Citywide raid seals bootlegging dens in sweeping vice crackdown
Police and sheriff’s deputies led a carefully planned series of padlocked raids on ten businesses tied to gambling and bootlegging, signaling the city’s broad crackdown. Judge Schoch and Police Chief Friddle oversaw the action, with all key figures in the organizations reportedly aware of the operation.
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Municipal Sons
Schoch
Haworth
D. C. MacRae
Municipal Court
High Point
Shersaid
Manniff’s Department
W. G. Friddle
MacRae
K. Schoch
Anna Ata
Soft Coal Strike Threat Widened in Nation
A threatened Appalachian soft coal tieup was postponed until Friday while a West Coast shipyard walkout that has tied defense orders might end early next week. California Governor Olson said rank and file committees will vote on ending the walkout Tuesday, urging strikers to return as a national duty.
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Associated Press
Appalachian
West Coast
Culbert L. Olson
California
AFL
CIO
Washington
Defense Mediation Board
Allis-Chamers
Laporte
Ind
Pennsylvania
CIO United Mine Workers Union
Defense
John L. Lewis
William H. Davis
Mediation Board
New York
Presbyterians Progress Toward Union Report
A Southern Presbyterian committee reported some progress toward unification with the Northern Church. It urged appointing small joint committees to coordinate foreign and home mission and educational work and to seek an organic union acceptable to both, avoiding a forced merger.
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Atlanta
Southern Presbyterian Church
Northern Presbyterian Church
Union
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
U. S
Southern
Montreal
N. C
LaFollette Attacks Stimson Knox in War Talk Rally
In Miami on May 17 Philip F. LaFollette said that Secretary Stimson and Secretary Knox are “pushing the nation to the brink of war.” He spoke at a Bayfront Park rally after city officials faced a contested permit and allowed the gathering without an advance copy of the speech. He condemned wartime threats and touted America’s independence and strength.
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Miami
Fla
Philip F. LaFollette
Stimson
Knox
Wisconsin
Bayfront Park
LaFollette
America First Committee
Secretary of Navy
America
Taft labels Stimson and Knox defeatists over navy view
Senator Taft assailed Secretaries Stimson and Knox as defeatists for saying the United States cannot defend itself without Britain’s navy. He said Stimson favors using the fleet to escort munitions to Britain and destroy German submarines, calling that war. Taft tied the claim to Roosevelt’s Lindbergh critique and accused officials of misrepresenting naval policy.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Stimson
Knox
NBC
Great Britain
Knox and Stimson
Roosevelt
Charles A. Lindbergh
England
Atlantic
Pacific
Dox
Variety Award To Dr. Carver
Dr. George Washington Carver, famed Tuskegee Institute scientist, received the Variety Club of America's annual Humanitarian Award at Atlantic Citys banquet attended by about eleven hundred showmen and stars. A parchment and a $1,000 check accompanied the honor as Carver, 82, noted for converting peanut shells into products, spoke of a coming great civilization after the present warfare.
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Atlantic City
N. J
George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Variety Club
S of America Tonight
Carver
Nation-Wide Roundup of Aliens Launched
The Justice Department launched a nationwide roundup targeting aliens in the United States, focusing on Nazi seamen who overstayed leave. Immigration agents and police hunted individuals across New York Boston Baltimore Miami Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland Oregon based on service files. Early reports say several hundred inspectors aided by police in New York, with the drive designed to arrest irregular entrants.
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Washington
Justice Department
Lemuel B. Schofield
Immigration Division
Immigration Service
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Miami
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Ore
Hess family treatment tied to Hess utterances in England
A Berlin radio broadcast in Spanish aimed at South America said the Hess family left in Germany would be treated according to Rudolf Hess's behavior and utterances in England. NBC recorded the broadcast in New York on May 17 1941.
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New York
Berlin
South America
Rudolf Hess
Germany
Scotland
Hess
England
NBC
Berlin Says Hess Flight Not Involving His Wife
Authorized Berlin sources stated on Saturday that Eva Braun Hess does not figure in the investigation of her husband Rudolf Hess flight. She has been seen in the past two days in Berlin removing personal belongings from Hess's former headquarters. Hess has one son.
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Berlin
Rau Tse Hess
Fuehrer
Hess
Middle East Is Vital To Great Britain
British sources say control of the Middle East is nearly as vital as defending the British Isles and on par with the Atlantic battle. They note to deter Axis moves toward Suez, Britain will act decisively in the eastern Mediterranean where shipping is at risk. Consuls remain in Syria while questions linger about withdrawals amid strained French relations.
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London
Britain
Middle East
British Isles
Atlantic
Suez
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Syria
Sardinia
Tunisia
Spain
Tension at Vichy Recedes After Semi Official Explanations
Vichy France moved to calm tensions with the United States after semi official explanations. France negotiates with Germany on extended collaboration while the US warns that any shift toward direct cooperation with Germany could force a reconsideration of policy. France emphasizes that talks pertain to France and Germany only, not the United States. A government note said France would defend Dakar, and rumors of a break in relations or a British American federation were dismissed.
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Vichy
France
Roosevelt
Marshal Petain
Germany
United States
U. S
William D. Leahy
Washington
Churchill
London
Dakar
FDR Links Trade Policy To Defense In National Address
President Roosevelt says global trade under totalitarian rule would be a weapon for aggression and that the U.S. must defend democracy and lead liberal economic policy. Hull to deliver a Trade Week address. observances to boost U S relations with friendly nations amid a world crisis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Hull
NBC
Four Senators Favor Seizure Of French Islands
Four Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Clark Missouri Reynolds North Carolina Pepper Florida and Murray Alabama suggested the United States take over French island possessions in the Western Hemisphere due to Marshal Petain's collaboration talk. They urged holding outposts to prevent bloodshed and discussed French Guiana with all American republics while awaiting Vichy's stance toward Berlin. Provisional administration among 21 republics was noted if threats extended to the hemisphere.
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William B.ardery
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Clark
Missouri
Reynolds
North Carolina
Pepper
Florida
Murray
Alentana
United States
Marshal Petain
Berlin
Boa
Martinique
Panama Canal
Guadeloupe
St. Martholomew
Miquelon
St. Pierre
Newfoundland
Clipperton
Pacific
French Guiana
South America
Ameri
Havana
Vichy
Roosevelt
Petain
Mosul
Iraq
Dhibban
Lake Habanniyah
Tigris
Amara
Iran
Lisque
Basra
Gulf of Aden
Great Britain
London
Dakar
Germany
Syria
Reuters
Dispatch
United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Santana
Axis Forces Clash Over Near East Oil Fields
British RAF and German Luftwaffe clash over Iraq as Mosul airfield and Dhibban air base face bombing. British planes raid Amara on the Tigris as Basra battles intensify near the Gulf. London hints at Dakar shift. U.S. senators urge taking French Western Hemisphere possessions.
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Associated Press
Britain
RAF
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Near East
Northern Ireland
Iraq
India
Egypt Army Chief Sought for Arrest in Cairo
Cairo May 17 official statement offered a 1000 pound reward for information leading to the arrest of General Aziz El Masri Pasha former army chief of staff. He was accused of a crime endangering the kingdom and attempted to flee by air plane that made a forced landing near Cairo. Two pilots were said to have escaped injury and fled into hiding. arrests ordered.
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Cairo
Egypt
Aziz el Masri Pasha
CBS
Aziz el Masri
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