Steelman Still Hopes Accord Will Be Found
Chief federal conciliator John R. Steelman reported substantial agreement on a new union labor contract in the coal industry but warned that efforts to reach a nationwide accord have delayed mine reopenings. Northern and southern Appalachian operators have discussed wage increases and eliminating the regional differential, with negotiations set to resume after a month-long deadlock.
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New York
John R. Steelman
United Mine Workers of Amercia
CIO
Aireastern
Kentucky
Tennessee
Steelman
National resources board urges coal chemical link and summer ramp
The National Resources Planning Board recommends closer coal and chemical industry coordination as a long range plan to use coal as chemical feedstock. A short term program aims to revive mining via summer markets, river traffic, and freight rate readjustments to move coal to Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan ports.
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Washington
Coal and Chemical Industries
National Resources Planning Board
Congress
Roosevelt
Seichigas Ports
Chic
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Yards And Shops Workers Idle Amid Coal Strike Effects
Unofficial sources report about 200 N. and W. yards and shops employees laid off temporarily as the coal strike stalls traffic through the division terminal. Roughly half are yard workers and half work in the shops. No bill coal cars in the N and W lines numbered around 1,000, expected to drop to near 900. Three hundred coal handling train crews are idle due to mine shutdown.
Body of bomber crewman found off Virginia coast
Norfolk Va April 8 the body of one crewman from a naval patrol bomber that crashed offshore near Great Machipongo inlet was pulled to port by a destroyer after hours of sea bottom dragging. The plane carried two officers and eight enlisted men on a transfer flight from Norfolk to Quonsett Point Rhode Island.
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Norfolk
Great Machipongo Inlet
Navy
Coast Guardsmen
Naval
Naval Air Station
Quonsett Point
R. 1
Coast Guard
Washington
New Jersey
G. N. Blackburn
Naval Reservist
Lenni Mills
British toll from Nazi air raids rises to 29,630 dead
London reports total civilian casualties from June 1940 to March 1941 reach 29,630 killed and 40,930 wounded. About a quarter of all casualties occurred in London, with March alone recording 9,816 casualties including 4,259 deaths. The Gowac heavy assault added 1,100 deaths and 1,000 injuries in March.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Home Security
Gow
Ford Officials Hold First Meet With CIO Chiefs
Michigan Governor says new developments in the Ford strike are encouraging to all parties as CIO leader Philip Murray meets Ford officials in Detroit. Talks aim to resume operations at River Rouge. about 200000 workers affected. Murray had planned to meet President Roosevelt in Washington, who will defer mediation.
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Michigan
Mediation Board
Associated Press
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Philip Murray
CIO
Detroit
Ford Company
Cio-United Automobile Workers
Ford
River Rouge
Murray D. van Wagoner
Murray
Roosevelt
Washington
Defense Mediation Board
Belgrade Bombed as Yugoslav Communique Claims Victory
London reports Yugoslav government says on all fronts the situation favors them while Belgrade lies in ruins from Nazi air attacks. Croat leader urges complete discipline as Yugoslav radios broadcast from Zagreb and Belgrade amid German assault.
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London
Belgrade
Reuters
Yugoslavia
Vladimir Macek
Zagreb
Ministry of Information
Voice Of Lone Ranger Fades In Traffic Mishap
Earl W. Graser 32 voice of the Lone Ranger was killed in Farmington Michigan when his car struck a parked trailer at 5 am He promoted traffic safety with his famous on air messages at WXYZ Detroit and the Lone Ranger program will continue with a new narrator Beemer Graser lived quietly with his wife and daughter in a Farmington home built in 1842 his secret on air identity contrasted with private life confirming his long running role until his death.
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Farmington, Mich
Earl W. Graser
Farmington Methodist Church
Detroit
Graser
Friends of the Lone Ranger
Beemer
Farmington
Lone Ranger
WXYZ
City Plans New Police Posts to Ease Downtown Traffic
The city board approved adding one regular officer to the public safety department and at least four traffic men to ease congestion and boost North Side protection. The extra staff will work at the Federal building Raleigh and Federal streets Bland street and Princeton avenue plus other sites as needed. Officers will operate Saturdays and other times set by the city manager.
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North Side
Emory P. Mitchell
Department of Public Safety
Federal Building
Raleigh
Federal Streets
Bland Street
Princeton Avenue
Lot 10
Clovis Street
City of
Mitchell
Wa Brothers Circus
Bluefield
If 21
J. A. Douglas Bailey
Dairyman
WPA
Mexico Expropriates German and Italian Ships
President Avila Camacho issues a decree expropriating 12 German and Italian merchant ships held by the Mexican navy at Tampico and Vera Cruz. The navy will crew 100 Italian and two German vessels for coastwise and international trade. Claims against expropriation are deferred until the end of the European war.
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Mexico City
Avilla Camacho
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Ministry of the Navy
Mexico
Roosevelt plans to buy 39 Danish ships in custody
President Roosevelt announced plans to purchase 39 Danish merchant ships held in protective custody and indicated forefeiture could seize 30 axis vessels. He asked Congress for authorization and noted Danish minister Henrik de Kauffman's White House visit.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Atlantic
United States
Germany
Italy
Congress
Henrik de Kauffman
White House
Pilot Instructors Killed Student Hurt In Morgantown Crash
In Morgantown West Virginia an two passenger trainer crashed near the airport killing instructor Thomas N Tracy 21 and injuring student Brockman Wao 20. The wreckage struck a home lawn and a tree during an attempted landing. CAA officials will conduct a formal investigation.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Thomas N. Tracy
New Philadephia
West Virginia University
A. Caenautic
Brockman
Wao
Martinsburg
U. 8
Pioneer Air Service
John Ray Davis
CAA
Pittsburgh
Tracy
Butler
Axis advance in North Africa nears Tobruk occupation
Rome reports rapid Axis push beyond Derna toward Tobruk signaling possible seizure of the Libyan port. British defensive withdrawal eastward cited as General Wavell weighs shifting forces to the Balkans to disrupt Yugoslav operations amid Italian Yugoslav patrol clashes.
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Rome
North Africa
Derna
Yugoslavia
Tobruk
Perna
Archibald P. Wavell
Libya
Balkans
Egypt
Berlin
Bengasi
Djebel el Agbar
Talians
Il Lavoro Fascista
Kicevo
Skoplie
Tetovo
Lake Ohrid
Struga
Roosevelt pledges aid to Yugoslavs after invasion
President Roosevelt renews material aid pledges and praises Yugoslav resistance to Germany. He vows U S support under existing statutes and hints at lease lend terms, as King Peter II receives the message. The State Department notes all American legation staff are safe amid the Belgrade crisis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Peter II
United States
Yugoslavia
Great
Greece
China
Belgrade
State Department
Arthur Bliss Lane
London
Gamega Lane
Tee Ted
Legation
Coventry Bears Brunt of Attack
A West Midlands town, Coventry, faced two overnight Luftwaffe raids on April 9. British night fighters repelled the first, AA guns provided some protection, and a second heavy strike hit a school and a hospital. Two Nazi planes were shot down.
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West Midlands
England
Coventry
British Bomber Raids Kiel in Heavy Night Attack
London reports say last night’s raid on Kiel dumped the heaviest load of bombs in a single night with hundreds of tons of high explosives and over 30 000 incendiaries. British air crews pounded the submarine yards and warehouses, setting large buildings ablaze and guiding subsequent waves with fires across the town center.
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London
Germany
Kiel
Empire
Air Ministry
Deutsche Werke
Helgoland
Formal protest of picketing ban filed by attorney
Martinsburg West Virginia April 8 President Julian Caldwell of Local 92 American Federation of Hosiery Workers CIO said a formal protest of an injunction restraining mass picketing of Interwoven Stocking company has been forwarded to U S district attorney Joe V Gibson. The union contested the injunction issued by Circuit Judge D H Rodgers affecting 310 non strikers as part of a dispute causing partial stoppage since March 21. The protest seeks investigation of the injunction at the suggestion of Wendell Berge assistant U S attorney general. Four strikers were held for grand jury action for obstructing traffic near the plant after new workers reported a road blocking incident last Friday.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Julian Caldwell
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
CIO
U. S
Joe V. Gibson
D. H. Rodgers
Caldwell
Gibson
West Virginia
Wendell Berge
Robert H. Jackson
G. W. F. Mulliss
Pareeet J.C. Wolf
Arpl
British Troops Face Nazis in Northern Greece
A New York report notes 40 000 to 60 000 British infantry and mechanized units deployed to oppose a German push in northern Greece amid wartime broadcasts.
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Greece
New York
Winston Surdteet
CBS
Turkey
Columbus Broadcasting Meee
Greek Forces Are Narrowly Held As German Drive Near Salonika
Athens reports that a German mechanized division moved from the Yugoslav border toward Salonika threatening to en circle Greek units holding the Struma passes. Doiran area withdrawal by Yugoslavs left the Greek flank exposed while Greeks claimed successes along the Bulgarian frontier.
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Athens
Salonika
Struma
Macedonia
Vardar
Doiran
Salonike
Jaan Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Sweptir
Struma River
Nevrokop
Dartavil
Nazis Reach Key City of Skoplje Yugoslav Center
German sources report their forces advancing from Bulgaria and Romania toward Skoplje and Nis in Yugoslavia. Skoplje, a major Vardar valley hub about 100 miles from Salonika, sits near a potential Greek front as the German advance presses 28 miles closer with Yugoslav defenses shifting to Vranje.
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Skoplje
Berlin
Bulgaria
Rumania
Skopije
Vardar
Salonika
Greece
Nis
Moreve
Sued Rere Tamelenarm Repor Rom
Hungary
Vranje
Reu Wsy
Skopijje
Skoplije
Yugoslavia
Rupesles
Serbia
Ece
Skoplie
Yugosla’s
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Cleveland
Aluminum Company of America
Alex Balint
CIO Die Casters’ Union
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ALCOA
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
UMW
SWOC
Ferm Machine and Foundry Co
Iegal
William F. Donovan
Union
Worcester
Mass
Johnson Steel and Wire Co., Inc
Akron
Ohio
Los Angeles
Thomas
Military
Dies
Radio
Vadar
Mobile
Ala
Galveston
Tex
Denmark
Tobruk Nears
Wavell
THE
Coventry Bears
RAF
Yugoslav
Ison
Skophelish
Naris
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