GM Strike Threat Delayed as Board Steps In
Washington April 26 AP The threat of an immediate strike in 61 General Motors plants was removed after the defense mediation board urged continued production during negotiations. The CIO United Automobile Workers said the strike would be deferred for a reasonable period and GM promised retroactive agreement to April 28. A hearing is set for May 2, with James F. Dewey asked to narrow issues beforehand. Roosevelt canceled a Warm Springs trip due to coal mine shutdowns. Senate labor ally Norris suggested presidential seizure powers as a psychological measure.
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General Motors
Defense
Giation Board
C LO
United Automobile Workers
James F. Dewey
White Honea
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Norris
Indl
Neb
Organized Labor
Geers Motors Eluike
C.J.O
Norris urges government seizure of coal mines and other key industries
Senator Norris urges the administration to sponsor legislation allowing the president to seize coal mines and other vital production plants during strikes. He says such a bill could pass within a week if needed and would permit fair wage talks after seizure while avoiding compulsion to work. The draft law may be amended to cover plants tied up by disputes. Secretary Perkins predicts a 3 percent rise in living costs by early autumn, with average costs for moderate income families up 2.6 percent since before World War I.
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Washington
Norris
Ind
Britain Rushin defense for Suez Gibraltar
London April 26 AP Britain, defeated in the Balkans, rushes soldiers and arms to Suez and Gibraltar as air battles loom over London and Berlin. RAF carries out day patrols over the English Channel and northern France with two fighters lost. German planes shot down off the southeast coast. daylight bombing causes injuries and property damage. Churchill inspects Manchester ruins and pledges recovery. Air ministry reports bombing Kiel and other bases. firewatcher conscription planned in London. British focus remains on Mediterranean lifelines and Atlantic, awaiting US aid for tanks and weapons. Turkey’s stance against Axis drive and German occupation of Samotrace and Lemnos noted.
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Britain
Balkans
Suez
Gibraltar
Berlin
R.A.F
English Channel
France
Dover
Winston Cuernill
Greece
M.S.T
Manchester
Islea
Mediterranean
Atlantic
United States
Turkey
Samo‘trace
Lemnos
Courageous Greek Fight Is Ended 7 Athens Falls 0 Nazi Shock Unit
Athens reports a German motorcyclist detachment entered the center at 9 30 am with no immediate word on follow up news. Earlier German panzer and motorcycle troops attempted to seal off Athens and the isthmus to the Peloponnese, clashing with an Australian force on Mount Gherandia about 25 miles west. British forces at the Gulf of Corinth are said to be reforming and retreating in the Attica defense, while Germans pounded targets around Athens and in the Peloponnesus as city life waited quietly.
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Athens
J. Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
Greece
Peloponnesus
Mount Gherandia
Gulf of Corinth
Annauagement
Acron
Attica
Megara
Mount Gheyanéfa
Home Security Ministry
Petoponnesus
Senate canvassed for attitude on convoy plan
Washington April 26. Informal canvass showed 45 of 95 senators likely to oppose legislation authorising convoys to Britain. Included are 25 of 28 Republicans. Tobey resolution to bar navy from aiding Atlantic shipment faces administration majority. Nye proposed congressional approval before convoys. Barkley believes both will be voted down. Some expect committee action delayed by subcommittee review amid neutrality patrol expansion.
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Washington
White House
Senate
Britain
Tobey
N. H
Congress
Nee
Navy
Atlantic
Foreign Relattions Committee
Nye
Foreign Relations Committee
Barkley
Kentucky
Western Hemisphere
Famous Violinist Struck By Truck In New York
Violinist Brite Kreisler aged 66 was hit by a truck at Fifty seventh Street and Madison Avenue in a busy New York intersection. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital with a severe head injury believed to be a skull fracture. Police said driver Patrick Lucadanio could not avoid the collision and was detained for questioning.
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New York
Brite Kreisler
Roosevelt Hospital
Kreisler
Kreislar
Madison Avenue
Patrick Lucadanio
Lucadamo
James H Rowe Elected President of Montanans Inc
James H. Rowe of Butte was reelected president for a third term as Montanans Inc. mapped an aggressive annual program. A $24,000 national advertising fund was planned for May 14 through May 25, with J. W. Ferguson reelected manager and a slate of officers and directors named. The group endorsed a highway extension through Canada to Alaska as a national defense project and supported trimming state and federal expenditures to nondefenseMontana resource protection. Charles W. Towne outlined publicity efforts including magazine advertising and distribution plans.
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James H. Rowe
Montanans, Inc
James 4
Rowe
Butte
J. W. G. Ferguson
Islena
A. T. Peterson
Billings
James J. Flaherty
Gregt Falls
T. J. Hocking
Glasgow
R. E. Nelson
Chateau
Kalispell
Harold Olson
Rowan
W. G. Husband
Harlowton
Henry Sawtelle
Miles City
Paul Hagen
Clendive
George Larkin
Gardiner
Veron Haven
Plenty-wood
H. M. Montgomery
Chil Jnook
Harland Wells
White-1fish
Peterson
Flaherty
A. T. Hibbard
Delena
W. W. Purdy
Bozenan
L. L. Campbell
Missoula
C. P. McClaye
Great Falls
Montana
Canada
Alaska
Charles W. Towne
Towne
Pressure on Athens as German forces advance to Thebes
Berlin reports Nazi pressure centered on Athens with Thebes fallen and The igh command claims the Germans trapped British troops in Thermopylae while advancing toward the cradle of civilization. Islands Samothrace Thasos Lemnos reported occupied as German Balkan campaign preparations continue.
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Berlin
Athens
Igh
Thebes
Civilization
Thermopylae
Erroia
Thermonglee
Turkey shifts toward Axis as trade grows
Istanbul reports Turkey plans to boost trade with Germany and other German-led states, exchanging tobacco fish cottonseed olive oil and hides for industrial materials chemicals and trucks. Officials in Ankara say German forces may seize Mytilene and Chios, expanding island bases toward Italy. Ismet Inonu reportedly left Ankara for Thrace under martial law.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Germany
Ankara
Mytilena
Lesbos
Ata Khios
Chios
Mytilene
Sappho
Dardanelles
Khios
Turkey-in- Europe
Italy
Dodecanese
Asia Minor
Purkey
Ismet Inoni
Thrace
Couple from TimO Delays Marriage in St Charles
In St Charles Missouri on April 25 a couple from Tim o failed to obtain a marriage license after two years of indecision. They drove to Justice Mindrup's office and remained in their car all day. The bride told the justice she had been trying for five years to get him to decide, and they left again in tears the next morning with no license.
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St. Charles
Timo
Welles
Justice Or Peace
Mindrup
Weather Outlook for Sunday and Monday War Montina
The forecast calls for colder conditions for Sunday night and Monday, especially east of the divide. Sunday shows a general cool spell with diminished warm air as a weather front moves through.
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War Montina
Divide
Hemisphere Plan For Seizing Ships Is Adopted
Washington reporters say 21 American republics agreed on a plan to seize foreign vessels immobilized in their ports. The pool would include 98 German ships in Central and South American harbors, plus French and Danish vessels, to support inter American trade and ease Britain's shipping shortage. Owners would be compensated under international law, with surplus tonnage sold or chartered to Britain.
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Washington
Spon
inter-American Economic and Financial Advisory Committee
Suzees
Ion
Guani
Uruguay
Sumners
Welles
Manitiols
Business Leaders to Review Defense at Washington Meet
More than 2,000 business leaders will gather in Washington for a four day review of the role of business in defense. The 29th annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce opens as hearings on the administration tax boost of 8.5 billion dollars begin before the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Washingson
Washington
United States Chamber of Com
Meres
House Ways and Means
Axis Units Outside Tobruk Meet Heavy Resistance
Cairo April 26 The Axis forces outside Tobruk faced heavy shelling and scattering from the Tobruk garrison as patrols and artillery activity increased near Salum. The RAF said Tobruk defenders shot down eight Axis planes in a day, raising the total to 44. Benghazi was bombed, fires started, and a nearby Axis motor depot near El Arguh was hit. The British noted progress in Ethiopia with Fort Mota captured north of Addis Ababa and hundreds of Salian colonial troops plus Italian officers surrendering.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Axia
Salum
RAL
Bengasi
Libya
T.A.F
el Arguh
Ethiopia
Mota
Addis Ababa
Missoula Bay Heads State DeMolay Elects Leaders
Baron Lockhart of Missoula was elected president of the Montana State DeMolay Association at the closing session in Boston. Harry Dale Stripp of Billings was named vice president and Jornal administrator. Whitefish official noted WPA rolls would be reduced to about 1.3 million by July 1, with unemployment around 7.0 million nationally, despite defense jobs.
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Havre
Baron Lockhart
Missoula
Montana State DeMolay Association
Boston
Harry Dale Stripp
Billings
Wasi
Hunley
National
W.P.A
Yce
Jornal
Fense
Two Men Stabbed at Ford River Rouge Over Union Activities
Detroit April 26 two men were stabbed in a fight at the Ford River Rouge plant linked to union activity. Police sent guards to the buildings to maintain order. Captain Jonald S. Leonard of the state police reported the incident and said that late police were dispatched to the site.
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Detroit
Jonald S. Leonard
State
Ford Olor Company
River Rouge
Italians Claim U S Aggression Amid Atlantic Patrols
Rome reports attribute aggressive aims to the United States as political circles view Roosevelt as pushing U S entry into war against Italy and Germany. Radio calls U S actions in the Atlantic an illegal extension of territorial waters and an alarmist propagandist trend sweeps the country.
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Rome
United States
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Italy
Germany
Charles Li Ndbergh
Ther
Nora
Gaetano Polverelli
Ministry of Popular Culture
Senata
Major John Stagg resigns as Armory Board chairman
Major John A. Stagg of Helena resigns as chairman of the Montana armory board citing workload. L. H. Richardson of Great Falls becomes acting chairman while Stagg remains a member. The armory board met with WPA officials and others regarding the armory program and had no further comment.
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John Stagg
Armory
John A. Stags
Anaconda
Stagg 3S
State Selecive Service Board
Judge Alvocate General’s Department
L. H. Richardson
Great Falls
Armory Board
W.P.A
Strange Broadcast From Athens Warns America
A mysterious woman claiming to be Mildred Kirker, an American war correspondent for an Athens newspaper, spoke on NBC from Athens Greece. She warned that German armies approach Athena and urged America to honor its promises, criticizing blockades and Greece's preparedness.
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Athens
America
NBC
Mildred Kirker
Athena
Mithar
Greece
German Editors Claim Roosevelt Seeks War and Warns
German editors denounce President Roosevelt as seeking war thousands of miles from home and warn Axis powers still consider the Red Sea and Suez canal zone as war targets. A spokesman derides U S naval patrols as “whistling instead of shooting” amid Roosevelt’s Friday remarks on defending the western hemisphere.
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Berl
Tome
Troosevelt
United States
Greenland
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