First blackout to be staged at 11 30 tonight
The first official civilian defense blackout will plunge most homes and buildings into darkness at 11:30 tonight. All lights must be off for fifteen minutes except as exempted for industry and railroads. Police will prosecute offenders after the all clear.
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Arnald
Walter ¥. Seotb
Civilian Defense Committee
Othe
Civilian Defense
Frank 5. Hepler
Civilian Defense Organization
Defense workers bus service to run from Warren County towns
Turben's Auto Service of Colum announces a special bus service for Corry defense industry employees starting June 61, serving Pittsfield Garland Spring Creek Wrightsville Lottsville Bear Lake and Columbus. The service will be limited to workers only and will cover all plant shifts.
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Turben
Columbus
Warren County
Corry Defense Industries
Pittsfield
Garland
Spring Creek
Wrightsville
Lottsville
Bear Lake
Dlree
Huge Bonus Payments Reported at Lincoln Electric
Washington May 27 The House naval committee was told Lincoln Electric Company Cleveland Ohio paid bonuses in 1941 up to 50000 including 25000 to a plant foreman Other bonuses ranged from 9500 to 5000 and weekly payoffs of 30 to 140 dollars The committee counsel Edmund Toland said the Lincoln case shows how bonuses can dodge excess profits taxes and would present evidence of early seed forms of such payments to illustrate evasion risks
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Ency Silo Ete
Washington
House Naval Columbtes
Lincoln Electric Company
Cleveland
Ohio
M Thal
Edmund Toland
Lincoln
Beiling
Mayor Calls for 100 Percent Cooperation Tonight in Corry
The Exile County Council of Defense orders a citywide blackout in Corry and Erle County from 11:30 PM to 1:45 AM. Citizens are urged to keep lights out, stay indoors, follow CDB-identified instructions, and limit telephone use to emergencies to avoid prosecution under Pennsylvania law.
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Corry
Erle County
Exle
Tom
Pennsylvania
Hepler
FBI Army and Navy given power to tap lines
The House approved legislation empowering FBI, Army and Navy intelligence services to tap telephone lines and other communications whenever offenses against national security are suspected. Republicans and Democrats argued the measure is necessary to combat subversive activity. A key supporter cited Pearl Harbor context, noting authorities could have learned crucial information if such powers had existed before December 7, 1941. The Roberts Commission report highlighted difficulties in monitoring Japanese activities in Hawaii due to agency restrictions.
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Associated Press
Washington
PBI
Army
Navy
Legislaion
House
Senate
Rep
Hobbs
D-Ala
Judiciary Committee
Hawaii
Tokyo
Honolulu
Japan Premier Tojo Speaks On India Australia Next Phase
Tokyo dispatch quotes Premier General Hideki Tojo telling parliament Japan will press on until Britain and America are destroyed and India is freed. He calls Australia the orphan of the Pacific and warns of further action if foreign troops remain. Emperor Hirohito appears briefly to read an imperial rescript amid praise for expeditionary success.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Hirohito
Hideki Tojo
Tiitain
America
Germany
Italy
India
Stafford Cripps
Great Britain
Tojo
Australis
Coral Sea
Australia
Netherlands Indies
Burma
James Says State Will Back Federal Trucking Rules
In Harrisburg on May 27 Governor James urged truckers to follow new federal weight standards to aid war material transport. He asked police to overlook minor highway violations and said Pennsylvania is in substantial compliance with Roosevelt committee standards. The governor noted past vetoes and a 1941 bill defeat while stressing alignment with national war-effort rules.
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Associated Sreos
Harrisburg
James
Tuckers
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Axis maneuvers loom in Mediterranean theater
London reports rising signs of a major Axis land and naval push in the Mediterranean. Intelligence notes possible three-front drives from Crimea, North Africa into Bayat, and Crete via the Dodecanese. Rommel’s mobile columns and Italian garrisons in Greece and the Dodecanese tied to a broader strategy as Allied planners weigh imminent large scale operations in Europe and a U.S. military mission role in London.
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Adolf Hitler
Middle East
Crimea
North Africa
Bayat
Mediterranean
Crete
Dodecanese
Uy Crete
Greece
Middle Best
Erwin Rommel
Tellan High Command
Taly
France
Thaisia
Corsica
Nice
London
Oant
I London
Brehon
Somervell
U. S. Army
United States
Miners Union Acts Against Murray's CIO
Washington May 27 The CIO faced accusations of sabotage and treason to labor principles in a resolution from United Mine Workers District 50. The motion urged the policy committee to study the case against CIO executives including Philip Murray and to address alleged insults and injury in the conduct of the campaign.
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Associated Press
Washington
CIO
United Mine Workers
Philip Murray
Audi
Fulion
Fig
Jel L. Lewis
Flood Toll Rises as Agencies Aid Flooded Areas
Flood toll reaches 33 with two more deaths in last weekend's disaster. Farm Security Administration officials tour eastern Pennsylvania counties to assess crop replanting and farm replacement needs. WPA in Washington allocates an additional 25,000 dollars for rebuilding, total now 93,000.
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Associated Press
Honesdale
Farm Security Administration
Pennsylvania
Carson F. Merts
FAS
David Powell
Lackawanna River
Old Fo
Marion Antonis
WPA
Washington
Naval Officer Stresses Industry's War Role at Plant
Retired Admiral William C. Watts of the US Navy addressed Corry Jamestown plant employees and officers at 11:80 this morning, praising their contribution to national war needs. He cited furniture shipments for naval vessels and urged continued zeal as the war nears its end, with guests Liew Harald Hentz and William Carleton Waits joining a luncheon at the Cory Hotel at 12:15.
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William C. Watts
Corry-Jamestown
Admiral Wetts
Corry
Admiral Watts
Defoe
Waits
Liew
J. Harald Hentz
S.W. R. Both
Philadelphia
Conty-Jamestown
Cory
Chinese Move To Block Jap Drive To Relieve Kinhwa
Chinese forces under Generalissimo Ching Kai-Shek launched an offensive near Chekiang to hinder a Japanese drive toward Kinhwa. Obang’s troops attacked in the Hangchow area while Chinese positions along the Burma road improved as they pushed back invaders from the Salween. In New Guinea, Allied forces under General MacArthur destroyed three of 18 Japanese zero planes.
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Erlydea
Chekiang Province
Kai
Burms
Salween
Davilon
MacArthur
New Guinea
London May 21 bulletin on Heydrich wounded in Prague
Reuters reports Heydrich, No 2 in the Gestapo, was wounded in an attack in Prague Czecho Slovakia. Also notes Roosevelt proposed Congress appropriation of 600 million dollars for war housing to aid 1.6 million workers migrating to war centers. Reports from Cairo Moscow and Atlantic City cover Axis advances, Red Army counterattacks, golf match, hospital strike warnings, Army WAC student intake, and Treasury figures.
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Associated Press
London
Reuters Fo
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Soviet and Nazi Claims Over Kharkov Gains Spark War Dispatches
Soviet and German reports clash over Kharkov as Red Army counterattacks halt German advances. Red Star and Soviet fronts claim encirclements and huge losses for Germany while Berlin maintains progress against Russian forces. Moscow cites Soviet trains halting the offensive and advancing in a key sector as Hitler’s command touts annihilation of encircled Soviet formations south of Kharkov.
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Associated Press
Semean
Timoghenko
Izharkov
Holi Star
Starling Pont
Red Star
Moscow
Sinckholm
Hitler
Kharkov
First Sinking of Fishing Ship Reported Today
Boston May 27 Describes the first sinking of a New England fishing vessel since the war began. The 220 ton steam trawler was shelled near the Western Banks on May 17. Captain Daniel J Maher 59 and crew survived after abandoning ship as one man Chief Engineer Mack Wallace was killed. They rowed 89 miles in 29 hours to safety in Sambr Lightship off Tulites N S.
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New England
Aurvivors Ap
Ary Atlantic
Daniel J. Maker
Waston
Hank Lo
Maher
Ufe
Mack Wallace
Webcat
Sambr
Tulites
N.S
Annenberg Granted Federal Parole Decades After Conviction
Philadelphia publisher Annenberg, the 65 year old key figure in the largest individual income tax evasion case, is to be paroled June 1 due to ill health after serving more than 22 months of a five year term. He will remain under parole board supervision until the full term ends July 4, 1943.
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Tee Eypnotmiess
Washington
Annenberg
Philadelphia
St. Lewisburg
Justice Department
United States Parole Board
Parole Board
Thurman Arnold sees new era of development after war
Philadelphia May 27 Thurman Arnold says America may enter a plastic and light jet age of high production and low prices. He asserts monopolies were broken by wartime needs and predicts postwar expansion in all basic materials and transport. He envisions huge magnesium output making airplanes autos lighter and stronger and gasoline with high octane within the year.
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Thurman Arnold
Arnold
Hester
Philadelphia
America
U. S. Attornney-General
Saturday Evening Post
Messina Bombed By The British
British air raid on Messina Sicily left damage to the cathedral Royal University and surrounding dwellings. Seven people were reported injured while many residents and sailors were among those affected as the attack followed prior Allied bombing campaigns.
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