Americans Brace For Major War Mobilization
President says U S forces and war industries will expand as manpower officials project half of men aged 20 to 64 in the draft age range will work for armed services or war production by year end. Officials say 10.5 million workers are being moved into war jobs at 250,000 daily, with women increasingly employed. Army and Navy strength targets loom as the nation weighs the impact on families and the economy.
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U. S
Washington
Moe
United
Feeludiss
Hievelt
Stombancwasdy
Hershey
Detroit
Police Aml Fire
Dvangeists
Jnto
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Selective Service
Pledges To Buy War Bonds To Be Asked In Elyria
Hundreds of Elyria women will canvas the city urging residents to pledge weekly purchases of War Bonds and Stamps during May 1 to 15. The drive, led by the Elizia Sevens under Mrs. C A Olsen and Mayor Joseph Petro, is not a sales campaign but a request for commitments to invest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
United States
Tisha Sevens
C. A. Olsen
Joseph
Petro
Lorain County
A. J. Plecher
Treasury Department
Senate Refuses To Waive Rights On Gasoline Rations
Washington May 5. The Senate rejected a resolution by Dane Downer California seeking to pledge no special rights or exemptions for gasoline ration cards. The 68 to 2 vote sided with officials who oppose waiving ration privileges for official use. Dow ney and Claude Pepper were the only supporters of the measure. No debate occurred as the body spent hours the prior day questioning the resolution.
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Washington
Senate
Dane Downer
I. Calif
Walter
Downey
Sen
Claude Pepper
Fla
Jestenlay
Beilatry
Weather Update Showers and Storms Across Regions
The Weather ONO reports showers and scattered thunderstorms today with cooler air moving in from the west and north. Tonight temperatures fall as a cooler pattern settles over the area.
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Ono
Clymer Elected President of Elyria Rotary Club
Roy B. Clymer Elyria High School athletic director was elected president of the Elyria Rotary Club yesterday at the club’s directors meeting. He will succeed M. E. Whitman. L. E. Deetz automobile dealer was elected vice president succeeding Howard C. Gallmar-W. C. McClellan clerk treasurer of the Lyma City Board of Forocation reelected secretary and treasurer. The officers will assume office July 1. Yesterday’s meeting was the first for three new directors George Livingston and Marty Burr. The board has nine members with three elected each year for three year terms.
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Roy B. Clymer
Elyria
Elyria Rotary Club
M. E.whitman
L. E. Deetz
Howard
C. Gallmar-W
C. McClellan
Iiyma
Forocation
Treassurer
Clut
M, MH
Forbes
George Livingston
Marty Burr
Army Takes Control Of Airlines In Wartime Move
Washington May 15 The army assumes near total control of civilian air travel and orders about half of commercial airlines into military service. The War Department with Roosevelt approval says civil air routes will be restricted and nonessential services cut to support the war effort. Airline light equipment will transfer to the army air forces and about 70 transports converted to carrier duty. The Civil Aeronautics Board will announce new routes and schedules. Air travel remains vital but rationing and strict price controls will apply across agencies in wartime.
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Washington
Army
Civil Aeronautics Board
Rocevelt
Army Air Forces
C. A. BR
Wall Contine
War Department
Two Small Children Suffer Injuries In Accidents Here
Ten small children were taken to Elytia Memorial Hospital yesterday for injuries. A five year old, Kowalik, suffered a head injury at Edison school after colliding with another child. Geezer Alberts, age four, living on West River Street, was treated for back and scar injuries after falling from a moving automobile.
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Elytia Memorial Hospital
Amet Kowalik
Parefee Street
Ata P.m
Edison School
Geezer Alberts
West River Street
Elyria Man Listed Among Navy Missing in War
The Navy Department reports Elyria seaman first class Walter J Frinkleucyt missing in Manila after receiving a last word card from his mother on January 30 He is 20 and has served two years five months He lived in Elyria and Lorain His list also names Donald G T of Milan and Clarence J Stower missing, part of an Ohio total of two officers and 95 enlisted men missing in the conflict.
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Elyria
Navy
Navy Department
Walter J. Frinkleucyt
Manila
Josephine Hal‘ka
West River Street
South
Elyrian
Pennsylvania
Lo. Frain
Donald G. T
Milan
Clarence J. Stower
Ohio
County Relief Dept Raises Pay for Two Workers
County commissioners approved a $10 monthly raise for Arthur Davis and Sherwood Bram of the county relief administration, boosting each salary to $9. The relief program distributed surplus commodities last year to about 314 cases serving roughly 3,000 people, with federal food commodities this year increasing.
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County Relief Dept
Arthur Davis
Sherwood Bram
County ‘Relief Administration
Emet &. Hermes
Doinoff Trial To Begin On Tuesday
Common Pleas Judge A Cook ordered witnesses be subpoenaed for Wednesday. The trial of Andrew Isdooff, 36, Lorain, on a first degree murder charge opens Tuesday, with a jury pool of 60 to be drawn from a special venire. Dunnett, a steel worker, is charged with murdering his wife Anna, 28, in their home after funeral services for his mother, then stabbing himself.
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Common Pleas
A. Cook
Andrew Isdooff
Lorain
Peters
Dunnett
Anna
Medina youth drowns in creek after boating accident
Clarence Orda, 13, son of Mr and Mrs Alot Orda of Medina township, drowned in a creek yesterday following a boating incident. The accident occurred in Medina documented by local authorities.
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Hoy
Crelk Medina
Clarence Orda
Mre
Mra
Alot Orda
Medina Township
Large Crowd Sees Elyrians Leave For Army
Elyrians gathered on Court Street and Ely Park for a large send off as men prepare to report to induction in Cleveland. Four hundred plus residents attended a short program in City Hall led by draft officials and church and veterans group leaders. Army literature and patriotic songs accompanied remarks by local dignitaries and veterans, with a Civil War era band performing beforehand.
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Army
Court Street Arch
Ely Park
Army Cat Mining
Cleveland
Council Chamber
City Hall
Dan F. Symmons
Beanty Medretarr
Chen Tetaments
Grove Day
Elstia Post
Land Town
Waller
Red Army Breaks German Lines In Broad Offensive Near Kharkov
Moscow reports say Red Army penetrated German defenses before Kharkov in a fierce tank battle that opened gaps in the line. Front dispatches describe heavy use of tanks flame throwers infantry and air support as Soviet forces push along a 1,300 mile front extending toward Leningrad and Crimea.
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Moscow
W.R
Red Army
Kharkov
Dunetz
Gerad
Moseme Inda
Hedzchos
Stormotik Dite Uwanters
Fat
K. A. Meretakny
Devel
Lake
Leningrad
Trchitul
Keren
Crimea
Ited
Ertt Hundands
Thosands
Fey
United Stairs
Sovet Union
Axis Sub Made Target Of Flag Painted On Ship S Side
Axis submarine that sank a Mexican freighter off Miami Sunday night aimed at a bright flag painted on the vessel. Survivors reported the ship, the Partiers De Llano, burst into flames and sank near the Florida coast. Twenty six crew members of the 24 aboard were rescued. thirteen were lost. The attack was the seventh sinking announced by the navy since May 4. A Panama-registered crew member from the Partieres De Llano said the submarine must be skilled to spot their ship. Continued on Page 2.
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Axis Sub
Miami
Fla
Mami
John Renavates
Tamplen
Mex
Tate
Partiers de
Navy
Floida Porte
Wet Palm Beach
United States
Portiere de Lana
Roosevelt urges more transport planes for expanding war fronts
President Roosevelt says American forces are entering new areas of combat and stress the urgent need for more transport aircraft to support the Army and Navy. He notes lend lease aid reaching a monthly high of 677 million dollars in April, with total air assistance over 4.85 billion since the program began. Russian shipments are proceeding, and the drive to boost transports continues amid growing global battles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hoosevelt
Marelli
Russia
Moscow
America
Moosevelt
British Forces Destroy Three Enemy Ships in Naval Battles
British naval forces destroyed three enemy ships in two engagements with a German convoy off the French coast. One German torpedo boat was sunk and a light coastal ship was reported missing. A second engagement near the Channel coast left two German armed warships disabled and sinking, with no British casualties.
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Lontdon
Britt Dicht
French
Sdmiralty
Admiralty
French Channel
Hritich Licht
Wawlers
Eddilinn
Three More Local Nurses Enlist In Red Cross Corps
Three Elyria Memorial Hospital nurses enlist in the Red Cross Army Nurses Corps, bringing total from the hospital to four. Names include Miss Marian Malik, Mrs Dervihy Ryan, and Miss Wannah Ehrman. the first recruit Mig Myertle Clives is stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
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Elyria Mermorial Hopital
Red Cross Army Nunes Corps
Marian Malik
Dervihy Ryan
Wannah Erhman
Mig Myertle Clives
Ft. Benjamin Hare
Indiana
Mie Melek
Elyria
Sar
Miee Ryan
Alan
Elyria High School
Mits Ehrman Resiies
B.D
Pital
Cleveland State Scapital
Caliornia
Benjamin Harmon
Canton Woman Killed in Slope Turnover Accident
Canton report says Mrs. Gladys Betz, 21, formerly of Park Trebur e, West Virginia, was killed near Canton yesterday when her cat caused a vehicle rollover. Copy mentions Evergreen vitamin ad on page 16.
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Canton
Gladys Betz
Parktrebure
W. Va
Evergreen
Adr
Germans Claim Sinking of U S Warships
Berlin radio said German headquarters reported that an American cruiser of the Pensacola class and a destroyer were sunk along the Murmansk supply route in the Arctic. The communique also claimed the loss of an ice breaker, a merchant ship, and damage to a 10,000 ton freighter after an attack on an American naval formation between Spitzbergen and North Cape.
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London
Murmansk
Arctic Sea
Wladiq Berelin
Spitzberzen
Norway
North Cape
Berlin
Pensacola
Salt Lake City
Pensacola Hor
Wellington Youth Reported Missing By Navy Dept
Wellington May 13 Robert Santend Wright 30 son of Mr and Mrs M R Wright 215 North Ruin Street is among Navy men missing since the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese word received by his parents from the Navy Department today He had served in the Navy four years He is the first Wellington resident reported missing in the present war.
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Wellington
Robert Santend Wright
Mra
S M. Wright
North Ruin Street
Navy
Corregidor
Navy Department
Manila
Dar
Sern
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Rotary Club
Darek Florist
Act
Broad Street
Doinoff
Truk
Britain
Soviet Union
Tran
Elyrians
Elmer Mertz
Red Cross Corps
U.S
Navy Dept
Atitc Warren
Kenneth Is
Froza
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