Recall Power To Misfits Says Smith
Washington June 29. Senate criticism targets the OPA gasoline price increase seen as a tax on the public while producers gain. Senator Smith argues small filling stations go broke and calls for recalling delegated power amid subsidy debates.
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OPA
Senate
Smith
D-Sc
Congress
George
D-Ga
White
R-Me
Leon Henderson
Seaboard
Christian Science Church
Lost Child Reunited With Parents After Night Absent
Shirley Mae Spangler, three, of Rockwood, was found safe after wandering over two miles in the mountain area near Wills school. Roy Miller of Hellvill e located her by a byroad as darkness fell and radioed authorities. she was returned to her worried parents around midnight. The Spanglers had notified Bedford volunteers and state police, who stopped at Schellsburg before learning she was found.
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Shirley Mae Spangler
Marcellus Spangler
Rockwood
Central City
Helixville
Roy Miller
Helixvillé
Wills
Burgess William Wechtenheiser
State Moor
Miller
143 Draftees Leave Today
Sixty six men from draft board 2 and seventeen from board 3 in Somerset depart by bus today for final physicals in Altoona and induction into the United States Army. A Red Cross canteen and motor corps will provide doughnuts coffee apples and cigarettes. Most are from the February 16 registration with a few from earlier rolls.
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Somerset
Altoona
United States Army
Windber
Canteen Corps
Motor Corps
American Red Cross
Maust Suffers Finger Injury In Somerset County Accident
Harold Maust, 34, of Meyersdale, R D 1, required amputation of the distal phalanx of his right index finger at Somerset Community hospital Monday morning after an on the job injury while employed by Ethan Pritts on Somerset R D 3. Admission was at 11 50 AM. The manner of the accident could not be learned.
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Harold Maust
Meyersdale
R. D
Somerset Community Hospital
Maust
Ethan Pritts
Somerset R. D. 3
New Jersey Gas Dealers Call for Oil Office Change
The New Jersey gasoline dealers association expressed discontent with current rationing and passed a resolution urging the petroleum coordinator to replace the office of price administration as gasoline rationing authority.
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New Jersey
Ay Park
N. J
New Jersey Gasoline Dealers Association
Office of
Petroleum Coordinator
Office of Price Administrati
Labor Board backs $1 wage rise in Little Steel cases
A war labor board panel in the Little Steel disputes supports a $1 daily wage increase, union security via maintenance of membership, and a company check-off of dues for about 157,000 workers at Bethlehem, Republic, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. The panel opinions emphasize ability to pay and living costs, with the wage panel submitting findings for a likely adjustment pending oral arguments.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Washington
War Labor Board
Little Steel
CIO
United Steel Workers
Bethlehem
Republic and Inland Steel Companies
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Arthur S. Meyer
New York State Board of Mediation
Cyrus S. Ching
U. S. Rubber Company
Richard T. Frankensteen
United Auto Workers
Inland Steel Company
Court Martial Indicated for Eight German Saboteurs
Washington reports that a military court may try eight German saboteurs who landed from submarines on the east coast to sabotage the war effort. The death penalty was discussed but not confirmed. Attorneys general and war department officials say prosecutions are being coordinated with the judge advocate general. All eight men are held in New York with two transfers from Chicago to New York.
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J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Long Island
Florida
New York
Niagara Falls
United States
Bund
Berlin
George John Dasch
Heinrich Harm Heinck
Robert Quirin
Edward John Kerling
Edward John Kelly
Werner Thiel
Ernest Peter Burger
Herman Neubauer
Herbert Haupt
Washington
Justice Department
Biddle
War Department
Ikmade
Petaoin Sdlrh
Chicago
Japs Raze City of Cebu
Japanese vengeance forces razed Cebu the second city of the Philippines costing about 100000 residents. Lieutenant Colonel Carlos P Romulo reported on his arrival and said Cebu was leveled May 22 in reprisal for guerrilla activity. The Japanese broadcast the action as a warning to deter further guerrilla attacks.
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Washington
Cebu
Philippines
Carlos P. Romulo
Douglas MacArthur
Ronalo
Five Die In Greene County House Fire
A family of four and another member perished when a five room frame home burned in Rices Landing on the Monongahela river. Victims were Douglas Bauck 33 Vina Clark Black 29 son Douglas 7 and daughter Joan 5. A government lock tender reported the blaze and the house burst into flames within seconds. Firefighters could not save the home and suspected gas fumes aided by the fire. Bodies were recovered.
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Rices Landing
Greene County
Monongahela River
Douglas Bauck
Crucible Fuel Company
Crucible
Vina Clark Black
Douglas
Joan
Black
James Black
Government Lock
Czech executions count reported by Moravec
British radio quotes pro Nazi Czech minister Emanuel Moravec estimating 7000 Czechs executed by Nazis. The figure surfaced in late June news from New York dispatches.
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New York
Emanuel Moravec
Battle for Matruh Escalates as Axis Claims Capture
British Eighth Army fights Rommel's forces near Matruh with heavy mobile warfare and night desert battles. Axis claim 6000 prisoners. observers note Matruh’s defense hinges on a flexible retreat toward El Baba to Alexandria as air actions intensify and Crete bases loom nearby.
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Edwin Shanke
London
Matruh
Alexandria
Eighth Army
Claude Auchinleck
The
Nile
Rommel
el Baba
Quattara
Cairo
CHQ
Fron
Europe
Allied Air Corps
Salam Rommel
Luftwaffe
Parachute Corps
Crete
Britain
Mediterranean
United Nation
American Air Corps
Egypt
RAF
Torbuk
Bengasi
Libya
U. S
Africa Corps
Line moves east of Matruh reinforces British defense
Reporter Harry Crockett describes the British Eighth Army rapidly shifting reinforcements to a new defense line about 50 miles east of Matruh in the Western Desert. He notes a major tank battle during the withdrawal and plans for a line stretching to the Qattara depression.
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Harry Crockett
Cario
Eighth Army
Matruh
Egypt
Western Desert
Great Qattara
U S Bombers Level Wake Island Raid Again
U S Army bombers struck Japanese held Wake Island under full moon light last Saturday night. The raid leveled everything on the surface with minimal damage to one aircraft and no American casualties. Navigator Art Meehan praised the mission as a long range over water flight, noting perfect navigation and a dramatic display of tracer and anti airfire.
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Walter B. Clausen
Hawaiian Air Force
T. H
U. S. Army
Wake Island
Japan
Pacific
Navy Department
Washington
Wake
Hawaii
Meehan
Coney Island
Indianapolis
Newburgh
N. Y
T. N. Warren
Macon
Auchinleck Reinforced in Desert Battle Near Matruh
Cairo reports that Auchinleck’s reinforced Eighth Army, with US planes and New Zealand troops, fights a funnel shaped clash near Matruh as Rommel’s forces push toward the coast. Allies aim to cut Rommel’s supply lines while evacuating Matruh and delaying a stand at the town.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Great Britain
Desert Army
United States
New Zealand
Matruh
Alexandria
Erwin Rommel
Mediterranean
Eighth Army
Auchinleck
Rommel
Tobruk
Matrun
Salum
Two Student Pilots Killed in Flight Collision
In Columbus Mississippi two trainee pilots died when light training planes from the army flying school collided at 2000 feet six miles south of Aberdeen. Cadet Raeburn F. Gordon 26 Farmville Virginia and Cadet Forest J. Johnston 20 North Hollywood California were killed. Two others survived by jumping to safety.
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Columbus
Miss
Army Flying School
Aberdeen
Raeburn F. Gordon
Farmville
H. M. Gordon
Forest J. Johnston
North Hollywood
Calif
Royal Canadian Air Force
U S Bombers Report Damage Over Romanian Oil Regions
Balkan sources say U S army bombers raided Romanian oil fields on June 12 and shot down four Axis planes. They damaged railway stations at Ploesti and Buzau, shattered tracks between the towns in three places, and registered a near miss at the Constanta refinery.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Ploesti
Buzan
Constanta
Teen Driver Killed, Five Hurt In Lake Ariel Crash
Fourteen year old Norman Merring died when his car crashed into a tree near Lake Ariel. Five companions were seriously injured. State Patrolman J A Wrobleski said the car was owned by Alfred Wallace and his brother George.
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Crases
Scranton
Norman Merring
Lake Ariel
J. A. Wrobleski
Merring
Alfred Wallace
Russian Front Battles Shake Ukraine and Crimea Fronts
Daily dispatch reports heavy fighting as Soviet forces repel German tank assaults north of Kharkov and near Sevastopol. Kursk sector sees large German offensives while Russian communiques claim attritional losses on both sides. German drive angles toward Voronezh and strategic aims toward the Caucasus and Moscow amid intensified air and ground attacks.
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Henry C
Moscow
Kharkov
Sev
Tors
Crimean
Sevastopol
Topol
Kursk
Leningrad
Red Army
Stalingrad
High Command
Kov
Tchernaja
Sapun
Centra
Voronezh
Don
Besteyway
Marshal Bock
Caucasus
Semoen
Somerset Weathe r Summary Missing Data
Somerset Weethe daily weather report notes the 24 hour period from 5:30 p m Sunday to 5 p m Monday with missing maximum and minimum temperatures. A year ago the minimum temperature is also not provided.
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David G S
Weather Observer
Weather Forecast for Eastern US: Showers and Thunderstorms
The forecast covers Eastern Pennsylvania and Virginia with scattered showers and thunderstorms and warm temperatures. Western Pennsylvania expected showers and storms rising noon. Maryland shows a mix of scattered thunderstorms, mainly in mountains, with warm conditions.
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Pennsylvania
Virginia
Maryland
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