Big Steel Strikes Push U S Toward Economic Crisis
Fascist spokesman Vir gilio Gayda warned that American aid to Britain and wage demands threaten a social crisis at home. He cited rising prices and racial tensions as hazards to postwar trade, while CIO leaders in Pittsburgh prepared for a possible strike as steel wage talks deadlock.
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Rome
Virginio Gayda
Britain
United States
Gayda
Il Giornale D
Italia
England
Marren Graham
Pittsburgh
CIO
United States Steel Corporation
Reich Is Ready For Big Blow
London reports a reliable source says Germany’s spring offensive is imminent with seven possible directions. Likely targets include Yugoslavia flank toward Ward Suez, Greece via Salonika, Turkey, a sweep through Spain to Gibraltar, invasion of England, Ireland, and Ukraine for grain and oil and an alternate Suez route.
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London
Germany
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Rumania
Suez
Greece
Salonika
Mediterranean
Turkey
Spain
Gibraltar
England
Ireland
Russian
Ukraine
American Officers to Fly With British Bombers in Raids
Washington reports that American army officers will ride as observers with British four motor bombers raiding Germany. They will report on performance under combat conditions to the air corps. Naval officers have served aboard British ships in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
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Washington
Germany
Air Corps
Atlantic
Mediterranean
FDR Names 10 Alternates to National Defense Board
President Roosevelt issued an executive order naming 10 men as alternates on the National Defense mediation board. They will serve when original members are ill or unavailable, with an alternate needed for the Milwaukee hearing on the Allis Chalmers strike. Representing the public are Geo Stocking and Charles Wyzanski as alternates for Dykstra and Graham. Walter Stacy and others represent the employers and judiciary.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Defense Mediation Board
White House
Milwaukee
Allis- Chalmers
Geo. Stocking
University of Texas
Clarence A. Dyk
Employee Goes Amok at Bendix Plant in New Jersey
Bendix Aviation plant in BENDIX New Jersey sees a civilian employee run amok destroying machinery and models valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Production of several articles is delayed by up to four months. Federal officials and Bendix would not confirm the report. The man wielded two heavy metal housings as he rushed through the Pioneer Instrument Division, damaging a drift indicator model that took months to complete. The facility makes precision aviation instruments and components for bomb sight systems.
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Bendix
N. J
Passaic-Herald- News
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Newark
Passaic
Pioneer Instrument Division
Georgia Draft Chairman Quits
Atlanta April 4 State Selective Service announced the resignation of W B Grant of Meigs Ga who chaired the Rural Southwest Georgia Board and had proposed a wholesale deferment plan The board members T S Jackson Jr of Baconton and Lamar Wingate of Camilla would remain and a new chairman would be named by Governor Eugene Talmadge Grant said the plan reflected unfairness to workers while troops go to camp Grant later said no meeting would be held and he would resign if overruled Col Cliff Hatcher accepted the resignation and said the other two members would obey the law and classify all examinees as required
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Atlanta
State Selective Service
Mitchell County
Cliff Hatcher
W. B. Grant
Meigs
Georgia
Col. Hatcher
T. S. Jackson, Jr
Baconton
Lamar Wingate
Camilla
Eugene Talmadge
Jackson
Wingate
Grant
Sion B. Hawkins
Italian bombing planes claim two Greek steamers
Rome reports Italian bombing planes sank two Greek steamers totaling 11,000 tons in Corfu harbor and damaged several smaller vessels. The attack also hit an air base on Crete, with one grounded plane set ablaze and others damaged. Italy admits one plane lost.
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Rome
Corfu
High Command
Crete
Angary Right Could Have Justified Seizure of Vessels
Washington lawyers question why the United States did not invoke the ancient right of angary to seize foreign ships in American ports. The practice, dating to Greek and Roman law, allows a nation to requisition vessels for national defense with compensation, without proving sabotage. The idea contrasts with Attorney General Jackson's Havana speech criticizing international law.
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Washington
Ray ‘Tucker
United States
Italy
Brazil
Britain
Jackson
Inter-American Bar Association
Havana
Bob
Sub-Committee Named To Edit New Contract
New York April 5 A two main sub committee representing management and union in the bituminous coal negotiations was named to edit a contract and present it to the full negotiating committee Monday. Dr John R Steelman said some soft coal mines idle for nearly a week would reopen soon indicating end of the stoppage is near. Percy Tetlow and Charles ONeill were named to edit the contract. Plans to reopen mines on a temporary basis were expected to be scrapped as a settlement nears.
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New York
John R. Steelman
U.S. Conciliation Service
United Mine Workers (Cio
Steelman
Percy Tetlow
Charles O'Neill
Congress Week Vacation Begins as Tax Plans Loom
Washington April 5 Congress members start a one week spring recess after House action on extending the two year bituminous coal act. Senate will hold two brief sessions before Easter as leaders discuss a new revenue bill likely to raise at least 5 billion to cover defense costs and fund wage disputes.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Barkley
Texas
Rayburn
Wheeler says convoys near final step to war
Cincinnati April 5 Senator Burton Wheeler argues that convoys are the last step toward war. He says convoys would be marketed as peaceful, possibly tried first to South America or South Africa, and questions why there would be any danger if there is none. He spoke at an America First Committee rally attacking Wall Street propaganda.
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Cincinnati
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
South America
South Africa
Wheeler
America First Committee
Wall Street
Ford's Industrial Empire Closed by CIO Walkout
DETROIT April 5 The CIO strike shut Ford Motor Company's Dearborn River Rouge plant and 41 other communities halting 260,000 idle workers. Ford halted assembly and parts and notified suppliers to stop shipments valued at 811,000,000 weekly since January. Federal conciliator Dewey said talks would resume as police patrolled Rouge gates amid the disruption.
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Ford
CIO
Detroit
Foard Motor Company
General Motors
Chrysler Corporations
United Automobile Workers
Clo
Dearborn River Rouge
Ford Company
James F. Dewey
Oscar G. Olander
Rouge
Soldiers Need Home Support
General George C. Marshall spoke in a national Army Day address stressing that the soldier in the field requires full domestic backing. He praised the Selective Service system, National Guard active duty, and munitions production as a practical test of democracy in meeting international crisis.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Nation
Massaua siege tightens as British push near Eritrea port
In Khartoum April 5 the Imperial British army tightened its pincers around Massaua, Eritrea, aiming to seal off the Red Sea port. Northeastern columns crossed the Ethiopian frontier toward Adigrat, 40 miles east of Adwa, site of historic Ethiopian victories and Italian advances. Asmara, the Frihet capital, lies about 50 miles north. Con. on Page 2-Cot. 4.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Massau
Italy
Red Sea
Eritrea
Adigrat
Aduwa
Asmara
Fritreat
Reuters
Axis armies held Cairo as British push east
Cairo reports April 5 that German and Italian forces advancing east of Benghazi in Libya are being contained by British defenses. Cairo also announces that Aduwa and Adigrat in Northern Ethiopia, just across Eritrea’s border, have been entered by British forces.
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Cairo
Libya
Egypt
Aduwa
Adigrat
Ethiopia
Eritreat
Teachers Elect Phillips Chief
ASHEVILLE April 5 Vice-President K C Phillips of Winston-Salem was elected president of the North Carolina Education Association succeeding S G Hawfield of Raleigh John C Lockhart of Mecklenburg County was named vice president Governor Boug hton spoke at the final session of the 50th annual convention outlining education progress As many as 3000 delegates attended four general sessions and over 70 group meetings The convention began Thursday night with 3000 teachers present and the final session delayed to await Boug hton’s train arrival from Raleigh last night
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Asheville
K. C. Phillips
Winston-Salem
North Carolina Education Association
S. G. Hawfield
Raleigh
John C. Lockhart
Mecklenburg County
North Carolina
Broughton
James M. Hepburn
Baltimore
Clyde R. Erwin
Bristol Braced As Nazi Raid Strikes Coastal Port
London reports a heavy Bristol raid by relays of German bombers lasting hours. Despite intense anti-aircraft fire and widespread firebombing, casualties were limited to two dead in Scotland and two serious injuries in Bristol, with local fire crews and volunteers stamping out fires.
Nazi Relations End and Frontiers Closed Near Balkans War
Belgrade reports signaled a rapid collapse of German Yugoslav relations as the Balkans near war. Yugoslavia sealed frontiers with Germany Italy Hungary Bulgaria and Romania. Fighter squadrons moved toward the Hungarian border as Axis forces massed. US consul general Wadsworth crossed into Hungary en route to Rome. Athens legation staff Cavendish Cannon and wife sought evacuation.
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Berlin
Yugoslavia
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Bulgaria
Rumania
Budapest
Dusan Simovic
Romania
Belgrade
Adolf Hitler
Auomania
Albania
Greece
Adriatic
George Wadsworth
United States
Jerusalem
Rome
Cavendish Cannon
Athens
Legation
Bombs Hit German Battleships in Brest Air Strike
London reports heavy bombs straddled the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in a British raid on Brest last night. Oil stores at Rotterdam and targets in the Ruhr were also hit. The air ministry said the attack, the 49th of the war, was thorough with ships clearly identified in moonlight and fires seen near bombed ships. Daylight actions left a naval auxiliary sinking off the French coast as minesweepers were attacked.
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Bristol
Scotland
Brest
France
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Air Ministry
Rotterdam
Ruhr
Ministry
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Margaret Allen
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Marshall
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