Turks Back Yugoslavia in Rejecting Axis
British troops trap about 100000 Italian soldiers in East Africa as Asmara falls, with 60000 Italians encircled toward Addis Ababa led by the Duke of Aosta. In the Balkans Turkey declares support for Yugoslavia after King Peter II seizes the throne amid coup tensions.
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East Africa
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Cairo
Asmara
Cheren
Red Sea
Diredawa
Addis Ababa
Duke of
Aosta
Balkan
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Ismet Inonu
Peter II
Paul
Skoplje
Dearborn Riots Shut Ford Rouge as 20 Hurt in Clashes
Fights at the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn Michigan left more than 20 injured as workers tried to enter the plant amid a CIO strike. Police were ordered to restore order while other plants faced closures and a nationwide soft coal mine stoppage.
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Dearborn
U. S
Ford Rouge
Mich
CIO
Allis-Chalmers
Julius Heil
Wisconsin
Heil
Roosevelt
R. J. Thomas
UAW
Ford
Thomas
Rouge Works
Rouge
Harry H. Bennett
Michigan
Bennett
Fac
Ohio Work Payments Reach Record Law
Fewer unemployment claims were filed in the week ending March 29 than any formal work week since benefits began in 1939. Officials credit rising industrial job opportunities for the record low of 2,792 claims. A separate item notes CIO and AFL workers at the American Car and Foundry plant in Buffalo, New York stopping work on British shell orders.
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Columbus
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Indus
Buffalo
N. Y
CIO
AFL
American Car and Foundry Company
Five Year Old Boy Dies of Poison in Athens Area
Five year old Herman Durfee Jr. and four of his five sisters were stricken by an undetermined digestive poisoning Monday night and died Tuesday afternoon at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Della 10 and Flossie 7 recovered at the hospital, while Margaret 18 and Mary 13 recovered at home. Autopsy and lab tests did not yield conclusive evidence. red squill or digitalis poisoning is suspected as a possibility, though arsenic and decayed-food poisoning were ruled out.
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Herman Durfee, Jr
Athens
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Della
Flossie
Margaret
Mary
Columbus
Harry Mettler
Mettler
H. B. Davidson
Ohio State University
Unrest Grows in French Refugee Camps
Marseille reports rising bitterness among about 30 000 foreigners in unoccupied France refugee and labor camps. Officials consider substituting a dole program to cut a daily 1 000 000 franc budget. Foreign nationals including Jews anti Nazi Germans and Spanish Republicans face isolation and potential long term impact.
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Marseille
France
Europe
Messenger Boys Strike In Cleveland Prompted By Western Union
About 100 Western Union Telegraph Co. messenger boys, not yet affiliated with any union, continue a strike in Cleveland. The walkout began today as tensions over pay and conditions persist.
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Messenger Boys
Cleveland
Western Union Telegraph Co
Watcher Major Robert William Returns After Battle Injury
Major Robert William, who observed German air raids for the U S Army, has returned to the United States with the loss of an eye and other injuries suffered during bombardment.
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Robert William
British Isles
America
Lake Season Opening Early
More than a dozen iron ore carriers head for Lake Superior ports to replenish steel mill stockpiles amid a tight Great Lakes season. Wind blown ice 1 to 20 feet in Whitefish Bay blocks entry but shippers expect Coast Guard efforts to open the way soon. Freighters move coal north and ore south, with coal shipments expected near last year’s 46 million ton record.
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Cleveland
Great Lakes
Lake Superior
Whitefish Bay
Coast Guard
Lower Lake
Rts
Union Holds Up Job At Cincinnati Air Plant
Work on a $100000 interior painting job at Wright Aeronautical Corporation's $42000000 Lockland airplane engine factory was halted for a second day today by union objection to paint spraying apparatus.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Lockland
Cherry Blossom Festival Date Announced for April
The annual Cherry Blossom Festival is set for April 12 and 13, Washington. Organizers confirm dates for the spring event with activities planned across the city venues.
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Washington
Low Cost Medical Aid Plan Heads to Vote in Ohio House
The Ohio House considers a plan to form non profit medical associations serving families earning 2400 dollars or less and singles earning 1800 or less. Participation requires 51 percent physician consent. critics argue it ties care to physician economics, while sponsors say it improves public health.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Ohio State Medical Association
Margaret Mahoney
Dcleveland
Axis Agrees to Japanese Policy Toward United States
Rome editorial spokesman Virginio Gayda said Hitler and Mussolini reached agreements with Japanese Foreign Minister Yozuke Matsuoka on Japan’s actions if the United States enters hostilities without a formal declaration of war. The pact reportedly covers coordinated moves among the Axis powers in the event of American conflict.
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Germany
Western Hemisphere
United States
Anthony Eden
King George of
Greece
Athens
Belgrade
John G. Dill
Imperial General Staff
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Atlas
Peru
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Ecuador
Cuba
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Yozuke Matsuoka
Japan
Carpenters Strike in Summit County
Six hundred carpenters in Summit County walk off the job seeking higher pay. Carpentry work halted at rubber factories expanding for armament production.
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Akron
Summit County
Athens County Physicians Hear Army Medical Chief
Dr. Howard E. Boucher, lieutenant colonel and chief of the Ohio selective service examining division, spoke at a Nelsonville luncheon of the Athens County Medical Society. He outlined a planned county wide clinic in April for registered selectees, enabling many to receive physicals in one day with county medical cooperation. Society president Dr. L D Robinson presided. Dr. C R Hoskins is secretary. Announcement of the first county wide clinic will be made soon.
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Appalachian
John R. Steelman
Labor Department
Vinson D-Ga
Roosevelt
New Mediation Board
National Defense Mediation Board
International Harvester Company
Cornel-Dubilier
Perkins
AFL
Snoqualmie Falls
Wash
Nelsonville
Howard E. Boucher
Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service
Athens County Medical Society
Athens County
Boucher
Athens
L. D. Robinson
Guysville
C. R. Hoskins
Light Plant Workers Strike at Columbus
Columbus Ohio municipal light plant employees and city building department workers walked out after the city council postponed pay raise consideration. Mayor Floyd F. Green said wage adjustments will wait for a proposed citywide employee survey and promised no disruption of service for the light plant or building department.
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Columbus (Lp
Floyd F. Green
Hitler’s gambles and blitz in the Mediterranean
The piece analyzes Adolf Hitler’s risks over the Italian fleet and a potential showdown with Yugoslavia. It notes Axis setbacks, questions whether the Italian sortie was a blunder, and weighs the Fuehrer’s options as he seeks a swift strategic victory without direct force. The column frames the gambles as high stakes for Berlin and Rome.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Mediterranean
Hitler
Axis
Berlin
Fuehrer
Yugoslavia
Nazi minister departs for Berlin amid Yugoslavia rift
Viktor von Heeren reportedly leaves Belgrade for Berlin as Germany orders its nationals to quit Yugoslavia. Relations between Berlin and Belgrade deteriorate hourly.
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Viktor von Heeren
Belgrade
Berlin
Germany
Yugoslavia
Expect Drive On Profiteers
Washington reports the administration may crack down on food speculators amid efforts to ensure adequate domestic and foreign aid supplies. Officials consider price controls if the industry fails to curb undue profits and price rises.
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Washington
Great Britain
Chillicothe Area REA Among Nation's Most Extensive
Rep. Har old K. Claypool of Ohio announced a survey showing REA financed power systems in the 11th Ohio District centered at Chillicothe were among the most extensive in the country.
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Chillicothe District
Washington
Harold K. Claypool
D-Ohio
Ohio District
Chillicothe
Fairfield County man who poisoned spring escapes from London Prison Farm
John Huber, age 50, who was sentenced in 1934 for poisoning a spring on his Fairfield County farm in an attempt to murder his wife, escaped from the London Prison Farm yesterday, authorities said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
John Huber
Fairfield County
Farm Parity Row Divides Senate Over Bill Size
Senate leaders and key figures debated trimming parity payments to the House level of 212 million as part of a 1.34 billion agriculture appropriation. Byrd and Taft urged keeping the lower figure to limit non defense spending, while Barkley and McNary supported the larger increase to aid five major crops toward 1909 to 1914 price yardsticks.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
McNary
Oregon
Byrd
Taft
Ohio
Roosevelt
British Say New Bomb Far Above All Others
The Ministry of Aircraft Production claimed the new high explosive bombs dropped on Emden Monday night have five times the blasting effect of any previously dropped by the RAF. RAF pilots reported the bomb could hurl an entire building into the air.
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London
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Emden
RAF
Pallbearers Get S100 As Remembrance Gift
Six friends of John R. Harding acted as pallbearers at his funeral in Scottsville Virginia. At each note accompanying his casket was a pinned one hundred dollar bill and the message Remember me when I am gone doh.
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Scottsville
John R. Harding
Ex Communist testimony key to Bridges deportation case
Ex Communist witness Benjamin Gitlow described US Communist activity tied to Moscow in Bridges deportation hearings. He outlined aims of violent government overthrow and suggested Bridges’ affiliation with the party could lead to deportation to Australia. Bridges arrived in the United States 21 years ago.
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San Francisco
Benjamin Gitlow
United States
Moscow
Harry Bridges
CIO
Gitlow
Communist Party of the
Bridges
Australia
United States builds $7.9 billion lease lend supply effort
Washington reports the first billion in cash on hand for the flood of supplies under the lease lend program. Roosevelt orders rush contracts from four government departments for military materiel agricultural commodities and miscellaneous provisions to support the effort.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Fowler Granted Mansfield Reformatory Psychiatrist Post
Dr Murray N Fowler who had been suspended as Apple Creek Institution for Feeble Minded superintendent on March 4 was named psychiatrist at Mansfield Reformatory today by State Welfare Director Charles L Sherwood Fowler led Apple Creek for three years and previously served fifteen years at Athens State Hospital.
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Columbus
Murray N. Fowler
Apple Creek Institution
Mansfield Reformatory
State Welfare
Charles L. Sherwood
Fowler
Athens State Hospital
April Fool Hoax Ends With Missing $60 at Bank
Ravenna loan clerk William Kading answered an April Fool call that sent him from his office to an employer’s bedside, but he returned to find $60 missing from the till. The incident centers on a prank and a suspected theft during a fake accident scenario.
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Kent
William Kading
Ravenna
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