Britain to mass produce cargo vessels for war effort
The British government announces a massive shipbuilding push to safeguard sea borne trade with each yard producing a single vessel type at unprecedented speed. In parallel a Balkan trading company is planned to counter Germany on the southeastern economic front as wartime intensifies.
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Anderson International News Service
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Germany
Kingland
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Balkans
John Simon
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New Castle
How To Read A Book Lifts Liberal Education In City Library
A local library adds a new volume titled How To Read A Book and promotes reading for a liberal education. A separate note mentions taxi cabs with redesigned front fenders seen en route to New York City as a novel feature.
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New York City
Daily Weather Report Summary for U S Regions
The 24 hour period ending at 5 pm Thursday showed a high of 62 and a low of 39 with 0.12 inches of precipitation and a river stage at 10.3 feet. Yearly comparison notes a maximum temperature of 43 and minimum of 27 with trace precipitation.
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United States
Susquehanna River Exceeds Flood Stage Again in Wyoming Valley
Rain swollen Susquehanna surpassed flood stage for the second time this week, reaching 25.14 feet at Wilkes-Barre, with crest earlier at 31.6 feet. State flood control engineer revised his estimate upward as water encroached on lowlands near Breslau and Lynwood. Coast guardsmen stood by while extra crews and a survey plane aided monitoring as tracks flooded at Buttonwood. Continued crest threats led to emergency precautions in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York.
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International News Service
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Richard Bately
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Susquehanna River
Girl 11 Confesses as Slayings Shock Los Angeles
Chloe Davis an 11 year old schoolgirl is booked on suspicion of murder after police believe she killed her mother Lolita Davis 36 and siblings Daphne 10 Deborah Ann 7 and brother Marquis 3 in their home. Investigators note her calm account and psychiatric input.
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Young Girl
C International News Service
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Lolita Davis
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Marquis
Barton Davis
Deborah
Auy
New Castle
Red Cross Calls for $200 Flood Relief Fund
Lawrence County Chapter of the American Red Cross asks for a $200 flood relief fund to aid Wilkes-Barre victims. Chapter Chairman Ralph F. Davis says contributions support rehabilitation for those who lost possessions. Donations accepted at 39 North Beaver Street New Castle.
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Lawrence County
American Red Cross
Wilkesbarre
Ralph F. Davis
State Students To Offer Big Reward In Girl Slaying
STATE COLLEGE Pa April 5 Students at Penn State college to day were raising an 1000 reward fund for apprehension of Rachel Taylor 17 a coed from Wildwood N J The girl was attacked and mutil ated by a person who apparently accosted her about 130 in the morning while she was walking in her dormitory after leaving a bus that brought her back to school from an Easter vacation.
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International News Service
State College
Penn State College Today
Rachel Taylor
Wildwood
N. J
Freeland Denies Charges in Dauphin County Case
William B. Freeland, Dauphin County Democratic Committee member and fourth defendant in a racing trial, testifies denying conspiring with State Chairman David L. Lawrence to levy political assessments on state employees during the Earle administration. He describes himself as a non salaried employee and says the assessments were a voluntary quota. Bishop Wyatt Brown, Scott Leiby, and J Calvin Franks corroborate Morgenthaler’s reputation as treasurer.
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William B. Freeland
Dauphin County
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Wendell Morgenthaler
Wyatt Brown
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Morgenthaler
Need $100000 For Pennsylvania Exhibit In 1940 World Fair
Harrisburg April 5 Approximately $100 000 is needed to keep the Pennsylvania exhibit open during the 1940 World Fair in New York Irving D Wolf Pittsburgh secretary of the Pennsylvania World's Fair Commission indicated today His fellow members were urged by Wolf to cooperate in raising the money and businessmen throughout the state were appealed to again to do their part There are some indications he said that rear space in the State Building can be rented for exhibits BUY IN NEW CASTLE
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
New York
Irving D. Wolf
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania World's
Death notices for three residents listed
Carmen Gramarian aged 79 of West Pittsburg Mrs John W Guildoo aged 78 of Verona and Anthony Kocevar aged 21 of Ellport are reported in the Friday April 5 1940 death records.
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Carmen Gramarian
West Pittsburg
John W. Guildoo
Verona
Anthony Kocevar
Ellport
Butler Police Prepare Murder Charge After Mother's Injuries
In Butler, Pennsylvania, 24-year-old George Moore is jailed on a district attorney detainer after his mother Emma Moore, 64, suffered critical burns from a flammable liquid and arson that also injured two others in nearby Chicora. Emma Moore remained in critical condition at Butler hospital as investigators probe the attack.
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International News Service
Butler
State Motor Police Today
George Moore
Mra
Emma Moore
Butler Hospital
Kurna
Chicora
Ethel O'Brien
Butler County
Little Oil
New Castle
More Than 150 Take Tests Here For County Supervisors
Oral examinations were held today for scores of candidates seeking places on the state's certified list of county supervisors for the social services department. More than 150 examinees from Lawrence Armstrong Mercer Venango Beaver and Butler counties took the tests over a three day period hoping to qualify for the certified roll from which all supervisor appointments are made.
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Department of Public Assistance
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Armstrong
Mercer
Venango
Beaver
Butler
New Castile Crew Members Arrested in Graf Spee Scuttling
In Buenos Aires April 5 two Graf Spee crew members, hard Rudel and Monish Walter, were arrested at Santos after extraction from the liner Neptunia. They pleaded not to be sent to Germany as eight other Graf Spee crew members escaped internment at Santa Fe.
Illinois Will Vote Tuesday
Illinois faces a presidential preferential primary with the looming third term and New Deal issues. Voters in Chicago and across the state weigh Roosevelt against Garner on the Democratic side and a Dewey campaign opposes the New Deal and third term, shaping the national nominating contest.
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International Neana Service
Chicago
Ill
Iragis
Roosevelt
John. Garner
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
New Castle
Nine Teens Held by Police in Philadelphia Feud
Nine youths in their teens were in custody in Philadelphia with more than a dozen others sought as members of rival gangs linked to street battles. Detectives say the feuding has lasted five months and involved bricks stones and milk bottles. Five pistols and ammunition were seized as arrests were made for conspiracy to commit murder following the fatal shooting of Leroy McDaniels aged 16 last Sunday.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Leroy McDaniels
Germany Accuses Allies Of Aims To Slice Nation
Berlin charges that Anglo French aims would remove Germany and Italy from map of Europe by dismembering them as the war ends. German officials denounced a French illustrated map showing Sumner Welles with a Paris map, calling it a provocation and saying Roosevelt would not join the war yet.
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Pierre J. Huss
International News Service
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Italy
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Roosevelt
Administration to seek lump sum relief appropriation
The administration will demand a lump sum relief appropriation from Congress to expand or contract the work projects administration and allied agencies in line with business activity. The plan calls for 1.326 billion dollars for WPA farm security administration and allies, with 985 million for WPA to be available July 1 and spent in six or seven months, possibly increasing employment. The House subcommittee that favored the 12 month spread is likely to reject this plan.
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Congress
Work Projects Administration
WPA
Farm Security Administration
House
Woodrum
Francis P. Harrington
Death Penalty for Communists in France
Paris April 5 Lebrun to sign decree by Interior Minister Roy imposing death penalty for high treason tied to spreading Communist propaganda. Decree allows night home searches by senior police and strengthens counter espionage measures. Political prisoners to be moved from Paris camps to North Africa.
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International News Service
Paris
Albert Lebrun
Henri Roy
North Africa
New Castle
Indictment Sought Against James H Dolson by Dies Panel
The Dies committee asked the District of Columbia grand jury for an indictment of James Hulse Dolson a Pittsburgh Communist for contempt of Congress after he refused to name others. Dolson was the first of four Communist officials cited for contempt as the committee pushed to uncover party members and activities.
Pittsburgh Flood Threat Subsiding
Pittsburgh weather bureau reported flood danger in the area subsiding as crest forecasts shifted. Water at the point rose to 24.0 feet at midnight, later dropping to 23.9 by eight o clock. the expected crest was 27.5 feet and flood stage remains 25 feet.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
Norwegian Ship Mira Bombed Ten Times by Planes
The 1,152-ton Norwegian passenger ship Mira arrived at Bergen after ten bombing attacks by Nazi planes. Two of her 107 passengers were wounded by fragments. British destroyers saved the Mira on one attack, shooting down a Nazi plane. A squadron of British planes repelled additional bombers as she neared Norway, another Nazi plane was shot down.
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Bulletin
International News Service
Oslo
Mira
Bergen
Norway
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Forest Fires In Illinois Believed To Be Controlled
Springfield April 5 Forest fires have burned over 27000 acres in Southern Illinois timberland and Shawnee National Forest. About 900 firefighters maintain efforts to prevent spread as Sheriff Howard Lee calls conditions less threatening. Anton Tamasek puts the ravaged area at 7000 acres with 90 fires burning 3400 acres in Shawnee since March 1, as fire towers remain manned.
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International News Service
Springfield
Ill
Llinois
Howard Lee
Peru County
Shawnee National Forest
Jonesboro
Anton J. Tamasek
Shawnee Forest
Don Winters
Trade Treaty Extension Bill Near Decision
The Senate faced a vote today on a three year extension of the reciprocal trade treaty program as House passed. President Roosevelt opposed a one year limit saying it would invite renewed tariff debates and harm the nation regardless of party in power. Hull backed extension while Garner's stance remained unclear amid conflicting reports and Senate discussions. REV IN NEW CASTLE.
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Jack Vincent
International News Service
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Congress
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Hull
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Spring Cleaning In The Kitchen War
Arthur Mometer narrates a chaotic house affray where women bustle at chores while an old man toils washing dishes in a cramped kitchen. He curses his fate as he scrubs red hands, wishing for any escape from the spring cleaning grind despite fifty nine degree weather.
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