28th Division Aims For Best In Entire Army
Major General Edward Martin presides over daily checks at Indiantown Gap to rate 28th Division soldiers on dress, equipment, marching, cadence, punctuality, and leadership. He stresses self reliance and strong weaponry as the key to becoming the army’s best, with staffers joining units during training for direct evaluation. Four enlisted men from the 103rd Quartermaster Regiment depart for Springfield for a four week motor cycle mechanics course.
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Indiantown Gap
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Edward Martin
Martin
Nimpels
New York
Washington
Hetty
103Rd Quartermaster Regiment
Springfield
Mass
William A. Salsgiver
Pri- Sea Camp News
Wife Rents Husband in Divorce Case Seeks One Half of Fee
In Los Angeles a 56 year old insurance salesman Samuel Brummel sues Lilian Brummel for half of a $10,000 payment he says was paid by Norma Peppin after his wife lent him for a year to another woman. Brummel alleges desertion and seeks community property share. He testified the money was for compensation for loss of affection.
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Los Angeles
Samuel Brummel
Lillian Patton Brummel
San Francisco
Brummel
Norma Peppin
Mex
Peppin
Fresno
Calif
Menjou's Best Dressed List Names Notables
May 2 men’s fashion sheet lists Adolph Menjou as top source of style with a roster of well dressed figures. Lucius Beebe, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Goodby Lowe, Sam Goldwyn, E. B. Hay Jr, Henry C. Lodge, Robert Montgomery, William Rhinelander Stewart, and the Duke of Windsor appear alphabetically among the notable names.
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Aollywood
Adolph Menjou
East
Lucius Beebe
New York
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Goodby-Lowe
Sam Goldwyn
E. B. Hay, Jr
New
James Stewart Recounts Army Induction And Service
Hollywood May 2A The actor James Stewart recounts a month in the army after being drafted March 22. He rose from private to corporal and served as spokesman for enlisted men at a Los Angeles United Service Organizations meeting. Stewart speaks of discipline, camaraderie, and a new wartime ideal guiding draftees.
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Hollywood
James Stewart
Stewart
Soter ‘Field
Los Angeles
United Service Organizations For National Defense
Y. W. C. A. Salvation Army
Star Mail Route Changes in Indiana Area
The Postoffice Department orders changes to two star mail routes in Indiana to improve service. Bids due May 20 for Indiana-Idamar route July 1 1941 to June 30 1945, 27.4 miles each way, six days weekly. Second route Indiana to Clymer via Penn Run, 42 miles round trip, six times weekly. Also bids for Cresson to Clymer route, 68 miles round trip, six times weekly to replace prior routes.
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Postoffice Department
Indiana
Idamar
Penn Run
Clymer
Dixonville
Heilwood
Mentele
Alverda
Penn
Death claims Dr Edma Simpson Valentine native of Indiana County
Dr Edma Simpson Valentine a nationally known neurologist and native of Indiana County died at 3 20 pm Thursday in her Columbia South Carolina home from pneumonia Funeral services are held in Columbia and the body will be brought to Georgeville for services at 2 30 pm Sunday Friends will be received after 10 am Sunday in the home The Rev Arthur J Pfohl will officiate and interment will be in Georgeville Cemetery She was born November 3 1882 in Georgeville and educated in township schools She taught in county schools and trained at the University of Pittsburgh and Woman's Medical College Philadelphia She worked as an assistant bacteriologist for Philadelphia and as a pathologist at Samaritan Hospital Her career included leading Kansas State Hospital Rope len as head medical director of the women's dent al hospital and later directing head of Waverly Sanitarium in Columbia She was a member of local and county medical associations the American Medical Association and the American Neurological Society Surviving are a son Wayne Valentine of Jacksonville Fla two brothers Dr George E Simpson of Indiana and R W Simpson of Georgeville and a sister Mrs Nora M Aul of Smicksburg
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Edma (Simpson) Valenine
Indiana County
George. Simpson
Indiana
Columbia
S.C
Georgeville
Arthur J. Pfohl
Zion Lutheran Church
John Martin
Catherine Elizabeth Simpson
University of Pittsburgh
Woman's Medical College
Philadelphia
City of Philadelphia
Samaritan Hospital
Florida
University of Tulane
New Orleans
Kansas State Hospital
Ropelen
Kansas
Waverly Sanitarium
S. C
Simpson
American Medical Association
American Neurological Society
Episcopal Church
Wayne Valentine
Jacksonville
Fla
George E. Simpson
R. W. Simpson
Georgesville
Nora M. Aul
Smicksburg
Price ceiling on bituminous coal revoked by Henderson
Washington May 2 Leon Henderson price administrator revoked the April 2 order fixing a ceiling on bituminous coal prices as mines have reopened after a month-long stoppage. He warned that no reason exists for any unreasonable price increases and that if charged, price action will be promptly instituted against producers distributors or dealers.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Brothers Die in Barn Blaze Near Chester
At a farm five miles west of Chester a boy seven named Ferdinand Guy and his two year old brother Alfred died in a barn fire caused by a lit hay torch. Their mother, Mrs Alfred Guy, was burned on the arms trying to reach the boys. Five year old Robert Guy escaped from a window. The tragedy occurred while Ferdinand attempted to rescue Alfred after lighting hay with sticks and matches.
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Chester
Ferdinand Guy
Alfred
Earl
Guy Farm
Alfred Guy
Robert Guy
Ferdinand
Robert
Ford Motor Plant
Milk Producers Meet Tuesday
The United Farmers of America will hold a meeting on Tuesday May 6 at 8 p.m. in Gordon schoolhouse Blacklick. County speakers are expected and members are urged to attend.
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United Farmers of America
Gordon Schoolhouse
Blacklick
Opposition to Gift of Seized Ships to Britain
Senate debate centered on curbing the presidents power to turn over seized Axis ships to Britain with a plan to requisition about 80 foreign flag vessels. Lawmakers called the transfer an act of war while others urged limits to American use of the ships held in protective custody. A compromise was expected to allow Axis vessels in American coastal trade under tightened controls.
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Washington
Senate
Great Britain
United States
Senate Commerce Committee
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Clark
DMO
Johnson
R-Calif
Bailey
D-Nc
Coast Guard
George
D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
See Shipping
Roosevelt urges continuous operation of defense industry
President Roosevelt urged defense manufacturers to run tool shop work 24 hours a day seven days a week except for required overhaul and repair. He asked via the Office of Production Management for more machine tools to meet rising demand for munitions ships and planes, and noted auto plants could help by producing parts or entire aircraft where feasible. He declined to give figures on targets, including potential 660 four engined bombers a month.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Office of Production Management
Wounded Reporter Describes Greece Evacuation War Heroic Rescue of Troops
Cairo dispatch recounts Robert St. John reporting from Belgrade to Ketor and a 400 mile voyage by small boat to Greece as German advances forced a dramatic evacuation. He was lightly wounded, and observers hail the British navy for rescuing about 50,000 imperial troops from Greece in an operation deemed impossible by experts.
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Robert St. John
Associated Press
Bel Grade
Yugoslavia
Egypt
Balkan War
Greece
Robert Bt
John
Cairo
Birth of Croat state witnessed by Arkansas native
Max Harrelson, 34, born in Arkansas, was the sole foreign correspondent in Zagreb when Germany invaded in April and provided the first American eye witness account of Croatia’s new totalitarian state aligned with the Axis. He had earlier seen conflicts in Amsterdam and Greece, cut off for weeks before reaching Budapest and filing from the Bern bureau.
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Max Harrelson
Arkansas
Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Harvelson
Amsterdam
Greece
Budapest
Bern
Associated Press
Wax Harrelson
Hungary
Independent State of
Croatia
Cara
Oboatia
Churchill reshuffles cabinet with Beaverbrook power
Prime Minister Winston Churchill reshapes his war cabinet naming Lord Beaverbrook to a new Minister of State post with broad control over war industries and appointing Frederick Leathers to head wartime communications and Harrier Moore-Brabazon to succeed as Minister of Aircraft Production. Donald Cross becomes High Commissioner to Australia as Greece and North Africa battles loom.
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Amnion
London
Winston Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
Britain
Churchill
Frederick Thomas Leathers
D. T. €. Moore-Brabazon
Beaverbrook
Donald H. Cross
Australia
Greece
North Africa
Lond
Local relief payments rise by eleven dollars this week
Indiana state records show direct relief payments to Tweedy County residents increasing by one dollar over the prior week. The current week totals 7,012 dollars across 317 fewer checks than last year, with Bureau of Assurance Disbursements reporting 7,014 checks and related figures for prior weeks.
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Tweedy Indiana
F. Clair Ross
Bureau of Assurance
Treasrury Department
Tobruk Siege and Oil Fight Deepens in WWII News
Berlin radio hints of a holy war looming as German forces push toward Tobruk Libya seeking a 23 day siege. Britain reports defend ers aided by troops at Habbaniyah west of Baghdad with Iraq’s pro Nazi premier calling for Moslem mobilization to strike oil fields.
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Berlin
Flaming
Britain
Iraq
Associated’ P
Moscow
Abruk
Libya
Lord Beaverbrook
Churchill
Meraey
London
Afillery
Habbaniyah
Baghdad
Near East
Germany
Reunion A Joyful Ong Reunion A Joyful Ong
A joyful reunion unfolds as Miss Baudette and Geraldine Seder meet in Pittsburgh after cross country travel from Portage and California. Seder, who had a plane factory job in the West, plans for a Pennsylvania wedding while Baudette had hitchhiked 3000 miles seeking him. Police assisted when funds ran low and the couple anticipated marriage in Yuma, Arizona.
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Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
Calif
Willie
Regs
Portage Iover
Geraldine
Baudette
Pau’ Seder
West
Coas
Seder
Pennsylvania
Miss Baudette
Cambria County
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Menjou
L. A
Star Mail
Ask
Clymer Projects
Feat Moss
Vigore and
Lawn
Lewis-Biess Feed Co
Edna Simpson Valentine
Chester Lad
Kin
Guffey
U. S
China
F.D.R
Suez
Africa
Cnrves
Algeria
Vigoro and Lanrie Lewis Steel Feed Co
Dynamic Beaverbrook
Old Kingdom
Tobruk
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