Resistance to Allied Drive Is Stiffening
Allied forces press toward Damascus as British and Free French troops reach near the capital amid stiffening Vichy resistance in Syria Lebanon. Luftwaffe air activity and raids on Haifa are reported along with German bases at Aleppo and naval totals for British shipping in early 1941.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Syria
Damascus
Haifa
Palestine
Aleppo
Vichy
France
Middle East
Syria-Lebanon
RAF
Kiswe
London
Charles de Gaulle
Far East
Germany
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Berlin
Dutch Islands
Indies
Great Britain
United States
Tokyo
Brest
Bismarck
Atlantic
Hood
St. Nazaire
Mandal
Stavanger
Norway
Free Legal Service Is Voted for Service Men
Columbus bar moves to provide gratuitous legal services to soldiers sailors and other armed forces members and their dependents who cannot pay. John C. Harlor announces six attorneys to the defense committee to furnish free legal help to volunteers draftees and dependents in need.
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Columbus
John C. Harlor
Columbus Bar Association
Woman Killed by Clearing Fluid Blast in London Ohio
Mrs. Gertrude Kileen age 49 died in a Columbus hospital after a cleaning fluid blast hurled her through a basement window. She was the wife of Edward Kileen a transport truck operator. The incident occurred in London Ohio.
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Columbus
London
O. Nome
Gertrude Kileen
Edward Kileen
Middletown holdup cleanly pulls off $281 robbery
A holdup man armed with a gun entered the City Loan Co. in Middletown and escaped with $281. He walked out casually and blended with passing crowds to vanish from sight.
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Middletown
City Loan Co
Ohio Systematizes Defense Roads First in Nation
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced that Ohio completed a military highway system to move troops quickly. A directory of operation details and maps shows best routes, bypass corridors, and urban escorts. bridges’ height limits are noted for tank traffic. the radio link with army transmitters and aircraft is set for emergency use.
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Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Ohio
Lynn Black
Army
Ohio Police
Handyman Charged In Staten Island Woman Slaying
Pietro Picatello 46 dubbed himself Charlie Chan was charged with the slaying of Rose Siegel 23. He allegedly used a butcher cleaver to kill her, hid the body in a trunk and dumped it into a Staten Island thicket. He confessed to the crime in his Lower East Side apartment to Assistant District Attorney Jacob Rosenblum.
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New York
Charlie Chan
Staten Island
Pietro Picatello
Rose Siegel
Lower East Side
Jacob Rosenblum
Consolidated Strike Threat Diminishes Across Plants
Army scrutiny alters labor standoffs as North American Aviation Inglewood workers return individually. AFL Machinists settle at Consolidated Aircraft San Diego while Pittsburgh strike mediation proceeds. CIO and aluminum plants idle. Balint investigated amid congressional probes into Communist ties.
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Inglewood
Calif
North American Aviation Corporation
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
AFL Machinists
U. S
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company
Detroit
Charles E. Branshaw
CIO
Congress
Defense Mediation Board
Byrnes
D-Sc
Senate
Mediation Board
Cleveland
Aluminum Company of America
CIO Die Casters
Alex Balint
Washington
Balint
Communist Party
Nickel Theft Brings Year's Jail Sentence
Ernest S. Fuller, 63, was sentenced to one year in jail for stealing a nickel from a newsboy. Police testified he lifted the coin from a pile of newspapers using a cane with adhesive tape at its end.
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Los Angeles
Ernest S. Fuller
Churchill Signals Hope Amid Atlantic Fight
The War Today notes Churchill’s speech mixed optimism with resolve as Britain reports a strong Atlantic month. The RAF says Prinz Eugen and accompanying ships were bombed near Brest, implying Prinz Eugen is out of Atlantic action for now. Churchill rejects peace talks and urges continued wartime unity.
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Winston ‘Churchill
Britain
RAF
Bismarck
Brest
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Atlantic
Churchill
House of Commons
Robin Moor Survivors Say Ship Torpedoed By Nazi Sub
Survivors aboard the Brazilian steamer Osorio report the merchantman Robin Moor flying the American flag was sunk by a German submarine torpedo in the South Atlantic between Dakar and Natal on May 21. Three officers among 11 survivors are aboard Osorio. 35 others were lost.
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U. S
Robin Moor
Brazil
Robert McCullough
Cleveland
Robin
Washington
State Department
Robin Oor
Africa
Osorio
Recife
Lship
South Atlantic
Dakar
Natal
Associated Press
Rio de Janeiro
Waldemar Lucio Pereira
Ohio wheat yield to be only normal this year
Ohio will harvest a normal wheat crop despite drought causing nationwide production to be above average in 910,699,000 bushels. The Ohio Cooperative Crop Reporting Service said on June 1 that clover and thyme hay were 64 percent of normal, alfalfa 75 percent, and pastures 67 percent, with hay and pastures poorest in southwestern counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Negro Is Slain In Courtroom
In Conroe Texas W. S. Cochran a Livingston rancher shot and killed Bob White a 31 year old Negro during his third trial for criminally attacking Mrs Cochran. Cochran surrendered and was charged with murder released on $500 bond. White had been accused of an August 1937 attack on Mrs Cochran at her ranch home.
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Conroe
Tex
Bob White
White
W. S. Cochran
Livingston
Bigelow Urges City To Buy Power Company Vote
Councilman Herbert S. Bigelow announces re election bid and proposes city purchase of Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co for 84665000. He says analysis to be presented at council shows an annual saving of 5800000 for consumers if the deal goes through.
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Bigelow
City
Cincinnati
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Plan expansion of plant at Ravenna
The War Department announced a $6,100,000 expansion of the Ravenna ordnance plant in Ravenna Ohio. No further details were provided.
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Ravenna
Washington
War Department
Ohio
Farnham Lives In Defense Housing Shortage City
William E. P. Farnham, government engineer in charge of a 300 unit defense housing project, lives in a ...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
William E. P. Farnham
State Guards Receive Arms in Ohio
Columbus reports the Federal Government handed 2,000 rifles and bayonets to Ohio's new State Guard. Adjt. Gen. Whittier S. Bird plans Washington conferences for more gear and schools first companies of the emergency unit, with 50 enlisted men per company across three regiments. Rifles are Enfields no longer used by federal troops.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Guard
Whittier
Bird
Washington
National Guard
Entire Crew of Army Bomber Dies in Crash
In Lyman Wyoming eight soldiers guard the wreckage of a twin engine Army bomber. Six Air Corps fliers died when the aircraft crashed into a brush covered hillside ten miles east of the frontier town. Salvage crews will recover the twisted metal deemed valuable.
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Lyman
Wyo
Air Corps
Fire Destroys Home in Gallipolis Early Today
Fire rips through Charles Heagraves home on State Street Gallipolis causing an estimated 1500 dollar loss. Fire department officials reported the blaze started early in the day and no injuries were noted.
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Gallipolis
Charles Heagraves
State St
Stimson Declares Axis System Doomed to Failure
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told 420 United States Military Academy graduates that the Axis powers cannot be reconciled with the American system. He said the issue is clear between right and wrong, freedom and slavery, and between kindness and cruelty, and warned that terms with Nazi Germany are impossible.
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West Point
N. Y
Henry L. Stimson
United States Military Academy
Senate Votes New Age Limit
The Senate approved giving President Roosevelt authority to defer military training for men reaching 28 by July 1 next year without induction under the draft act. The amendment extends the provision to those 28 by July 1 1941 or by July 1 in any later year. Senators said the President could later call 28 to 35 year olds if needed.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Reynolds
D. IS
Gasless Sundays Would Cost Ohio Gas Tax Revenue
State Treasurer Don Ebright estimated that Gasless Sundays would cut gasoline tax revenue by about 10 million dollars annually in Ohio if implemented. He noted the four cent tax brought in 53,978,733 dollars last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don Ebright
Ohio University President named to press defense supply priority
Dr. Herman G. James of Ohio University was appointed by NASU's Executive Committee meeting in Athens to press the Office of Production Management in Washington for priority on scientific supplies needed by universities to avoid curtailment of national defense contributions. The six state university presidents also weighed extending Social Security Act coverage to college and university personnel.
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Herman G. James
Ohio University
National Association of State Universities
Athens
Office of Production Management
Washington
James Fulton Zimmerman
University of New Mexico
A. A. Hauck
University of Maine
NASA
Herman B. Wells
Indiana University
Albert N. Jorgenson
Connecticut State
NASU
J. J. Tigert
University of Florida
James
Military Aid in Strikes Must Come From U. S.
Columbus officials indicate that any military aid needed to handle Ohio labor troubles must come from the federal government. With National Guard units in federal service outside Ohio and the Ohio State Guard only just forming, the state could offer no military assistance beyond observer roles by state guard officers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Guard
Ohio cherry crop forecast shows 100 ton deficiency
Washington reports the Agriculture Department forecasts a 100 ton shortfall in Ohio's 1941 commercial cherry harvest due to factors affecting production. The assessment highlights expected lower yield across the state affecting market supplies.
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Washington
Ohio
Agriculture Department
Summer Coal Buy Now Aids U S Defense Program
Washington urges households to buy and store coal this summer to prevent a winter shortage amid defense strain on transport. Ickes warns Eastern Seaboard may have less gasoline and oil for heating. Advice includes driving less, keeping cars efficient, and maintaining oil burners for economy and comfort.
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Washington
Paul Sifton
Consumers Counsel
Mabel S
Ickes
Eastern Seaboard
Defense Petroleum
Gulf Ports
Roosevelt reports rapid growth in lend lease deliveries
President Roosevelt told Congress that over 75 million dollars of defense materials have been transferred under the lease lead law and shipments will rise rapidly. He cited large allocations for aircraft, explosives and firearms, and noted Britain received far more planes in early 1941 than the prior year while ships, pilots, and food are being supplied for Allied war needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Britain
China
Red Caps and Porters Demand 30-Cent Pay Hike
Chicago up and down the line with 1 150 000 railroad workers joining the demand for wage increases. United Transport Service Employes of America asked rail managements for a flat 30 cent an hour rise for about 3 500 red caps and porters, lifting the minimum to 70 cents per hour. Mansfield plant expansion by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. totaling about $500 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United Transport Service Employes of America
Mansfield
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co
Dedicate Building Chillicothe Newspaper Plant Tonight
The new home of Chillicothe Newspapers Inc will be formally dedicated with Governor John W Bricker as principal speaker and visiting newspapermen and women among the guests.
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Chillicothe —Up
Chillicothe Newspapers, Inc
John W. Bricker
Bane Jauet
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