Three Injured In Only Crash On State Roads
Memorial Day crash at the intersection of Route 224 and Johnson Road near Hillsville injured three people. Mrs. Helen Schultz, John Schultz, and driver Joseph Schultz sustained bruises and a cut. Sam McCree of Hillsville was turning left onto Johnson Road when Schultz's car struck his truck. Traffic was light for the holiday.
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Lawrence County
Johnson Road
Hillsville
Helen Schultz
John Schultz
Joseph Schultz
U. S. Army
Akron
Schultz
Tractor driver falls as field yields Roman passage
Alfred Bristow, a Kent tractor driver, felt earth collapse under his plough and leapt free as the tractor vanished. Soldiers later uncovered a long-forgotten Roman subterranean passage beneath the field. Rationing reveals a cautionary note on truth.
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International News Service
London
Kent
Alfred Bristow
Germans In Holland Seek Additional Jail Quarters For Anti Nazi Dutchmen
Nazi occupation forces in Holland face overcrowded prisons and plan house confinement for Dutch resisters. Over 4000 intellectuals jailed with hundreds more in streets awaiting new detention camps. Nazis repair Gravenstein prison and consider seven new camps in northeastern Holland as resistance grows.
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Holland
London
Gravenstein
Leyden
Automobile Club Inaugurates Glass Cleanup Jeep Squad
In Southern California motorists are aided by a newly formed broken glass squad from the Automobile Club. A small white jeep carries a pan and broom and answers citizen reports locating nails tacks and debris on streets and highways.
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Los Angeles
Southern California
The
Automobile Club of
State sportsmen offered for farm work called for by officials
Harrisburg report says the State Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs proposal to mobilize over 600,000 Pennsylvania sportsmen for farm labor has been endorsed by the Agriculture Department and the state defense council. Secretary John H. Light stated they would be asked to relieve labor shortages during harvest seasons.
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Harrisburg
State Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs
Pennsylvania
Agriculture Department
State Defense Council
John H. Light
Student Nurses Crown May Queen at New Castle Hospital
More than 200 attended a May Day celebration at the New Castle Hospital nurses residence. Mary Orlando was crowned May Queen by Rev Fr. Vincent O'Donnell with attendants, flower girls, and a crown bearer. A mother daughter tea followed, hosted by the Junior Auxiliary with chairs and tea staff, while music and songs enriched the event.
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New Castle Hospital
Mary Orlando
Students’ Society
New Castle Hospital School of Nursing
Francis C. Streiff
St. Joseph's Church
Father Streiff
Mary
God
Earth
America
Daniel Lord
S J. “Ava Maria Caria Rossini
Pittsburgh
Virgin
Paul Forcey
John Foster
Ala. Shewman
Richard Rent
J. Lumen Popp
Joseph Winds
Shewman
Gladys Mitchell
Treasury War Bond Quotas for June Nationwide Total
The June War Bond quotas by state total 800 million dollars with an expected ten percent payroll investment from all Americans. The nation will adopt a one billion dollar monthly quota starting July to fund aircraft, weapons, ships, and munitions for fighting the Axis.
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America
Dent misidentifies victim in New Orleans assault
In New Orleans a 42 year old seaman named Charles Dent admitted striking a restaurant worker with a chair leg believing him to be Japanese. The man proved to be Chinese and Dent received a six month Orleans parish jail term as Judge Pred Oser urged anti Japanese bias not to harm Chinese allies in the war.
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Nternational
New Orleans
Charles Dent
Pred Oser
Dent
Orleans Parish
Texas Tech Professor Predicts Several Synthetic Rubbers
Rex, Lubbock reports Dr W M Craig professor of chemistry at Texas Tech predicts five or six kinds of synthetic rubber within the next 12 to 18 months. He says each type will be as good or better for its purpose as the rubbers now in use.
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Lubbock. Rex
W.M. Craig
Texas Tech
Craig
Modern grapefruit juice sales surge in past decade
International News Service reports a leading grocery chain says modern merchandising boosted U S grapefruit juice consumption over 8 000 percent in 12 years. Production climbed from 205 000 cases in 1928 29 to 16 788 999 cases in 1940 41.
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Tnternational News Service
New York
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