Finance Group Members Declare 8 Percent Likely
Washington April 9 two Senate finance committee members George and Taft said Congress may need to double personal income taxes and raise corporate rates to fund defense and British aid. George proposed doubling the personal rate to 8 percent and raising the corporate rate to 30 percent with possible exemptions reductions. Taft supported higher rates and considered a payroll or sales levy to raise needed revenue.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
Georgia
Tait
Ohio
Congress
Finance Committee
Taft
Morgenthau
Committee Named To Revise S. D. Course Of Study
State Supt J F Hines announced a seven member committee to revise the ten year old South Dakota elementary course of study. John W Headley of Madison will chair, with Calthorp Aberdeen Lindsey Mitchell rentson Miller Schafer Belle Fourche Guhin Aberdeen and Hazel Peterson Pierre. Subcommittees will prepare material for the revised course aimed for the 1942 school year. The plan seeks a smaller cheaper course for districts and will be reviewed by county superintendents at June 18-19 Rapid City.
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Pierre
J. F. Hines
South Dakota
John W. Headley
Madison
Charles J. Calthorp
Aberdeen
John C. Lindsey
Mitchell
Winifred Rentson
Miller
Lillian Schafer
Rapid City
Naval Aid Suggested to Cut Britain's Sea Losses
The maritime commission chief Rear Admiral Emory S. Land urged U S help to Britain against Nazi convoy raiders saying Americans could aid by helping to quell the fires oflosses rather than only fueling Britain. He noted Britain’s shipping losses near five million tons annually and warned replacements were insufficient. Roosevelt announced plans to seize and purchase 30 Danish ships totaling about 135000 tons, seeking funds from Congress.
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Britain
Land of Maritime
FDR
Washington
Maritime Commission
United States
Emory S. Land
America
Land
Roosevelt
Kiel Is Raked By British Bombers
Powerful British bomber forces hit Kiel again last night, with attacks extending to Bremerhaven Emden and oil tanks at Rotterdam aided by favorable weather. The raid was called more impressive than the prior night, though five RAF planes were lost. Coventry and other English targets suffered damage as German Luftwaffe retaliated with daylight raids and minor Welsh air battles followed.
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RAF
London
Kiel
Bremerhaven
Emden
Rotiterdam
Air Ministry
Conventry
England
Coventry
More Speed For Defense Program in Wartime Push
Washington reports defense chiefs to press for faster U S preparations after President Roosevelt urged greater progress. He noted $1.8 billion spent in the first quarter of 1941 for construction and materials, versus $1.4 billion in late 1940, and joked about speeding up with chestnut burrs.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Generous Rains Help South Dakota Farmers After Heavy Three Day Rains
Farmers welcomed soaking rains across eastern South Dakota, with Huron reporting 1.65 inches in three days and Sioux Falls 2.03. Yankton reached 2.28 total, Mitchell 1.79, and Brookings 1.55. Continued drizzle was forecast for east and central areas with warmer conditions in the west.
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South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Yankton
Huron
State Weather Bureau
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Aberdeen
Watertown
Pierre
Rapid City
Brookings
Lemmon
Recall of U S Military Attache Demanded by Italy
Italy demanded the recall of the American military attache in Rome in apparent reprisal for the United States withdrawal of the Italian naval attache from Washington.
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U.S
Italy
Washington
Maly
Rome
United States
German Blitzkrieg Push Strains Allied Defenses in Balkans
War dispatch notes swift German breakthrough into southern Yugoslavia through the Vardar valley. The drive threatens Allied lines, seizes key port and rail hubs, and tests defenses with intensified pace, pressure, and strategic aims in the Balkans.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Balkans
High Command
Vardar
Yugoslavia
Balonike
British Report Massaua Taken Completion Of Conquest
A British source said Massaua, Eritrea’s Red Sea port, had fallen, completing the conquest of the Italian East African colony. Cleanup would be by South African and native troops, freeing British regiments for other duties. The capture could allow Massawa as embarkation port for redeployments and may ease U S objections to Red Sea shipping to Britain.
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London
Eritrea
Red Sea
Massoura
Europe
Britain
Mediterranean
Ten Coast Guard Cutters Released To Great Britain
Washington reports ten coast guard cutters will be transferred to Britain under the lend lease act. The vessels have not yet been delivered and are being prepared for transfer to British crews, with no commercial ships or naval craft involved. The move mirrors prior destroyer transfers and aims to bolster Britain’s Atlantic supply lines. WPA work program notes mention temporary farm jobs not affecting WPA listing.
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Washington
Coast Guard
White House
I. Stephen Early
Early
Atlantic
Britain
World War II Blitz Across Balkans And Africa
The Axis advance reports say Nazi forces reach Salonika and Yugoslavia’s frontier while 300000 Greek troops surrender. Belgrade is bombed as Italians press Yugoslavia, British fleets move in Africa and at sea. Coventry and other British targets suffer mass bombing. RAF strikes Kiel Bremerhaven Emden Rotterdam.
Nazi Bombers Hit English Ports With Massive Raid
Berlin reported seven hundred Luftwaffe planes attacked Portsmouth Coventry and other southern coast targets. British shipping losses included a 4000 ton vessel sunk at Harwich and a 20,000 ton ship damaged. Two British destroyers near Grimsby were hit, and Tyne and mouths ships evacuated. RAF suffered nine aircraft losses in Kiel raid.
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Berlin
Eee
Coventry
New York
NBC
Harwich
Grimsby
eTyneiouth
Samya
Tynemouth
Royal Air Force
Kiel
Two Bodies Recovered From Navy Bomber Wreck
Salvage teams at Norfolk Virginia recovered two bodies and parts of a Navy bomber crewed by two officers and light enlisted men after the aircraft crashed near Great Machipongo inlet. A destroyer marked a buoy and salvage vessels worked in about 25 to 33 feet of water to locate the wreckage.
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Norfolk
Machipongo Inlet
Norfolk Naval Base
Allies Suffer Crushing Defeat In Balkan War
London reports Allied forces suffer a crushing setback as Germany’s advance tightens grip on Greece. Churchill in parliament warns of a Nazi push toward Ukraine and notes British gains in Massaua and Italian East Africa. He calls for use of Irish ports and airfields and vows to block Vichy moves to link French fleets with metropolitan France.
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Churchill
Britain
Germany
Greece
Soviet
Russia
House of Commons
Salonike
Ukraine
Red Sea
France
Africa
Hitler
Greek Front Crumbles as Axis Forces Break In
German blitzkrieg sweeps the Balkans with Salonika fallen and 300,000 Greek troops said to have surrendered or near surrender. Yugoslavia invaded down to the Belgrade region as British forces in Athens wait. Rome claims next target is the Suez Canal while Axis radios announce disrupted Allied sailings at Piraeus.
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Associated Press
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Salonika
Yugoslavia
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Serbia
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Pepolo di Roma
Suca
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Rome
Berlin
Piraeus
Athens
Hitler
Belgrade
Skoplj
Aeros
Sieelbasian
Tapifel
Wea
Streats
Greece
Yugosalavia
Ford Settlement Draws Nearer
New York April 7. Dr John A Steelman reported progress toward settling the Ford Motor River Rouge strike after a long night of talks. Mediators from federal and state levels met with CIO United Automobile Workers leaders and Ford officials to seek a settlement as negotiations continued.
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New York
John A. Steelman
Associated Press
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Ias
CIO United Automobile Workers
Morris Sheppard Dies Texas Prohibition Sponsor
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, dean of Congress by years of service and sponsor of the national prohibition amendment, died today at age 65. Born May 28, 1875 in Wheatville, he helped write prohibition into the Constitution and earned the sobriquet father of the eighteenth amendment.
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Morris Sheppard
Texas
Congress
Wheatville
Texas Hills
East
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