Wiedemann Named As Nazi Spy Chief
Consul-General Fritz Wiedemann was alleged to head a German espionage ring in the Americas and to direct agents for information to aid Germany. The claim was filed by Mrs. Alice Crockett to seek $80,000, detailing payments and activities including fomenting class hatred and storing ammunition for the Bund.
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San Francisco
Fritz Wiedemann
Americas
Hemisphere
Alice Crockett
U. S. Army
Wiede
United States
Wiedemann
Bund
Opposing Camps Prepare For War In Balkans Standoff
Reports describe Germany massing up to 150000 troops on the Bulgarian Greek border with plans to attack Salonika while Greece resists Nazi peace hints. Britain cuts relations with Bulgaria as Germany occupies the country and Russia pushes for Black Sea bases. Turkey backs Britain. Antonescu meets Goering in Vienna to discuss economic issues.
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Britain
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Ion Antonescu
Vienna
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Antonescu
Bucharest
Yugoslavia
Prince Paul
von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Belgrade
Istanbul
Senate Debates Lease-Lend Power Expansion and Pilot Training
The Senate opens the lease-lend fight with Hull opposition to an amendment barring new overseas troop authority beyond the western hemisphere. Ada seeks one of 12 pilot training centers in the southwest with estimates from three to five million dollars per center.
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Senate
Hull
Secretary of State
Japan
Far East
Sen
Ellender
D.-La
United States
Ada
San Antonio
U. S. Army Air Corps
Southwest
Pact with Mexico forms North American defense front
Washington reports a mutual defense accord with Mexico complements the U S Canada pact creating a continental security front from the Arctic to the Isthmus of Panama. Experts plan joint defense measures and base access while details remain undisclosed amid Senate debates on aid funding and a sunset provision for the aid bill.
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United States
Mexico
North American
Arctic Circle
Panama
Canada
State Department
U. S
Chief Asks Aid On Tax Report
Washington report outlines guidance for individuals using Form 1040A for incomes under five thousand dollars. It explains how to list wages dividends interest and other income, and how to deduct business expenses to compute net income.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Morgenthau
Trio Indicted On Tax Counts In Oklahoma City
A federal grand jury indicted former Oklahoma City school board members Otto Rose Roscoe Price and Earl Johnson on income tax evasion charges for 1936 and 1937 while serving on the board. Bonds set at 5000 each, Rose tagged for taxes on 11264.87 and 14093.17, Johnson for 6312.09 and 8865.75, Price for 7218.10 and 6116.00. The panel returned 99 true bills and seven no bills.
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Otto Rose
Roscoe Price
Earl Johnson
U. S
Rose
Johnson
Price
Strikes Hold Up Major U.S. Defense Projects
A North Carolina Army anti aircraft firing center project valued at 13 million dollars ended a strike today while an AFL walkout at Wright Field Ohio blocked 5.9 million dollars in essential defense work. Camp Davis settlement announced by federal conciliator Frank Sheehan. Union sought preferred shop, overtime pay and holiday rates. Wright Field strike tied to January walkout. War Department said essential expansion work at Wright Field halted as a result.
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Wright Field
Ohio
Camp Davis
N. C
Frank Sheehan
War Department
United States
Russian German Interests Converge Over the Dardanelles
The article argues that Russian and German aims in the Balkans push toward a clash centered on the Dardanelles. It notes Soviet Bulgaria tensions, a German message to Ankara, and Berlin Moscow maneuvers with Bulgaria and Greece as Yugoslavia leans toward the axis.
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British Navy Urges More Ships and Men as War Presses
In sealed moves in southeastern Europe Britain reports a daylight raid on Boulogne and notes Ethiopian patriots rallying as the Atlantic battle grows. First Lord A. V. Alexander tells Parliament the navy needs many more ships and great numbers of men to counter Hitler's submarine campaign.
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Germany
Indo China Peace Talks Progress Reported in Tokyo
Tokyo dispatch says Japan's bid to broker a peace settlement among French Indo China and Thailand remains short of success with only technical details to resolve. France has not fully accepted the plan, despite discussions by French ambassador Charles Arséne Henry at the foreign office.
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Thailand
Charles Arsene Henry
Foreign Office
Britain Seeks More Ships and Men for Atlantic Battle
London reports the British admiralty asking Parliament for many more ships and large numbers of men to wage the battle of the Atlantic. A. V. Alexander warned of the intense naval need while noting French bases give German submarines proximity to Atlantic routes and that American destroyers aided convoy defense.
Weygand Returns to Vichy as Africa Fronts Tense
General Weygand flies to Vichy amid British Africa victory claims and reports of rapid Nazi troop shifts toward Bulgaria. Sofia reports 12 German divisions near the front while Greek authorities say forces are sent to Macedonia and Thrace, as Britain cuts ties with Bulgaria and warns of a battlefield.
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Maxime Weygand
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Craalkensdiares
Bulgaria
Sofia
Thrace
Britain
Hitler Plans Invasion of Latin America From Within
Washington March 5 Chairman Dies of the House HUAC said information shows Hitler aims to invade South America from within and has German businessmen and others there organized into military units. He cited more than 1,000,000 Germans in South America the third Reich could depend on for raw materials if Europe lacks supplies.
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Dies
D.-Tex
House Committee On un-American Activities
Hitler
South America
Texan
America
Third Reich
Europe
Fight on State's Sterilization Law To Be Carried On
Oklahoma City reports former state senator Claud Briggs will confer with a prisoner committee and Warden Jess Dunn on next steps after the state supreme court upheld the habitual criminal sterilization act. Briggs says he may seek a U S supreme court review if the decision stands, with a petition for re hearing due by April 1. The 1935 law was tested in Pittsburg County where Jack T Skinner was ruled subject to sterilization. Skinner has since served and been released.
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Claud Briggs
Jess Dunn
State Supreme Court
Briggs
Supreme Court of the United States
Pittsburg
Jack T. Skinner
Skinner
McAlester Prison
Tulsa
Ponca City
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Ers
Governor Defends Amendments in Ada Meeting
Governor Leon C. Phillips spoke for over an hour in Ada defending three proposed constitutional amendments on the March 11 ballot. He urged local funding changes for schools, questioned general fund use, and pledged teacher salary increases after bills pass. Representative Virgil Medlock introduced him and was praised by the governor.
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