Hamburg and Bremen Hit Again in British Raids
The RAF bombed Hamburg and Bremen for the third time in four nights with heavy explosives and incendiaries, while London fought off raids. British reports say up to 100 planes attacked the ports and northern residents endured three city alerts with raids on central and southern England. Separately, the UAW CIO set a 7 am Thursday strike deadline at 60 GM plants affecting 160,000 workers as national defense orders complicate negotiations.
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Royal Air Force
Hamburg
Bremen
Britain
England
RAF
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corp
National Defense -Mediation Board
Washington
General Motors Council
General Motors
Defense Board
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
Petersburg School Damaged by Major Blaze
Petersburg's grade school suffered destruction of two rooms two stairways and part of a hallway in a Sunday fire causing an estimated eight to ten thousand dollars in damage. Superintendent C. T. Hott said classes would move to the high school's boys dormitory for the last ten days of the term.
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Petersburg
Pire
C. T. Hott
Business Research Bureau Organized at West Virginia University
Morgantown May 12 Prof T F Haygood organized a bureau of business research authorized by the university board of governors to study business and economics. Haygood was named director of the new bureau which will collaborate with other agencies to solve current problems.
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Morgantown
T. F. Haygood
Bureau of Business Research
Weel, Virginia University Board of Governors
Haygood
Wich
Soviet Russia establishes diplomatic ties with Iraq
Moscow reports Soviet Russia and the government of Iraq have established diplomatic relations for the first time. Tass said Iraq requested recognition of other Arabian nations, which the Soviet government could not comply with. The Soviet press issued a brief communique on the move while withholding other comments.
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Moscow
Russia
Iraq
Tass
Russian New Agency
Foreign Office
Theatre Ticket Sentin e Invites View to Strand and Dixie
Theatre notice invites Cunningham view to attend presentation of That N Rio with Alice Faye Ameche at the Strand and The Sea Wolf with G Robinson Ida Lupino and John Garfield at the Dixie theatre.
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Sentine
Unningham Kview
Alice Faye
Ameche
Wolfe
Award G. Robinson
Ida Lupir
John Garfield
Dixie Theatre
Frost Damages West Virginia Crops Across Sections
Temperatures fell below freezing across the state with killing frosts harming crops. Central areas near Clarksburg saw 29 to 30 degree lows, grapes and tomatoes ruined, potatoes and corn heavily damaged, while eastern panhandle gardens and fruit trees sustained losses though many trees survived. See further details on Page 6.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Panhandle
Clarksburg
John M. Pierpoint
Harrison County
Marion
Monongalia
Carousing Legislators Hit In Judge's Charge
Logan May term opens as Circuit Judge C C Chambers denounces lawmakers who drink at the capital and carouse. He voices strong liquor enforcement views during a radio broadcast on WLOG, calling taxi drivers racketeers and criticizing bootleg operations.
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Logan
C. C. Chambers
Logan County
Chambers
WLOG
Jas
Mutual halts music battle ends for Mutual System
In St Louis on May 12, Mutual Broadcasting System agreed to pay ASCAP 2 percent of gross receipts for four years and 32 percent thereafter until Jan 1, 1950 to resume airing ASCAP songs. NBC and CBS negotiations with ASCAP to continue, as networks faced earlier refusal to pay.
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ST. Louis
ASCAP
Mutual Broadcasting System
NBC
CBS
Mutual
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Niles Trammell
National Broadcasting Company
Edward Kalbner
Columbia Broadcasting System
Two West Virginia Soldiers Die In Auto Crash
Two West Virginia soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a highway collision six miles west of BAY ST. The dead were Poyd R. Riddle aged 22 of Madison and Ernest Gray aged 22 of Milburn. Injured were Milton W. Goddard 23 Harold M. Taylor 25 both of Charleston and Comer N. Angel 23 of Martin. All were in training at Camp Shelby.
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Youis
West Virginia
Here
Poyd R. Riddle
Madison
W. Va
Ernest Gray
Milburn
Milton W. Goddard
Harold M. Taylor
Charleston
Comer N. Angel
Martin
Camp Shelby
Miss
Knights of Columbus Resume Annual Parley in Fairmont
Business sessions of the West Virginia Knights of Columbus convention resumed after mass with State Chaplain George J. Burke presiding. The 165 delegates heard opening address by Dr. Leo F. Brown and officers will be elected this afternoon.
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Fairmont
West Virginia Knights of Columbus
George J. Burke
Bluefield
Leo F. Brown
Wilkes Barre
Club Editor Suits Slain in Roadside Shooting Tragedy
Cleveland May 12 coroners report motive unknown in the death by self inflicting gunfire of a 25 year old brunette reporter Josephine Scoll, assistant club editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and her suitor Wil aid, a Tulsa University student. The bodies lay in his car beside the Chagrin river at Moreland Hills with a .38 revolver found between them.
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Cleveland
Balance In Crops Of State Is Reported
West Virginia’s 1940 farm output saw gains in potatoes fruits and grains offset by declines in apples corn and wheat. Corn production dropped to 12 852 000 bushels valued at 10 025 000 from 13 994 000 bushels worth 10 635 000 in 1939. Apples fell to 4 888 000 bushels from 5 670 000 in 1939, with 380 000 unharvested. Potatoes rose to 3 630 000 bushels and hay rose to 842 000 tons while grapes climbed to 1 910 000 tons.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Federal-State Crop Reporting Service
Strike Halts Major San Francisco Shipyard Defense Work
In San Francisco Bay area shipyards, a joint AFL and machinists strike idled up to $500 million in defense construction. Pickets at Bethlehem and four other plants blocked 15,000 to 20,000 workers plus 1,700 machinists. William Green called the action outlawed while government efforts to mediate failed. Bethlehem Shipbuilding, with yards in San Francisco and Alameda, faced the largest impact on cruiser and destroyer contracts worth about $300 million.
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San Francisco
Dai
AFL
Domachi
San Francisco Bay Area
Bethlehem
Oakland
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Patterson
N. J
Bethlehem Hand
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
Alameda
Nationally Known Artist Hangs Self in St Petersbug
St. Petersburg Florida May 12 national artist Haskell Coffin aged 63 committed death by own action by leaping from the third floor of St Anthony Hospital. Coffin had been confined to the hospital since April 17 under treatment for melancholia, Magistrate John Fisher said.
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ST. Petersburg
Pla
Haskell Coffin
St. Anthony’s Hidiotial
John
Fisher
Ancient London Bombed as War Rage Grows
London endured new bomb scars on May 12 as German raids struck historic sites including Westminster Abbey the British Museum and the Houses of Parliament with fires raging through blocks of the capital. The Rev Jocelyn Temple Perkins voiced fierce anger predicting a wave of indignation across the dominions and America over the attack on Aryan culture.
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Russell C. Lindstrom
London
Westminster Abbey
British Museum
Houses of Parliament
Tower of Big Ben
House of Commons Meet Chamber
Westminster Hall
Jocelyn Henry Temple Perkins
Declan
America
Hiller
Abbey
Wil
Lost in Aviation Graveyard Searches for New York Couple
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania on May 12 1930s, Mrs and Mrs Benjamin Brewster prominent New Yorkers were overdue on a cross country flight. Woodsmen and pilots from Roosevelt Field and Wright Field aided a large search centered between Bellefonte and Dubois spanning about fifty miles.
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Aviation
Alleghenies
Benjamin Brewster
Charles Foley
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Wright Field
Dayton
Here
Dubois, Pa
Hoover warns convoys could trigger war and curb aid
New York May 12 Herbert Hoover says US convoys would push an unprepared nation into immediate war and restrict material aid to Britain. He argues Navy protection would risk a dictatorship of our own and postwar bankruptcy, breaking a six month silence on the war controversy and urging support for maximum war tools for Britain during a critical month.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
United States
Britain
Hoover
Red Network
Broadcasting Com
Tam
China Ready For Task Of Putting Down Japan
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek declared China ready to undertake the task of defeating Japan without expeditionary force or naval action, relying on material aid and economic support. He warned that any country opposing American democracy would face destruction. The speech was at a farewell dinner for U.S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, with many Chinese leaders present.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Japan
Mme. Chiang
United States
Nelson T Johnson
Australia
Hull Opposed To Restrictions On Seized Ships
Secretary Hull told the Senate Commerce Committee that restricting or prohibiting the use of foreign ships seized by the government would be unwise. Administration opponents want the ship requisition bill amended to bar transferring axis vessels to Britain, arguing it would unfairly reclassify acquired vessels under the American flag.
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Washington
Hull
Britain
Senate Commerce Committee
Department of State
Public session opens as state medical meeting convenes
The West Virginia State Medical Association begins a convention with sessions on sickness insurance and timely issues. For the first time in its 74 year history a public session will host Dr. Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. About 1,000 are expected as the women's auxiliary and other groups meet concurrently.
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Charleston
West Virginia State Medical Association
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Women's Auxiliary
Southern Ops Resume Talks With Mine Union
New York May 12 Representatives of the United Mine Workers of America CIO and southern coal field operators resumed contract talks to replace the expired March 31 agreement. The south withdrew from the Appalachian conference April 11 citing a ruinous uniform daily wage demand of seven dollars. The southerners offered about an 11 percent rise on their five dollar sixty cent basic wage, while northern fields paid six dollars. Bituminous production ceased at contract expiry and southern fields reopened May 1 to support defense needs with any agreement retroactive to that date.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Southern
Eire Is Duped by U S Pledge
Senator Wheeler accuses the administration of trying to force Ireland into war by promising aid it cannot deliver. He says pressure akin to Yugoslavia is being applied and warns against pressuring Eire or any nation to join conflict. Wheeler cites seeking food and military supplies as part of such policy.
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Washington
Wheeler
D.-Mont
Ireland
Yugoslavia
Eire
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