Entry Of German Hordes Into Athens Expected By Nightfall
German forces overwhelm positions around Thermopylae and north of Athens as air attacks pound Greek harbors and shipping. Churchill's Sunday radio speech may signal British withdrawal from Greece and shift focus to North Africa. Portugal braces for possible German move with Salazar promising neutrality while Azores defenses are bolstered and troops deployed.
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Athens
Thermopylae
Greece
Berlin
Winston Churchill
North Africa
London
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Azores
Portugal
Self-Styled Pugilist Clashes With Police Then Arrested
Clyde Perrigo, 27, resisted officers on First Street SE, battled in a squad car, and was jailed for drunkenness and disturbing the peace. At the station he kicked cell bars until Chief Bailey intervened, and Perrigo was shoeless before his Monday court appearance.
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Clyde Perrigo
Jim Bailey
Fred Hasley
Perrigo
First Street
Second
Third Avenues
Sergt
Howard Walsh
Bailey
Caterpillar President to Lead War Material Output
The War Department announced B C Heacock president of Caterpillar Tractor will direct the army production program as assistant to Undersecretary Robert P Patterson Heacock tasked with directing production of tanks guns trucks and ordnance except aircraft for the army and Great Britain starting Monday.
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Washington
War Department
B. C. Heacock
Caterpillar Tractor Company
Army
Heacock
Robert P. Patterson
Great Britain
Patterson
Public Health Assn to Meet in Des Moines May 8 9
The Iowa Public Health Association announced its fifteenth annual meeting to be held May 8 and 9 in Des Moines. Topics include dentistry nutrition practical public health and defense health service maintenance on day one with industrial health the focus on day two. Speakers include Dr John C Brauer of the University of Iowa Dr Mabel Nelson and Fern Goulding of Ames. A H Wieters of Des Moines is president.
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Des Moines
Iowa Public Health Association
John C. Brauer
University of
Yowa
Mabel Nelson
Fern Goulding
Ames
A. H. ‘Wieters
Chicago Rabbi Set to Speak at Coe College
Chicago Rabbi Morton Berman of Congregation Isaiah Israel will lecture at Coe College Monday through the Jewish Chautauqua Society. He will address geography class at 8 40 a.m. on the Palestinian conflict, then the student body at chapel service 9 30 a.m., and conclude with a literature class at 2 10 p.m. He studied at Yale and Columbia and has published several works. A faculty luncheon will follow at Greene Hall.
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Morton Berman
Isaiah Isreal
Chicago
Coe College
Jewish Chautauqua Society of Cincinnati
Berman
Myron L. Koenig
Irving Churchill
Koenig
C. Harve Geiger
W .A Jacobs
First Congregational Church
Yale University
Woolsey
Jewish Institute of Religion
Columbia University
Grenoble Uniece
Hebrew University
Mielziner
Danbury
Connecticut
Davenport
Free Synagogue
New York
Stephen S. Wise
Greene Hall
Farmers Respond Positively to More Production Push
Washington officials said farmers reacted favorably to production increases for pork dairy poultry and eggs and may receive further steps to boost output. The plans aim to raise vegetable production with processor price incentives while supporting Britain and other nations under lend lease. Officials warned farm labor shortages from industry and the draft could worsen unless a draft labor for farms program is found.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture Department
Claude R. Wickard
Britain
Red Cross
Survey shows retail food prices increase in early April
A special 18 city survey for the Office of Price Administration shows prices rising in early April with pork chops up 3 percent flour 1.6 percent eggs 4.6 percent and lard 7.8 percent. Other gains include bacon roasting chickens salmon butter oranges tomatoes navy beans coffee and sugar. Over 1913 to 1918 prices for the same foods rose 87.2 percent while clothing gained 113.4 percent and rent 5.3 percent. Officials propose price stabilization measures including possible lifting of import quotas on coffee and sugar and releasing stockpile funds of 212 million dollars.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration and Supply
Surplus Marketing Administration
Reynolds leads military committee amid globe trotter image
North Carolina senator Reynolds, famed for foreign tours and publicity stunts, heads the military affairs panel. His career spans varied roles and ventures from wrestling to authoring adventure works, aligning early with Roosevelt and later warning against internal threats before backing the selective service act.
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Reynolds
Roosevelt
New Deal
Vindicators
America
Vindicator
North Carolina
Kentucky
Hitler
Bible Sessions At Sunshine Mission Begin Monday
Dr. William L. Pettingill will start a series of Bible expositions at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Sunshine Mission. The program opens with a 30 minute song service featuring Cedar Rapids talent. The conference runs through May 4 on the theme Grace and Faith Plus Nothing from Galatians.
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William L. Pettingill
Sunshine Mission
Cedar Rapids
T. J. Hinkin
Hilmore Cedarholm
WMT
Henderson opposes lumber shipping rate boost plan
Washington In a first action of its kind Federal Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson disclosed he had filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission opposing a proposed rise in steamship lumber rates from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic. He said the increase would harm the defense program.
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Washington
INS
Federal
Leon Henderson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pacific
Atlantic
Henderson
ONeill Convicted of Contempt in Bridges Deportation Case
James D. ONeill radio commentator and former publicity agent for Harry Bridges was found guilty of contempt for failing to answer a federal subpoena to testify at the Bridges deportation hearing in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
INS
James D. O'Neill
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Saturday Marks Saturday High Last Night Weather Scores
Weather table shows Cedar Rapids 24, Bismarck 43, Boston 6, New York 43, New Orleans 38, San Antonio 46, Chicago 48, Cincinnati 83, Detroit 24, Memphis 3, Los Angeles 45, Seattle 4 with varied heat and cool fronts and city-by-city temperature readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Bismarck
Boston
New York
New Orleans
San Antonio
Chicago
St. Laure
Cincinnati
Detroit
Batte
Memphis
Los Angeles
Airwaakes
Seattle
Grinnell Coach Will Speak At Father Son Banquet
Ben Douglas Grinnell College football and basketball coach will speak at the Father and Son banquet on Wednesday at 6 30 p m in the First Evangelical church. The Home Builders class of the Sunday school sponsors the event. Douglas a former Grant high school star and ex Maplewood high school coach previously led Grinnell to a Midwest Conference co championship.
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Ben Douglas
Grinnell College
First Evangelical Church
First Avenue
Third Street
Douglas
Grinnell
Grant High School
Maplewood High School
St. Louis
Coe
Lester Hurtt
J. J. Hurtt
Fruitland Boulevard
Robert Cooper
R. S. Cooper
al Parliment
George Parliment
F Avenue NW
George Holsinger
Sixth Street
Carl Koehn
Clarence Brockman
Myron Pals
Marvin Talbott
Perry Woodward
Pals
Wilbur Canaday
David A. Stofler
Battleship invulnerability doubts after air attacks
The piece argues that even heavily armored first line battleships may survive air and torpedo hits. It notes reports of one heavy bomb strike and air photos, while suggesting experts question certainty of ships being out of action. Mention is made of the Royal Oak loss and a battleship undergoing repairs in American waters after a torpedo hit with undisclosed location details.
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Britain
Royal Oak
Mediterranean
Violinist Fritz Kreisler Struck By Truck In NYC
New York AP reports violinist Fritz Kreisler, 66, was unconscious after a truck strike. He remained at Roosevelt Hospital overnight with a severe head injury and possible skull fracture, but doctors called his condition satisfactory and his blood pressure and pulse normal.
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New York
Fritz Kreisler
Roosevelt Hospital
Kreisler
James I. Russell
Marines and Italians Clash in Shanghai Ballroom
In Shanghai the Majestic ballroom saw roughly a dozen U S Marines and an equal number of Italian Marines engage in a brief free-for-all fight early Sunday. Military police separated the combatants after a few black eyes and sore jaws. no serious injuries were reported. A similar clash occurred Friday night in the same venue.
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Shanghai
United States
Majestic Ballroom
U. S
Turkey Seeks Expanded Trade With Nazi Ally Nations
Istanbul reports Turkey plans to boost trade with Germany and allied states. Turkey would swap tobacco fish cottonseed olive oil and hides for industrial materials chemicals and trucks. Ankara circles say German forces may soon occupy Mytilene and Chios off the Turkish coast.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Germany
Ankara
Mytilene
Lesbos
Khios
Chios
Accuse Toothless Romeo Charged In Widow’s Murder
Chicago police named Orion J. Brown as the suspect in the murder of Mrs Leota Frances Murphy, a 45 year old Marion Indiana widow found dead near Spearman Texas. Authorities link Brown to a pattern of lonely hearts schemes using aliases and staged letters to lure targets. Brown previously served time for mail fraud in 1924.
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Chicago
Mns
North Side
Romeo
Marion
Ind
Texas
Orion J. Brown
Leota Frances Murphy
Spearman
Tex
Brown
Robert E. Lawrence
Murphy
Lonely Hearts
Lawrence
Neil van Eck
Joseph Blodgett
Leavenworth
323 Groups Collect Relief Funds in Belligerent Nations
The state department said 323 organizations had raised 30,303,833 dollars for relief in belligerent countries from September 1939 to last March.
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Washington
State Department
London Children Again Seek Refuge In Country Areas
Wagons with bicycles and baby carriages carried more than 2 500 London children to trains for the countryside after renewed raids. About 2 000 had already left earlier in the week. Families express mixed sentiments as fear and resolve mingle with memories of past evacuations.
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London
Germans Planned African Drive For A Year
Berlin reports reveal that nearly a year of careful planning preceded the German campaign in North Africa. A special Orient motor staff prepared 45 armament pieces and engineers, desert combat veterans, and camouflage experts were deployed to study Libya operations before Rommel led the attack on the army of the Nile.
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Berlin
North Africa
Tripoli
Libya
Africa
East Prussia
Four New Plane Routes From U.S. To Canada Okayed
The civil aeronautics board approved four new cross border routes. United Air Lines will fly mail Seattle to Vancouver. Trans-Canada Airlines gains non stop Toronto to New York City service. American Airlines may add Windsor Ontario and Niagara Falls New York as intermediate points on the New York to Chicago route.
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Washington
INS
Civil Aeronautics Board
United States
Canadian Airlines
United Air Lines Transport Corporation
Seattle
Vancouver
B. C
Trans-Canada Airlines
Toronto
Canada
New York City
American Air Lines, Inc
Windsor
Ont
Niagara Falls
N.Y
New York
Chicago
August Heckscher Dies Aged 92 Philanthropist
August Heckscher, a New York capitalist and noted philanthropist, died at his Mountain Lake home in Lake Wales Florida at age 92. Born in Hamburg on August 27, 1848, he immigrated to the United States in 1867 with limited capital and rose to prominence in finance and charitable work. He supported aid to underprivileged children and the elderly and contributed to slum eradication efforts in New York City.
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City of
New York
One Thing Leads To Another Driver Is Arrested
Eugene Fritz 17 of 1208 First Street NW was arrested after failing to stop at a stop light on First Avenue and Fifteenth Street E. Police found additional violations including no driver’s license, vehicle with no brakes, defective muffler, cracked windshield, unreadable rear plate, and a missing headlight lens. He was booked to appear in police court Monday on running a stop light and operating without a license.
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Eugene Fritz
First Street
First Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Fritz
Legion Head Favors Further British Aid At Risk Of War
Milo J. Warner of Toledo told the Ohio State Bar association in Columbus that the US must dare to follow through and aid Great Britain even if it leads to war. He had recently led a four man mission to England to study defense methods and praised British morale amid the looming conflict.
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Columbus
United States
Great Britain
Milo J. Warner
Toledo
American Legion
Ohio State Bar Association
Warner
England
Greece’s War Broadcast Criticizes Aid Delays From U S
In Athens a radio segment torches U.S. aid promises as Greece laments scarce ambulances trucks and aircraft. The speaker cites a missing influx of planes and materiel saying with more support Greece could have halted Italian advances by December. The broadcast follows a daily 1 45 p m CST English program replacing music with Greece’s plight.
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United States
America
Greece
Cuban Revolutionary Leader Shot Near Death in Havana
Julio Ayala, head of the Realista revolutionary party, was critically wounded when gunmen in a passing car fired a sawed-off shotgun at him in suburban Havana on Saturday.
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Havana
INS
Julio Ayala
Cuban Realista Revolutionary Party
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