British Halt Axis Advance in Africa
World War II battle report says American built Kittyhawks and Boston bombers helped britain repel a German panzer push 50 miles into the desert front between Sidi Rezegh and Ain El Gazala. Rommel's forces pressed Tobruk, air superiority claimed, and Free French forces credited with 35 Italian tanks destroyed.
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North Africa
Sidi Rezegh
Ain el Gazala
Tobruk
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
RAF
Milk strike threatens New York City deliveries
Ten million milk consumers in the metropolitan area faced a threatened shortage as milk wagon drivers prepared to strike over wartime delivery reduction plans.
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New York
Sunday Edition Saturday Watch for Messenger Change
The Sunday Messenger will publish Saturday afternoon after noon May 30 and be delivered with the regular weekday edition. Distribution by carriers across the district will be completed immediately due to the Memorial Day holiday.
McNutt Announces Work or Fight Plan
Washington AP The government adopts a work or fight policy for draft deferment skilled workers. Men who refuse war jobs will be called into the Army. Local labor management committees will hear appeals after orders to freeze essential war plant workers.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Federal Employment Service
Congress weighs curtailing Henderson power over gas rationing
Washington reports rising House opposition to nationwide gasoline rationing as lawmakers consider limiting Price Administrator Leon Henderson. Chairman Steagall questions concentrated authority while Rubber Commissioner Newhall argues rationing remains the only feasible tire conservation method despite Senate panel support for reclaimable rubber tread production.
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Washington
House
Congress
Leon Henderson
Steagall
D-Ala
House Banking Committee
Henderson
Senate
Small Business Committee
Airplane and Car Collision Injures Two Near Grove City Airport
A small plane in preparation to land collided with a moving automobile near the Grove City airport. The plane flipped and crashed. the pilot and an automobile passenger were injured.
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Grove City
U S Plans To Exceed 50 000 Airplanes This Year
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced in New York that the United States will produce more than 50 000 airplanes this year. He said the figure would be surpassed by a healthy margin and noted rising outputs of tanks and ammunition. The remarks were at a dinner honoring Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson, retiring Sunday as chief of ordnance.
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New York
Robert P. Patterson
United States
Roosevelt
Patterson
Charles M. Wesson
Ordnance
Hitler Takes Command of Kharkov Front Operations
The London Daily Mail quotes Berlin radio saying Hitler has taken personal direction of strategic Kharkov operations. It asserts the führer will use his genius to bring about full victory in the Kharkov sector.
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London
The
London Daily Mail
Berlin Radio Today
Fuehrer
Kharkov Front
Convoy Dufies U Boats and Sails Home Again
Our Atlantic Fleet convoyed through submarine infested waters in a record run to Britain and back. The task force reported sinking several subs and losing no ships over 5,700 miles round trip. The skipper led with tireless energy, averaging under two hours sleep per 24 hours.
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John A. Moroso
Britain
British Isles
Strong Convoys Forcing Enemy Subma rines To Operate Closer to U. S. Coastline
Naval experts say the Battle of the Atlantic remains undecided as Nazi U boats press near American shores. Three convoys have reached the British Isles without losses while 221 merchant ships have been sunk on the American side since mid January.
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Washington
United States
British Isles
Africa
Asia
Australia
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Four Children Drown in Ohio Rivers
Four youngsters perished in Ohio waterways yesterday. Richard Hupp 11 fell from a rope into the Muskingum River at Zanesville and drowned. His friend Jerry Hempfling 12 tried to save him and also drowned. Roger Betz 11 drowned after leaving a sandbar in a nearby creek near Bayard. Paul Steffy 10 drowned while wading in the Ohio River at Pomeroy.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Muskingum
Zaneaville
Richard Hupp
Jerry Hempfling
Richard
Roger Betz
Lester Betz
Bayard
Alliance
Paul Steffy
Rhodell Steffy
Ohio River
Pomeroy
Rivers Harbors Body Opens Annual Parley
The National Rivers and Harbors Congress met in its 36th annual convention in Chicago with a keynote on urgent development of waterway facilities. Delegates raised regional problems while tanker attacks in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic on East Coast gasoline shipments dominated talks on securing adequate supply routes for this trade.
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Chicago
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Congress
Federal Rent Control Postponed to July 1
Washington report that federal rent control for hotels rooming houses and boarding houses in first defense rental areas is postponed until July 1. Controls on residential properties in other areas go into effect June 1 with rents reduced to January July or April 1941 levels as applicable.
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Washington
Defense
Office of Price Administration
Smokeless Coal Stove Unveiled in Ohio Research Center
Columbus reports a new coal burning stove emitting no smoke, designed by the Memorial Institute for the Minous Coal Industry to compete with cleaner heating methods. The device resembles a large gar can and marks a step toward smokeless domestic coal use.
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Columbus
Science
Elle Memorial Institute
Minous
Judge Blosser Dies After Long Judicial Career
Peter J. Blosser 73, a retired common pleas and district appellate court judge, died Wednesday night in Chillicothe. Funeral services were held today.
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Blosser
Chillicothe
Peter J. Blosser
Common Pleas and District Appellate Court
Delaware Auto Accident Claims Fatality for Betty Jane Garrison
A Delaware automobile crash proved fatal to Betty Jane Garrison, adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Ward Garrison of Ashley.
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Delaware
Betty Jane Garrison
Aa ‘Ter
Ward Garrison
Ashley
Biddle Welcomes Supreme Court Ruling on Bridges
Attorney General Biddle seeks a Supreme Court test of his deportation order against Harry R. Bridges, West Coast CIO leader, after the board of immigration appeals sent Bridges to Australia for alleged Communist ties. Bridges denies the charges and pledges to fight, urging workers to support production efforts and national unity.
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Biddle
Supreme Court
Washington
Harry R. Bridges
CIO
Board of Immigration Appeals
Bridges
Australia
Communist Party
San Francisco
Donald Nelson
West Coast
U. S. Supreme Court
Johnson New Chairman of O. U. Trustees
Arthur C. Johnson of Columbus was elected chairman of the Ohio University Board of Trustees at the annual spring meeting in Athens. Gordon K. Bush was named vice-chairman, George C. Parks re-elected secretary. The board deferred the Airport Committee report and voted to seek state funds for a voluntary annuity plan, join the Association of Governing Boards, and approve degrees with a 12 month teaching term starting July 1 under a new three semester plan.
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Arthur C. Johnson, Sr
Columbus
Columbus Dispatch
Ohio University Board of Trustees
T. R. Biddle
Athens
Gordon K. Bush
Athens Messenger
E. C. Eikenberry
Camden
George C. Parks
Amanent University
Association of Governing Boards of State Universities
Herman G. James
Mexico Joins War on Axis
Mexico moves toward declaring war on the Axis with avowed belligerency. President Manuel Avila Camacho asked Congress to authorize a state of war and broader powers to govern by decree, citing the need to protect Mexico's un sullied name.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Manuel Avila Camacho
Congress
Murray To Ask Miners To Restore His Job
Phillip Murray CIO president and longtime labor leader indicated he would ask United Mine Workers rank and file to repudiate John L. Lewis action that ousted him from the union vice presidency. Murray was removed yesterday and replaced by John O Leary of Pittsburgh. A union spokesman said the move stemmed from Murray accepting the presidency of the United Steel Workers at twenty thousand dollars a year.
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Washington
Phillip Murray
CIO
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Murray
John O'Leary
Pittsburgh
United Steel Workers
Ohio Official Moves to Bar Communist Party on Ballot
Secretary of State John Sweeney said he would bar the Communist Party from Ohio's election ballot. He cited Attorney General Francis Biddle's Bridges deportation case decision as a factor in his ruling alongside the Republican and Democratic parties.
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Columbus
John Sweeney
Communist Party
Ohio
Sweeney
Atty
Francis Biddle
Bridges
Ohio Rationing Program Bogging Down in Politics
In Columbus Harry T Beckmann state rationing administrator said Ohio tire and sugar rationing operations lag due to political uncertainties over the pending alignment of an Office of Price Administration head to direct state programs.
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Columbus
Congress
Ohio
Harry T. Beckmann
Beckmann
Office of Priceinistration
Senate designates June 13 as MacArthur Day
The Senate voted to designate June 13 as Douglas MacArthur Day in tribute to General MacArthur and the defense of the Philippines at Bataan and Corregidor. The resolution asks President Roosevelt to issue a proclamation for public patriotic exercises.
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Washington
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
MacArthur
Jonathan Wainwright
Bataan and
Corregidor
Roosevelt
Begin Drive Against Bonus Tax Evasions
Treasury move to curb corporate tax avoidance by unusual salaries and bonuses wins committee support. Morgenthau cites 1941 examples including rent to a president's wife for property and related party payouts to a stockholder’s brother and a son and daughter after graduation.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Capitol
Congress
Farm Groups To Fight Federal Price Controls
Four major farm organizations meet in Washington to draft a protest against government price controls affecting key commodities. Representing the American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange National Cooperative Council and the National Farmers Union they plan coordinated action.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
The
National Grange
National Cooperative Council
National Farmers’ Union
Traffic deaths fall in April and year to date
The National Safety Council reports U S traffic fatalities dropped 14 percent in April and 7 percent in the first four months of 1942 compared with the previous year.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Rescued survivor recalls 29 days at sea on raft
Marley Archie Olson, a 23 year old radio operator, says he endured 29 days at sea after a torpedo sank his ship. He built a seaworthy raft with food and water, fished with a bandage net, and slept under canvas, while surviving sharks and long days at sea. FBI detained him in Key West until his American citizenship was confirmed.
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New York
Marley Archie Olson
Key West
FBI
Harley
Portland
Ore
Columbus
United Press
Miami
Washington
Seek To Fatten Pigs Ahead of Schedule
Several million head of pigs are getting extra heavy government recommended rations to fatten them for earlier market. The move is designed to ease December and January pressure on transportation and packing facilities by shifting some spring pigs forward in the market.
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Washington
Army Chief Marshall Foresees Invasion Of Europe
General George C. Marshall told West Point graduates that American troops are landing in England and will land in France as the army grows to about 4.5 million by year end. He praised civilian support and described the cadets as part of a citizen army ready to fight anywhere on short notice.
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West Point
N. Y
George C. Marshall
Army
England
France
Germany
Japan
London
Marshall
Europe
Roosevelt
Congress
Italy
Africa
Far East
Siberia
Russia
Pacific
Burma
China
India
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
America
Caldets
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Hitler
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Iwamura
James H. Doolittle
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lyuGo
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