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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
6
The article reports Britain and the United States weighing response to Mussolini’s Italian forces in Greece. Measures include potential parity loans for farmers and financial support schemes. Lord Lothian, the British envoy to the United States, is noted as a key figure in diplomatic exchanges.
News from Europe shows stalled peace efforts as fighting continues. In England a motion for negotiated peace failed 241 to 4, while a Northampton election turnout favored the war stance. Germany maneuvers to end Greece conflict, but Greece resists cessation. In Italy Mussolini reshapes command as invasion of Greece falters. Britain escalates pressure for U.S. aid. the RFC head calls England a good risk. The U.S. Navy reports rapid ship production.
Lord Lothian British ambassador to the United States died in Washington D C at age 58 from a uremic infection after a brief illness. He canceled a Farm Bureau appearance the night before his death but a speech he wrote urged increased U S aid for Britain. His death shocks Washington circles and removes a respected diplomatic figure who arrived in 1939.
The American Farm Bureau Federation, meeting in Baltimore, backed a loan plan to raise major crop prices above current quotes by lending at 85 percent parity, with marketing quotas and penalties for overages. President Edward A. O'Neal cited wheat at about 1.12 a bushel, cotton 15.75 a pound, and corn 81.5 cents a bushel, noting congressional revision would be needed.
A new concave screen for movie theaters promises three dimensional effects for ordinary films. In Atlanta Georgia voters forgot to vote as liquor stores opened on election day during a municipal general election with primaries noted as critical.
London England A Harrow schoolboy laughs while holding parts of a German incendiary bomb that fell on the famous school during a recent air raid. Slight damage reported to the school's museum which houses many British relics.
Life magazine notes Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice James McReynolds are expected to resign soon after the inauguration. Gossip in D.C. holds Hughes offered to quit but was urged to wait until after the campaign. Possible successors include Justice Stone or Justice Douglas, with implications for three appointments. Other names mentioned are Senator Minton, Leon Henderson, and Attorney General Jackson, with Jackson potentially boosting Francis Biddle to cabinet level.
A sprawling column surveys New York nightlife with blurbs on Victor Moore Ethel Barrymore Martha Raye Chico Marx Frankie Hyers and more. It notes playful quips from Orson Welles Doris Dudley and June Havoc a possible Dewey retirement rumor and a mix of theater, radio, and film personalities in a busy weekend milieu.
Sarasota reports that the 1941 Ringling show will be heavily redesigned by Norman Bel Geddes with lavish costumes and tent styling. critics fear a shift from traditional circus grit to a nightclub aesthetic, while diehard fans still relish the rough, impromptu charm of earlier years.
Prisoner Mrs Elizabeth Deegan a clerk in the U S embassy was seized by German secret police in Paris The granddaughter of a North Carolina senator faced charges of aiding British officers to escape occupied territory Ruth Bryan Owen married Capt Boerge Rohde in 1936 in Lewisburg West Virginia claiming citizenship for freedom Diego Rivera married to Freda Kohla his third wife Roosevelt visits Caribbean defense Martinique Antigua and the Leeward islands the Duke and Duchess of Windsor travel to Miami Donovan on an Europe bound trip misc notes about Jewish refugees a United Airlines crash and a Tenn man revealed as E B Sapp captured by fingerprints
Seven general knowledge prompts cover historic speeches geography languages and fiction. Questions ask who delivered the Cooper Union address what river is dammed in Assam Hitler's rise to dictatorship Liberia's official language the function of an anodyne the fictional figure with the Old Man of the Sea on his shoulders the extent of the Appalachian Mountains and what a yashmak is and how many South American landlocked countries exist.
The list enumerates items including Abe Lincoln as Answer 1, the Nile river as Answer 2, and a note that in March 1933 the reichstag passed an act granting Hitler absolute power. It identifies English as 4, relief of pain as 5, Sinbad as 6, a route from Quebec to Alabama as 7, a double veil worn by Mohammedan women as 8, and Bolivia and Paraguay as 9.
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