Keystone Governor Chats With Bricker
Gov Edward Martin of Pennsylvania met Gov John W Bricker at the Ohio state house in a friendly talk with no political significance. He added Bricker has many warm friends and is well known in Pennsylvania. Martin was en route to Camp Campbell Kentucky where his son Captain Edward Martin is stationed.
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Columbus. O
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
State House
John W. Bricker
Martin
Bricker
Victory Opens Way for Fresh Attacks
Secretary Hull said the Allied victory in Tunisia opens the way to direct attacks on other Axis defenses. He sent the remark in a Cairo message to Prime Minister Tsouderos of Greece, praising the Greek resolve to keep fighting until tyranny is destroyed.
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Washington
Hull
Tunisia
Emmanuel Tsouderos
Cairo
Tsouderos
United States
North
Africa
Greece
Eisenhower lauded for brilliant Tunisia planning
Secretary of War Stimson praised Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Tunisian operation's planning and execution in perfect coordination of land sea and air forces. He cautioned that the Allies have won a campaign not a war and that the Axis collapse will lift morale across occupied nations. He ranked Tunisia alongside Stalingrad as a major Axis defeat.
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Washington
Tunisia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stimson
Elswhere
North Africa
Stalingrad
Coal Consumers Urged to Order Supplies Now
Transportation Director Josep B. Eastman warned coal consumers to order supplies immediately to prevent grave shortages next winter. He said railroads can move enough coal to meet anticipated demand only if the fuel keeps moving throughout the year.
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Washington
Josep B. Eastman
Japs Seek To Ruin Rice Crop West Of Lake Tungting
Chungking May 13 Japanese forces attacked Chinese lines west of Lake Tungting taking advantage of famine in Honan and Kwangtung to ruin the crop before the Burma reconquest. Both sides suffered heavy casualties as Japan crossed the Yangtze to sever Chinese communications and reinforce Lake Aremi. Chinese troops claimed destroying over 500 Japanese in the Taicheng mountains sector and hundreds more in another.
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Kwangtung
Lake Tungting
Burma
Yangtze
Lake Aremi
Hunan
Taicheng Mountains
Soft Coal May Be Rationed During Next Year
Washington May 13. Solids Fuel Administrator Ickes says rationing of soft coal next year is problematical due to manpower shortages and other deterrents to maximum production. He urges reenactment of the bituminous coal act, extended to May 24, and offers the coal division as a ready storehouse of technical data for a national distribution program.
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Washington
Congress
Ickes
Congressional Record
Senator Guffey
D-Pa
Admiralty Orders Small Craft Along British Coast
The Admiralty issued a directive requiring all small craft not officially authorized to be immobilized or removed from the water along the eastern Scottish coast below the Firth of Fourth down the east coast and around to Lynmouth on the Bristol Channel. Pleasure boats that cannot be hauled ashore must be secured with locking devices and sails oars and row locks disabled.
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London
Admiralty
Firth of Fourth
Channel
Lynmouth
Bristol
Divorce Decree in Elliott v Elliott Desertion Case
Frederick Circuit Court grants divorce to Agnes V. Elliott and Turner L. Elliott on desertion grounds. Neither party may remarry for six months from the decree date.
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Frederick
Agnes V. Elliott
Turner L. Elliott
Roosevelt asks Congress for 400 million for war housing
President Roosevelt sent letters to Congress requesting a 400 million dollar increase in Langham act authorization for war housing. He argued much of it could be repaid in rents during the current emergency and after, stressing no expenditure is too large if needed to win the war and save lives.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Vice-Press
Landon predicts Roosevelt defeat in 1944 campaign
Alf Landon, former Republican candidate, told reporters in Minneapolis that Roosevelt can be defeated in 1944 whether war continues or not. He said Republicans and anti-Roosevelt Democrats will vote to end the president's life term and echoed that the four freedoms must be fought for at home. Landon noted he won’t seek the nomination but offered no successor.
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Minneapolis
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Topeka
Kans
Six O'Clock Club
Blue
Landon
White House
Transport Strike Ties Up Akron Mass Transit
In Akron Ohio on May 13 a CIO bus and street operator strike disrupted mass transit, leaving thousands of war workers reliant on motorists to reach jobs on time. The CIO Transport Workers Union pressed wage demands but continued working after War Labor Board intervention.
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CIO
CIO Transport Workers’ Union
War Labor Board
Frederick Court Convenes Monday
Frederick Circuit Court will be convened Monday morning by Judge Harrison. No juries have been summoned. The case of Alvin Thomas on a hit run count is docketed for Monday. Edward Clark’s Tuesday hearing could not be learned today. Clark is held in connection with the death of Miss Violet Tomshell of Middletown who was fatally injured in an auto crash last December.
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Harrison
Alvin Thomas
Edward Clark
Clark
Violet Tomshell
Middletown
Italian General Surrenders to British Eighth Army
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports General Giovanni Messe surrender to the British Eighth Army on May 13. Unconfirmed word says one of King Vittorio Emanuele II’s sons-in-law may have surrendered with him.
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North Africa
Giovanni Messe
Eighth Army
Vittorio Emanuele of
Italy
Sale of Two Abandoned Schools Confirmed in Frederick Court
An order in Frederick Circuit Court confirms the sale of two abandoned school houses. The Greenwood building sold to R. Lee Clark for $900 and the Hayfield School sold to Silas Palmer for $1,000.
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Greenwood
R. Lee Clark
Hayfield
Silas Palmer
Churchill to address Congress in joint session next week
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will speak to a joint Senate House session next Wednesday at 12 30 p m Eastern War Time after invitation by Speaker Rayburn. The White House notes a separate radio address tomorrow for home consumption in England to mark the Home Guards anniversary.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Britain
American Congress
Rayburn
House
Senate House
White House
Churchill
England
United States
Congress
Telegraph Merge Prospects Worked Out for Western Union Postal
New York May 13 Executives of Western Union and Postal announced merger terms. Western Union would acquire all Postal assets and assume liabilities including Postal’s debt to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Plan takes effect by October 1 with Postal remaining independent until FCC approval. Employees join Western Union on existing terms.
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New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Albert N. Williams
Western Union
Edwin F. Chinlund
Postal
Postal Company
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Williams
Federal Communications Commission
Heaviest Aerial Attack Targets Duisburg and Axis Shipping
Last night’s raid mopped up by RAF and Canadian air crews as 1500 tons of bombs aimed at Duisburg, Germany’s inland port. Nine missing bombers were Canadian. Hampden torpedo bombers struck Axis shipping off Norway, while dawn strikes hit the French coast.
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RAF
Duisburg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
English Channel
Norway
Air Ministry
France
Channel
Benes Promises Czecho-Slovak Democracy After War
In Washington Edouard Benes urged Congress that Czecho-Slovakia will reconstruct into a democracy after the war. He called Bohemia a European security safeguard and warned against German domination, citing earlier missed opportunities before World War II. He credited U.S. entry after Pearl Harbor with advancing liberation for occupied nations.
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Washington
Edouard Benes
Congress
United States
Benes
Roosevelt
Bismarck
Bohemia
Europe
Prague
Pearl Harbor
Mr Lynch Remains a Modest Service Figure on Birthday
Mr Lynch born May 14 1854 in Frederick County son of Maurice and Anna Lynch. He studied law at the University of Virginia and began practice in 1887. He served as school superintendent for many years and joined the State Board of Education in 1907. He belongs to local banks boards and Sacred Heart Church and is known for his broad circle of friends.
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South Washington Street
Hugh Duffey
Winchester
Harry Lynch
Huntington
W. Va
Cmdr
M. M. Lynch
Norfolk
Mary Lynch
Washington
Teressa Lynch
Philadelphia
Lynch
Prederick County
Maurice
Anna Lynch
Ireland
University of Virginia
State Board of Education
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Handley Board
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Law Looms as Final Minutes Tick Away
Fragments indicate a legal filing deadline approaching soon with EMIITAN names appearing in unreadable form as documents near submission. Officials urge action before the cutoff while partial details hint at a regulatory or court action in progress.
Hough Notes Resistance in Codling Moth From Sprayed Orchards
Dr Hough explains codling moth in sprayed orchards shows general vigor, entering fruit more easily and resisting sprays. He notes elimination of certain sprays affects pest vigor and larval efficiency, reducing losses as larvae stay on fruit longer.
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