Axis air blitz hits 600 mile Med sea front
Allied air forces from North Africa and the Middle East struck a 600 mile stretch from Sardinia to Greece raining heavy blows on Sardinia Sicily and Pantelleria. Four engine Flying Fortresses blasted Messina wrecking rail yards and the dock area as American and British airmen pounded targets on Sicily Greece and the Greek seaplane base.
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Auto regulations loom over Pennsylvania driving ban
The state outlines strict interpretations of the auto ban with limited exceptions and announces a semi annual auto inspection before July 34. After that date only vehicles with the official inspection sticker may operate. Also reported are local quirks about a missing dog Susie and a curious vegetable display at the New Castle News offices.
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Pennsylvania
SEF
A. Routman
East Washington Street
New Castle
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. show a maximum of 63 and a minimum of 55 with 0.42 inches of precipitation and a river stage of 6.3 feet. The same date a year ago recorded a maximum of 72, a minimum of 49, and no precipitation.
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United States
Expect Approval Of New Tax Bill Compromise
Congressional leaders predict speedy approval of the joint conference agreement on the first pay or you go tax bill in history. The plan would abate 75 percent of one year’s tax liability and lock in present individual income tax rates for two years. House and Senate action was expected Friday with President Roosevelt likely to sign.
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United Presbyterian Delegates Gather at New Wilmington
About 150 delegates from across the United Presbyterian world arrive in New Wilmington for the general assembly opening at Westminster College chapel at 7 30 p m The opening session will elect the moderator for the next year Dr Thomas C Pollock of Philadelphia will give the evening address and reports from organization committees will be presented The pre assembly program is in progress with formal business discussions set for Thursday
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Philadelphia
Pleasure Driving Ban May Continue All Summer
The midwest floods have cost the Atlantic seaboard area over 4 million barrels of oil, delaying any substantial improvement in supplies until August. The OPA faces a fuel shortage that will keep the pleasure driving ban in effect, with an estimated 4.6 million barrel deficit reducing civilian gasoline by about two weeks.
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Petroleum Administration
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Three Jeannette landlords face court action
Pittsburgh May 26 Three Jeannette landlords John J. Morton Michael G Martin and Mary P Helen were temporarily enjoined by Federal Judge F P Schoolmaker from collecting more than 10 a month on two properties in Crapeville The OPA said the defendants ignored official correspondence and refused to register the properties under the maximum rent order Final hearing set for June 4 The action charges they collected 13 monthly for a year in violation of rent control regulations.
Resume Coal Wage Parley With Operators In 1942 War Talks
Washington May 26 The war labor board backs direct talks between John L. Lewis United Mine Workers and coal operators to win a wage increase of about 1.50 a day. The board orders negotiations within 15 days and Lewis had earlier demanded direct parleys after a brief mine strike and a government seizure led by Harold Ickes. The truce now runs to midnight May 31 with possible extension.
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Washington
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United Mine Workers’ Union
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UMW
Harold Ickes
Labor Board
June 15 Tax Payment Reminder in 1943 Bill Context
Washington May 26 Government and congressional tax experts stress the June 15 income tax installment must be paid despite the new tax measure. Payments made last March and next month count toward the 1943 bill. The measure forgives taxes under $30 and abates 75 percent of 1942 or 1943 tax for larger liabilities, with the remaining 25 percent due over two years. Self employed must file quarterly estimates with first 1943 declaration Sept 15 and amended Dec 15.
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Washington
Senate-House
County Men Get Army Exams Today
Men from Selective Service Board Two of the county travel to Pittsburg today for final physicals to assess fitness for service. Those who pass will receive a 14 day furlough rather than the customary one week.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Severe earthquakes hit near Solomon Islands report
Fordham University seismograph logged two very severe shocks near the Solomon Islands with times 7 26 43 and 7 38 44 p m BW plus two milder shocks earlier in the morning at 6 38 31 and 6 44 13 at about 2430 miles from New York in an unannounced direction.
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Conternational News Service
New York
Fordham University
Solomon Islands
Battle Of Attu Nearing End, Navy Says
The navy reported U S land forces with bomber and fighter support wiped out one Japanese position on Attu Island and opened an assault on a second. With one position cleared and the second under attack, officials believed the battle’s end was in sight as fighting continued along Chichagof valley and nearby areas.
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Invasion Of Europe Nearing Says Churchill Remarks
Washington May 26 The diplomatic belief grows that there will be at least a limited invasion of Europe this year and a powerful air offensive against Japan. Churchill assured the United Nations that preparations are moving to put into effect the decisions made with Roosevelt during strategic talks.
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Washington
Japan
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Roosevelt
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U S Bomber Sinks U-Boat in Atlantic Action
U S Army credited the Tidewater Tile crew with sinking a German U-boat after new aerial photos showed debris and captured German sailors. The B 24 Liberator, equipped for anti submarine warfare, was piloted by Capt. John H. Shaw and crew from Pennsylvania towns including Woodland, Scenery Hill, and Sayre.
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New York
Tidewater
John H. Shaw
Woodland
Kerfoot
D. Hosack
Scenery Hill
Blaine B. Alder
Sayre
All County Schools Suspend This Week
Taawrence county rural schools will suspend for summer by week end. County Superintendent John C. Syling said rural terms match city terms with 180 days required by law. Princeton Mt. Jackson Plaingrove and East Brook have closed. others close by Friday.
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John C. Syling
Princeton
Mt. Jackson
Plaingrove
East Brook
Edsel Ford Dies at 49 in Detroit Estate
International News Service reports Edsel Bryant Ford, 49, president of the Ford empire, died at his Lake Shore Drive home after a six week illness. He was Henry Ford's only son, with family at the bedside including two of his three sons and his daughter. Death followed complications from a stomach malady and undulant fever. funeral plans were announced as pending.
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Detroit
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Edsel Ford
America
Waller Buhl Ford
Ford
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Benson
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Far Reaching Court Decision About Teachers
Harrisburg May 26 The state supreme court unanimously affirmed a superior court ruling sanctioning the dismissal of a teacher as incompetent if she becomes a mother The ruling followed Bethlehems Mrs Gertrude K Brown a dental hygienist with the Bethlehem school district who had sought sick leave for childbirth and was dismissed after the board ruled pregnancy on condition that could be avoided
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Cinternation( News Service
Harrisburg
State Supreme Court Today
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Bethlehem
Francis B. Hans
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Northampton
Axis Partners Harden Defenses Amid Allied Pressure
London dispatchs report Allied threats across Denmark and the Mediterranean. German forces in Jutland total about 200000 as 140000 troops are moved from the peninsula. Mussolini orders immediate defense of Sicily and Sardinia amid bombers from North Africa and the Middle East.
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Madrid
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Leningrad Front Shows New Action
Soviet forces on the Leningrad front fought heavy battles with German units near the former czarist capital. Artillery destroyed 22 pillboxes and eight dugouts while snipers killed 200 Germans. Baltic fleet aircraft downed eight enemy planes in fierce air battles. Earlier the high command reported action in the Gulf of Finland with two Soviet warships engaging the foe.
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Gulf of Finland
Non-Operating Rail Employees to Get Wage Boost
An emergency board of the national labor panel urged President Roosevelt to raise wages for more than one million non operating railroad workers by 8 cents an hour. The decision denied a closed shop and a 20 cent request from 15 cooperative railway labor groups. The raise, retroactive to February 1 1943, will add about 204 million dollars to annual payroll with back pay of roughly 85 million dollars to be paid by July 1 in war savings bonds.
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Washington
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National Labor Panel Today
Roosevelt
Packard walkout stalls upgrades in protest
About 2000 UAW CIO workers staged a walkout at the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit on May 26 protesting a company agreement. The stoppage delayed upgrading of certain workers.
Mid-West Floods Recede Amid Vast Destruction
International News Service reports floods across six midwestern states receded slowly as danger areas remained. About 174240 people were left homeless in Illinois Indiana Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas with 2806200 acres underwater. Levees failed from Columbia to Gale on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. Governors and agricultural officials met in St. Louis to plan replanting and farmer aid, with war food administrator Chester Davis in attendance.
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Oklahoma
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Chester Davis
Four Fliers Killed in Bomber Crash at Hamilton Field
San Francisco May 26 The Sixth Ferrying Group named a board of officers to investigate the deaths of four men killed when a comedium bomber crashed during a takeoff yesterday at Hamilton Field. The dead included Second Lt Gharies J. O'Brien, 29, Phoenixville, Pa.
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Death Notices Exhibit Local Names in Fragment
Fragments show multiple names and addresses including Frances Cunningham Fills Twila Wall Michael Guyton Carolyn Sue Kelsa Lowry Kerry and Thomas, with ages and street references, indicating a collection of obituary style death notices.
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Garfield
Great RAF bomber raid hits Duesseldorf during invasion prelude
London reports a massive RAF bombing of Duesseldorf described as a prelude to invasion by Britain's press. The air ministry confirmed the raid while sources noted Dortmund Duisburg and other German towns were rendered idle inmunitions production.
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Leo VL Dolan
Ns.os
London
Britain
Royal Air Force
Rhineland
Duesseldorf
Dortmund
Air Ministry
Walther Funk
Duisburg
Mayor Scully Case Bewilders Officials in Pittsburgh
The case involving Mayor Cornelius D. Scully and his trip to a West Virginia farm to inspect holdings as a food producer clouds Pittsburgh OPA officials. Attorneys would not confirm the drive as official business for use of city coupons.
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Inbernational News Service
Pittsburgh
Cornelius D. Scully
West Virginia
OPA
Lewly
Accont
Nation
Plans Shipwrecked by Weather at Local School Meet
Arthur Mometer notes that plans to enter a school meet were thwarted by last minute changes and weather. The athlete trained and promoted participation but cannot be on the line as officials list a seventy nine degree day and planned events proceed.
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Neer
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