President Roosevelt Says Ship Problem Is Serious
President Roosevelt told the nation the Axis submarine threat is still serious but that the problem is being solved. He cited a 50 percent growth in shipbuilding capacity and announced a Maritime Day program launching 27 merchant ships, four placed in service, and a goal to complete 2,000 vessels by next year amid a massive war effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
Great Lakes
Maritime Day
United States
America
Sale Of All Safety Razors Frozen By WPB
Washington May 22 The War Production Board prohibits sale and delivery of all safety razors held by manufacturers and jobbers and orders them for armed services. Retail stores are not affected. Effective 2:01 a m Eastern War Time Saturday. WPB cites copper shortages and Army Navy need about 700000 razors monthly in coming two months. A war razor with plastic handle may be developed. no rationing planned as plastic razors may serve civilian and military needs.
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Washington
War Production Board
Armed Services
WPB
Army
Navy
Newspaperman Prefers To Stay In Germany
Washington reports Robert H. Best, American newspaper correspondent, will not board the steamer Drottningholm and will remain in Germany. Officials say he declined to return to the United States, citing efforts to preserve history. Dispatches note his return to Berlin to marry an Austrian woman, and that he previously went to Vienna after college on a Pulitzer scholarship.
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Washington
Statec Department
Robert H. Best
Drottningholm
Lisbon
Germany
Best
Berlin
Vienna
Europe
Answers To War Quiz and Page Five Highlights
Answers To War Quiz lists itemized notes on naval insignia showing that the sailor with a pharmacist's mate badge serves as a pharmacist's mate. It states Trincomalee is the most important naval port on the British island of Ceylon. It reports several French embassy employees resigned after Pierre Laval's return to power.
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Trincomalee
Ceylon
Pierre -Laval
Powers
Guilty on drunken driving case in Maryland police court
State police testimony led to a guilty verdict for William Eugene Sponseller on a drunken driving charge with a $100 fine and 36 days in jail or costs, after an appeal bond of $1,000 was posted. Wesley Mansfield and William Blank received suspended sentences on costs, while Mrs Artie Wachter Stull and Conley Koogle were found not guilty in a session dominated by traffic cases.
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Sherman P. Bowers
William Eugene Sponseller
Wesley Mansfield
William Blank
Artie E. Wachter Stull
Conley Koogle
Walter K. May
Sponseller
Maryland
Harry
Dorothy Goodsell
Martin Kanade
Kanade
Raymond
Edith Frye
South Market Street
Mansfield
Blank
Church Street
Bowers
Edwin F. Nikir
Altice E. Wachter Stull
W. Jerome Offutt
Corp. Puncke
Weedon
Lemuel
Weeden
Charles Milton Klemm
Corporal Moon
Theft Of Jewelry Reports In Baltimore Maid's Apartment
Georgine Lee reports a jewel case stolen from her bedroom in the 100 block of West Lanvale Street Baltimore. The case held a platinum necklace studded with diamonds valued at 1000 dollars a platinum bar pin with five large and 27 small diamonds six bracelets 15 dollars in cash and other gems totaling 2365 dollars. Headquarters detectives are investigating. Miss Lee works as a secretary in Baltimore.
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Mmarrislique
Lanvale Street
Baltimore
Georgine Lee
Philip F. Lee
Urbana
Miss Lee
War Interpreted on Pskov Gateway and Ilmen Region
London reports a Nazi broadcast claim of a Russian breakthrough south of Lake Ilmen with uncertain confirmation. The piece analyzes Pskov as a key rail and road hub for German left flank lines and surveys three strategic aims near Krasnograd, Dnieper crossings, and Porensk-Vitebsk span in the context of current Red Army offensives and German defenses.
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London
Lake
Ilmen
Touth
Pskov
Peipus
Leningrad
Russia
Peipus Lake
Faldai
Esthenia
Narva
Staraya Russa
Dano Junction
Lake Iimen
Lake Ilmen
Stalin
Marshall Timoshenko
Krasnograd
Dnieper
Kharkov
Hmen
Porensk-Vitebsk
Moscow
State Postal Clerks Meet At Westminster
Maryland state branch and ladies auxiliary of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks hold their seventh annual convention in Westminster at the Charles Carroll hotel May 30 and 31. About 200 delegates expected with a banquet at 7 p m Saturday followed by entertainment and dancing. Regular sessions Sunday morning conclude with a picnic in Big Pipe Creek park.
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Maryland
United National Association of Post Office Clerks
Charles Carroll
Westminster
Big Pipe Creek Park
American Skipper Boards Sub To Upbraid Officer For Attack
A Honduran cargo vessel was sunk on May 15 after an Axis submarine attacked the ship. First Mate Joachim Johansen of Vineland New Jersey boarded the sub to rebuke its captain for the attack. The sub’s crew attempted to seize a lifeboat to send men aboard the freighter. A fireman, Jose Rodriguez of Santiago Cuba, was killed. two officers and two crewmen were injured. Johansen, in a lifeboat clash, argued that Honduras was neutral and demanded the ship’s crew abandon further action. the sub crew investigated, then the sub dove as the lifeboat sustained damage. The incident unfolded amid rough seas and radioed help arriving as the sub fled.
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New Orleans
Navy
Joachim Johansen
Vineland
N. J
Johansen
Jose Rodriguez
Santiago
Cuba
Killng Rodriguez
Harry Schlesinger
Honduras
Germany
Japs Fired On Life Rafts Report From Java Action
Commander Thomas H. Binford of Aberdeen Mississippi describes Japanese warships torpedoing lifeboats of unarmed survivors from a Dutch destroyer in the Lombok Straits during February fighting. He also cites an apparent duel between Japanese groups after Allied attacks and notes his Navy Cross award for leading a destroyer division.
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Washington
Dutch East Indies
Lombok Straits
Thomas H. Binford
Aberdeen
Miss
Knox
Binford
Java
Union Wage Increase Denied by War Labor Board in Newark
The War Labor Board denied a general wage hike for about 1,700 Breeze Corporation workers across four Newark plants, but approved higher hiring rates and 10 class rate adjustments to standardize pay. The CIO United Auto Workers had sought 15 cents more per hour for above-standard earnings, a request deemed not approvable. A prior 4-cent general increase recommended by a three member panel was withdrawn after Roosevelt's April 27 message, with some classifications reduced in reconsideration.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Newark, N. J
Breeze Corporation, Inc
CIO
United Auto Workers
Middletown Youth Wins National 4-H Club Cost Accounting Title
Middletown 3-H member Austin Coblentz, son of Walter B. and Mrs. Coblentz, earned national honors in the 4-H farm cost accounting contest, duplicating last year’s feat by a local contestant. He will receive an all expense trip to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago next November and a $200 college fund, as one of four regional winners nationwide. Coblentz manages records for his father’s 300 acre dairy farm, with thirty cows, and has been runner-up in the state contest last year amid active 4-H involvement.
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Middletown
Austin Coblenia
Walter B. Coblentz
Robert Delauder
Frederick County
Young Coblentz
Chicago
Middletown Valley
Jad
United States
Austin
Secon
Young Delander
City Cleanup Days Set Across Frederick This Week
Frederick plans a four day city cleanup starting Tuesday and ending Friday. Officials say the drive clears all trash while aiding Civil Defense requests and reduces fire risks in garrets and other outlets. The city is divided into four sections with collection days: Tuesday southwest, Wednesday southeast, Thursday northeast, and Friday northwest. Residents should place items in containers at curb for removal.
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Frederick
OCD
Lloyd C. Culler
E. C. Kefauver
Kefauver
Market
Second Streets
West Second Street
Market Street
Early Recovery Of Wheat Is Later Lost
Wheat markets opened with gains but renewed selling forced prices down as much as 1.50 dollars from highs. Late weakness followed exhaustion of buying built after yesterday’s break. Wheat closed mixed with July at 1.20 and September around 1.22. Corn rose about 14 to 16 cents, oats higher, soybeans lower.
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Chicago
Priscilla Lane Weds Young Army Officer
Las Vegas reports film actress Priscilla Lane married Lieut. Joseph A. Howard of the United States Army Air Force in a hotel ceremony. Lane, 23, and Howard, 27, wed in a Justice of the Peace setting after traveling from Victorville, California. Lane is sister to actresses Lola and Rosemary Lane.
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Las Vegas
Priscilla Lane
Joseph A. Howard
United States Army Air Force
Victorville
Calif
Herbert W. Anderson
Air Force
Miss Lane
Howard
Orin Haglund
Lieutenant Howard
Lola
Rosemary Lane
Nationwide Rationing Of Gasoline Soon
Washington reports Arthur B. Newhall indicates nationwide gasoline rationing will be put in place after a plan from the Defense Transportation Agency and War Production Board approval. He warns that wasting tires could force requisition of private cars to move war workers.</s>
Plan for general rationing under wartime transport control
Seaboard and the Pastific North West report that the Office of Defense Transportation is formulating a general rationing plan likely to win approval from the War Production Board. A statement by top war-agency officials including Henderson Nelson Eastman describes the rubber situation as grim and urges civilian sacrifice if tires are needed, while noting current rubber reserves may cover the near term and further planning will follow.
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Seaboard
Office of Defense Transportation
WPB
Newhall
War Agency
Henderson
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Joseph B. Eastman
Nelson
University to receive purebred heifer from Maryland sale
A purebred Aberdeen Angu s heifer named Coupens Erica Maid will be given to the University of Maryland animal husbandry department. Dr H Leinbach announces the selection from the 1942 Maryland Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association spring sale. The breeding is said to fit well with the university program.
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University of Maryland
H. C. Davidson
H. Leinbach
Leinbach
Maryland
University
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Gulf of Mexico
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