Norris Warns Unions Ford To Open Plant Monday
Senate defers drastic action against strikes in defense era as Ford River Rouge prep for Monday opening. Norris warns unions against racketeering while lauding progress and pledging congressional scrutiny. GM strike votes loom. wage demands surface. coal field operators walk out in Carolina conference.
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Associated Press
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Norris
Ind-Neb
Congress
Fiorello la Guardia
New York
Murray D. van Watener
Michigan
Ford and Allied
NLRB
Ford
Churchill praises Allied troops in Greece during Bristol visit
In Bristol Churchill said Australian and New Zealand troops may engage the enemy today in Greece as part of the broader Allied effort. He spoke at a bombed university ceremony honoring US Ambassador Winant and Australian PM Menzies with honorary doctorates, despite air raids.
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Bristol
England
Winston Churchill
New Zealand
Greece
Britain
University of Bristol
United States
John W. Winant
Robert G. Menzies
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
Australia
Churchill
Greece Engulfed in Major Nazi Assault on Two Flanks
Nazi panzer units clash with Greek forces on both west and east flanks of the Hel lenic defense line, forcing a climactic battle for Greece. German troops from Bitolj reach Phlorina on the west, while on the east the defense reports deeper penetration but not yet to the main lines. RAF bombers pound German positions in Yugoslavia and northern Greece, destroying tanks and lorries amid difficult weather. Delayed reports say German advances meet British patrols near Gianitsa, with Gianitsa now in German hands. The Greek press minister vows a decisive victory and urges steadfast defense as fighting nears the site of a past Italian attack. Continued coverage notes juncture of Italian movements north of Lake Ohrida.
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Associated Press
Athens
Greece
Bitolj
Yugoslavia
Phlorina
Prilep
Kilkis
Galikos
Ma‘chidégunnee
Polykastron
Gianitsa
Yanitza
Mount Olympus
Aegean
Reichswehr
Theologos Nicoloudis
Salonika
Lake
Ochrida
Bosnia
Danube-Sava
Zagreb
Serbia
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Ireland
Bristol Hit by Heavy German Raid on April Night
Bristol endured a very heavy German raid as waves of raiders attacked with a full moon rising over the southwestern port. U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant toured the damage and praised the town’s courage while visiting Swansea with W. Averell Harriman and Prime Minister Churchill to review bomb damage.
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Bristol
England
U. S
John G. Winant
W. Averill Harriman
U.S
Churchill
Winant
Swansea
Berlin Says Roosevelt Misjudged Yugoslavia
Berlin asserts Roosevelt erred on Yugoslavia praising German sources. They claim his Greenland base deal with Denmark violates law and note his Red Sea route proclamation as an open European intervention. They predict rapid Balkan developments with Belgrade fall possible and anticipate other armies entering the conflict.
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Berlin
Roosevelt
Yugoslavia
Washington
Greenland
Germany
Navy converts cargo ship into experimental aircraft carrier
Washington reports the Navy is converting the 7,886 ton S. S. Mormacmail at Newport News into an experimental carrier to test fighter aircraft and depth-charge missions against German submarines. Observers say success could allow Britain to receive more such ships to defend North Atlantic convoys. Officials gave no confirmation of broader expansion.
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Washington
Britain
Great Britain
North Atlantic
Navy
Newport News
Department
Vice President Wallace Press Conference in Winston-Salem
Vice President Henry A Wallace said the war favor favors Allies with U S aid and predicted Britain would win. He urged labor and management cooperation for higher production to aid embattled allies and deter German leaders through summer. He spoke at a stockholders meeting before addressing Winston Salem Federal Home Loan Bank. King Vittorio Emanuele III pardoned George Ehret and Grace Gunther for illegal foreign exchange dealings. Ehret received seven years and Gunther six.
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Winston-Salem
Great Britain
United States
Henry A. Wallace
Winston- Salem Federal Home Loan Bank
Robert E. Lee
Walace
Greece
Africa
Wallace
Roosevelt
Rome
Vittorio Emanuele III
George Ehret
New York
Grace Gunther
Florence
Ehret
Miss Gunther
Princeton Coach Sees Southern Football Improvement
Ted Wieman head football coach at Princeton said in Chapel Hill that football has shown greater improvement in the south over the last decade than in any other region. He is spending a week of vacation in Chapel Hill.
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South
Chapel Hill
Ted Wieman
Princeton
Improved American planes outpace German and British craft
Washington dispatch notes that American aircraft over Europe are now superior to Hitler’s and rival British Hurricanes and Spitfires. Rapid U S production and allied coordination corrected earlier ship and air deficiencies, yielding a period of rapid remodeling in months. Selective Service officials facing calls for drastic draft system changes may attempt radical amendments as Congress debates lengthy sessions and the draft’s practical execution exposes faults.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Europe
Britain
England
Hitler
Selective Service
Congress
British Desert Troops Engage Axis West of Tobruk
Egypt April 12 British desert troops reinforced by veterans from East Africa clashed with Axis divisions west of Tobruk as German Italian columns 800 miles from Tripoli move toward Egypt. Official note said troops are in contact with the enemy. details were scarce. East Africa operations report 41,000 Imperial troops taken since hostilities began in Eritrea and Masawa fell. Addis Ababa yielding 5,000 prisoners including Italians.
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Cairo
Egypt
Libya
Tobruk
Churchill
Cirvenaica
Gebel
Achtar Range
Tripoli
East Africa
Eritrea
Massawa
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Italian And Nazi Columns Unite At Yugoslavs Ohrid
A German radio broadcast reported Premier General Dusan Simovic left Yugoslavia on a mission likely to Moscow. It said King Peter II is in Greece en route to England.
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Bern
Switzerland
Dusan Simovic
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Peter II
Greece
England
Axis advances crush Yugoslav resistance at Ohrid and Struga
Rome agency reports Italian and German units driving forward in southwestern Yugoslavia near Lake Ohrid. Fasists and Nazis join lines between Struga and Ohrid as Italian Bersaglieri and motorcyclists meet a German platoon. Struga and Ohrid are cited as captured or entered with towns like Ljubljana and Susak reported taken without firing a shot.
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Rome
Lake
Ohrid
Yugoslavia
Stefani
Struga
Bersaglieri
Ciafatan Ridge
St. Clements
Skoplje
Ljubljana
Ziri
Susak
Fiume
Liner Added To L A Route
Chester Pa April 12 A new 17500 ton liner last of four sister ships for South American service was launched marking North America’s latest commercial link with Latin nations. Moore McCormack official cites expanded trade and Roosevelts good neighbor policy as underpinning growth in South American trade. The four ships are part of an 80 million shipbuilding program supplementing Argentina Uruguay and Brazil liners.
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Chester
North America
Americas
Moore-McCormack Steamship Company
Rio de Janeiro
Louis F. Klein
Roosevelt
United States
Moore-McCormack Lines
Argentina
Uruguay
Brazil
Air forces destroy near 100 vehicles in Libya
British and Australian fighters destroyed or damaged almost 100 vehicles in a Panzer column on the Tobruk Gazala road in Libya, the RAF announced. British planes were reported swarming into Greece, bombing bridges roads and tunnels along the German march toward the British Greek defense line from Phiorina east to Mt Olympus.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobrik-Fl
Gazala Road
Libya
RAF
Bern
Switzerland
Greece
Germany
Hellenic
Phiorina
Mt. Olympus
American Ships May Be Attacked In New Zone
President Roosevelt opened a pathway to Suez for American ships with war cargoes raising questions about potential search and seizure or attack by Axis raiders in the Gulf of Aden Red Sea and Suez route. Hitler warned ships carrying arms to Britain would be sunk. Some German raiders and Axis planes have been active near Indian Ocean routes.
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Lloyd Lehrbas
Washington
Roosevelt
Suez
Italian Somaliland
Arabian Coast
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
Suez Canal
United States
Britain
Yugoslavia
Greece
Adolf Hitler
Indian Ocean
Tources
Nazis advance toward Belgrade in Yugoslavia war drive
Berlin reports Nazi units advancing from several sides toward Belgrade as Yugoslav resistance collapses in Croatia. Varazdin falls to German forces. Serb brigades surrender north of Zagreb. Mountain troops reach the Sava River while linking lines with Italian troops North of Lake Ohrid.
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Berlin
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Varazdin
Sava
Zagreb
Karlovac
Lake
Ohrid
High Command
England
Ljubljana
Drava
Theiss
Tisa
Nis
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Yugoslavs
Simovic
Moscow Bound
Triumphant Rome
L.A
New Zone
Reich
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