Tribute to Deceased Veterans in Elyria Memorial Day Service
Elyria honored its fallen veterans with a Memorial Day parade to Ridgelawn Cemetery as Hal H. Griswold urged citizens to meet a world crisis with a government of the people. The procession featured Ohio National Guard members and veteran groups, and rain threatened but did not cancel the event.
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Elyria
United States
Ridgelawn Cemetery
Hal H. Griswold
Cleveland
state welfare
Broad street
Washington avenue
Harrison street
Anto
Loram County
145th Infantry
Ohio National Guard
National Defense Commission Assignments Power to Cut Red Tape
President Roosevelt creates a civilian national defense commission with seven coordinators led by William Knudsen and Edward Stettinius. The plan assigns Stettinius to raw materials and Knudsen to fabrication, with Roosevelt retaining final authority. Sidney Hillman to oversee labor, training 1,000,000 youths and 50,000 pilots, plus expanded NYA and CCC programs to support war production and prevent stoppages.
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NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMISSION
Roosevelt
Ralph Budd
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Wm. S. Knudsen
Harriet Eliott
Leon Henderson
Chester C. Davis
Wm. H. McReynolds
Sidney Hillman
Acme
WASHINGTON
United States
General Motors Corporation
William S. Knudsen
United States Steel Corporation
Mr. Roosevelt
defense
Knudsen
Stettinius
tettinius
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Hillman
National Youth Administration
civilian conservation corps
Occasional Showers Across Ohio and Surrounding Regions
The forecast calls for occasional showers tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. A central low pressure area sits over the Ohio valley and western Texas while high pressures cover New England, the Plains, and the Pacific states. Cool weather is widespread over the Central and Eastern U.S. with ongoing showers and thunderstorms from the Ohio Valley and lower lake region to the Atlantic.
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OHIO
Ohio valley
Texas
New England
Plains States
Pacific States
United States
lower lake region
Atlantic
King Leopold Deposed by Belgian Cabinet Decrees
The Belgian cabinet decreed that King Leopold could not reign while under invader influence and that government power would act throughout the war. Meeting at Poitiers, Premier Hubert Pierlot’s government promulgated two decrees to deem the king unable to exercise constitutional powers and to render his acts invalid.
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PARIS
Leopold
Poitiers
Adolf Hitler
Moniteur
Hubert Pierlot
Half of BEF Returns to England With Allied Survivors
Report from a southeast English port says about half the British expeditionary force with Belgian and French comrades in arms is back in England safely. Survivors describe fierce Dunkirk fighting and aerial bombardment as they disembarked, with commanders praising discipline and morale under fire.
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England
BEF
Flanders
France
Dunkirk
British and French Escape from German Trap in Flanders
London reports that large numbers of British and French troops are escaping the German trap in Flanders as an Allied line forms in France. Casualties in the retreat are said to be heavy for Germans but lighter for Britons, with evacuations continuing as warships and transports move fresh troops to England.
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LONDON
Flanders
France
Corunna line
Napoleon
Corunna
Spain
John Moore
England
Paris
County Auditor Will Not Fill Vacancy In Office
County Auditor C. S. Kelser announced he will not appoint a permanent replacement for the deputy auditor position created by Ronald Dunn’s resignation. Dunn leaves to become attorney for the Lorain County Humane Society and to practice law privately. Kelser may hire temporary help later for the delinquent lands list.
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C. S. Kelser
Ronald Dunn
Dunn
Lorain County Humane Society
Kelser
Round Up Fifth Column Suspects In London
Scotland Yard squads roved London with patrol cars rounding up numerous fifth column suspects. Many were British citizens among those seized, listed by Home Secretary Sir John Anderson as dangerous to the state, with orders to find these suspects at all costs.
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LONDON
Scotland Yard
John Anderson
Man Dies After Henrietta Hill Crash Near Amherst
A 25 year old Cleveland man, Charles E. Bailey, died at Amherst Hospital from a crash on Route 113 at Henrietta Hill. His car rolled after leaving the road, pinning Bailey, his brother Walter, and a friend under the vehicle. Several others received minor injuries in separate incidents in Elyria and surrounding areas.
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Charles E. Bailey
Grising avenue
Cleveland
Amherst Hospital
Henrietta Hill
Chicago
Stere
Bailey
Walter
Joseph Serson
Continental avenue
Robert Heilman, Jr
Eastern Heights Boulevard
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Broad and
Court streets
H. I. Squire
East College street
Oberlin
William Carle
Stanford avenue
Jenny Lipscomb
Fuller road
Maude Fitzpatrick
Oberlin road
Ernest Kieth
Butternut Ridge road
Victor Mascovac
Erie street
West River
Lodi
Robert, Hancock
Grafton
Jean Wimpeny
Elyria
Carlisle township
Hancock
Don Porter
Jean Vimpeny
Roy Vimpeny
Vimpeny
Martin Youngless
Rochester
sheriff's department
Route
Route 303
Robert Patterson
Ashland
Daniel Stocking
R. D. Grafton
Vermont road
Maintain Present Schedule At National Tube
Operations at the Lorain plant of the National Tube Company will continue next week on the same schedule as this week. Four blast furnaces and 11 open heart furnaces will stay in operation, the Bessemer converter will run a single turn, and other departments will maintain current schedules.
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Lorain
National Tube Company
Bessemer
Hoboes vow rush to fifth columnists in U S
George Siebert International Secretary of the International Itinerant Workers Union urges 1,000,000 hoboes to report any fifth column activities. He says transients move in circles that will yield tips on sabotage or espionage and will share information with proper authorities. He clarifies the call excludes bums or tramps.
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PITTSBURGH
George Siebert
International Itinerant Workers Union
Hoboes of America
Sieber
Siebert
Berlin Reports Victory In Flanders
Berlin says the German high command has crushed the French army in Flanders and that any remaining resistance will be broken. It reports British units in Dunkirk coastal areas fighting on while Cas sel rearguards are wiped out, and notes the sinking of an Allied destroyer off Belgium as German naval forces advance to Ostend. The drive secures a 200 mile front in France along the Somme.
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United States
Europe
BERLIN
high command
Flanders
Dunkirk
Cassel
Lille
Belgium
Holland
Ostend
Germany
England
France
Somme
Paris
Hitler
Channel
Corunna
Great Britain
Napoleon
Spain
Page
English channel
DNB
France Still Hopes For Lost Army Amid Fierce Flanders Battle
Paris dispatch reports a vast battle in a 200 square mile zone from the Flanders coast where over 600,000 German troops and more than 200,000 Allied soldiers clash. Despite heavy losses, French rear guards fight toward the coast as Allies flood the Yser River to hold Dunkirk's approaches.
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Flanders
France
Channel
PARIS
Abbeville
Rive Somme
Here Prioux
Dunkirk
Dunkirk Retreat Showcases Naval Cooperation In Coast Defense
Expert says the Dunkirk evacuation proves strong naval cooperation in coastal defense despite German air blitz. Allied Anglo French warships near Dunkirk and along the coast slow German traps, with air cover limiting losses. commander notes slow movements to keep gunfire effective and ship losses remain limited as thousands flee Dunkirk.
Allied Fighting in France Boosts Dunkirk Evacuation
Berlin reports heavy German air raids faltering due to fog as Dunkirk evacuation continues. Paris says Allied counter thrust recaptured Abbeville region with about 200 German prisoners and suggests a potential push toward Boulogne and Calais amid ongoing clashes in Flanders.
President seeks major defense funding to curb world war risk
President Roosevelt asked Congress to boost defense spending to about 5 billion dollars and to authorize calling National Guard and reserve personnel into active service. He warned all continents may become involved in a worldwide conflict and outlined a costly plan with roughly 700 million for the Army and 300 million for the Navy, with more details to come.
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WASHINGTON
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
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South Oak street
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Avon
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AMIENS
Miks
Royal Air Force
Yser
Nieuport
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Lile
Mt Cassel
Mont Cassel
Br J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
J. W. T. Masoz
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Calais
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