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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1941
Page
6
Opinion columns express the news analyst views not those of the newspaper. Release notes from the Western Newspaper Union.
Noninterventionist opponents of Roosevelt grow calm after his shoot first directive as Halliday pleads for guns. The arming question resurfaces with echoes of World War I while Knox signals warship protection for lend lease ships between the American continent and Iceland waters, hinting at a convoy plan.
A Newark Advertising club canceled Senator Reynolds of North Carolina September 24 talk after President Roosevelt speech and Nazi incidents. Club officials cited defense policy conflicts though they praised the senator's right to his views. A foreign correspondent was substituted for the event.
Reports from the Russo German front depict the Russians holding the siege of Leningrad while pressing an advance in the central sector around Smolensk. Key figures cited are Marshal Semeon Timoshenko and Gen Jacob Kreuzer as mounted offensives push forward.
A Hyde Park farmer Moses Smith praises President Roosevelt as ideal landlord. Smith discusses a new 140 foot well, his 140 acre farm, and worries over labor and press reporting. The piece notes national defense steel needs and rail scrap use versus branch line abandonments.
In London during a blackout period, Britons were confronted with income tax demands claiming up to half of annual earnings for the year ending April 5. In New Orleans a hurricane in September forced relocation of about 550 warplanes to secure points.
Vichy leader Marshal Petain used his prerogative to commute two death sentences for men charged with fomenting a strike in 1938. In Washington, Charlie Chaplin was subpoenaed to testify about his film The Great Dictator in which Hitler is lampooned.
A substantial reorientation of the WPA program under assistant administrator Florence Kerr aims to bolster defense efforts with the motto the good neighbor policy at home. The front page of Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter carried no war items for the first time since the war began, leaving interpretation open.
An itemized range of home hardware cutouts includes a Leave a Note bungalow with an inside pad and pencil for messages, classic doorknockers such as a red headed woodpecker and a horse, and cottage themed accessories like a flower holder and matching shade pulls for kitchen or dining room use.
The report notes vast open waters mid Atlantic and mid Pacific, with ships at least 1200 miles from land, and two immense seas between the Aleutians and the Sandwich Islands and the mid Indian Ocean. It marks Kerguelen as the most remote island, about 3000 miles from major capes, with St Paul’s 600 miles north of it.
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