Parisians Get First War Shoes Repairs After 1940
About twenty five thousand Parisians, in worn and torn footwear since the war, are receiving their first half soles and new heels since 1940 through a Salvation Army shoe repair project. The Army sent 500 repair kits to France, each kit fixing up to 60 pairs, including leather soles, heels, patching materials, a hammer and knife. Paris cobblers volunteer to help in the Armee du Salut welfare effort, serving long lines of French men, women and children seeking free repairs as shortages and high prices persist for new shoes.
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Paris
Salvation Army
France
French Salvation Army
Armee du Salut
State-Owned Farms Aid Food Shortage By Boosting Output
Springfield Ills public safety department operates four farms covering 7928 acres across three penitentiaries and Vandalia state farm. Under Gov Green orders the farms cultivate all available land to relieve food shortages. Main aim is occupational therapy for inmates to learn trades for post release employment.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Department of Public Safety
T. P. Sullivan
State Penitentiary
Vandalia
Dwight H. Green
Sullivan
Radar Gear Used In Ocean Oil Quest
New York report says radar will help scientists locate ocean bottom oil under 2000 square miles of water near the northwestern Bahamas. Work begins immediately with the 112 foot ship Standar serving as mother ship off Nassau. The vessel, formerly a Canadian navy anti-submarine ship, carries the diving chamber crew.
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New York
Bahamas Islands
Nassau
Standa
Absence of Stomach Proves No Handicap
Boston reports eighty nine people lack a stomach yet remain well and happy. Doctor Frank Lahey notes removal of stomachs eliminates cancer and malignant growths with a loop of intestine used as substitute. One man has lived nine years stomachless.
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Boston
Frank Lahey
The
Lahey Clinic
Lahey
Aviation training programs accelerate at colleges nationwide
The Board of Regents backs a two year aero nautics program at a Syracuse technical institute. Cornell takes over Curtiss Wright lab in Buffalo for cooperative research. Illinois U and Northwestern plan aviation courses and institutes. Texas adds airport management and air transport courses. Guggenheim School offers applied aerodynamics at NYU. Town Wesleyan adds aviation department with 16 courses. A disabled man, Caster Sikorski of Polonia Wisconsin, earns a private pilot license with hand controls at Stevens Point airport. United States travel fellowships proposed to fund teacher study and travel abroad and for foreign teachers to visit the U S.
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Technical Institute of Aeronautics
Syracuse
N. Y
Cornell University
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Buffalo
Illinois U
University of Texas
Northwestern University
Institute of Aeronautics
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics
New York University
Town Wesleyan College
Caster J. Sikorski
Polonia
Wis
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Sikorski
Stevens Point
United States International Airlines
J. Parker van Zandt
Brookings Institution
U. S
Peace Talks at Luxembourg Palace Echo Old Dilemmas
In the Luxembourg palace gallery Jimmy Byrnes sits through hours of translations as Evatt of Australia challenges the big powers. Attlee negotiates, while the crowd of reporters, diplomats, and officials gaze on. The piece contrasts the passion of leaders with the bored detachment of the room as postwar peace is bartered amid fears of new wars.
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Paris
Palace of
Luxembourg
Baluchistan
Iceland
Saskatchewan
Samoa
Jimmy Byrnes
Vienna
Europe
Jimmy
United States
Senate
The
de Medicis
Ogden Mills
Jimmie Byrnes
Evatt
Australia
Death anniversary honors Maj. Richard Bong ace of aces
On the first anniversary of Maj. Richard S. Bong of Poplar Wisconsin the Bong Memorial Foundation reveals new facts about the shy war hero who shot down 40 Japanese planes He refused limelight praised his crew and parents as true heroes He planned a teaching career and became an ace after joining the army in 1941 He flew long flights and credited with eye sharpness that helped him locate enemy planes Bong set records in the Pacific and Europe before being killed in a test flight on August 6 1945 His memory is kept alive by scholarships and a shrine planned at Poplar.
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Maj
Richard S. Bong
Poplar
Wis
America
Memorial Foundation
Wisconsin
Bong
Superior State Teachers College
Superior
Luke Field
Pacific Theater
Pacific
Eddie Rickenbacker
General MacArthur
New Guinea
Markham Valley
Rickenbacker
United States
Little Country
Dick Bong
Major Bong
Popar
Richard I. Bong
Texans to walk themselves to death warn safety group
About 360 Texans are expected to be killed by pedestrians this year. Most victims will walk with traffic and step from behind parked cars. Others die at intersections or crossing diagonally. Fatalities rise near sunset with peak hours 7 to 8 p m in summer. Weekend tolls make up about ten per cent of deaths in the first half of the year.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Safety Association
Association
Fristitene Ap
Quiz Questions From a Vintage Paper Roundup
A reader submits a set of trivia items: who divided the hour into 60 minutes and the minutes into 60 seconds, what percentage of wartime army officers rose from the ranks, whether an elephant lies down when sleeping, the donor of the Nobel prize and his fortune, which state allows the lowest marriageable age for a girl with parental consent, and where a world’s fair is planned for 1951.
Answers test questions and wartime context
The excerpt lists multiple choice items and answers ranging from ancient history to a wartime London demonstration. It notes The Chaldeans circa 4000 B C, computes 61 percent of 872000 as 531000, asserts elephants do not sleep kneeling, identifies dynamite, cites New Hampshire at 13 years, and locates a London demonstration as postwar recovery proof.
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B. C
New Hampshire
London
Britain
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