Allis-Chalmers Plant Strike Is Finally Settled
The CIO local ratified a 76 day strike settlement at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee. The deal, announced after a Washington conference, clears the way for resumption of production tomorrow.
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CIO
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Harold Christoffel
Washington
West Allis
United Automobile Workers
Defense Mediation Board
Ed Hall
International Uaw
Max W. Babb
Communications curbs amid wartime controls in Europe
Berlin announces a temporary halt on outside communications from 3 p m today to 7 a m tomorrow with possible repeats. Budapest says all international messages will be cut from 7 p m to 6 a m local time. Rome imposes new limits on foreign correspondents from 8 p m tonight to 7 a m tomorrow due to military needs.
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Berlin
Budapest
Hungary
Rome
Italy
Strike Delay in Pittsburgh Extends Steel Talks
Pittsburgh April 7 A work stoppage threat in G B Steel mills was averted as an agreement extends current wage negotiations. The CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee says work will continue in all U S steel mills to April 15 under the existing contract with any agreed changes retroactive to April 1, the original expiration date.
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Coatesville
Lukens Steel Company
Arthur Johnson
CIO Steel Workers
Johnson
Pittsburgh
G. 8. Steel Corporation
CIO
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
U. S
Wage increase at National Steel with 10 cent raise
Ernest T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel Corporation, announced a 10 cent per hour wage increase for employees effective April 1. Weir added that detailed arrangements are being worked out in all subsidiaries.
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Pittsburgh
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
Weir
Britain backs 50 percent income tax to fund war effort
London reports a record 4.207 billion pound budget to cover domestic expenditure and anticipated US aid. Chancellor Sir Kingsley Wood urged nationwide tax, lowering exempt income to 110 pounds to bring 2 million low wage earners into the tax system. He warned the tax rise aims to curb consumption and curb price and wage inflation.
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London
Briain
United States
Kingsley Wood
Exchequer
House of Commons
Turks Intend To Remain Neutral
Ankara relayed a calm front as German troops moved into Greece. The radio dismissed England’s role in causing the conflict, questioned German reasons, and affirmed Turkey’s non belligerent stance. Observers noted Turkey planned neutrality amid Yugoslav and Greek tensions.
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Turkey
Greece
Germany
England
Balkans
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Nis
Vardar
Russia
Franz von Papen
Sukru Saracoglu
Saracoglu
Britain
Yugoslav Minister Ivo Andric Leaves Berlin by Train
In Berlin on April 7 the Yugoslav Minister Ivo Andric and his staff departed by special train from Anhalter station at 10 a.m. local time. The destination was not disclosed.
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Berlin
Ivo Andric
Anhalter Station
Nazi Destroyer Sunk By Plane
London reports a German destroyer torpedoed by a British plane yesterday is believed sunk and another destroyer damaged by a bomb. The air ministry also details raids on Brest where Scharnhorst and Gneisenau shelter, attacks on Ijmuiden ferries, and bombing of Calais Ostend docks. Four planes failed to return. a new RAF fighter mission is noted.
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London
Air Ministry
Brest
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
France
RAF
Ijmuiden
Netherlands
British plan to make US the larder of the empire
National wires show Secretary Wickard meeting April 5 with an advisory council to discuss preventing a repeat of wartime farm overproduction and price inflation. Farmers fear losses postwar while retailers warn of rising costs unless government action intervenes.
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British Food Purchasing Commission
England
Claude Wickard
United States
Co * R
Jesse H. Jones
Secretary of Commerce
Fred Lazarus, Jr
Columbus
English Have Captured 10,000 Prisoners In Eritrea Since March 25
Cairo reports British forces withdrawing east of Benghazi in North Africa while in East Africa Debra Markes fell as 3120 miles from Addis Ababa. More than 10,000 prisoners were taken in Eritrea since March 25 as the Red Sea port Massawa nears, with British advances toward Desire and Gondar. Libyan front HQ notes continued German and Italian pressure and a withdrawal to concentrated defensive points.
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Cairo
Egypt
North Africa
East Africa
Debra Markes
Addis Abuaha
Eritrea
Red Sea
Massawa
Desire
Gondar
Ethiopia
German-Italian Forces Push From Bengasi Reach Tokra
Berlin radio report says German Italian forces pursue British withdrawal from Bengasi Libya advancing over 40 miles to the northeast and southeast. It claims advances have led to many prisoners and numerous armored cars captured with Tokra cited in the northeast.
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New York
Berlin
Bengasi
Libya
Anis
Tokra
Ethiopian patriots seize Addis Ababa ending siege
The report says Ethiopian patriots backed by Haile Selassie captured Debra Makos after a long siege and inflicted over 100 Italian casualties. The capitulation of Addis Ababa signals Rome’s eastern empire collapsing as 10,000 Italian troops flee toward deserts or mountains. A major battle reportedly forms east of Bengasi in Libya.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Debra Markos
Mussolini
Aduwa
North Africa
Bengasi
Libya
Perkins First Labor Witness Before Military Affairs Probe
Secretary Perkins told the House Military Affairs Committee that labor and management share responsibility to prevent delays in defense production. She warned against over and under emphasis of labor issues and urged cooperation to avoid work stoppages caused by lack of mutual confidence between employers and labor groups.
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Washington
Perkins
House Military Affairs Committee
Miss Perkins
Battleship North Carolina to be commissioned next Wednesday
Raleigh bulletin reports the 35000 ton battleship North Carolina will be commissioned Wednesday at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn with Governor Broughton, Lt Gov Harris, Adjutant General Metis and staff in attendance. The ship costs nearly 70000000 dollars and carries about 1500 officers and men, three months ahead of schedule.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
New York Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Governor Broughton
Broughton
R. L. Harris
Roxboro
Harris
J. van B. Metis
Gordon Smith
Britain Deploys 300000-Strong Force to Greece
London reports reveal Britain's expeditionary army in embattled Greece aims to push Italians from Albania and hold Greece and parts of Yugoslavia for a wider offensive. Reinforcements to air power are announced as troops from Britain Australia and New Zealand arrive.
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London
Britain
Albania
Yugoslavia
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Ministry of Information
Egypt
England
Balkans
Roen
Ethiopia
Bengali
Libya
Archibald P. Wavell
Middle East
Wavell
John G. Dill
Imperial General Staff
Japanese Foreign Minister Seeks Kremlin Talks Amid Berlin Visit
Moscow dispatch notes Yosuke Matsuoka arriving from Berlin and meeting Vyacheslav Molotov at the Kremlin. The visit marks diplomatic exchanges between Japan and the Soviet Union as tensions and alliances shift in early April.
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CPI
Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Kremlin
Berlin
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Franklin and Marshall College president dies in Lancaster
Dr. John Ahlum Schaeffer, 54, sixth president of Franklin and Marshall College, died last night in Lancaster. The educator led the college through years of growth and served as a prominent figure in local academia.
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Lancaster
John Ahlum Schaeffer
Franklin and Marshall College
Fierce Fighting Reported Between Frontier Troops
Berlin reports Yugoslav transport and communications disrupted by Luftwaffe strikes with Belgrade and other cities hit. German front bulletin says troops advance 30 to 40 kilometers in Yugoslavia and Greece with air force support. Greek infantry hold Struma Gorge amid heavy fighting and loss of one fort. RAF reports five German Me109s shot down.
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Adolf Hitler
Yugoslavia
Greece
Belgrade
Berlin
Salonika
Struma River
Russia
Surku Saracoglu
Fiume
Associated Press
Luftwaffe
DNB
Luftwafe
Sarajevo
Zagreb
Mostar
Ljubljana
Kumbar
Podgorica
High Command
Struma
Athens
Rupel Pass
Bulgaria
Royal Air Force
Fort Bragg Private Killed In Accident
Fort Bragg Private J. H. Bolger of the field artillery reception center was killed when an army command car he drove crashed into a telephone pole in Fayetteville. A Miami Florida widow and child survive. Policeman Alex Smiley said Bolger sped and weaved before the crash. In a separate weekend incident Private Albert W. Mebane 22 of the dist Engineers was killed by a vehicle near the military reservation. Home listed as Chaton North Carolina.
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N.C
J. H. Bolger
Fort Bragg Field Artillery
Army
Bolger
Miami
Fla
Alex Smiley
Albert W. Mebane
Dist Engineers
Chaton, N.C
America To Rush War Supplies To Nations
The United States began rushing war materiel to Yugoslavia and Greece after Hull denounced Germany’s Balkan invasion as barbaric. Shipments may use Yugoslav port vessels within days, including 75 millimeter guns, machine guns, mortars, ammunition, bombs, and other arms. Over 1 million dollars in medical supplies were also ordered to Yugoslavia, with 10 field hospitals and 2 million surgical dressings to be provided by the Red Cross. Aimed to bolster embattled nations as Britain’s RAF operates in the region. government noted 2,000 Americans reported in Belgrade and sought protections for citizens abroad.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Greece
Hull
Germany
Balkan
Atlantic
Belgrade
Britain Calls Yugoslavia A Resolute Ally In War
London reports Britain welcomes Yugoslavia as a powerful ally and vows to fight beside the southern Slavs until right is vindicated and law and justice are enthroned. The Yugoslav Legation says no Belgrade news yet and that dispatches travel by roundabout cable route with delays.
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Great Britain
Yugoslavia
Foreign Office
Britain
Germany
Yugoslav Legation
Belgrade
Balkans
Anthony Eden
John Dill
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