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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1940
Page
6
Daily menus for a family of five two adults and three children aim to provide a balanced diet with about 12 dollars weekly. The menus emphasize calories fats proteins minerals and vitamins to support growth energy and bodily functions.
A kitchen menu lists daily staples and costs about 1.85, noting liver’s surge in price and status as a nutrient rich meat. It cites Minot and Murphy on liver treating pernicious anemia and offers Meta Given’s tips and a rhubarb custard recipe.
Two National Credit Finance Corp officials, Robert and Paul Hackney of Minneapolis, face eight count indictments in St. Paul charging mail fraud and SEC rule violations for selling about $1,000,000 in stock to investors in Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois. The scheme spanned Mankato Rochester Duluth Virginia Willmar St. Cloud and across Wisconsin Illinois. Linus Hammond, AUSA, noted investors saw little return.
Zurich police arrested Dr Robert Tobler chief of the National Front the Swiss Nazi party on suspicion of supplying a foreign country with secret information. Several others were reported arrested as the Front had waned in influence.
Johnnie and Billie Bushy Tail plan a bird feeding station inside Uncle Whitewash’s cave. Puff Ball the polar bear boy helps by digging nuts and sourcing wood from the beaver twins Toodle and Noodle. The group discusses food for winter birds and asks for parental approval for the project.
A beaver named Toodle Flat Tail and his brother Noodle volunteer to help build a feeding station for hungry birds. The scene shows their arrival from the water through an ice hole as they pledge assistance and promise further adventures with a makeshift carrier.
In Copenhagen the Moscow radio says Soviet Russia's first women’s military brigade is training for active service against Finland. The report notes the unit’s readiness and ongoing drills as part of wartime preparations.
Finland sent a note to the League of Nations charging Soviet air forces with violating the neutrality of the Aaland islands and threatening all signatories of the 1921 Geneva convention.
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