Logans Elks drive collects old magazines for overseas service
The Logan Elks Lodge seeks old magazines for shipment to servicemen abroad. Donors should bring publications no older than two months to L A Riggs at Sears Block Store or Roger W. Friend at Ohio Power. Acceptable titles include Liberty Colliers Time Newsweek Blue Book Readers Digest. avoid partisan political or humor magazines.
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Logan Elks Lodge
L. A. Riggs
Sears Boeck
Roger W. Friend
Ohio Power Company
Liberty
Colliers
Time
News Week
Blue Book
Themity
Logan
Union Furnace
R. R. Loomis
Ohio wheat crop hit hard in 1943 report
Columbus Ohio May 12 The federal state crop reporting service estimates 1943 Ohio winter wheat production will fall 32 percent from 1942 with about 24 668 000 bushels. Winter killing and abandonment cut acreage by nine percent pairing with heavy losses in the southwest. Yield per acre is pegged at 16 5 bushels versus 21 in 1942 and 20 2 for the decade to 1941.
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Columbus
Ohio
Federal
Roosevelt and Churchill meet for wartime council in DC
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill held another war council in Washington as Allied plans against the Axis continued. The visit follows Churchill’s third wartime trip to the capital, with Tunisian victory still in the air and African and Pacific campaigns on the agenda.
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Washington
Britain
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Churchill
U. S
Europe
Pacific
Adolf Hitler
Axis
Far Eastern Leaders Accompany Churchill
A White House disclosure says Prime Minister Churchill brought three Indian allied leaders to Washington for strategy talks with President Roosevelt. The Churchill party included Field Marshal Sir A. P. Wavell, Admiral Sir James Somerville, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, signaling focus on Japan strategy.
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Washington
White House
Churchill
India
Roosevelt
Japan
A. P. Wavell
James Somerville
Ceylon
Richard Peirse
Roosevelt Tunisia Talks Shape Next World War Plans
The passage describes Roosevelt and his aides pressing for unconditional surrender while Tunisian advances alter Allied strategy. It notes the United Nations high command preparing to activate next blow plans, previously blocked in earlier discussions between the leaders and their military staff.
Middletown voters approve school levy
Middletown Ohio voters approved a 1-mill levy in a special election 1376 to 519. The measure funds operating expenses after a demand for a 10 percent pay raise by school employees. It was the first such election under a new state law. turnout was 19 percent.
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Middletown
Board of Education
State Election Board
Publisher Charles Appleton Dies in North Andover at 84
Charles A. Appleton, 84, former president of the D. Appleton Century publishing company of New York, died at his North Andover home yesterday after a long career in publishing.
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North Andover
Mass
Charles A. Appleton
D. Appleton Century Publishing Company of
New York
Crash kills Ohioan near Zanesville
An automobile collision eleven miles north of Zanesville last night killed Leonard Nims aged 24 of Adamsville and injured four others.
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Zanesville
Here
Leonard Nims
Adamsville
Ohio approves wartime work-hours for women and minors
Columbus, May 12. The Ohio House approved a relaxation of protective laws allowing women and minors to work longer hours during war time. The bill, supported in three and a half hours of debate, goes to the Senate with an emergency clause. Gov Bricker is expected to sign. without it 90 days would pass. The House vote was 91 to 38.
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Columbus, O
Ohio
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Senate
House
John W. Bricker
Col Elliott Roosevelt Wins Second Decoration
Allied headquarters in North Africa announced Col Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, was awarded the Air Medal in addition to the Distinguished Flying Cross. The decoration honors meritorious achievement during five operational sorties against the enemy.
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Allied
North Africa
Col
Elliott Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Lew is Out of Town Delays Coal Wage Statement
The United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis is out of town for the day and postponed the planned 4 PM statement on the coal wage contract dispute.
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Lewis
New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Blackout drills planned for Logan under Civil Defense guidance
County and city CD coordinators Harry Shaw and Howard Kirk announce readiness for Logan wartime blackout with city ordinance penalties for non cooperation. Instructions specify blue signals for blackout, red alert, second blue, and all clear, detailing sheltering, traffic limits, and roles for businesses, residences, and venues.
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Logan
Harry W. Shaw
Howard E. Kirk
Dr John W Mulford Elected OOA President in Ohio
The Ohio Osteopathic Association of Physicians and Surgeons named Dr John W Mulford of Cincinnati as president. District trustees elected included Dr H C Seiple of Warren and Dr Charles F Rauch of Logan.
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Columbus
Ohio Osteopathic Association of Physicians and Surgeons
John W. Mulford
Cincinnati
H C. Seiple
Warren
Charles F. Rauch
Logan
Blast Fatal Near Al ger Kills Ira B. Claybaugh at 74
Ira B. Claybaugh, 74, of near Al ger, was killed yesterday while blasting tree stumps with dynamite. The accident occurred in Kenton County. Authorities investigated the blast and reported no further details at this time.
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Kenton
Ira B. Claybaugh
Alger
Gol f pro Brophy dies in Covington hospital
John J. Brophy a 57 year old golf professional from Miami Beach Florida and former holder of Ohio and Kentucky state crowns died at St Elizabeth Hospital Covington Kentucky on May 12 according to a brief dispatch from the Associated Press.
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Covington
John J. Brophy
Miami Beach
Fla
Ohio
Kentucky
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Sarah Grand Dies in Calne After Long Public Life
Calne England May 12 Sarah Grand novelist and pioneer in women’s suffrage movement and six time mayor of Bath died here today on eve of 88.
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Calne
England
Sarah Grand
Bath
Axis powers brace for invasion amid Berlin calm front
London reports Axis propaganda tries to show composure as Churchill meets Roosevelt in Washington to plan for Germany. Berlin radio withholds news of Churchill’s location and claims Hitler is westward, signaling evasive wartime messaging. Speer cites construction of the Atlantic Wall and a goal of victory without compromise.
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Roosevelt
Axis
Berlin
Washington
Adolf Hitler
Albert Speer
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Germany
Axis battles and Allied advances shift Tunisian war scene
In Washington Churchill Roosevelt meet as Tunisia war moves, with Hitler retreating headquarters westward amid pushing Allied pressure. Cap Bon and Hammamet area ringed by British and American forces. 100000 Axis prisoners reported, including 37998 captured by US 2nd Army Corps. Axis defense on Cap Bon persists. Italian commander Messe rejects surrender demand. Red Army pushes in Leningrad and Novorossisk. US bombers hit Catania and Palermo. New Guinea ops threaten Salamaua and Rabaul. Burma and China fronts see skirmishes. End of Tunisian fighting nears as Axis holdouts resist.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
1St Army
Cap Bon
Bou Ficha
Hammamet
2Nd Army
Messe
Tunisia
Southwest
Pacific
New Guinea
Salamaua
Rabaul
New Britain
Dutch New Guinea
China
Lake Tungting
Burma
Arakan
Hitler
Tunis
Halt Retail Sales At Liquor Stores
Logan's state liquor store and all Ohio retail liquor outlets were ordered closed at 3 pm Wednesday to free staff for preparing purchase books ahead of June 1 rationing. Only wholesale orders will be filled. Liquor Director Don Fisher cited a staffing bottleneck from surge of purchase book applications and said closures run May 17 to June 1.
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Logan
Ohio
A. J. Curl
Don Fisher
Fisher
American general and staff arrive in Cyprus reportedly
A Sofia dispatch relayed by Dagens Nyheter on May 12 stating that an American Army division commander and staff have recently arrived in Cyprus. The report claims Allied units are massing on the eastern Mediterranean island.
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Cyprus
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
a _ Sofia
Mediterranean
Solons Fight Over 15 Day Mining Pact Nears End
Washington May 12 The House military committee pushes a tough labor bill seen as key to wartime coal output as a 15 day truce nears expiry. Speaker McCulloch cast deciding vote after emergency clause passed 94 to 34 amid war production pressures.
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Solons
House’ Military Committee
Pearl Harbor
House Military Committee
William McCulloch
Meat prices announced by OPA in Ohio regions
The Office of Price Administration issued retail ceiling price schedules for beef, veal, lamb and mutton across Ohio. Flags highlight two lists covering stores by class and size, with chain stores and larger independents in one group. All meat grades are affected.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
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London
By John M. Hightower
DR. Rauch
FRONT
North African
By Roger Greene
Associated Press
Battle For
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Leningrad
Izvestia
Central
Moscow
Novorossisk
Catania
Sicily
Palermo
The
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