FDR Pleads For 10 Year Peace Amid Dictator Talks
Allied powers move to secure a decade of peace as FDR appeals to dictators while Britain seeks Soviet support to balance Europe. Britain tightens defenses with Spain and Italy concerns, Poland and Romania reinforce eastern frontiers, and the Welsh Guards head to Gibraltar. Outposts expand from Kenya to Hong Kong as empire defense budgets rise and emergency laws take effect.
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Maximy Litvinoff
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Nairobi
Kenya
Ethiopia
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Union of South Africa
Absent-Voter Accommodations For City Election
The city auditor’s office at City Hall will open Sunday from 10 a m to 5 p m to assist absent voters ahead of the municipal election next Tuesday. Two issues face Huron electors including legalization of on sale liquor licenses and choosing three city commissioners for 3 year terms from four candidates. Incumbents John Kautz Jess Burns and Frank Ripley seek re election with George Tobin challenging one to break a tie in the 1934 race.
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Army And Navy Plan Defense Exercise On East Coast
Providence Rhode Island April 1 army and navy finalize plans for a theoretical defense against a foreign invasion. War games simulate attacks on New England seaboard and New York New Jersey with battleships submarines coast guard planes aircraft carriers and air support. National defense forces will operate from Hillsgrove Rhode Island airfield.
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Legion Parley At Pierre Tomorrow See 690 Visitors
Preparations were completed to host about 690 visitors at the South Dakota American Legion Department and Auxiliary spring conference in Pierre. After registration, a Dutch lunch and dance are planned in the city auditorium with a reception for Mrs. Albert Giles Porter. Governor Bushfield will address both meetings, along with State Commander Turner M. Rudesill and President Eleanor A. Wriths. reports and a joint lunch are scheduled.
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Rapid City
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Woman's Torso Found In Baltimore Sewers Amidst Gruesome Parcels
In East Baltimore, officers and street workers combed a quarter mile of Lombard Street sewers after eight-year-old Nicholas Krepner found a wrapped hand and leg among parcels containing a heart and other limbs. Coroner Dr. Charles A. Wood said the victim was a girl aged 16 to 18, prompting police to review 12 missing girls lists. A Cleveland connection is suspected as a detective noted the killer may have shifted operations to Baltimore, suggesting the 13th victim in the slayings.
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Cleveland
Peter Moryly
FDR critics debate third term in crisis scenario
Washington lawmakers split over whether President Roosevelt signals a bid for a third term if war or crisis erupts before next year’s nominating conventions. Senators Holt Schwellenbach Reynolds Lundeen offered varied readings of his Mount Vernon remarks and Pan American Day speech.
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Checks to Beadle farmers total $10,503.95 in AAA aid
Eli Martin, Beadle County chairman, announced a new batch of $10,503.95 in AAA checks for Beadle County farmers under the 1938 Agricultural Conservation program. The total received to date reaches $282,947.68, with farmers being notified as checks arrive and urged not to apply at his office until such notice is issued.
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Opposing Sides Mark Time In Airlines Strike
Airlines halted maintenance work as strike entered its second day with Newark and other bases affected. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and A P Martin asserted firm positions while Air Lines Mechanics Association claimed high turnout, wage dispute cited, planes grounded in several cities.
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Raymond Abel Gets Life Term for Slaying Grant Mowry
Raymond Abel, confessed slayer of 77 year old Fresha laborer Grant Mowry, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty in Judge G Bartine's court in Qacoma. Sheriff Merle Carlen transported Abel to Sioux Falls following sentencing in Mitchell.
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Kennebec
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Merle Carlen
Lyman County
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Davison County
Carlen
Sioux Falls
Family Of Five Is Found Slain In Farm Home
Rice County deputies report five members of a family found shot to death at a Faribault farm. The five include brothers William J 78 August 87 and Charles W Goftiner 75 and sisters Augusta 80 and Mary 65. No sign of a struggle or disturbed safe contents. A pistol lay beside Charles indicating possible murder and self-inflicted death. Fred, a brother, discovered the bodies at 9 am.
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Explosion warning as Mussolini allies with Germany deepens axis
Rome reports an acute, possibly explosive stage in world events as Mussolini and Hitler's circle push the Rome Berlin axis. Gayda in Il Giornale D'Italia warns of a strengthened bloc facing encirclement while Albania seeks Italian justice and order under fascist influence. Goering meets the king. Albanian delegation thanks Italy for its Good Friday intervention in Tirana.
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Roosevelt Offers Intermediary Role for Olive Branch
President Roosevelt urged Hitler and Mussolini to pledge no invasions for a minimum of ten years and to act as intermediaries in seeking peace. He offered to transmit peace messages and convene international talks while ensuring assurances not to attack listed independent nations across Europe and surrounding regions.
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Fleet Is Ordered Back to Pacific
The Navy ordered the fleet back to the Pacific today after President Roosevelt urged peace with Hitler and Mussolini. Secretary Sanson said the fleet would return to northern operating areas in the Pacific once fueled, leaving a small force on the West Coast. The move, seen by naval circles as restoring balance, cancels a planned fleet review off the Virginia Capes in York World’s Fair time.
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Hitler Receives FDR Appeal in Munich
Reichsfuehrer Hitler traveled from Berchtesgaden to Munich to hear Roosevelt’s peace appeal transmitted from Berlin by Joachim von Ribbentrop. Translators worked to render the document into German so Hitler could read it himself, with dinner hour approaching as translation continued.
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Stella Dickson Remains in Davison County Jail
Stella Dickson, former spouse of Benny Dickson, is held in Davison County jail for arraignment on federal bank robbery charges. She was transported from Kansas City by federal agents and will stay jailed in Mitchell until her federal court appearance in Sioux Falls.
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Townsend Pension Backers Push For New Unemployment Measure
In a Washington bulletin April 15 the Senate unemployment committee advanced a plan that would merge relief bureaus into a public works agency and broaden unemployment benefits. Senator Byrnes of South Carolina sponsors the bill with Pepper of Florida noting a Townsend old age pension option might be added as an amendment when the comprehensive unemployment measure is considered next week.
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