London Bombarded in Worst Raid of War
London faced an eight hour Luftwaffe assault with 400 planes dropping incendiaries and high explosives on the capital. Hospitals, theaters and blocks of fire damaged. casualties reported heavy. Nazi command said reprisal for Berlin bombing and vowed further retaliation.
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Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
London
Empire
Berlin
British Press Association
Wall Street
Lord Stamp
United States
West End
Coventry
Balkan
Greece
Hitler
Aegian
Aliakmon
Servia
Athens
Grips
Mt. Olympus
Sicily
Tripoli
Egypt
North Africa
Fort Capuzzo
Salum
Albania
Scutari
Adriatic
Death sentence date set for Bingo games in Cleveland
Police announce next Wednesday as the death sentence date for all bingo games in Cleveland. Thomas Clothey, assistant safety director, orders bingo operators at churches clubs and other venues to remove paraphernalia and shut down by that time.
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Cleveland
Thomas Clothey
Diners Leave Record Tips Worth 200 Million Last Year
The National Restaurant Association reports American diners left about 200 million dollars in tips during the previous year.
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Chicago
National Restaurant Association Today
Freezing of Steel Prices Provokes Industry Reaction
Industry leaders weighed testing Roosevelt price controls after Leon Henderson issued an order freezing steel and iron prices at the first quarter level. Henderson warned against price increases tied to wage raises and left room for future adjustments based on a price study. Also reported a fatal 50-foot fall at the Columbia Cement plant killing Charles H. Searls, 34, of Zanesville.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Zanesville
Columbia Cement
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Charles H. Searls
Woman With Nine Motherhood Titles Seeks Tenth
Hannibal New York Mrs Horace Pratt 52 holds nine distinct motherhood titles and expects a tenth soon She is a mother mother in law grandmother stepmother stepmother in law step grandmother foster mother foster mother in law and foster grandmother She hopes to become a great grandmother any day.
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Hannibal
N. Y
Horace Pratt
State Board Approves Nelsonville Bond Issue Details
The State Board of Tax Appeals authorized delinquent tax bonds of 4000 dollars for Nelsonville poor relief and 4500 dollars to cover unsecured indebtedness incurred at Logan before January 1, 1941. In Salt Lake City a five state snowstorm centered in Northern Utah closed mountain roads and delayed air travel with four inches of snowfall and blossoming fruit trees bowed.
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Columbus
State Board of Tax Appeals
Nelsonville
Logan
Salt Lake City
Utah
Writer in Thick of ATR Raid
Eyewitness Eddy Gilmore recounts London bombing night with blasts and dust as he and colleague Tom Yabrough shelter in a ruined house. A Red Cross worker lends a tin hat and coffee helps steady nerves before returning to the desk as dawn nears.
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Tom Yabrough
Chickasha
Okla
Yarbrough
Bill Gibson
American Red Cross
Tom
Bill
United States
New York
London
Southern Coal Miners Refuse CIO Contract
Southern soft coal mine operators refuse to sign a CIO United Mine Workers contract that would erase a 40 cent pay differential. Northern operators back a flat seven dollar daily wage across eight Appalachian States, boosting southern pay by 1.40. Federal conciliator John R. Steelman urged prompt agreement, while a northern split could lead to a separate contract. Southern lawmakers planned to seek Roosevelt’s intervention.
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New York
CIO
United Mine Workers
Appalachian
John R. Steelman
Roosevelt
Police Hunt Capone Gang Target Arena Killing Suspect
Chicago police hunted remnants of the Capone mob for questioning over the shooting of John F. Arena 43 editor of the Italian language paper La Tribuna. Investigators named Phillip D Andrea a former Capone associate and part owner of L Italia among those sought.
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Chicago
Capone
John F. Arena
Arena
Fifth Column
William Drury
Phillip D’andrea
L’italia
la Tribuna
Pickets Demand Freedom for Browder and Thaelman in Cleveland
Fifty demonstrators gathered near Cleveland Public Square at the German Consulate urging release of Ernest Thaelman the German Communist leader and Earl Browder former American Communist Party secretary now in Atlanta Federal Prison. Signs read Keep Us Out of War and Free Thaelman and Browder.
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Cleveland
Public Square
Ernest Thaelman
Earl Browder
American Communist Party
Atlanta
Thaelman
Ohio Draft Service Aims 31 500 by May 31 In Training Numbers
Washington reports Uncle Sam’s selective service plans call Ohio men into training at over 5 000 monthly. Chief Carlton Dargusch says Ohio’s total in training would reach 31 500 by May 31 with a nationwide goal of 600 000 in training by July 1.
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Washington
Uncle
Dargusch
Selective Service
Ohio
Mes
Roosevelt says no government control of news
President Roosevelt told editors at the 19th annual convention that there will be no government control of news unless it concerns vital military information. In a letter read by Tom Wallace, he said free speech is in undisputed possession of the press, magazines, motion pictures, and radio and must remain so. Wallace urged focus on Latin American commercial and political issues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Tom Wallace
Wallace
The
Louisville Times
Latin America
Soybean Price Rise Could Alter Farmers' Planting Plans
A 30 cent rise in soybean prices over six weeks boosts the value of stocks still in farmers hands by more than 7 million dollars. Heavy trading in the Chicago board of trade soybean futures pit signals possible changes in spring planting intentions, according to market statistics.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Couple Takes Out Nine Year Old Dare License
Walden C Schoenheider 35 and Helen V Noon 34 obtained a marriage license that sat unused in the county clerk’s office for nine years. Acting on a dare, Schoenheider applied a decade ago and the license, still valid, was finally issued yesterday amid unexpected romance.
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Minneapolis
Walden C. Schoenheider
Helen V. Noon
Schoenheider
Agriculture Department weighs sugar import restrictions plan
Washington report notes the Agriculture Department is considering canceling cane and beet sugar restrictions for the rest of the year to guard against a potential shortage. The move aims to stabilize supply and prices amid evolving market conditions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Willkie Returns to Law Practice as Senior Partner
Wendell Willkie resumes his legal career in New York joining Miller Owen Otis and Bailey as senior partner. He reenters private practice after public service, signaling a return to the firm and a continuing role in commercial law.
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Willkie
New York
Wendell Willkie
Miller, Owen, Otis and Bailey
Wickard Urges 6 Percent Egg Output Rise to 15 Months
Secretary Wickard urged farmers to raise egg production by six percent or 300 million dozen over the next 15 months to ensure ample supplies for the United States and allies under lend lease. He cited higher feeding, 15 percent more chicks, and a 22 cent a dozen floor on egg prices through June 1943, with temporary housing expansion advised.
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Washington
Wickard
Great Britain
Agriculture Department
Chicago
Relief costs fall in Ohio for March
Columbus reports a March relief bill of 1,807,188, down 73,619 from February and 552,317 below March 1940. First quarter relief total reaches 5,589,220, about 1,765,000 under a year ago, with state participation capped at 900,000 and 675,000 for eight months plus 900,000 in December.
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Coluumbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Rumor Nazi Turk Pact fuels Berlin trip rumor
German Ambassador Franz von Papen plans to depart Ankara for Berlin by train to board a flight, following rumors of a potential non aggression pact between Germany and Turkey. Embassy spokesman says he travels to report on the situation amid unresolved rumors.
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Ankara
Turkey
Franz von Papen
Berlin
Istanbul
Germany
Mogul Schenck Convicted of Tax Evasion in 1935 36
New York jurors found movie mogul Joseph M. Schenck guilty on two tax evasion counts for 1935 and 1936 after a 10 hour deliberation. Co defendant Joseph Moskowitz was convicted on the 1936 tax charge and acquitted on others. Schenck faces up to 10 years in prison and fines up to 20000. he argued overpayment.
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New York
Joseph M. Schenck
Joseph Moskowitz
Schenck
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Hollywood
Europe
Italian Editor Urges U S to Appease Axis
Virginio Gayda, a leading Fascist journalist, told Li Giornale D Italia in Rome that the United States should appease the Axis before England faces an impending defeat. He warned that continued aid to England could be seen as hostile policy harming the United States in the end.
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Rome
Virginio Gayda
United States
England
America
Li Giornale D
Dead Woman Found With $3,180 Hidden in Clothes
Cincinnati police report 80 year old Alma Mitchell found dead in bed by a neighbor. Patrolman Albert Weller said $3,180 in old style bills was found secreted in pockets of her clothing.
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Cincinnati
Alma Mitchell
Albert Weller
Ore Season Opens Early in Conneaut Harbor
The ore season began three weeks ahead of schedule with five carriers arriving yesterday to unload the first cargoes, marking a prompt start at Conneaut Harbor.
New Levies To Produce 3 12 Billion
Secretary Morgenthau announced that a united congressional leadership would seek 3.5 billion dollars in new taxes for the coming year. The plan aims to cover about two thirds of projected expenditures of 19.0 billion, with borrowing to fill the gap. The tax measures may include a general sales tax and payroll taxes, and both parties supported the proposal.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Treasury
Senate
House
Communal Plan Proposed to Expand Defense Production
Nearly 17 000 manufacturers report readiness to expand defense output by billions annually. NAM survey shows plants ready with machinery and space, thousands of new workers, pursuing pooled production to meet prime contracts and stimulate subcontracting. Plan aims to prevent labor migration and factory oversupply while boosting efficiency for 1941 defense orders.
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New York
National Industrial Council
The
National Association of Manufacturers
William C. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
Walter B. Weisenburger
NAM
Washington
Defense Contract Service
OPM
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Britain
Air Ministry
Caproni
Mai Edaga
Italy
State Board
Eddy Gilmore
A. P
By Eddie Gilmore
Southern Coal Miners
Browder
NEA Telephoto
Iena
Jian Bune
Ege
von Papen
U.S
Axis
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