Warplanes Clash Over North Sea In Convoy Clash
British and German aircraft fought in the North Sea over the past day, climaxing with a German raid on British convoys driven off with no damage reported. A British plane forced a German Junkers to flee, and one British raider did not return. The air war included morning clashes with two German bombers and a British plane sustaining a leg wound.
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London
North Sea
Admiralty
Air Ministry
Sylt
Helgoland Bight
Eastern Flood Waters Falling In Susquehanna Valley
In Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury relief efforts continue as floodwaters ease. Towns once swamped by crests near 1936 levels report subsiding rivers, with thousands displaced and federal aid teams delivering food and medical safeguards. Crests along the 150 mile stretch fall while sandbagging and high ground shelters remain active.
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Wilkes-Barre
Susquehanna
Pennsylvania
Sunbury
St. Patrick’s Day
New York
Maryland
Harrisburg
Yaquehanna
Pennsylvania Highlands
Onawanda
Williamsport
Rir
Bus 6
Ater
Shamokin Creek
Bring Run
Usquehanna
IBF
Pelley Linked With Group of Traitors
Representative Dickstein charged before the Dies Committee that William Dudley Pelley head of the Legion of Silver Shirts was tied to army officers in a Fascistic effort to overturn the U S government He called Pelley a Jew baiter and American Fuehrer claiming he aimed to replace the present government with a Hitler style regime Dickstein listed documents from Pelleys Asheville files and brought Dorothy Waring as a witness in a move toward proving Pelleys alleged links to patriotic groups and officers.
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Washington
Dickstein
D-Ny
Dies Committee
William Dudley Pelley
Legion of Silver Shirts
United States
New Yorker
House
Hitler
Germany
Pelley
Moseley
George van Horn Moseley
Kramer
Three killed in Scottish munitions plant blast
London April 2. Three persons were killed and four injured in a munitions factory explosion in Scotland tonight. The Ministry of Supply announced a court of inquiry would investigate the accident and immediate steps were taken to resume production in the affected walls, though the plant’s exact location was not disclosed.
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London
Scotland
Ministry of Supply
Capone Family Seeks Peaceful Rest at Palm Island Estate
Capone's family urged public sense of fair play to allow the ailing ex-gang boss rest and quiet. Capone, freed from prison last January after seven and a half years for income tax evasion, had returned to his Palm Island home two weeks earlier in Miami Beach.
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Miami Beach
Fla
al Capone
Capone
Palm Island
Reynaud Test Vote Delayed in Paris Parliament
Paris April 2. The Chamber of Deputies postponed interpellation of Paul Reynaud's government after Easter. A secret Senate session April 9 will probe general policies and wartime conduct. Reynaud, foreign minister as well as premier, met Yugoslav, Belgian, and Polish officials before adjournment.
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Paris
Paul Reynaud
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Senate
Reynaud
Georges Bonnet
Guy le Chambre
Daladier
Edouard Daladier
Germany reports British raid failure on Sylt Island defense
Berlin reports a British attempt to raid German patrol boats protecting the Sylut Island aviation base in the North Sea failed. The brief dispatch notes the raid occurred April 2 and emphasizes German defenses repelled the assault with no decisive losses.
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Germany
Sylt
Berlin
Sylut Island
North Sea
Swiss Call Up Tens of Thousands for April Mobilization
The Swiss general staff ordered tens of thousands of soldiers summoned for April 15 and 22 to replace recently demobilized units. Forty one units were recalled, aiming to match the manpower of any single belligerent on the border, as reports place German forces of 12 to 18 divisions near Baden and Württemberg.
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Berne
Switzerland
Confederation
High Command
Baden and
Wurttemburg
German Freighter Mimi Horn Sunk After Intercept by British Ships
British Admiralty said the German freighter Mimi Horn intercept ed in northern waters by British warships was fired on and scuttled by its crew. The 4,007-ton Ham burg-registered vessel from Curacao was counted among Germanys merchant losses at 603,946 tons. Weekly Allied losses totaled 13,901 tons, the fourth lowest of the war. An eyewitness note claimed a German sub was sunk off Trinidad after El Ciervo fired 16 rounds.
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Admiralty
Mimi Horn
Curacao
Netherlands West Indies
Germany
Hamburg
Scotland
Barnhill Los
Barnhill
Netherlands
Daghestan
Ministry of Information
el Ciervo
Halifax
N. S
Trinidad
Wagner Changes Pass Senate Labor Body
The House Labor Committee approved amendments to the Wagner Act to aid AFL craft unions and permit employers to seek Labor Board elections. A 9 to 6 vote revised unit designation rules and an 11 to 4 vote allowed election requests, with a five member Labor Board likely replacing the current three. Also on the Hill, Treasury’s Daniel Bell opposed a 3 percent federal farm loan rate, favoring a flexible rate, while the Senate debated trade pacts and new excise tax authority.
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House Labor Committee
AFL
Labor Board
Norton
D-Nj
House
Representative Wood
D-Mo
House Agriculture Committee
Daniel W. Bell
the Treasury
Senate
McCarran
D-Nev
Congress
Nebraska man wins highest award in optometry field
George A. Parkins of Ord Nebraska received the 1940 gold medal of the distinguished service foundation of optometry for research toward more efficient reading. Harvard Dean Henry Wyman Holmes presented the award at a convocation. The foundation created fellows for achievements in optometry, including Robert N. Walker of Winston-Salem.
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Boston
George A. Parkins
Opt. D
Ord
Neb
Distinguished Service Foundation of Optometry
Henry Wyman Holmes
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education
Robert N. Walker
Winston-Salem, N. C
Illinois educator dies in Urbana at 75
Dr Arthur Hill Daniels former dean of the graduate school at the University of Illinois died in Urbana on April 2 at age 75. He had long served in academic leadership and contributed to university growth and scholarship. Daniels chaired graduate programs and mentored generations of students during a career spanning decades.
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Illinois
Urbana, Ill
Arthur Hill Daniels
University of Illipois
Teda
Democrats Eye Wisconsin Vote Preview
The Associated Press reports Wisconsin’s presidential primary tops national political attention as labor and common people influence the party’s choice. The race tests third term sentiments with Arthur Vandenberg and Thomas Dewey on the Republican side, while both parties name 24 delegates for national conventions.
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Wisconsin
John L. Lewis
Arthur Vandenberg
Rmich
Thomas’ FE. Dewey
New York
White House
Chamberlain Warns Neutrals on Aid to Germany in War
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain would intensify an economic war against Germany. He outlined neutral trade pacts, starved German supplies, and warned neutrals their empire imports would be cut if they trade with Germany. Allies vow to extend the blockade and curb German aggression.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Reich
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Scandinavia
Far
Britain
Supreme War Council
Census Count Gets Started
Newton North Carolina claims the earliest start to the 1940 census as enumerators set out at midnight and progress 12 hours later. Senator Tobey challenges census income questions, proposing to remove the 60 day jail penalty though fines remain. Regardless, the nationwide census effort proceeds with about 120,000 enumerators and a 25 million mile trek.
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Washington
Newton
N. C
Tobey
America
R-Nh
Godspeed
Senate
Family of Six Succumb in Ontario House Fire
Port Arthur Ont April 2 Six persons including four children died by suffocation when a house on Port Arthur outskirts burned in the early hours Mrs Ali Metsa 29 Oscar Blom 44 and the Metsa children Elsie Raymond Harold Allen aged 11 months perished in the blaze
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Ont
Port Arthur
Ali Metsa
Oscar Blom
Welles Sees Roosevelt After Rome Berlin Paris Tour
Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, met with President Roosevelt for the third time since returning from a fact finding mission that took him to Rome Berlin Paris and London. The Washington briefing occurred between April 2 and 4.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
Welles
Rome
Berlin
Paris
London
Bullitt Called Before Senators At Luncheon
Washington April 2 UP Ambassador William C Bullitt tied to the German white book controversy was invited to lunch at the Capitol with several senators. Senator Barkley arranged the meeting to discuss whether to probe Nazi published statements about Bullitt and Joseph P Kennedy. Some attendees were members of the Foreign Relations Committee.
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Washington
William C. Bullitt
France
Capitol
Bullitt
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Reynolds
George
D-Ga
Kennedy
Rep. Fish
R-Ny
Romania Mobilizes Farm Army to Meet Nazi Demands
Bucharest reports 4 million Romanians will be drafted into an agricultural army to maintain 1940 production and export levels, despite Germany pressing for 500,000 demobilizations. Germany offers 6,000 agricultural experts to boost cereal output. Romanians doubt defense relaxation is safe amid ongoing talks with Dr Karl Goidiu s.
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Germany
Romania
Rumania
Carol
Karl Ciodius
Reich
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