Congressional Defenses Taxes Seek $700 Million Annual Yield
The Roosevelt administration will ask Congress to authorize new National Defense taxes yielding 600 to 700 million dollars annually over five years and to raise the debt limit by 3 billion dollars. Leaders including Doughton Harrison Morgenthau announce after a three hour conference.
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WASHINGTON
W.P
Robert L. Doughton
House
Ways and Means committee
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
gressional
Colin F. Stam
Doughton
Harrison
Treasury
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Churchill cites Belgian king action as grave front line shift
Prime Minister Winston Churchill said Leopold sent an emissary to Germany seeking a halt to Belgian fighting. He noted Allied generals were instructed to disassociate and Belgian government severed ties, describing the situation as grave while pledging resolve and warning of hard tidings ahead.
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LONDON
Winston Churchill
Leopold
Churchill
House of Commons
House
Belgium
Belgians Promise to Fight On as Cabinet Rejects Capitulation
Paris reports May 28 that the Belgian refugee cabinet rejected King Leopold's capitulation idea and will mobilize civilians and soldiers to fight with the Allies if needed on French soil to save honor. French sources deny a capitulation and note talks with Allied leaders. rumors of secret armistice plans are denied.
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U.P
Leopold
Maxime Weygand
Hubert Pierrot
Adolf Hitler
Memorial Day Parade Plans For Elyria Announced
Preparations for Elyria memorial day parade are nearly complete with veterans organizations, schoolchildren and other groups set to honor deceased veterans of the nation s wars. World War II uniforms may appear. a George Day led committee urges veterans to wear their uniforms. The parade starts 2 pm from Broad street and West avenue to Washington avenue then to the cemetery for services in case of rain at First Methodist church.
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Elyria
George Day
Broad street
West avenue
Washington avenue
First Methodist church
H H Griswold
American Legion
Ohio Weather Summary and Cloudy Showers
Cloudy tonight with occasional light showers continuing into Wednesday. East portion slightly cooler on Wednesday. Disturbances centered over New England Lake Michigan and the southwest. Light showers reported in the Lake region Ohio valley upper Mississippi valley Atlantic Gulf States and Rocky Mountain region. Temperature changes are slight nationwide.
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New England
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southwest
Missouri valley
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Ohio valley
Mississippi valley
Atlantic
Gulf States
Rocky Aountain
Former President Hoover Lists Defense Essentials
Herbert Hoover urged a non political, single headed munitions administration to organize U S defense and avoid panic or partisan use of defense funds in a nationwide NBC speech. He warned Roosevelt’s approach had left the nation unprepared, listing seven essentials for real preparedness.
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NEW YORK
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
United States
National Broadcasting Company
Hoover
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Washington
Need For War Relief Funds Increasing
The Elyria Red Cross Chapter raises a $4000 minimum quota for national war relief funds to aid France. William C. Hunt reports increasingly dire conditions for millions of refugees, with Paris swamped according to cables from France.
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Elyria
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Hunt
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Hunts
Paris
Refugee claims Hitler to deploy Kangaroo tank planes
A German refugee told aero nautical engineers at Roosevelt Field New York on May 28 that Hitler planned a fleet of 200 large planes each carrying a 30 ton tank. He described 200-foot wingspan four 1,200 horsepower engines and a bottom trap door for loading tanks.
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ROOSEVELT FIELD
Adolf Hitler
thenvasion
Great Britain
Germany
Black Forest
United States
Lorain Man Charged In Wife Death
John Miroff, 28, a Lorain barber, was bound to the grand jury without bond after a Lorain municipal court arraignment on first degree murder charges for the death of his wife Natalie, 21. The slaying occurred hours after he was served with divorce papers. he killed her in their kitchen as their infant slept, then surrendered to officers and admitted, saying I just killed my wife. She died at St Joseph's hospital about a half hour later.
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John Murroff
South Lorain
Lorain
Natalie
Miroff
Manoff
A. J Mieckerty
Charles Spragowskie
Minoff
St Joseph's hospital
Bosko Desich
Austin O'Tonie
Allied Armies Face Two Choices In Flanders Stand
London reports military sources say the Allied forces trapped in Flanders have two options to avoid surrender. They either fight on with severed lines in hope of contact from the south or attempt evacuation via Dunkirk in flames under German air attack.
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LONDON
Flanders
Leopold
Germany
Belgium
Dunkirk
England
195 Lorain County Residents Become U S Citizens
Flags of 16 nations were exchanged for American flags as 195 foreign-born residents of Lorain County received certificates of United States citizenship at a naturalization program held at Longfellow Junior High School in Lorain. Fifty new citizens are Elymians, with 113 Lorain residents and small numbers from Amherst, Oberlin, Avon Lake, Grafton, South Amherst, and Columbia.
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Lorain County
Expert Says Leopold Second Blunder Hurts Belgium War Effort
United Press war expert J W T Mason argues King Leopold II’s 1936 decision to cancel Belgium's entente with France and Britain weakened Allied defenses in Flanders. He notes German advances after Hitler violated Belgian neutrality left the Allies stretched and contemplates a potential withdrawal or counteroffensive under pressure from deteriorating front lines.
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Leopold
Belgium
Flanders
Tourvary
France
Great Britain
Hitler
Germans Drive Along Coast of Belgium
German armies move along the Belgian coast toward Dunkirk after Leopold’s army capitulation. The high command reports bombings of Zeebrugge Ostend Nieuport and Dunkirk harbors and rail lines. German forces claim advances near Bruges Thourot and Valenciennes and report capturing Douai Orchies Bassee Merville Hazebrouck Bourbourg as the Waierciennes front fortifications fall.
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Lille
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Orchies
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Dunkirk
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io Scheldt
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Hitler
Leopold
ARigh
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Threst
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