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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
1
Opinion by Joseph W. LaBine analyzes a rising coalition of Germany Italy and Russia challenging democracies. The piece discusses geopolitical strains and potential peace proposals, noting an editor's note about column opinions and the Western Newspaper Union release.
International readers saw Holy Week unfold amid Berlin Rome Brenner diplomacy and Mussolini Nazi aims. Welles faced a shaking plan as Hitler Rimmed Brennero and Rome Berlin axis signaled possible Moscow Rome Berlin triangle while US loan powers boosted rural housing and tax changes stirred March filings and forecasts.
Wartime dispatches describe Finland losing Karelia and northern areas to Soviet occupation forcing 450,000 evacuees as Moscow peace terms draw sharp international ire. Leland Stowe condemns censorship and brutal evacuation conditions while reports also track U S political moves on the Hatch act and looming farm aid. In India, Gandhi faces renewed radical pressure after Sir Michael O'Dwyer’s assassination, challenging restraint during Britain's war.
Reported actions show Western Front fighting and French artillery destroying Nazi defenses while Nazi planes bombed ships and inflicted civilian casualties. British RAF counterblows hit patrol boats off Heligoland Bight as Soviet and Japanese troops clash on Sakhalin and both nations reinforce their Outer Mongolian Manchukuoan borders.
In New York Britain's luxury liners Queen Mary and Mauretania docked in the Hudson are hinted as transports for Australian troops to the Near East. Tokyo and Buenos Aires sign a trade pact aimed at seven million dollars a year in imports from Argentina. In Honolulu the U S fleet readies 130 ships for war games in April to counter Pacific threats. Washington WPA cuts 205000 from rolls, leaving 2120000 employed. Japan taps ex premier Nobuyuki Abe as envoy to Wang Jingwei's puppet regime in China. Aviator Harold Dahl, who fought for Loyalist Spain, returns to the United States after three years in Nationalist custody, diseased and disillusioned by war.
Governor E. D. Rivers faced arrest for ignoring a federal injunction after he removed State Highway Commissioner W. L. Miller. In Mississippi a group purchased 6,300 goats to graze and divert flood waters on a 3,000acre tract to relieve high water. A deadly disaster near Cisirsville killed 71 and wounded 115 escaped. The governor called out national guardsmen to block a $20,000,600 power project completion over flood damage. The death of F Lynden Smith triggered an investigation into slush funds.
Dr. George M. Stratton of the University of California argues psychology can uncover the causes of world turmoil and guide preventive measures. He says human conduct, not only economists or historians, shapes wars and that dictators have a human side that can be steered away from violence.
In Budapest Hungary a statue honors an anonymous notary who chronicled Hungarian history. The first page of his chronicle bore his name, making the monument a tribute to the unnamed historian.
A Jugoslavian delicacy called the strawberry grape imitates the Concord grape with a strawberry flavor. The fruit is noted among the region's chief offerings, reflecting local tastes and cultivation.
John Cuneo, 56, was taken to Los Angeles General Hospital after police reports said he attempted suicide by thrusting a 2.4 inch sewing needle toward his heart. Doctors used a fluroscope to locate the needle piercing his chest but noted he felt only slight chest pain. His brother Walter found him and rushed him to the hospital.
Northern Australia outpost Darwin faced a beer famine with bottles priced at 2 shillings due to transport costs. Australian defense force contingents arrived and promptly consumed all available beer in the town.
Ruby and sapphire are forms of the mineral corundum, among the hardest natural substances. Both varieties share the same chemical composition of aluminum oxide with trace elements giving color, and they rank nine on the Mohs hardness scale.
Comanche, the survivor of Custer's last stand, to be restored at the Dyche Museum at the University of Kansas. Klauss Abegg, a Swiss tax dermist, to supervise a full overhaul including stitching cracked hide and a rub-down to remove dust mold after the exhibit suffered wear from a leaking roof. The veteran Seventh Cavalry horse, returned to Fort Riley after the battle, later died and was moved to the museum.
Mrs Harold Kinsley a 50 year old mother of four boys volunteers to shop twice weekly for 40 patients and staff at the Ann Arbor Michigan University hospital tuberculosis unit. Another volunteer Mrs My W Wheeler 53 shops for 50 patients in a ward. Both say they enjoy shopping for patients though it disrupts home chores and find men easier to shop for.
WPA historical records survey notes irregular voting in the Charitable Female Society of Bedford Massachusetts in the early nineteenth century. A member was entitled to an extra vote at each meeting for every dollar paid beyond the standard fifty cent dues.
Richard W. Clarke, famed as Deadwood Dick, a Black Hills frontiersman, Sioux wars participant, express guard, stage coach aid, and U S marshal ally, popularized by dime novels, died in 1930.
The granite block from Kentucky bears an inscription proclaiming united resolve and declares Kentucky will be last to yield the Union. Placed on the inner wall at the 230 foot landing the stone reads United We Stand Divided We Fall under Heaven and Washington precepts.
The sentence notes that the Congo River is exceeded in size only by the Amazon, marking it as the second largest river by volume or length in global comparisons. It presents a geographic claim about major river sizes and their ranking.
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