Reprisals for Doolittle Raid Seen by Stimson
The War Department views a Japanese air raid on the United States as inevitable as a vengeance response to Brigadier General Doolittle's Tokyo raid. Secretary Stimson said defenses would remain high and warned the east coast could face an attack on Washington. He noted no discussion of Axis partner actions and stressed readiness for a major offensive. Meanwhile Japanese reports claimed Kinhwa’s capture, cutting Chiang Kai-Shek’s supply routes, with Chinese forces reporting counterattacks and Allied air power striking back across China, Burma, and the South Pacific.
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Stimson
War Department
United States
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
China
Kinhwa
Seaboard
Chekiang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan
Shanghai
Chungking
Lungling
Burma
Salween River
Tengchung
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Recruiters Swamped By WAAC Applicants
Washington Army officials face a tough selection as 450 officers in the first WAAC training school loom. The initial recruiting pushed 13 558 candidates, with applications accepted through June 4.
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WAAC
Washington
Army
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Serious condition reported for Heydrich after Prague attack
London dispatches summarize the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler’s ally, with reports he remained in serious condition after an attack on his car near a Prague suburb. Czech sources note two assailants aged 30 to 35 with automatic rifles, Swedish reports mention a delayed action bomb or a bomb thrown at the vehicle.
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London
Reinhard Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler
Gesta
Prague
Heydrich
Berlin
Logan Man Will Seek Place in Congress
Logan dentist Dr. Walter E. Brehm of Logan filed his declaration of candidacy for the Republican nomination to Congress from the 11th District. Brehm, a two term Hocking County representative to the state General Assembly, is unopposed on the Republican ticket while Democrat incumbent Harry Claypool seeks reelection in Pelenton.
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Logan
Walter E. Brehm
Hocking County
Ohio
Congress
Brehm
State General Assembly
Harry Claypool
Dem
Pelent
Fayette Co. Dog Warden Indicted as Embezzler
Former Fayette County dog warden Andy C. Nelson was indicted for embezzling 843 dollars in county funds from dog sales to Ohio State University for scientific use.
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Washington C. H
Andy C. Nelson
Fayette County
Ohio State University
Freeze on War Job Transfers Targets Labor Pirating
Washington AP reports hundreds of thousands of essential war workers will be forbidden to change jobs in war plants under orders drawn up by the War Manpower Commission. The plan aims to curb labor poaching that disrupts production, with plant classifications by urgency and federal deferment decisions to involve local draft boards. The move includes permanent job qualification records from occupational questionnaires for registrants.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
The
Manpower Commission
Federal Employment Service
U. S. Employment Service
Selective Service
21 Dead in Outbreak of Sea Warfare Captures Sub
At least 21 seamen died and 36 missing after a new wave of Axis torpedo attacks sank five merchant vessels in Atlantic waters. Reports say a U S merchant ship Greek freighter New England fishing vessel British merchantman and Dutch freighter were hit. Surviving crews totaled 46 from the British vessel. 36 others were unaccounted for.
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Atlantic
United Nations
U. S
New England
of Mexico
Ess
Willemstad
Curacao
Caribbean
Boston
Mexico to declare war on Germany Italy and Japan
Congress met in a special session to hear President Manuel Avila Camacho's reasons for seeking the power to declare war on Germany Italy and Japan. The formal declarations would make Mexico the second largest Latin American nation in alliance with the United Nations following cabinet approval after Germany rejected a protest note over a Mexican tanker sinking.
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Mexico
Congress
Manuel Avila Camacho
Germany
Italy
Japan
United Nations
Xenia's Earl Babb to lead State Aid for the Aged
Earl R. Babb of Xenia will become acting head of the State Division of Aid for the Aged next week. He will take over from Division Chief Tom McCaw, who was granted a leave of absence yesterday to report for active army duty.
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Columbus
Earl R. Babb
Xenia
State Division of Aid For
Tom McCaw
Desert war in Africa could shape global conflict
The piece likens Rommel's Afrika Korps drives toward Tobruk to a naval battle, stressing ground gains mattering for destroying enemy tanks. It notes Tobruk as a key port, the risk of a prolonged campaign, and potential shifts in Allied strategy. It also highlights America's stake, with U S supply lines and equipment flowing to Britain and growing U S troop support.
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Fred Vanderschmidt
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Tobruk
San
Egypt
Prohibition Moves Gain Support From Baptists and Presbyterians
In Cleveland the Northern Baptist Convention debates a national prohibition plan for the war years. In Schenectady a church urged banning all alcohol, echoed by many delegates. In Milwaukee the General Assembly urged President Roosevelt to shut distilleries and liquor outlets for the war. A War Production Board spokesman said a 90 percent cut in hard liquor production is planned by year end to reserve stills for rubber and war materials.
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Cleveland
Northern Baptist Convention
Schenectady
N. Y
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the
War Production Board
Washington
Minimum Wage Violator Fined in Cleveland Case
Admitting he falsified wage and hour records to appear compliant, Ohio Pact Co. owner Sam Forman was fined $2,000 and ordered to pay $4,018 in back wages to 89 employees. He allegedly paid under 25 cents an hour, well below the federal 40 cent minimum.
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Cleveland
Sam Forman
The
Ohio Pact Co
Forman
Bostonians Adopt Wake Island Captives Fund Monthly Pay
The 1142 AFL workers and 80 sailors and Marines captured at Wake Island are adopted by the Industrial Insurance Agents Union of Boston CIO. Members voted to give an hour’s pay each month to buy supplies for the captives.
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Boston
American Federation of Labor Workers
United States
Wake Island
Industrial Insurance Agents Union of Boston
CIO
Thieves Receive Maximum Sentences in Vermilion Area
Under a new ordinance three guilty thieves were sentenced to maximum terms of 11 months 29 days and fines of 999.99 each. Defendants Eva Mae Thorne 21 Arthur Bo lofa 27 and his brother Clarence lived at a gas station near Vermilion on the case.
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Sandusky
Eva Mae Thorne
Arthur Bo 1Ofa
Clarence
Vermilion
Half Million Jobs Filled Across War Industries
The War Manpower Commission reports the U S Employment Service filled more than a half million jobs last month in factories, shipyards and offices and fifty thousand six hundred on farms. Ohio State University ROTC cadets, about 3,500 strong, staged a mock battle during a War Activities Day program on campus.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
U. S. Employment Service
Columbus
Ohio State University
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Movie Executive Is Salary Leader Again
Louis B. Mayer, 57, a Russian born movie executive and former Massachusetts theater operator, topped America’s highest paid executives with an income of 704,425.60 for last year as managing director of production for Loew's, Inc. Clark Gable earned 357,500 from Loew's for second place, and Nicholas M. Schenck received 334,204.54 as president and director of Loew's.
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Philadelphia
Louis B. Mayer
Massachusetts
America
Loew's, Inc
Securities and Exchange Commission
Clark Gable
Loew's
Nicholas M. Schenck
Grain Storage Bins Shipped to Ease Ohio Shortage
Columbus report says the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will ship five hundred steel grain storage bins to Ohio to relieve storage pressures. Elmer F. Kruse, Ohio AAA chairman, says government loan wheat will move from country elevators and warehouses into these bins to free space for new harvests. Only wheat trucked into terminals with no transit billing will be stored, Kruse notes, calling the amount a drop in the bucket toward Ohio's needs and a small relief for farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Elmer F. Kruse
Plan To Fight Gas Rationing
Washington AP Senator Connally of Texas called oil producing state colleagues to organize against a nationwide gasoline rationing plan. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma hinted at adding a rider to block extending rationing beyond the 17 eastern states, as talk grows of expanding control to all U S to conserve rubber.
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Washington
Connally
D.tex
Thomas
D.-Okla
United States
Auto Commandeering By Police Held Illegal
Ohio Supreme Court rules a policeman lacks authority to commandeer a car to chase criminals. The decision came in Nathan Blackman vs City of Cincinnati after Blackman's vehicle was damaged when seized to pursue a suspect. The ruling clarifies limits on police power and citizen assistance in pursuit cases.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Nathan Blackman
Cincinnati
Blackman
Pork buying program expansion sparks talk of rationing
Chicago observers note that the government's pork purchasing plan has already doubled 1941 purchases this year. Livestock men question whether some form of domestic rationing may be necessary before year’s end.
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Chicago
Somervell Predicts Peak U S Arms Output This Fall
Lieut General Brehon Somervell told London reporters that American arms production will hit its highest peak by autumn and that the United States can supply men and materials on a large scale to a European battlefront despite shipping shortages. He noted tanks were ahead of schedule and suggested U S troops might use British equipment in air and on the ground.
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Somervell
Brehon B. Somervell
U. S. Army
London
United States
Adolf Hitler
Kharkov
Macson
Reuters
St. Lucia
British West Indies
U. S
Blakeley
Caribbean
Martinique
Germany
Australia
India
Russia
Britain
Hitler
United States Army
Navy
North Africa
Egypt
Green Valley
the Nile
Hollister Youth Held Prisoner by Japanese
Kenneth McGee of Hollister learned his brother, Private First Class Robert Harold McGee of the U S Marines, is a Japanese prisoner in Shanghai China. He is among 45 Ohioans who were building on Wake and Guam Islands when war began. Parents Mr and Mrs John McGee of Moxahala formerly Hollister last heard from him in November at Wake Island.
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Glouster
Kenneth McGee
Hollister
Robert Harold McGee
U.S. Marine Corps
Shanghai
China
McGee
Wake
Guam
John McGee
Wake Island
Bomber Crew From New Guinea Swamp Reaches Allied Base
After 45 days wandering in New Guinea swamps their seven member crew led by Pilot Louis W. Ford reached an allied operational base in Australia. They survived on scarce food and malaria, paddled a native canoe to safety, and endured two long village rescues aided by a missionary and government worker. Private Long learned his wife had a baby boy born May 2.
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U.S
New Guinea
Australia
United States
Louis W. Ford
Los Angeles
Doughty
John H. Disbro
Defiance
Robert Long
Centerbury
Knox County
Edward S. Ashley
San Antonio
Tex
J. E. Ochs
Lancaster
J. A. Roberts
Kingston
W. F. Loranger
Saginaw
Mich
Rabaul
Ford
Disbro
Church of England
Long
Ohio
Longs
Treasury Staff Fights Sales Tax Plan in Congress
Treasury experts attacked a sales tax proposal as the Ways and Means Committee tries to cover a 2 million dollar deficit against an 8.9 billion dollar tax goal. They warned it would hit low income families hardest and urged lawmakers to consider administrative difficulties before voting. The briefing followed an extraordinary committee meeting with treasury statisticians presenting the case against levy at manufacturer wholesaler or retailer levels.
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Washington.p .Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Department
Treasury
Want War Plants To Work on Memorial Day
Washington says shut downs next Saturday in observance of Memorial Day should be cancelled to avoid a lag in war production. WPA Chairman Donald M Nelson urged workers to honor the fallen by showing determination to defend the country without taking holidays.
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Washington
WPA
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Delay pool opening postpones Gallipolis pool
Gallipolis officials announced the opening of the municipal swimming pool on Saturday May 30 is indefinitely postponed due to mechanical trouble.
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Gallipolis
Ohio Draft Boards to Operate on Memorial Day
Ohio Selective Service headquarters and the state's 330 draft boards will operate as usual on Memorial Day, state director C. W. Goble announced today.
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Columbus
Ohio Selective Service
Istate
C. W. Goble
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