Edsel Ford Dies Leading Ford Executive and War Effort
Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford and former president of the Ford Motor Company, died after an active career directing wartime production during World War I era. He served as president and treasurer and played a key role in launching four engine bombers, tanks, jeeps, and other military equipment. He chaired the Ford Foundation and led various civic roles including president of the Detroit Institute of Arts and trustee positions with hospitals and banks.
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Detroit University
Ea‘sel Ford
Edsel Ford
Detroit Institute, of Arts
National Foundation For ‘Infantile Paralysis
The
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Henry Ford Hospital
Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit
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Ford Foundation
Better Homes
Dearborn
Ford Motor Company
Autoist Fined After Conviction in Local Court
Raymond D Baker of Beaver Creek was found guilty of operating under the influence by Magistrate Elmer G Miller yesterday morning. He was fined 100 dollars and costs after arrest Friday by Deputy Leister Isanogie following an accident on the Smithsburg Ringgold road. The officer reported the Baker auto left the highway and damaged 4 Victory garden.
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Raymond D.baker
Beaver Creek
Elmer G. Miller
Baker
Leister Isanogie
Smithsburg-Ringgold
Victory Garden
Congress Races To Put New Income Tax Collection On Books
Congress moves to enact a new income tax collection by July 1 with a $36 billion added revenue target. The House Ways and Means Committee chair, Doughton, announced a compromise likely to pass this week and be signed by Roosevelt. The plan offers abatement on 1942 and 1943 tax liabilities, with 100 percent relief for those under $50 and 75 percent relief for those over $59, amortized over two years, plus a notch provision to adjust near-threshold cases. A windfall provision protects Treasury receipts, and military personnel receive increased basic exemptions, lifting single to $2,000 and married to $2,700.
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Doughton
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Ways’ and Means
Roosevelt
Knutson
Coughton
Conference Committee
Senate
Treasury
Miners and Operators Narrow Dispute to One Issue
The board approved concessions on vacations, job reclassifications, and tool costs while miners pay for personal clothing. A proposed six day week could raise annual earnings, though wage increase requests were denied. A new experts commission may study safety living conditions and efficiency for future gains.
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Lewis
UMW
WLB
Willam H. Davis
Ickes
Davis
Rail Workers Get 8 Cents An Hour Pay Boost
A wartime wage adjustment grants rail workers an 8 cent per hour increase retroactive to February 1, paid in war bonds. The measure covers 73 classes including shop crafts clerks and maintenance workers, with average earnings around 73.8 cents per hour last October. Switchmen and four other operating brotherhoods, seeking 30 percent, are not included and hearings set for June 7 in New York. The board cites a 15 percent cost of living rise since January 1 1941 and notes wide variance among wage groups from 46 cents to higher brackets, with overall 1941 increase about 16 percent.
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New York
National Railroad Labor Panel
War Labor Board
William M. Kiserson
I. I. Sharfman
University of Michigan
Walter T. Fisher
Chicago
John A. Fitch
New York School of Social Work
Columbia University
WLB
Little Steel
Maintenance of Waymen
Nazis May Purge Weak Members
A wartime broadcast quotes Wagner via Associated Press on enforcing loyalty among Nazi ranks. The speaker cautions that those deemed unwilling or incapable must uphold duty at home and front, or be expelled from the community.
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Wagner
Associated Press
Dusseldorf Bombed in Second Night of Major Raids
The Ruhr city of Dusseldorf, Germany’s third largest inland port with steel works, was struck in a second major raid amid Allied pressure from Churchill and Roosevelt conferences. The May onslaught included Halifaxes and Lancasters dropping hundreds of tons of bombs, adding to a night of sustained attacks that hit Dortmund and other targets, with RAF losses and German retaliations along the English coast.
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Ruhr
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Rhine
Cologne
Dortmund
Great Krupp
Archibald Sinclair
House of Commons
Reich
Abbeville
France
Duisburg
RAF
City Bus Service Cut Previewed Amid War Demands
The Blue Ridge bus system plans a 20 to 25 percent service reduction to ease wartime strain. Officials say weekend and holiday loads will be restricted with schedules to be finalized by the traffic department and orders awaited from ODT. Managers warn many riders, especially shoppers and leisure travelers, will walk more as essential transportation remains prioritized for workers and service personnel.
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O.D.T
MacDonald
Blue Ridge
Appalachians
German Front Offensive May Have Limited Objective
A European summer front assault is likely to be limited in scope. The FCC recorded a broadcast quoting a newspaper that Germany will not reach full mobilization before the intended date. The remarks suggest notable significance for German defenses on the eastern front and for allied planning.
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Europe
Germany
Federal Communications Commission
Attaimita
Aiicular Ffmis Caramer
Mortuary Service Readies to Operate in City
The Mortuary Service of the Office of Civilian Defense is prepared to begin operations here though officials hope not to require it. Police have 200 metal identification tags numbered 1 to 200 to place on unidentified bombing victims, linking numbers to photos and fingerprints. If identified, bodies could be exhumed. The local mortuary committee, chaired by Adrian Rowland, holds ample embalming fluid for mass casualty events.
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Office of Civilian Defense
Adrian Rowland
Funds Drive Launched for War and Peace Education
Kenneth Stoner announces a county fund drive targeting about 290 dollars in the county to support the War and Peace fund by the NEA and WA Teachers Association. Teachers will be asked for roughly 1 dollar each toward a 600 thousand dollar national goal to aid school salaries, postwar rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency measures, and educational representation at the peace table.
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National Education Association
Washington County Teachers’ Association
Kenneth Stoner
Nations Organization
NEA
Washington
Office of
Flood Menace Near Grand Tower Generating Plant Score 9 Million Risk
Mississippi River flooding threatened a $9,000,000 Illinois Central Public Service generating plant about 25 miles north of Wolf Lake at Grand Tower. Coast Guardsmen called the situation critical as sandbags ringed the 2,000 acre facility supplying power to southern Illinois. The plant intake lies on the Mississippi bank as Beardstown notes rising levels.
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Wolf Lake
Grand Tower
Lil
Illinois Central Public Service
Mississippi
Ilinois
Tuscola
Beardstown
Mrs Dempsey’s Visitors At Rear Door In Court Testimony
In a courtroom Mrs Dempsey sat with a tan coat: testimony described a 1940 winter when she allegedly embraced Woodall in an apartment while she wore a negligee, and Mrs Coelho testified Mrs Dempsey planned not to see Jenkins after Thanksgiving 1940 saying he harmed her. Jenkins reportedly replied he is her husband. Also notes on several servicemen and addresses.
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Army Radio School
Gay Hotel
Room 910
Kansas City
Churchill and Roosevelt Hold Postwar Strategy Talks
In a White House briefing Churchill and Roosevelt outlined war plans for the Pacific and praised Allied advances. The leaders, flanked by aides, answered rapid questions and signaled ongoing strategy work despite public remarks already given.
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White House
Roosevelt
Pacific
Japan
Russia
Joud
Ali
Congress
County Farmers In Gas Dreuth
County farmers face gas shortages as supply dwindles with no clear relief. Ice rationing notes some drivers in Hagers town find fuel scarce, while distributors expect no relief. Officials cite prohibition of pleasure driving to Memorial Day events, with rulings pending from the state OPA. Fire equipment worth 10000 assigned to Cumberland for civilian defense.
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Hagerstown
Thomas Bittle
OPA
DERA
Fairchild
Cumberland
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