Roosevelt Seeks 10 Percent Cut in General Government
President Roosevelt moves to trim general government expenditures by 10 percent to fund national defense. He will meet Budget Director Harold Smith to discuss impounding funds across executive departments, with some offices, notably the State Department, possibly facing deficiencies. Early notes potential savings, aims to boost defense outlays and reemployment.
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WASHINGTON
Roosevelt
national defense fund
Harold Smith
White House
Stephen T. Early
state department
Early
treasury
Head Of Film Board Indicted
New York June 3 Joseph F Schenck president and chairman of the Board of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation was indicted by a federal grand jury today on income tax fraud charges. He faces two indictments charging conspiracy perjury and making false statements to a federal investigator in addition to the tax count.
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NEW YORK
Joseph F. Schenck
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Schenck
United States
John T. Cahill
Oiling Of Streets To Begin Tuesday
Safety Service Director L D Faxon announced oiling of Elyria streets would start Tuesday if weather permits. The oil has waited 10 days on a sidetrack and will take about three days to complete with barricades up to protect the fresh surface. Drivers are urged to avoid barricaded streets to protect the oil and the street finish.
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Safety service
L D. Faxon
Elyria
Faxon
Weather Update Shows Warmer South Tonight
The forecast notes slightly warmer conditions in the southern portion tonight and generally fair weather Tuesday with possible local showers at night. Pressure remains high from the Mississippi to the Atlantic with lower barometers from Nebraska to Arizona. showers reported from the upper lake region westward through Dakota into Wyoming and scattered along the Atlantic coast. Temperatures higher this morning in the upper Mississippi Valley and central and southern plains.
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OHIC
south portion
Mississippi
Atlantic
northwest
Nebraska
Arizona
upper lake region
Dakota
Wyoming
Mississippi valley
plains
German Troops Closing In On Dunkirk
German forces press toward Dunkirk from west south and east with three front attacks and claim Bergues and Be gues occupied aided by air power. Difficulty in terrain slows operations as Allied Dunkirk remains under threat amid coastal narrowing.
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BERLIN
Dunkirk
Adolf
high command
Begues
Flanders
Mummy Revealed Not Real Treasure at Mount Union
Mount Union College has long safeguarded an Egyptian mummy from Thebes. Curators tested a new fiuroscope and found the mummy to be two wooden cross boards wrapped with tacks, showing it was built by hand rather than containing jewels.
Time Extension Granted for Lorain Twenty-first Street Bridge
County commissioners receive a 30 day extension from PWA regional director D R Kinnicott to June 29 for completion of the Twenty first street bridge now under construction. Extension requested due to contractor delays.
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Twenty-first street
Lorain
D. R. Kinnicott
Chicago
PWA
Elyria High graduates urged to face harsh realities
The 1940 Elyria High School graduating class heard Rev. Ernst Irion urge balance between celebratory pride and real world limits at a bacalaureate service. He contrasted local opportunities with Europe’s wartime fate, warning youths to immunize themselves against a fragile, idealized view of life and to pursue a safe philosophy.
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Elyria
Ernst Irion
St. Paul's Evangelical church
First Methodist church
Europe
Hamilton Mellyar Lichlicher
Columbus
Nazis Massing for New Thrust in Northern Front
Paris dispatch reports the German army of the north, over 600000 strong, executing a large turning movement and massing tanks artillery and infantry for an assault on the Oise Aisne Argonne front. Allied Generalissimo Maxime Weygand readied dispositions to meet the attack within 48 to 72 hours.
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PARIS
Oise-Aisne Argonne
Maxime Verygand
Oise-Aisne-Argonne
Reithel
Sedan
Argonne hils
Maginot line
Moselle
Cleveland Man Killed In Crash On Lake Road
A Cleveland man was killed and four people injured in Lorain County weekend crashes. Frank Bennyhoff of 2511 Vestry Ave died when his wife Leola Bennyhoff 39 collided with Luther Castelberry of Mansfield driving in bad visibility claims. Injured were Bennyhoff’s son Robert Reed 20 and Dorothy Castelberry 15. Deputies noted the fatalities and described the accident scene and drivers’ accounts.
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Cleveland
Lorain County
Lake road
Lorain-Erie County
Frank Bennyhoff
Vestry avenue
Leola Bennyhoff
Luther Castelberry
Mansfield
Bennyhoff
Robert E. Reed
Dorothy Castelberry
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Lorain
Bernyhoff
Reed
Miss Castelberry
Josephine Olsen
R. D
Elyria
Lake avenue
Ely- Yig Memorial Hospital
Glenn Roy Smith
A. D
James R. Mortensen
Lake No. 7
Fifteen Elyrians Attend Meeting At Minerva
Fifteen Elyrians joined the semi annual gathering of the Northern Ohio district of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks in Minerva near Canton. L E Palmer presided as district president with 146 clerks and families present. Congressmen Jim Seccombe, Eirey Halldeck of Chicago and Charles Peters spoke. the women’s auxiliary participated and the Minerva Grange served dinner.
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Minerva
Canton
Ohio
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
L. E. Palmer
Elyria post office
Jim Seccombe
Eirey Halldeck
Chicago
national organization
Charles Peters
Minerva farmer
Minerva Grange
Jury duty called for fifteen residents across three cities
Seven Elyrians seven Lorain residents and an Amherst man are summoned for grand jury service beginning June 12. Residents named include Matilda Diedtick Walter Bush Emily Peterman Josephine Martin Lester Youtzy Anna Rosse Raymond Py Emma Gilson Morris Asch John Petrosky Lillian Cairns Harry Kubes and Donald Ludwig.
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Lorain
Amherst
Matilda Died- Tick
Cleveland street
G. M. Marsh
Eastern Heights Boulevard
Walter Bush
Princeton avenue
E. W. Phillips
Earl court
Emily Peterman
Fourth street
Josephine Martin
Second street
Lester M. Youtzy
Gulf road
Anna Rosse
Nineteenth street
Raymond Py
Augusta avenue
Emma Gilson
Livingston avenue
Morris Asch
Seventh street
John Petrosky
Long avenue
Lillian Cairns
Thirty-first street
Harry Kubes
Osborn avenue
Donald Ludwig
Elyria High 1940 Graduates Bid Farewell
Elyria High School’s 1940 graduating class held an assembly to say goodbye to fellow students. A $200 gift for equipment for the speech and activities room was presented to Principal C P Shively by class president William Dutch.
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Elyria High School
C. P. Shively
William Dutch
Phil Hoffman
Elyria High School awards forty two honors at senior chapel
Forty two awards for achievements were presented to Elyria High School students at the Senior Chapel. Eighteen seniors received top recognitions from the Young Men's Club, with Mary Jean McElfresh and Paul Irion named most representative. Second and third place medals went to Jean Tattersall, William Dutch Jr, Eleanor Carr, and Walter Niegowski, among honorable mentions.
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Elyria High School
Young Men's Club
Mary Jean McElfresh
Eastern Heights boulevard
Paul Irion
Third street
Young Men’s Club
Charles Snoble
Jean Tattersall
Hamilton Avenue
William Dutch Jr
Ohio street
Eleanor Carr
Longfellow street
Walter Niegowski
Bank Street
Six Waves Of Nazi Bombers Pummel Paris
Paris faced a major air raid as about 155 German planes dropped incendiaries and high explosives over the city and suburbs. At least two killed in a seven story building, fires sparked in a factory, and U S Ambassador Bullitt narrowly escaped injury when a bomb pierced the luncheon venue. Despite heavy anti aircraft fire and fighter opposition the raid caused paralysis across Paris with transport and markets halted and civilians taking shelter.
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PARIS
United States
William C. Bullitt
Bullitt
Laurent Byrne
Berlin
Issy Les Mouimanux
Eynac
Shively Bids Farewell To Elyria High Students
C P Shively Elyria High principal for 16 years bid farewell to the student body at the Senior Chapel in the school auditorium this morning. He wished the best for the school and the students who have passed through during his tenure. No 6 continued on page 8.
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C. P. Shively
Elyria High school
Italy's Bid to Enter War May Bring Quick Grave Risk
An expert survey suggests Italy's position could become grave quickly if it joins the war. German bombing of Marseilles and the Rhone Valley plus propaganda aim to sway Mussolini and Italian public opinion toward an easy victory, with doubts about who is being persuaded and whether timing is dictated by war aims.
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Italy
Marseilles
Rhone Valley
Mussolini
Germany
U S Rescue Liners Carry 2684 War Refugees
Two United States rescue liners filled to capacity with 2684 passengers, mostly war refugees, sail toward New York from Europe. The President Roosevelt left Galway with 720 aboard and the Manhattan departed Genoa with 1973 aboard as tensions rise. Ships sail unescorted and the State Department warns belligerents that the ships must not be modified.
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United States
New York
Europe
Roosevelt
Galway
Ireland
Manhattan
Genoa
Italy
United States State Department
White urges closing German Embassy in Washington
Senator Wallace H. White Jr of Maine urged the United States to close the German Embassy and send the Germans home. He said allied aid short of war should be given and added that if Italy enters the war, Italians should be sent home as well, asserting such actions would not drive the U.S. into war.
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WASHINGTON
Wallace H. White, Jr
Foreign Relations Committee
White
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