Lloyd George warns Britain on risks and food supply
David Lloyd George voiced caution at Dorchester Hotel urging Britain to prepare for a long conflict and ensure food supplies. He warned against air attacks on civilians provoking retaliation and defended the need for self sufficiency under Beaverbrook’s dig for victory plan.
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National Defense and Public Interest Committee
Russia
Dorchester Hotel
Lloyd George
Lord Beaverbrook
England
Britain
House Defeats Amendment Blocking Ex Im Bank Loan Rise
The House rejected Rep. Patman’s amendment to bar Eximbank loans to defaulting American‑country bond issuers as part of a 000,000 capital increase in the loan bill. Lawmakers argued the measure as a debt‑collection tool and debated implications for neutrality and foreign policy.
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Ashington
E House
Wd States
R-Nj
Anl
Patman
Finland
Blican
Rep
Luce
Massatts
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Executive Branch
Thenment
Finance Committee
Census Bureau
Restrictions on Turkish ships limit voyage traffic
The government order forbids Turkish merchant ships from engaging in traffic without touching a Turkish port in each voyage. Described as a measure tied to Turkey's need to carry heavy imports and ensure traffic in its own ships. Dated Feb 28 with a brief dispatch note.
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Iment
Turkrehant
Turkey
Pment
British Expeditionary Army Aids Finland Contingent Sails
About 600 British volunteers in an international brigade aiding Finland against Russia were reportedly already en route to the northern front. The force would provide trained manpower and strike at Russia, seen by many as an enemy nation, with Kermit Roosevelt considered for brigade command by Finland's defense chief Baron Mannerheim.
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Drew Middleton
London
Finland
Russia
Britain
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Leslie Hore- Belisha
Oliver Locker-Lampson
Germany
Europe
Hull outlines postwar diplomacy to curb autarchy
Secretary Hull said conversations were under way between American diplomats and governments worldwide to prevent autarchy and economic totalitarianism after the war. He noted copies of his statements were sent to all representatives abroad to urge neutral capitals to engage, all capitals included. Hull stressed the talks aim to prepare postwar economic and military adjustments, not wartime conditions.
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Washington
Hull
Bones Of Three Humans Found In Paper Box
State Trooper W. L. Pence reported parts of three human skeletons found in a cardboard box on a mountain road 35 miles north of Richwood West Virginia. The bones were broken and roughly treated raising homicide suspicion and a physician identified a child and an adult about 5 feet 10 inches tall among the remains. The box, found by a WPA worker, appeared to have been thrown from a car and lay along the highway for about a month.
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Richwood
W. Va
W. L. Pence
West Virginia
Pence
WPA
Raging Waters Flood Berkeley and Northern California
A severe rainstorm caused a flash flood in Berkeley with Strawberry Creek overrunning the business district. Damage around $100,000 in Berkeley and widespread flooding across northern California forced thousands from homes and disrupted rivers, roads, and farms including 80,000 acres of garden crops in the Yolo region.
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California
San Francisco
Berkeley
Calif
Harry Goodrich
Berkley
Strawberry Creek
University of California
Euclid
Hearst Avenue
Riding Academy
Rose Lescinsky
Eugene
J. H. Millar
Sacramento
Yolo
E. H. Fletcher
Feather Rivers
Gerber
Oregon Line
Red Bluff
Corning
Tehama
Raid On Zeppelin Air Works Feared Over Lake Constanz
Residents along Lake Constance heard what sounded like an air raid on the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen Germany. German anti aircraft batteries fired and aircraft engines were audible for about 15 minutes in heavy fog.
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Romanshorn
Switzerland
Lake Constanz
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Petition Drives Guilford County Democratic Meeting Call
A petition signed by 32 of 52 Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee members seeks a special meeting next Saturday to restore party harmony ahead of county and state conventions. The document was presented to Chairman T C Hoyle Jr and Vice Chairman Walter E Crissman, with notice that noncompliance would make the petition an official call.
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Guilford County
Democratic Executive Committee
T. C. Hoyle, Jr
Walter E. Crissman
High Point
Hoyle
Mr. Crissman
Crissman
Germans Lose Two Bombers Over France in Latest Air Battles
Paris reports the French high command announced two German bombers downed in France during massed flights in the last 48 hours. Earlier British forces claimed two Heinkel bombers shot down on the eastern coast after crossing France and the Channel. Six Parisians were wounded by an anti aircraft shell amid heavy anti aircraft fire and propaganda leaflets dropped by both sides.
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Paris
France
English Channel
High Command
Germany Offers Border Guarantee To Rumania
Bucharest reports authoritative quarters say Germany offered to guarantee Romania s borders in exchange for large boosts in oil wheat and other raw materials shipments to the Reich The plan would require Romania to drop civil mobilization and return up to 1 000 000 of its 1 400 000 men to work in fields and factories It also seeks non aggression pacts with Hungary Bulgaria and Soviet Russia and a railway accord to move supplies to Germany
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Bucharest
Germany
Rumania
Reich
Hungary
Bulgaria
Russia
Turkey
Balkans
Bombers Strike Reds as Isthmus War Intensifies
Finnish air forces continued bombing Russian troop concentrations and supply lines while land battles on the Karelian Isthmus remained fierce. The army claimed repelling Red Army drives toward Viipuri and areas northeast of Lake Ladoga, with heavyenemy losses and active artillery on both sides.
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Wade Werner
Helsinki
Karelian
Russia
Viipuri
Saturals
Viipri
High Command
Lake Ladoga
Kuhmo
Fin
Gulf of Finland
State Ice Meeting Opens In Rocky Mount
The 31st annual convention of the North Carolina Ice Association began in Rocky Mount. Edmund H. Harding of the Washington Chamber of Commerce will speak at tonight's banquet. Other speakers include R. Gregg Cherry, Harry C. Conklin, M. J. Uline, Fred I. McCandlish, Mount Taylor, and Guy W. Jacobs. New officers will be elected tomorrow.
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Rocky Mount
North Carolina Ice Association
Edmund H. Harding
Washington, D. C
Chamber of Commerce
R. Gregg Cherry
Gastonia
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Harry C. Conklin
Charleston
D. C
M. J. Uline
Fred I. McCand
Twenty Italian miners die in gas explosion
A gas explosion in the Arsa mines in Istria province killed at least 20 Italian miners and injured about 100. Officials fear more victims may be buried in the wreckage as the blast is blamed on gas at Italy’s most productive coal mine gallery on the Adriatic coast.
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Rome
Arsa
Istria
Adriatic Sea
Italy
Mother Who Dismembered Own Son's Body Sentenced To Die
Philadelphia report: Tillie Irelan, 35, pleaded guilty to smothering her 20 month old son and dismembering his body. She was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair. She showed no emotion besides a pale reaction as Judge Harry S. McDevitt imposed the sentence.
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Philadelphia
Tillie Irelan
Harry S. McDevitt
D A R Honors Jean Maddocks as North Carolina Good Citizen
Miss Jean Maddocks of Fort Bragg chosen from 34 high school seniors to represent North Carolina at the D A R Good Citizenship Pilgrimage in Washington April 12 to 16. State winner praised as exceptional. runners up Mary Alice Vann Monroe and Lucy Farmer Rockingham noted. Irene Meekins of High Point represented the Alexander Martin chapter.
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Jean Maddocks
Fort Bragg
North Carolina
Washington, D. C
Elizabeth Horne
Mary Alice Vann
Monroe
Lucy Farmer
Rockingham
Horne
Irene Meekins
High Point High School
Alexander Martin Chapter
Candidates to Speak in Alamance County Party Meeting
Oscar Barker of Durham and John Caffey of Greensboro seek the Democratic nomination for Sixth District representative and will address the Alamance County Young Democratic Club on March 15 in Burlington.
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Burlington
Oscar Barker
Durham
John Caffey
Greensboro
Alamance County Young Democratic Club
Van Loon to Write On Democracy
Hendrik Willem van Loon prepares a timely series on The Story of Democracy for The Enterprise. The noted historian will illustrate each chapter with his own artwork. The first chapter appears next Monday with twenty three more to follow.
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
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