Churchill asserts British forces not fighting in Greece
Prime Minister Churchill told Parliament that British and imperial troops had not been engaged in Greece despite Germany's rapid advance. He reported Salonika fallen, Massawa captured, and Italy East Africa nearing conquest, while US Coast Guard cutters join Britain for the Atlantic war effort.
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London
Churchill
Britain
Germany
Greece
Soviet
Russia
House of Commons
Salonika
Ukraine
Red Sea
Massawa
Eritrea
Italian East Africa
United States Coast Guard
Ford Strike Nearing End At River Rouge Plant
Prospects for settlement of the Ford Motor strike at River Rouge brighten after night negotiations involving federal and state mediators CIO leaders and Ford officials. A further conference is planned as Miners’ talks in New York seek an industry wide coal contract amid idle mines.
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Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
CIO United Automobile Workers
CIO United Mine Workers
New York
Ford
Perkins
National Mediation Board
CIO
Philip Murray
Harry H. Bennett
John R. Steelman
United States Consciliation Service
Morris Sheppard Dies After 38 Years in Congress
Senator Iris Sheppard of Texas, veteran figure in national prohibition debates, dies at 65 or 66 next month. A Democrat, he completed 38 years in Congress with service in the House from 1902 and a Senate tenure beginning January 29, 1913.
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Washington
Iris Sheppard
Texas
Sheppard
Congress
House
Senate
Ohio Counterfeiter Gets Federal Sentence
Beverly resident Eura Morini pleaded guilty to possessing counterfeit money and received 18 months in a federal prison. A confederate from Pennsylvania also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a similar term for operating in Southeastern Ohio counties.
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Columbus
Eura Morini
Beverly
Washington County
Mel G. Underwood
Frank Tassone
Ee Pa
Ohio
Wage changes touch Hercules workers in Canton
In Canton a ten cent per hour raise was announced for 1,800 Hercules Motor Corp. employees. At Baraboo Midwest Rubber Reclaiming Co. announced an equivalent cut affecting 103 workers.
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Canton
Hercules Motor Corp
Barberton
Midwest Rubber Re- Claiming Co
Roosevelt urges faster defense mobilization and policy tweaks
President Roosevelt pressed for further speed in building American defenses, noting progress but dissatisfaction with pace. He outlined plant cooling off periods, national distribution of defense assets, and rapid military aid to Yugoslavia, citing $1.8 billion spent in early 1941 versus $1.4 billion in late 1940.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Wallace
Foreign Policy Association
New York
United States
Germany
England
Britain
Yugoslavia
U S Campaign Against Nazi Raiders Urged
Washington divisive debate rises as Maritime Commission chief Rear Admiral Emory S. Land urges U S aid to Britain against Nazi convoy raiders. He compares German submarine attacks to a bonfire and warns Britain’s losses could reach 5 million tons annually, arguing U S and Britain cannot supply enough replacements.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
United States
Britain
Emory S. Land
U.S.N
America
Ohio Nearing Draft Quota
Ohio state selective service headquarters reported induction of 25,756 Ohioans and 15,049 1-A as of March 29. The state is less than 12,000 short of its 52,496 June 30 quota. Total registration reached 853,279 with 806,372 whites and 46,907 negroes. 491,454 questionnaires mailed. Inductions included 24,119 whites and 1,637 negroes.
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Columbus
Selective Service
Warner Urges Control of Strikes in Defense Era
Milo J. Warner national commander of the American Legion says the right to strike should not be abrogated but strikes must be controlled. He spoke at a national defense dinner and warned that bottlenecks to production in the defense program should not be tolerated.
United States Requests Postage Debts From Frozen Funds
The United States has asked France Belgium and Holland to pay postal debts using funds now frozen in this country. The exact amounts were not disclosed.
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Washington
United States
France
Belgium
Holland
Navy Vet Drafted After Return to Richmond Home
Malcolm E. Bymaster, 23, returned home from four years in the navy to Richmond Indiana when he was drafted to be inducted into the army in May following his homecoming.
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Richmond
Ind
Navy
Malcolm E. Bymaster
Army
Navy Drags Sea for Bodies of Patrol Plane Crew
The Navy dragged coastal waters off Virginia to recover wreckage from a PBY-1 patrol plane that crashed during a transfer flight from Norfolk to Quonset Point. Two crew members were recovered. eight others are missing after the Monday incident two miles east of Great Machipongo Inlet.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Norfolk Air Station
Quonsett Point
R. L
Great Machipongo Inlet
Body of Aged Farmer Found in Brush Fire
John Ramsey an 82 year old farmer was found burned near his Glassrock home after attempting to beat out a brush fire. Authorities say he fell into flames as they spread late Tuesday evening.
GOP Leaders Predict Budget Bill Approval In Ohio
In Columbus Republican leaders forecast passage of the $351,867,919 biennial appropriation bill in the House with no major changes. Speaker William McCulloch praised the budget for state operations in 1941-42 as sound and conservative and commended the finance committee. Senate leaders hope to dispose of the measure before May 2. The senate completed a two year extension of the 0.65 percent utility excise tax and approved a revision to the old age pension law, including a repeal of a 5 percent property deduction unless held in trust.
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Columbus
William McCulloch
Finance Committee
Senate
Sen
H. T. Phillips
Athens
Athens Area Declared Practically Free of Bangs Disease
The Agriculture Department reports 45 additional counties in 13 states including Athens and Clermont Counties Ohio were declared practically free of Bangs Disease in cattle. About 533000 cattle were tested in the counties.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Athens
Clermont
Ohio
Seized ships used by Mexico amid wartime orders
Mexican seamen are ordered to man two German and 10 Italian freighters expropriated after demands to release them were rejected.
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Mexico City
War in the Balkans grows tense as Vardar breach looms
Dewitt Mackenzie reports that German success in breaking into the Vardar valley in Southern Yugoslavia intensifies the Allied defensive challenge. He notes Salonika remains strategically valuable but vulnerable to bombing, with British forces forming a new line west of the Vardar and Greco British resistance likely on the Albanian frontier. Yugoslavia risks overrun as Germans secure key communications, forcing reliance on the British expeditionary force in Greece.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
The
Balkans
Vardar
Yugoslavia
Salonika
Struma
Greece
Royal Air Force
Kiel
Coventry
Fire Truck Makes Most of Opportunity
Shelby County gains a quick demo success as the new rural fire truck responds to a farm blaze eight miles from Shelbyville. Fire Chief Bernard Jones and a salesman rush to the scene and extinguish the fire within thirty minutes, prompting praise for the equipment.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Shelby County
Hiram Drake
Bernard Jones
Student Flier And Instructor Hurt in Crash
Charles Ogg of Lathrop Ohio and William C Grimm of Le tart Falls were injured when a Taylorcraft CPT training plane from Athens Airways crashed during a dual training flight along the Hocking River near Canaanville about 11 30 this morning. The crash was blamed on propeller failure causing a forced landing and the plane struck trees. Grimm and Ogg were hospitalized with bruises and a fractured jaw but were described as not in serious condition.
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Charles Ogg
Lathrop
Ohio University
William C. Grimm
Letart Falls
Athens Airways
Taylorcraft Cpt
Hocking River
Canaanville
Vince Mulac
Grimm
Ogg
Sheltering Arms Hospital
New Tax Hike Predicted by Senate Finance Members
Washington report shows Senate Finance Committee members George and Taft signaling possible tax increases to fund defense and British aid. They discuss doubling personal income taxes, raising exemptions, and boosting the corporate rate to 30 percent.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
D-Ga
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Workers Seek Higher Wages on City Housing Project
About 25 carpenters on the West Rich Street low cost housing project for the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority walked off the job seeking a 10 cent hourly raise. The wage scale would rise to 1.25 dollars an hour on the $600000 project. Roughly 150 workers are employed, including AFL carpenters, according to T E Waller.
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Columbus
West Rich Street
Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority
T. E. Waller
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Waller
AFL
Firemen Aid Against Sabotage Plots
Kent Ohio 500 fire fighters to guard against sabotage as FBI official E P Coffey urges cooperation during a two day state fire institute. Coffey says the FBI has information on sabotage plans and 71 000 cases are under investigation.
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Kent
Ohio
Federal Bureau of Investigation
E. P. Coffey
Bureau
FBI
Columbus Attorney Agnes B Dickinson Indicted for Embezzlement
Columbus attorney Agnes B Dickinson has been indicted for embezzling 10800 in guardianship funds and notified the common pleas court she will appeal her disbarment to a higher court.
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Columbus
Agnes B. Dickinson
Common Pleas Court
Greece loses Salonika as German blitzkrieg gains seaport
Nazi forces captured Salonika after Greek withdrawals. The Eastern Greek army wing on the Struma River reportedly surrendered while Yugoslav towns Nis Belgrade and Skoplje faced major Nazi advances. British sea sailings from Piraeus were canceled and Italy demanded recall of an American attache as reprisal. Over 20,000 Yugoslavs were taken prisoner amid the Balkans collapse.
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Yugoslavia
Greece
Aegean
Salonika
Thrace
Metaxas
Adolf Hitler
Struma
Rome
Berlin
Piraeus
Athens
Balkan Front Shifts as German Drive Reaches Salonika
Reported German success mirrors Sedan as Nazi forces push toward Salonika with 300 000 British and Allied troops in reserve in the Balkans. Mussolini claims Italian offensives near Kranj and Albania join the push into Yugoslavia as Greece, Yugoslavia, and Britain brace for further clashes.
Slavs Fight Germans Around Skoplje Amid Balkan Tensions
Yugoslav communiques say Slav troops abandoned Skoplje to German forces and now fight bitterly in the mountains northwest of the town to prevent a sectional cut of Yugoslavia. Hitler’s command notes the Metaxas Line breach but praises Greek resistance.
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Hitler
Salonika
Xanthe
Aegean
Kavalla
Yugoslavia
Nis
Belgrade
Skoplje
Greece
Metaxas
John Metaxas
Africa
Massawa
Red
Mussolini May Recall Ambassador Amid U S Seizure Clash
In Rome Italian troops guard the U S Embassy as rumors spread that Premier Mussolini may recall Italy's ambassador to Washington. An authoritative source says Admiral Alberto Lais, naval attaché, has been withdrawn in protest over the U S seizure of Italian ships in American ports.
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Washington
Italy
William C. Bentley
Rome
United States
Alberto Lais
Mussolini
U. S
Britain To Receive 10 Coast Guard Cutters
London reports the United States will turn over ten Coast Guard cutters to Britain for anti submarine work as stated by British sources.
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Britain
Coast Guard
London
United States
Missing veteran Clif ford Kramer found dead in river
The body of 43 year old Clif ford Kramer, missing since March 13, was recovered last night from the Licking River. He was the brother of Clinton Kramer, state commander of Disabled American Veterans.
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Zanesville
Clifford Kramer
Licking River
Clinton Kramer
Disabled American Veterans
Press Poll Shows Dailies Backing Winners in 1940 Race
Flint Michigan report summarizes a nationwide survey of 1 201 daily newspapers. It finds 74 percent of papers endorsing a presidential candidate in 1940 were on the winning side in their communities. Editor M A Gorman of the Flint Journal sent questionnaires to 1 873 dailies to test claims of partisan bias against public opinion.
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Flint
Mich
M. A. Gorman
The
Flint Journal
United States
Gorman
British Claim Capture of U-boat Commander
The British Admiralty announced that Commander Otto Kretschmer, a noted U-boat commander, was among about 450 prisoners taken from sunk U-boats. A communique added that counter measures against the U-boat menace had recently shown greater success.
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London
British Admiralty
Otto Kretschmer
Ohio Producers Seek Coal Price Reductions Hearing Set
The Coal Division will hold a hearing on April 24 to consider a request for minimum price cuts up to 25 cents a ton for Ohio produced coal shipped to Ohio and nearby markets. The request is from the Bituminous Coal Producers' Board of District Four Ohio.
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Washington
Ohio
Bituminous Coal Producers’ Board of District Four
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Archibald P. Wavelis
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North Africa
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Massaua
Associated Press
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UMW
Ciations
CIO National Association of Casting Workers
Morris Sheppard
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GOP
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