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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1939
Page
16
A Community Nutrition Service advisory urges using whole grain bread and fruit for lunches to meet a large part of a child’s daily minerals and vitamins. It offers wrapping tips, thermos use, and suggested fillings and home lunch menus with recipes and serving ideas.
British planes dropped thousands of German language leaflets over southern Jutland and northern Germany. The notes urged resistance and promised victory for England. A war ministry communique said 3.5 million copies were dispersed in the latest anti Hitler leaflet barrage.
Five German ships have taken refuge in Reykjavik harbor, a neutral port, with authorities denying that the liner Bremen has arrived. The Polish embassy said Friday the Poles held out for six days despite hindrances and German naval gunfire on the sea.
In London a wartime report notes that only 250 of the Polish defenders of Westerplatte near Danzig remained alive after the siege, marking a tragic outcome for the unit during World War II.
Tyrone Power and Madeleine Carroll arrived in Hollywood from Europe on Friday. Power went back with his French wife Annabella but she hurried to New York to fetch her parents and her daughter from a previous marriage.
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