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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
6
U S ships are exchanged for naval and air bases in a wartime agreement. Senator Lundeen of Minnesota is among 25 killed when an airliner crashes. The column presents the analyst’s view rather than the newspaper’s.
Roosevelt told Congress the United States reached a lease deal with Great Britain for bases in Newfoundland Bermuda Bahamas Jamaica St Lucia Trinidad Antigua and British Guiana in exchange for 50 obsolete U S destroyers. An airliner crash near Lovettsville Va killed 25, including Sen Ernest Lundeen. Convicts escaped Cummins State Prison Farm with guards turned accomplices. one guard killed. German tactics in WWI and WWII compared with Indian ambush lore. Transylvania dispute settled between Hungary and Romania. Rome and Berlin seek Balkans peace. French ministry lists hardest hit towns Rouen Laon Soissons Compiegne Beauvais Amiens Gien Saumur Auxerre Orleans Calais Dunkirk Sedan Mezieres Arras Vitry le Francois. Amiens cathedral escaped damage.
The piece surveys a hushed 1940 campaign with Willkie Roosevelt tensions and Republican rifts over the Russell Overton conscription amendment. It then shifts to Winston Churchill surviving a German raid at Ramsgate and a youthful rival in London Umbrella Chamberlain.
A lively piece on hosting tea gatherings with practical tips for a relaxing afternoon. It covers setting, serving hot and iced tea, light bites, and several dessert and sandwich recipes including chicken with cranberry sauce and cream cheese sandwiches.
Mike Hogg leads a Texas no third term movement of Willkists pledging allegiance to a bold anti‑term slate. Capt. George Price earns the Distinguished Flying Cross after a test flight and a careful crash landing at Buffalo. Dr. B A Maw of Burma is jailed for a year amid anti British tensions. Norman Thomas begins a 15000 mile campaign tour through 28 states for the 1940 Yankee President bid.
Leonore Hirmakallio an 18 year old from Helsinki Finland stowed away on the American Legion which carried 870 refugees from war zones. U S immigration authorities report she will be barred from entering the country despite her desperate attempt to reach the United States.
A simple meal plan from Eleanor Howe's Easy Entertaining offers ham loaf with hot cheese biscuits. Readers can obtain the book by sending 10 cents to Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, with Western Newspaper Union distributing the release.
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