British Sink Bismarck After 3-Day Hunt in Atlantic
The 35 000 ton German battleship Bismarck, damaged by torpedoes from Royal Navy aircraft and spotted by US built planes, was sunk 400 miles west of Brest after a three day pursuit. The Hood fell Saturday in a separate action. The Ark Royal planes claimed credit for the final blows.
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Associated Press
Germany
North Atlantic
Puehrer
Brest
France
Britain
Royal Navy
Hood
Greenland
Fleet Air Arm
A. Y. Alexander
The
Admiralty
Iceland
Grenland
Prince of Wales
St. Nazaire
Prince Eugen
Eugen
British Navy Battles Nazi Air on Crete in Heavy May Attacks
British warships around Crete repelled a heavy Nazi air assault amid dozens of dive bombers and 1,000 pound bombs. Royal Navy ships destroyed a German convoy, sank an Italian destroyer and two transports, and shot down numerous dive bombers while striking back with anti air and naval guns throughout the day from dawn to night.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Crete
Royal Navy
Greece
British Reinforcements Reach Beleaguered Crete
British-Greek Allied forces in Crete report heavy fighting with German invaders. Reinforcements are reaching the garrison as battles rage at Canea Retimo and Candia. The air war continues with British bombers attacking landing Nazi troop carriers.
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Beleaguered
Crete
Associated Press
London
Canea
Retimo
Candia
Malemi
Winchester Red Cross seeks 52000 dressings for Britain
The Winchester Chapter of the Red Cross reports steady aid to Britain with surgical dressings sent abroad. Mrs Dutton leads a committee asked to supply 52000 more dressings, inviting Winchester women to volunteer. Even small time contributions are valued to help alleviate wartime shortages.
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Winchester
The
Red Cross
Britain
England
German Navy Chief Admits Loss of Newest Warship
Grand Admiral Raeder admitted the loss of his latest capital ship following British retaliation after he warned the United States that convoying British materials would be an open war act. The admission underscores Nazi capital ships’ perceived superiority over British ships.
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Raeder
United States
H. M. S. Hood
Coast Guard rescues 39 crew members from Marconi near Greenland
The British steamer Marconi was torpedoed and sunk in heavy fog about 270 miles southeast of Greenland. The Coast Guard cutter General Greene recovered 39 survivors and searched for about 60 more crew members in two lifeboats, with no passengers aboard. The ship sailed from Liverpool, England.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Coast Gaierd
Greenland
Navy
B.S. T
Marconi
Liverpool
England
French Say They Plan To Hold On To Colonies
The French government gave renewed assurances in writing that the French fleet and colonies would not be surrendered to Germany or any power. Ambassador Gaston Henry Haye delivered the note to Sumner Welles, saying it was drafted on Vichy instructions to ease concerns over Franco German collaboration. He declined to reveal full details but said it should reassure those wary of deteriorating Franco American relations.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Gaston Henry Haye
Sumner Welles
Vichy
Hull
Henry Haye
Roosevelt
Congress
Stephen Early
Early
Capitol Hill
Army
Navy
White House
Britain
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer = bachter
Auction Notice at 210 S. Searces St for Household Goods
Sale set for May 31 at 10 a m featuring household furniture dishes bedding living and dining room suites rugs range lawn mower and other items. Mrs Jelie C. is listed as the contact at the address 210 S Searces St.
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S. Searces St
Jelie C
Youths of 21 Register July 1
Washington announces a second selective service registration for all men and aliens who turn 21 by July 1. The process enlists about 16 million who registered last October and may place new registrants at the bottom of local draft lists. A national lottery will order calls for induction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Selective Service
Wool Pool Event At Winchester Farm Bureau May 29
Frederick Cooperative Farm Bureau announces wool collection day on Thursday May 29 at Winchester Farm Bureau. The notice lists the Wool Pool intake event and location for local growers to deliver harvested wool.
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Frederick Cooperative Farm Bureau
Winchester Farm Bureau
Awnings Advertised by E. W. Armstrong Co
E. W. Armstrong Co offers awnings for porch, windows, or terrace. Call Dial 4643 for service. Located at 39 East Piccadilly Street with hours noted as Tuesday Friday and installation options listed.
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E. W. Armstrong Co
Dial
E. Piccadilly St
City license overdue notice and police enforcement
City licenses were past due May 1 and officers have been instructed to enforce the law under Chief C. W. Hollis.
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City Ee
C. W. Hollis
Box Social for Young People at Market Street Methodist Church
Mrs. C. E. Babb hosts a box social on Millwood Ave May 28 at 7 30 p m for Young People of Market Street Methodist Church. Public invited.
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C. E. Babb
Millwood Ave
Methodist Church
Erle Edwards Honored By Virginia IOOF
Lynchburg Virginia May 27 Virginia Odd Fellows and Rebekah Assembly members will elect new grand lodge and assembly officers at their convention this afternoon Four groups named leaders for the coming year including Elmore Mudd Pagesia department council commander Lieut Col Robert W Bailey Richmond and others from Charlottesville Richmond and Norfolk among top posts New grand patriarch I Spiegel Newport News and grand scribe John M Morris Newport News are listed.
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Lynchburg
Virginia Odd Fellows
Rebekah Assembly
Grand Lodge
Assembly
Ae Elmore Mudd
Pagesia
Department —Council
Robert W. Bailey
Richmond
J. Coulter
Charlottesville
Alee
J. E. Short
Norfolk
W. Earth Edwards
Winchester
Walter Pierson
Man Dies In New York Harbor Pier Fire
Jersey City reports a fatal harbor blaze with five car floats and 25 freight cars burning at the Greenville Term yard edge. One man died as merchandise in one car was exposed for export to New York.
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Jersey City
N. J
New York Harbor
Greenville
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Green Called For Shipyard Strike Testimony Before Senate
President William Green of the AFL was summoned to testify before a Senate committee led by Senator Truman about the West Coast shipyard strike. The panel also pursued defense preparation progress as labor tensions flare at Pac Mo Car, North American Aviation in Inglewood, and other plants with threats to strike.
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Associated Press
William Green
AFL
Senate
West Coast
Pac Mo Car Company
North American Aviation, Inc
Inglewood
Calif
Truman
Green
D.-Mo
San Francisco Bay
CIO
APL
CIO United Automobile
North American Aviation
Packard
Detroit
United States Army
Cio-Uaw
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Carborundum Company
National Mediation Board
Washington
Southern Soft Coal
CIO United Mine Workers
City And County Brevities Highlight War Era Notes
H L Keckley, 82, near Berryville reports a bullet-shaped hen egg amid war talk and Clarke county farming. William J Gardiner of Winchester aids national defense at Bartlett Hayward plant in Baltimore producing 37 mm anti aircraft gun mounts for the Army. Bob Riley, ex leader of a state touring band, transfers to Wichita Falls air corps field after Chanute Field duty.
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H. L. Keckley
Berryville
Mr. Keckley
Clarke County
Baltimore
William J. Gardiner
Winchester
Bartlett Hayward
Koppers Company
F. W. Ortman, Jr
William
Ordnance Department
U. S. Army
Bob Riley
Riley
United States Air Corps
Chanute Field
Ill
Air Corps
Wichita Falls
Tex
J. W. Riley
West Piccadilly Street
Byrd Attacks Perkins Appointment Over Strike Mediation
Senator Byrd criticized Secretary Perkins for appointing a committee to recommend certification of strikes to the National Mediation Board. He urged Congress to grant the board full jurisdiction to investigate and mediate strikes first. He called for Perkins removal to allow prompt settlement of defense related strikes.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Perkins
National Mediation Board
Dykstra
Mediation Board
Clarence A. Dykstra
John R. Steelman
Conciliation Service
Maxwell Brandwell
OPM
Congress
Miss Perkins
England
29th Division Ready at New Range
Fort Meade Maryland announces the 29th Division will open a new combat range on June 9 for anti tank and anti aircraft practice. The facility features moving targets on ground and air with complex frame and pulley systems and includes rifle pistol and machine gun firing on the 3 000 acre range. One family remains evacuated and is expected to leave soon.
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Fortees
Passengers Freed From Zamzam Survivors Reach Safety
Berlin May 27 The Dienst and Deutsche Nachrichten agency report that women and children among the 140 Americans aboard the sunken Egyptian steamer Zamzam have been freed and allowed to proceed. Survivors were carried to France aboard the German ship Dresden after a Nazi warship sank the Zamzam in the South Atlantic.
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Berlin
Zamzam
Dienst and
Deutschland
Atst de Lux
Spain
Portugal
France
Dresden
South
Atlantic
Local Showers Forecast Across Mid Atlantic Period
Extended forecast from May 27 evening to May 30 predicts local showers in the Middle Atlantic states. Most showers are light to moderate with fair conditions in southern Virginia, cooler nights, and above normal daytime temperatures.
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Middle Atlantic
Virginia
Labor Board orders reinstatement for 610 workers in Republic plant
In South Chicago Illinois the Labor Board orders full reinstatement with back pay for 610 workers involved in the 1937 little steel strike at Republic Steel's South Chicago plant. A trial examiner died today during the proceedings.
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Washington
Labor Board
Repub- Steel Corporation
Republic
Chicago, Ill
Little Steel
Virginia Episcopal Auxiliary Meet Opens in Winchester
More than two hundred delegates from cities towns and rural areas gather in Winchester for the 50th annual Virginia Branch meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church. Sessions include prayers welcomes reports from diocesan officers and talks on rural and mountain work plus a high profile address by Bishop Beverley Tucker and a reception at Church House.
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Winchester
Virginia
Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Episcopal Church
Woman's Auxiliary
Diocese of
R. B. Nelson
Herbert Larrick
Christ Chi Woman's Auxiliary
Henry P. Taylor
Winal
Paschal Fowlkes
McClean
Richard Lee
Luray
Jean Bone
Freeman Fisher
Frederick Goodwin
Virginia Episcopal Diocese
Beverley Tucker
Ohio
Church House
Mary Wood McKenzie
New York
Missing Cousin of King Declared Missing In Action
London May 27 The king of Britain's second cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten commander of the destroyer Kelly was lost in naval fighting off. The navy announced eight officers and 120 men were rescued but no word on what happened to Mountbatten.
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London
Lord Louis Mountbatten
King George VI
Kelly
Lord Louis
Wallace Guest At Naval Academy Visit Highlights Spoils of Diplomacy
Vice-President Henry A Wallace visited the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis on unofficial business. He traveled from Washington and stopped at the home of Angel Cabrillo-Vazquez, the academy Spanish professor. Wallace wore a gray suit and hatless, arriving at Bancroft Hall with Rear Admiral Russell Willson, the superintendent, Cabrillo, and Lt. Charles Smith.
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Annapolis
Henry A Wallace
United States Naval Academy
Washington
Angel Cabrillo-Vazquez
Academy
Bancroft Hall
Midshipmen
Russell Willson
Aear
Cabillo
Charles Smith
Sinking of 14 Allied ships west of Africa reported
Berlin reports fourteen heavily laden enemy merchant ships totaling 177,600 tons sunk by German submarines west of Africa. Informed sources say the torpedoings occurred over the past several days.
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Berlin
Africa
Highway Command
Typographical Error Stares From The Press
An editor notes how a tiny typographical mistake can slip past prepress checks. The piece laments the moment the error becomes a mountain on the printed page, haunting the boss as the rest of the issue remains clean and intact.
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Larry Allen
Erle Edwards
Virginia Ioof
Association of Secretaries
I. Spiegel
Newport News
W. H. Scott
Z. B. Johnson
Brookneal
John M. Morris
Grand Scribe
C. Hackett
Leroy Bendheim
H.R. Eggleston
Grand Inside Sentinel
E. A. Cole
Roanoke
Grand Outside Sentinel
Roland Craig
Abingdon
Man
Harbor
Sen. Byrd
Jane
Episcopal Auxiliary
Bishop Tucker
King
Wallace
Naval Academy
Prom
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