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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1939
Page
6
The Community Nutrition Service urges that a child’s midday meals provide one third of daily food needs using whole grain bread fruit and vegetables with milk. Tips include wrapping each item, using thermoses, and suggested fillings for sandwiches. Meal ideas include Indian Pudding Daytona Pudding and Orange Nog with evaporated milk options.
Danish observers heard foreign planes, likely British, fly over southern Jutland early Friday. Leaflets in German warned that England would prevail if fought, with messages urging recipients to “Hand it on.” Ritzaus bureau reported thousands of handbills dropped on Danish soil.
Royal Air Force planes scattered 3,500,000 copies of an anti-Hitler note over northern Germany in a fourth raid. All aircraft returned safely, the ministry announced. The war office planned a six week tour by a column of armoured vehicles across a thousand miles.
Five German ships sought refuge in Reykjavik harbor, a neutral port, while authorities denied the Bremen liner had arrived. The Felish embassy reported on Friday that surrender to the Germans occurred Thursday as Polish forces, under siege on land and met by naval guns at sea, held out for six days.
Only 250 of the Polish defenders at Westerplatte fort near Danzig survived after the battle. The resistance, known as the death by own action band, held out against a larger force before fading.
Tyrone Power and Madeleine Carroll arrived in Hollywood from Europe on Friday. Power came home without his French bride Annabella who went to New York with him but hurried back to fetch her parents and her daughter from a prior marriage.
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