Hitler Drives Balkans Invasion as Belgrade Bombed
War dispatches describe Adolf Hitler ordering harsh actions in the Balkans as German bombers strike Belgrade. Analysts caution initial gains lag Poland, with resistance expected from Serbs Greek and British forces. Addis Ababa falls suggesting shifted supply routes to Greece, while American aid to Yugoslavia remains limited and months away. The piece notes U.S. production constraints and calls for a Roosevelt fireside chat to boost morale and policy action. Public beer regulation debates in Iowa also surface amid broader war-time concerns.
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Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Yugoslav
Hitler
Addis Ababa
Mussolini
Greece
Americas
Far East
Europe
France
Athens
Macedonian
Lyse
Labor Board orders quick union votes at Ford River Rouge Lincoln
National Labor Relations Board orders elections within 45 days to determine bargaining agents at Ford Motor Co plants River Rouge and Lincoln. Wage talks extended to April 15 avert immediate steel strike while SWOC and U S Steel continue talks and consider retroactive 10 cent wage rise.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Lincoln
United Press
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
National Steel Corporation
New Mediation Planned in Wilson Strike Talks
Federal mediator John W. Cofer returned from Chicago with a new bid to mediate the packinghouse workers strike at Wilson and the Omaha plant. He called a 4 pm meeting of union and management leaders, business men, and Mayor Frank Hahn at the Montrose hotel to push negotiation efforts.
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Allis-Chalmers
Roosevelt
New Defense Mediation Board
Appalachian Ranges
Ford Meeting
Wilson and Company
Omaha
John W. Cofer
Chicago
Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee
Cofer
Frank Hahn
Montrose Hotel
Business Men's Committee
Morris Sanford
A. L. Killian
A. L. Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
Tony Stephens
PWOC
Lewis J. Clark
United States
Midwest
Cedar Rapids
Clark
Ramsey Wilson
St. Paul
Sam_ Sponseller
Frank McCarthy
Roy Franklin
Austin
Minn
Edward Fitzpatrick
Solon Burkhardt
Mrs. Bonsib Hurt in Crash East of Council Bluffs
Mrs. Ray M. Bonsib age 42 of 1714 Park Avenue SE suffered facial and body cuts a possible fractured jaw and other injuries in a automobile crash seven miles east of Council Bluffs on highway 6 Monday afternoon. The car reportedly rolled over three times. She travels for Walker Brothers building stone company of Bloomington IL and was en route from Cedar Rapids to Omaha on business.
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Cedar Rapids
Ray M. Bonsib
Park Avenue SE
Council Bluffs
Highway 6
Associated Press
Bonsib
Walker Brothers Building Stone Company
Bloomington
Omaha
Five Reappointments Made To City Boards
Five non paid appointments to city commissions announced by Mayor Hahn and officials. J Hervert George B Sherman Horace G Hedges and Ed Sheftie renamed to the city plan commission for five years expiring Jan 1 1946. Robert Vesely reappointed to the library board for five years effective April 7 1941.
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Frank Hahn
J. Hervert
George B. Sherman
Horace G. Hedges
Ed Sheftie
City Plan Commission
Robert Vesely
Library Board
Britain to Raise Income Tax to Fifty Percent in War Budget
London reports that Sir Kingsley Wood announced in the House of Commons the 1941-42 budget outlining expenditure projected well above five billion pounds. The plan increases the standard income tax rate to ten shillings in the pound or fifty percent, retains a one hundred percent excess profits tax with twenty percent to be refunded after the war, and introduces a compulsory savings scheme aligned with Keynesian ideas.
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London
Great Britain
Kingsley Wood
House of Commons
Wood
Britain
United States
John Maynard Keynes
Motorist Injured In Cedar Rapids Culvert Crash
Albert G. Jackson, formerly of 3128 Waveland drive NW, was injured at 2 45 p.m. Sunday when his car left highway No. 30 near Cedar Rapids, struck a culvert, and suffered head and chest injuries. He received first aid from a Mount Vernon physician and was taken to St Luke's hospital. His dog companion at the time was uninjured.
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Albert G. Jackson
Waveland Drive
Diogenes Here’s Your Man Morningstar Finds Wallet With $230 On Street
Gilbert Morningstar, a dairy driver from 217 Sixth Street NE, found a billfold on Twenty second Street NE between B and C Avenues at 6 am containing four fifty dollar bills, one twenty and one ten. He notified Wilfred Schuster of Hopkinton whose name was inside and who ordered the money sent then planned to claim it himself.
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Cedar Rapids
Diogenes
Gilbert F. Morningstar
Sixth Street
Morningstar
Wilfred Schuster
Hopkinton
Schuster
U S Seeks Rapid Arms Aid to Slavs Greece
The United States rushed war supplies to Yugoslavia and Greece after Secretary Hull branded Germany s Balkan invasion barbaric and pledged speedy aid. Boots include 75 mm guns and other materiel drawn from U S stocks while Red Cross to ship field hospitals and medical supplies. Over 2 000 Americans in Belgrade were noted as in the embattled region.
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U.S
Greece
Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Hull
Germany
Balkan
Atlantic
Roosevelt
United States Army
Norman H. Davis
Red Cross
Britain
R.A.F
Bathurst
Hog Prices Reach Highest Since War Outbreak
Hog prices jumped 50 to 74 cents per hundredweight to about 9.10, highest since September 1939 when war broke out in Europe. The gain neared the 9 dollar level government plans to support production. Prices now about double a year ago with a week’s rise tied to producer holding and supply buildup for slaughter.
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Chicago
Europe
Hull Praises Red Slavi Pact Before Invasion Date
Secretary of State Hull hailed the Red Slavs pact between Russia and Yugoslavia as encouraging while noting American envoys in the Balkans remained cut off from the state department. He said the agreement showed a growing awareness of conquest by force and declined further interpretation.
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Washington
Russia
Yugoslavia
Germany
Balkan
Hull
Balkans
State Department
Haze Lifts As Cedar Rapids Sees Warm Day
A heavy haze dimmed the sun in Cedar Rapids yet temperatures rose from 41 degrees at 5 30 a m to 58 degrees by 2 30 p m. Readings ranged from 47 at 9 30 a m to 50 degrees Sunday afternoon and 48 by 7 p m, with a cooler midnight value.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Nazis Report Advance Into Yugoslavia and Greece
Germans claim 18 to 25 mile gains in Yugoslavia while Greek defenders hold fast at the Struma front. Belgrade endures Luftwaffe bombs as British and Allied air forces strike targets in Sofia Budapest and Belgrade during the early Balkan fighting.
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Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Greece
Yugeslavia
Balkan
Struma
Athens
London
Istanbul
Belgrade
Sofia
Bulgaria
Cairo
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Turkey
NEA Telephoto
War's New Theater
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Harry Boyd
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Allis- Chalmers
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Milwaukee
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