Baltimore chemists claim glycerine made from gasoline by product
Shell Development Company chemists announce a new glycerine synthesis from waste gas derived in gasoline production. The process uses propylene with chlorine to form allyl chloride then converts to glycerine, offering a non animal source with strong industrial potential and tested safety in animal feeding.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Asociated Press
Baltimore
American Chemical Society
Shell Developnt Company
Emeryville
Calif
U U. S
E. C. Williams
H. P. Groll
G. Hearne
W. E. Vaughan
J. Burgin
W. Engs
Last Minute Explosion Kills Six on Katy
An explosion aboard the Norwegian motorship Katy, 6,826 tons, killed six workmen and injured several others including wives visiting the ship. The Katy had been undergoing repairs when the blast occurred and troops were dispatched to the scene.
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Katy
Golfers in Playoff for Eight Places at Pinehurst
Nine golfers competed in a playoff for eight places in the championship flight of the North and South Amateur Golf tournament at Pinehurst. Pairings include Jack Livingston of Virginia Beach Virginia against Bobby Dunkelberger of High Point.
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Pinehurst
Jack Livingston
Virginia Beach Va
Bobby Dunkelberger
High Point
Tragic Death of 7-Year-Old Boy Found at Biloxi Hospital
The battered body of Clifton Amterstein, 7, was found in a thicket on U S Veterans Hospital grounds in Biloxi. Police report bruises and possible strangulation. clothing torn. investigation ongoing.
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Biloxi
Miss
Clifton Amterstein
U. S. Veterans’ Hospital
Pat Jordan
House Rejects Senate Tax Change on Federal State Salaries
The House refused to accept Senate changes in the reciprocal taxation bill for federal and state employees and sent the measure to a joint committee to work out a compromise.
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TATE
Washington
House
Senate
Senate panel backs 100 million relief appropriation
A Senate appropriations sub committee voted unanimously to recom mend a 100 million relief appropriation after the House approved 150 million requested by Roosevelt. Administration supporters and economy minded senators backed the allotment, with full committee action and a possible Senate vote on the measure expected tomorrow. The House also approved 25 thousand dollars for a thorough WPA investigation and pigeonholed a Senate proposal to cut loan cotton stocks.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
House
Roosevelt
Administration
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Works Progress Administration
Italians Warn Encirclement Fears In Adriatic Drums
Rome reports stir over Italian maneuvers in the Adriatic seen as warning to Britain and France against encirclement plans. Rumors say Italian troops may land in Albania as Italy and Albania deepen ties under a 1927 treaty allowing Italian troop dispatch if war dangers rise.
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Richard G. Maslock
Rome
Adriatic Sea
Great Britain
France
Russia
Poland
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Italy
Germany
Britain
Albania
Tirana
Pontiff to Read Easter Peace Appeal at St Peter's
The Pope will read a Latin declaration at the Easter service in St. Peter's on Sunday, delivering a renewed appeal for world peace. Vatican radio will broadcast the homily after the gospel, with services running from about 10 a.m. to noon local time and the pope blessing the crowd from the Basilica balcony.
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Vatican City
St. Peter's
Vatican
Vatican Radio
St. Peter's Square
Three Spanish Nationalists Deported From Mexico
Mexico City announced deportation of Alejandro Villanueva inspector-general of the Spanish Phalanx in North America and Jose Celorio Ortega and Genaro Riestra heads of the Mexican unit. The move followed the stoning of the Spanish Casino pro Franco club by several hundred workers.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Generalissimo Franco
Alejandro Villanueva
North America
Jose Celorio Ortega
Genaro Riestra
French Chamber Re-elects Lebrun To Presidency
Albert Lebrun, 67, was reelected president of France for a second seven year term by the National Assembly, Senate and Chamber of Deputies. He won 506 of 909 ballots cast, well ahead of the 455 needed, in a display of national unity amid Europe’s uncertain outlook.
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Versailles
France
Albert Lebrun
National Assembly
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Europe
Lebrun
Jules Grevy
Jules Jeanneney
Radical Socialist Party
Congress Hall
Jeanneney
Assembly
Stimson urges freer hand for FDR in crisis
Former secretary of state Henry L. Stimson urged Congress to drop isolation and grant the president broader powers to distinguish aggressors from victims as war looms. He warned the neutrality act risks misreading world affairs and pressed for changes to prevent a European war from drawing the United States in.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Congress
Roosevelt
Stimson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Thousands Attend Monarchs Funeral in Iraq
Tens of thousands of mourners filled the streets for King Ghazi I of Iraq who died in an April car crash. Diplomats, government and army representatives followed the royal coffin to the mausoleum as Ghazi’s three year old son Feisal II began a regency with Emir Abdul lah as regent. A British consul Monck Mason was killed by a bomb in Mosul amid the unrest and his funeral was scheduled for the next day.
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Baghdad
Ghazi
Iraq
Geisal I
G. E. A. C Monck-Mason
Mosul
Feisal
Emir Abdullah
Monck- Mason
London
Japanese Airmen Bombard Shensi Capital Report
Shanghai April 5. Japanese airmen bombed and machine-gunned the Shensi capital Lian causing severe damage to military establishments behind the lines. Chinese planes raided Nanchang Kiangsi province capital and machine-gunned Japanese troops, bombing a munitions depot.
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Shanghai
Lian
Red
Shensi
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Press urged to suppress Stanhope address amid fears of Nazi leaks
Argentine raids target Nazi nests in Buenos Aires including the German embassy offices and the residence of Alfred Mueller as investigations into German documents move forward. In London Chamberlain says Stanhope’s unpremeditated guns speech was suppressed to avoid public alarm, keeping his cabinet status intact despite the controversy.
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Buenos Aires
Banco Germanico
Alfred Mueller
Argentina
Mueller
Berlin
Patagonia
No-Man's-Land
Roberto M. Ortiz
London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Earl Stanhope
Stanhope
Admiralty
Spain Moves to Peacetime Production as Factories Reopen
In Madrid on April 5 workers began stripping war production machinery from private factories while officials anticipate normal peacetime operations within 90 days. Discharged women workers free spots for demobilized soldiers as the Madrid central market opens with fresh produce and train service to the northwest is set to resume. Sixty eight trucks of food arrived from Portugal and Madrid distributed 110 000 pounds of meat.
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Madrid
Northwest
Portugal
Giles to Speak at Durham Chamber Dinner
Warren Giles official of the Cincinnati Reds will be principal speaker at a Durham Chamber of Commerce dinner Tuesday night.
Municipal primary set for North Wilkesboro on April 17
A municipal primary is scheduled for North Wilkesboro on April 17. Incumbent mayor R. T. Venell faces challenger Ralph R. Reins in a contest to lead the town.
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North Wilkesboro
R. T. VeNell
Ralph R. Reins
Heir Born To Albania Queen Crown Prince Born
In Tirana Albania at 3 30 am today Prince of the Albanians, heir to the throne with American blood, was born to Queen Geraldine and King Zog I. An artillery salute of 101 guns signaled celebrations across the kingdom. Queen Geraldine, formerly Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary, wed King Zog last April.
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Tirana
Albania
Gladys Stewart Girault
France
Leopold Seeks National Union Government in Belgium
King Leopold asked Hubert Pierlot of the Catholic party to form a national union government after Catholic and liberal gains in the general election. Belgium has no cabinet since Pierrot’s resignation on February 27 amid Socialist refusals to back budget cuts.
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Brussels
Leopold
Hubert Pierlot
Belgium
Pierrot
Hopkins' Return to Iowa Sparks 1940 Campaign Talk
Secretary of Commerce Harry L Hopkins plans to establish a voting residence in Grinnell Iowa, lifting attention on his possible bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hopkins cited family ties and a permanent home for his daughter Diane, while denying health bid rumors and downplaying politics in the move.
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D. Harold Oliver
Warm Springs
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
Grinnell
Iowa
Washington
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Commerce
New York State
Diane
Rochester
Minn
Edward Birmingham
White House
Birmingham
New York
City awards 2.5 million hydro project contracts
City Council awarded about two and a half million dollars in contracts for the six million four hundred ninety two thousand dollar hydroelectric project, reducing estimated total by three hundred thousand. Major award went to Maxon Construction Company of Dayton for dam spillway and powerhouse at 1,674,432, with other bids from Allis-Chalmers, Blythe Brothers, Baldwin Southwick, Brewer Plumbing, Edman Electric, and others. A separate bid for Huntsville Bridge reconstruction showed a low figure of 89,618.30, while water and sewer system bids were sent to engineers for tabulation.
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Maxon Construction Company
Dayton
Public Utilities Committee
Council
E. L. Briggs
Edman Electric Company
Winston-Salem
Huntsville Bridge
Murray and Flood, Inc
Brewer Heating and Plumbing Company
Leon Ellis
Greensboro
Realty
Henderson Seen as Likely SEC Chairman After Douglas Favor
Washington April 5. Senate confirmation of William O. Douglas as a Supreme Court justice spurred talk that Leon Henderson, New Deal economist and executive secretary of the Federal Monopoly Committee, could be named Securities and Exchange Commission chairman. Douglas was approved 62 to 4.
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Washington
Senate
William O. Douglas
Supreme Court
Leon Henderson
New Deal
Securities Commission
Douglas
Frazier and
Nye
North Dakota
Lodge
Massachusetts
Reed
Kansas
Roosevelt
Black
Frankfurter
Frazier
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
SEC
Federal Monopoly Committee
WPA
Mr. Roosevelt
Wiley A. Rutledge
University of Iowa Law School
Federal Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Hitler Orders German Youths to Join Hitler Youth
Berlin April 5 decree compels all German boys and girls from 10 to 18 to join the Hitler Youth. The order requires eight years in the Hitler Youth, six months in labor service, and two years in the army, following a prior Dec 1 1926 outline for a state youth organization.
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Hitler
Nazi Organization
Berlin
Hitler Youth
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