Belgium King Surrenders Facing German Invasion
Paris reports King Leopold III capitulated under German demand as Belgian army of about 250 000 to 500 000 troops quits the field. Allied forces, though embattled, vow to continue fighting. Dunkerque supplies and northern port defenses hang in the balance amid a broad German breakthrough in Flanders and Artois.
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King Leopold Disowned By Belgian Government After Surrender
King Leopold was disowned as ruler of Belgium by the Belgian government in Paris after his surrender of the Belgian army. Churchill defended the Allies while the government reorganized the Belgian army and pledged to continue the fight. The crisis deepened as German successes and looming evacuations shaped the war news from Flanders and the Somme front.
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Plan to rush airmail service in the U K
Congressmen from multiple states met to push a permanent licensing framework for airmail pickup. They focus on a bill by Representative Lea to allow the Civil Aeronautics Authority to license pickup nationwide. ACAA jurisdiction dispute arose after All American Aviation sought 227 towns in seven states during a one year experimental period.
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The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Wyckoff tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs E B Wyckoff of 329 West Washington to attend tonight’s Strand theatre showing of The Doctor Takes A Wife starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland or Joe Penner in Millionaire Playboy at the Dixie theatre.
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Ray Milland
Strand Theatre
Joe Penner
Dixie Theatre
War Industry Bans Aliens in Interstate Work
Senate approves ban on Communists and Nazi bund members from interstate commerce, potentially restricting workers in national defense industries. Reynolds bills would forbid employing more than ten percent of alien workers in interstate industry. no exceptions noted.
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Senate
House
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Vast Deposits of Coal Untouched, Wilson Says
A. O. Wilson of the Kanawha Coal Operators association testified at a Bituminous division hearing that 97.3 percent of coal in Boone Kanawha and Putnam counties remained underground as of December 31 1938. The nine Kanawha valley producers seek exemption from minimum price regulation arguing their sales to commercial intrastate consumers are intrastate.
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Putman
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A. O. Wilson
Kanawha Coal Operators Association
Leopold Called Pro Nazi By Furious French Nation
In Paris crowds cry treason and pro German as they react to King Leopold III of Belgium capitulating. The street chorus contrasts Leopold with his father Albert I and recalls France opening its frontiers to Belgian refugees.
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Surrender of Belgians Aids Italian War Entry
In Rome on May 28 the surrender of the Belgian army was expected to speed Italy s entry into the war to aid Germany and claim a share of victory gains. It was also disclosed that French citizens trying to leave Italy were stopped for lacking exit visas.
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Two Convicts Escape While In Transit Near Littleton
In Wetzel county hills two convicts who were manacled together escaped from a state prison truck returning from Elkins to Moundsville. The pair leaped from the vehicle as it slowed on a hill near Littleton. Warden Leo Callison identified them as Nenny Armstrong from Kanawha county serving three years for robbery and Herman Spoonagal serving one to ten years for larceny.
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Wetzel County
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Moundsville
Leo Callison
Callison
Nenny Armstrong
Kanawha County
Herman Spoonagal
Lindbergh Rebuked by Veterans of France
Paris reports that the Lafayette escadrille association withdrew honorary membership from Charles A. Lindbergh after his Atlantic crossing, citing a speech last Saturday deemed opposed to the American volunteers and foreign legion who aided France in 1914. The action was taken by the French army veterans’ group in 1914 18, representing former escadrille pilots.
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Charleston historian Roy Cook found unconscious near cemetery
Dr Roy Bird Cook 54 an acclaimed West Virginia historian and president of the state newspaper council was located this morning on a wooded hill above the Kanawha River valley near Charleston. He had been missing since Monday afternoon after an automobile was spotted along Ruffner Hollow road.
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Roy Bird Cook
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State Newspaper Council
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Charles Lively
Senate
PSC Regulations Updated To Match Interstate Standards
Charleston May 28 PSC regulations for motor carrier certificates were revised to conform with Interstate Commerce Commission rules. The PSC defined general commodities as those not needing special loading facilities, while listing as special categories tanks dump trucks household moving vans and trucks designed for transporting automobiles or similar freight.
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Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
PSC
Price Fixing Aims Of Coal Act Not Obtained
A May 28 study for the attorney general's committee on administrative procedure says thirty six months of costly and often misguided effort by government and industry have not achieved price fixing under the 1937 bituminous coal act. It notes that if price control was needed in 1937, three more years without it likely worsened coal's condition. The committee was created after President Roosevelt urged improvements in agency procedures.
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Washington
Attorney General's Committee On Administrative Procedure
Roosevelt
Surrender Is Grevious Blow Beckley May 28
May 28. E. Van Dorsey, once reinstated as superintendent of Raleigh's county schools, was suspended again by the board of education pending a hearing on similar charges. Former charges of insubordination and wilful neglect of duty, tied to political activity, were leveled by Frank Billups and other board members at last night’s meeting. King Leopold’s army capitulation was deemed grave news in London with some viewing it as action behind Allies’ backs. Churchill to speak in a comprehensive war statement in the House of Commons today.
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Leopold
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House of Commons
Dionne quintuplets turn six in Callander mass marks milestone
The Dionne quintuplets, six years old today, celebrated with their first mass marking entry into religious instruction in the Roman Catholic faith and a birthday cake with five sections and six candles for each girl. The event capped the quintuplets' seventh year as Ontario education plans outline their move from kindergarten to primary school.
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Ont
Ontario
Marie
Emile
Cecile
Annette
Yvonne
Allen Roy Defoe
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Immediate Tax Increase To Aid U.S. Defenses Proposed
Washington reports growing support in both houses of Congress for swift taxation measures before adjournment to fund defense costs of about 3 billion dollars. Proposals hint at linking any new levies with raising the national debt limit to permit additional borrowing.
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Washington
Congress
Single Administrator For Munitions Is Urged
Former President Herbert Hoover urged a single headed munitions administration to run all purchasing and manufacturing for the army and navy from private industry. The administrator should be an industrialist with a non-partisan advisory board and sub directors for agriculture labor and industry. He said the army and navy state what they want and the administrator delivers it.
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Herbert Hoover
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Army
Navy
Invitation toMiss Barlaita Demoss for Opera House event
The Grafton Sentinel invites MISS BARLAITA DEMOSS of 61 Lincoln Street to attend tonight's presentation Its A Dates with Deanna Dur bin at the Opera House theatre. Last times this evening.
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Barlaita Demoss
Lincoln Street
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