Bad Weather Halts British Air Offensive
Bad weather forced the Royal Air Force to pause its continuous offensive after several days of heavy action. RAF night fighters claimed eight German bombers over Britain and France, with notable kills by planes led by Max Aitken. Weather disrupted further raids, and no continental missions occurred that day.
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Voscon
May
Bat
RAF
Lore Beaverbrook
Max Aitken
Titfish
Washington
Uhter Owiers
England
Natis
Temes
France
Corman
Europe
London
Royal Air Force
Britalin
Sunderland
Berlin
New Guinea Hot Spot in Pacific War
United States bombing planes from Gex and MacArthur’s headquarters blasted Salamaua base and Lae in New Guinea on May 1. Three enemy navy planes were shot down in a savage dogfight as American air forces damaged or destroyed multiple Japanese aircraft, signaling New Guinea as a focal point in the southwest Pacific.
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Macarthurs
Australia
United States
Manes al Lae
New Guinea
Salamay
Douglas MacArthur
Cay
Salamaua
Lar
Dutch Freighter Sunk By Submarine Off Atlantic Coast
A Dutch freighter was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast on April 2. Six crewmen were lost, thirty-seven survivors rescued from a lifeboat and two rafts two hours after the attack by a naval ship. In Missouri, a tornado swept a rural area near Springfield killing at least one person, Milly Hod, a 40 year old farmer, and causing damage to farms and buildings.
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Lewes
Del
Milan Tic
Navy Department
Springfield
Here
Milly Hod
Weather forecast page note continues on two
Continued weather page reports a warm afternoon with scattered thunderstorms and possible severe activity in extreme west regions. Local readings indicate rising temperatures and scattered showers expected through the day with brief heavy bursts likely in isolated areas.
Stalin orders Red Army to rout Germans in 1942
Stalin in a May Day proclamation declares Russia will fully rout the German forces. He says Moscow has the means to achieve this victory and aims to liberate Soviet peoples from Fascist control including Ukraine Moldavia White Russia Lithuania Estonia and Latvia. He notes German forces are weaker than at invasion and warns of continuing defeats for Germany.
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Stalin
Russia
Kuibyshev
Joseph V. Stalin
Red Army
Ukraine
Moldavia
White Russia
Lithuana
Esthenia
Karena
Russa
Germany
Learn to Swim Drive Opens Registrations in Elyria
Registrations are being received at the Elyria 36 CG A for the annual Learn to Swim campaign to open near Monday. Classes will serve men, women, boys and girls with competent instructors guiding all ages above eight. Last year over 3,000 participants enrolled and 36,000 swimming sessions were logged at the YMCA pool. The campaign runs for several weeks with inspections and tests for certificates. The YMCA stresses swimming as a healthful exercise benefiting all muscles and fitness.
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Elyria
Companey
Ami
MM. C. A
MC. A
Awimmins
Telecham
Derek
District Governor To Visit Lions Club
District Governor to visit Tre Elstia Lions Club next Monday at Eka Marine News, with a formal event dubbed adios night. Local club members and their wives are asked to attend, as announced by the Lions district leadership.
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Lions Club
Tre Elstia Lions Club
Eka Marine Rewes
Indas
Devely
Kovernor
Club Manhes
Five Typhoid Cases Reported in Hancock County
May 1 report from the Mate health director confirms five typhoid fever cases at McCount in Hancock County. The official noted possible spread to other areas as investigations continue.
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Columbus
Mate
McCount
Hancock County
Wade
Explosion Kills 250 at Belgian Chemical Plant
A Berlin radio report says an explosion at a chemical and fertilizer factory in Tessen derlon Belgium killed about 250 people and injured more than 1,900. The blast at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday damaged an engineering school and a telephone exchange, with the cause still undetermined.
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London
Lurmaan
Tessenderlon
Belgium
Berlin
Tes+ jetderks
Mrs Bines Tells Experiences During Bombings
Mrs Bines spoke to American Women's Voluntary Services about wartime civilian defense and her Singapore escape. Florence Bines, recently arrived at her parents in Lake Geneva after fleeing Singapore, shared first hand details from Malay States ambulance work. She urged cooperation and explained roles needed for defense and relief, stressing not joining for uniforms.
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Florence Bines
Arived
Mee. Schnepfle
Lake Ayenne
Singapore
Bines
Tome
Alteck
Local Soldier John Patterson Burns Reported Killed in Action
War Department informs that John Patterson Burns of Alcoa was killed in action on April 13 while serving with a Philippine theater squadron. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Warren Burns notified of the loss this day.
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Arron
Pars Sult
John Patterson Burns
Alcoa
Cebd
Philippines
Mrs. Warren
Burrs
L Department
Army To Take Men Having Minor Defects
Washington May 1 The army will induct a small experimental group of effective service registrants deferred in class 1-B for minor physical defects. Local draft boards will tap a reserve estimated at about 8000 men with poor eyesight fat feet and missing fingers shortly after June 1. The initial group will be assigned to limited duties releasing combat soldiers from office jobs quartermasters depots or domestic guard duty. Selective service officials said the plan is to test practicality and hoped volunteers would supply a large share of the first quota. Initial calls will come from east coast and midwest boards with few taken from each state. The disclosure underscores a tightening manpower outlook for the army amid financial dependent cases being considered for induction by next fall.
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Washington
Army
East Coast
Middle West
Selective Service
Former Film Magnate Gets New Sentence
New York May 1 The three year imprisonment evasion sentence of Joseph M. Schenck 62 former chairman of the board of Century Fox Film Corporation was suspended today and a new sentence of one year and a day in federal prison was imposed after he pleaded guilty to charges of perjury.
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New York
Joseph M. Schenck
kh Century-Fox_ Film Corporation
Elyria Sugar Rationing Boards Formed in Lorain County
County Commodities Coordinator Walter J. Wright announces three members for the Elyria sugar rationing board, the second in the county, with headquarters at the courthouse. The board covers Taraln county south of lake-bordering townships while Lorain boards serve lake area including Black River and Avon districts. Boards begin functioning immediately handling rationing and appeals after consumer registration at May 4 5 6 7 primary schools. Four boards are dissolved leaving four others to handle duties.
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Walter J. Wright
Lorain
Elyria Board
Harlie G. Stevick
Carolyn Bauer
Clem Krechtges
Taraln
Lorain Board
Black River
Amherst Township
Amherst Village
Eberfield Township
Avon
Avon Lake
Brownhelm
Vacus
Sheriffs Department
Grafton
Avon-Sheffield
Amherst
Wright
Corregidor Guns Down Three Japanese Bombers
General MacArthur's headquarters said Corregidor's guns shot down three enemy bombers and shelled batteries dumps and transport. Japanese raids totaled 12 bombing attacks on Corregidor with allied defenses reporting damage and multiple alerts across the Philippine theater with no other changes noted.
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Corregidor
MacArthur
Austratia
Douglas Mace jArthurc
Fayennese
Philippines
Mace Artenie
Foreman Jr. Joins The Marines After Enlistment
Andrew J Foreman Jr son of Mr and Mrs A J Foreman 124 Hervant Avenue left last night for the Marine Training Station at Parris Island South Carolina following his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps Foreman was formerly a Chroncle Telegram carrier and was graduated from Elyria High School four years ago He later worked in a local real estate office and recently in a Cleveland insurance office.
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Andrew J. Foreman, Jr
Mes
A. J. Foreman
Hervant. Avenuty
Marine
Designate Places For Sugar Registration In County
County registration plan described after a meeting of executive heads of schools. Families register at designated elementary schools in their district with staggered days by alphabet. Four districts lack schools and have special arrangements. Registrations set 2 to 5 pm each day to avoid crowds, with districts and schools listed for Tack River, Pittsfield, Weet Castile, and areas along the New York Central line.
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Lorain
Illte
Elstia
Tack River Township
Irving School
Fourth Street
Hamilton
Loram
Pittsfield Townships
Willy
Obeslin
Chinese To Fight For Burma To The Last
Chinese forces in Burma vow to fight to the last despite admitting the Japanese threat is great. A spokesman said Stilwell’s army would resist, noting Lashio’s loss shifts supply lines and could weaken morale more than battlefield strength. New routes were designated bypassing Lashio as Japanese advance threatens Mandalay.
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Burma
Chungking
China
Japan
Lashio
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States Army
Lashin
Burma-Kunming
Sittang
Irawaddy
Mandalay
Generatissima
Chiang Kai-Shek
Foreign Affairs Columnist Will Speak In Elyria
Spencer D. Irwin, associate director and foreign affairs columnist of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, will speak at the First Congregational church men’s dinner in the Gates room at 6:30 p.m. May 1. His talk titled America Takes the Offers follows his extensive work as a reporter and lecturer with European and Asian leaders. He serves on several councils and has been honored by Czechoslovakia and Romania.
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Spencer D. Irwin
Cleveland Plain Dealer
First Congregational Church
Gates
America
C* Irwin
Europe
Asia
Cleveland Foreign Affairs Council
Cleveland Council For American Unity
Cleveland Committee of Foreign Relations
The
Academy of Political Science
Carol of
Burton Calls Billion Dollar Cut in Nonwar Costs
Senator Harold H. Burton proposes adding an eighth austerity measure to President Roosevelts inflation plan. He urges trimming the regular budget by one billion dollars and excluding rackets and excess profits from the war budget to curb inflation and reduce national debt.
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Washington
Harold H. Burton
H. D
Roechett
Burton
Boy Knocked From Bike Injures in Route 301 Collision
Douglas Abstings a LaGrange Ave year old son of Mr and Mrs Morton Harte sustained severe head chest and abdominal injuries yesterday after his bicycle collided with an automobile on Route 301 near his home The northbound car was driven by Mary A Day of Lee Grange She told deputies the boy hit the side of her car as she passed He was taken to Elyria Memorial Hospital for treatment and observation
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Douglas Abstings
Morton Harte
B.D
LaGrange
Mary A. Day
Lee Grange
Elyria Memorial
Herpial
Evelyney
Neumeyer
Valley
Advisors Honored For Five Years Of Service In Lorain County Four-H
Fourteen club advisors, four women and five men among them, were honored for completing five years of service with Lorain County 4-H at a dinner held at Oberlin Methodist Church attended by 163. Recipients receiving pins and certificates included Nes, William Stroman, Mrs M H Bartter, Mrs Alice Lindstrom, Mrs Howard Andrews, Van Ham, Melvin Kolbe, Karl Simms, R Laver, and Raymond Church. Martha Schriver chaired the event as plans noted advisors reaching ten years and those honored earlier. Principal speaker Dr Frank D Stutz urged “We Need Human Engineers” as the program included music, readings, and toastmaster Judge Guy S Findley.
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Lorain County
Dinener
Oberlin Methodist Church
Nes
William Stroman
Elyria
Township
M. HL
Columbus
C. S. Church
Wellington
Tl. W. Bechtel
Breownhelm
Dread Petty
Henrietta
Albert Wiles
la Grance
Frank D. Stutz
Dayton
Marion Grobe
Guy
Findley
Harold B. Willams
den Nrencer
Oberlin College
See Club
Allen
Pauline
Elaine Jewstt
Sroup
Henry Schrivt
Three German Troop Trains Destroyed in Battle
Soviet troops aided by bombers tanks and artillery reported heavy losses for Germany on a flooded central front battlefield. Red Army bombers destroyed three troop trains and two German headquarters and hit bare racks, forcing two days of body removal by German forces. The exact sector on the central front was not disclosed.
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Kuiryshev
Russia
Red Army
Mussolini and Hitler Hold Conference at Salzburg
London report says Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a ten day Axis strategy conference near Salzburg Austria. The talks stressed indissoluble brotherhood in arms and pledged to direct war politics and military action with Germany Italy and their allies, with German and Italian foreign ministers field marshals and ambassadors in attendance.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Benito Muscolini
Salzburg
Austrian Alps
Italy
Germany
Japan
Berl
Adolf Hiller
Benito Mussolini
Austria
In & Dispatch
Radio
Maly
Berlinton- United
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeaza Ciano
Wilhelm Keitel
Ugo Camalero
Excess Profits Tax Rate Will Be 94 Per Cent
The Ways and Means committee voted to tax excess profits at a flat 94 percent while retaining the existing formation for computing excess profits with minor modifications.
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Wassington
Horse Ways and Means Committee
Inday
War Updates From Pacific and Europe May Day 193%
US bombers claim victory over New Guinea air bases in a second major raid. Chinese report Japan captured an empty Lashio city while British forces pull back to within twenty five miles of Mandalay. Corrosidor’s forces suffer losses, and Russian reports reference aggressive fronts across Romanian and Polish territories amid shifting gains.
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Pacific
U.S
New Guinea
Lashio
Mandalay
Corresidor
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