Fire Sweeps Docks of Penn Railroad in Jersey City
Fire swept the open docks of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Jersey City New Jersey threatening lumber steel and tug boats. Locomotives were pressed into service to move materials as Pennsylvania officials called the blaze fairly serious and the railroad ordered tugs to clear barges and cars from the blaze.
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Jersey City
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Rail Company
Hudson River
New York Harbor
Dr Hardy Kemp Named New Dean at Ohio State U
Dr Hardy Kemp selected to succeed Dr J H J Upham as dean of the Medical College of Ohio State University and director of University Hospital. Kemp, 89, a Vermont Medical School dean, will start between July 1 and Sept 1. He hails from Monett Missouri and trained at St Louis University and Baylor Texas.
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Columbus
Hardy Kemp
University of Vermont
J. H. J. Upham
Medical College
Ohio State University
University Hospital
Upham
Kemp
Monett
St. Louis University
Britain Admits Two Cruisers Went Down
British officials disclosed heavy losses to Axis forces in the Mediterranean and from submarine, cruiser, and destroyer actions against transports. German claims of allied ship sinks were dismissed as exaggerated. Royal Navy units battled near Crete and in the Middle East as air and ground combat continued along the Egyptian frontier and in Malemi and Salum regions.
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Alreay
Unsdnwariters
Malemi
Louis Mountbatten
George VI
Kelly
Crete
el Peesyser
Lox
Nicotine
Mosul
Lake
Habbaniyah
Sope
Salum
Mediterranean
England
East Anglia
Egyptian
Salam
DNB
Egypt
Middle East Command Announces British Forces Forced Back
The Middle East Command said allied troops were compelled to concede ground as advances by opposing forces pushed to the east, signaling a significant shift in regional control.
Heavy losses on Nazis asserted by Churchill in Commons
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons that heavy German losses have been inflicted since the invasion began a week ago. He said the fighting has been severe and enemy casualties are heavier than ours, with Crete enduring intense air attacks throughout the week.
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Churchill
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Crete
Trading Hood for Bismarck Profitable Swap for British
A comparative snapshot weighs the British Hood against the German battleship Bismarck. The Hood displaces 42,100 tons to the Bismarck 35,000. Hood is longer and faster while Bismarck carries heavier armor and more aircraft with four catapults.
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Trading Hood
Bismarck
Hood
United States
North Carolina
Washington
Great Britain
Allied naval losses and Crete defense in World War II report
The German High Command notes ongoing heavy fighting around Crete as Allied reinforcements arrive. It cites losses to British ships and aircraft, including cruisers and destroyers, while the Mediterranean fleet remains comparatively strong. Action shifts between Crete, the eastern Mediterranean, Iraq, Syria, and Ethiopia with continued German air and ground offensives.
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Freyberg
Royal Navy
Crete
Gloucester
Fiji
Juno
Greyhound
Kelly
Kashmir
Lother
Mediterranean
Italy
Cape Matapan
Egypt
Iraq
Syria
Ethiopia
Hearing on Ship Strike Hits Carborundum Staff
Nine thousand five hundred workers on airplane engine projects for Britain and the U.S. Army face stalled talks as CSO and UAW push for a 10 cent hourly wage hike. Carborundum’s Niagara Falls plant continues operations amid a 3,200-strong strike over a collective bargaining accord.
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United States Army
CSO - U.A.W
Niagara Falls
Carborundum Company
U.S
Thomas M. Finn
NLRB
Edward D. Flaherty
Gail Smith
Office of Production Management
J Ain
Carbrundum Company
Finn
United Mine Workers
National Mediation Board
Washington
Southern Soft Coal
C. I. O. United Mine Workers
Northern
Tsouthern
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
Perkins
Clarence Dykstra
John R. Steelman
AFL
Screen Cartoon Guild
Walt Disney Studio
Hollywood
the Gulch
Disney
Clipperton Seizure Urged by Mexican Labor Confederation
In Mexico City on May 27 the General Confederation of Workers urged the reoccupation of Clipperton Island by Mexico. The federation warned Germany could seize the tiny Pacific island, located about 1,000 miles southwest of Acapulco, after its surrender to France amid Italian mediation.
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Clipperton
Mexico
Mexico City
INS
General Confederation of Workers
Foreign Office
Federation
Germany
Pacific ‘Ocean
Arnan
Busal
Wlys
Acapulco
Clipperton Island
Vietor Emmanuel
Italy
Houston divorce granted to Mrs Esther Purcell Houston
Watertown May 27 Mrs Esther Mary Purcell Houston of 352 Franklin Street is granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from Charles M Houston of 209 Sterling Street. The couple married in 1933 and have one son.
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Watertown
Esther ‘Mary Purcell
Houston
Franklin Street
Charles M. Houston
Sterling Street
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Ohio State U
Salina ST
D’ Orsay
Nisley Brasil Mowe
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USA
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Middle East
Blackstone
Butternut Street
Lodi
Twin Studio Group
Berlin
Africa
High Command
Messels
Orkney Islands
North Atlantic
Luftwaffe
Green
Salma
DAL
Weber
Sears
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