Finns Repel New Attacks by Reds Near Viipuri
Helsinki reports the Finnish high command repelled Russian attacks on Viipuri from three sides as fighting continued in the Arctic near Petsamo and northeast of Lake Ladoga where 1,200 Russians were killed. Moscow claimed new advances north and south of Viipuri with island and hamlet gains and ten 75mm guns.
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Lake Ladoga
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Moscow
Tuppuransaari
Saarela
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Vopuri
President at Rites on 7th Anniversary
Washington. President Roosevelt attended the St. John's Episcopal Church service marking the seventh anniversary of his inauguration. The ceremony featured hymns and prayers with Dr. Endicott Peabody delivering a prayer for guidance. The church was sparsely filled with cabinet members and congressional leaders present.
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Welles
Europe
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Panama
Two Men Killed as Police Battle Cuban Terrorists
In Havana police battled alleged terrorists, killing two men and wounding a third. Initial reports blamed a machine gun from a speeding car at Batista headquarters. later officials cited a pursuit by secret police linked to an attempted assassination of Dr. Orestes Ferrara.
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Fulgencio Bastista
Batista
Orestes Ferrara
Washington
Juan Zaragozi
Bernardo Garcia
Carlos Charti Bohrques
Leutenant
Police
Silviea Salazar
Ferrara
Joaquin Ferrar
Pres. Federeico Laredo Bru
Efforts to recover body of boy in lake balked by wind
Milwaukee G, Brisk winds have halted attempts to recover 15 year old John Rudd of Whitefish Bay who drowned in Lake Michigan Saturday after an ice formation broke from offshore. His twin Paul Jr shouted a warning as he and two companions tried a belt chain rescue but a knot failed.
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John Rudd
Whitefish Bay
Lake Michigan
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John
Day Rises Less Length March 4 6 27 to 5 46
Partly cloudy tonight with no decisive temperature change. Northeastern observations show cloudy conditions across Milwaukee and other stations. Temperature highs and lows recorded in the last 24 hours include a maximum of 36 and minimum of 24 with no precipitation. Wind from the northeast, barometer 23.58. One year ago high 41, low 26.
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Wisconsin
Northeestern
Milwaukee
Jacksonville
Fla
Sault Ste Mare
Mich
Rockstaff Observatory
Rome and London tensions amid blockade and war risk
International report notes Rome warns Britain’s blockade endangers economic and political ties. London faces domestic discontent after the Domala liner bombing that cost 108 lives. Moscow says Soviet troops close in on Viipuri areas and seizes forts on Tuppuran saari near the gulf. Helsinki reports heavy Russian casualties near Lake Ladoga as Finns hold Viipuri.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
London
Britain
Moscow
Viipuri
Tuppuransaari
Helsinki
Lake Ladoga
Paris
West Wall
Brussels
Germany
Basel
Welles
Switzerland
Senate group would omit income questions in 1940 census
Washington reports a senate commerce subcommittee approved a Tobey resolution to remove personal income questions from the 1940 census by a three to two vote. The action, kept secret until tomorrow, aims for a full committee vote and potential floor consideration.
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Senate Commerce
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New Hampshire
Commerce Department
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Senate
Welles crosses Europe amid no-man's land frontier
United States Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles traveled from Berlin toward Paris observing the western front from a train window. He noted Germany's Siegfried line on one side of the Rhine and the French Maginot line on the other. He planned rest in Lausanne and to take the Simplon Orient Express for Paris Tuesday or Wednesday night.
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Switzerland
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Paris
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Roosevelt
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Germany
Rhine
Welles
Lausanne
Interior Department Bill Reduced By House Committee
Washington reports the house appropriations committee refused to approve a $250,000 Byrd Ant arctic expedition grant and cut overall interior department funding by nearly $3 million. The panel kept $119,071,187 for interior activities, subtracting $293 million from presidential estimates. It also disallowed a $985,350 map project, redirected military-use maps, trimmed Bonneville dam funds, and raised All-American canal aid. Indian affairs, reclamation, and parks funds were adjusted, lowering total current appropriations by about $29.8 million.
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House Appropriations Committee
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Geological Survey
Bonneville Dam
Oregon
White House
California
Indian Bureau
House
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Reclamation
National Park Service
Congress
Plan to Spend Treasury Cash to Cut Taxes and Debt
A Senate movement seeks to use part of the $1 billion working cash to avoid new taxes or debt limits. President Roosevelt proposes $460 million in new taxes for defense. Morgenthau defends a large working balance to cover emergencies. Senators Wheeler and Adams urge reconsideration of the balance as excessive and costly, with ideas to fund parity payments and current expenses without raising the debt limit.
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William B. Ardery
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Farm State
Wheeler
Montana
Adams
Colorado
Johnson filed as Vandenberg delegate candidate
Winferd H. Johnson of Kiel has filed at the secretary of State as a Vandenberg instructed candidate for Republican delegate from the Eighth district. Richard P. Murray of Manitowoc is the other Vandenberg candidate from that district.
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Winferd H. Johnson
Kiel
Secretary of State
Richard P. Murray
Manneth
Vandenberg
Ripon Abandons GOP Trek Plan for Ripon Birthplace
Ripon Wisconsin reports the proposed national Republican pilgrimage to Ripon has been abandoned. Dr Evare, head of the organizing corporation, says the group disbanded due to lack of financial backing for the project.
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Sams
GO. P
Sat Evare
Escaped reformatory prisoners captured in Green Bay
Ralph Murdo, 23, of Green Bay, recaptured after escaping from a state reformatory officer while being returned as a parole violator. He was sent back to the reformatory after a failed escape attempt in which he damaged a cup and tried to wrench a padlock. Another prisoner, Muche, sentenced from Oconto for assault, was arrested following a four tale suburban chase in Kewaunee County. Sheriff Kenner reported the incidents and conditions surrounding the recapture.
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Green Bay
Wis
Ralph Murdo
Tedar
Kelner
Mucho
Italy Protest Over British Blockade Of Italian Coal
Rome protests Britain's blockade of German coal shipments to Italy as a threat to the 1938 agreement. Italy calls the action illegal and damaging to non belligerents, denounces contraband controls, and notes Malta Hague treaty reminders amid reports five Italian ships sail with about 30 000 tons of coal despite the blockade.
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G. C. Jordan
Rome
Germany
Italy
Britain
United States
Il Poepola di Roma
England
Il Tevere
Il Terrere
Rotterdam
Wolland
Ialy
London
Halian
Viking Oil
Indiana Storm Kills One With 250000 In Damages
Evansville Indiana reports severe storm damage totaling about 259000 dollars and one fatality. A worker group and unemployed factory hands were affected as residents faced destruction. Red Cross volunteers assisted in relief efforts while authorities investigated the incident and prepared to restore the area.
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Evansville
Ind
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Barty
Warnick
Drennan
Thawron
Red Cross
Pye
Heyy
Shenandoah Sector Settles Into Coal Mine Disaster
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania a 16 block district began sinking into a coal mine. Property damage tops a million dollars and about 2000 residents fled as ground subsided up to 20 inches. Police say the sinking may last 12 to 24 hours with no injuries reported.
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Bill Beil
Shenandoah
Frank Alinsky
Ice and wind cut eastern seaboard hard in record storm
New York reports the worst storm since 1938 with ice across New England New York New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. Driving freezing rain and 40 mph winds caused widespread power outages breaking feeders in Waterbury and Naugatuck and disrupting factories and public services across several towns.
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Pennsylvania
Canada
New England
New Jersey
Uhreurheut Tae
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Poolite Felon Tate
Naugatuck
Wales
Beaver Dam Bank Head Becomes Victim in Local Tragedy
Beaver Dam Wisconsin March death of Leas A Briese 64 president of Farmers State Bank who died after a fall in the city. Officials reported he tied in a heap and later died at the scene with no immediate cause released. Briese led the bank for many years and was a prominent local figure.
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Briese
Beaver Dam
Wis
Farmers State Bank
Mail Disappearance Reported Involving First Class Sack
Madison P Pota inspector Volom F Reeh ted terlanque ut over investigating deape Ptoranerato a sack of first class meal from the depot at La Valle Suk Canty. The matter of Feb 28 there were no mustered parcels tim the sack, he Saideny.
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Aerial Feints Imbe Flights At War Front
Aerial feints across the western front intensify as Allies seek outflanking moves amid tense spring-time anticipation. British claims of shooting down three German planes in 24 hours contrast with French air progress and local land skirmishes near the Moselle. Sumner Welles departs Berlin for Paris and London to pursue fact-finding, amid Beltian ambassadorial maneuvering.
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Rhine
Welles
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Roosevelt
London
Lausanne
Switzerland
Adolf Hitler
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Anhalter
Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff
United States
Washington
Dieckhoff
Hugh B. Wilson
Wilson
Prison Term For Armed Burglary In Casco Case
Elz 40 James 2. NTE Green Bay Wis Nash Menisha $4.04 Coppersmith Oshkuth sentenced by Circuit Judges Henry Grants after pleading guilty to armed burglary of a state Casco store. Coppersmith received five to eight years in prison. Nash to concurrent term. both were captured by residents alerted by a telephone call.
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James
Green Bay
Wis
Nash
Menisha
Oshkuth
Eught
Judes Henry Grants
Casco Te
Vessel Capsize Triggers High Casualty Scale
In Shanhai seven boat capsized with Joy Kang Shing striking starboard. Around 241 passengers were drowned as a raid or accident rocked the vessel. Chungking later reports put casualties as high as 450.
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Shanhai
Chungking
Ship Bombed and 108 Lost In Nazi Attack
London reports detail a German Heinkel bombing of the liner Domassa at dawn, killing about 108 aboard, the heaviest merchant ship toll since September. The Dutch freighter Jonge Willem was also attacked, with no casualties. The Daily Mail questions wartime leadership while praising British naval power.
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Britain
English Channel
Domassa
Athenia
Straits of Dover
Jonge Willem
Attie
Daily Mail
Royal Air Force
Nazis apologize for slaying Belgian aviator
Brussels reports Germany issued a full apology for the killing of a Belgian army aviator in a clash involving three Belgian planes and a German Dornier bomber. The German ambassador expressed sincere regrets to Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, with promises of immediate indemnity.
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Germany
Vicco Karl von Buclow-Schwante
Paul Henri Spaak
France
Germarn
Vox Nation Todas
McFarland rescue on river ends in four saved
Four people were rescued from a river when McFarland, Wie, and P-Testen entered the water. The incident involved multiple bystanders and bystanders aided in pulling victims from the current. Emergency crews arrived as bystanders stabilized the scene and assisted in bringing survivors to shore.
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P - Testen
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Sean Priser
Syed
Mies
Mecor Berg
Fey Hon
Ter
Mary Skin
Emo
Timad
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