Legion Chief Urges All-Out Aid to Britain at Athens Banquet
Milo J. Warner national commander of the American Legion spoke to 350 at Hotel Berry in Athens stressing democracy requires standing up to fight for it. He called for all-out aid to Britain and warned against methods short of war while praising peace with honor. He urged labor rights intact but opposed rioting and urged government support for workers and law and order. He outlined five standards to guide national problems and defense, urging unity above partisanship. Continued on Page 5.
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America
Milo J.warner
American Legion
Hotel Berry
Britain
Eighth District Legion
United Kingdom of Great Britain
Warner
State House
White House
W’arner
James Roosevelt to Wed Former Nurse in Quiet Ceremony
In Los Angeles the Examiner reports that James Roosevelt and Melle Schneider will marry Tuesday. Roosevelt, the President's eldest son and a Marine captain, says they plan a quiet home wedding with the mother present. Schneider served as nurse when he underwent a stomach operation in Rochester, Minnesota, in September 1938.
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Los Angeles
the Examiner
James Roosevelt
Melle Schneider
Marine Corps
Wreck injures several on streamline train near DuPont
A Chicago Miami streamline named the South Wind wrecked near DuPont Georgia injuring a score or more passengers. The locomotive derailed ripping up about a mile of Atlantic Coast Line tracks and overturning four cars while a fifth stayed on rails and two others remained upright.
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Valdosta
DuPont
Rome Bells Toll In Holy Thursday Observance
Bells from 420 churches rang across Rome this morning in a centuries old Holy Thursday commemoration marking the institution of the Holy Eucharist by Christ.
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Atican
Rome
April 29 Deadline Set for U S 33 Improvement Bids
The State Highway Department will accept bids until April 29 for a half million dollar upgrade of U S Route 33 at the north Athens entrance. Right of way work proceeds by negotiations or court action, with 12 property owners still unsettled. If needed, condemnation will be filed in Common Pleas Court, with deposits made and jury value possible on appeal.
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State Highway Department
Athens
G. B. Epler
A. B. Curtis
Columbus
G. R. Steen
Marietta
Epler
Highway Director
Common Pleas Court
Highway Department
FHA Plan Allows 90 Percent Mortgages In Defense Areas
In 12 Ohio defense cities including Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Hamilton Middletown Sandusky Steubenville Warren and Youngstown the FHA will insure up to 90 percent of home value for builder mortgagors eliminating required down payments. Builders may finance 10 percent and sell or rent the properties under the new rule.
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Washington
Ohio
Roosevelt
Federal Housing Authority
Akron
Canton
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Dayton
Hamilton
Middletown
Sandusky
Steubenville
Warren
Youngstown
FHA
Stores in Athens to Be Closed Two Hours
Athens merchants group votes to close shops tomorrow Good Friday from noon to 2 pm so citizens may attend church services. Mayor Cliff Cornell says city workers will be released during the period to join observances.
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Athens
Athens Retail Merchants Association
Cliff Cornell
Paulding Grand Jury Calls 44 Officials From Election Service
The Paulding County grand jury voted to bar 44 election officials in 11 precincts where irregularities were alleged in last November's election. It urged resignations from board of elections members and the board clerk.
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Paulding
Paulding County Grand Jury
Board of Election
5000 Prisoners Taken By British In Ethiopia
Nairobi reports that 4000 Italians and 1000 natives were taken prisoner with the British occupation of Addis Ababa, the official announcement states.
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Ethiopia
Nairobi
Kenya
Addis Ababa
Shirley Temple Reveals Straighter Hair Look
Hollywood child star Shirley Temple shows a new style with brushed out curls forming soft waves and ringlets at the ends, abandoning her signature formal curls.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Shirley
Navy Commissions First Battleship in 18 Years
The United States Navy commissioned the 35 000 ton North Carolina at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in a sober ceremony with 1500 guests led by Secretary Knox. War time restrictions and security measures surrounded the event as the ship took its place as a ship of the line.
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New York
United States Navy
North Carolina
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Famous British General Captured in Libya
London reports that Lieut. Gen. Sir Richard Nugent O Connor, a key ally of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, is among six British generals captured by a German Italian force at El Mechili Libya, marking a bold setback for British forces in the region.
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London
el Mechili
Libya
Richard Nugent O’connor
Richard
Archibald P. Wavell
Middle East
Iron Ore Cargo Arrives From EsCanaba For Record Season
The first cargo of iron ore reached Cleveland from EsCanaba Michigan marking the start of what is expected to be a record season. This is the earliest shipment in the memory of longtime iron workers.
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Cleveland
Escanaba
Mich
Ford Mine Deadlock Eases Slightly Amid Hope for Quick Accord
The soft coal tie up and the Ford strike remain unresolved but Governor Van Wagoner reports a productive talk with Henry Ford and a call to President Roosevelt outlining progress. Conciliator Steelman says sufficient agreement exists to avert coal shortages as UMW and operators discuss wage increases and field differentials. Knudsen foresees fewer work stoppages and backs mediation as Defense Committee hearings continue with Perkins urging restraint.
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Ford Motor Company
Murray D. van Wagoner
Michigan
Ford River Rouge
Detroit
Henry Ford
Roosevelt
CIO United Mine
John R. Steelman
United States Conciliation Service
House Military Committee
Washington
William S. Knudsen
Knudsen
OPM
Perkins
Bases Planned For Greenland
The United States will establish air bases in Greenland under an American Danish agreement to protect Greenland and the Western Hemisphere. Secretary Hull and Danish minister Henri De Kauffman signed the pact, though Denmark is under German occupation and cannot exercise sovereignty over the territory.
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Washington
United States
Greenland
Hull
Henri de Kauffman
de Kauffman
Denmark
Senate OKs apple industry bill and tax in Ohio
The Ohio Senate passed a state apple commission bill with a one cent per bushel levy to fund advertising and development. The measure aims to boost Ohio apple farmers to competitive levels with other states. The same session also approved a highway traffic advisory bill and directed revision of a small loans bill to lower maximum rates.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
House
Democrats
Senate
Ohio
H. T. Phillips
Athens
War Department
Senate Banks and Loans Committee
James Metzenbaum
Dcleveland
Balkans battle lines and a possible wider axis plan
The article discusses a pivotal Balkan battle with Greek and British forces forming a northern defense from Salonika to Chimara. It notes Hitler’s aim to seize the Suez Canal, outlines Axis moves in Libya, and explains Wavell’s February redeployment as part of a broader strategy to stretch Allied lines and invite a desert campaign.
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Balkans
Greece
Bay of
Salonika
Chimara
Adriatic Sea
Balkan
Hitler
Yugoslavia
Popolo di Roma
Suez Canal
Dardanelles
Turkey
Near East
Wavell
Churchill
Tripoli
Egypt
Matrun
Power sabotage warned if hostilities break out
Maj Charles W Lethy of Chicago warned that wartime power sabotage could strike vulnerable electric grids and be more feared than bombings He urged radio linked trouble dispatching mobile equipment standardization of turbines and diesels and rapid restoration plans with portable sub stations on trailers or barges for quick deployment
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Chicago
Charles W. Lethy
Electric Light and Power
State Agent Injured After Raid on Downtown Cafe
Jackson state liquor enforcement agent John Wright, 35, was seriously wounded by a knife attack shortly after a raid with two officers on a downtown cafe. Richard Gershan, 48, the cafe manager, was arrested for selling without a permit but fled the scene after Wright was stabbed.
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Hamilton
John Wright
Jackson
Richard Gershan
Wright
Gersan
New Injection Theory Reinforces Resistance
Dr. Gustav J. Martin and Marvin R. Thompson report at an American Chemical Society meeting that a new treatment uses large amounts of artificial body fluids to detoxify poisons. They describe injecting a five chemical mixture into veins to boost the body's natural defenses.
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St, Louis
American Chemical Society
Gustav J. Martin
Marvin R. Thompson
Warner Institute For ‘Therapeutic Research
New York City
Elevator Beheads Child in Cincinnati Incident
Ten year old Peter Weggesser attempted to enter a freight elevator shaft through a door gap in Cincinnati when the elevator descended and decapitated him. Authorities investigated the fatal accident as a tragic lift mishap.
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Cincinnati
Peter Weggesser
British mechanized units rush to defences in Greek peninsula
British flame throwers tanks and armored cars move from Piraeus toward a decisive Balkans battle as reports place 300,000 British troops near Mount Olympus. Bombing raids hit German columns and bridges while Budapest journals claim Nazi advances into Yugoslavia and Albania.
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Africa
Piraeus
Athens
Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Budapest
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Greeks Deny Surrender as Axis Breaks Greek Lines
Nazi communique claims completely isolated Greek forces east of the Vardar surrender. Greek high command denies trapped east wing capitulation after fall of Metaxas Line. German reports cite 80,000+ Greeks captured in Thrace. Allied support unlikely. Balkan war news trickling to London.
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Vardar
Salonika
Macedonia
Greece
Saxas Line
Stuka
Berlin
Thrace
London
RAF Bombers Hit Berlin in Three Hour Night Raid
British RAF night raiders launched a three hour assault on Berlin with powerful high explosive bombs. They damaged the State Opera House on Unter den Linden, burned the Emperor William I Palace, the Prussian State Library, and Bellevue Castle. Fires and smoke lingered in the German capital amid reports of English city bombings and Turkish wartime concerns.
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Berlin
Hitler
State Opera House
Unter den Linden
Broadway
State Opera
Potsdam
Wilhelm II
Newcastle
Birmingham
Ipswich
Southampton
England
Istanbul
Rome Radio
Germany
Franz von Papen
Sukru Saracoglu
Turkey
Ship Buying Power Sought by Roosevelt to Seize Idle Vessels
President Roosevelt asked Congress for broad authority to take over foreign owned vessels lying idle in U S ports with just compensation. The move aims to enable purchase or charter of ships, including Danish vessels held in protective custody, to assist Britain.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Coast Guard
New Process Makes Oil From Coal Proves Viable
Federal Bureau of Mines reports successful experiments converting coal into gasoline and oil. The agency says America’s coal reserves could meet oil demand for about 3,000 years at current consumption levels.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Mines
Bureau
America
Athens reaches yearly high of seventy eight degrees
The high reached 78 degrees in Athens on Wednesday, the year’s top temperature. By noon today the thermometer climbed to 69 after a low of 43 last night.
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Athens
George J. Heinzelman Dies at 67 Former County Collector
George J. Heinzelman once Ross County’s largest man at 382 pounds, a longtime local figure and noted collector of McGuitey readers, has died at age 67 following glandular changes that reversed earlier.
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Chillicothe
Ross County
George J. Heinzelman
Greeks Sack Salonika Before Abandonment
Greek forces set fire to military assets in Salonika port with torch and explosives before retreating as German troops approached. Emmanuel Spanakis, AP, reports arrival and notes a German aerial offensive aimed at intimidating defenders without broader destruction.
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Athens
Salonika
Emmanuel Spanakis
Associated Press
Spanak
Russian Army Backs Yugoslav Pact Amid Balkan War
Red Star, official Soviet army organ, stated the Soviet Yugoslav friendship pact signed before the Balkan conflict is more valuable under new conditions. It said the treaty proves the USSR fulfills its international pledges and underscores the appeal of Soviet peaceful policy.
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Moscow
Red Star
Red Army
Soviet Union
Firemen Aid Johnny Thompson With Oxygen During Pneumonia Crisis
Little Johnny Thompson recovered from pneumonia after a week of shifted firemen administering oxygen.
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Chillicothe
Johnny Thompson
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