Rumors of Impending Fight Shake Bucharest Amid Mediterranean Tensions
In Bucharest King Carol faces a tide of war rumors tied to a possible German move against Romania. Reports claim Britain seeks to close the Mediterranean, Turkish forces move toward the Aegean, and Romania bolsters Transylvania defenses as 8 000 gendarmes rush to border and oil installations amid Balkan fears.
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Edward W. Beattie Jr
United Press
Bucharest
Romania
U.P
Carol
Mediterranean
Balkans
Rumania
Great Britain
Dodecanese Islands
Aegean Sea
Paul
Yugoslavia
Transylvania
Hungary
Italy
Paul Reynaud
Benito Mussolini
Britain
France
Mussolini
Germany
Turkey
Europe
Noted contractor Bonnett dies at 83 in Wisconsin
Milwaukee John Bonnett 83 longtime contractor who built state teachers colleges at Milwaukee Stevens Point and River Falls died yesterday. He was among Wisconsin’s oldest Masonic Blue Lodge members and helped organize the Whitewater chapter where he once worked as secretary treasurer of the Vollbyght Cut Stone Company.
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Milwaukee
John Bonnett
Stevens Point
River Falls
Masonic Blue Lodge
Wisconsin
Whitewater
Vollbyght Cut Stone Company
Snowstorm Lashes Wisconsin and Michigan Cities
A winter blizzard-like snowstorm lashed Wisconsin and northern Michigan today with 0.87 inch of precipitation in 24 hours and up to eight inches if melted. Milwaukee reported May snow unlike 1935, while Green Bay Wausau Chicago Esconaba and Kenosha saw snowfall and Madison had rain.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Wisconsin
Michigan
Federal Weather Bureau
Frank Coleman
Coleman
Madison
Green Bay
Wausau
Chicago
Escanaba
Mich
Kenosha
Arlington Sinks on Lake Superior Killing Captain Burke
The 244 foot Arlington sank at 5 a m on Lake Superior in a storm. Captain Fred Burke refused to abandon ship and went down with his vessel. Sixteen crew members were rescued by the Collingwood which towed survivors to Midland Ontario. The ship was built in 1913 and owned by Burke Towing and Salvage Company.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Arlington
Lake Superior
Fred Burke
Collingwood
J. T. Carson
Burke
Midland
Great Lakes
Carso
Sault Logics
Superior Shosis
Hatten Mills Shuts. Plant to be Sold in New London
The Hatten Lumber Company mill, idle after 50 years of operation, was shut by trustees of the William H. Hatten estate. The plant will be offered for sale. Historically it employed about 160 workers per day and night shifts with weekly payroll near $6,000.
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New London
Wis
Hatten Lumber Company
Wiliam H. Hatten
Washington
House
Buck
California
Waupaca Couple Injured in Head-On Crash Near Fremont
Atty. Tom Browne and his wife were seriously injured after their car collided head on with an empty semitrailer on Highway 10 about two miles west of Fremont. The truck driver James Burger 23 escaped injury and the couple were taken to City hospital Waupaca via Weyauwega ambulance. Mr Browne is the son of Congressman and Mrs Edward Browne.
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Waupaca
Wis
Oshkosh
Atty
Tom Browne
Highway 10
Fremont
City Hospital
Weyauwega
Roy Myhill
Waupaca County
Pope Brothers
James Burger
Waussa
Burger
Kenneth van Ornum
Mr. Browne
Edward ©. Browne
Ciano Assures Phillips Yugoslavia Safe from Invasion
Rome reports Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano assured U S Ambassador William Phillips that Yugoslavia, neighbor on the Adriatic, was safe from Italian invasion. The exchange followed a Mussolini talk and eased tensions in diplomatic circles as Britain diverted shipping in the Mediterranean.
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Rome
Galeazzo Ciano
United States
William Phillips
Yugoslavia
Italy
Adriatic
Taik
Mussolini
Ciano
Mediterranean
Osborn Letter Dumped In Basket by Michigan Governor
Lansing reports Gov. Loren D. Dickinson after a 10 day Atlantic City trip asked about a letter from ex Gov. Chase S Osborn. He said he had not read it and dropped the bulky letter into his waste basket unread.
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Lansing
Mich
Loren D. Dickinson
Michigan
Chase S. Osborn
Atlantic City
N. J
Report of little activity on western war front
Paris reports only occasional artillery exchanges and very little air activity on the western front yesterday. French reconnaissance planes flew over German lines and a few German scouts were seen over the Alsatian plains. Artillery fire was limited to the Vosges sector. High command said simply Nothing to report.
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minis _try
Alsatian
Vosges
High Command
England bans flour except for humans after May 6
The Ministry of Food announced a new order prohibiting flour and milled wheat products for uses other than human food after May 6. The ban covers dog, livestock and poultry foods and requires a special license for nonhuman use.
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London
Ministry of Food
Milk Dumped Near Chicago as Dairy Strike Bites
Chicago milk supply thinned as dairy workers strike enters second day. State and federal conciliators seek arbitration to ensure consumer access. Joseph Green notes 20 Independent Milk Dealers trucks halted and much of the milk dumped. association dairies report 80 percent of normal supplies.
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Chicago
Joseph Green
Independent Milk Dealers Association
Green
Association Dairies
Woodring Will Leave Office Next January
Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring said he would resign in January at the end of Roosevelt's second term. The 49-year-old Neodesha banker from Kansas cited purely personal reasons and a wish to raise his three children in the Midwest, regardless of any third-term questions.
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Washington
Harry H. Woodring
Woodring
Neodesha, Kanbanker
United Press
Roosevelt
Middle West
Bull Seeks House Action on Dairy Status Bill HR 6500
Representative Hull of Wisconsin circulated a petition to remove HR 6500 from the House Agricultural Committee and send it to the floor. The measure would classify dairying as a basic commodity under the agricultural adjustment act requiring 218 signatures to take effect.
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Washington
Representaive Hull
Progressive
Wisconsin
House
House Agricultural Committee
Senate Overrules Roosevelt on Travel Pay for Philippines Officers
The Senate votes 76 to 3 to enact travel pay and food allowances for military personnel held in service in the Philippines after the Spanish American War, reversing the President. The House had previously opposed the measure amid lengthy debate on wage hour act exemptions.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Spain
House
Window Clean Strike Ends After Pay Increase
Milwaukee window cleaners ended a walkout late yesterday following a settlement that raises base pay from 75 to 80 cents per hour. The agreement ends the dispute that disrupted work across the AL FL area.
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Milwaukee
AL FL i
Weather Summary for Wisconsin May Day Highlighted by Cloudy Skies
The report notes cloudy conditions with light snow in eastern and central Wisconsin overnight into Friday, clearing toward the west. Temperatures reach a Friday high around 44 and a low near 30, with northwest winds and a barometer around 7.95.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Burran Salons
Phoenix
Park Fails
Wis
Baeckstaff Observatory
Withdrawal Disclosed By Chamberlain
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons Britain will withdraw troops from the Andalsnes area and abandon plans to capture the German held Trondheim from the south. He said Allied forces had been dispersed and German air superiority blocked a southern assault while fleets move toward Alexandria.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Andaisnes
Trondheim
Andalsnes
Germany
Britain
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Egypt
Former State Tax Employes Win First Skirmish For Jobs
Fourteen former employees of the state department of taxation, dropped in a March reorganization, win a preliminary legal win. Circuit Judge A C Hoppmann refused to quash an alternative writ of mandamus directing Tax Commissioner Elmer Barlow to rehire them. The case moves toward a possible direct appeal to the state supreme court.
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Madison
State Department of Taxation
A. C. Hoppmann
Elmer Barlow
Supreme Court
Rector
Barlow
A. J. Bieberstein
Carl H. Duergens
Milwaukee
Minnie Krumb
Civil Service
Tax Commission
Commission
CIA
Norwegians Retake Two Key Towns
Norwegian troops aided by foreign volunteers moved west from the Swedish frontier and south through the Glomma river valley, retaking Roros and Tynset after German withdrawals. Oslo to Trondheim communications were cut, and Berlin reported a retreat to positions south of Trnset as Norwegians harass supply lines.
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Wes Gallagher
Stockholm
Glomma River
Norway
Roros
Giomma River
Tynset
Oslo
Kvikne
Glomma Valley
Northas
Dombas
Gudbrands Valley
Trondheim
Sweden
Kattegat
Glomma_ river
Otta
Gudbrands
Narvik
Arctic
Ex Assemblyman Dies Who Never Introduced a Bill
Milwaukee Thomas H H Conway age 80 former state assemblyman for 10 years before 1930 died yesterday. He boasted that he did not introduce a bill in eight of ten years. In 1930 he pledged to keep not introducing bills and was defeated by Cornelius T Young now a state senator.
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Milwaukee
Thomas HH. Conway
Cornelius T. Young
Germans Reach Andalsnes as Norway War Advances
Berlin reports German forces entered Andalsnes on Norway's west coast and raised the war flag at 3 p.m. after breaking British lines. Axis gains include 3,500 Norwegian prisoners, 300 troops captured near Dombas, and large British supplies.
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Andalsnes
Norway
Britain
Trondheim
High Command
Bergen
Oslo
Dombas
DNB
Kleven
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