Roosevelt Pushes Emergency Military Aid Plan
President Roosevelt works toward a $976,000,000 emergency military program to be submitted to Congress. He aims for quick approval as he drafts the request, with General Pershing and Dr Paul Zeeland meeting aboard. The plan emphasizes U S preparedness against possible war after a long war-scale effort.
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Ashington
Roosevelt
Re House
Whitese
John Ishing
Gress
Army
Capitol Hill
Zeland
Paul Zeeland
Pershing
Ee. F
France
United States
Meuse Battle Ga nders Throng as Maginot Line Pierced
Berlin reports German high command says forces pierced the Meuse across the Sedan sector and advanced toward Namur Ree ve forts with air support. Paris counterattacks reportedly reduced a 10 mile German penetration to a four mile salient as fighting rages near Liege Namur and the Meuse.
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Berlin
High Command
France
Maginot Line
Sedan
Meuse
Air Force
Paris
Namur - Reeve Forte
Lantin Loucien
Liege
Namur
Emael
Holland
Belgium
Dyle
Givet
Calls Off the War Dogs E May 15 Anti Allied Demonstrations
Police used nearly 10 000 people mostly students who gathered in Rome to launch anti Allied demonstrations at Piazza Venezia. Officials may face repercussions, while posters near the German embassy reference Mussolini's Il Popolo D Italia and a new Fascist law raises coast belt to six to eight times wider, with tensions over Italian coastal boundaries.
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Rome
Piazza Venezia
Italy
Mussolini
Il Popolo D'Italia
Germany
France
Britain
Investigation Ordered Into Strawberry Cargo Case
In Leigh on May 15 the Bureau of Investigation said it was asked to probe the range of a $1000 strawberry cargo transfer involving a truck driver and his aunt Olive, following a report from Syracuse, New York.
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Leigh
Fred
Handy
Bureau of Investigation
Olive
Syracuse
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Britain Claims Successful Raids Behind German Lines
Philadelphia May 15 Mrs Berta Bergdoll says her husband on Governors Island knows something important about the secret German weapon used in Belgium. She cites a letter to President Roosevelt claiming Bergdoll can explain details of a new gun.
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Berta Bergdoll
Roosevelt
Germany
Bergdoll
Governors Island
N. Y
Belgium
Holland
Britain
London
Holland Falls to Germany Expanding Threat to Isles
Reports say Nazi forces push through Holland as Britain faces invasion risk. British defenses near the Humber River intercept raids while Berlin claims Harwich and English ports lie within reach. Dutch forces regroup in Belgium as Sedan battles influence air and ground actions.
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Berlin
Britain
Harwich
England
Air Ministry
Sedan
Meuse
The
Hague
Netherlands
Holland
Belgium
Fall of German Held Port of Narvik Expected Soon
Stockholm dispatch reports Tidningen stating Allied bombardments have devastated Narvik, Germany’s garrison cannot hold much longer, with supply via planes and parachute reinforcements. It says fresh French troops and tanks have been landed for an assault on the town.
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Stockholm
Tidningen
Narvik
Netherlands Opens Up For German Occupation
Dutch forces ceased fighting and ordered their troops to stop firing as General Winkelman ordered surrender across all provinces except Zeeland. Berlin observers expect Zeeland resistance to fall within days while Rotterdam and Utrecht face potential destruction.
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Netherlands
Henri Gerard Winkelman
Zeeland
Viissingen
Flushing
England
Berlin
Germany
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Winkelman
Nazis Plan Immediate Air Raids on England
Berlin reports Nazi sources say a great air offensive will begin as soon as Germany is fully ready and timing makes England uncomfortable. Dutch surrender gives the Luftwaffe new airports within reach. Fremdenblatt cites 125 miles from Hook of Holland to Harwich and 156 miles from Flushing to Harwich.
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Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Hook of Holland
Harwich
Viissingen
Flushing
Harwick
Bids Received By Commission On 11 Road and Bridge Projects
The Highway and Public Works Commission in Raleigh opened bids for 11 road and bridge projects totaling about 611000 dollars. Low bidders include Pasquotank County's Knobbs Creek bridge 59597.60 by Cobb and Homewood. Carteret route 70 widening 18472.25 Eure Brothers. Wake Franklin 6.55 miles grading near Youngsville 46009.05 Nelle L Teer. Randolph route 220 Hasketts Creek widening 2649.35 Leon Ellis. Richmond route 74 Rockingham bridge 23136.40 L Riddle and Company. Richmond route 74 Rockingham grading and paving 72979 by Brown Paving.
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Highway and Public Works Commission
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Youngsville
Nelle L. Teer
Durham
Randolph County
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Leon Ellis
Greensboro
Richmond
Rockingham
L. Riddle and Company
Asheville
Brown Paving Company
Charlotte
Japs Lodge Strong Protest Over Peru Demonstration
Tokyo. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita lodged a strong protest with the Peruvian charge d Affaires today describing an anti Japanese demonstration in Lima as extremely regrettable.
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Hachiro Arita
Lima
Hoover to Head Belgium Relief Commission
Bel gian consul general Charles Hallaert said former President Herbert Hoover will lead a Belgium relief commission. Hoover previously organized a similar effort during the last war.
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New York
Charles Hallaert
Herbert Hoover
Belgium
Destroyer Valentine Beached After German Air Attack
The British destroyer Valentine was beached off the Holland coast after sustaining damage from a German air attack, the admiralty announced tonight.
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Valentine
Holland
Admiralty
French Claim Half of German Forces Driven Back Over Meuse
Paris reports that about half of the German forces crossing the Meuse yesterday were driven back. Up to 600000 men faced a final battle in the Meuse region with 20 divisions on each side. French counterattacks targeted Sedan and surrounding sectors as German thrusts pressed near the Belgian frontier.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Paris
The
French War Ministry
Sedan
France
Belgium
WPA Appropriation Backed as Relief Abuses Cited
The House Appropriations Committee recommends 975.65 million dollars for the WPA to be spent in eight months if needed as part of a relief bill totaling 1.11 billion. The report cites abuses in relief programs, including property use costs and overstaffed projects, and notes Louisiana officials face criminal charges.
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House Appropriations Committee
Relief’ Administration
Roosevelt
House
Louisiana
Allies Massed To Make Last Stand In Lowlands
British Expeditionary Force and French units massed in Belgium as German armies push Southwest toward their position. The battle looms as the Nazis gain ground in Belgium and the Dutch collapse, with Allied air power rising to challenge the attack.
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Belgium
Low Countries
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England
Royal Air Force
Third Reich
Tommies
Campaign finance reports filed in North Carolina primaries
Thomas E. Cooper of Wilmington reported receiving 1 668 in contributions and spending 1 479 06 for his Democratic gubernatorial bid. He listed contributors and noted a 1 500 sound track as company property. Other candidates filed reports with secretary Thad Eure as May 25 primaries loom.
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Thomas E. Cooper
Wilmington
Thad Eure
Cooper
T. BE. Cooper Muie Company
W. B. Cooper and
W. H. Cooper
Washington, D. C
Noah W. Cooper
Nashville
Arthur Simmons
Burlington
R. H. McNeill
Statesville
John R. Hoffman
Simmons
Elmer Simmons
Allegan
Mich
Charlotte
Communist Party Declared Illegal by Canadian Judge
Justice Edgar Rhevrier of the Ontario Superior Court declared the Community party of Canada an illegal organization. He sentenced Harry Binder to three years in prison and fined him 2000 for publishing and circulating anti war pamphlets in violation of the defense of Canada regulations.
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Edgar Rhevrier
Ontario Supreme Court
Community Party of Canada
Harry Binder
Defense of Canada
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