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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1941
Page
2
Edward C. Wayne reports that Britain asks aid under the lease lend plan as London faces renewed aerial raids. The piece notes England’s admission of spring blitz danger after intensified raids and frames the aid as the first step in the program.
President Roosevelt pushed the British aid bill to law pledging 7 billion dollars in aid as Congress attached 12 amendments. London reported heavy losses from air raids while U S industry faced rising strikes and production concerns in defense projects and major plants like Allis-Chalmers and International Harvester.
The bomb blast at the Pera Palace in Istanbul injures George W. Rendel and staff while two men die and twenty three are wounded. A later train bombing attempt on Rendel is revealed and Nazi links are investigated. Meanwhile Japan mediates in Indo-Chinese peace talks with Saigon reports noting large territorial concessions. FBI arrests in New York target Transocean News Service representatives Manfred Zapp and Guenter Town, bailed at five thousand dollars each.
General Hugh S Johnson asserts no plan to censor the press while Lowell Mellett argues for efficient government information bureaus rather than a central press bureau. The column recalls Napoleon, Washington statues, and historic Washington debates on public monuments.
On March 20, 1820 in a Maryland field near Bladensburg two American naval officers faced each other in a deadly duel. Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron exchanged shots after a feud over the Chesapeake Leopard affair. Decatur died that night. Barron recovered and lived to 83, enduring the stigma of killing a national hero.
In brief items from across the U S and abroad alarm clock sales surge as soldiers head to camp and seek earlier wakeups. Fred B Cody seeks a divorce alleging hostile acts by his wife including a black widow in his bed and a car threat. Leopold Stokowski resigns after 29 years to serve government and country. Efflend Echlin, Canadian and former writer for Newsweek and Time, jailed under a defense regulation.
Bankhage reports that after weeks of searching defense offices could not release total U S airplane production. A reporter attended a cocktail party to obtain the totals and a detailed breakdown but kept the breakdown private to avoid embarrassing his source.
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