Greco British Center Fights Germans Near Kalabaka Front
Greek and British forces hold the line against German mechanized units in Kalabaka as Allied defense holds steady amid heavy fighting. Australian troops repel assaults near Servia with heavy losses for the Germans. German pressure increases along the front as Stukas hammer passes toward Ioannina and Larisa.
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Metsovo Pass
Ioannina
Epirus
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Larisa
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Aliakmon River
Grevena
Nazis Claim Servia Taken 70 Mile Push
Nazi troops push further into Greece after crossing the Alakmon River and sweeping toward the east flank of the British Greek defense line. Berlin reports capture of Servia with many prisoners as their advance continues south from the frontier near Mount Olympus.
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Greece
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Alakmon
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Africa
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Thessaly
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German push costs two divisions in two days
An observer returning from Mount Olympus fronts reported mass infantry and tank attacks south of Serbia caused German casualties equal to two divisions in two days. He said German forces, despite heavy losses, pressed ceaselessly and were throwing men away by the thousands to reach the Thessaly Plain.
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Athens
Mount Olympus
Servia
Thessaly Plain
Canada United States defense board outlines coast plans
Montreal April 17 The Canada United States joint permanent defense board announced completion of plans for military and naval defense of the eastern and western coasts of Canada and the United States.
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Montreal
Canada
United States
Canada-United States Joint Permament Defense Board
Italian Front Advances Claim Crisis On Greek Line
Rome reports the Italian high command states Greek front positions were penetrated and the entire enemy line is in crisis. Berlin dispatches claim German speedboats sank four British merchantmen totaling 13,000 tons off southeast England. An additional report says two German planes sank a 2,800-ton British vessel near the Thames Estuary as fighting persists in Mount Olympus Sea of Greece.
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Fhetalian High Command
Berlin
England
Thames Estuary
Forest Fire Rages Over Elk Creek Area
April 17. A rest fire in Elk Creek section of Watauga County in North Carolina burns out of control. About 1,000 acres are alight, driven by high winds and dry conditions. Firefighters from 100 men and Hickory CCC Camp efforts are hampered by difficult terrain. State forester W. C. McCormick directs scene operations. Continuous rain is needed to ease containment.
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Raleigh
Elk Creek
Wauga County
Hickory CCC
State Department of Consortion and Development
Tony
W. C. McCormick
McCormick
Shelling by fleet hits German Italian troops near Salum
Washington reports Secretary Knox says navy aims for a two ocean fleet soon as contracts move ahead under a tight deadline. Across the Atlantic in London British forces shell Salum and bombard fortifications while the blockading squadron claims destruction of Italian ships and convoy losses en route from Sicily to Tripoli.
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London
Egypt
Salum
Sicily
Tripoli
Admiralty
Price control debate reshapes Nixon era policy debate
Washington dispatch from Ray Tucker discusses rising prices and the push to curb them. President Roosevelt era style attempts mix with advisory caution as Leon Henderson is named price czar while Jesse Jones advocates direct action. Officials weigh powers, legal gaps, and indirect methods via government loans amid New Deal rhetoric.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Fechinique
Harriet Elliott
Consumers
National Defense Advisory Commission
White House
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Jones
Leon Henderson
Hnderson
Harry Hopkins
Democrats And Republicans Agree On Sum
Washington April 17 administration and both Democratic and Republican congressional leaders agreed to seek 3.5 billion dollars in new taxes to be raised next year President Roosevelt approved the plan and would discuss it with the public soon. Morgenthau said two thirds of expenditures would be raised by taxation with one third by borrowing. The tax program could be the largest in the world and involved cross party participation at the meeting.
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Morgenthau
Roosevelt
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House
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R-Mich
George
D-Ga
Walsh
Dmass
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Cooper
D-Tenn
Cullent
D-Ny
Treadway
R-Mass
Crowther
R-Ny
Britain Fears Invasion Move
London reports growing anxiety over a possible German invasion as Luftwaffe bombs London for eight hours. Observers speculated the assault could be a prelude to an inland thrust, with plans to strike the Thames Estuary. the Evening Standard warned the new attack might precede an invasion.
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Germany
Thames
Empire
Evening Standard
Lord Beaverbrook
Turks Studying Pact With Germany Reported
Ankara reports German ambassador Franz von Papen will depart for Berlin to report on talks. Turkish papers say Germany and Turkey nearing a new trade accord involving tobacco shipments. Ankara also notes renewed commerce and navigation treaty with Italy.
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Turkey
Franz von Papen
Berlin
Istanbul
Germany
Italy
Turky
Parity payment rates announced for major crops
Secretary Wickard announced 1941 AAA parity payments for cotton wheat corn rice and tobacco to be disbursed from a $212 million appropriation. Payment rates include cotton 1.38 cents per pound wheat 10 cents per bushel corn 5 cents per bushel rice 20 cents per hundredweight flue cured tobacco 0.6 cent per pound fire cured tobacco 0.2 cent per pound cigar filler and binder 0.7 cent per pound. Distributions expected: cotton 88.3 million wheat 57.3 million corn 47.1 million rice 2.5 million flue cured tobacco 3.7 million fire cured tobacco 3.0 million cigar filler and binder 0.0 million. (Con. on Page 2 Col 7)
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Washington
Wickard
Congress
Pelley Fights Bail Revocation
William Dudley Pelley publisher and leader of the Silver Shirts fights return to North Carolina to face possible prison term by challenging a government bid to revoke his $5 000 bail. T Edward O Connell argues the move attacks civil liberties and seeks totalitarian methods in courts. Pelley recently shifted publishing from Asheville NC to Noblesville Indiana and faces extradition to Buncombe County for 1935 security laws conviction.
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William Dudley Peley
The
Silver Shirts
North Carolina
T. Edward O'Connell
Pelley
United States Court of Appeals
United States
O'Connell
Asheville
N. C
Noblesville
Ind
Buncombe County
London Suffers Worst Raid Of War In Eight Hours
London endures the heaviest air raid of the war as hundreds of Nazi planes drop uncounted tons of explosives and fire bombs. morgues fill and hospitals crowd as searchers report widespread devastation with many dead and wounded, including Lord Stamp and his wife, while rescue crews face deadly bombardment.
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Associated Press
London
Coventry
Lord Stamp
Lady Stamp
Gayda Urges U S to Appease Axis in War Press
Rome editor Virginio Gayda, a fascist journalist, calls on the United States to appease the Axis before England is defeated. He argues continued aid to Britain is an elephantine intervention and will backfire on the U S, warning there is little hope that American action will help Britain.
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Virginio Gayda
United States
England
America
Il Giornale d
Italia
Britain
Italians Cross Border To Fight On Greek Soil
Italian press reports say forces crossed the Albanian border into Greece as Cetinje and Podgorica in Yugoslavia fall under attack. Italian columns push toward Dubrovnik and Kotor while a front from Lake Presba recaptures Kilsura.
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Cetinje
Podgorica
Yugoslavia
Columin
Adriatic
Kotor
Dubrovnik
Giornaio D'Ttala
Greece
Albania
Lake Presba
Kilsura
IK Klisura
Tepeleni
Scutari
Il Piccolo
Lewis Willing To Negotiate Restart Of Soft Coal Wages
John L. Lewis announced the United Mine Workers would resume wage talks with Southern bituminous coal operators to seek an industry wide accord and reopen the nation’s soft coal mines. He proposed a New York meeting tomorrow to bargain a wage scale for mining areas, at the federal government’s urging through conciliator Dr. John R. Steelman.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Lewis
Nightstate
Appalachian
L. T. Putnam
John R. Steelman
Putman
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