Army Funds Slashed For Next Fiscal Year In Congress
The House Appropriations Committee reduced the army supply bill to 785,999,094 dollars, 67 million below Roosevelt’s recommendation, sending the measure to the floor amid talk of Senate action. General George C. Marshall urged keeping funding near the president’s request as economy efforts resume in Washington.
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George C. Marshall
House Committee
War Department
Alaska
Regular Army
National Guard
Panama Canal
Air Corps
Army
Stocks Soar On Buying Surge In New York Market
Big buy orders for steels and industrial stocks push shares up $1 to $4 in the heaviest day of trading since November. United States Steel rises $3.50 to 62.75 as Republic Steel and other major names gain, amid hopes of a Republican swing and signs of a possible industrial upturn.
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New York
Wall Street
United States Steel
Bethlehem
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet
Chrysler
U. S. Rubber
Anaconda
du Pont
American Air Lines
Wisconsin
Stewart McDonald
Federal
Stock Exchange
Wisconsin Primary Boosts Dewey As Roosevelt Declines
Thomas E. Dewey won at least 16 of Wisconsin's 24 national convention delegates in a strong Wisconsin GOP showing. Roosevelt led Garner in the Democratic preference, while a sleet storm slowed tabulation and debates over third-term support dominated the delegate contests.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
John Nance Garner
Vandenberg
Dewey
William Borah
Idaho
Alf M. Landon
Garner
Roosevelts
Daniel Webster Hoan
Carl F. Zeidler
Zeidler
Hoan
Washington
Michigan
New York City
E. B. Germany
Clara Driscoll
Dallas
Tex
Wis
Taft
Wnine Oar
Bluefield Home Fund Campaign Seeks Immediate Support
Bluefield residents slow to back the Davidson Home restoration drive as sponsors urge renewed effort to dismantle and relocate the landmark for a new colored high school. Donations total 609.25 with 1,000 estimated to complete the project by crisis.
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Davidson
Bluefield Park
John Chapman
Daughters of the American Revolution
Blueeld
Frozen Body Found Of Mount Hood Climber Gerald Herrmann
On Mount Hood Oregon the body of Gerald Herrmann 28 was found at the 8000 foot level after a Sunday blizzard. His partner James Lorentz 19 was found frostbitten and windblown after wandering toward shelter. Lorentz had protected Herrmann’s packs and set out alone for help.
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Ore
Gerald Herrmann
Mississippi Head
James Lorentz
Forest Service
Herrmann
White River
Lorentz
Paradise Park
Goering Promises Decisive Westward Blow Amid War Mobilization
Goering told German youths that Hitler has mobilized all resources for a decisive blow in the West and that Britain and France started the war. He praised the 18 day Polish conquest and warned that Germany will strike when time comes as Brauchitsch inspected Western Front troops nearby. He spoke via radio to factories and schools as Nazi orators ramp up public propaganda.
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Herman Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
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Goering
Walther von Brauchitsch
Western Front
Rhimeland
Festival Hall
Air Ministry
Hitler Youth Flying Corps
Britain
France
Fuehrer
England
Germany
Poland
Goer
Westbound TWA Airliner Overruns Embankment at Allegheny Airport
A westbound TWA airliner overshot an embankment at Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburgh. Attendants reported no injuries, but the plane suffered substantial damage.
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Pittsburgh
TWA
Allegheny County
Communist Witness Defies Dies Red Activity Probers
A Boston youth Thomas F P O'Dea president of the Young Communist League of Racine County refused to identify league members at Harvard Dartmouth MIT Boston University Amherst Radcliffe and others. He proclaimed his right to his own opinions and declined to answer questions about U S involvement in a possible war with Russia. The committee pursued contempt citations and pledged to cite O'Dea for contempt.
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Boston
Dies Committee
Young Communist League
Harvard
Thomas Francis Patrick O'Dea
Young Communist
Leama
Raceanhucatia
O’dea
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Dempsey
D-N. M
Earl Browder
United States
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Texas
Dies
O'Dea
Army Flier Dies After Storm Crash Over Lake Erie
Lieut. James Warren Phelps Jr., 23, of Berwyn Pennsylvania, died after his pursue plane crashed in Euclid Ohio while completing a training flight with Selfridge Field pilots. The mission aimed to simulate destroying two bombers before advancing weather forced the group to shelter then resume.
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Cleveland
Lake Erie
James Warren Phelps, Jr
Berwyn
J. N. Stone
Phelps
Judge McClintic sustains demurrer to dam petition
Federal Judge George W. McClintic sustained the West Virginia Power Company's demurrer to the government's condemnation petition for right of way to build the New Stone Dam on the New River near Hinton. The ruling left the petition in its present form but allowed the government to amend. The case seeks lands in Summers and Monroe counties for a 14 million dollar project.
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W. Va
West Virginia Power Company
Uestone
New River
Hinton
George W. McClintic
Summers
Monroe
Bluefield
McClintrec
Bluefield youth Johnson indicted for burglary after reformatory tie
Jurors indicted George Johnson a Bluefield colored youth who confessed to crimes while believed to be an inmate at Lakin colored reformatory. He faces burglary charges for breaking into Mrs Pennington home on Bland road with trial set April 11. Also James Hayes Beckley man pleaded guilty after escape and was sent to the state penitentiary for an indeterminate period.
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George Johnson
Bluefield
Lakin
State Penitentiary
Neutrality Zone Gains Prestige
Washington reports that after six months the western hemisphere neutrality zone has drawn skepticism yet gained support from American republic officials. U S destroyers and planes patrol to Panama with help from Latin American fleets as belligerents resist full acceptance.
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Britain
Germany
France
United States
Panama Canal
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Churchill Heads War Services In Cabinet Change
Paris April 3 Premier Reynaud after talks with his war cabinet and military leaders told America that France and England can win the war and will not accept peace with Hitler. He called Germany totalitarian and vowed to finish it, warned against any compromise as a death warrant, and praised Soviet Russia while urging liberal postwar trade and disarmament among united allies.
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Reynaud
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France
England
Adolf Hitler
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Fighting Naval Chief Is Man of Battle in War Cabinet Shakeup
London key cabinet reshuffle elevates Winston Churchill to head the war services while Sir Kingsley Wood leads home policy and Sir John Simon handles economic policy. Neville Chamberlain forms a Churchill led wartime committee structure with Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and other senior ministers guiding defense and supply.
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Kingsley Wood
John Simon
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Air Ministry
Samuel Hoare
Germany
Goering
Reich
Vital Service Committee
Oliver Stanley
Dudley Pound
Leslie Burgin
Oscar the Poet jailed to dodge mob gun threats
Oscar Freidman an artful junk dealer known as Oscar the Poet was jailed in New York on $50,000 bail over 15 stolen cars sold to junkyards. Police tie him to Brooklyn kill-for-cash syndicate and more than 30 gang murders. He faces arraignment before Judge Franklin Taylor as DA O Dwyer widens a wide criminal probe.
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Bard of Murder, Inc
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Franklin Taylor
William F. O'Dwyer
Oscar Freidman
O'Dwyer
Publisher to appeal contempt ruling in high court
Press magnate Joseph Pulitzer vows to fight a contempt conviction against the St Louis Post Dispatch as a test of press freedom. Judges fined the paper and cited editor Ralph Coghlan and cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, with habeas and certiorari actions filed to seek relief.
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Post-Dispatch
Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer
The
Thomas J. Move
Edward M. Brady
Ralph Coghlan
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
Ben H. Reese
Jefferson City
Coghlan
Fitzpatrick
Missouri Supreme Court
Rains Add To Flood Dangers In Susquehanna Valley
Heavy rains return to the Susquehanna flood region from New York state into Wilkes-Barre and Towanda. Sleet and hail accompany downpours as observers fear renewed rise toward the flood crest and additional damage, though forecast officials say no major change in river levels is expected.
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Susquehanna River
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Susquehanna
Vale Ley
Sunbury
Susquehanna Valley
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Maryland
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