Nighthawks And Warblers Noted In Hocking County Scene
The piece discusses nighthawks nesting atop the Hocking County Court House and warbler migration near Logan. It also highlights a public library exhibit showing ninth grade industrial arts projects by J R Hankison, including knots, woodwork, a jewel box, leather articles, salvaged tin pieces, and model planes.
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Hocking County Court House
Birdlife
Logan
Hocking County
J. R. Hankison
Dick Gage
Fairchild
Perfect Plans for Blackout in Logan City
Civilian Defense auxiliary units received final instructions for Logan's first wartime blackout to take place Wednesday night. A special meeting at the United Furniture Workers' Union hall reviewed duties for firemen air raid wardens policemen fire watchers first aid members and Boy Scouts under the city county defense council officials.
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Civilian Defense Auxiliary
Logan
United Furniture Workers’ Union
Harry W. Shaw
Protections Services
Female Labor Law Faces House Vote
In Columbus Ohio May 11 the Ohio House prepared to pass a bill relaxing restrictions on women and minors in factories and other industries. The measure allows emergency wartime overrides of the 50 hour limit under state supervision. A companion Senate bill establishing a retirement system for judges also awaited action as no session was held last night.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Organized Labor
Senate
House
State Director of Industrial Relations and Health
Dem Leader Jones Hit by Ohio County Chairs
Columbus May 11 The Ohio Democratic leader Darrel S. Jones faced a challenge from county chairmen who gave him till July 1 to deliver more federal jobs. The meeting, called by State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson, accused Jones of backing Wendell Willkie in 1940 and questioned patronage decisions.
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Columbus
Darrel S. Jones
Jones
Wendell Willkie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph T. Ferguson
Washington
Party
National
Charles Sawyer
Mildred Jaster
State Central Committee
al Horstman
Sawyer
Ferguson
Birkett L. Williams
Japanese advance near India Burma frontier feared
An Associated Press report cites a Tokyo broadcast claiming Japanese troops moved within 12 miles of the India Burma border amid the gravest invasion threat. British forces acknowledged Wavell withdrew from Buthedaung while Allied confirmation was lacking.
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Tokyo
Archibald P. Wavell
India-Burma
India
Marshal Wavell
Buthedaung
Akyab
Tokyo Radio
14Th U. S. Air Force
Indo - China
Burma
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Babo
Dutch New Guinea
Blond Hair Out OWI Screams After Deluge
The Office of War Information sought long blonde hair for war production and received a flood of parcels. The hair and related correspondence were sent to the Washington Institute of Technology for use in weather instruments, paying $1 an ounce in war bonds. Donors praised the contribution as aiding the war effort despite scarce payment.
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Owi
Washington
Office of War Information
Blondie
Washington Institute of Technology
College Park
Massachusetts
North Africa
Cowan, Tenn
Controversies Roil Congress As Republicans Rally
In Washington on May 11 the 78th Congress faced three main battles. Republicans pushed for veto checks on Roosevelt’s reciprocal trade deals amid a vote due tomorrow. A separate fight targeted War Production Board control over civilian supplies as the bill advanced from Senate to House. Tax debates centered on a three year extension of trading authority and pending abatements.
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Washington
78Th Congress
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Republican House
Roosevelt
GOP
War Production Board
Representative Wolcott
Rmich
Finance Committee
Athens Phantom Dies After 20 Year Manhunt
Athens Ohio May 11 Jay Withem known as the phantom who led a 20 year chase by Athens County sheriffs died of gunshot wounds. Indicted in 1923 for murder in his wife Sarah's death Withem eluded capture for years, until officers flushed him from a cave and shot him as he fled leaving a long elusive pursuit ended by a cave standoff.
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Athens
Jay Withem
Athens County
Withem
Sarah
Sandy Hill
George Bateman
New War Alarm Clocks Scheduled for Wartime Release
The Office of Price Administration set a ceiling price of 1.65 dollars plus taxes for the new war alarm clock effective tomorrow. 100,000 clocks with revised steel innards have been produced but may not appear publicly soon. Defense workers at shipyards and war plants likely get first access as 10 million yearly demand remains.
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Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
U. S
Navy secretary predicts Nazi airmen will hit ship lanes
Secretary of the Navy Knox said after Allied victory in Tunisia that German air forces will try to disrupt Mediterranean shipping eastward but cannot stop the Allied effort. He declined to time the opening of the route, but said it would bring tremendous advantage by shortening the voyage to the Middle East to about 5,000 miles.
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Washington
Knox
Tunisia
Mediterranean
Africa
Middle East
Boy Electrocuted by High Tension Wire in Mount Vernon
Robert W. Allspaugh aged 15 died after touching a high tension wire in Mount Vernon Ohio. This marked the second identical fatality reported in two days in the same city.
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Mount Vernon, O
Robert W. Allspaugh
British Army Seals Cap Bon Death Trap After Tunis Breakthrough
The British 1st Army trapped about 80 000 Italian troops in Cap Bon mountains and pushed toward Hammamet as Allied forces sealed escape routes from the Tunis area. Axis troops, dazed by rapid advances, showed signs of surrender while British units seized Soliman Grombalia and Menzel Bou Zella.
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Cap
Tunis
Bizerte
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Soliman
Grombalia
Menzel Bou Zella
London
Clement R. Attlee
Time Change Bill Before Green in Columbus War Time Plan
Columbus considers Eastern War Time from April to October to align with the war. The measure requires Mayor Floyd Green’s signature and would last six months after the war. If approved the city would join Dayton on the lower time schedule statewide.
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Columbus
Floyd Green
Green
Dayton
General Assembly
Rudolf Hess Status in Britain Remains Mystery
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons Hess remains confined under the same conditions as on arrival in Britain after his 1941 flight from Germany. Eden denied Hess brought 60 000 dollars in British securities or that any family members are in Britain.
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London
Rudolf Hess
Germany
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Britain
Eden
Adolf Hitler
Tunis Debacle Dawns on Hitler As Axis Morale Shaken
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler faces a dual task to speed Axis defense in Europe and cushion German morale after the Tunisian defeat. It notes Italy as the weak link in his strategic chain and suggests a tougher stretch ahead for Hitler amid Allied pressure.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Hitler
Italy
Netherlands under siege reports executions in Holland
Anota reports a state of siege in Nazi occupied Holland with 26 patriots executed and 10 sentenced to death over disorders tied to a general strike plan in southern Europe. Moscow radio says Goering and Himmler will reorganize the Italian army and purge internal groups to stabilize fronts.
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London
Anota
Holland
Europe
Moscow
Switzerland
Italy
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Secret Police
Goering
Himmler
Japanese General Claims Air Superiority Lacks Tech Grit
Lieut. Gen. Ashinari Uchida acknowledged on a Tokyo broadcast that Japan’s air force trails U S in technical knowledge but argues Japanese spiritual strength surpasses American prowess. He urged greater war production and said Japan must attack the American mainland by air as the Pacific war nears a critical phase to decide whether Japan will prevail or be defeated.
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Ashinari Uchida
Tokyo
OWI
Uchida
Japan
Poultry Markets Closed in Philadelphia Mass Test
The 500 members of the Philadelphia Retail Live Poultry Dealers Association closed their stores in a mass test against alleged black market activity by New York dealers.
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Poultry Markets
Philadelphia
Delphia Retail Live Poultry Dears Association
New York
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