British Dig In With Greeks, Get Braced For Final Stand
The House Ways and Means Committee backed a Treasury plan to raise 3.5 billion dollars in new revenue next fiscal year. The proposal would lift individual income taxes, raise surtaxes, and expand levies on travel, checks, gas, cigarettes, and various goods while potentially taxing income from tax exempt securities. Details were pending a closed-door briefing and possible revisions by committee members.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Morgenthaus
Ways and Means
Doon
Democrat
North Carolina
Coughton
U S Air Observer Killed In Sudan
Colonel Gerald Brower a United States military air observer attached to the Royal Air Force in the Middle East was killed in an airplane accident at El Obeid Sudan 250 miles southwest of Khartoum. The War Department and State Department announced the casualty and said details would follow from Cairo.
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Washington
Gerald Brower
United States
Sudan
War Department
Brower
Royal Air Force
Middle East
State Department
Cairo
el Obeid
Khartoum
Extension Of Draftees Training Eyeed By Senate Panel
WASHINGTON April 22 Acting Chair Reynolds of the Senate Military Committee said unofficial reports indicate the army may seek legislation to extend selectees training beyond one year. Senator Connally and Johnson echoed talk of longer camps and possible emergency declarations. Over 400000 men are in training. final decision expected by June. Johnson also prepared a bill for a $100 monthly overseas or convoy duty bonus.
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Washington
Johnson
Colorado
Congress
National Guard
Army
Senate Committee
Japanese Troops Occupy Foochow Amid River Advance
Japanese forces seized Foochow, a key Fukien port, and moved inland along the main river. The advance followed Ningpo’s fall and appeared to meet little resistance as they pushed toward inland provinces. The action targets vital supply lines from Chungking and signals a widening Japanese advance in coastal China.
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Foochow
Shanghai
Chungking
Fukien Province
China
Ningpo
German invasion mounts as forces seize Greek towns
The World Today reports German invasion armies crack Goth ends of allied lines and seize Volos Lamia Ioannina as British fall back to defense posts in Thermopylae Pass area. Nazis claim Greeks cut off in west while Luftwaffe bombs Plymouth and RAF targets Le Havre. Berlin signals advance toward Suez amid fighting in Egypt and Tripoli raids.
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Volos
Lamia
Ioannina
Thermopylae Pass
Athens
Hitler
High Command
Greece
Aegean
Berlin
Egypt
Suez Canal
Tripoli
Plymouth
le Havre
France
Houston Appoints Sam Houston's Son to Senate Post
Houston Texas April 22 Gov W Lee O Daniel appoints 88 year old Drew Jackson Houston son of Sam Houston to the senate seat left by Sen Sheppard's death. A special election is set for June 28 with observers noting O Daniel may run. Others including Rep Dies, Attorney General Mann have announced candidacies.
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Houston
Andrew Jackson Houston
Texas
W. Lee O’daniel
Sam Houston
Sheppard
O’daniel
Dies
Gerald Mann
President Roosevelt Accepts Ottawa Visit Invitation
Ottawa announced that President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to visit between May 1 and 15 during Parliament’s session. He would stay at Government House for two or three days.
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Ottawa
Roosevelt
W. L. MacKenzie King
Government House
City To Expand Sewage Plant Expansion plan moves with land purchase
The Huron city board approved buying about 20 acres south of the sewage disposal plant after a review by E. H. Dunmire. The land, part of the Lucia Ward estate, was appraised at 50 dollars an acre and preliminarily authorized for payment. The land will host lagoons and sludge basins as the city seeks cost effective improvements to the treatment plant.
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Huron Board of City Commissioners
E. H. Dunmire
Lincoln
Neb
Lucia Ward
Mervin Walt
C. B. Dickinson
Huron
Dunmire
Towne
H. M. Pierce
Huron Ety
W. W. Towne
Pierre
War Today notes British evacuation of Greece to meet Libyan threat
The War Today reports that Britain may evacuate Greece to confront a new German thrust from Libya as Adolf Hitler pursues multiple operations. The article cites German plans against Britain’s Mediterranean control, with possible leverage via Franco and Spain and hints at pressure on Turkey.
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Greece
Libya
Britain
Mediterranean
Fuehrer
Salum
Franco
Gabwalter
France
Spain
Turkey
Edna
Soft Coal Miners to Return to New York Talks
Southern coal mine operators agreed to return to New York to resume negotiations with the United Mine Workers for a contract to restart soft coal production in the eight state Appalachian region. Five negotiators will travel to New York to meet John L. Lewis as President Roosevelt urged a quick settlement to avert shortages for defense needs.
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Southern
New York
United Mine Workers
Appalachian
Roosevelt
Washington
L. T. Putman
John L. Lewis
E. M. Watson
Aluminum Company of America
CIO Aluminum
Tenn
Badin
N. C
Detroit
Mich
Edgewater
N. J
New Kensington
Lewis
Seattle
Pacifi Coast Shipic Co
German armies crack ends of Allied line in Balkans drive
Berlin dispatches report Nazi panzer columns pushing toward Thermopylae Pass and Greek ports as German and Italian forces advance in Greece and Yugoslavia. British forces fall back to Lamia area while Mussolini's troops move along the Albanian front amid heavy fighting and claims of enemy losses.
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Thessaly
Lukass
Berlin
Associated Press
Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Thermopylae Pass
Athens
Vichy
France
Germany
Bluekrieg
Thermo‘pylae
Volosandia
Ioannina
Greece
Hitler
Albania
DNE
Anes
Middle East
Mt. Olympia
Lamia
Leonidas
Nasi
Pindus Mountains
Toamning
Mussolini
London
Winston Church
House of Commons
Britain
Balkans
Olson Named NWPS Manager in Huron Post
Jess M. Olson of Mandan North Dakota was named to succeed Cam den Rayburn as manager of the Huron division of the Northwestern Public Service Company. Olson will assume May 1 and will bring his wife to Huron. Rayburn moves to Mitchell division manager.
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Mandan
N. D
Rayburn
Huron
Jess M. Olson
Camden Rayburn
Northwestern Public Service Company
A. B. Sanborn
Olson
Dakota Public Service Company
Mitchell
B W. Dempewolfe
Mandar
Watertown
S. D
New Ulm
Minn
Any
United States Engineers
France
Caroline Starr
Rotary Club
Knights of Columbus, Elks
American Legion
Catholic Church
Knights of Columbus
Man- Jan
Olsons
Kenneth Jury Pleads Guilty In 1941 Auto License Case
Kenneth Jury of Huron pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle without 1941 license plates. He was fined $50 to be paid in Municipal Court Monday afternoon by Judge Tudge C. N. Hall. The protest against Jury was signed by Thompson, state motor vehicle inspector.
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Kenneth Jury
Huron
Tudge C. N. Hall
Thompson
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