Roosevelt to ask Cong to sanction Danish ships purchases and extend Maritime Act requisitioning to foreign ships in U S ports to aid Brit; says sabotage makes Axis ships subject to forfeiture; conf with de Kauffman; German Embassy replies to Hull; Ital Embassy complains of seamen's treatment

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MEXICO CITY, April 8 -- President Avilla Camacho issued a decree tonight expropriating the twelve German and Italian merchant ships which have been taken in custody by the Mexican Navy at Tampico and Veracruz.

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1941Kay Adams, American singer-songwriter^[†]

Princetta Kay Adams is an American country music singer.

1941Hannah Gordon, Scottish actress^[†]

Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon is a Scottish actress and presenter who is known for her television work in the United Kingdom, including My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974–75), Telford's Change (1979), Joint Account (1989–90) and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave, broadcast in 2000. She has presented the Channel 4 lifestyle show Watercolour Challenge from 1998 to 2001 and played Ann Treves in David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man. She is sometimes credited under her first married name of Hannah Warwick.

Headlines from April 9, 1941

Retreat Believed Deliberate; A GERMAN ADVANCE ON THE AFRICAN FRONT BRITISH FALL BACK TO TOBRUK IN LIBYA

Exodus From Region Begun; THREE-PRONGED NAZI DRIVE PUTS SALONIKA IN JEOPARDY GREEK PASS FORCED IN SALONIKA DRIVE

GREEK PASS FORCED; Nazis Break Through at Guevgueli as Serb Army Withdraws 23 MILES FROM PORT Greeks Hold Forts to the Last Man to Permit New Defense Line to Form

DANISH SHIP PLAN; President to Ask for the Right to Buy 39 Seized Vessels TO USE AXIS CRAFT Power Exists for Taking Possession of Them in Espionage Act ROOSEVELT TO USE 69 SEIZED SHIPS

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