Rebels Warn Troops Victory Not Yet Won
Insurgent commanders warned that marching to the sea does not spell final government collapse. Government forces drew new lines north of the Ebro estuary. one army moved to the Mediterranean front weakening the center at Balaguer. Gen Jose Miaja, dubbed savior of Madrid, named virtual southeast military ruler as he urged rear workers to sustain a supreme front effort. Fighting along the Segre continued amid heavy casualties and a halted breakthrough near Balaguer.
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Hendaye
SNS
Sea
Valencia-Barcelona
Vimatox
Ebro River
Mediterranean
Balaguer
Jose Miaja
Madrid
Miaja
Juan Negrin
Minja
Ds 319
Athena
Wbite
Barcelona
Ebro
Tortosa
Miguel Arenda
Garcia Yalinc
Vinaroz
Segre
Pe Sr
Doomed Japs Hold Eager Chinese Off
Shanghai April 17 Chinese troops storm Yibsien walls using interior weapons and ancient swords, but Japanese defenders hold the city. Reports say 10,000 Japanese are encircled, ammunition running low, food scarce, while Chinese guerrillas push to Tsheehwang aiding the beleaguered Japanese.
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Shanghai
Yibsien
Yihsien
Shantung Province
Tsheehwang
Ture
All Churches Plan Easter Services In City Suburbs
Charlestonians plan Easter observances across the city and suburbs. Sunrise services will be held at several churches, including an outdoor service organized by youth groups. Sacred Heart offers 10:30 a.m. mass with Gounod’s Missa Choralis and a chamber ensemble. Holy communion will be distributed in Catholic churches starting at 6:45 a.m. The Holy Land reports a deadly Easter week clash, with at least 19 dead as Arab terrorists and British troops clash near Jenin and Bassa ahead of Easter processions.
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Sacred Heart
Louise Kenna Henderson
W. S. Mason
Cletus Hanley
Roscoe Spence
Martin Hopkins
John Clancey
Mary Fuller
Ann Mitchell
Catherine Clarkson
Sally
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Bassa
Jenin
Transjordan
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Nebi Musa
Mosque of
Omar
Post Office Site Appraisal Committee Named
A committee of Charleston businessmen appointed by the Treasury Department procurement division will appraise four proposed sites for a new 975000 post office. Postmaster Julius W. Singleton said the process, used to check bidder prices, selects one of the ten originally proposed sites. The four favored locations include sections on Washington Street Summers Laidley Capitol Street Dickinson Street and Kanawha Street with a value based appraisal due in two weeks.
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Charleston
Treasury Department
Julius W. Singleton
Singleton
Hep
Washington Street
Summers
Laidley
Capitol Streets
Daniel ‘Boone Hotel
Donnally Street
Dickinson Street
Lee
Washington
Kanawha Street
Broad, Dunbar
Virginia
Postal
H. L. Wehrle
Kanawha Investment Company
Jon A. Field
Thomas Field and Company
Arnold A. Barnes
Fairbanks Gas Company
Wehrle
Conscience prompts thief to return $709 diamond ring
PITTSBURGH April 16 A conscience stricken thief returned to Mrs. Charles P Conway today a $709 diamond ring stolen from her home last week. Conway found the ring attached to an envelope on the doorstep with her name but no message.
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Pittsburgh
Charles P. Conway
Easter Shopping Rush Tingles Kanawha Valley Stores
Thousands crowded downtown Charleston as Easter trade drew brisk crowds. Retailers displayed a wide range from baby chicks and jewelry to flowers and decorations while apparel shops led sales. Busy movie houses restaurants and light holiday traffic marked the bustling day.
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Charleston
Spending Plans Aid Defense Push
President Roosevelt’s recovery program fuels a House drive to approve a 42.59 million fund for air and harbor defenses nationwide. Texas Rep. Maury Maverick warns the Atlantic coast is vulnerable to warship raids and the nation is largely undefended against air attacks. The Senate had approved the air and harbor defense increase as part of a 490 million army appropriation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Maury Maverick
Texas
Atlantic
Senate
Broad Safety Campaign In West Virginia Planned
State safety drive led by Safety Director W. Easley and Trooper Col. C. C. Tathmar aims to slash highway deaths by 10 percent from last year. Over a million literature pieces and 100,000 placards will be distributed statewide as thousands of drivers are checked and schools and civic groups mobilized for the nationwide 25th anniversary Safe Council campaign.
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Westernia
W. ©. Easley
Col
C. C. Tathmar
West Virginia
National Safety’ Council
Paign
Easley
Automobile Safety Foundation
Automobile Manufacturers Association
National Safety Poundit
Insurance Companies
Department of Public Safety
Green Pushes AFL Endorsement For Wage Bill
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor backs a revised wage and hour bill calling for specific universal wage floors and hour ceilings with Justice Department enforcement. Rep. John J. O’Connor urges passage as AFL support cites a 25 cent minimum wage and 40 hour week as starting points.
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Washington
INS
Congress
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Vianket
John J. O'Connor
New York
House Rules Committee
Green
AFL
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Juice Department
Congress Split On Bond Taxes
Washington April 16 The Roosevelt plan to tax exempt bonds and government employees salaries would yield 185 million annually in federal revenue and reopen a constitutional struggle over taxing exempt securities. The Borah amendment to tax future government bonds stays central as conservatives and liberals clash over constitutional routes and court precedents.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Treasury
Congress
Supreme Court
House
Ways and Means
Sen
Borsh
Idaho
Blood Mystery Sparks Chicago Crowd On Street
In Chicago on April 16 a crowd gathered around a pool of red liquid on a sidewalk after a caller reported someone jumped from a window. Police found a janitor mooning the spot who said a boy dropped a bottle of red ink, with witnesses recalling the sight as a strange blood mystery. A separate note from Eustis Nebraska reports a tornado wrecking farms and wounding a home while a motto on a wall reads God Bless Our Home.
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Chicago
Eustis
William Hangen
Stock Market Surges On Recovery Drive Across Nation
New York reports a broad rise in U S government bonds and industrial stocks as the recovery program in Washington boosts investor demand. Wall Street reopens after Good Friday with gains and renewed bidding while foreign markets stay closed for Easter.
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New York
Wall Street
Washington
U.S
Sprint
Roosevelt
Congress
Chicago Board of Trade
Pius XI Hails British Italian Peace Pact
In Vatican City Pope Pius XI praised the Britain Italy friendship pact as a step toward peace. The pope spoke after canonization news and blessed his family before a four hour mass at St Peter's on Easter. The ceremony will be broadcast by Vatican radio and stations in America plan to air the pope’s blessing.
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Holy Father
Vatican City
Pius XI
Britain
Italy
Pope Pius
Cardinal Pacelli
St. Peter's
Aminta Milani
Andrea Bobola
Giovanni Leonardi
Mother of God
Salvatore da Horta
Order of the Little Brothers
Cardinal Granito
Vatican Radio
America
National
Columbia Broadcasting Systems
Levy Election Approved For Marion County Schools
Attorney General Clarence W Meadows approves a special levy election to fund a nine month school term and future years. He notes the board could legally commit future levies to pay teachers and staff for the ninth month if the election passes, or include a payment item in the election call for future funding.
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Marion County
Clarence W. Meadows
Meadrows
W. W. Trent
H. H. Rose
Marion County Board of Education
Treatment of Boy Ordered by Court
Dallas authorities moved to remove Billy Joe Hart a 13 year old boy critically hurt in an auto crash from his parents home. Followers of Rev J H Hart confronted officers as they ferried him to a Dallas hospital. Police and ambulance driver were bruised as reserves cleared a crowd of about 500. The parents insisted prayer alone could cure their son.
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Dallas
Tex
INS
Billy Joe Hart
J. H. Hart
Hart
Daladier Seeks Plan Approval
Paris reports Premier Edouard Daladier called a cabinet meeting for Wednesday to secure final approval of his plan to rebuild France’s international front through understandings with Italy and Great Britain. The program includes closer British ties, cooperation with Britain, and a Franco Italian pact following talks with London at month’s end.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
France
Italy
Great Britain
Britain
London
Angio-Halien
Are
Daladier
Georges Bonnet
Neville Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Rome
Count
Nazi Plot Against Romania Government Discovered by Police
In Bucharest on Sunday April 17 the interior ministry reported a police sweep uncovered weapons and munitions in homes of Lieutenants of Corneliu Zeles Codreanu. Documents allegedly show orders to arm followers to march on Bucharest and create an iron guard Romania. Hundreds of Codreanu sub-leaders were arrested. chief suspected remains unclear.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Ministry of the Interior
Nasi
Corneliu Zeles Codreanu
Codreanu
Romania
Iron Guard
Leglownsires
Codcesnu
Atatra
Increase in Sun's Rays Found to Freeze Earth
New York April 16 A Royal Institution report from London says a discovered effect of sunlight on Earth could explain past ice ages. An increase in sunshine may have cooled the globe rather than warmed it, resolving geologists’ note that tropics were icy while poles were hot.
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New York
Sir George Simpson
Royal Institution
London
Bolves
Tropics
India
Hydrabad
Gwallar
Thdore
Barodi
Smong High
Rote Paris Accord opens path to peace bloc in Europe
Rome and London sign a pact easing African and Mediterranean tensions amid Mussolini and Chamberlain’s approval. Key terms require Italy to withdraw fighters from Spain, Britain to push Ethiopia recognition through the League, and both nations to curb propaganda and honor earlier naval and Suez arrangements.
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Rome
Italy
Great Britain
Europe
Benito Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Spain
Bininier
Galeazzo Ciano
Perth
Iyrant
Britain
League of Nations
Ethiopia
United States
France
Libya
Students Strike Triumph at Center Point School Board
Center Point April 16 INS: Eighty students who sat in and held the school against all comers won their strike tonight after the school board granted all their demands. The mass meeting followed a clash with authorities as the board faced a public building takeover by the students. The town remained tense as officials defended the decision.
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Amerix Em
de C. E. Lisbo
Dr. Lisbo
Wagner
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