Miners Return Under Flag of Trace
Monoxide fumes kill three Rockbridge youths in a tragic incident. John Thompson of Logan receives a wartime honor at Curtiss-Wright Columbus for a tool crib release procedure that speeds Helldiver production. Ohio Highway Patrol seeks 21 to 35 year olds for a new training school with eligibility requirements and deployment plans.
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John Thompson
Hunter Street
Logan
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Columbus
Thompson
Mrs. Effa Caroline Hammond Dies at 77
Mrs Effa Caroline Hammond 77 wife of James Hammond died at 11 30 A M Monday at 258 East Front Street Logan She had lived here all her life Funeral arrangements are with Leonard Funeral Service She is survived by her husband daughter Hazel three brothers John Frank and Jerry Blosser and sister Mrs Fred Ellinger all of Logan
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Effa Caroline Hammond
James Hammond
East Front Street
Leonard Funeral Service
James
Hazel
John
Frank
Jerry Blosser
Logan
Fred Ellinger
Adlets Sell Fast After Classified Stove Notice
Mrs S S Ruble ran a Daily News classified ad for a stove. The stove sold shortly after the first copies reached readers and a front door sign confirmed the sale. There were 32 inquiries.
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Daily News
Former County Basketball Stars Die in Lancaster Tragedy
Three Good Hope Township youths died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in a Kirn Hotel room on West Main Street Lancaster. Coroner J. D. Dupler ruled the deaths caused by a small gas heater. two victims were brothers Eugene Couch 19 and Robert R. Graham 18 along with William J. Graham 17. The bodies were found at 9 P M Saturday after hotel manager Edna Denney entered the room at 3 P M and later at 8 30 P M with the heater burning intensely.
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Good Hope Township
Kirn Hotel
West Main Street
Lancaster
Fairfield County
J. D. Dupler
Edna Denney
Graham Brothers
William Grahams
Burns
Hocking County Bond Sale Tops Half Million
Hocking County raised 537 545 25 in the Second War Loan drive surpassing its 331 000 quota and reaching 150 percent of goal. Bonds in 1964 69 and 1950 52, Series E F G certificates and tax certificates were purchased by the public and two banks totaling 105 000. The drive earned county honors including an honor flag and a special pennant with praise to over 200 Victory Fund members led by chairman Rolland Bright.
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Hocking County
Rolland Bright
Hocking
Bright
Federal Reserve Bank
Cleveland
Court House
Victory Fund Committee
Army asks farmers to revise planting seeds
The Army quartermaster corps urged Ohio farmers to adjust sugar beet and canning vegetable planting schedules to counter expected 1943 shortfalls. Col. William J. Calvert warned that failing to meet acreage goals could threaten armed services with a serious supply problem and urged increased vegetable and beet production, even at last minute.
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Columbus, O
Army Quartermaster Corps
Ohio
Buckeye
Armed Services
Wiliam J. Calvert
Columbus
Tax showdown over pay as you go income tax plan looms
Washington May 3 Four months of party strife culminate in a House showdown on pay as you go income taxation. A bill to wipe out half or more of ten billion dollars in tax assets against 1942 individual incomes faces passage by tomorrow night. Any plan enacts a 20 percent withholding on wages and salaries starting July 1.
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Washington
Allied bombers and subs wage attrition war in Pacific
Allied air and submarine efforts report heavy losses for Japanese shipping as Darwin comes under attack. MacArthur's forces sink 93 300 tons of shipping in April and US submarines add another 125 000 tons. Officials compare Tunisian and Pacific campaigns noting about two percent loss in Tunisian shipping over five months. Continued on page two.
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Australia
United Nations
Darwin
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Navy Department
Washington
U. S
Japan
North African
Tunisian
Far Pacific
Russia
Kuban
Allied Troops Mop Up Pockets of Resistance in Tunisia
Allied forces including Americans British and French quiet pockets of German resistance in Tunisia as they prep for a major push. General Giraud foresees May bringing complete defeat of the enemy in the theater while MacArthur reports heavy losses for Japan in Darwin raids and air battles continue on multiple fronts.
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Henri Giraud
Tunisia
Liquor Sign-Ups Begin Across Ohio May 3
Ohioans 21 and older begin signing up for ration books to buy packaged spiritual liquors under a state program expected to start June 1. Don A. Fisher says forms are available at retail stores today and urges mail-in by May 10 with proof of residence.
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Columbus
Don A. Fisher
Vet charged in death of daughter hit with bat
Canton Ohio May 3 Detective Captain Norman E van Almen said he would file homicide charges against Minis Mikels 60 unemployed war veteran in the fatal beating of his daughter Eva 26. Mikels confessed beating his daughter to death with a baseball bat as she slept.
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Canton
Norman E. van Almen
Minis Mikel
Mikel
Eva
van Almen
Mikels
Actress and husband flee dawn blaze at French provincial home
Hollywood reports that screen actress Joan Bennett and her producer husband Walter Wanger along with two daughters and three servants escaped a dawn fire at their 15 room two story French provincial residence. The blaze forced them to flee in night attire as flames swept the home.
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Hollywood
Joan Bennett
Walter Wanger
Wanger
Miss Bennet
Lower Point Values for Fruit Juices
The Office of Price Administration cuts ration points on most canned fruit and vegetable juices effective today due to slow sales. Pineapple juice in No 2% size cans rises from 13 to 17 points while others drop. Grape juice falls to 2 points a pint and 3 a quart. grapefruit and citrus juices drop in No 2 size cans and 46 ounce cans. Tomato juice and vegetable juices see substantial reductions in No 2 size cans and 46 ounce cans as rationing ends for all vegetable juices except tomato.
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Office of Price Administration
Ickes Aims 15 Day Wage Settlement With Miners
Washington May 3 coal crisis eases as miners return to work under government direction led by Harold Ickes. UMW head John L Lewis may meet in New York to discuss a 15 day truce while Ickes seeks a wage settlement within two weeks.
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Ickes
Washington
Lewis
UMW
National Policy Committee
EWT
New York City
Hotel
Roosevelt
New York
Ohio
Harlan County
Illinois
AFL
Uncle Sam
Harold Ickes
Bureau of Mines
Stephen Early
White House
Early
Poland Maps Show Partitions Through History
The article notes U S and Britain seek to mend tensions between the Polish government in exile in London and Soviet Russia amid charges between their governments. It describes maps illustrating Poland’s historical partitions, reunifications, and re partitions, highlighting the 1939 division by Germany and Russia and earlier late eighteenth century partitions by neighbors.
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U. S
Britain
London
Russia
Poland
Germany
GOP Chairman Urges Council of Nations in Peace Plan
Chicago May 3 De Neen A. Watson chairman of the midwest conference of the Republican Postwar Policy Association urged the establishment of a council of nations as a fundamental for lasting peace He told delegates the GOP must not repeat past mistakes and that defeating Roosevelt requires taking the issue away from him.
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GOP
Council OF Nations
Chicago
Deneen A. Watson
Midwest
Republican Postwar Policy Association
Council of Nation
Watson
Association
Roosevelt
Sugar Grove Soldier Listed Among Killed
Pvt. Dewey W. Woltz of Sugar Grove is listed by the War Department as killed in action amid ongoing World War II coverage. The official notification cites Woltz among the fallen with details withheld.
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Sugar Grove
Pvt
Dewey W. Woltz
Grove
War Department
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