German High Command Says Allies Bottled Up in Northern France
Berlin May 22. The German high command reported slow Allied squeeze from the Somme northward into Belgium with heavy resistance on Flanders battlefields. It claimed progress along coastal rail lines from Abbeville to Montreuil and toward Boulogne, Amiens toward St Pol, and said Ostend Calais Boulogne Dieppe would serve as rear doors for retreating British and Allied forces.
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BERLIN
high command
France
Belgium
Somme
Flanders
Adolf Hitler
channel
England
Abbeville
Montreuil
Boulogne
Amiens
St. Pol
Abbeville-Montreuil
Arras
Ostend
Dunkirk
Calais
Dieppe
Germany
F D R Moves To Deal Quickly With Aliens
President Roosevelt told Congress that foreign treachery and national events require transferring the labor department immigration and naturalization service to the justice department. He said the move aims to speed action on aliens while preserving legal status and civil liberties of about 3 million residents. The reform order would take effect in 60 days unless rejected by Congress.
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WASHINGTON
Mar
Roosevelt
Congress
wth
national welfare
labor department
immigration and naturalization service
justice department
Landon Holds White House Talks With Roosevelt
Alfred M. Landon the 1936 Republican presidential nominee conferred with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington at the White House. The luncheon meeting occurred amid signals that Republicans joining a coalition cabinet for defense were fading.
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WASHINGTON
Alfred M. Landon
Roosevelt
Landon
White House
Alf
Street Oiling To Start Monday In Elyria
Elyria's annual Spring road oiling program will start Monday weather permitting. Service Director I D Faxon announced after bids were opened. Two bids were received. the lowest from H J Hart at 53 cents a gallon, about 7 cents under last year's price.
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Elyria
I D. Faxon
H. J. Hart
Faxon
Weather Ohio forecast and regional notes
Partly cloudy and cooler in central and north Ohio with scattered showers in the east and south tonight. Thursday forecasts call for partly cloudy skies and cooler conditions in the east. Conditions over the region show a northward high moving into the northern plains with high pressure over New England and low pressure over the lake region. showers extend from Michigan to Texas and New Mexico with light Atlantic coast showers. Temperature changes in the past 24 hours are minimal.
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OHIO
central plains
New England
lake region
Michigan
Texas
New Mexico
Atlantic
Seven Sentenced In Gigantic Fraud Case
Federal Judge Grover Moscowitz sentenced seven associates of the late Philip Musica for a $21 million inflation of McKesson and Robbins assets. The penalties ranged from one year and a day to three years plus probation, including McGloon the former vice president. Co-conspirators included Dietrich brothers and Merwin and Phillips, all pleaded guilty or acquitted as noted.
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NEW YORK
Grover M. Moscowite
Philip Musica
swindler
McKesson and Robbins Drug Company
assausse
Musica
federal securities and exchange act
mai
McKesson and Robbins
3lusia
F. Donald Coster
John H. McGloon
Fairfield
McGroon
Moscowitz
Coster-Musica
George Dietrich
United States
Irving R Kaufman
George Vernard
Roberts Dietrich
Boy Involves Five Other Persons In Thefts
A 17 year old boy arrested in the Vincent district last week helped clear up 19 burglaries. Confessions tied five other people, oldest 28, to the crimes. The theft of a school typewriter triggered the investigation and led to the arrest. An Elyria firm that bought the typewriter alerted authorities.
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Vincent
Vincent school
Elyria
euthorities
U S Enters Massive 1940 Defense Plan Push
Washington reports outline a vast military aviation buildup under President Roosevelt. Army Navy air forces aim for 18 000 planes soon with 3 000 more for the Army, and Navy air strength to 10 000. Congressional action seeks large war department appropriation and expanded production.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
navy
army
war department
Senate
English Channel
British Isles
Europe
Belgium
France
Death Ends Picnic Tragedy In Maumee River Boat Fire
In Napoleon Ohio a high school senior class picnic ended in disaster when a motor boat carrying Charles Augenstein 11 and five others including Mary Heaston 17 Ruth Limpach 17 and Miranda Augenstein caught fire on the Maumee river. The boat’s gasoline tank burst triggering the blaze. Charles Augenstein drowned while teachers John L Johnson and Ted Dietch aided three girls in escaping.
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NAPOLEON
Charles Augenstein
Maumee
Charles
Mary Heaston
Robert Heilman
Ruth Limpach
Mary Ann Speiser
Miranda Augenstein
John L. Johnson
Ted Dietch
German Thrust Toward Coast Alarms London
British quarters believed Allied Generalissimo Weygand had begun a counter move with German mechanized units in France. Arras, 25 miles north of the Somme front, was recaptured, seen as a possible first step to check the German thrust toward the English Channel. British planes patrolled the coast after German bombs struck southeastern England in an apparent blitz warning.
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LONDON
Maxime Weygand
France
arrmues
French war office
Arras
Somme
Weygand
Englsh Channel
England
Flames Destroy Anvil Plant At Columbus
Fire department investigators sought the cause of a two alarm blaze that struck the Columbus Anvil and Forging Company destroying the Columbus firm completely while the roof of the Superior Die Tool and Machine Company was consumed. No dollar damage estimates were available.
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COLUMBUS
Columbus Anvil & Forging Co
Superior Die Tool & Machine Co
Superior
French Troops Retake Arras Amid Somme Battle
Paris reports picked French shock troops stormed and retook Arras in Picardy, severing German communications in the Abbeville area. Allied forces pressed the drive as British units struck the German flank near Cambrai, while Amiens neared Paris and the embassy moved to Bordeaux for safety.
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PARIS
Somme
Arras
Abbeville
France
Maxime Wergand
Paul Bernaud
Maxime Wergard
English Channel
Cambrai
Bordeaux
Nantes
Amiens
Civilians Begin Leaving Paris Amid Blitz
Civilians began leaving Paris today in calm, orderly fashion as Allied hopes remain high. Families traveled to the countryside while authorities warned that panic could spread if German advances continue, with Belgians and Parisians streaming into the city and on toward refuge shelters.
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PARIS
Paul Reynaud
Amiens
Legion Plans For Many Coming Events
A large crowd of Elyria Post No. 12 Legionnaires met at the Post home on Ohio street for the regular meeting and Third Quarterly Birthday Dinner. Eighty five invitations were mailed. dinner by the Ladies Auxiliary featured special entertainment. School awards for an outstanding eighth grader and girl will be announced at a May 24th party at the Post Headquarters. Poppy Day activities are organized by the Ladies Auxiliary for March 25 to aid the relief program.
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Legionnaires
Elyria Post No. 12
American Legion of Ohio
Post
Ohio street
Post No. 12 Ladies Auxiliary
Legion
Elyria Post No
American Legion
Joan fr. Buckley
Car Runs Amuck Collides on Cedar and Second Streets
Police checked the license of two cars that ran amuck at Second and Cedar streets. They knocked into a house at 120 Cedar and a parked car at 100 Second, then fled. Fred Lohnes tried to stop the car but could not. No arrest warrant had been issued.
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Second
Cedar streets
Cedar street
A. J. Linder
Cedar
Edna Jones
Second street
Fred Lohnes
Ohio Public Service Co
Broad street
E. J. Stankard
Great Britain grants dictatorial powers to mobilize resources
London reports Britain will place all men and material under government control to meet the German threat. Attlee announces emergency defense bill giving broad powers over industry, labor, banking, and property with a 106 percent excess profits tax. Parliament rushes the measure to assent as the nation braces for critical weeks ahead.
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LONDON
U.P
Great Britain
British Isles
Maj
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
Commons
Britain
Attlee
Ministry of Labor
Arthur Greenwood
George
Germans Capture Four American Ambulance Drivers During Battle
Four American ambulance drivers were captured by Germans during a tank engagement near Amiens. An unconfirmed report claimed the four were killed. Captured were John Clement Boston. Donald Coster Montreal. George F G King New York. Gregory Waite Syracuse. Additional drivers Wehle Fort Wayne. Raymond Chicago. Shipley Cincinnati. Glowacki Jersey City were missing.
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PARIS
Amiens
John Clement
Harvard university
Boston
Donald Coster
Princeton
Montreal
George F. G. King
Cambridge
New York
Gregory Waite
Syracuse university
Vermont
Ardennes
Anne Morgan
J. P. Morgan
civil relief committee
Louis Wehle
Fort Warne
Ind
Al Raymond
Chicago
Murray Shipley
Cincinnati
John Glowacki
Jersey Cry
N. J
Taft Says U S Must Stop Hitler From Foothold
In Pittsburgh on May 22 Senator Robert A. Taft warned that the United States should go to war if necessary to block Adolf Hitler from gaining a foothold in the Western hemisphere. He said Hitler could not be allowed near North America or the northern part of South America and urged decisive action to prevent such a step.
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PITTSBURGH
United States
Adolf Hitler
Robert A
Taft
Ohio
Washington
Hitler
Western hemisphere
North America
South America
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Bulletin
U.S
William S. Ruud
Reynaud
Andre Corap
Meuse River
Elyma Post No. 12
U. S
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