minimum figures and notes on rainfall and atmospheric conditions.
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David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Eeeway
Maxitas
Csesckesss
Weather Outlook Eastern States Thursday
Eastern Pennsylvania expects moderate temperatures Thursday. Maryland will be cooler than the east. Western Pennsylvania shows a warmer Thursday afternoon. West Virginia temperature remains moderate with scattered thundershowers mainly in the extreme south.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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