Uhl Re-elected Democratic County Chair in Somerset
Simon K. Uhl was re elected by secret balloting of Somerset county Democratic committeemen and committeewomen at the courthouse on Friday evening. The vote after two ballots left Uhl just short of a majority, but the majority was reached when the election was made unanimous amid protests.
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Simon K. Uhl
Somerset County
Mr. Uhl
Ernest C. Johnson
Joseph Vore
Carl S. Miller
Boswell
Walter W. Gress
Meyersdale
Uhl
Joseph Levy
Democratic State Committee
Vore
Johnson
Miller
E. L. Donges
Levy
Clair Ross
Walter W. Gross
New Deal
General Assembly
Somerset Rotary installs new officers amid tongue in cheek ceremony
R A Poorbaugh inaugurated as president of the Somerset Rotary club at the Ferner hotel luncheon. The event opened with a mock king funeral gag, then Senator Charles H. Ealy led the induction of Ralph A. Poorbaugh as president with Emil L. Anderson and I Hess Wagner among the new officers. The ten former presidents were honored at a special table as a skit closed the program.
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Somerset Rotary Club
Ferner Hotel
Wagner
J. Hess
Walter S. Hoffman
Ed S. Landis
Landis
Charles R. Hauger
John H. Beerus
Charles F. Uhl
Clarence L. Shaver
Charles H. Ealy
Ralph A. Poorbaugh
Emil L. Anderson
I. Hess Wagner
C. Ernest Herb
Blair A. Barkman
Hauger
Alvin S. Glessner
Fred P. Hare, Jr
Ralph A. Poorpaugh
Ray T. Wolff
Car Burned Up Tires Survive as Wreck Is Total Loss
Hastings resident Harry Kelly found his new automobile ablaze at 3 a m in the garage. Firemen fought the fire but the car was a total loss while the tires remained unburned and intact.
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Hastings
Harry Kelly
Youthful robbers sent to workhouse Greensburg
Three youths from East Huntingdon township Westmoreland county aged 18 pleaded guilty to two robberies. George Husband Edward Olivier and Henry Hoyle received one to two year terms for taking 150 pounds of sugar from Hecla store and raiding a Youngwood beer garden valued at 170. Charles Baer 18 of Mt Pleasant got six months to a year for robbing a Mt Pleasant warehouse of eight car tires. three tires recovered. Private A C Woods of the state motor police reported to Judge H Hilary Keenan.
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Greensburg
Allegheny County
George Husband
Edward Olivier
Henry Hoyle
East Huntingdon Township
Westmoreland County
Youngwood
Charles Baer
Mt. Pleasant
A. C. Woods
State Motor Police
H. Hilary Keenan
Registration Tonight for 18 20 Year Old Group
The draft board number 3 in the Beer us building will hold a special registration this Saturday evening from 7 to 9 PM for the 18 to 20 year old group, replacing the earlier all day plan.
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Draft Board Number 3
Beerus
Suspension of all Hawaiian holidays announced
Honolulu reports the military governor announces suspension of all legal holidays in the Hawaiian islands. New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, and Christmas are included with elimination of extra pay for work on those days.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Pig Night Meeting Of Lions Club Promotes Pure Bred Livestock
Somerset Lions Club hosts pig night at the Presbyterian church to launch a cooperative campaign with the Future Farmers of America and local schools. A Hampshire gilt, shipped from Ohio, begins the drive to raise pure bred livestock by young farmers near Somerset, with veterinary care and pig distribution planned.
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Paul E. Fuller
Somerset Lions Club
Presbyterian Church
Lions Club
J. T. Bowman
Somerset
Future Farmers of America
Citizens of Tomorrow
Lions’ Committee
John Y. Barkman
Homer Spangler
Frank Menser
Hampshire
Ohio
Calvin Will
Dr. Bowman
Bowman
Homer W. Hay
Hay
Billick
John C. Billick
Somerset High School
Robert Korns
Dean Hay
James Will
Bremen Bombardment: RAF Grinds German Stronghold
London reports a massive 75 minute night raid on Bremen with more than 1 000 bombers from RAF and allied squadrons. The operation targeted submarine yards and shipyards while heavy fires lit the port city. Losses included 52 RAF planes, and German defenses destroyed several night fighters as American and Canadian aircraft supported the assault.
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Drew Middleton
London
Bremen
RAF
Messerschmitt
Royal Dutch Naval Air Service
Royal Canadian Air Force
Cologne
le Havre
Cherbourg
Boulogne
Essen
Air Ministry
Low Countries
Deschimag Werke
Focke-Wulf
Condor
Nine Pattens join navy as Patten brothers enlist
In Portland Oregon on June 26 Wayne Patten 18 the youngest of eight brothers joined amid 882 new recruits sworn in by Ensign Donald Mason The Patten family including Floyd Patten and seven other sons once residents of Iowa now Ridgefield Washington were present all survivors of the Lexington with siblings Clarence Ray Bruce Marvin Allen Gilbert and Myrne among them
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Porland
Ore
Patten
Navy
Wayne Patten
Donald Mason
Pattens
Iowa
Ridgefield Wash
Floyd Patten
Lexington
Clarence
Ray
Bruce
Marvin
Allen
Gilbert
Myrne
FBI Seizes 2967 Guns and Related Items in Pittsburgh Area
Pittsburgh report says FBI agents seized 2967 guns 207994 rounds of ammunition 1652 sticks of dynamite 3472 feet dynamite fuse 1645 short wave radios 2345 cameras 25 photographs 110 rolls of film and 47 code books. 41 aliens were interned and dozens more questioned during searches of 14063 premises in Allegheny Westmoreland and Washington counties.
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Pittsburgh
J. E Thornton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Allegheny
Westmoreland
Washington
FBI
Atlantic Coast Line
Thornton
Russian and German Front Battles Rattle Front Lines
Moscow reports intensified fighting across the entire front as German offensives drive waves of tanks and infantry. Sevastopol defences repelled multiple assaults while Kharkov area clashes halted a German advance. Germans claim gains around Izyum and El, with heavy losses on both sides and continued air raids toward Moscow and Murmansk corridors.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Ukraine
Crimean Sevastopol
Kharkov
Russian Information Bureau
Imoshenko
Kupyansk
Oskol
Donets
Izyum
Grgansk
Kalinin
Leningrad
Karelian
Murmansk
Sevastopol
Red Army
Von Spiegel Captains Sub
An army lieutenant survivor of a torpedoed ship in the Caribbean said the submarine commander identified himself as Baron Von Spiegel former German consul at New Orleans. He spoke perfect English gave land directions. the crew trusted them but rowed opposite and reached shore in four days with no loss of life.
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Clearwater
Fla
Caribbean
Baron von Spiegel
New Orleans
von Spiegel
Gulf
Gulf Coast
John Paxton
Momens
Baron von Speigel
Chile Declares War Threat Against Attacks on Panama Canal
Chilean consul general Luis E. Feliu announced Chile would declare war against any powers attacking the Panama Canal or commercial shipping in Pacific South American waters. The move follows Chile and Argentina as the only South American nations not yet at war with the axis or with severed diplomatic ties.
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Ottawa
Chile
Luis E. Feliu
Panama Canal
Argentina
Farmers Oppose Lewis Five-State Council Formed
Baltimore June 26 A five state farmers council was announced today. Its president said one aim is to oppose John L. Lewis in his bid to unionize the nation's dairymen.
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Lewis
Baltimore
Farmers’ Council
John L. Lewis
Axis Advance Troops Clash With British Forces In Egypt
Axis advance groups clash with British covering forces near Alexandria as Rommel drives toward Matruh and Tobruk air bases. Allied air strikes target Tobruk while London and Cairo debate supply, guns, and potential break-through risks for the Eighth Army.
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Axis
Egypt
Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Alexandria
U.S. Army Air Force
Tobruk
Rommel
Matruh
Qattara
Eighth Army
Mediterranean
United Nations
Neil M. Ritchie
Libya
London
Ritchie
Britain
Middle East
Russia
Persia
Africa
Europe
Asia
Two More Ships Lost to Submarine War Totals 313
The Associated Press reports two ships lost yesterday restoring the toll to 313 neutral and United States merchant vessels. A small U S cargo ship and a British vessel were sunk by German submarines in the Atlantic. Twenty three crewmen survived the American loss. five are missing. The U S vessel sank May 4 in the Gulf of Mexico after a 55 hour drift before rescue. The British ship was torpedoed off the east coast of South America about two weeks earlier. two of 60 crew were lost.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
United States
Navy
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast
Caribbean
South America
Bomb Jnps on New Guinea
Allied bombers attacked Lae and Salamaua on Japanese held New Guinea and hit a ship entering Lae harbor. The latest raid was described as more destructive than previous reports with greater damage to enemy buildings. Eighteen Japanese bombers struck Port Moresby and several Allied planes were shot down with two pilots rescued.
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Australia
Lae
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Port Moresby
MacArthur
US Torpedo Boats Reach Alexandria
American built motor torpedo boats arrive to augment the British Mediterranean fleet in Alexandria Egypt as Axis forces push south of the coast road, with the fleet ready to strike using its heavy gun power against German and Italian legions in the region.
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Larry Allen
Alexandria
Egypt
Sink German Troopships Sink German Troopships
Free French dispatch from Moscow reports over 100 Russian bombers attacked a large German fleet at a Finnish port near Leningrad. Several troopships were sunk and fuel dumps set ablaze while Russian losses included one aircraft.
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London
Free French Independent News Agency
Moscow
Leningrad
Japs Sink 2 Allied Ships In Pacific Night Attack
Survivors reached an Australian port telling how a Japanese submarine torpedoed two Allied merchant ships off Somewhere in Australia. The crew of the freighter mostly survived after drifting days, while the second ship was sunk after an attempted tow. The submarine surfaced and its commander ordered the second ship abandoned before sinking it.
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Australia
Pacific
18000 Miners in Hazard and Big Sandy Begin 10 Day Vacation
Sam Caddy, president of District 30 UMWU, announced 18000 miners in the Hazard and Big Sandy fields would start a 10 day vacation at midnight unless operators agreed to return fines imposed during the captive mine strike last fall.
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Lexington
Sam Caddy
United Mine Workers Union
Bomber Crashes at Bellefonte Airport. No Injuries Reported
A large army bomber crashed while attempting to land at Bellefonte airport. State motor police reported none of the crew were injured.
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Bellefonte
Nazi Legions In Ukraine Grave Threat
Nazi forces push toward Kupyansk a key rail hub east of Kharkov and threaten to sever Russian north south links. Berlin claims no breakthrough yet, while German moves hint at a southeast encirclement aimed at Rostov and the Caucasus, with Izyum reported captured.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Britain
Eighth Army
Egypt
Alexandria
London
Ukraine
Kharkov
Kupyansk
Russia
Kupyansk Junction
Marshal Timoshenko
Donets Basin
Sea of Azov
Moscow
Rostov
Caucasus
Berlin
Izyum
Badlands
Hitler
Worldwide military air transport system announced
The War Department established a global air transport service consolidating Army ferrying and transport operations. Brigadier General Harold L. George will command the new system which will move troops materials and mail worldwide. Commercial airlines such as Pan American will assist where practical.
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Washington
War Department
Harold L. George
George
Pan- American Airways
Somerset Daily Weather Report Summary
Temperature from 5 30 p m Thursday to 5 p m Friday shows a minimum of 61 with precipitation noted. Temperature for the year ago is not clearly stated and the maximum value is missing in the readable text.
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David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Weekend Showers Prep Across Mid-Atlantic States
Eastern Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania expect showers with moderate temperatures on Saturday. Maryland sees occasional showers with cool to moderate warmth, while West Virginia anticipates moderate temperatures with scattered showers and thunderstorms on Saturday.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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