Long-Buried Westbrook Peglar Tales in Bisbee Deportation Legend
A fragmentary story recalls Jack Greenway, Ivy League football star and Rough Rider, linking his reminiscences to the Bisbee deportation of 1917 18. The tale portrays Wobblies and other workers, a perilous strike, and a violent clash with town leaders amid copper industry tensions and wartime unity fears.
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Ajo
Ariz
Carnelia
United States
Fevemen
Wobblies
German defense buildup prompts invasion fears in Europe
Soviet spokesman in Stockholm said Hitler summoned 1.9 million reserves including 60000 youths and 500000 from industry to reinforce winter lines, massing nine tenths of his fighting force on the Restiender front. London reports note Runstedt moved parachute troops into France to bolster anti invasion defenses as RAF strikes Rhineland and Le Havre.
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Adolf Hitler
Stockholm
Geerman
Furope
Toray
Europe
S. A. Lorovsky
Naw
Hitler
Lagowsky
Channel
British Isles
London
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Runstedt
France
von Runstedt
George
Last Days on Bataan Told by Flying Officer Donalson
Lieutenant Jack Donalson of Tulsa Oklahoma describes the final days on the Bataan peninsula. Japanese forces closed in as USAAF fought back with a last air attack from a single plane, loaded with light fragmentation bombs, and Raided headquarters and supplies under constant night bombing. He arrived safely in Australia and recounts the ordeal.
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Allied
Australia
United States Army Air Force
Bataan
Jack Donalson
Tulsa
Oklo
Manila Bay
Mother jailed as helper in evasion
Mary Violet Wells a 43 year old grocery clerk and mother of five is jailed on a draft evasion conspiracy charge with her son William 24 after posting $1000 bond to free him She told him she would not allow him to go to war and he said he would die for his country as she faced false address and name falsification accusations from Deputy U S Marshal William S Sweeney
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Los Angeles
Mary Violet Wells
Sdn
William
United States
William S. Sweeney
Levy of 90 Percent Hinted in Tax Plan
Washington April 23 A plan to raise corporate excess profits taxes to 90 percent was studied by the house ways and means committee as it awaited President Roosevelt's anti inflation program details. Statisticians advised the higher rate amid the committee's review of the administration tax program totaling 7 billion dollars.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Capitol
Body of Soldier Recovered From Little River Near Alexandria
Private Stanley Whited, 22, of Liberty Kentucky, from Battery A 107th Field Artillery, 2nd Division, was recovered from Little River at 2:20 yesterday about 100 feet from where he fell into the river early Sunday morning while standing in a boat. Discovered by Privates Joseph G. Hunter and Edward W. Brown, division headquarters at Camp Livingston reported.
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Alexandria
Stanley Whited
107Th Field Artillery
Liberty
Little River
Camp Livingston
Joseph G. Hunter
Edward W. Brown
Inventors in America Best Secret Weapon
Memphis dispatch reports A J Elder of the War Production Board told the American Chemical Society that America’s inventive genius is the world’s best secret weapon. He cited four engine bombers and new ideas from a national jig-saw puzzle linking ideas from Davenport to Boise and Ames, Iowa, as proof that Hitler fears American innovation.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
America
A. J. Elder
War Production Board
Washington
American Chemical Society
Hitler
Elder
United States
Ruhr
Tokyo
WPB
Hirohito
National Inventor's Council
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Bushel Daily
Davenport
Boise
Ames
Iowa
American Troops in Australia to Hold Miniature Olympic Games
United States troops in Australia are fighting fit and 100 percent on morale. Major Lynn Cowan says a set of miniature Olympic games will be held in Melbourne likely in spring under Lieutenant Norman Duncan. Top American and Australian service athletes will compete, with proceeds shared between U.S. and Australian charities.
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Allied
Australia
United States
Lynn Cowan
Special Service Branch
United States Army
Cowan
Melbourne
Norman Duncan
Shirley Temple Receives Diamond for 14th Birthday
Hollywood notes that Shirley Temple, turning 14, received her first diamond ring from her father, becoming more independent. The Westlake School for Girls freshman enjoys new interests in music and fashion while collecting gifts including a butterfly pin, camera, perfume, and Royal Doulton figurines. Her quiet birthday continues with a small dinner party and plans for a larger celebration this weekend.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
George Temple
Shirley
Westlake School For
Mrs. Temple
German invasion fears rise as Nazi quarters shift north
Reports from Stockholm say German invasion preparations in western Europe have increased and von Rundstedt may be moving into France with parachute troops. German air and naval HQs are shifted north from Oslo, and Norwegian civilians evacuated from Molde and Tromsø to speed German movement along the coast.
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Stockholm
Air
Cval
Norway
Oslo
Molde
Tromsoe
German anti Christian call at Canterbury enthronement
Canterbury England April 23 Germans must be defeated if the Christian movement and all hopes connected with it are to prevail said Dr William Temple at his enthronement as archbishop of Canterbury in bomb scarred cathedral He urged Christians to help win the war to keep open the possibility of Christian civilization Temple named archbishop February 22 to succeed Cosmo Lang who resigned January 21 at age 78 He is seen as a reformer and former archbishop of York The new archbishop warned that a German victory would endanger Christian civilization Continued on Fourteenth Page.
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Canterbury
England
Germany
Wiliam Temple
Temple
All England
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Church of England
York
OPA Ready to Freeze Prices on All Goods
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration plans an overall price freeze soon, possibly announced next Tuesday, fixing prices on a set date with later readjustments. Exemptions expected for key farm products as raw prices stay below ceilings, with retail fluid milk likely capped. Congress members doubt new laws required to implement the move.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture Department
Bernard Baruch
Gore
Tennessee
Canada
Steagall
Alabama
House Banking Committee
Wolcott
Michigan
Congress
Louisiana State University Student Officers Elected in Tight Ballots
April 23 Baton Rouge. Close runoffs decide college offices at LSU with James Jones defeating Hubert Deere by three votes for agriculture president. Willie Katherine OQuin edges Tommie Mott by one vote for secretary treasurer. Bobby Cagle tops Joe Jolly for arts and sciences presidency, Walter Thomas leads commerce, Maude Cross beats Mary Katherine Tatum for secretary treasurer. Stewart Niles wins agriculture president by one vote over A L Garland. Clyde Harger named other office holder.
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Baton Rouge
Loouisiana State University
James Jones
Bogalusa
Hubert Deere
Mangham
College of Agriculture
Willie Katherine O’quin
Jones
Flying Tigers Brace For Heavy Japanese Assaults
In Burma the American Volunteer Group the Flying Tigers brace for heavy Japanese assaults at their northern Burma base. After air battles over Yunnan and Burma the AVG destroyed 15 enemy planes with five more likely downed. Two dogfights, 100 miles of high altitude combat, showed the Japanese attempting a long range strike with extra tanks.
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Daniel Deluce
Burma
Flying Tigers
AVG
Mingaladon
Magwe
China
Britain
Green Mountains
Yunnan
Shan States
Engel Opposes Suspension of 40 Hour Week
Representative Engel of Michigan opposes suspending the 40 hour work week for war production. He argues it would undermine property rights in union contracts, threaten democracy, and force renegotiation of hundreds of thousands of labor agreements. Engel contends continuation of overtime pay boosts production. he warns massive contract revisions would create chaos.
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Engel
Washington
America
Michigan
Michigan Republican
House Judiciary Committee
Nathan Cowan
War Labor Board
C.I.0
WANTS TO RETAIN FREE EXPRESSION
Donn., April 23. Grove Patterson editor of the Toledo Blade asserted that autocratic censorship would be a blackout of the purposes of the war. Speaking at Yale under the Block Foundation he urged keeping alive free expression despite total war and blackouts imposed by totalitarian nations.
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New Haven
Donn
Grove Patterson
The
Toledo Blade
Patterson
Block Foundation
Yale
Hundreds of De Gaullists Arrested Across Madagascar Amid Axis Ties
Associated Press reports a brutal crackdown on supporters of General Charles de Gaulle on Madagascar as Laval's Vichy regime moves closer to Axis alignment. Dispatches describe mass arrests, fears of Japanese takeover, and shifts of French shipping and diplomatic posts across Africa.
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Associated Press
Madagascar
France
Pierre Laval
Japa
Africa
Indiy
London
Axis
Union of South Africa
Vichy
Durban
South Africa
Japan
United States
Brazzaville
Free French West Africa
Nigeria
Liberia
United States Front
Laval
Takanobu Mitani
Moscow
Toulon
Germany
Charles de Gaulle
Protest Won't Bar Rationing in Eastern States
April 23 dispatch reports Petroleum Coordinator Ickes dismissing a 2.5 to 5 gallon weekly limit as unfounded for eastern motorists. Henderson's May 15 start for rationing drew protests as top war agency leaders say fuel must not endanger seamen or justify bridge parties or ball games. Estimates of allowances ranged from 2.5 to 5 gallons weekly to 25 monthly amid outcry from motorists and the Automobile Club.
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Washington
Ickes
Leon Henderson
District of Columbia
William A. Thibodeau
The
Automobile Legal Association
Boston
Flight Training Age Limit Lowered in New Orleans
The Eighth Naval District announced that starting next Monday applicants for flight training leading to naval reserve commissions will be accepted from ages 18 to 26. The prior limits were 19 to 25 and required two years of college.
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New Orleans
Eighth Naval District
Naval Reserve Air Arm
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