Red Cross Volunteer Work Established in New Quarters
Missing fishing boat Hollywood with Capt Pete Roey and seven crew members disappeared in Johnson Straits southeast of Ketchikan Alaska on the night of June 15 Coast Guard report.
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Red Cross
Ketchikan
Alaska
Hollywood
Pete Roey
Johnson Straits
Here
United States Coast Guard
Walter Butterfield
Helen Hubbard
Fred H. Niemeier
Y.M.C.A
C. S. Krause
Ee Ee A Erskine
David F. van de Roovaart
Staff Assistance Corps
New Red Cross
Wak
van Hades
Ralph Sanders
T. R. Warriner
John Harti
Jack Benny Waxes Too Realistic on Dream Injury
Comedian Jack Benny nursed a disabled knee after he fumbled an axe in a dream sequence while filming George Washington Slept Here He dreamed of chopping the cherry tree when he cracked his knee with the blunt side of the axe The physician said a contusion of a nerve occurred but the injury was not serious.
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Hollywood
Jack Benny
Benny
George Washington
U S
Beef Blood Transfusions Tested On Prisoners
Harvard Medical School scientists have injected beef plasma into 2,690 Massachusetts prisoners with favorable reactions in all but seven. If proven safe, beef blood plasma could substitute for human blood in transfusions to save wounded soldiers and plans were reported to create beef blood receiving stations.
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Boston
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts
Triplets Die In Rawlins Wyoming Tragedy
Rawlins Wyoming witnesses report the death of three infants in a single incident. Authorities provide scarce details while confirming the case as a fatal accident with ongoing investigation and no immediate suspects named.
Suner Trip Called Purely Private Visit to Rome
Spanish Minister Ramon Serrano Suner’s Rome trip described as purely private by the official news agency on Saturday, with no public engagements indicated during the stay in the Italian capital.
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Suner
Madrid
INS
Ramon Serrano Suner
Rome
C R Composers to Present Song at Rotary Luncheon
C R Composers Mary Jeanne Palmer and Margaret Ann Twogood will perform the ballad My Heart Went With You at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. Palmer sings the words while Twogood plays piano. they are joined by Shirley Mead and David Ring in a 30 minute program.
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Mary Jeanne Palmer
Margaret Ann Twogood
Rotary Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Miss Palmer
Miss Twogood
Shirley Mead
David Ring
L. J. Twogood
Ucca
Kangaroo Invasion Threatens Gippsland Farms
Australian farmers east of Melbourne appeal to the government for aid against a dense kangaroo invasion that is seen as regiments in fields. They report thousands of kangaroos at dawn destroying acres of crops and call for permission to destroy the pests to save farms.
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Melbourne
Australia
Gippsland
Quartet Fired for Fomenting Strike in Detroit
Richard T. Frankensteen of the United Automobile Workers said four Hudson naval ordnance plant employees were discharged for fomenting an unauthorized stoppage of war production Thursday. He noted navy support and union backing for the action.
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Detroit
Richard T. Frankensteen
United Automobile Workers
CSO
Hudson Naval Ordnance Plant
Frankensteen
Navy
16 Playgrounds To Hit Activity Peak This Week
Judd Dean recreation superintendent announced that 16 municipal playgrounds will reach peak activity this week. The program includes events at Bever Lincoln Harrison Reed Kenwood Arthur Bever and other sites with dog shows, parades, picnics, doll parades and softball games. Attendance last week totaled 20 858 with a daily average of 5214 as weather improved.
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Judd Dean
Ieanls
Dean
Kenwood
Armas
Bever
Whitlam
Harrison
Lincoln
Reed
Arthur
Arthurfield
Ming
Ellis Park
Army bomber crashes near Springfield airport in takeoff
An army bomber crashed into a rail road embankment and burst into flames after one engine failed during takeoff from Springfield airport. Six crew members escaped without serious injuries.
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Springfield, Ill
Ins
Springfield
North Dakota Tuberculosis Death Rate 1939
The tuberculosis death rate in North Dakota stood at 20.2 per 100 000 population in 1939.
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North Dakota
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Wee Panek
Linn County
First Avenue
Fifth Street
Federal
Carr B. LaVelle
Philip W. Shive
Lee Hiltbrunner
Ross E. Grange
Rawlins, Wyo
C. R
Rotary
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Young Men's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Reddy Kilowatt
OWA Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa
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