Mushrooms, Stamps, Salvage Mark Postwar Efforts
West Logan seventh and eighth graders report 59.75 dollars from stamps and bonds since February 5 and 2280 pounds of salvage metal from the Hocking River after the flood. Ed Eberst spotted a large rattlesnake near Gibisonville while mushroom hunting as rains boost a bumper mushroom crop with 75 to 200 specimens common. Bob Gano and Frank Harden are noted for their mushroom hauls and supplies.
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Roy Turner
West Logan School
Hock‘ing
Ed Eberst
Sam Moore
Gibisonville
Hocking County
Bob Gano
Route 180
Frank Harden
FDR Aided Sought in Akron Strike
Akron mayor George J. Harter urged President Roosevelt to appoint a government administrator to run Akron's transportation system during a wartime strike. The CIO Transit Workers' executive board backed a federal takeover, accusing the Akron Transportation Co. of operating the lines inefficiently to hinder wartime production.
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Akron
Roosevelt
George J. Harter
Harter
Army
Navy
CIO Transit Workers’ Executive Board
Akron Transportation Co
Church Asks Court To Keep Whisperers Out
Vine Street Church of Christ in Mount Vernon seeks a court order to bar 16 current or former members from entering the church building. Attorney C B McClintock alleges the group disrupted services by whispering, refusing to bow or stand, and writing anonymous letters to pastor Henry C Mayhew.
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Mount Vernon
Vine Street Church of Christ
C. B. McClintock
Canton
Henry C. Mayhew
Prisoners listed in Japanese camp report
I, New Lexington Sir John Stemen, son of Mr and Mrs Isaac Stenmen, is among 1 044 or so men reported prisoners of Japanese. Most of the prisoners are being held in the Philippines.
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New Lexington
John Stemen
Isaac Stenmen
Philippines
Conservation group studies local water impound near Logan
A Logan delegation told the Ohio Conservation and Natural Resources Council that a water impoundment in the Clear Fork Creek valley two miles southwest of Logan tops local lake construction plans after the war. Engineers say the site north of Route 664 suits such a lake. state funds could aid a nearby game refuge and a road relocation would enable a quarter mile dam.
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Clear Fork Creek
Logan
Columbus
Ohio Conservation and Natural Resources Council
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Hocking County Fish and Game Association
Izaak Walton League
Lake Hope
Vinton County
Ohio
Hocking
Clear Fork
State Highway Department
Quarter Mile
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife
State to Buy 1,186 Acres for Athens County Project
The Ohio Conservation and Natural Resources Commission approved 37,900 to purchase 1,186 acres in Athens County 1,260 in Jefferson County and a 138 acre farm in Highland County for game development projects. Don Waters said 75 percent of the cost would be reimbursed from Pittman Robertson federal funds. The panel also allotted 6,000 to continue creating ponds on farms.
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Athens County
Columbus
Ohio Conservation and Natural Resources Commission
Jefferson County
Highland County
Don Waters
Ohio drinkers to get pint ration starting June 1
Ohioans can expect a pint per person over the first two weeks beginning June 1 as the liquor ration plan rolls out. Liquor Director Don Fisher cited registration data showing about 1,350,000 qualify for the initial ration while cabinetry tools target a peak signup of 2,500,600. Fisher’s estimate covers 54 percent of anticipated registrants.
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Columbus
Don Fisher
Liquor Department
Fisher
Eyewitness Story Of Sgt Starcher's Flying Cock Plane
The Libera tor bomber Flying Cock survived 600 flak and shell holes in one raid though badly damaged. Four crewmen bailed out and were not heard from. pilot Lieut Llewellyn Brown of Malvern Springs Ark received the DFC for returning to base from Tripoli. Ground crew chief Master Sgt Robert W Slade narrates as the series on American air fighters abroad continues.
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Ted Timberlake
North Africa
Egypt
Montgomery
Rommel
Tripoli
Llewellyn Brown
Malvern Springs
Ark
Charles O. Starcher
Logan
Ohio
Harold Sena
Bridgeport
Flying Cock
Tripoli Raid Air Crew Faces Heavy Battle Damage
A bomber crew recounts nearly sinking over Tripoli as an 88 mm shell hit their left wing and engine. The aircraft endured 600 holes in wings and fuselage, with Kitt urging to "give 'em hell." Number three engine caught fire, hydraulics and electronics failed, and several crewmen escaped as the ship struggled to reach land.
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Robert W. Slade
Gladwin Hill
U. S
England
Tripoli
Kitt
Fathers Draft Sparks Executive Legislative Tug of War
Washington May 14. The fight over drafting fathers escalates as the Army extends inductee furloughs and signals a push to draft fathers soon while Congress weighs a year end exemption plan. House and Senate leaders clash on whether to delay or limit inductions, with hearings set for Monday.
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War Department
Reynolds
Senate Military Committee
Wheeler
D-Mont
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
House
Rep
Kilday
D-Tex
Court House on EWT but Clocks Remain on CWT
Hocking County Court House offices began operating on Eastern War Time Friday while clocks still show Central War Time. After a Thursday meeting, officials decided to run on the fast schedule though clock changes are barred by the state time act. Offices open and close one hour earlier, despite unchanged clocks.
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Hocking County Court House
Churchill seeks to bolster China in war effort
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek that the day will come when the United Nations will drive the Japanese from China. The remark followed Chiang’s congratulations on Allied victory in Africa and signals that Churchill and President Roosevelt may plan major new strikes against Japan.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-Shek
United Nations
China
Africa
Roosevelt
Japan
Warn Holland Against Anti Nazi Revolt Plot
The exiled Dutch government in London warned May 14 that any premature revolt in German-occupied Holland would trigger German retaliation and likely thwart large scale underground warfare. Radio Orange called a circulating plea to register for an underground movement a German provocation to incite Dutch violence and enable a terror regime. Reports of unrest spread in Holland and Belgium with word of Berlin rioting.
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London
Holland
Belgium
Berlin
Radio Orange
Netherlands
Hitler likely to strike at Russia soon say capital authorities
Washington May 14 capital authorities predicted Adolf Hitler would soon launch a desperate spectacular stab at Russia to offset the blow already inflicted. The forecasts reflect concern over a bold new move by the German leader as Allied forces monitor developments in Europe.
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Washington
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Senate Rejects Pay-As-You-Go Amendment Vote Margin Wide
The Senate rejected an amendment to the pay as you go revenue bill by 55 to 21. It would have credited current payments against this year's income and collected the full 1942 tax in 10 semi annual installments starting March 15.
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Washington
Senate
World War II strategy shift stirs White House silence
German morale sours after Axis African rout as Roosevelt and Churchill weigh global strategy in their conference now in its third day. Senate debates tax reforms and trade pacts while drafts, income tax disputes, and wheat production plans dominate capital discussions.
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Africa
Roosevelt
Churchill
White House
Senate
Congress
Wilbur Primmer Reported as German Prisoner
Mr and Mrs J A Primmer of Rockbridge announce their son Wilbur R Primmer who was listed missing in action on February 17 is now a German prisoner. He had been serving with U S forces in North Africa. The father is the custodian at Rockbridge school.
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J. A. Primmer
Rockbridge
Wilbur R. Primmer
Primmer
U. S
North Africa
Rockbridge School
Legion post demands ouster over Lewis apology
Jacksonville, May 14 The Pennsylvania Legion post South Fork No 653 apologized to John L Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, for a denunciation by Roane Waring. Waring warned the post must be ousted or he will resign as national commander, saying he favors unionism for honest patriotic citizens not the type led by Lewis.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Pennsylvania Legion Post
John L. Lewis
Roane Waring
American Legion
Florida
Pennsylvania Post
South Fork No
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Waring
RAF Fliers Pound Berlin Ruhr Cities
Japanese headquarters said crack American forces had landed on Attu island in the western Aleutians, with a heavy battle still raging three days after the assault as U S troops push to clear the north sea route to Tokyo. Attu garrison believed under 10,000. Attu lies 1,778 miles from Tokyo and about 600 miles west of Dutch Harbor.
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Attu Island
Aleutians
U. S
North Sea
Attu
Tokyo
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Washington
United States
Navy
Japan
Kurile Islands
Federal Communications Commission
Imperial
Atsuta
War Departments
Pantelleria Island
Cap Bon
Mediterranean
Europe
Augusta
Sicily
Cagliari
Sardinia
Naples
Pension Bill Hot Potato in Ohio Legislature
Columbus May 14 The judges pension bill becomes a volatile issue as the House debates a motion to reconsider a key vote. Opposition cites a needed reserve fund costing state and local governments. supporters say judges' 4 percent contributions will fund pensions. Speaker McCulloch blocks immediate action using a rare ruling.
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Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
House
William M. McCulloch
Senate
Aaron T. Grad
Cincinnati
Robert A. Wilkinson
van Wert
Soldiers Help Combat Arkansas Floods
Soldiers joined flood weary residents along the lower Arkansas River valley as authorities counted the surging stream which brought the region its greatest flood in memory and disrupted hundreds of communities.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas River
Puyt
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Clear Fork Lake
FDR
Church
Court
Sgt. Starcher
Ghina
Hitler
Aneta
Istanbul
Balkans
The
Associated Press
Wilbur Primmer
Legion
RAF
Ruhr
Pantelleria
Sicilian Harbor
By Roger Greene
Ruhr Valley
Czecho- Slovakia
Dunkerque
Calais
Burma
Maungdaw
Novorossisk
Stockholm
Pacific
MacArthur
Gasmata
New Britain
New Guinea
Pension Bill
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