19 BIG ARMS PLANTS FACE CURTAILMENT IN COAL DEADLOCK; Increasing Peril to Defense Is Reported as Washington Conferences Open
By Louis Stark
Sec Perkins resignation demanded by Sen Byrd
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April 26, 1941
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GERMANS PUSH ON; Reported Near Thebes After a Flank Assault Opens Thermopylae
By C. Brooks Peters
Germans push on after Thermopylae fall
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Escape Is Acknowledged; GERMANS PUSH ON; APPROACH ATHENS
By Unknown Author
BERLIN, April 25 (UP) -- The bulk of the British Army with its tanks and other weapons has escaped from Greece in "another Dunkerque" despite terrific German bombing attacks that have sunk
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GREENLAND ALARM; President Hears Nazis May Be There Now and We Will Act If So
By Frank L. Kluckhohn
Roosevelt likens him to Civil War Copperhead; explains army's failure to call him to service; Amer First Com replies
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Vast Sea Area Affected; BRITISH EXTEND DANGER ZONE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
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LONDON, April 25 (UP) -- The Admiralty took steps today to meet the increased threat to British control of the Eastern Mediterranean by announcing that a huge new area was "dangerous to shipping."
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Notable Births
1941Claudine Auger, French model and actress (died 2019)[†]
Claudine Auger was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde 1958 and went on to finish as the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.