War Declaration Urged on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania
President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania, labeling them instruments of Hitler. The message notes these nations declared war on the United States and cites potential Nazi plans for broader offensives including against Russia and a possible Iran Caucasus push.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
House of Representatives
United States
Hitler
Senate
United Nations
Rumania
Russia
Europe
Iran
Caucasus
Gas line under way to bring Texas Oklahoma gas to city
Construction progresses on a four inch main from a junction south of Holloway toward Adrian connecting to Panhandle Eastern Company. A metering station is being built on North Street east of St Joseph's academy to check gas volumes entering the city.
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Aérian
Texas
Oklahoma
Panhandle Eastern Company
Adrian
Holloway
North Street
St. Joseph's Academy
How About The Garage Bill For Stolen Car
Howart Dunlop of 447 Dennis Street reported a car stolen to the sheriff after midnight. He later found the vehicle in Day Motor Sales garage and learned it had been driven there by the proprietor who mistook it for one of his own.
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Howart Dunlop
Dennis Street
Sheriff's Department
Day
Motor Sales
East Maumee Street
Dunlap
Day Motor Sales
P. E. Day
Mr. Day
Air Raid Wardens Schedule for Precincts at Local Schools
Air raid wardens and volunteers should attend tonight at 7 30 at Garfield School Cross Street for precincts one eleven and twelve. Second third precincts meet at New McKinley on Bristol and Elm, while first tenth precincts gather at New McKinley on Bristol Elm. L B Kaney chief warden urged attendance.
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Garfield School
Cross Street
New McKinley
Bristol and Elm
New McKinley School
Bristol
Elm
Cross
L. B. Kaney
British Cruiser Trinidad Lost in Arctic Convoy Action
The admiralty announced the loss of the British cruiser Trinidad, a 8 000 ton Fiji class ship commissioned in April 193R. She fought a German destroyer during a resupply mission to Murmansk with an English-Russian squadron. Captain L. S. Saunders was her commander. he is reported safe.
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Trinidad
Murmansk
Russia
L. S. Saunders
Saunders
Allies Raid Jap Bases Three Times
Allied airmen conducted three nocturnal raids on Japanese bases near Australia with no plane losses. They destroyed or damaged nine aircraft that attacked Port Moresby, while two midget submarines destroyed in Sydney harbor were identified. Six naval personnel were killed, 13 missing, and ten injured in a ferry depot-ship sinking during the incident.
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Associated Press
Allied
Australia
Port Moresby
Douglas MacArthur
Sydney Harbor
Americans Attack Mysthkyina Air Field in Daylight Raid
New Delhi reports a U S communiqué stating heavy bombers struck the Mysthkyina airdrome during daylight May 23 30 causing major runway damage and minor damage to parked aircraft. No enemy fighters or anti aircraft opposition. Subsequent May 31 air reconnaissance and June 1 attacks on shipping at Rangoon sank one tanker and damaged others. Night fighters offered medium to heavy anti aircraft fire. all U S aircraft returned safely.
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New Delhi
United States
U. S
Mysthkyina
Dochs
Rengoon
Adrian water board reports 23 304 40 profit for year
The Adrian municipal water board earned a profit of 23 304 40 during the year ending April 1, with revenues of 1 060 509 23 and expenses of 379 992 33. The report notes a new dam and reservoir on Wolf Creek at Bent Oak Avenue costing 58 723 39, preparations for operation, and ongoing cleaning. Water consumption rose to a record 632 205 042 gallons, aided by extensions on several streets. total mains length now 45 94 miles with 3 903 service connections.
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Adrisa Municipal Water
City’ Commission
City
Wolf Creek
Bent Oak Avenue
Adrian
Tor
Water’ ‘Board
Budiong Street
Lowe Avenue
Oak Street
Spring Street
Scott Stret
Lincoln Avenue
Mulberry Street
World War II Allies Press Rommel’s Crumbling Forces
Cairo reports German armored corps trapped east of Ain El Gazala Bir Hacheim harried by British air and ground units as Auchinleck notes possible tank withdrawals. In China Japanese forces drive toward Chusein on the Chekieng Kiang railway, recapturing towns and threatening the vital Chelkiang-Hisugsi line amid strategic pressure across Kin- gwei province.
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Cairo
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Ain el Gazala-Bir Hacheim
Commmuniqué
Claude Auchinleck
Chungeing
Chek Kiang
Chusein
Kwanghing Province
Hapigchow
Nancheng
Termini
Io Chelkiang-Hisugsi
Air Raid Wardens Begin 18 Hour Training Course
Air raid wardens from the 4th 5th 6th and 9th precincts started an 18 hour instruction session last night at Adrian junior high and Lincoln schools with Adrian public school faculty instructors outlining the course. Around 30 from the 4th and 5th precincts attended and 25 from the 5th and 6th precincts were present. Subsequent meetings will cover raid procedures in detail and other precincts plan sessions at Garfield and New McKinley schools tonight.
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Adrian Junior High School
Matt Lunn
Ross Wigent
Lincoln School
Max Sweetes
Adrian Public Schools
Garfield
Cross, Street
New McKinley
Bristol
Elm Streets
Kidnaped Vicky Returns Home After Abduction
Vicky the rubber baby used in Lenawee Red Cross home nursing classes was returned to her foster parents without ransom after the Dillon car stolen from in front of a Hudson drug store last Tuesday was recovered in Jackson Friday. Vicky was unharmed. only a spare tire and a few class records were missing.
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Vicky
Red Cross
Dennis Dillons
Hudson
Dillon
Jackson
Lenawee
Hed Cross
New Jersey Suffers First Test Blackout Overnight
A Newark blackout plunges New Jersey into darkness for about thirty minutes affecting 4.3 million residents across 3224 square miles. Signals were issued at 10 12 pm and cleared at 10 42 pm Eastern War Time. Traffic stalled trains moved under rain and blinds drawn as the Droitlingholm liner blacked out on return to America. An advance warning mentioned a blackout sometime during the week of May 31 to June 3.
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Newark
Newr
Droitdingholm
Pier
Jersey City
Atlantic
America
Red Army Drives at German Lines Northwest of Moscow
Moscow June 2 The Red Army pressed strong attacks at two points northwest of Moscow in line with tactics to keep the German forces back and deter their offensives. Russian dispatches reported gains at Kalinin and another northwest sector, with street battles in suburbs and heavy German counterattacks leaving over two thousand dead as they tried to retake a hamlet captured by the Russians.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kalinin
Red Star
Kalinin Front
Valdal Hills
Onick
Veilki Lubi
British Production Chief Visits Washington Amid War Front Talks
Olver Lyttelton, British production minister, arrives for talks with President Roosevelt and Donald M. Nelson to fuse U S and British production efforts into a unified program and to establish a joint production board for pooling facilities.
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Britain
Washington
Olver Lyttelton
Lyttelton
Roosevelt
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Lyttleton
Public Improvements Seek Ten Cent Wage Boost
Adrian public improvements workers seek a ten cent per hour raise through the AFL local union. The move, backed by a workers committee, was discussed with the city commission and awaits talks with Commissioner Adelbert Vedder. The plan would fund raises via war bonds and likely affect salaries, with Vedder noting some workers may earn more than the commissioner. The union also asked for double time on Sundays and holidays and a 40 hour week, but the commission indicated those demands would not be granted. Public works wages have risen about ten cents since last July, with no formal union-city contract in place. Union members named include James Hastings, Hulbert Bylers, Way Gregg, Charles Waller, and Orry Westgate. Reappointments were made to city boards, including Karl Hoch, Corley Ritchies, and Clara Elridge.
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Adrian Public Improvement Department
Adrian
State, County and Municipal Employees Union
AFL
City Commission
Tne
Workers’ Committee
Adelbert Vedder
H. JW. Lundahl
Public Works Department
Vedder
Sdrian
Herbert J. Rushton
James, Hastings
Hulbert Bylers
Way Gregg
Charles’ Waller
Orry Westgate
Karl B’ Hoch
Corley
Ritchies
Civic - Auditorium
Clara E.eliredge
Zainov
Boris
Yugoslavia
Prague
London
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Heydrich
Stockholm
Stahlhelm
Germany
Heldrich
Berlin
Hitler
Steel Helmets
Bohemia
Occupied
Second Crushing Raid Aimed At Krupp Munitions Works
ROMMEL REGROUPS HIS DESERT FORCES. Cautious shift in North Africa indicates a gamble to sustain Libyan offensive. Rommel halts the two armored divisions, retakes formation behind Tobruk, and weighs tactics to break out or await reinforcements amid British pressure.
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Krupp
Reports 20 000 Dead in Raid On Nazi City Cologne
New York report cites private Berlin observers indicating about 20 000 killed, 54 000 wounded with 20 percent critical after RAF raid. Mass evacuation from Rhineland underway to Munich area, affecting Cologne Aachen Dusseldorf and other cities. Five sevenths of Cologne’s chemical and fine tool industries reportedly wrecked. German sanitary detachments deployed to curb disease spread.
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New York
Cologne
Rhineland
New York Times
Berlin
Munich
Aachen
Dusseldorf
Wuppertal
Mainz
Bulgarian General Shot as Spy in Sofia Court-Martial
Bulgarian General Vladimir Zainov, former interior minister, was executed by firing squad after a Sofa court-martial convicted him of espionage. Two others were convicted including his nephew Evgeni Tehemirov, sentenced to life, and Theodore Prashov, sentenced to death. The broadcasts described Zainov as a Bolshevik agent linked to the pro-German regime and Yugoslav collaboration.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Vladimir Zainov
Sofia
Theodor Prashov
Nothing Left in Cologne Seldom Seen in Bomb Raid Report
A 1250-plane raid on Cologne described by airmen and veterans with vivid accounts of the destruction. Texan Bud Cardinal and Jock, a 19-year-old Scot, recall the blaze and massive bombardment, noting incendiaries first, then 3000 tons of explosives.
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Simpletor
RAF Bomber Command
Brother
Cologne
B. Cardinal
Fort Worth
Rhineland
Bud
Texas
Royal ‘Texas Air Force
Canada
Jock
Hindenburg
Rhine
Charlie Wongchurch
Brooklyn
Cardinal
Middleton
Mexico joins United Nations in full belligerency
Mexico, joining nine Latin American republics, declared war on the Axis on May 22 and signed by President Manuel Avila Camacho. The move makes Mexico the 27th UN ally, extending coastlines from Panama to the Arctic. Police arrest two for pacifist literature. census of foreigners underway in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Mexico
United Nations
Manuel Avila Camacho
Panama
Arctic
North America
Avila Camacho
Congress
Capi
Churchill Promises Intensified Attacks On Essen
London June 2 The RAF flew 1 036 planes at Essen in a second major raid on Hitler’s industrial heartland. Churchill said more severe attacks would follow with the American air force. He described the raid as a new phase in Britain’s offensive, though he warned future raids may vary in plan and size.
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Associated Press
London
RAF
Germmpany
Essen
Churchill
Hitler
Krupp Mini- Sens
United States
Krupp’ Industries
Ruhr
Prussian Rhine
Cologne
Berlin
RAEF
House of Commons
Germany
Refugees Describe Suffering Abroad Jersey City
On June 2 the Swedish Drottningholm arrived at its New Jersey pier with 308 Americans and other evacuees after a ten day voyage from Europe. Passengers, many ill and shaken, gathered on deck and on the quay as diplomats, families, and even animals disembarked in tense calm after their harrowing journey from the war torn continent.
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Associated Press
Jersey City
Drottningholm
Europe
Fargo
Accused Killer Of Father Trapped In Farmhouse Shootout
In Sumneytown Pennsylvania a posse trapped Henry Hartzell a 42 year old accused killer in an abandoned farmhouse. Hartzell fired on Det. Albert Murphy and a state officer prompting return fire. He died from wounds after a gun battle. He had confessed on his deathbed to shooting his father John Hartzell earlier that year.
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Sumneytown
Henry Hartzell
Hartzell
Montgomery County
Albert Murphy
Murphy
H. Clayton Moyer
Bucks County
John Hartzell
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Public Improvements
Rommel
CATRO
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Tobruk
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Ain el Gazala
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