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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1940
Page
6
Joseph W. LaBine argues Congress stalls on the Japanese issue while Tokyo prepares concessions. The piece notes an economic drive impacting farm funds and reflects an editor's viewpoint typical of Western Newspaper Union releases.
The New Englander from Montana, Sen. Burton Wheeler, speaks at the C I O gathering in Columbus. He signals potential presidential timber while pledging neutrality, labor advancement, and unemployment relief as core planks. He notes U A W chief John Lewis warned Roosevelt against a third term but says C I O support would be welcome if Roosevelt runs.
Congress debates an embargo strategy over Japan’s war rights while Japan pressures Britain and Romania. In Washington, leaders clash over censure, nine power treaty duties, and parity payments amid a broad economy drive. News notes Sweden and Romania oil moves as Soviet forces suffer a major defeat at Ladoga.
Jerome N Frank says utilities face SEC action over slow voluntary integration. Britain sold about 10 percent of US securities in early war months to fund munitions. Rome newspaper pills fuel rumors of a vast plot to assassinate Stalin Molotov and Oroshiloff.
Harry Hopkins resumes work amid 13 months as commerce secretary. John Thomas of Gooding Ida Ho named US senator to replace Borah. Kaiser Wilhelm turns 81 in Doorn Netherlands. Edward S. Harkness dies at 66 in New York after philanthropy and Standard Oil fortune.
United Press poll ranks Doris Duke Cromwell among the world’s ten best dressed, alongside Duchess of Kent and Windsor and Queen Elizabeth. The list highlights wardrobes worth over a million dollars for most entries, noting Mrs. Cromwell’s Paris delivery after her husband’s diplomatic posting.
A trivia list tests knowledge on recent wartime events. Questions cover a ship rescued passengers, German capture and Russian detention, Canada calling an election, a late January weather note in the southern United States, a noted explorer discovering new mountains, and a Vatican memorandum accusing Germany of threatening Catholicism in a specific country.
City of Flint referenced in a quiz answer. The dominion government aimed to reveal its war record to the people to address complaints. A multiple choice item marks option C as correct. Florida fruit and vegetable losses totaled millions. Atlanta recorded a 10 inch snowfall. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd reportedly found new mountains near Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. The memorandum cites mass shootings, manhunts, plundering and persecutions in Poland.
The article notes that in early 1917 23 Russian conspirators toppled the czar while this year 17 American Christian Front members were arrested in New York with crude arms. FBI chief Hoover said their aim mirrored revolution and they were anti Jewish. Rev. Charles E. Coughlin claimed friendship with the accused. Assistant Attorney General O John Rogge was assigned to investigate after a week of review.
As Europe war looms Mexico sold expropriated oil to Germany before a blockade. With the U S Japan trade pact abrogation, President Lazaro Cardenas courted Tokyo. Japan reportedly planned to invest in Mexico to dredge a Pacific port and upgrade petroleum storage facilities.
Notes suggest consulting the public before entering another war. A 51 percent majority favored a referendum last September. U S arms exports climbed from 83 million dollars in 1938 to about 204.6 million in 1939, led by aircraft and air parts.
Washington digest notes rising tension in Democratic party as New Dealers press for Roosevelt third term. It cites John L Lewis allied labor push, Garner prospects, and Ohio Florida moves showing division. Predicts a lull before convention and a June retrospective on early 1930s political maneuvering.
William Bruckart warns the Democratic Party may split if fever persists, but he expects a lull after intense episodes like Lewis' blast at Roosevelt and Wheeler's C. I. O. meeting boasted about delegates, followed by weeks of quiet.
Question set asks for three words with two pronunciations each whose meanings change by pronunciation. Also asks fastest footed animals, a martingale definition, types of twins, architectural male and female figures, and which three birds became extinct in the U S in the last century.
The list gives simple facts: record minute language the three fastest animals on land the race horse cheetah gazelle and the race horse. A horse harness part is a trace. Identical unlike Siamese. Male architectural supports called caryatids female are Atlantes. Passenger pigeon extinct in the 1880s Labrador duck in the 1840s and great auk in the 1840s.
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