Sabotage Blast Kills 250 at Belgian Chemical Plant
A chemical factory at Tessenderloo in northern Belgium was destroyed in an explosion, with German reports claiming 250 dead and about 1,000 injured. The plant, linked to artificial fertilizers, faces conflicting Belgian accounts on its output and German control, amid intensified sabotage blamed on the White Brigade near Antwerp.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Salzburg
Belgian
London
Tessenderiog
Belsum
Actio
Berlin
la Societe Anonyme de Produits Chimiques
Suilphiire Aeid
Belgium
Tessenderloo
Antwerp
Limbourg
Tal
White Brigade
Berlin omits Japan in Salzburg war session report
London reports British sources say the Salzburg meeting between Hitler and Mussolini aimed to keep Il Duce aligned with the axis. The Berlin communique notes a perfect accord on military and political lines, but omits any explicit reference to Japan despite labeling the trio as the tripartite powers.
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London
Salzburg
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hitler
Agis
Mussolini
Berlin
Epis
Germany
United States
Asis
Joachim von Ilbbentrop
Galen Clano
Wilhelm Kettel
High Command
Ugo Cavallero
Dino Alfie
Hans-Georg Viktor Vor Mackenseni
Rome
Austria
Brenner Pass
Fuehrer
Policieas
Vor Ribbentrop
Clano
Hiller
Keitel
Alfters
von Mackensen
Japan
Italy
Axis
Corry Pledges Weekly Bond Drive Totals Form
Residents of Corry pledged substantial weekly totals in War Savings Bonds through the Pledge of Victory canvass. Ward breakdowns show First Ward 898 pledges at 1151.04 weekly, Second Ward 457 at 1327.72, Third Ward 1287.58, Fourth Ward 309 at 3089 per week, with an overall weekly aim near 4635.24 and yearly around 241,037. The canvass notes many workers to add pledges, predicting higher actual figures. In Patthaven 110 pledges amounting to 253.10 weekly were recorded, with small increases expected.
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Corry
Fourth Ward
Patthaven
Remembering the May Day Snowstorm of 1908
On Center street, bells rang as a freak storm dumped a foot of snow, one of the heaviest on the date. Residents recall the event, noting Dr. G. A. Elston abandoned his sleigh, and jingle bells rang along the main thoroughfare on May Day 1908.
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Center Street
G. A. Elston
Berlin Might End Raids If RAF Changes Tactics
London May 1 A Geneva report re circulated by the Daily Mail quotes a semi official Berlin dispatch to the Journal de Geneva stating Germany would halt bombing English towns if the RAF shifts its methods against German cities. The piece notes German public dislike of the bombing duel and cites British officials denying any plan to trade暂停.
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London
Daily Menl
Geneva
Berlin
Journal de Geneva
Germany
RAF
Daily Mail
Stalin Promotes Victory Drive On May Day Appeal
Joseph Stalin declared in a May Day order that the Soviet Union must smash Hitler's troops or die trying. He said the war is a liberation struggle and rejected any aim to conquer other nations, insisting victory requires destroying the invaders at all costs. Reports of Soviet gains followed, including 1300 German deaths on the Kalinin front and 800 from Crimea operations.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Britain
United States
Adolf Hitler
Rusete
Stalin
Butt
Fhe
Kalinin
Crimea
Reuters
Kuibyshev
M. Zabarov
Red Army
Kalinin Front
Perfect bridge hand in Freeport spring tournament
Freeport Pa May 1 George Galston a Freeport merchant drew a perfect 13 card hand in the annual spring tournament of the Freeport Bridge Club last night.
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Freeport
George 3Alston
Freeport Bridge
House Bill Aims at Drafted Men With Dependents
Washington May 1 The military committee sent to the House a bill to raise base pay for lower paid service personnel and provide family payments. It would double pay for back privates and apprentice seamen and boost officers pay from corporal to lieutenant levels. A sergeant would earn 642 a month, a second lieutenant 91200 yearly, with higher grades receiving related allowances. Total annual cost projected at 282 412 72 dollars based on January 1943 figures. Page Three continuation noted.
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Washington
Kel
Leutenant
Bulletin Roundup of Global and Domestic Events
A May 1 bulletin summarizes U S and international news: Ways and Means backs a flat 4 percent excess profits tax rate for corporations while preserving a 24 percent normal rate for earnings above 25 000. Potential surtax schedules 6 or 7 percent. Germany’s Lenin grad front losses exceed 58 000 in April per Maxcow Radio. Erie Second National Bank sale to city for 85000 confirmed by a federal judge. US planes raid Rangoon in Burma on April 29. Robert Ley urges German workers for a final victory push. A Navy pilot suffers minor injuries after a failed training flight near Grove City Ohio.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Doughton
D-Nc
Pittsburgh
Second National Bank of Erie
Corry widow receives trust for YMCA and Bush bequests
A L Bush of Jamestown and Corry authorizes a 100000 dollar trust to benefit his wife Anna L Bush during her life, with the principal to pass to the Corry YMCA after her death. The will also leaves outright 5000 dollar gifts to Corry Hospital and Jamestown area institutions. Additional bequests total several thousand dollars to local individuals and groups.
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Corry
Comy Hospital
Bush
Qualily Gash Stores
Jamestown
Cony
Inte Samuel
East Main Street
Gong Sittent
Hospital
Carry Hospital
Algo
Y.G. A
Anna
Young Men's Christian Association of
Getty
Pennsylvania
Jessiale
Supreme Court of
State of
New York
Corry Hospital
Uso
Woman's Christian Association Hospital
Carrie Bush , Clark
Grace Bush Babbitt
New York Society For the Protection of
Randolph
Carrie Newton
Kate Smith
Cosimo Privela
D. Everett Leech
Sadie Bush Leach
Oscar B Bush
Warren
Bombs Dropped In Suez Canal Hit Damietta Area
Cairo authorities announced an air raid last night near the Damietta mouth of the Nile about six miles northwest of Lake Manzala. The damage was slight but six persons were injured in the canal area. The Interior Ministry issued the alert from Damietta, in the canal zone.
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Cairo
Suez
Damietta
Caldi
Beyp
Fan
Ministry of Interior
Damietta Es
Nile
Eros
Manzala
Port ‘Bald
Budget Meeting Closed to Public Budget discussion goes behind closed doors
The board approved a skeleton budget for Garry School Iletetet for 1840-43 but found it contains overall increases in salaries not voted by directors. A special meeting was changed to a committee of the whole session with press and public barred from discussions. Any wage changes require open session approval. no provisions for a special meeting were reported.
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Tonivtit
Garry School
Iletetet
Board of Ball
Air Corps Generals die in Melbourne ground crash
Brig. Gen Harold Z H George and Melville Jacoby died when a fighter crashed into their party at an advanced airdrome in Melbourne Australia. Funeral services for Jacoby were conducted at a Melbourne crematorium with over 30 reporters and officers in attendance. General George earned the Distinguished Service Medal posthumously for leading air forces in the defense of Bataan. The Philadelphia Herald, a German language weekly, was barred from the mails on sedition changes.
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Associated Press
Allied
Australia
Harold ZH. George
United States Army Air Corps
Melville Jacoby
Time and Life Magazine
Stauck
George
Jacoby
Puneral
Jntohy
Melbourne
Fortum
Bataan
BAER
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Herald
Inquest Opens Into Death Of Youth On Road
A coroner's inquest examines the death of 17 year old Robert Clyde Smith after being struck on Route 189 between French Creek and Corry. Testimony from Lawrence Brown, Balin Hepler, Richard Rewind and others is heard as Brown faces involuntary manslaughter charges with a Monday hearing set on bond.
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Robert Clyde Smith
Wet Main Street
Taurence Brown
D. i
Aquor
Jimy
Frank St. George
Erie
R. Lawrence Davison
Leland Johnston
Owen Pullam
Larry Dixon
J. B Dahlstrasd
P. G. Fryburg
Edwin Borstorff
Lawrence Brown
Balin Hepler
Richard Rewind
Brown
John Morton
Donald Keppel
H Er
Prandy Slathery
North Center Street
Smith
James Vaughn
State Motor Police
Robert Smith
Knrner Hosth
Hare Creek
W. W. Graham
Prench Creek
Corry
Quar
Young Smith
George H. Garden
Nazi Battleship Sunk By Russians Report Muddled
Moscow radio announced that a German battleship was sunk by Soviet Baltic Fleet forces, described as the first loss of a capital ship in the war. The bulletin claimed the Baltic Sea operations had sunk hundreds of German ships in the conflict.
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Moscow
Russia
Baltic
Germany
Baltié Reef
Pie Truck Upset Delights Clever Kids on Center Street
A large truck carrying $800 worth of pies from the Acme Pie Company overturned on North Center Street near West Smith at about 7 90 last night. Pies spilled, drawing crowds of youngsters who gathered as workers cleared the mess and police guarded the salvaged shipment amid traffic delays.
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North Center Street
Smith
Acme Pie Company
Carnegie Street
Cleveland
Bradford
Center Street
West Smith Street
Worth Canters Street
Japanese Fleet Concentration Signals Pacific Offense
Reports from Australia indicate a buildup of Japanese warships and troop transports around the Jaluit area in the central Pacific, suggesting a planned strike against Allied supplies to Australia. The development follows the loss of Japanese naval units from the Bay of Bengal and heightened British withdrawals near Mandalay in Burma as forces fall back to defend India. Chinese officials warn Lashio’s fall would not halt China’s defense via overland routes, while India China supply corridors are in operation.
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Washington
South Central Pacific
Australia
Jalult
New Caledonia
American Samoa
Gad
Hawaii
Lspatches
Mandated Islands
Bay of Bengal
India
Burma
Mandalay
China
Astraddie
Bums
Lashia
Far Pueife
Pallippines
Corregidor Island
Pblack
Farmer Is Hurt As Team Bolts At Hane Of Theforsee
Martin Wise, a well known tumbler from the Oxbow Hill district, was injured when his team bolted while he tried to control them near his home. A severe gash appeared behind the left knee and he escaped fractures though his mare was pulled to the ground. The wagon wheel passed over his leg as bystanders aided him and he was taken to his home for care.
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Martin Wise
Wise
Hane
Theforsee
Jim
Arialbes
Hforstura
Tis Homes
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A. L. Bush
Suez Canal
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Uor
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