U S Writers Return From Europe Report Axis Morale Slipping
United States journalists Edwin A. Shanke and Richard G. Massack, released in Lisbon exchange for Axis nationals, describe civilian attitudes in Germany and Italy. German morale shows fatigue but Nazism remains controlling. letters home influence soldiers and morale fluctuates with front lines. Italy, propped by Germany and Nazi control, faces disillusion and food strain but shows no imminent collapse. a growing antipathy toward Germans and mixed Italian views toward Japan shape Axis alliances.
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Edwin A. Shanke
Berlin
Associated Press
Richard G. Massack
Rome
United States
Lisbon
Balkan
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Senate Appropriations Committee Pushes Airport Expansion
The Senate appropriations committee recommends a $199,740,000 airport program to develop 164 new airports and improve 266 existing fields, plus landing fields in Alaska and U S sites for the Army. Total bill allocations rise to $425,703,235 for state justice commerce and federal judiciary, with cuts in travel and printing. It also funds a sewage treatment plant at Douglas Arizona for the American boundary commission.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Alaska
Army Ferrying Command
United States
Departments of State, Justice and Commerce
Federal Judiciary
Senate
House
Administrator of
Civil Aeronautics
Secretary of War
Army Air Corps
American Boundary Commission
Douglas
Ariz
Federal Requisitioning Of Houses Is Forecast
J Bradley Haight director of the United States employment service in Indiana predicted the government would requisition house facilities in certain areas by September to aid war production. He also foresaw forming a labor corps of highly skilled workers who would serve as a production army under government contract, moved as needs arose.
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Cincinnati
J. Bradley Haight
United States Employment Service
Indiana
Haight
Two Die as Tractor Collides With Train Near Shelby
Donald Karl 19 and Lucille Karl 17 killed when their tractor collided with a New York Central passenger train three miles south of Shelby. Stephan Bilka 18 escaped by jumping from the tractor.
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Shelby
Donald Karl
Lucille
New York Central
Here
Stephan Bilka
Classified Ad for Three Cows in Guysville
Messenger classified ad notes three cows for sale in Guysville Ohio two fresh animals. Seller F B Bean reports cows sold before six o clock the same day the ad ran. Advertisers urged to use classified ads regularly and call to place ads.
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Messenger
Mr. Bean
F. B. Bean
Guysville
Ohio
Browder Release Sparks Dies Committee Criticism
Rep. J Parnell Thomas condemns President Roosevelt for commuting Earl Browder’s passport fraud sentence. He vows the Dies Committee will place the issue as its first order of business, arguing the New Deal is compromised by Communists. Browder, released from Atlanta prison after fourteen months, plans to pursue wartime work.
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NEW York
J. Parnell Thomas
R.-N.j
Dies Committee On UN- American Activities
Roosevelt
Earl Browder
Browder
Thomas
Subs Sink Sixteen Vessels In Western Atlantic War Totals
New York AP reports enemy submarines were credited with sinking 16 United Nations vessels in the western Atlantic during the week of May 11 17 raising the war total to 191 Allied sinkings in the area. Casualties were 83 dead 115 missing and 470 survivors with two additional merchant ships towed in damaged and afloat while a third burned and drifted at last report.
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NEW York
United Nations
Atlantic Ocean
Steel Workers Move Toward Independent Union under Murray
The United Steel Workers of America are to offer the presidency to Philip Murray who chairs the SWOC. Murray has not yet indicated acceptance. In a convention opening the six year old SWOC will become a full union by adopting a constitution.
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Cleveland
United Steel Workers of America
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Murray
SWOC
CIO
OSU Journal fixes prices for copies and home delivery
The Ohio State Journal in Columbus raises single copy price from 3 to 4 cents and weekly home delivery from 18 to 20 cents per week, effective immediately.
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Columbus
Ohio State Journal
Ayres Joins Army After Conscientious Objector Claim
Hood River Oregon Lew Ayres the war hesitant film star known for All Quiet on the Western Front left a conscientious objectors camp to enlist in the army He said he would be assigned to medical duties after training and his stance was guided by assurances of medical service.
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Hood River
Ore
Lew Ayres
Three Killed In Mine Blast At Hitchman Mine
A massive explosion in the Hitchman Coal and Coke Iron Company mine in McMechem West Virginia killed three men and burned two others. Ten miners escaped unhurt. Hardy Parks and Mike Polus bodies were recovered while John Mojzer remained missing. Daniel Polus and Albert Valenbois were hospitalized with burns. The blast occurred while clearing a Sunday stone fall twenty miles from the entrance and was heard fifteen miles away. Flames flashed from the slope entrance, visible from Bellaire Ohio.
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Mcmechem
W. Va
Hitchman Coal and Coke Iron Company
Hardy Parks
Mike Polus
John Mojzer
Daniel Polus
Albert Valenbois
Slope
Bellaire
Ohio River
National Crisis In Grain Storage Space
A national grain storage crisis looms as harvesters prepare to work Southwest wheat fields in a week. Despite record capacity, storage space is scarce and veteran grain men warn this is the most critical shortage since the drought ended five years ago.
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Chicago
OSU Loses 10 Per Cent Of Its Teaching Staff
Ohio State University reported a loss of about 10 percent of its teaching staff to military and government services. The reduction in the student body partly offsets the shortage, but engineering medicine and dentistry may face particular difficulty.
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OSU
Columbus
Ohio State University
Ship Workers Agree to F D s Wage Program
Labor representatives in the shipyards join a three party plan with management and government to stabilize wages under President Roosevelt s anti inflation drive. The agreement cuts expected cost of living raises from 225 million to about 125 to 150 million dollars for the coming year, relinquishing 75 to 100 million in wage hikes.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
National Shipbuilding Conference
Form Naval Air Groups In 24 Ohio Colleges
Twenty four Ohio colleges organize naval cadet flight squadrons led by Miami University with 18 enrollees. The Navy's competitive spirit movement seeks physically fit men ages 17 to 27 for training as naval or marine pilots. Across Ohio the total squadron enrolments reach 84 with 23 colleges reporting.
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Columbus
Ohio
Miami University
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board
Navy
Three Killed as Plane Crashes Into Building
An airplane crashed into a garage near Wichita killing three aboard. Victims were Ben H. Miller 34 Baltimore Sun correspondent Cecil J. Lucas 43 Wichita pilot and Williams Knorr Wichita businessman. Miller was on an inspection tour of the country’s war production plants.
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Wichita
Kas
Ben H. Miller
Baltimore, Sun
Cecil J. Lucas
Williams Knorr
Miller
Steel men invited to join OPA advisory groups
Washington reports that Leon Henderson, head of the Federal Price Administration, invites a group of steel industry leaders to form advisory committees. The panels will act as liaison bodies between the industry and the OPA to aid price control efforts.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
OPA
Heavy circus wagon fatally crushes 7 year old
A heavy circus wagon crushed Chanya popotamus Key Wainwright, age 7, in Youngstown yesterday. Authorities investigate the fatal accident and await further details from witnesses and circus staff.
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Youngstown
Wainwright
Cripps Hints British Ready To Open Second Front
War editor report notes Sir Stafford Cripps suggesting Britain is preparing to open a second European front while the Red army advances in southern Russia. German cruiser Prinz Eugen bombed off Norway, with Luftwaffe loss tallies cited and Channel coastal raids renewed.
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Cripps
Russia
Europe
Sir Stafford Cripps
Bristol
United Nations
Prinz Eugen
Norway
Germany
RAF
British
Air Ministry
Trondheim
English Channel
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
United States
Caribbean
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Channel
Japanese Forces Within Four Miles of India's Border
China reports Japanese forces pushed toward the India frontier while Tokyo claims advances near Burma. Allied defense in India benefits from monsoon and air power as bombing and naval actions continue around Kalewa and Lae. Australian leaders urge more ships as Curtin notes aid has begun and must continue.
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Far Pacific
Burma
China Frontier
Tokyo
India
China
Yunnan
Salween
Lungling
Tengyueh
Burma Road
Paoshan
Chungking
Kalewa
Mandalay
Chindwin
Noted Solon Boland Dies on Eve of Primary
U S Representative Patrick J Boland Democratic whip in the House died of a heart attack at his Scranton home on the eve of Pennsylvania's primary election seeking renomination for a seventh term. The 62 year old legislator a Roosevelt friend had returned from Washington and spoke on a local station last night. He was stricken at 5 am and died before a physician arrived.
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Scranton
U. S
Patrick J. Boland
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Washington
McSweeney Seeks Unity After Ohio Primary
In Columbus and Cleveland the Democratic candidate John McSweeney of Wooster urged party unity after the primary. He promised to support the eventual nominee in the general election whether he wins in August or not, aligning with the party’s national committeeman on harmony.
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Columbus
John McSweeney
Wooster
Cleveland
Missing A-29 Bomber From May Patrol
Mitchell Field New York. An A-29 medium bomber with a crew of five is missing after a routine patrol flight on Sunday May 10. Eastern Air Command announces search and recovery efforts.
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Mitchell Field
N. Y
Air Force Headquarters
Co Command
Toy
Ora Gilmore Named Acting Superintendent at Gallia County Home
Ora Gilmore, a trustee at Gallia County Children's Home, was appointed acting superintendent today. The announcement comes from the board of trustees at the Gallia County facility in Gallipolis.
Gas Pipelines to the East Discussed by Roosevelt Aides
Congressional leaders met with President Roosevelt to probe an Atlantic coast oil and gas shortage and study a possible pipeline. Senator Barkley said idle pipelines might be laid from Texas or Oklahoma to Florida or the Ohio River, pending agency surveys by Interior, the War Production Board, and possibly the RFC. Costs and final location would wait on those findings.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Atlantic Seaboard
Walianes
War Production Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Barkley
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Texas
Ohio Sugar Beet Planting Reaches Record Levels
Ohio farmers are planting one of the largest sugar beet acreages on record, Elmer F. Kruse said. The 1942 planting totals about 49 000 acres, the greatest since 1938, with 51 000 acres set as a state record. 50 000 acres were harvested seven years ago. Kruse notes pre act era averages around 25 000 acres and a jump to 42 000 in the first program year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Elmer F. Kruse
Ohio Aaa
Kruse
War Production Still Only Halfway To Goal
Col Winthrop Withington says war production in the Cleveland ordnance district has reached only half the Roosevelt goal. He notes midwest peacetime to munitions conversion is rapidly being accomplished.
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Cleveland
Roosevelt
Winthrop Withington
Cleveland Ordnance District
Midwest
Withington
Patrolman Shoots Bandit In Cross Country Chase
In Ohio a Dayton auto theft and robbery victim Luther F. Johnson lost 126 dollars. Two suspects, Ernest Powers 20 and Frank Bowles 23, were captured near Orient after a highway patrol chase. Powers was shot above the right hip. Bowles is jailed locally. A third man escaped.
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Columbus
Dayton
Luther F. Johnson
Orient
Ernest Powers
Frank Bowles
Filipinos and Americans Surrender to Japanese on Mindanao
A Comei dispatch from Mindanao Island reports that twelve hundred additional Filipino and American troops surrendered to Japanese forces on May 13.
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Tokyo
Mindanao
Philippines
Comei
Order Further Mine Changes
Washington report on the Globe Iron Company Jackson County No. 1 Mine calls for more ventilation improvements. Inspector J B Vanity commends the new shaft but urges eliminating portable blowers, installing a fan at the airshaft, splitting ventilation, sealing old workings, repairing doors, and keeping airways clear to ensure adequate fresh air and gas dilution.
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Washington
Jackson County
Ohio
Globe Iron Company
R. R. Sayers
Bureau of Mines
J. B. Vanity
Night Clubbers Spend 1.25 Million on War Bond Show
In Chicago a club hosted a fund raising event where 689 patrons bought government war bonds for a total of 1.25 million dollars. The club covered costs and featured top stage and screen stars for the entertainment of attendees and Uncle Sam.
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Chicago
Uncle Sam
Curtiss Wright Opens New Columbus Aircraft Plant
Groundbreaking held in Columbus for Curtiss Wright Corp expansion linked to the Seagull Navy scout plane. General Manager J Williams said the new facility will operate with the existing plant. size and cost not disclosed.
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Columbus
Curtiss-Wright Corp
J. A.illiams
Government Takes Over Camp Perry This Week
Columbus reports the state will lease almost all of Camp Perry to the war department this week. Gov. John W. Bricker says only the clubhouse, the squaw camp for officers wives, and a storage building will remain in state hands.
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Columbus
Camp Perry
War Department
John W. Brickler
Squaw Camp
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Southwest Pacific
Blimp
Atlantic
Steel
Ayres
F.D
Naval Air Groups
By Clyde A. Farnsworth
France
Dunkerque
Boulogne
England
No. 1
Red Army
Kharkov
Krasnograd
London
Kerch
Crimean
Caucasus
Kerch Strait
Crimea
High Command
Myron C. Cramer
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
George Marshall
Army Chief of Staff
Lae Airdrome
Australia
New Guinea
Louisiade Islands
Lae
Coral Sea
Solomon Islands
Keith Murdoch
Melbourne Herald
Southwest
Pacific
John Curtin
Solon
McSweeney
FDR
Curtiss-Wright
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