Martinique Prepares for Possible American Attack
French Caribbean Martinique defense orders to ready for an American assault. Le Matin cites fortress guarding Bank of France gold reserves as last resort blow up if needed. Fort de France reports strengthen works while battleships Bearn and Emile Bertin stay in Antilles. maneuvers said to bolster crew morale amid British patrols nearby.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Martinique
le Matin
Bank of France
Fort de France
Frech’ Naval’ Command
Caribbean
Bearn
Emile Bertin
Antilles
Eden Warns Vichy of British Retaliation
London May 22 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warned the Vichy government that Britain will strike the enemy wherever found. Some sources read this as an undeclared war on France, but Eden avoided further interpretation in the House of Commons. He said France’s collaboration would force British blows without distinction between occupied and unoccupied territory, a policy Britain deems incompatible with French honor.
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London
Anthony Eden
Britain
France
Eden
House of Commons
Germany
The Graton Sentinel Tickets for Tonight’s Double Feature
Harrison Cassell of 127 East Knotts Avenue is invited to tonight’s Strand theater showing Little Men and the Dixie theater screening Ride On Vaquero.
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The
Graton Sentinel
Harrison Cassell
East Knotts Avenue
Strand Theater
Dixie Theater
War Department urged to double arms allotments
In Washington and Charleston reports, officials said the Office of Production Management is pressing the War Department to nearly double its $6.5 billion arms estimate for the coming year to fund a vast expansion of bombers tanks and other weapons. OPM Director William S Knudsen disclosed four new contracts to boost long range four motored heavy aircraft production.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
War Department
William S. Knudsen
OPM
Britain
Mannington Man Made State Probation Head
Charleston May 22 Governor Neely named H Clare Hess as state director of probation and parole. Hess, former Mannington attorney, had been acting director since March 10 after Stanley Dadisman quit. Neely also appointed Ulysses H Prunty of Northfork to the state Negro board of education for a term ending June 30 1942, succeeding E L Powell of Charleston.
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Charleston
Neely
H Clare Hess
Mannington
Hess
Stanley E. Dadisman
Ulysses H. Prunty
Northfork
McDowell County
Negro Board of Education
Prunty
Kimball High School
E. L. Powell
Arbitration Carries On In Wheeling Bus Strike
In Wheeling on May 22 a special arbitration committee continued hearings to draft a new contract for about 75 Bus drivers of Wheeling Public Service. The panel includes Bishop J. J. Swint former Congressman A. C. Schiffler and attorney G. Allen Garden. A 40 percent wage rise and other demands were presented by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes. A strike remains in abeyance while negotiations proceed.
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Wheeling
Wheeling Public Service Company
J. J. Swint
A. C. Schiffler
G. Allen Garden
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and
Stimson Opposes Neutrality Act Repeal Asks Caution
Secretary Stimson condemned the neutrality act as a violation of freedom of the seas and said he spoke as an individual not as war secretary. He warned repeal could bring trouble while noting careful consideration needed in supplying munitions to Great Britain.
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Washington
Stimson
Great Britain
Search Variously for Missing Three Year Old Boy
Bloodhounds from Lorton District of Columbia joined state police and volunteers in a search for three year old Eldridge Albright in Woodstock Maryland. Authorities discounted drowning and suspected he wandered off or was carried away after a near-terrible incident in a meadow near his home.
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Woodstock
District of Columbia
Lorton
Eldridge Albright
Howard Sounty
Shepherdstown Woman Wins Flower Show Prize
Shepherdstown Mrs. S. J. Hodges won the blue ribbon sweepstake prize at the Potomac Garden Club flower show drawing entries from West Virginia Maryland and Virginia. Other winners included Mrs. C. C. Johnson Hampers Ferry first prize for uniform containers Sarah Frances Gutsell Leetown W Va first prize for children 10 to 15 and Barbara Ramsber Sharpsburg Md first prize for under 10 years old.
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Shepherdstown
S. J. Hodges
Potomac Garden Club
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
C. C. Johnson
Hampers Ferry
Sarah Frances Gutsell
Leetown
W. Va
Barbara Ramsber
Sharpsburg
Delaware speeds up slow drivers in new law
Delaware launches a minimum speed rule making it a misdemeanor to impede traffic by driving too slowly. State police chief Norman R. Purnell says enforcement will target only heavy traffic conditions and when slow driving is hazardous.
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Dover
Del
State of
Delaware
Norman R. Purnell
Tiny Infant Survives Weighing One Pound Plus
In Huntington on May 22 a baby girl named Pauline, weighing between 1 and 1.5 pounds, survived birth without an incubator. Dr. Paul M. Huddleston of the city medical staff reported the infant was born Friday in the Martins' one room shack on a hillside eight miles southeast of Huntington and is said to be doing fine.
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Huntington
Paul M. Huddleston
A. M. Martin Friday
Martins
Huddleston
Pauline
French Ready Eastern Army for Conflict
French troops move in Syria and Lebanon as Beiruts idle warships begin exercises signaling General Dentzs army of the east ready to meet force with force. Yet little hostility toward the British persists in these French mandats amid generally loyal sentiment to General Dentz.
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J. Reilly O'Sullivan Jersusalem
Syria
Lebanon
Beirut
Henri Dentz
East
Middle East
Dentz
Parachutists Capture Candia as Battle Rages in Crete
Prime Minister Churchill informed the House of Commons that German parachutists hold Candia Crete while British forces retain the airport. He described intense fighting, rising German parachute incursions, and tentative progress with local German successes at heavy cost. He noted larger German naval landing attempts had begun.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Candia
Crete
Showgirl Frances Huppman dies after terrace leap
Frances Stutz Huppman former showgirl and beauty contest winner leaped from a fifth floor West 75th Street penthouse after a quarrel with husband John Huppman. She was impaled on a courtyard picket fence and died 212 hours later at Roosevelt Hospital from multiple fractures and amputation of a right arm.
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New York
John
Frances Stutz Huppman
West 75Th Street
Roosevelt Hospital
John Huppman
United States Watches French Caribbean Lands amid War
Secretary Hull signaled the United States would pursue a policy of watchful waiting over French colonies in the Caribbean, saying Martinique presented no imminent threat. Observers in the island kept the government informed as Vichy France's stance remained unsettled and no changes to colonial status were evident.
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United States
Europe
Vichy
Germany
George
D.-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Atlantic
France
Hull
Gaston Henry Haye
Colla
British ships hit in heavy eastern Mediterranean attack
German Stukas and Italian torpedo planes struck a battleship six cruisers and a destroyer in heavy attacks on British naval units in the eastern Mediterranean. An enemy submarine was bombed and a merchant ship badly damaged. Crete assault details awaited.
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Berlin
Mediterranean
High Command
DNB
Fairmont Doctor Heads Chiropractic Society
Dr. R. E. Tripp of Fairmont was elected president of the West Virginia Chiropractic Society at its 23rd annual convention in Huntington. New officers include G. Russell Nease as vice president and Mabel Dickey as board member. Remick remains secretary treasurer. Legislative and other committee members were named, with the convention concluding today.
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Huntington
R. E. Tripp
Fairmont
West Virginia
Invitation to see Outlaws of the Rio Grande at Opera House
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Sallie Goodwin of 1133 West Main Street to tonight's screening. The program features Outlaws of the Rio Grande starring Tim McCoy and a second feature Boss of Bouillon City with Johnny Mack Brown at the Opera House theater.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Sallie Goodwin
West Main Street
Tim McCoy
Boullion City
Johnny Mack Brown
Opera House
Vance Brothers Sentenced to 21 Years in Freeburn Slaying
PIKEVILLE Ky May 22 A Pike circuit court convicted brothers John and Homer Vance of the slaying of Frank Filastro and injuring his wife in a Freeburn beer hall altercation. The court fixed 21 years for each in the state reformatory.
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Pikeville
John
Homer Vance
Frank Filastro
State Reformatory
Filastro
Freeburn
Nazis Scheme Turkey Trap
German offensive against Crete appears to be a deeper strategic move aiming to bypass Turkish defenses and open a route for advancing into the near east. The effort likely seeks to sever Turkish connections and strengthen the Axis military chain in the region.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Crete
Near East
Turkey
Ketchum Dies in Charleston at 54
iG B Ketchum, 54, of Huntington, died suddenly in Owens Libbey Owens Gas offices in Charleston. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while serving as director of the firm's lease and right of way department. He was brother of M E Ketchum, warden of the state penitentiary at Moundsville.
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Charleston
G B. Ketchum
Huntington
Owens- Libbey-Owens Gas Company
Ketchum
M. E. Ketchum
Moundsville
British foresee worse Crete phase as blitz feared
London officials report German airborne assault on Crete over two days with British defenses intact but warn the worst phase may come. sources say Nazis may launch a renewed bombing blitz to clear a path for fresh sky troops and expect heavy German casualties. Cairo reports 1,000 killed or captured on day one and troop figures vary with a full air division around 7,000 engaged.
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London
Crete
Germany
Suez
Jor
Cairo
Hess Escape From Nazi Deputy Fuehrer Plane Pursuit
May 22 London report states Rudolf Hess bailed out of a Messerschmitt May 10 after a RAF Defiant pursuit. Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair told Parliament details include tail bullet holes and whether fire was opened on Hess. The article notes the Defiant stayed on the trail through darkness as Hess ejected.
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Rudolf Hess
Fuehrer
Nazi Germany
Archibald Sinclair
House of Commons Today
Sinclair
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