Italian freighter and other Axis ships seized in wartime action
Allied authorities moved the Italian freighter Villaperosa up the Cape Fear River after discovering it in the way of traffic. Sabotage on Italian and German vessels prompted mass seizures from New England to the Pacific Northwest and by Latin American nations. U.S. officials say saboteurs targeted ships. several captains and crew face prosecution while Britain approves the seizures.
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Villaperosa
Wilmington
N. C
Cape Fear
New England
Gulf
Pacific Northwest
Roosevelt
United States
U. S
Admiral Lais
London
Peru
Lufthansa
Lima
Tambo
U.S
Jackson
Boston
Pauline Friederich
Britain
Germany
Italy
Berlin
Labor Concilator Steels Tempers and Ford Strike Parley
Dr John R Steelman led labor talks as CIO UAW challenged Ford work force at River Rouge. Negotiations stalled with 330000 miners seeking $1 daily raise and President Roosevelt urging uninterrupted operation. A truce emerged in Detroit while steel and Bethlehem plants settled disputes.
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Roosevelt
Kentucky
Washington
Lewis
Steelman
National Defense Mediation Board
CIO
Ford
River Rouge
United Automobile Workers Union
Ford Workers
Michael F. Widman
NLRB
Harry Bennett
James Dewey
Dr. Steelman
Detroit
Pennsylvania
Allis-Chalmers
Cio-Uaw
Knox
OPM
Knudsen
Milwaukee
Heil
New Mediation Board
Bethlehem Steel
Wartime Drug Trial and Hair Wave Deaths Reported
News items cover a drug firm’s accidental production of 410000 sulphathiazole tablets using phenobarbital with five deaths linked to tablet use. Also reported is a Georgia beauty treatment death from acute hydrogen sulfide poisoning during a hair waving procedure. A quiz section lists five historical answers related to Roosevelt era topics.
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Winthrop Chemical Company
New York
Walter Campbell
Food and Drug Commissioner
Georgia
Atlanta
Senate Measured Farm Aid And Foreign Beef Purchases
The Senate debated buying Argentine canned beef and foreign farm products for the Army and Navy amid western opposition. A compromise allowed purchases when domestic products aren’t available at reasonable prices. Farm bill funds were boosted to 1.34 billion dollars with parity payments rising to 450 million. The defense pact with Mexico allows reciprocal airfield use to strengthen Panama Canal defenses. Roosevelt announced lease lend production of 1.08 billion in supplies.
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Senate
Army
Navy
Wallace
Byrnes
Senate House Committee
Roosevelt
House
Appropriations Committee
United States
Mexico
Panama Canal
Hitler Delays Yugoslavia Crisis As Axis Tactics Grow
German nerves tighten as deadline for Yugoslav troop withdrawal passes without action. Simovic urges firm stand while Croats and Serbs maneuver for leverage. In the Mediterranean, British forces strike Italian ships near Crete as Japan’s Matsuoka arrives in Berlin amid war talk. Massawa and Addis Ababa fronts shift as Eritrean and Ethiopian fighting heats up.
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Germany
Yugoslavia
Dusan Simovic
Berlin
Reich
Viktor von Heeren
Belgrade
Il Duce
Simovic
Cvetkovic
Ian
Crete
Washington
Britain
Mediterranean
Vittoria Veneto
Yosuke Matsuoka
Japan
Rome
Pacific
Italy
Cheren
Eritrea
Red Sea
Asmara
Massawa
Duke of
Aosta
Addis Ababa
Diredawa
Libya
News Quiz questions from March readers may answer
A newspaper quiz presents five questions on March news. Topics include Axis New Order attribution, Struma and Vardar valleys significance, 1932 gun emplacement dynamiting in a US possession, Admiral Darlan’s fleet threat and British response, and National Defense Mediation Board conditions for entering labor disputes.
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March News
Struma
Vardar
U. S
Darlan
New
National Defense Mediation Board
Army Day and naval milestone on April dates
Upcoming Sunday April 6 Army Day notes U S entry into World War 24 years ago. Wednesday April 9 a 35000 ton battleship North Carolina due for commissioning. Friday April 11 Good Friday. Chief Justice Hughes aged 79. All Rights Be Reserved 4aP Seatura Service.
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U. S
North Carolina
Justice Hughes
Aid to Britain Prophesied 101 Years Ago
An archival headline fragment cites John Bull and remarks on aid to Britain. The text includes mock dialogue and invective such as vile dog and scum of the earth, with a tone suggesting a历史 newspaper feature or reprint of a 19th or early 20th century polemic.
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James Landis
Harvard Law School
Harry Bridges
CIO
Bridges
Communist Party
FBI
San Francisco
Industrial Workers of the World
The
Marine Workers’ Industrial Union
Tabor
J. Edgar Hoover
Landis
Britain
John Bull
the Cannon
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John R. Steelman
Alabama College
Perkins
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Guam
France
FDR
Secretary of Labor
Conciliation Service
Labor Department
Panama
Gulf Stream
John Marquand
H. M. Putham
Count Pal Teleki
Hungary
Richard Julius Herman Krebs
Jan Waltin
Justice Department
Krebs
Hitler
Fee Hitler
Vladimir Macek
Croatia
Austria
Macek
Balkans
Soviet
Russia
Turkey
Ital
Velly
Vintroux
Charleston, W. Va
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Hungerford
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Voetelem Olum Ts
Poland
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Lowlands
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Winston Churchill
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