28 Foes of Axis Unite in New Pledge To Destroy Tyranny
The Associated Press reports a global flag day showing unity against tyranny as nations including the United States Mexico and the Philippines pledge to destroy Axis tyranny. Roosevelt Churchill and leaders in London Moscow Chungking and beyond call for victory and solidarity.
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Axis
U. S
Associated Press
United Nations
America
Roosevelt
Mexico
Philippines
Family of Nations
United Countries
White House
Washington
London
George
Queen Elizabeth
Churchill
President Says Distribution Biggest Allied Challenge In War
President Roosevelt told Congress that lend-lease aid through May reached 4.497 billion dollars and that distribution is in its critical phase. He cited unity with Britain and the United States to move troops and materiel to launch offensives and noted the program has grown to 3.673 billion in goods and 824 million in services with billions more in transit and manufacture.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Great Britain
United States
British Commonwealth of Nations
Strike at Marietta Manufacturing shipyards over union push
A morning strike at Marietta Manufacturing Co shipyards in Pt Pleasant West Virginia involved over 100 workers. Seven AF of L pickets protested at the gate as the plant, building boats for the army, prepared to add workers due to defense needs.
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PT. Pleasant
W. Va
Marietta Manufacturing Co
American Federation of Labor
Jason T. Weissenburger
Buckeye Boys' State Votes for Governor in 10 Day Meet
Nearly 700 youths at Buckeye Boys State select a governor as Dean Lauri ten of Canton and Donald L. Bowers of Akron are chosen by rival groups Nationalists and Federals. The 10 day event, sponsored by the American Legion, teaches practical democracy as boys govern themselves.
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Delaware
Buckeye Boys
Dean Lauriten
Canton
Donald L. Bowers
Akron
Federa
Greenfield Youth Wins Soldier's Medal Award
Greenfield farmers Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ravenscroft learned their son Woodrow, a 28 year old private, was named by Gen. Douglas MacArthur for one of the first soldier's medals in the Southern Pacific battle area.
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Greenfield
Woodrow
Walter Ravenscroft
Here
Douglas MacArthur
Southern Pacific
New City Ordinance Mandates Midnight Liquor Closings
Marion imposes a liquor closing rule setting new frontier for bars and taverns. Under the ordinance all liquor establishments must close at midnight instead of 2:30 a m. The measure takes effect June 20.
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Marion
Car sale nets premium for visiting California woman
An unnamed U S soldier in Atea sold a car to a California visitor for nearly $50 above local offers, plus almost $700 in cash exchanged. The item hints at a small market surge as the ad price exceeded local deals.
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Uncle Sam
California
Ohio accident toll in 1940 tops five thousand deaths
Census bureau reports 1940 fatalities in Ohio reached 5,952 with 2,119 killed by motor vehicles. Other causes include 1,824 from injury by fall or crushing and 1,811 from falls, plus 250 in railway accidents and 194 in auto train collisions. Ohio ranks behind California New York and Pennsylvania.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bureau
California
New York
Pennsylvania
Conviction of AMA Upheld by Appeals Court
The United States Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on illegal restraint of trade charges under the antitrust laws. The district court had found them guilty last year of attempting to thwart a group health association cooperative for federal employees. Justice James M. Proctor assessed fines of 2500 dollars against the AMA and 1500 dollars against the district society.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals
American Medical Association
The
Medical Society of the
District of Columbia
Group Health Association
James M. Proctor
District Society
Spanish War Veterans Meet in Cincinnati
The 44th annual encampment of Spanish War Veterans of OCisio opens in Cincinnati with Gov Bricker and National committeeman Jose R Hanley of Perry addressing the crowd. Mayor James G Stewart is among speakers at the opening ceremony of the United Spanish War Veterans Ohio department encampment.
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Cincinnati
Philippine Island
Ocisio
John W. Bricker
Jose — R. Hanley
Perry
James G. Stewart
Caieiea
United Spanish War Veterans, Ohio Department
Medals From USS Connecticut Returned to Japan
The 1942 act sent medals tied to a 500 pound bomb back to Emperor Hirohito. Master Rigger Henry Vormstein of Lake View New York and Shipwright John B Laurey of Brooklyn received the medals decades ago and had requested their return to Tokyo. The Third Naval District confirms the medals were returned on 18 April 1942 via Lieut Ted W Lawson and General staff. Laurey is noted as volunteering at Pearl Harbor to repair Japanese damage.
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New York
U. S
Japan
Connecticut
Henry Wormstein
Lakeview
N. Y
John B. Laurey
Brooklyn
Vormstein
Laurey
Navy
Knox
Tokyo
Third Naval District
Brooklyn Navy Yard
War Department
Secretary of War
Ted W. Lawson
U.S. Army
Frank Knox
Pearl Harbor
Body of U. S. Soldier Found in Melbourne
The body of a United States Soldier was found today in a railway flatcar in Melbourne. Officials said a head injury likely caused the death and the case was sent to U S Army officers for identification as investigators determine if foul play was involved.
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Melbourne
United States
Two Marines Die In Michigan Auto Mishap Near Tecumseh
Privates Richard Freeman aged 20 from Pittsburgh and Albert O Shelton 21 from Independence County were fatally injured when their automobile crashed into a tree beside Route 52 near Tecumseh Michigan. Both Marines were assigned to the Toledo Naval Training Station.
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Toledo
Richard Freeman
Pittsburgh
Albert O. Shelton
Independence Co
Marine Corps
Toledo Naval Training Station
Route 52
Tecumseh, Mich
Japanese Invasion Scene at Attu Island Report
U S Army and Navy officials predicted a brief and unpleasant visit for Japanese troops who landed on Attu in the western Aleutians. American bombers attacked the enemy forces as fog allowed, signaling ongoing combat operations.
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U. S. Army
Navy
Rocky
Attu
Aleutian Islands
Eight Killed and Eleven Injured in Train Wreck
In Kittrell North Carolina the Silver Meteor smashed into a freight train, killing eight and wounding eleven aboard the streamlined service. The crash followed a fatal shooting of division superintendent H. M. Terrell in Raleigh, with officials saying no link between the incidents established. Terrell’s body was found at six a.m. after he was reportedly overworked by the wrecks.
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Kittrell
N. C
Seaboard
Virginia
H. M. Terrell
Raleigh
Terrell
Newspapers Guard Americanism and Good Government
Raymond B. Howard of London, Ontario, president of the National Editorial Association, told the Kiwanis international convention that press services and hometown papers guard Americanism and good government. He said newspapers rely on news gathering associations for world news and that American wire services provide unbiased, truthful reporting.
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Cleveland
Raymond B. Howard
London
National Editorial Association
Kiwanis International Convention
Howard
Figures Show Food Prices at Standstill
Chicago market statistics show wholesale food costs halted after Pearl Harbor period. Farm commodities remain exempt from consumer price ceilings, yet prices retreat from 1942 highs for all major products.
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Chicago
Pearl Harbor
Nation-Wide Rubber Drive Begins Today
President Roosevelt calls on all citizens to donate every spare bit of rubber for the war effort. Americans are urged to take discarded rubber to one of 400 000 gas stations where it can be donated or sold for a penny a pound. The oil industry volunteers over a million workers and vast equipment to collect, centralize, and deliver the rubber to the government.
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Washington
Velt
Sinkings by Nazi Subs In Atlantic Reach 265
Germany threatens broader Atlantic campaign. Western Atlantic ship sinkings total 265 with 13 merchant ships sunk last week and one yesterday. Over 394 crew and passengers rescued from 14 ships, 18 lives lost and 65 missing.
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Atlantic
Associated Press
West Indies
Cincinnati Gas Workers End Four Day Walkout
Seven hundred gas division maintenance and repairmen of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co. returned to their jobs after a four day walkout. Company and union officials negotiated a 12 1/2 percent wage increase. They resumed work under an agreement signed early today after an all night session with U.S. Labor Department conciliators.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Gas and Elect. Co
U.S. Labor Department
Pay Allotment Bill Wins Senate Approval
Washington reports the Senate approved and sent to the House a military pay allotment bill. It allows the selective service to consider family relationships in duty assignments and aids the four lowest ranks with federal allowances replacing part of their pay. The bill also revises the selective service act to exhaust single men before calling up husbands and fathers.
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Washington
Senate
Selective Service Act
Ohio Truckers Violate Rules
Cleveland today saw 60 percent of trucks entering and leaving the city break Office of Defense Transportation rules. C R Allen of Cleveland noted similar violations in the Cleveland Metropolitan area. Violations cited include detouring routes beyond 10 percent of crew flight mileage and prohibited nonemergency special deliveries.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Office of Defense Transportation
C. R. Allen
ODT
Bolin Driveaway Co
Nazi Ultimatum to Czechs Reported
A Reuters dispatch from Stockholm says Germany issued Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia an ultimatum due Thursday to hand over the slayers of Reinhard Heydrich or face consequences. Berlin reports do not specify threatened measures.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Bohemia
Moravia
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Berlin
Watch Murmansk For Trend Of War
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie notes heavy fighting on the Kharkov front and at Sevastopol as Germany presses a spring offensive. He stresses the strategic importance of Murmansk as a vital supply lifeline and urges maintaining production and transport to keep the Allied network strong.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Stauchly
Hitler
Kharkov
Ukraine
Sevastopol
Crimea
Black Sea
Arctic
Murmansk
Russia
Burma Road
Italians Report Major Convoy Battle in Mediterranean
Axis reports describe a large sea air action between Tunis and Sicily with Italian claims of sinking two British cruisers and four steamers while damaging a battleship carrier and more. The piece ties the raid to possible Allied moves from Gibraltar to Suez and notes concurrent battles near Sevastopol and in Libya with Casablanca era weapons.
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Italy
Mediterranean Duor
Tunis
Sicily
Rome
Gibraltar
Suez
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Crimean
Moscow
Mediterranean
United States Army
Turkey
Russia
London
United States
Atlantic
Libya
Tobruk
Ain el Gazala
Australia
Darwin
Tokyo
Midway Island
San Francisco
United States Navy
Ohio Politician Joe E. Baird Dies at 76
Joe E. Baird a prominent Republican and former 13th district congressman died after a short illness in Bowling Green He previously served as Assistant Ohio Secretary of State and secretary of the State Utilities Commission.
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Ohio
Bowling Green
Joe E. Baird
State Utilities Commission
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