Italy protests Britain's coal blockade amid press critique
Italy formally protests to the British Embassy over the coal blockade, denouncing the action as coercive. Fascist leaders including Roberto Farinacci condemn Britain as arrogant while linking the move to attempts to push Italy toward arms sales or coal purchases from Welsh mines.
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Britain
Italy
Mussolini
Roberto Parinacci
Grand Council
Fascista
Faranacci
England
North Sea
Farinacci
London
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Mediterranean
Italy’s coal crisis prompts strict rationing and rail limits
Italy faces a coal shortage with production around 2 million tons and severe winter and war conditions. Rationing hits most industries except bakeries at full needs. Some 150 train schedules are cut to save coal and talks consider halting passenger traffic temporarily. Options include more German rail imports, more English imports, or US supplies.
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Italy
Ny Las
England
United States
Plans for Potomac River Bridge Network Across States
Exra B Whittan head of the State Roads Commission outlines a cross river bridge linking Sandy Wook and Warpers Ferry to replace the 1936 flood span. Maryland will fund the main Sandy Hank bridge with Virginia building the south abutment and linking road to Shenandoah where West Virginia will construct a crossing to Marpers Terry. The plan includes smaller bridges such as a Tonoloway creek crossing on Route 40 west of Hancock.
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Exra B Whittan
State Roads Commission
Potoma River
Sandy Wook
Warpers Ferry
Maryland
Potomac
Sandy Hank
Shenandoah
West Virginia Commission
Marpers Terry
The
Roads Commission
Tonoloway Creek
Route 40
Hancock
Wreckage Of Plane Reported Found In Tran Coast
The wreckage of a Venie terial Airways liner Hannibal was found on Tran coast. Of eight aboard, Capt A G Bryn was believed American. SOS calls were cancelled as seven ships rushed to assist from the Atlantic. President Bernie in Ciudad Trujillo was in serious condition after dog amputation. The Rev Coughlin warned Communism in transition aiming to disguise itself.
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Tran
A. G. ‘Bryn
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Gulf of Oman
Jiwani
Arabia
New York
Atlantic
Makis
Halifax
Coast Guard
Raat Soub
Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican
Repiblic
Jacinto Bernie
Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
National Band Masters Convene in Hagerstown Week
The American Bandmasters Association hosts its convention in Hagerstown with a reception next Sunday and a business session Monday morning. A public concert at the Maryland Theater Wednesday features 21 conductors and many composers. An Carlisle Medical Barracks band and civilian guests will attend together. Tickets are selling briskly from nearby Maryland Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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American Bandmasters’ Association
Maryland
Peer Buys
Ula
Carlisle Medical Barracks
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Salisbury Sergeant Wins Medal for Public Service
Sergeant C. W. Minnick, 36, a Maryland state patrolman and former high school driver education teacher, received Salisbury’s gold medal and 226 dollars for outstanding public service in 1939. His traffic safety program expanded from Witomica county to 20 schools within a year and now operates in all high schools across Worcester Somerset and Worcester counties, with neighboring Delaware adopting it in 30 high schools. The award was presented by Rev. Albert H. Frost at a theater ceremony. nominations come from Salisbury residents and are decided by a Board of Trustees.
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Palicdinion
Sergt. C. W. Minnick
Gien
Albert IT. Frost
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Minnick
Witomica County
Wiemt Col
Somerset
Worcester Counnty
Delaware
Maryland
Merberk RR. O'Conor
Local Wheat Quotations and Milling Rates
Furnished by Kilme Bros Benevola Wheat at mill 81.08 Wheat at barn 17 Gort at mill 0. Dbl 95. Grain price notes show milling and storage figures with fractional and unclear entries.
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Kllme Bros
Nazis Sorry About Plane Shooting Over Belgium
Belgian authorities protested a German bomber incident near Brussels in which two Belgian army planes were shot at and one Belgian pilot was killed. Belgian accounts say three Belgians chased a Dornier bomber. one Belgian plane was downed and another crashed with bullet holes. Public reaction in Brussels and Antwerp condemned the act as a serious neutrals violation.
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Establihe
Helston
Brussels
Berlin
Rey
Antwerp
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Belgium
Laneembourg
Horoscope Pisces March 1940 Forecasts for Trade and Politics
Pisces forecast notes sympathetic, critical natives with generosity carried to extremes. It predicts a fortunate day for Pacific coast commerce and a rising labor movement, urges financial caution after 1940, and cites world war waste, U S political shifts, and tensions over Communism and Mussolini amidst global dangers.
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United States
Faidutal Party
Stalin
Mussolini
augury of a year of success through initiative
Prediction foresees a year of success through effort with new friends appearing. It notes children born today will be energetic and ambitious and may excel in sports and artistic vocations.
Man Arrested For Disorderly Charge Over Skunk Stink
Officers Miller and Fisher want Jesse J. Hager to pay cleaning costs for uniforms after arresting him on a disorderly charge. Hager carried a dead skunk in his hunting coat pocket, producing a strong odor noted on the police docket.
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Lock Jiavien
Fred E. Miller
John G Fisher
Jesse J. Hager
Hager
Bank bandits go on trial in Maryland case
Four men face federal trial in Baltimore on charges from four Maryland bank robberies. Defendants Sidney James Owen Thompson Dallas Hillary Whipp William Wesley Duntock and Gerald Peabody pleaded guilty or innocent to multiple counts. Robberies include Walkersville Clear Spring White Hall with losses totaling over 15 000 and 38 600 taken in the Walkersville hold up. Bail stands at 250 000.
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Baltimore
Mareh
Maryland
William ©. Coleman
Sidney James Owen Thompson
Easton
Dallas Hillary Whipp
Walkerville
William Wesley Duntock
Walkersville
Gerald Peabody
Thompson
Peabody
Clearspring
White Hall
Three Are Killed In Auto Crashes
Traffic accidents in Baltimore and vicinity killed three persons Saturday amid sleety rain. The dead are Thomas Moore, 47, of Baltimore. Edward J. Koerner, 23, of Towson. and Harry Gerbrick of Pikesville. Koerner’s car skidded on York road and hit a tree. Gerbrick was struck on Reisterstown road. Moore died after being struck while crossing a street.
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Slinnery
Thomas Moore
Edward J. Koerner
Towson
Harry
Gerbrick
Pikesville
Koerner
York Road
Reisterstown
Moore
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