U S Ships Seizures May Be Repaired for Service
The Maritime Commission is reported ready to prepare 30 axis ships for service if ordered. Most vessels were sabotaged by crews before coast guardsmen seized them. Engineers have outlined repairs, while plans for final disposition remain undeclared. A House committee approved a bill granting broad presidential powers to take over and dispose of foreign ships in American ports.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
House Merchant Marine Committee
High Point Court Delivers Mixed Sentences and Indictments
Seven years in prison with parole possible after two for Shield’s case. Gurney York pleads guilty to unauthorized use of property with a one year suspended sentence. Eldridge Tuggle gets five years to start after a one year term. Theodore Hope pleads guilty to breaking into Ritz Bar for goods valued at seven dollars. Sentencing for Al Newton and Theodore Thomas deferred. Jay Willard, James Wray, and Glenn Goins cases continued indefinitely. Grand jury returns true bill against John Crosby for arson in 1936 Christmas night house fire.
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Shield
Gurney York
High Point
Tuggle
Eldridge Tuggle
Howard Scarce
Theodore Hope
Ritz
Judge Pless
al Newton
Theodore Thomas
Tomlinson
H. L. Koontz
Jay Williard
James Wray
Glenn Goins
John Crosby
Dorothy Mae Lee
Plymouth Bombing Report Indicates Repeated Luftwaffe Attacks
German raids hit Plymouth for the fourth night in seven as victims from prior blasts were laid to a communal grave. The assault, part of a broader Battle of the Atlantic, followed heavy strikes on Portsmouth and the German battleship raiders Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. British anti submarine craft operate from bases near Ireland and familiar targets include Plymouth and Portsmouth, now perilously close to occupied Europe.
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Portsmouth
Britain
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Brest
Congress Backs Income Tax Rises Over Sales Levy
House Ways and Means members oppose a federal retail sales tax to raise funds for defense. Rep. Robertson argues for a reasonable income tax, while Rep. Disney calls sales tax ideas nonsense due to collection hurdles. Treasury Morgenthau also criticizes a plan to tax coffee sugar and tea as poor-man’s tax.
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Ways and Means
New York State Chamber of Commerce
William J. Schieffelin, Jr
Chamber
State Chamber
Robertson
D-Va
Disney
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Treasury
Joint Congressional Committee On Taxation
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Funeral Rites for Infant Lanier Twins Held
Funeral services for Jane and Jan Lanier infant twins of Mr and Mrs Carl Lanier of Asheboro formerly High Point were held Monday with interment at Floral Garden Cemetery at 3 p m The children were born Sunday morning and died Sunday night. Disease has destroyed much of Turkey s raisin crop.
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Jan Lanier
Carl Lanier
Asheboro
High Point
Floral Garden
British War News From Europe and Crete Outlook
British reports describe night raids on Yarmouth Scot coast and Peterhead areas while air attacks hit a southwest England airport. Two merchant ships totaling 10,000 tons were destroyed east of Dundee and southeast of Lowestoft. Nine British aircraft were downed over the Channel and North Sea. German reports claim Crete’s strategic value rises as the Peloponnesus and Suda Bay threaten British Near East positions. German dispatches also indicate Greece and Crete operations as part of a broader Mediterranean plan.
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North Sea
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Voolkischer Beobachter
Adolf Hitler
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Sicily
Luftwaffe
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Samothrace
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Dardanelles
Southern Coal Workers Accept President's Reopening Plan
The southern coal districts telegrammed President Roosevelt stating acceptance of his reopening plan and readiness to resume work immediately. The northern producers and UMW had already agreed on a new Si a day wage scale, and Roosevelt urged reopening at the earliest practical hour to sustain national defense production.
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UMW
Mr. Roosevelt
L. Ebersole Gaines
Southern Group
Gaines
Jones
Chicago Produce Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago April 29 receipts show butter totals at 868 295 with creamery 95 score 331 to 335 and 92 3354. Other prices largely unchanged. Egg receipts 40 404 with steady demand for fresh graded extra firsts and firsts. Cars 22 and 2144, current receipts 201 2012, remaining prices unchanged.
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Chicago
New York Stocks Edge Higher on Mixed Recovery
Leading stocks trimmed a moderate rally with steels rails and select industrials gaining fractions in lively early trading. Prices steadied near highs by late morning as the president's successful intervention in the soft coal strike spurred bids offsetting war and tax concerns. Notable supporters included U S Steel Bethlehem Santa Fe Southern Pacific Great Northern Chrysler General Motors Air Reduction Union Carbide du Pont United Aircraft and J C Penney.
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New York
Aegin
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Bethlehem
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Southern Pacific
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General Motors
Air Reduction
Union Carbide
du Pont
United Aircraft
J. C. Penney
E Pac Mills
Packard Eastman Rod
Elec Auto
Elec Pow & Li
Penn
Gen Foods
Rad & Si
Gillette
Glidden
Smelt & Ref
Goodrich
At&t
Reynolds
Goodyear
Anaconda
Graham Paige
Nor Ry
Seab AL
Seab Ol
Sears
Shell UN
Atl
Socony
Aviat Corp
Sperry
Baldwin
Nick Can
S's
Cal
Barnsdall
Ind
Bendix Aviat
Beth Sir Johns Man
Stewart Warner Boeing Airpl
Studebaker
Borden
Kennecott
Swift
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Kinney Kroger Groce
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Cannon Malls
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Comwith & Son
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U S Fliers Learning War in Britain
Fifteen young American army airmen newly arrived in England study actual aerial combat at RAF fields under British fighters. They learn fighter and bomber vulnerabilities, differences from RAF tactics, and will return to the United States after completing a finishing course.
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Germany
England
Raf
America
United States
Axis In Africa Is Held Back
CAIRO April 29 Axis detachments which crossed the Egyptian frontier have remained stationary while British withdrawal in Greece continues. German and Italian forces in the Salam area are harassed by patrols. From the Ethiopian front the British report the capture of 2000 Italians and 400 colonial soldiers with guns and war material in connection with the seizure of Dessie. Patriot activities are rapidly extending across the country.
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Egypt
Greece
Middle East
Salam
Dessie
Asheboro Bonds Sold to Kirchofer and Arnold
The focal government commission sold $27,600 of revenue anticipation notes for Wilson County to Wachovia Bank at 0.75% interest plus a $1.27 premium. It also sold $4,000 of Asheboro bond anticipation notes to Kirchofer and Arnold of Raleigh at 2.5% with a $1.20 premium. A new radio receiver for light planes weighing 3% pounds was placed on the...
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Raleigh
Focal Government Commission
Wilson County
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Winston-Salem
Asheboro
Kirchofer
Arnold
Lindbergh resigns air corps commission amid White House clash
Senator Tobey accuses President Roosevelt of using his office to muzzle speech after Col. Charles A. Lindbergh resigns his air corps commission. The White House says Lindbergh released his letter for publication before receipt and notes he had previously been labeled an appeaser in wartime. Governor Broughton calls the move long overdue in Raleigh currents.
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Germany
Senate
Tobey
Roosevelt
Charles A. Lingbergh
White House
New York
Yale
Col. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Air Corps Reserve
War Department
Early
Raleigh
Charles A. Lindbergh
Broughton
Shaw Opposes Raid On Rome
London April 29. George Bernard Shaw and Dr. Gilbert Murray joined in opposing Britain's threat to bomb Rome in retaliation for possible attacks on Athens or Cairo. In a Times letter they call such a raid a provocation biting educated people and question Rome’s place in global culture. They lament a Berlin reprisal and warn Britain’s stance harms the world’s historical conscience. Potash salts will be recovered from sea water by a firm in Norway.
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Gilbert Murray
Great Britain
Rome
Athens
Cairo
the Times
British Commonwealth
America
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Local WeatherUpdate For North Carolina Coasts
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. North winds from Hatteras to Jacksonville vary from moderate northerly to northeast and east, south portions may see light rain or drizzle. Block Island to Hatteras shows winds shifting southwest in north and central areas, then east or southeast in the extreme south with fair weather.
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North Carolina
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Block Island
Churchill declines offer of imperial war cabinet
During a war cabinet debate Eden reported on Middle East diplomacy to unite against the Axis. Churchill dismissed the idea of a small supreme war council without department heads and, when asked about inviting empire statesmen, said he had nothing to add after a full House explanation. The questions came from Edgar Louis Granville of the Labor party.
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Middle East
Churchill
Supreme War Council
Edgar Louis Granville
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