Toll Death Toll Climbs From West Virginia Pennsylvania Tornado
Pittsburgh dispatch reports rising fatalities as a massive tornado plows through parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Deaths tallied at 130 plus with hundreds injured and towns devastated from Clarksburg to Shinnston and Meadowville. Red Cross and Army troops aid relief as landslides hinder rescue efforts.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
West Inia
Maryland
Garrett County
Red Cross
Clarksburg
W. Va
Shinnston
Lola Heavner
Harrison County
Pleasant Hill
Elkins
Philippi
Meadowville
Belington
Nestorville
Montrose
Randolph County
Simpson
Taylor County
Mannington
Thomas
Tucker County
Fairmont
Allied Air Hammer Normandy Battle Behind Fronts
Allied air forces pounded targets in northwest Germany and rail hubs in France as heavy bombers, fighters, and night bombers supported the Normandy invasion. Marauders, Liberators, and Thunderbolts struck Cherbourg positions and rail yards near Saintes and Limoges, while RAF Lancasters hit bottlenecks south of Normandy.
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Austin Bealmear
Germany
Normandy
France
Cherbourg
Channel
Hitler
Reich
Lisieux
Vire
Dreux Evreux
Veneuiel
Mezidon
Saintes
Bordeaux
Limoges
Normandy Battlefront
Russians Break German Defense In Central Front Drive
Soviet forces surged westward from Vitebsk and near Polotsk advancing toward Minsk as the new central front offensive, part of Allied strategy, drove through German lines. Moscow reports say the campaign damaged German rail links and outflanked main defenses while Finnish front progress continued toward Helsinki.
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Moscow
Red Army
Vitebsk
Polotsk
Helsinki
Leningrad-Murmansk
Orsha
Minsk
London
Russia
United Nations
Hitler
Europe
Finland
Allies Press Into Roccastrada As Italian Front Shifts
Fifth Army tanks and infantry advance against resistance and occupy Roccastrada on Highway 73 while closing on Follonica. A column moves toward Livorno and Pisa along the coast. Germans stiffen defense east and west of Lake Trasimeno as Adriatic coast action and Morrovalle near Ancona are noted with limited updates. French forces push east of American lines toward Castiglione D’Orcia.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Roccastrada
Follonica
Livorano
Pisa
Eighth Army
Italy
Transimeno
Comunique
Chiusi
Lake Transimeno
CBS
Adriatic
Chienti River
Morrovalle
Montecosaro
Ancona
Castiglione D’or
War era information booth praised for city needs
Mr Winchester hails the new permanent war activities booth by the JET as useful now and after the war. Mr Bell plans blood donor clinic registrations and Barney suggests postwar use as a tourist information booth. Mildred Hackley offers a safety slogan urging pedestrians to wear light clothing at night for visibility.
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Bell
Mr. Barney
Mildred Hackley
Handley
Old Mill Wheel Tuesday Issue Recalled
The fragment notes a Tuesday schedule for Old Mill Wheel with a dated code 6-22-Ip-5t referencing the release or issue timeline. It provides minimal readable context for a historical newspaper item.
Wheat Harvest At Peak Here In Frederick County
Wheat harvest is underway in all sections of Frederick county and has reached its peak according to county agent I Pred Stine. Despite wind storms blowing down and damaging some fields, the yield this year looks very favorable with a heavy crop.
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Frederick County
I. Pred Stine
Girl Scouts Aid Tag Day For War Bond Pledges
Local Girl Scouts volunteer to assist in bond pledging on Monday June 26 as Tag Day for the Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. Scouts will staff bond booths at banks to accept pledges for the Fifth War Loan Drive. Beta Sigma Phi members will wear badges and Scouts identifying armbands to encourage public cooperation.
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Epsilon
Beta Sigma Phi
Beta. Sigma Phi
Fruit Growers Report Wide Crop Damage From Recent Storms
Fruit growers at their monthly meeting reported hail damage ranging from none to over 90 percent in the county. Timber Ridge near Trone and orchards including Phil H. Gold and H. Richard suffered severe losses, with Gold’s five acre apple and apple trees uprooted and Richard estimating 90 percent peach damage. Other affected areas included Hayfield Apple Pie Ridge and Clarke County. total damages varied by location, with estimates up to 75 percent in some northern sections. County Agent I Pred Stine noted the hardest hit zones and price ceiling concerns for packed and processed apples.
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Trone
Phil H. Gold
Anyyatt H. Richard
Richard
Richard Nee
R. P
Derson
J. Walter Larrick
A. Oates
Harry W. Butler
Hayfield
Apple Pie Ridge
Winchester
Butler
Opequon
Cedar Creek
Ralph Marker
Edwin Marker
P. S. Hershman
J. Edward Klingaman
Roy Cather
T. M. Rudolph
Fred Sturm
Clarke County
R. O. Fitch
Wadesville
I. Pred Stine
Timber Ridge
Stine
Tornado Strikes Garrett County Maryland
Tornado devastates Garrett County Maryland causing three known deaths and about 20 injuries. Roads and communications were disrupted as residents faced widespread damage near Deer Park and Oakland with limited aid until eye witnesses reported the core hit around 9 p.m.
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Cumberland
Garrett County
Oakland
Mountain Lake Park
Deer Park
Ioe
Allvethrough
Keyser
W. Vaital
Es Sebold
Fred Pugh
William Chappelle
Sat
Chappelle
W. Va
Doles
Maryland
City Playgrounds Set to Open Monday in Winchester
Winchester city playgrounds will open Monday at 9 00 a.m. through 12 30 p.m. and 2 30 p.m. to 5 30 p.m. daily for five days a week at Virginia Avenue Handley and Douglas schools. Registration leads the first day with coordinators named for each site and a pool activity by Rouss Park begins with swimming classes tomorrow at 2 30 p.m. for youths 7 to 15 who wear proper swimsuits.
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Winchester
Virginia Avenue
Handley and Douglas
William Manby
Evelyn Preston
Elizabeth Conklin
Lenora Rusk
Handley
Effie McKinney
Zelma Pinkett
Douglas
Rouss Park
Betty Jane Gearing
Virginia Goss
Rouss
George
Rouss Pool
Rationing Office Closed Three Days In Winchester
The Winchester and Frederick County War Price and Rationing office will be closed to the public on June 29 30 and July 1. The Change Location Office will move from Loudoun Street to the George Washington Hotel basement at North Cameron and East Piccadilly in Winchester and reopen Monday July 3.
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Winchester and
Frederick County
Winchester
Loudoun Street
George Washington Hotel
North Cameron and
East Piccadilly Streets
New England Bean Supper Planned at Handley Cafeteria
All plans are set for the New England bean supper to be served between six and eight tonight at the Handley cafeteria. War Finance Committee asked to use the Jefferson Street entrance. Wendell Barney says Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt can not attend this evening in Winchester Massachusetts.
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New England Ae
Handley
War Finance Committee
Petting
Jefferson Street
Wendell Barney
Eleanor Roosevelt
Winchester
Mass
Heavy Fighting In North Burma
The war bulletin from Southeast Asia Command reports heavy fighting around Mogaung in north Burma. Chindit forces under Maj. Gen. W. D. A. Lentaigne occupy Sawngching west of Mogaung, with 200 Japanese killed and 1, Chinese killed. they seize a 150 mm gun, three heavy mortars and an ammunition dump. In India, Allied forces rapidly pushed along the Kohima Imphal road, surprising Japanese with large casualties.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Mogaung
Burma
W. D. A. Lentaigne
Sawngching
India
Kohima-Imphal
Allied torpedo boats halt German Cherbourg escape bid
British motor torpedo boats destroyed or damaged five of seven merchantmen attempting to flee Cherbourg as American spearheads closed to 2,000 yards of the port. German defenses crumbled. street fighting could delay Allied capture of Cherbourg and widen the breach in the city’s southern defenses.
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Cherbourg
Port
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
trans-Atlantic
Channel Islands
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Octeville
Whitehead
World At War Highlights Move Across Fronts
Highlights describe Allied push at Cherbourg with British armor destroying Nazi tanks east of the Orne. Red Army offensive near Vitebsk and Polotsk. advances toward Helsinki. U S forces hold Saipan as Japanese retreat. carrier likely sunk by submarine. Japanese columns push on Hengyang and heavy fighting near Mogaung.
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Cherbourg
Orne River
Pacific
U. S
Saipan
Nimitz
Dead Doe Found in Back Creek West of Rock Enon
Game Warden W F Pingley reports finding a large doe west of Rock Enon in Back Creek. The deer was in the water and dead. It was first found by Bryan Good who notified Pingley. Indications suggest illness and fever led the deer to fall into the creek. The animal was removed by Pingley.
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W. F. Pingley
Rock Enon
Back Creek
Bryan Good
Pingley
Cherbourg Front described as doomed stronghold by American commander
Reports from the Normandy front describe heavy bombardment against German positions near Cherbourg. General Whitehead says the fire front has broken into hard knots of resistance with 1,200 prisoners taken in 24 hours and Cherbourg line termed a death trap for Nazis resisting surrender.
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Whitehead
Octeville
Cherbourg
Fort Octeville
Normandy
Advance Weather Forecast for June 24 to 28
Zone Four shows a rising temperature trend with cooler air moving in by Monday across Maryland northward and extending south into Virginia by Tuesday and Wednesday. Daytime highs hover near normal to three degrees below or above in various regions with showers in northern areas this weekend spreading into central states by Monday.
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Maryland
Virginia
New York State
Middle States
Central States
Montemperatures Temperenne
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Penn
English Channel
Washington
78Th Congress
Chicago
White House
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
By Eddy Gilmore
By Edward Kenedy
MR Winchester
Girl Scouts
New England
North
Winchester Evening Star
By Wes Gallagher
Asiatic Front
Hengyang
China
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