54,000 Families Driven from Homes Along Ruhr, Weser
Allied raids crippled German transport before dawn as floods from Mohne and Eder dams unleashed destruction across 54 cities leaving about 54,000 Ruhr families homeless. Berlin censorship and Jewish rights tensions color the tremors of wartime reporting. In other fronts, Attu counter threats loom as Japanese air activity rises around Salamaua and New Guinea. Soviet forces hold Novorossiysk against renewed German pressure.
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Germany
Ruhr
Weser
Grass mowing worries amid wartime shortages sparing SPARS enlistment
War time conditions strain lawn care as youths go to war jobs and prices rise. SPARS recruit for Coast Guard duties including radio, photography, air rescue, and parachute rigging. Applicants must be 20 to 35, native born or naturalized, with two years of high school, married women accepted if husbands not in service or no children under 18. Marshall Building Cleveland addresses provide contact information.
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Coast Yard
Coast Guard
America
SPAR
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Cleveland
Toledo First Total Blackout Declared Nearly Perfect
Toledo air raid wardens praised the citys first total blackout as nearly perfect after a 11 minute test last night reporting only eight violations despite river and railroad traffic remaining active.
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Toledo
Allies Brace for Jap Thrust at Attu Island
Washington May 19. Allies prepare for a possible Japanese counter stroke as Attu Island fight nears its end. Analysts note Tokyo avoided the battle zone in the first week after US attacks on May 11, implying little time remains for Japan to shift strategy while weather may hinder US advances.
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Pacific
Attu Island
United States
Aleutians
Tokyo
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
State Solons Fail To Observe Own Time Law
In Columbus Ohio on May 19 the Ohio Legislature switched its session time to Eastern War Time after previously adopting Central War Time as the official standard. Lawmakers snickered as clocks were set and both houses still convene at 1 30 P M Eastern War Time though they had met at 1 30 state time.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Senate
Regional OPA appoints hearing commissioner for violations
Dennis F. Dunlavy of Ashtabula has been named regional hearing commissioner for the Office of Price Administration to handle hearings on OPA operation violations, announced by regional director Birkett L. Williams in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Dennis F. Dunlavy
Ashtabula
Office of Price Administration
Birkett L. Williams
Nazi Leaders Preparing for Expected Blow
Stockhol m May 19 Invasion threat prompts Hitler and advisers to focus on the Maginot line and the new Atlantic wall. Reports say Germany touts impregnable defenses from Norway to southern France, with Speer monitoring munitions progress and fortifications continually updated along coastal towns and bays.
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Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
France
Atlantic Wall
Norway
Hitler
Albert Speer
Channel
Inland Daily Press Assn seeks women for newsroom jobs
In Chicago on May 19 the Inland Daily Press Association board urged cooperation in a selective recruitment plan to ease a newspaper manpower shortage. Newspapers should report names of journalistic aptitudes not employed by papers to the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York, to be passed to Class A journalism schools for short courses.
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Chicago
Inland Daily Press Association Today
American Newspaper Publishers Association
New York
Bricker to Get Honorary Degree at Otterbein
Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio will award an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters May 31 to commencement speaker Gov John W Bricker according to college officials.
Floods force thousands to flee across Midwest and Missouri
Thousands flee flood waters as rivers inundate cities and farmland in several states. At least seven people are dead with four drowning in Indiana and three in Missouri. Crops and property suffer heavy damage across Indiana Missouri Illinois and Arkansas countrywide floods.
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Midwest
Indiana
Missouri
Illinois
Logan Native Lt. J. Kurtz Lytle Wounded in Africa
Second Lieutenant James Kurtz Lytle 28 son of Mr and Mrs Charles E Lytle former Logan residents seriously wounded in the North African theater on April 30 according to a War Department telegram to his wife Mary Ellen Lytle now employed in Columbus. Lytle a Logan High School graduate was commissioned September 12 after completing the Armored Forces Officers' School at Fort Knox Ky He married Mary Ellen Wyman of Lancaster three days later and was sent overseas soon after.
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James Kurtz Lytle
Charles E. Lytle
Logan
War Department
Mary Ellen Lytle
Columbus
Lytle
Logan High School
Armored Force Officers’ School
Fort Knox
Mary Ellen Wyman
Lancaster
Judges Pension Bill In Legislative Graveyard
In Ohio the judges pension measure, once approved by both chambers and likely to be signed by Gov Bricker, was tabled by the House 67 to 51. Debates noted actuarial costs of 375000 to 500000 in year one. The move halted a plan to replace probate fees with salaries for judges.
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House
John W. Bricker
Senate House Conference Committee
Michael P. O'Brien
Alcott fired from WLW after on-air clash
Carroll D. Alcott, longtime Shanghai journalist and radio commentator, was dismissed as WLW war commentator after an on-air dispute with colleague Gregor Ziemer. James D. Shouse, WLW VP, said there was no rancor, only pity for the outcome of a heated exchange following Alcott's mock jab about Ziemer and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Cincinnati
James D. Shouse
Crosley Corporation
Carroll D. Alcott
Shanghai
WLW
Alcott
Gregor Ziemer
Shouse
Ziemer
Mediterranean
Publishers warned to balance newsprint use
New York May 19 4 Publishers were warned to balance newsprint consumption with production and to check stock declines in the current bulletin of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
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New York
Bulletin
American Newspaper Publishers Association
New wartime munition tools boost production in Cleveland
Two machines, a heat inductor spinner and a fuse spring tester, accelerate bomb casing shaping and reliability. Wheeling Steel Corp in Portsmouth reports a 500 pound casing can be formed in 14 minutes using induction heating to 2000 2200 degrees Fahrenheit, then spun and cooled. Ohio Crankshaft Co originated the heating method, now used widely.
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Cleveland
Wheeling Steel Corp
Portsmouth
Ohio Crankshaft Co
Alia Steel & Wire Co
Automati
FOOD CONFERENCE GETS UNDER WAY IN VIRGINIA
HOT SPRINGS Va May 19 The United Nations food conference opened with hope and realism. A Roosevelt message urged guaranteeing minimum adequate nutrition for all. Judge Marvin Jones chaired the 45 delegations urging global economic and political cooperation to make the next century the people’s. What humanity wants is not charity but a free opportunity to work and build.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Roosevelt
Marvin Jones
United States
Six men seize ballots in Goodyear union vote turmoil
In Akron on May 19 six men strong-armed several members of a Goodyear Aircraft CIO union election committee and took ballots cast for eight union officers, a union leader said. No further details on arrests or outcomes were provided.
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Akron
Goodyear Aircraft Cio
Prime Minister Tells Allies’ Congress of Allied Advances
Churchill told Congress about Allied advances against the Axis as Roosevelt sat in. Observers doubted changes to “beat Germany first” strategy while OWI reported 97 percent of Pearl Harbor wounded survivors due to modern battlefield care. Home front issues included coal wage fights, a looming July 1 tax deadline, and trade treaty debate amid unresolved restrictions.
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Churchill
Roosevelt
Congress
Germany
Office of War Information
Pearl Harbor
War Labor Board
Senate
OWL
United
Japs Alarmed Over Allied Ground Blow At Wau
May 19 report notes Japanese alarm over Allied ground threat to Huon Gulf as 102 Allied planes attack the Wau area. Wau lies 35 miles from Salamaua, a key Japanese air and shipping base, with Allied infiltration toward the south from the Papuan Peninsula. Japanese forces in Mubo control an airfield and ridge tops overlooking the route from Mubo to Salamaua.
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Australia
New Guinea
Huon Gulf
Wau
Salamaua
Gulf
Papuan
Mubo
Fire destroys chemicals at Hilton Chemical Co
Fire broke out at Hilton Chemical Co in Cincinnati yesterday burning 20,000 chemical drums or units and causing extensive damage. Firefighters fought the blaze through the night with limited injuries reported.
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Hilton Chemical Co
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