Canada Annexation Petitions Reach Canadian House
Residents of Estcourt Maine on the US Canada border urge annexation to Quebec. The isolated five square mile settlement, with a French Canadian heritage, would gain access to Canadian schools and taxes, but annexation requires an international treaty and US approval. Officials note no US municipal framework exists and many residents would need to relocate to Canada.
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Britain Eyes Early Pact on Sinking Incidents
Britain and Italy move toward ratifying a mutual pact soon after foreign fighters withdraw from Spain, aiming to settle the Spanish war as a condition. Valencia reports two British freighters sunk and more ships attacked, with casualties and a British destroyer removing stranded sailors.
Price Cutting Barber Is Ordered Released
W L Tennyson of Cushing Oklahoma, jailed after four refusals to charge at least 40 cents for haircuts, won a minor victory as the Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered his release on a $100 bond pending a habeas corpus appeal. Hearing set for June 27. he previously refused to pay the fine or post the $250 bond required to enforce the barbers' price code.
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Peep Show in College Crypt Aids Future Diggers
In Atlanta Georgia an adapted penny peep show and phonograph may guide 8113 A D archaeologists decipher 20th century culture. T. K. Peters and Dr. Thornwell Jacobs plan a language integrator for Oglethorpe University crypt of civilization, to be opened by inhabitants in 6,175 years. The device will audio label objects with synchronized pictures and English names, starting with the alphabet.
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Federal Agencies Plan Expanded Drive on Farm Tenancy
Federal lending agencies announce a yearlong effort to combat farm tenancy as 3,000,000 tenants remain landless. The Farm Security Administration will use a $25,000,000 appropriation to provide long term low interest loans to about 5,000 tenants, with no down payment required. The Farm Credit Administration aims to grant about 2,600 monthly farm purchase loans, aided by continued low interest rates. Loans require 125 percent of purchase price for borrowers. FSA loans cover 433 counties this year and will extend to 367 more counties next year. Tenant applications exceed 40,000 and must be approved by local farmer committees.
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Bretons Greet Court With Nazi Salutes
Seven Breton autonomists appeared in Rennes for defiling public monuments, answering in Breton and refusing to speak French. They stand accused of painting swastikas and pro independence inscriptions on statutes and buildings across Brittany, amid charges Breton leaders are aided by foreign powers.
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Work Reduced 20-Fold Since 1838 on Farms
Washington report notes mechanization cuts labor per acre dramatically. Bureau engineers say modern power machinery replaces horses and mules, enabling a farmer to grow 100 acres of corn with the labor once needed for five acres in 1833. Press cites hours per acre dropping from 33.8 in 1855 to 5-6 today, with tractors and four row planters expanding efficiency. Cotton fields edge toward half labor with commercial mechanical pickers anticipated.
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Believe Final Wreck Toll Will Go to 46
Milwaukee railroad officials said the Olympian crash toll would reach 46 as 35 of 38 recovered bodies were identified and four more names added to the missing list. A 100 worker crew toiled in wreckage of sleeper B after it plunged into Custer Creek during a flash flood, with three bodies removed and ten recovered today. Randolph Perkins, 17, of Washington, D. C., son of Milo Perkins, was named among the identified dead.
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Mayflower replica planned for Plymouth Harbor
Plymouth historic society seeks funds to build a sea worthy replica of the Mayflower to sit near its original docking site. The modeled craft will use an authentic design from Pilgrim Hall and aim to educate visitors about the Pilgrims voyage and spirit.
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Pretty Girls Sell Tickets Faster For Air Travel
ST PAUL Minn June 21 Airplane tickets sell faster if the seller is a pretty girl Speed and low fares are part of the formula but the third ingredient pretty girls with a smile in their voice made it click Leslie B Farrington general traffic manager for Northwest Airlines started it Now he is enthusiastic about it Make no mistake he says this plan of using girls in the ticket offices is not an outgrowth of hostess service The girls are young businesswomen trained especially for the work They were not hired to keep passengers happy but to sell tickets Last fall several comely girls were put behind the ticket counter in Northwest s Chicago office They produced Now as fast as girls can be trained here it takes six to eight weeks they are being sent to other ticket offices Farrington says a new profession for women is being opened up I estimate 85 per cent of our selling will be done by our women traffic representatives over the counter and by telephone As for the future it s unlimited as far as the girls are concerned They are breaking into a new field for women and that means endless possibilities as the system expands Male traffic representatives say men clients delight in being served by an attractive efficient girl Women find it reassuring to talk to members of their own sex about flying And to top it off the girls have shown they can handle obstreperous customers with finesse Different types are chosen for various sections It take one type of girl Farrington says to handle a metropolitan office and quite another to work in smaller cities and vacation areas while in the west the young women selected for selling jobs are athletic outdoor types
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Northwest Airlines
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Knox in Blast At Propaganda at White House
Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee in 1946, told national editors that a propaganda machine in the United States mirrors European tactics. He warned press muzzling must be challenged and that agencies in all 48 states spread the movement, with taxes and investigations used against critics. He cited a 1913 law on public funds and urged the president to set an example by obeying the law.
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Vision Lottery Proposed to Aid Cleveland Needy
Cleveland councilmen proposed a 5 million dollar vision lottery to fund food and clothing relief. About 200 pickets gathered at a relief office crying for food and rent as banks debated buying 340 thousand dollars of 1939 tax notes to finance relief. Novak called the plan a way to skirt legal hurdles while Taylor backed selling tickets at one dollar each with 15 percent of gross as cash prizes.
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Clark L. Mack
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Ontario Leads Dominion Leather Tannery Output
Ontario accounts for 68 percent of the Dominion of Canada’s leather tanning production, signaling the province’s dominance in the industry.
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