Hitler Moves Headquarters From Russia
Allied reports say Adolf Hitler shifted his HQ westward from Russia as Tunisian fighting rages. British and American forces cap Cap Bon, enclose Bou Ficha, with 100000 Axis prisoners feared. Pantelleria bombed. Italian commander Messe resists surrender proposal amid heavy losses and continuing air attacks.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Washington
Churchill
Adolfler
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhow
Lst
Cap Bon
Bou Ficha
Ainamet
Cap Bon Peninla
Themerican
Second Army
Messe
First Army
Tunisia
Hitler
Iian
Marsala
Sicily
Yesy
Strategic Air
Enfidaville
Rome
Giovanni Messe
Bernard Freyberg
Cap Bon Penla
Catania
Palermo
Ficha
Mth
Eighth Army
Tench 19Th Corps
Fhea
Zarhouan
Lel de Luce
U.S. Army
Y Magazine
Possible Land Sea Air Drive Against Japan Hinted
White House reports three Far East leaders Archibald Wavell James Sommerville and Richard Peirse have arrived in Washington for talks with Roosevelt and Churchill. Speculation grows a joint campaign may target Japan while aiding China and reopening the Burma Road. Stilwell is noted as an American commander associated with the discussions.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Japan
China
White House
India
Washington
Archibald P. Wavell
James Sommerville
Ceylon
Richard Peirse
Burma
Suply
Far East
Hideki Tojo
Collision Near Zanesville Kills One Injures Several
A night auto crash 11 miles north of Zanesville left Leonard in critical condition and damaged nearby areas. Authorities report multiple injuries with unclear exact counts and ongoing investigation into cause and timing.
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Zanesville
Leonard
Aile
Injuras Damsville
German Troops Reported Killed on Leningrad Front
Russian dispatches say more than 1,000 German soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours along the Leningrad front as fighting renewed from the northern sector to Novorossisk on the Black Sea. Izvestia calls the war entering its decisive phase and Soviet air and artillery raids target German positions and railway hubs.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Red Army
Izvestia
Germany
John B. Stiff Sunday Creek Official Dies at 73
John B. Stiff longtime Sunday Creek Coal Co stores manager and official dies at 73 at his home 127 E State St Athens. Born Patriot Gallia Co he spent years in Glouster and Athens communities, survived by wife Lucy and children Thomas Gibson Ted Siebert and Mrs J G Blower plus seven grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 1 30 p.m. with Rev E A Brown. Interment New Lexington.
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John B. Stiff
Sunday Creek Coal Co
E. State St
Athens
E. A. Brown
New Lexington
Mr. Stiff
Patriot
Gallia County
Shawnee
Coal Company
Business College
Ada
Stiff
Lucy Stiff
Thomas Gibson
Ted Stiff
Siebert Stiff
Dayton
J. G. Blower
Corning
Moscow Charges Nazis Enslave Russians for Slave Labor
The Moscow radio quoted Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov saying Germany abducted Russian citizens for slave labor in Germany and warned those responsible would be held to account after the war. Molotov named Fritz Sauckel as the labor boss who at one time demanded sending 400000 to 500000 healthy girls to Germany.
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London
Moscow Radio
Vyacheslav Molotov
Germany
Molotov
Fritz Sauckel
Nine Ohio Counties to Run Nighttime Power Test
The state defense council schedules a blackout test tonight for nine Central Ohio counties including Franklin Marion Morrow Delaware Licking Madison Fairfield Pickaway and Hocking. Factories with war contracts will darken only nonessential lights.
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Columbus
State Defense Council
Ohio
Franklin
Marion
Morrow
Delaware
Licking
Madison
Fairfield
Pickaway
Hocking
12 More Dutch Are Executed by Germans
London based Aneta agency reports German authorities executed 12 more Dutch patriots, bringing total executions to 38 in the first two days of martial law imposed by the occupation.
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London
Aneta
Netherlands
Wheat Output Third Lower
Ohio winter weather damaged the wheat crop with 1943 production expected to be about 32 percent below 1942. The Federal State Crop Reporting Service estimated a total around 24,668,000 bushels with similar planted acres as last year. An estimated nine percent of wheat land was abandoned due to winter killing, the heaviest in 13 years.
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Columbus
Ohio
Federal
Two Killed in Nazi Raid on English Town
London dispatch reports two dead and others trapped after German Luftwaffe fighters attacked an East coast town in daylight. A bomb flattened three dwellings, landing in a park and bouncing 150 yards before exploding, injuring several residents.
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English Town
London
Sarah Grand Dies at 88 in Calne England
The British author and suffrage pioneer Sarah Grand died in Calne at age 88. A six times Bath mayor, she helped lead the votes for women movement.
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Calne
England
Sarah Grand
Bath
Kenton Man Killed Blasting Dynamite Near Alger
Ira B. Clay, 74, of near Alger was killed yesterday while blasting a stump with dynamite. The accident occurred in a rural area and the death is being investigated by local authorities.
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Kenton
Ira B. Claybuaugh
Alger
Expansion Of Milk Rationing Considered In 1943
Washington reports the War Food Administration weighing broader dairy rationing as government officials express discouragement over 1943 milk output. Proposals include rationing fluid milk and evaporated milk in all areas and curtailing milk use in some dairy products.
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Washington
Liquor Stores Closed Early Ahead of June Rationing Start
Ohio liquor stores shut at 3 p.m. to clear bottlenecks as 2,000,000 purchase-book applications flood in. Purchase books available by zone next week with identity and address proof. Ohio Osteopathic Association names Dr John W Mulford of Cincinnati president. Dr Charles F Rauch of Logan elected district trustee.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don Fisher
Fisher
Logan
Ohio Osteopathic Association of Physicians and Surgeons
John W. Mulford
Cincinnati
Charles F. Rauch
Early Action Sought On Strike Measure
Washington AP The House Military Committee moved to act late this week on a unanimously approved measure to curb wartime strikes. The bill would empower the War Labor Board with subpoenas ban jurisdictional disputes and secondary boycotts and require union financial statements. Other hopes to avert a coal crisis included extending the soft coal truce Fuels Administrator Ickes possible interim board report and possible presidential power to back coal mining.
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Washington
House Military Committee
War Labor Board
Ickes
Nation
Roosevelt
Japanese Make Gains in Chinese Rice Bowl Area
Far Pacific war reports note Japanese invasion columns pressing along the Lake Tungting basin near Changsha and a beachhead solidifying on its southern shore. In New Guinea, intensified clashes threaten Salamaua and Mubo as Merauke air raids and Rabaul bombardments intensify Allied operations.
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China
New Guinea
Burma
Chungking
Changsha
Hunan
Lake Tungting
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Salamaua
Papuan
Green Hills
Mubo
Merauke
Dutch New Guinea
U. S
Rabaul
New Britain
OPA Sets Ceiling Prices for Ohio Meat
The Regional Office of Price Administration announced retail ceiling schedules for beef veal lamb and mutton across Ohio effective next Monday. Two price lists apply to different store classes and business volumes with further reductions planned June 1 under a general rollback.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
Brown
Servicemen On Leave To Get Extra Gas
Members of the armed forces on leave or furlough may obtain five gallons of gasoline for personal errands where no other transport is available, the Office of Price Administration announced today.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Liquor Price Rollback Won’t Hit Ohio Prices
State Liquor Director Dona Fisher said no nationwide rollback to March 1942 levels would affect Ohio. She noted Washington reports the Office of Price Administration planned to set specific retail and wholesale prices on all types of hard liquor this month or next.
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Columbus
Dona Fisher
Ohio
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Churchill Eyes Washington Talks And Allied Strategy
The piece notes Prime Minister Churchill’s arrival in Washington as a sign of strengthened Allied cooperation after the Tunisian victory. It discusses the potential for coordinating strikes on Hitler’s Europe and possibly extending actions toward Japan, with Allied production and Mediterranean shipping aiding General MacArthur. It recalls the 1941 Atlantic Conference and the resolve to defeat Nazi tyranny.
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Churchill
Washington
North Africa
England
Atlantic
Hitler
Orient
Mediterranean
MacArthur
Germany
Russia
Roosevelt
Stalin
Longer Hours Bill Approved in Ohio Legislature
Ohio lawmakers approved a wartime measure relaxing protective laws to allow women and minors to work up to 50 hours a week. The House passed the bill after lengthy debate and sent it to the Senate for concurrence with an emergency clause. Labor opposed the proposal, warning of possible exploitation.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Senate
Organized Labor
Rites for Otis Leaper Held in Pomeroy
Funeral services for Otis Leaper age 49 a former Pomeroy resident who died in Columbus were set for Thursday at 3 pm at Ewing Funeral Home Rev W Luther Tracy officiating Burial followed in Beech Grove Cemetery Survivors include his wife Lucille daughter Maxine Columbus mother Mrs Eva Leaper Gallipolis and brother John Dayton Friends may call at the funeral home anytime up to the hour of services.
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Pomeroy
Otis Leaper
St. Anthony's Hospital
Columbus
Ewing Funeral Home
W. Luther Tracy
Beech Grove Cemetery
Lucille
Maxine
Eva Leaper
Gallipolis
John
Dayton
Roosevelt's Son Awarded Air Medal At North Africa
Allied headquarters in North Africa announces Col. Elliott Roosevelt son of the president has been awarded the Air Medal in addition to the Distinguished Flying Cross for meritorious achievement in five operational sorties against the enemy.
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North Africa
Col
Elliott Roosevelt
Roosevelt
State To Pay Expense For Indigent Patients
In Columbus the Senate enacted a law requiring the state to bear expenses for indigent patients of state hospitals including maintenance clothing transportation and burial. Counties will be relieved of the cost and officials estimate annual savings of 800000 to 1000000 dollars.
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Columbus
Senate
Miles of Nazis Move Unguarded Toward Medjez El Bab
In pre dawn darkness a 90 mile march of Axis survivors proceeded from Cap Bon to Medjez El Bab in Tunisia without any British guard. No escape attempts were reported as forces in India convened in the capital for wartime conferences. Prime Minister arrived in Washington with a military and naval staff.
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Cap
Medjez-El-Bab
Tunisia
Africa
Cap Bon
Tunis
India
Clair Chennault
China
Washington
Hitler Moves to West Front as Allies Plot Next Blow
London observers say wartime talks between Hitler and Roosevelt center on unconditional surrender and next Allied offensives. Berlin radio notes Churchill in Washington and Hitler's shift west, while Axis propaganda speaks of the battle for Germany amid rising unrest and food shortages in occupied Europe.
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Mr. Roosevelt
United Nations High Command
London
Cairo
Berlin
Churchill
Washington
Adolf Hitler
Albert Speer
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Germany
Axis
Algiers
Italy
I Duce
Switzerland
Holland
Retail Poultry Sale Halted in Philadelphia District
PHILADELPHIA four agencies policed the district as retail live poultry dealers enter a second day of voluntary shutdown in a mass revolt against black market activity. The district was quiet versus yesterday when demonstrators jeered poultry trucks leaving for New York as stones were thrown and minor disorders occurred. Attorney David N. Feldman said about five percent of the city’s live poultry stores did not join the shutdown and several hundred butchers closed poultry counters in sympathy.
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Philadelphia
OPA
New York
David N. Feldman
Retail Live Poultry Dealers Association
Levy To Meet School Pay Increase Passes
Middletown voters approved a one mill levy 1 376 to 519 in a special election. It was the first such election under a new law allowing school boards to raise operating funds without petitions. Voter turnout was 19 percent.
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Middletown
Board of Education
State Election Board
Total Egg Production In Ohio In April
Ohio egg production for April averaged 1 758 eggs per 100 layers, down from 1 794 the prior year, with total output reaching 316 million eggs, up 13 million. The report notes April totals and per hundred layer averages.
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Columbus
Ohio
Delayed Statement From UMW Chief Lewis
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers said he was out of town and postponed his planned statement on the coal wage dispute. The delay came as Pennsylvania anthracite operators and UMW conferees resumed talks after an all day session. Miners seek a $2 daily wage increase on top of the $5.08 minimum and portal to portal pay.
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New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
UMW R
Seven Former Shipyard Workers Indicted in Sabotage Case
Seven former Baltimore shipyard workers face federal grand jury indictments on charges of violating the sabotage act by improperly welding ships under construction for the Maritime Commission. The defendants allegedly acted with reason to believe their acts could injure interfere with or obstruct U S wartime preparation.
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Baltimore
Maritime Come Mission
United States
Columbus Clocks Move Ahead Sunday
Columbus residents will set clocks forward one hour Sunday doubling local time zones as state offices stay on Eastern Standard Time to conform with the law. Dayton remains on slow time as Ohio’s official time of record.
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Columbus
Ohio
Dayton
OPA Expands Authority to Revoke Gas Rations
The Office of Price Administration widened local rationing boards power to revoke gasoline rations to enforce rationing rules fairly and efficiently. It stated any holder facing loss of all or part of rations is entitled to a public hearing on request.
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OPA
Washington
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