Attempt To Steal Food Jails Youths
Two Connecticut youths aged 19 and 16 attempted to break into a garage on the Lincoln highway near Stoystown in search of food. A resident fired from inside the station wounding Thomas in the calf as the pair fled, later jailed without bail after police traced their route from New London to Bedford and Somerset.
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Connecticut
Quem&honing
Michael Thomas
Richard Burelle
Taftville
Charles Stutz
Lincoln Highway
Bedford
Thomas
Bedford Motor Police
Stutzman Garage
Pvt
Leon H. Gage
Somerset Eating
Pennsylvania Motor Pace
Stutzman
Somerset
Gage
Josiah Swank
New London
Mansfield
Texas
Steubenville
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Abandoned Baby to Spite Wife
Maynard Swisher of Broomsburg pleaded guilty to abandoning his two and a half year old daughter Patricia in River Park last Friday. He was held in $1,000 bond by Alderman Harry Bowman after newspaper pictures spurred his arrest. Swisher said he abandoned the child to spite his wife amid domestic troubles. Patricia was turned over to her mother Mrs Margaret Swisher.
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Harrisburg
Maynard Swisher
Broomsburg
Patricia
River Park
Harry Bowman
Swisher
Bloomsburg
Margaret Swisher
Harry Swisher
Three Way Democratic Battle for Somerset County Chair
Tonight at 8 in the courthouse three Somerset Democrats vie for county chairman: incumbent Simon K. Uhl, Carl Miller, and Joseph Vore. The race pits Uhl from the Guffey faction against Miller and Vore once aligned with the Ross and Lichliter groups.
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Court House
Somerset County
Simon K. Uhl
Somerset
Carla Miller
Boswell
State Department of Health
Joseph Vore
F. Clair Ross
Uhl-Lichliter
Uhl
Charles F. Uhl
United States
Western
Pennsylvania
L. G. Lichliter
David L. Lawrence
Joseph Guffey
Lichliter
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board
Somerset County Democratic Committee
Kennedy
Thomas
Miller
Fay Lichty
Lichliter Group
Vore
Frank R. Coder
Ross Group
Guffey
Miner killed by truck at Hickory mine near Bedford county
George B. Stone aged 68 died after a backing truck crushed him against a conveyor belt framework at the Hickory mine near this Bedford county community. He worked for Blair Engineering and Supply Co a subsidiary of Penn Edison of Altoona.
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Saxton
George B. Stone
Hickory Mine
Bedford County
Blair Engineering and Supply Co
Penn Edison Company
Altoona
Western Pennsylvania StageCrafts First Nighttime Civil Defense Blackout
In Pittsburgh and 16 western counties thousands of volunteers tested a dusk to dawn blackout as dawn collapsed with a Pearl Harbor context. Officials reported minimal disturbances with 416000 volunteers mobilized and praise from Dr A C Marts for statewide cooperation.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Uncle Sam
Grant Building
Hitler
Hirohito
Pittsburgh City
Allegheny County
Fittsburgh
Pearl Harbor
Uniontown
Fayette County
Uniontoom
A. C. Marts
State Defense Council
Washington's Third Blackout Test Yields No Casualties
Washington Pa held its third blackout drill since December 7 reporting no injuries. In the city hospital a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Arthur Hart during the blackout. Air Raid Warden John Engel, with another warden, contained a bed fire before firemen arrived. Two youths broke into a Level Green township store during the blackout and were seized by wardens.
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Washington
Washington, Pa
Washington Hospital
Arthur Hart
John Engel
Level Green
Trafford Westmoreland County
Eyewitness accounts recount Dutch Harbor bombing actions
Survivors describing the Aleutian raid tell of heavy anti aircraft and rifle fire driving off attackers. civilians fled as Japanese planes strafed crowds. evacuees from Unalaska recount efforts by Mayor Fletcher to move families to hills amid bomb craters and lingering fires.
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Leland Hannum
Seattle
Dutch Harbor
Aleutians
Unalaska
Vatch Harbor
Tinalaska Bay
The
Unalaskan
John W. Pletcher
Fletcher
Joseph Wynans
Des Moines
Wash
Wynans
Ivan Tallman
Mayo
Antaska
Federal ‘Cureau of Indian Affairs
Ida Helge
Jack
Lamar Chandler
San Francisco
Lorain 3500 CIO strike halts Lorain Pipe Mills
About 3,500 CIO steelworkers at National Tube Co to strike over wage issues halting Lorain pipe mills. CIO official Donovan calls illegal and contract brake while 1,000 workers resist return as Pittsburgh executives prepare to blow in a new blast furnace. Company comments not given.
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Lorain, O
CIO
National Tube Co
Fear Harbor
U. S. Steel Corp
Lorain
Pittsburgh
William F. Donovan
United Steelworkers of America
Thomas Tycraft
Soldier Held in Auto Theft Case Under Bond
Private Andrew Wallace, tied to an army unit in Virginia, was held under 1500 dollars bond after a hearing before a U S commissioner on transporting a stolen auto from New York to Irwin Pennsylvania. Wallace was arrested at Irwin by state motor police and listed as Hempfield township Westmoreland county.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew Wallace
U. S
New York State
Irwin
Wallace
Hempfield Township
Westmoreland County
Virginia
World War II leaders hold decisive White House talks
In two conferences at the White House President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill outlined a hopeful war outlook. Eisenhower will command a new European theater of operations. Senate debates Roosevelt as supreme UN leader amid concerns over Tobruk and British strategy. New Zealand minister Nash notes potential second front and Egypt risks. Churchill cites Navy and Army gains aiding supply routes to India and the Middle East.
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Richard L. Turner
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Egypt
Pacific War Council
Walter Nash
New Zealand
Europe
War Department
Dwight S. Eisenhower
Department
Senate
Ellender
D-La
United Nations
Tobruk
Lee
Eisenhower
D-Okla
Hier
W. L. MacKenzie King
Canada
Pacific
India
Middle East
Suez Cabal
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
House
Churcnhill
Suez Canal
Cairo
Buth
Nash
T. V. Soong
Nazis destroy Lezaky village in reprisal for Heydrich killing
London reports say Nazis wiped out the Czech village of Lezaky population 100 and killed all men in reprisal after the Heydrich assassination. The massacre mirrors Lidice with men executed and women sent to camps. Overall Czech executions total at least 382, not counting 50 or more recent cases.
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London
Reinhard Heydrich
Germany
Europe
Lezaky
Bohemia
Prague
Lidice
Heydrich
Bus Strikers Threaten Midnight Walkout in Pittsburgh
Ninety busy drivers from Harmony Short Line Transportation protested the dismissal of a fellow operator and warned a strike would begin at midnight tomorrow in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Harmony Short Line Transportation Company
Axis Forces 130 Miles Inside Egypt Bold Advance Near Matruh
Axis armored columns pushed deep into Egypt, halting only after capturing areas near Sidi Barrani and crossing the frontier. Rommel’s force, using captured British and American tanks, drives toward Matruh as British and Allied air power strike back, while Ritchie falls back to prepared battle lines.
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Egypt
Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Matruh
Libyan
Eighth Army
Sidi Barrani
Matruk
Quattara
Rommels
Ritchie
U. S. Army Air Corps
Willingtons
Rommel
Sidi Omar
Fort Maddalena
Cirenaica
Eighth Army Fights Axis in Desert Clash
Reuters reports from Cairo that the British Eighth Army skirmishes the full Axis striking force along the coastal desert between Sidi Barrani and Marzuq. Cairo advices say British troops fall back toward Matruh 130 miles east of the Libyan border as hard combat is expected in the next 24 hours with no quarter anticipated.
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Alexandria
Rommels
Eighth Army
Crete
Nile Basin
Sidi Barrani
Wavells
Berlin
Rome
Salum
Halfaya Pass
Fort Capuzzo
London
Reuters
Cairo
Africa
Maruh
Matruh
Flying Tigers bomb Hankow base in major Chinese assault
The American Flying Tigers sunk one Japanese warship and three transports at Hankow on the Yangtze as fighters converted to bombers supported a broader strike in central China. AVG plans induction into the U S Army on July 4. Chungking reports indicate Japanese losses and a Chinese push 12 miles from Kwiki near Kiangsi.
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William McGaffin
Chungking
American Flying Tigers
China
Japan
Hankow
Yangtze River
American Volunteer Group
Pearl Harbor
United States Air Force
Army
AVG
Kwangsi
Flying Tigers
Hunan
Hupeh
Hengyang
Tungting Lake
Kweiki
Kiangsi
Chekiang-Kiangsi
War Labor Board postpones Little Steel hearing
The public hearing in the Little Steel cases is postponed from Monday to Wednesday July 1 due to the illness of Arthur S. Meyer, chairman of the panel writing the report.
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Little Steel
Washington
War Labor Board
Arthur S. Meyer
Britain Orders Universal Registration for War Mobilization
Britain mandated the registration of all men up to 50 and all women up to 45 to mobilize all able bodied citizens for war industries as part of the national effort.
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London
Britain
Jap Sub Sinks Russian Vessel Off Japanese Coast
The Russian government said a Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank the 4761 ton Angarstroi on May 1 off the Japanese coast. Survivors reported two Japanese subs surfaced after the sinking and stayed with lifeboats until a second Russian vessel rescued them at Dairen.
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Moscow
Japan
United States
Harbin
Manchuria
Dairen
Kwantung Peninsula
Canadians in Alaska Fighter squadrons join US in Alaska
Ottawa reports Canada has sent several fighter and bomber squadrons to Alaska to fight alongside United States airmen against Japan but cannot confirm if they have seen action yet. Air Minister C G Power announced today.
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Alaska
Ottawa
Canada
United States
C. G. Power
Russians Lose Kupyansk as German Offense Advances in Ukraine
Moscow reports say the railway hub Kupyansk fell to German forces as Kharkov sector fighting enters its fifth day. Sevastopol resists despite heavy bombardment with rumors of a new 615 millimeter weapon used by Germany.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Ukraine
Kupyansk
Nekov
Russian Bureau of Information
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Izyum
Izyum- Barenkova
Rostov
Caucasus
Oskol
Donets
Berelin
Crimean
Plane bombing hits French internment camp near Compiegne
An unidentified plane dropped a bomb on the Royallieu cluster of camps near Compiegne in the German occupied zone, killing two internees and wounding others. The attack occurred during a continental sweep and may have been a mistaken British bomber targeting.
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Vichy
France
Ouie
Royallieu
Compiegne
Paris
Tinent
Somerset Weather Report Summary by David Grove
Daily weather data shows 24 hour period from Wednesday 5 30 p m to Thursday 5 p m with temperatures including a minimum around six degrees and a year ago maximum noted. text is garbled but references observed values and comparison.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Western Pennsylvania Forecast Shows Showers and Warmer Friday
The Western Pennsylvania forecast calls for showers with warmer conditions on Friday. Maryland expects a warmer day on Friday with mild to moderate temperatures in the extreme west. Eastern Pennsylvania anticipates a warmer day while West Virginia may see showers Friday and moderate temperatures.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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