Mexican President narrowly escapes assassination attempt
President Manuel Avila Camacho was fired upon at close range by Lt. Jose Antonio De La Lama Rojas, who was wounded as guards overpowered him. The attacker, found with documents from Nazi sources, is under military investigation as Avila Camacho urges calm and unity.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
For Freedom
Avila Camacho
Jose Antonio de la Lama Rojas
Lama Rojas
Francisco Urquizo
National Defense
Mexico
Samuel C. Rojas
Air Force
National Palace
Puebla
Kentucky airman survives 19000 foot fall from B 17 tail
Sgt A Raley of Route Three Kentucky describes falling 19 000 feet in the tail of a Flying Fortress after a crash near Italy He freed himself from ammunition on his neck and crawled from the wreckage amid flames and mangled tail sections, thinking he would die.
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Joseph Morton
U. S. Isth
Raley
Southwest Struck By Tornados and Floods
Tornadoes and floods swept the southwest causing at least two deaths and 85 injuries. Severe rainfall threatened further floods in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma as scattered tornadoes affected Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas. In Arkansas Har rison Mrs. Marion Ward and others were injured and killed. in Oklahoma a tornado destroyed a camp near Magnolia injuring many.
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Associated Press
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Oklahoma
Arkansas
Marion Ward
Harrison
Ark
Garland Walker
Magnolia
Walnut
Hutchinson
Train Derailment Injures Twenty-Two at Maxwell Field
Twenty two soldiers received treatment at Maxwell Field after a derailed Arctic Coast Line special train 20 miles south of Montgomery. Two are seriously hurt but expected to recover.
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Montgomery
Ala
Maxwell Field
Here
Amy
Crusaders Club Meeting At First Baptist Church
The Crusaders Club of the First Baptist Church meets tonight at 8 30 p m with Mrs Della Harrison at 24B Daniel Brooks Homes President Luther Kimbrough urges all members to attend.
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First Baptist Church
Della Harrison
Daniel Brooks
Luther Kimbrough
Alumni Meet Plans Scholar ship Drive At Public Program
The Winston-Salem Teachers College Alumni met Mrs Virginia Perry at her Kivett Drive home for an April gathering to organize the annual scholarship drive and a public program at Brooks Memorial church on the fourth Sunday at 3 pm Professor George L Johnson of the Teachers College will deliver the address with music by alumni members The meeting list includes Mesdames C V Holmes Flossie Helen Cole Dahla Ingram M Barnhill W M Boyd Zula Black Willie Marie Carter and Cora Lee Robinson Master Singers announce a 3 pm Sunday April 16 performance at Bethlehem Baptist 618 Hulda Street public invited.
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Winston-Salem Teachers College
Virginia Perry
Kivett Drive
Brooks Memorial Church
George L. Johnson
Teachers College
Mesdames C. V. Holmes
Flossie
Helen Cole
Dahla Ingram
M. Barnhill
W. M. Boyd
Zula Black
Willie
Marie "Carter
Cora Lee Robinson
Stewardess Board Meeting At St Stephen Church
The Stewardess Board of St Stephen A M E Zion church will meet Tuesday night at 8 p m at the home of Mrs Beatrice Leach on Hoover Street All members urged to attend W W 8 C 8S meeting W S C S Circle No 3 meets tonight at 8 p m at the church Mrs Gladys Gannaway chairman Shut in Mrs J B Jones 802 Park St is shut in after a slight accident.
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Stewardess Board
St. Stephen's A. M. E. Zion
Beatrice Leach
Hoover Street
J. B. Jones
Park St
Hughes Is 82 Today in War-Torn World
Charles Evans Hughes, retired chief justice, turns 82 in Washington on April 11. He notes he is living quietly and trying to be cheerful in a war-torn world and says he still cherishes the privileges of old age.
Answers On New Draft Procedure Clarified
Washington reports that the selective service plans a clean sweep of men 18 through 25, with 26 to 38-year-olds drafted only after the younger group. Induction timing varies by board, with delays possible up to 90 days for some locales.
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Washington
Selective Service
Army
Navy
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Board Bbb
Board Aaa
Bridge Not a Guess Victim of a Bad Play
South dealer vulnerable East West. Declarer misread a diamond play and West failed to cover the diamond king. After a sequence involving dummy nine and East winning a sack, two club tricks defeated the contract. The key error was timing the diamond card to maximize winning chances.
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West
Declarer
East
Mountain avalanche maroons 32 near Berthoud Pass
Thirty two people including three babies are stranded atop Berthoud Pass Colorado after a road avalanche and heavy snow. Soldiers and ski troops rescue efforts bring supplies and shelter to the summit while Lt. Helen Barr Durfee and Lieut. Catherine Cockburn suffer injuries. Edith Foster, a Craig schoolteacher, tunnels from a snow block using a screwdriver after her car is buried.
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Echo Lake
Summit Lodge
Helen Barr Durfee
Los Angeles
Army
Denver
Durfee
Catherine Cockburn
Bethesda
Spars
Cockburn
Riverside High School Journalists Get Press Pass
Walter Winchell is named a member of Riverside Polytechnic High School journalism classes and staff reporter for The Spotlight. The press pass, certified by instructor F Wayne Coons and editor Bill Cornwell, expires in 1950 and reflects youth involvement in reporting.
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Press Club
Poly Spotlight
Walter Winchell
Riverside Polytechnic High School
F. Wayne Coons
Bill Cornwell
German warplane shot down over Southern Sweden
A German war plane was hit by Swedish anti-aircraft fire and crashed in flames in Southern Sweden. The crew perished while the 11th U S bomber to land here since Easter touched down at Angelhorn and the crew survived.
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Stockholm
Sweden
U. S
Angelhorn
Officials Confer on Reemployment of Vets
North Carolina selective service officials held a conference in Lumberton on reemploying discharged veterans with sessions also in Wilmington Kinston Rocky Mount Winston-Salem and other cities through April 24 under Lt. Col. Thomas H. Upton. State officials estimated about 75 percent of returning service members would seek jobs other than those they left.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Selective Service
Lumberton
Wilmington
Kinston
Bananas Shipped from Jamaica Hit 150000 Bunches
In a 25 day period Jamaica shipped 150000 bunches of bananas. The export marks a significant delivery volume. Financial or carrier details are not provided in the fragment.
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Jamaica
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