Congress Backing Roosevelt Plans Seen by Kilday in San Antonio
Rep. Kilday says Congress will support Roosevelt's peacetime defense program. He cites $32.8 million previously approved for factory equip and munitions, and $10 million already spent to modernize San Antonio military airports and training centers. He urges heavy air defense and elimination of un American groups while predicting readiness and local political questions.
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Nazi Drive at Narvik Looms
The Stockholm Tidningen reports signs of a planned German assault on Allied forces in Narvik and Northern Norway. In Oslo trains, trucks, motorcycles and horses move northward as fighting intensifies near Narvik. A Swedish patrol repelled a German incursion while Swedish anti aircraft guns engaged twelve German aircraft.
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Williams, GOP Leader Dies in Philadelphia
Ralph E. Williams of Portland Oregon senior vice chairmen of the Republican national committee and head of the committee on arrangements for the party’s national convention here next month died last night after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 70 and had served as a Republican committeeman since 1908. He had arrived April 15 to supervise preparations for the conclave opening June 24.
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Helgian Chiefs Move to Ostend on Belgian Coast
The Belgian government relocated from Brussels to Ostend on Belgium’s North Sea coast, with Reuters reporting Allied withdrawals in Belgium. Defense Minister Henri Denis said the situation is reassuring and urged calm. Diplomatic staff from Argentina, Peru, and other nations also moved to Ostend with the government.
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War 25 Years Ago Today May on Compiled by
Compiled news recounts German air raids along English coast and Allied actions in Western Front. German plans and aerial bombardment described as forces sheltered near a canal. Allied troops push north of Arras toward Ypres while railway lines and coastal defenses face pressure.
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Youth Killed in Tractor Crash Near Winters
Frank Ademi, 22, farm youth, died after a tractor plunged from an 18 foot embankment overlooking Elm Creek near Winters Thursday. The tragedy was discovered around midnight and the crash is under investigation.
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Winds trigger collapse and strike era woes in city district
High winds and thunder in the city caused an aged three story building on Avenue B near the San Antonio river to collapse. The structure once housed a brewery and candy factory before becoming a plant, and its foundation weakened after river widening. A smokestack toppled, a window and transom at O R Mitchell Motors opened, and no theft was found. In Tokyo, Geisha workers struck for higher pay, with thousands supporting the action as beauty-supply shortages hit.
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Defense Slogan in Advertising Urged
Cincinnati dispatch reports Lieut. Col. W H Cureton says the War Department is launching a nationwide campaign to have merchants include a defense slogan in newspaper advertising. He will mail letters to firms using display space urging the note We favor adequate preparedness for national defense and recommend enlistment in the U S Army to eligible young men. Also, Rome notes two new anti Allied posters appeared on walls: a mock obituary for the British fleet and a reminder of the French Corsican affair two items.
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Italy’s War Prep Budget Hits New High, Rome Says
Rome May 17 Italian finance minister Thion De Revel disclosed to the senate that war preparations have swelled the budget for the current year to about 1.3 billion dollars. He warned the deficit now exceeds three times the original June 30 estimates.
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Mazi Radio Warns of Typhoid Danger in Holland
London dispatch reports a German controlled radio station at Hueversamt in the Netherlands warned of grave typhoid danger in Holland. The broadcast claimed milk sales were prohibited unless milk was boiled at least three times and urged sanitary measures amid wartime shortages.
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Bridges Shelled at Swiss Border in Rhine Region
Basel May 12 French artillery shelled red granite bridgeheads on the German side of the Rhine opposite Huntage and north of aéd. German guns did not reply. Observers say the bridgehead could be used as a base for an army pontoon bridge by Germany.
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