Palestine Tense On Eve Of White Paper Expiry
On the eve of the expiry of the British White Paper tensions between Jews and Arabs remain high in Palestine. Sporadic violence continues as authorities hope major clashes can be averted. A dusk curfew is in force and severe penalties are reissued for extremist acts after last week's bombings that killed nine policemen, six British. Dust storms sweep the Simai desert disrupting rail and road links to Egypt. air travel only escapes disruption. Representatives of the teaching see page two.
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Churchill Wins Confidence Vote in Commons
London March 30 1940 Winston Churchill secured a sweeping wartime confidence vote in the Commons by 425 to 23 his eighth such victory in four years as premier. The result reinforces his leadership during the ongoing war.
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Commons
Pacific War Front Receives Punch From Allies
U S Pacific fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor reports Allied airmen harassing the 3500 mile war front from the Central Pacific Marshalls to the Dutch East Indies. A Pine Island search plane bombed nearby Ponape while Navy and Marine planes pounded targets in the Marshalls. Liberators reached Timor and Mollandia as MacArthur noted bombers operating through overcast with no observable results.
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Pride of the Yankees and more at Strand and Dixie theatres
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Margaret Constable of Warder Avenue to tonight's screenings at the Strand theatre featuring The Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper Teresa Wright and Ruth and Escape To Danger with Erie_tman and Ann Dvorak and Of the Plains with Joan and Ruth Hussey at the Dixie theatre.
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Grafton Sentinel
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Gary Cooper
Teresa Wright
Ruth
Strand Theatre
Erie Tman
Ann Dvorak
Joan
Ruth Hussey
the Dixie Theatre
Allied troops drive Japanese from Imphal approach
Allied forces routed Japanese along the Tiddim road near Imphal and inflicted heavy casualties, according to a military communique.
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New Delhi
Tiddim Road
Imphal
Grandmothers and Children Recruited for Nazi Labor
Lisbon March 30. Nazi campaigns urge women over 45 to join war production and aid reconstruction. Hamburg paper notes elderly women and young girls, some as young as nine or ten, working in bombed factories in two hour shifts while grandmothers reach up to 72. Volunteers aim to work near home in munitions and other plants. See Grandmothers Page 4.
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Wade Werner Lisbon
Germany
Hamburger Fremdenbladet
Mess' by GOP Strategists Push Foreign Policy Focus
Washington dispatch reports Republican strategists shifting attack from domestic record to foreign policy after a setback in an Oklahoma congressional race about the New Deal. Senator Wherry predicts the administration's vague foreign program will dominate voters before November as critics argue the New Deal harms international relations and clarity. Barkley notes Stigler win shows GOP cannot win solely by opposing the New Deal, citing bumper signs urging voters to vote against the New Deal in Oklahoma.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Oklahoma
Senator Wherry
R.-Neb
Wherry
Barkley D.ky
W. G. Stigler
Barkley
Stigler
Southern Floods Swamp Georgia Alabama and Mississippi
Flooded rivers inundated lowlands across Georgia Alabama Mississippi and north Louisiana causing heavy property damage. Roads blocked and at least five people drowned while the American Red Cross sheltered 30 people in Gadsden Alabama and warned numbers could rise. Montgomery Alabama planned evacuations as 25 to 30 families faced evacuation. Dover and Newton in Georgia were submerged.
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Mississippi
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Juvenile delinquency curb survey urged in Charlestown
In Charles Town citizens backed a survey to curb juvenile delinquency after leaders warned of rising problems. A curfew ordinance and a policewoman to handle delinquents were discussed but action was deferred. Committees were formed to study conditions and propose wholesome recreation options.
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G. P. Morrison
Draft bill to draft 4-Fs for war labor or army service
Washington March 30. A House military subcommittee led by Rep. Costello began drafting legislation to compel 4-Fs aged 18 to 37 into essential civilian or war-industry jobs or into army labor battalions. The plan aims to control 4-Fs up to 45 and nonfathers 38 to 45, with older men kept under potential future army use, depending on War Department guidance.
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House
America to be great western power, Russell says
English mathematician Bertrand Russell, 71, told reporters in New York that America likely will be the great western power rather than Britain. He warned that lasting peace is unlikely as the two great powers, America and Russia, have not reached a long-run understanding. He said Russia must accept a world government and an England agreement for peace.
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Bertrand Russell
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England
Russia
Quadruplets at Sloanes New York Born First Time
New York March 30 The Zarief quadruplets born a month early at Sloanes hospital for women fledgling siblings, three girls and one boy, slept well after their first formula feeding at 9 am. Mother Eleanor Zarief 27 rested comfortably as attendants described the infants as nice active babies in oxygenated cribs.
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Zarief
Sloane Hospital For Women
New York City
Eleanor Zarief
Chaplin May Take OT and 10 Conclude Choe Before Night
In Los Angeles March 30 film comedian Charlie Chaplin faces closing defense testimony in a trial over alleged immoral transport of Joan Berry to New York and back. Defense lawyer Jerry Giesler plans to wrap the case, calling a 54-year-old British actor as a potential final witness. Earlier testimony by Hans Reusch described Berry's condition the morning of December 31, 1942, with disordered clothing and injuries, while checks totaling 452.80 were paid to Berry’s account after her New York visit.
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James Lindsley
Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Berry
New York
Jerry Giesler
J. F. T O'Connor
Giesler
Hans Reusch
Miss Berry
Reusch
Berry
Charles H. Carr
Ruesch
Carr
Tulsa, Okla
Churchill uses confidence vote to shield war policy
The article portrays British Prime Minister Churchill challenging Parliament with a blanket vote of confidence after a domestic defeat. It notes critics blame domestic issues on information gaps about international policy and Big Three relations. The piece frames the move as a defiant stance amid war-time strain and seeks readers to seek broader policy clarity.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
United Nations
America
Russia
Hand to hand fight in Budovinia boosts Russian edge
London reports a hand-to-hand battle as Russian forces moved to Czernowitz Bucovina the strategic capital. Units crossed the Prut river engaging defenders and threatening supply lines into southern Romania and Bessarabia while other troops pushed toward northern fronts near Czechoslovakia and Lwow.
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Cxérmo
Nationwide search begins for ex miners Saturday
James Marlow and George Zaelke report a nationwide push launches this Saturday to recruit about 40 000 former miners to return to coal digging. War draft reductions and higher above ground pay have reduced the workforce, but coal output rises. the War Manpower Commission leads the effort with unions and retired miners urged to participate.
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George Zaelke
Washington
War Manpower Commission
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