Visual Education Films Bring Iowa Campus Life To Alumni
The University of Iowa visual education department heads a film series for alumni featuring The Adventures of Bunny Rabbit and Electrostatics. The program, led by Lee Cochran, uses 500 silent reels and 250 sound rolls to teach children about rabbits, colloids, six man football, police tactics, and campus life while showcasing university events in color since 1934.
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Hollywood
University of Iowa
Bunny Rabbit
University Extension Division
Visual Education Department
Lee Cochran
Berkeley
Los Angeles
New York City
Washington
D. C
Iowa
Visual
Town City
State Department Forms Unit to Aid Citizens Abroad
The State Department announced a special division to handle repatriation issues for Americans in Europe. Breckenridge Long will lead, with Hugh R. Wilson assisting. George L. Brandt and other foreign service officers also join. The unit will also address affairs of other governments when diplomatic relations are disrupted.
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Washington
Department of State
Europe
Breckenridge Long
Italy
Hugh R. Wilson
Germany
George L. Brandt
Foreign Service
Dictatorship in Wartime Planned for U S Mobilization
A detailed forecast in Cherne's book outlines wartime plans where government controls on wages prices and rents expand, civilian movement is restricted, essential labor shifts to war work, and transport and utilities are rationed to support sustained mobilization. It argues such measures could come into effect after a future conflict.
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New York
United States
Army
Navy
Leo M. Cherne
Tax Research Institute of America, Inc
Washington
War Resources Board
Congress
Mr. Cherne
Johnson
Cherne
Plans for the next war draft propose two enlistment windows
The article explains a two month voluntary enlistment period before a draft, with first call for ages 21 to 31 and a larger second group 31 to 45. It describes deferments for essential workers and other categories, using a lottery system and local boards to assign work and wages. It warns that without neutral peace the economy suffers and pressures to repeal neutrality acts may grow.
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United States
America
Mr. Cherne
Nazi Citizens Show No Wish For New War
Germans in Berlin on Saturday showed grave calm and apathy as Poland faced invasion. Cafes and restaurants were quiet, people spoke in whispers, and few soldiers were in uniform amid a general blackout and fear of a wider European conflict.
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Berlin
Poland
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
It Happened Last Week On the European War Scene
A condensed survey of European developments last week led by Germanys eastward advance and Polish resistance. Britain and France mobilize defenses, while Italy hedges neutrality. Roosevelt keeps America out of war as global tensions rise and industrial mobilization accelerates.
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Europe
Poland
Germany
Great Britain
France
Hitler
Nazifuehrer
Danzig
Britain
Warsaw
Hermann Goering
Rudolph Hess
Reich
Gdynia
Chamberlain
Berlin
Daladier
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
Italy
America
Roosevelt
United States
Congress
Marriages Boom As War Calls British Grooms
London reports a surge of marriage notices as war looms with hundreds of couples queuing at registry offices. Most grooms are young men called to serve, creating a rapid wartime marriage rush.
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London
Pershing Hints At Comment On European War Possibility
Washington AP reports General John J. Pershing, head of U S forces in World War I, may comment on the European situation if a general war develops.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Martha Trewin Receives Private Pilot's License
Miss Martha Trewin daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold R Trewin 1950 Fourth avenue SE Cedar Rapids has been awarded her private pilot's license after an exam by Lester C Orcutt civil aeronautics inspector at Cedar Rapids airport Graduated University of Arizona started flying last February in Tuscon Arizona where she earned student pilot and solo cross country licenses Her license authorizes flying with a passenger anywhere in the country and landing at any airport Others passing tests include Don Bush Dubuque Harlan Sober Vernon Spier Cedar Falls John Piper Iowa City John Zlatoklavek and Ralph Reed among others
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Martha Trewin
Harold R. Trewin
Fourth Avenue SE
Lester C. Orcutt
Cedar Rapids
Trewin
University of Arezona
Tuscon
Ariz
Don Bush
Dubuque
Harlan Sober
Bever Avenue SE
E. E. Rennekamp
First Avenue E
Larry Brumley
Iowa City
Vernon Spier
Cedar Falls
John Piper
John Zlatoklavek
C Street
Ralph Reed
Independence
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Lee W. Cochran
Department of Visual Instruction
State Department
Good Housekeeping
The
Killian Company
Bob Estabrook
Spain
Russia
Belgium
Netherlands
Switzerland
Slovakia
Romania
Turkey
Near East
Syria
Iraq
Greece
Suez
North Sea
Haly
Far East
Gibraltar
Ukraine
Japan
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Nobuyuki Abe
China
Manchukuo
Louis Johnson
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Panama Canal
Pat Pourri
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Richard Leche
Louisiana
Grand Army of the Republic
New York Giants
Chicago
A. F. of L.cio
International Typographical Union
A. F of L
CIO
Harry Achey
Clyde Hoover
Lisbon
Billy Kesler
Second Fleet
Killian
Leymnant
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