Suez Axis Goal Foreseen Amid Balkans Blitz
Rome reports Popolo Di Roma says the axis aims at Suez through Turkey as Salonika falls and Greek East-Wing forces surrender. Italian high command claims Kranj captured near Yugoslav border while raids hit Sibenik harbor and camps.
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Associated Press
Rome
Suez Canal
Yugoslavia
Greece
Popolo di Roma
Berlin
Turkey
Ankara
Balkans
Suez
Kranj
Legion Urges End to Strikes Amid Defense Efforts in Georgia
At the T. L. Spence Jr. Post No. 31 meeting, about fifty legionnaires endorsed a resolution by Harvey Chastain calling on Congress to act immediately to stop strikes impacting national defense programs. The group sent a telegram to Washington urging swift and reasonable anti strike legislation.
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Legionnaires
Congress
T. L. Spence Jr
Tlome
Harvey Chastain
Chastain
Roosevelt
National Uity
Chastiain
Mer
Hal Tomarrow
Wimpy
Georelu
Georgia
Talmadge
Washington
Mre. Chastain
Amngcan Legion Department OF Giorgia Ino
Ppassiod Riesolution
TM Amiedeampis
Disriense Induswiiei
Legionnaire
Lregey Hawthorne
Wood. Grant
Meigs
Draft Board
Mitchell County
Grant
Elis
Bejray
Howard Shaw
Cairo
American Legion
Italy Demands Recall of U S Assistant Attache
Italy called for the withdrawal of Captain William C Bentley the U S assistant military attache in Rome as a reciprocal move after the United States forced the Italian naval attache Admiral Alberto Lais to leave Washington. Rome reported Mussolini’s government guarded the U S embassy amid talk of recalling its ambassador to Washington.
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Washington
Italy
Rome
United States
State Department
William C. Bentley
Alberto Lais
Secretary of
lLais
Mussolini
Alberto Luis
U. S
Germany
Berlin
Weather outlook for Southeastern states
The forecast notes cloudy conditions and possible showers in parts of South Carolina and Florida. Northwest South Carolina may see showers tonight with Thursday partly cloudy skies and little temperature change. Georgia is partly to cloudy tonight and Thursday with minimal temperature variation. Florida shows partly cloudy to tonight and Thursday with possible showers in the extreme south and southwest.
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Wehrather
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Nazi Offensive in Balkans Runs True to Form
German forces push through southern Yugoslavia racing toward Salonika. Greek defenders on Struma line cut off and forced to surrender as Nazis seize Salonika’s port. If successful, invasion could sever Yugoslavia from Allies and threaten Albania and Greece.
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Balkans
Dewitt MacKenzie
Vardar
Yugoslavia
Salonika
Struma
Vort
Adriatic
Dalmatian
Albania
Germany
Balkan
Serbia
Thrace
Aegean Sea
Lake
Ohrid
Scutari
Churchill warns on Ukraine loot by Russia and war reach
London April 9 Prime Minister Churchill warned that Nazi Germany covets Ukraine and its grain while signaling grave danger to Britain. He announced Salonika fell, Massawa captured, and only partial Greece engagement, as he noted intensified North Africa fighting and awaited US shipping help.
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Associated Press
London
Churchill
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Silonika
Germany
Red Sea
Massawa
Eritrea
Italian East Africa
United States Coast Guard
Britain
Crerman
France
Africa
Hitler
North Africa
Keren
Salonika
Massaua
United States
Outlook brighter for settling Ford strike
Prospects for settling the Ford Motor River Rouge strike improved after lengthy night talks among federal and state mediators, CIO UAW leaders, and company officials. A new session was set, as coal miner talks also moved toward an industry-wide contract amid wage differentials and demands for a union shop.
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Associated Press
Ford Motor Company
River Rouse
CIO United Automobile Workers
Ford
River Rouge
Phelps-Dodge
Elizabeth
CIO
Perkins
Mojor
Nationael Merchiation Board
Philip Murray
Harry H
Kennett
Ford Personnel
Tn New York
John R. Steelman
United States Conciation Service
Wold
Pennsyl
Germans Drive Across Yugoslavia Near Albania Front
German blitzkrieg armies swept the Balkans and neared Albania, capturing Salonika, forcing Greece’s east wing surrender, and driving west across Yugoslavia to within 15 miles of Albanian lines. British and Greek forces held but contact with the enemy remained uncertain. More than 20,000 Yugoslavs were captured as Belgrade’s defenses fell.
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Salonika
Blitzkrieg
Sibenik
Kranj
Albania
Derrow
Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Aegean
Alabina
Serbia
Rome
Popolo di Rema
Suez Canal
Britain
Far East
Turkey
London
Winston Churchill
Balkan
Soviet
Russia
Churchill
Ukraine
Berlin
Yugoslvia
Athens
Skoplje
Vardariver
Belgrade
Hitler
Vardar
Sedan
Flanders
Dunkerque
France
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