Churchill Delivers War Update Amid Greece Crisis
Churchill spoke on the Greece fighting and United States aid for Britain, noting coast guard cutters handed to Britain for the Atlantic and urging use of Irish ports. He warned that heavy losses would tank Britain’s merchant fleet without the forthcoming U.S. building program and highlighted the growing RAF strength and strategic aims in Europe.
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Greece
United States Coast Guard
Britain
France
United States
Germany
Ill
John G
Archibald P. Wavell
Alexan Papagos
Salonika
Churchill
Massaua
Ivan Maisky
Ukraine
Cauca
Deportation Orders Move Italian Crew to Detention
Ninety-nine people in five Italian ships are held in Norfolk and Newport News detention facilities awaiting deportation proceedings as authorities decide their fate.
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Gloucester
Norfolk
Newport Va
Real Estate for Sale in Winchester Area
Multiple properties for sale on S Main St and surrounding streets. Two frame houses priced at 2250 each with rents 20. 414 Fairmont Ave offers 6 rooms and hot water heat. Shawnee Ave home with 6 rooms, bath, furnace and garage. 4,200 for a large lot near Route 1275. additional lots on Vine St and Richards Ave. Royal Road cabins with 5 acres and farm land. various farms and fruit grain stock poultry listings. Urges buyers to act quickly.
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Kernstown
Whitlock
Vine St
Richard’s
Pennsylvania Ave
Morningside Drive
Penn. Ave
Richards Ree
Royal Road
Personal Taxes May Be Hiked To Help Defense
Two members of the Senate Finance Committee discuss possible increases in the personal income tax and corporate rate to fund national defense and British aid. George of Georgia proposes a top 8 percent personal rate and 30 percent corporate tax, while Taft of Ohio backs at least 8 percent personal and 30 percent corporate, with potential adjustments to exemptions. A 5 percent payroll levy is also floated as less inflationary than a sales tax.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
Dga
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Em— Taft
New Deal
Japanese Foreign Minister Confers Again With Molotov in Moscow
Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka visited the Kremlin for the second time in his Moscow tour and held further talks with Soviet premier Vyacheslav Molotov.
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Moscow
Matsuoka
Kremlin
Soviet Russia
Farcd
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Mexican Flag On Foreign Ships Expropriated Vessels
Mexican seamen prepared to hoist the Mexican ensign on two German and ten Italian freighters seized last week at Tampico and Vera Cruz. President Avila Camacho expropriated the ships amid wartime shipping needs, with postwar compensation to be arranged. Sources cited a $12,000,000 claim by Mexico against Germany and Italy for petroleum deliveries.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Manuel Avila Camacho
Germany
Italy
Mexico
Burns Fatal To Noted Woman
Mrs. Eva Dell Myers former physical instructor on Shoreham died in Georgetown hospital from burns after a fire at her cabin on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. She said the stove exploded. She was widow of Lieut. Carl H. Myers an army aviator killed in Honolulu in 1916. Five years earlier William E. Swain rescued her from a treetop refuge during a flood. they later married but separated.
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Washington
Eva Dell Myers
On Shoreham
Georgetown Hospital
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Carl H. Myers
Honolulu
William E. Swainson
Harrison Speaks at Kiwanis Luncheon on Budget and Education
State Senator Burr Harrison addressed the Kiwanis Club at the George Washington Hotel, focusing on the state budget and teacher salary increases. F. Grove White presided in the president’s absence. Roy Cather received the attendance prize donated by Sam Brooks.
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Burr P. Harrison
Kiwanis Club
George Washington
F. Grove White
Sam Brooks
Roy Cather
Philip Wiliams
Winchester
England
Ralph P. Yount
Herman Womeldorf
Bay View
Mark Smith
Cumberland
Irvin Deiner
Alexandria
Settling of Ford Strike Nears Resolution as Talks Continue
The Ford strike settlement nears with mediation in progress after machinists seek a 0.15 per hour rise to 1.15 while current offers are 1.12 1.10 in some plans. About 130 machinists who walked out returned to work as talks proceed at Birdsboro Foundry near Reading Pa where C I O steel workers strike is staged amid a push for a 0.30 hourly raise and closed shop.
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P and Ts
Ayencek
Birdsboro Steel Foundry and Machine Company
Reading
Vrance
John R. Steelman
Embassy Attache Is Ordered Out
The State Department announced that Italy requested the withdrawal of Captain William C. Bentley along with Admiral Alberto Lais. The note dated April 8 said Lais would leave the United States and Bentley should be withdrawn immediately from Italy.
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Te Department
William C. Bentley
Alberto Lais
State Department
Attache
Lais
United States
Rome
Italy
G W Iden injured by runaway wagon on his farm
George W. Iden aged 53 of near Bluemont sustained a fractured right thigh when a team of horses ran away on his farm. He was thrown under the wagon and as of today his condition is satisfactory. His brother Dr C H Iden of Berryville is referenced.
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George W. Iden
Bluemont
C. H. Iden
Berryville
100 000 Increase For U S Navy
Senate Naval Affairs Committee approved an authorized 100 000 increase in Navy manpower. Admiral Nimitz testified voluntary enlistments would supply the new need, with total on duty near 200 000 and strength rising to 300 000 under the legislation already passed by the House.
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Washington
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Chester W. Nimitz
Bureau of Navigation
Nimitz
House
Sikorski Arrives in Canada for Allied Visit Tour
General Wladyslaw Sikorski premier of the Polish government in exile lands at an East Coast Canadian port and plans tours of a training center and key military establishments with Allied officials.
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Wladyslaw Sikorski
Elnment-In-Exile
England
Gen. Sikorsk
Four County Men Denied Induction by Army Examiners
Frederick county registrants Clark Horace Kerns Hubert B Taylor Readus Fletcher Frye and Carl Wilbur Miller near Winchester were turned down by examiners and returned home replacements depart April 10 with eight more on April 18 and two on April 22 Employers urged to keep jobs open until final induction decisions are made. Windsor Hotel blaze in New York City occurred in 1899 costing fifty lives.
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Frederick County
Selective Service Board
Clark Horace Kerns
Gainesboro
Hubert B. Taylor
Readus Fletcher Frye
Carl Wilbur Miller
Winchester
Germans Sweep Through Balkans In Major Balkan Campaign
British transports sailings in Piraeus and Athens are cancelled as Greek circles report orders for re embarkation of British troops. Nazi high command claims fall of Salonika and breakthrough near Kavalla and Nis key on the Belgrade line. Yugoslavs report heavy losses and Belgrade destroyed. Allied forces in Greece await orders amid debacle talk. A major battle looms near Salonika with forces drawn up southwest of the city.
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Piraeus
Athens
Hitler
Salonika
Xanthe
Aegean
Kavalla
Yugoslavia
Nis
Belgrade
Skoplije
Greece
Berlin
Serbia
Vardar
Sedan
Flanders
Dunkerque
France
Bulgaria
Struma
Metaxas
John Metaxas
Mrs Winant Heads to Lisbon to Join Ambassador Husband
Mrs. John G. Winant waves farewell in New York as she boards a clipper for Lisbon en route to London to join her husband the United States ambassador to Britain.
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John G. Winant
New York
Lisbon
Last Tribute to Tree Surgeon Edmond Fontaine
Funeral services were held for Edmond Fontaine a 66 year old tree surgeon who died in Baltimore on Sunday. Rev H Lee Marston conducted rites in Ville with interment at Riverview Cemetery. Fontaine had lived in Baltimore since 1916 and once drew attention by chipping off an extra S from a Poe Memorial poem.
Artist Genevieve Conn and the Christ at Galilee
Fragmentary OCR notes identify Genevieve Conn as the artist who painted the oval Christ at the Galilee. Mentions Connecticut State Prison and county jails in the state context.
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Christ
the of Galilee
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G. W. Iden
U.S. Navy
Canada
Windsor Hotel
New York City
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Chrysler
Doe Whit
Hassocks
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main St
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Wards
Chapman Motor CO
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