Nazi Troops Massed in Balkans to Aid Italy in Greece
Opinion column notes major East Asian crisis nearing a tipping point as Japanese British tensions rise. Editorial disclaimer states columnist views, not the paper’s stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balkans
Greece
Far East
Asia
Japan
Thailand
Siam
Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Dutch East Indies
Australia
Philippines
Britain
United States
U.S
U. S. Pacific
Hitler Marches Across Europe and U S Defense Plans
A long, feature-like report surveys Hitler’s expansion from Saarland to Bohemia and beyond, notes Axis moves in Asia, and recounts U S defense preparations. It covers troop deployments, plans to expand the army to over three million, new planes, and potential lend-lease actions. It also tracks Allied responses, Mexican pro-Axis activity, travel dispatches, unemployment shifts, and domestic social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Balkans
Romania
Josef Stalin
Bulgaria
Rumania
Turkey
Russia
Jugoslavia
Munich
Greece
Germany
Trailers as Temporary Housing For Defense Workers
Defense Housing Chief Charles F. Palmer proposed government purchase of thousands of mobile trailer units to rapidly house defense workers in congested industrial areas. Available production is limited to about 2,000 trailers as plants serve urgent army orders, leaving the housing needs and public health concerns acutely unresolved. Some foreign-born members occupy Congress while FBI finger printers rise in government ranks, with Willkie poised to publish a campaign memoir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Congress
Army
National Guard
Roosevelt
Charles F. Palmer
Palmer
Capitol Hill
Robert F. Wagner
New York
New Dealer
Germany
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Labor
Wales
James E. Murray
Montana
Canada
B. J. Gehrmann
Wisconsin
Leonard W. Schuetz
Illinois
Karl Stefan
Nebraska
Rudolph Tenerowicz
Michigan
Austria
Stefan
Russia
Samuel Dickstein
Herman Kopplemann
Connecticut
Samuel Weiss
Poland
Adolph Sabath
Czechoslovakia
Charles Eaton
New Jersey
Albert Rutherford
William Barry
Ireland
Frank Crowther
Robert Ramsay
West Virginia
England
Robert Crosser
Ohio
George Gillie
Indiana
Scotland
Noah Mason
Pehr Holmes
Massachusetts
Sweden
Defense
Knudsen and
Hillman
Alaska
Anthony J. Dimond
How to hook rugs with scroll patterns of the 18th century
The article explains making burlap patterns with wax crayons and heat to set designs. It describes simple flower motifs and old leaf patterns, notes scroll designs in gold outlined in brown, and provides a grid diagram method to reproduce scrolls across projects.
Sandy’s Blowing Metering a Bit Overdone
A thrift minded man from Scotland blew into a gas meter slot to save a quarter and fooled a gas inspector who noted the company owed him three dollars. The tale appears amid scattered home maker tips and household hints about cleaning, cooking, and maintaining items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
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Edward C. Wayne
Unior
Adolf Hitler
Saar
Reich
Rhineland
Munich der Fuehrer
Moravna
Bohemia
Norway
Denmark
The
Agapore
U.S. Defense
Armed Forces
Army Air Corps
Panama Canal Zone
Puerto Rico
Latin America
Mexico City
Cape of Good Hope
Philadelphia
Western Hemisphere
U. S
Mexico
Manuel Avila Camacho
Mexican Congress
Wendell L. Willkie
Harry Hopkins
Commerce
Hopkins
Willkie
Naval
Knox
Chiang Kai-shek
China
John C. Winant
C. Arrell Harriman
William T. Livingston
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Livingston
American Federation of Labor
Harry R. Bridges
West ‘Coast
I. O
George J. Searle
Des Moines
Iowa
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
London
Constance
Charleston
8. C
Ingraham
America
U. S. Army
James Mead
U. S. Capitol
Washington, D. C
Mobile Housing
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congressional Anti-Monopoly Committee
Quartermaster Corps
Wendell Willkie
Bobbs-Merrill
Ruth Wyeth
Tracy
Sandy
Spears
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford
Sunkist
Theyire Reales
Salsda
Desser
California
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