Soviet Japan neutrality pact shocks world power balance
The 5 year pact binds Soviet Russia and Japan to neutrality in hostilities involving third powers. Tokyo hails it as world peace boost while observers in Berlin Washington and London weigh impacts on Pacific and European policy. Tradeoffs include potential restraint on American-British aims in the Orient and a sobering shift in US Pacific strategy.
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Moscow
Russia
Japan
Hggr
Berlin
Yosuke Matsuoka
Rome
Matsuoka
Tokyo
Joseph Sta
Sh Iin
Washington
Orient
Europe
Jahad
Domeiese
Adolfler
Balkans
Germany
Winston Churchill
United States
Pacific
Yomiuri
Asahi
Fumimaro Konoye
Greater East Asia
Atlantic
Manila
Philippines
Thailand
Indo-China
East Indies
Singapore
Senate Fight Over U S Convoys Prepares To Ignite
Washington observers expect a Senate clash this week over a Tobey proposal to ban naval convoys carrying war materiels. The issue follows Roosevelt's removal of the Red Sea from restricted waters and the Russo Japanese neutrality pact, with committee action anticipated amid slow political activity as baseball season begins.
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Washington
U. S
Senate
Roosevelt
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Orient
United States
Europe
Russia
Japan
Balkans
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Tobey
Easter Throngs Turn Out Amid Warm Spring Weather
Bright spring weather drew large crowds for Easter observances across the area. Churches reported record worship attendance and a sunrise service at City cemetery featured Rev. Elmer Strait while the Dobyns-Bennett band played Easter music. Temperatures topped 80 degrees in the afternoon with forecasts for continued warmth and dry conditions into the week.
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Elmer Strait
Broad Street Methodist Church
Fred Cox
S. T. Witt
Dobyns-Bennett High School
Mercury
Tri-City
Associated Press
Mississippi River
New England States
Florida
Gulf Coast
Missouri
Iowa
Michigan
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Omaha
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
U S Steel and Bethlehem Grant 10 Cent Wage Hikes To Workers
U S Steel raises wages by ten cents an hour for about 240 000 workers and Bethlehem Steel follows with a ten cent raise for about 90 000 employees expanding vacations. The moves avert CIO strikes and come as Ford resumes full production and GM wage talks continue. Armed ships and mine defenses are discussed in a broader wartime context.
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U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Grant
United States Steel Corporation
CIO
Bethlehem Steel Company
Ford
Woman Held After Fatal Shooting Near Gate City
Miss Lena Ruth Smith, 33, is jailed in Scott county on a murder charge for fatally shooting Reuben Hobbs, 58, a farmer from the Fulkerson district, at her home 16 miles east of Gate City. Deputy Marrs cited Smith as saying she warned him to leave and that he tried to take her sister Eliza Smith. Hobbs died from a 12 gauge shotgun wound to the thigh. authorities say the gun fired through a door crack, possibly as Hobbs knelt. This marks Scott county’s first homicide since 1940.
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Gate City
Lena Ruth Smith
Scott County
Reuben Hobbs
Here
W. H. Marrs
Marrs
Miss Smith
Hobbs
Eliza Smith
Fulkerson
W. L. Griggs, Jr
George Williams
Court Reverses Contempt Ruling in Civil Case
Supreme Court reverses an earlier conviction for contempt of court ruling that punishable acts must occur within proximity to the tribunal. The decision overruled a 1918 precedent tied to a Toledo newspaper case involving streetcar coverage and prompted a mixed dissent from Justices Hughes Stone and Roberts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Toledo
Douglas
Hughes
Stone
Roberts
R. H. Nye
L. C. Mayers
Lumberton
N. C
W. H. Elmore
Conway, 8. C
B. C. Remedy Company
Elmore
World War II News Roundup: Axis Advances and Allied Actions
The report details Axis advances in Greece and Yugoslavia with Italian and German forces capturing Belgrade and Ljubljana while German submarines sink British ships. It also notes Denmark recalling its London envoy, Roosevelt lifting the Red Sea ban, and threats to British supply ships as Mussolini’s editor comments on American warship convoys.
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London
Greece
Gulf of
Salonika
Durazzo
Adriatic Sea
Albania
Scutari
Morava River
Belgrade
Topola
Suharjeka
Skoplje
Prokuplje
Nis
Adriatic
Mussolini
Tobruk
Bardia
DNB
Cairo
War Office
Salum
Egypt
Fort Capuzzo
Hitler
Rome
Corizza
Korizza
Yugoslavia
Knin
Yugoslav Adriatic
Roosevelt
Red Sea
Virginio Gayda
Axis
Britain
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Woman Slain Negro Indicted in Tennessee Case
Detec tive Chief Marion Perkins announced an indictment against Walter Reed a age black gardener and house servant for the baseball bat murder of Mrs Jane Fowler Cathey 37 found dead in her fashionable Chattanooga home. The grand jury acted after a warrant was issued as police pursued Reed. The district attorney general declined to comment on whether the indictment had been burned pending arrest.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Marion Perkins
Walter Reed
Jane Fowler Cathey
Perkins
Peabody Howard
Hopewell Blast Leaves One Dead in Plant Explosion
An explosion at the Solvay Process Company nitrate factory in Hopewell, Virginia, killed 46 year old Harry Thomas Stanley of Petersburg and injured another worker, Christopher Mayes, with several others receiving first aid. The blast apparently caused no further danger.
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Hopewell
Solvay Process Company
Harry Thomas Stanley
Petersburg
Christopher Mayes
Hopes Dim For Early Mine Pact
The soft coal wage dispute widens as Southern operators refuse to attend a conference with labor and Chief Federal Concil iator Steelman. They plan to meet in Washington to prepare a brief for the National Labor Mediation Board. The union demands end to the north south wage differential with a $1 daily raise, while the South offers 11 percent.
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New York
John R. Steelman
Washington
National Labor Mediation Board
Convicts Recaptured After Sing Sing Break Police Shootout
Two long term robbers Riordan and McGale were captured hours after a daring prison break at Sing Sing in which four people died. They fled across the Hudson to Mount Hood Palisades Park after killing guard Hartyde and Ossining patrolman Fagan, then were cornered and taken to Nyack for questioning.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Hudson River
Mount Hood
Palisades
Interstate Park
William Mullen
Joseph Riordan
Charles McGale
Tence
Mullen
Nyack
Hudson
Riordan McGale
John Watters
John Hartyde
Tom Higgins
James Fagan
McGovern Miller
Miller
Riordan
Watters
McGale
Hartyde
Bronx
Matteo de Simone
Axis tanks breach Tobruk defenses repelled with losses
The British war office said 20 axis tanks supported infantry crossed the outer defenses of Tobruk in North Africa this morning but were driven back with heavy losses.
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London
British War Office
Tobruk
North Africa
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National Labor Relations Board
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Times’ State News Service
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Bitolj
Monastir
London Ministry of Information
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Dunkerque
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Libya
Denmark
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Charles Rohr, Jr
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