Nazis Smash Through Greek Mountain Pass To Strike West End
The report notes a breakthrough by German forces toward the western edge of British defenses in Greece. Concurrently Ford Motor Company workers settle a strike with CIOUAW and management under a Van Wagoner proposal, reopening River Rouge plant Monday. General Motors faces a looming walkout threat by the United Automobile Workers and wage disputes amid broader coal and steel industry tensions across the Appalachian region and northern coal fields.
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Associated Press
General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company
CIO Ners
Appalachian
Washington
Rep. Dies
Texas
Communist Party
United Mine Workers
CIO
UMW
Pittsburgh
General Motors
Labor Department
LIO United Automobile Workers Union
Automobile
Ford
Cio-Uaw
Murray D. van Wagoner
Michigan
River Rouge
Mayor Rogers Prepares Farewell as New Commission Looms
Mayor Ross Rogers will preside over the last city commission meeting today and issue a farewell note to all city employees. He retires after nine years and notes pride in Ama rillo’s government while the panel approves outstanding bills and payroll, with new commissioners Joe Jenkins, R J H Epperson, and Oscar Hargett to be sworn in Monday.
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Ross Rogers
City Commission
Amarillo
Rogers
Joe Jenkins
R. J H. Epperson
Oscar Hargett
FDR Charts Long War Route Around Aiding Balkans
Roosevelt announced a widened neutral act route allowing U S ships to sail to Egypt via the Suez by removing the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea from the prohibited zone Aimed at easing Balkan war material deliveries and easing Atlantic shortages The move risks Japanese reaction as concern grows over Axis raids in the Indian Ocean and the potential for Allied ships to reach Yugoslavia Greece and Turkey through safer paths
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Suez Canal
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Turkey
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Indian Oceans
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Indian Ocean
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Cape of Good Hope
Africa
San Francisco
South Atlantic
Japan
Balkans
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Line
United States
Canal
Singapore
Admiral Scheer
U S Ambassador Blocked at Jugoslav Legation in Rome
In Rome on April 11 United States Ambassador William Phillips was turned back by Italian police from entering the Jugoslav legation to assume Jugoslav interests in Italy. He later obtained a foreign office permit and returned to formally take over from Jugoslav Minister Bochko Christic.
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Rashid Ali al Gailani
Iraq
Pittain
Britain
Yugoslavia
Col
Wiliam J. Donovan
Balkans
Wasi ‘Ington
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Ciano
Il Telegrafo
Donovan
Roosevelt
Belgrade
Simovic
America
England
Mediterranean
Wanted Headquarters
A compact classified ad Praises a daily Sun day News Globe push with a call to call before 6 30 P M to find renters and buy or sell used items including homes cars machinery and furniture and arrange maid or help services for 17 cents a day in over 30 000 homes.
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Big
Sunday News-Globe
TEL
British Move in For Desert War
A mixed dispatch reports a London domestic note about a youth and a vacuum horn incident in St Paul, while Cairo and Cairo hinterland details describe reinforced British imperial troops moving east of Libya’s Gebel El Acdar range toward Axis forces, with RAF air superiority claims and Axis advances near Bengasi and Derna. Premier Hussein Sirry Pasha cites British confidence in victory amid German Italian gains.
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Associated Press
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Egypt
Libya
Gebel Il Acdar
Ciernaica
Britain
Winston Churchill
Gebel el Achdar Mountains
East Africa
RAF
Derna
Tobruk
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el Aghiela
Bengasi
Gebel el, Acdar Range
Sunrise Rites Mark Easter In Palo Duro
Amarillo andPanhandle residents plan sunrise Easter services at Palo Duro Canyon with a 6 30 start. Central Junior High School a cappella choir directed by Miss Julia Dean will sing sacred music while Rev A M Dorsett of Canyon First Presbyterian Church leads a brief prayer. Amarillo Jaycees sponsor. no admission. Page 3 has details.
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Panhandle
Palo Duro Canyon
Canyon
Julia Dean
Central Junior High School
A. M. Dorsett
Canyon First Presbyterian Church
Amarillo Jaycees
Romans Reach German Advance Units in Mighty Panzer Attack
German motorized forces broke through the Pass of Bitolj and advanced toward Phlorina as Greek and British troops faced coordinated pushes on the Grecian front. Yugoslav, Albanian, and Croat units joined the fight or retreated, while reports spoke of 10,000 prisoners taken in the south and ongoing clashes along multiple fronts across Yugoslavia, Greece, and Macedonia.
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Ohrid
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Serbia
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Bitoli
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Bitolj
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Skorpje
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Tian
Basr
Longatico
Seshtan
Krivolac
Vardar
Stefani
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Thermopylae
Marathon
Henry Maitland Wilson
Olympus
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Yanitza
Ask Russell Stationery Company
Greece
Reuters
Yugoslay
Kragujevac
Belgrade
Sava
Dusan Simovic
Germany
London
Hungary
England
Bitol
Thrace
Istan
Croatia
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Turkey
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Macedonia
Salonika
Piraeus
High Command
East
Salonica
Iraq
Emir Abdullah
Nis
Croat
Bulgaria
Prlorina
Orid
Amg
British Fight For Tobruk
London reports British troops in contact with the enemy west of Tobruk Libya as Egypt’s premier notes veterans of East African campaigns pouring into the East Libyan sector to meet Axis forces. The War Office says imperial troops advance southward in Eritrea and massena's fall port. In Ethiopia advances from Somaliland and Addis Ababa columns press the retreating foe with thousands captured.
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War Office
Egypt
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Cairo
Britain
Eritrea
Massena
Ape Sea
Ethiopia
I ‘Somaliland
Addis Ababa
15 Injured When Boiler Explodes at Woodward Plant
Birmingham April 11 Fifteen or more persons were injured when a boiler explosion wrecked the Woodward Iron Company's Woodward plant. The blast shattered the boiler building, drew thousands of curious onlookers, and knocked three blast furnaces out of production. President H A Berg said one furnace would resume within 48 hours, another next week, and the third later. Preliminary checks pointed to a air and steam mixture from the blowing engine room triggering the blast.
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Birmingham
Ala
Woodward Iron Company
Woodward
H. A. Berg
Woodward Company
Berg
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy weekend forecast for Amarillo and vicinity with little temperature change. West Texas expects cloudy conditions with scattered showers, colder in the north Sunday. New Mexico shows considerable cloudiness with showers in western areas Saturday and higher elevations Sunday, colder west Saturday and east Sunday.
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
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