Nazis Bomb Coast Areas of England
A small German air raid hit eastern and northeastern English coastal districts injuring a few people and damaging houses in two towns. The Air Ministry said the inland attack was the first since last November and noted limited casualties and damage. Radio Berlin claimed harbor targets in the Humber Estuary and said a British bomber was shot down after a failed attempt on the German coast.
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London
Britain
Air Ministry
Continent
France
Germany
Royal Arsenal
Fiat Motor Works
Turin
Italy
French
Air and Home Ministries
Radio Berlin
Humber
English
Berlin Admits R A F Raids on Nazi Areas
Berlin reports Royal Air Force raids on northern German coast areas during the night. British bombers reportedly turned back before reaching the coast after strong German defenses. One RAF bomber was shot down. German bombers raided a British supply port in the Humber estuary, with heavy explosions and fires observed.
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Berlin
Royal Air Force
Germany
DNB
The
Humber
Capital Split On Inflation Curb Method
Washington reports a split over how to curb inflation with potential price and wage controls. Morgenthau favors a $7.6 billion tax program and bond purchases, while Henderson Eccles push for broader price fixing and controls. President Roosevelt considers a nationally timed price freeze and Congress shows opposition to new taxes.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Leon Henderson
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Doughton
D-N.c
House
Ways and Means Committee
Children of 14 May Be Called for War Duty
Dr. Edmund Brunner of Columbia University warned 300 state parent teacher leaders that the war will lower the eligible age for service. He said the nation may shift from 16 to 24 years to 15 or even 14 as younger children are drawn into duties.
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Dr. Scholl
Ithaca
Edmund Brunner
Columbia University
Relief Caseload Of County Drops
Onondaga County Welfare Department reports a continued drop in caseload for the week ending April 11. Commissioner Leon H. Abbott's office notes a net decrease of 60 cases with 2,797 on April 4, 49 new intakes including five new, 19 reopened and 25 recurrent cases, and 109 cases closed.
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Onondaga County Welfare Department
Leon H. Abbott
Iran Breaks Off Relations With Japan
Iran severs diplomatic ties with Japan signaling a shift in Axis propaganda control. Tehran orders the Japanese envoy Hikotaro Ichikawa and six attaches to depart within a week as Axis agents are relocated. The move follows Iran’s recent alignment with Britain and Russia and comes amid circulating pamphlets denying atrocities and extolling anti Allied narratives.
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Teheran
Iran
Japan
Russia
Mediterranean
Hikotaro Ichikawa
United States
Germany
Italy
Britain
Legation
Hong Kong
Ceylon
Chiang Kai-shek
India
United Nations
Persia
Mohammed Shah Pahlavi
Norse Jails Report on 2000 Clerics and Teachers Imprisoned
A Norwegian government in exile said the German controlled Quisling regime jailed 2000 teachers and Lutheran ministers in six weeks to crush opposition to a Nazi youth organization and a teachers front. It also cited 7000 Norwegians in concentration or forced labor camps and church leaders facing arrests.
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London
Norway
Germany
Didrik Seip
Oslo University
Arnulf Overland
Jeader
Quisling
Oslo
Martin Bormann
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Bormann
Berlin
Nazi ‘Youth Movement
Nazi Teachers’ Front
New York Milk Pool Sets March Record at 14 Million
The New York Metropolitan milk pool for March totals 14,186,880.49 dollars, the richest on record under the Federal State Marketing Orders. 57,282 dairy farmers across six states share in the pool, aided by a uniform price of 2.4313 dollars per hundredweight and extra butterfat payments.
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New York
New York Metropolitan
N. J. Cladakis
Pennsylvania
Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Cladakis
Ciadakis
John L. Lewis
Cj.c.-United Mine Workers
Lewis
Free Farmers, Inc
United Mine Workers of America
Herbert W. Voorhees
New Jersey Farm Bureau
Nylon Money Test Circulates Hidden From Public
Treasury officials said currency printed on nylon paper was released in a test circulation with the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. The 100 percent homemade bills were to test durability while silk-threaded paper stock remains in use. Secret Service noted chemical analysis would be needed to distinguish the new from the old money.
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Washington
Treasury
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank
Secret Service
Farm groups call Lewis campaign a racket in Washington
In Washington farm leaders labeled the Lewis campaign a racket and planned to testify Friday before a House judiciary subcommittee on measures against alleged union racketeering while farmers seek up to 10000 for damage from strike riot or civil commotion.
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Washington
Lewis
House Judiciary
Norman Reappointed Bank of England Governor
Montagu Norman was reappointed for a 23rd year as governor of the Bank of England in an election held today. he was the sole nominee. The formal approval signals continuity for the central bank amid ongoing economic concerns.
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Norman
London
Montagu Norman
Bank of England
Jews Segregated to Terezin Fortress in Bohemia
Special dispatch reports Heydrich ordered confinement of about 90 000 Jews in the Terezin fortress in Bohemia Mora to deter war production slowdowns. German sources cite crowding in a fortress that once held 7000, amid typhus and shortages.
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Washington
Hhas
Protectorate of
Bohemia and Moravia
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Uimmler
Protectorate
Labe River
League of Nations
Hungarian Ministry of Interior
sub-Carpathian
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Morgenthau
Scholl's Foot Comfort’ Shops, Inc
Schraft
Pat
New India
New Delhi
Schenley
Kentucky
Maryland
Indiana
Drinl
Schenley Reserve
Schenley Distillers Corp
New York City
March
David M. Nichol
Special Dispatch
Chicago Daily News, Inc
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Central
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