FDR Urges Undisputed Great Circle Route Defense
In a wartime address, FDR warns Japan cannot be trusted and defense of the Great Circle route from Puget Sound to the Orient is essential. He notes no land hunger from the U.S. but insists others refrain from attacks, while admitting uncertainty about when wars in Europe or the Pacific will end. A Durham, North Carolina rock myth closes the piece.
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Puget Sound
Orient
Siberia
China
Asia
United States
Japan
Pacific
Europe
Far East
New Sun Yat-sen Stamps Arrive with 40 Cent and Dollar Values
Stamp news notes two new Sun Yat-sen issues in the United States, 40 cent and dollar denominations, plus changes to earlier Scott A57 values. The 5 dollar perforation is now rouletted and the 2 dollar is blue. Duck stamps gain attention as migratory waterfowl stamps. 1944-45 red orange shows three whitefronted geese drawn by Walter Weber.
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Sun Yat-sen
China
Sun Yat-set
Scott
Ueir
Walter Weber
Washington
United States
Pew
Post Office Department
Philatelic Agency
Nealer
Rest of My Life Story on a Widow and Family T
Marie Notmaty a striking widow lives in Weeson where her decorating shop provides income and the tale follows her interactions with Judith Lambert Irene and Matthew a lawyer and doctor. Matthew wrestles with family duties while Mary battles migraines and plans signatures for Lynn Mor's office. The narrative shifts between romance and duty as Mary contemplates her future and her son considers his own path.
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Mary
Feshtinas Laty
Matthew
Irene
Murray
Marya
Judith
Ella
Lynn
Jene
Nellie
Lang Emuget
Ign
Kate
Dock Timmons
Draft bulletin urges recognizing Merchant Marine as national defense
A Bureau of Selective Service bulletin notes a sustained shortage of licensed mariners and calls sea service closely allied to armed forces. It says men found at sea may be deemed engaged in national defense, listing required naval positions and benefits such as pay, insurance, and lodging, while urging willing volunteers amid wartime dangers.
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Bureau of Selective Service
Merchant Marine
Merchant
George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel reviewed by Nye
Russell B Nye profiles George Bancroft, born 1800 in Worcester Massachusetts, son of a rebel churchman and a dispossessed Tory mother. Nye credits Bancroft with moving prose and moral aims but notes flaws in bending facts to fit thesis and in conflating ethics with aesthetics.
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Russel B. Nye
Knopf
Michigan State College
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Emerson
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Mass
England
Washington
John Adams
United States
Mr. Nye
Polk
Navy
Frank Sinatra Returns Wednesday with Girl Singer
Frank Sinatra resumes his Wednesday night CBS series with Eileen Barton, daughter of a New York music publisher, as a potential new regular. The piece notes consumer costs for postwar TV sets and lists tonight’s radio programming across NBC CBS and other networks.
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E. Butterfield
New York
James H. Carmine
Philco
Eileen Barton
Hollywood
Frank Sinatra
CBS
NBC
Barlow
Ezio Pinza
Nelson Eddy
Jane Cowl
Bob Hawk
Lionel Barrymore
Edward Everett Horton
Horace Heidt
Eadie Oliver
French Marquis Clash Signals Wider Fronts and Bombardment
Heavy explosions near Biarritz and Bayonne shook the border area as French troops clashed with officers and regular army groups and SS units. Officials say Germans were destroying equipment rather than attempting to move it. French reports claim Allied bombers struck the Bordeaux submarine base, with several submarines said to be readying to depart, as raiders caught German forces off guard. More than 1,000 asteroids orbit the sun.
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Biarritz
Bayonne
Spain
Bordeaux
Light hearted Washington column and naval cookery note
A breezy column reviews the mood after D-Day and a humorous overseas husband tale about a Marine awaiting news of a child. It also praises Ward Greene’s What They Don’t Know as hopeful fiction and notes British reactions to American wartime sentiment. It ends with a quirky mention of a Royal Navy cookery book adopted for sea cooks aboard patrol fleets.
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Washington
Marie
South Seas
You
Ward Greene
Greene
C. V. R. Thompsson
London Daily Express
Thompson
D-Day
Helen Essary
Times-Herald
the Express
Frien
Lowestoft
Royal Naval
Big NYC area fires injure many and damage parks
More than 100 people and 126 others including firemen and coast guardsmen and Red Cross workers were treated after weekend fires. Wildwood wiped out a block along the boardwalk with $250000 in losses and ten injured, Luna Park at Coney Island damaged with losses up to $500000, while 75 to 109 cars were damaged in Palisades parking lot. Gas tank explosions caused terror, and witnesses blamed a short circuit under the Virginia reel ride loaded with children.
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Coast
Red Cross
New York City
New Jersey
Wildwood
Luna Park
Coney Island
New York
Palisades
Coal Formation From Vegetable Matter
The article explains coal forms through decomposition of plant material under moist conditions often with added heat and pressure. It notes that moisture heat and pressure drive transformation from vegetation to coal over geological time.
Congress Debates Demobilization and Unemployment Bill Clash
Lawmakers push to fast track demobilization legislation tied to unemployment benefits as House and Senate committees weigh the George measure. Debate centers on demobilization language, timing, and which chamber handles the plan, with hearings and potential passage looming. Homing pigeons referenced in WWI context.
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Rep
Cooper
D.tenn
Senate
George
D-Ga
House
Doughton
Ways and ‘Means
Salads From Garden Endive in Fall Planting Plan
Dean Halliday explains adding endive to fall salad greens to prevent monotony. Endive is rich in vitamins A B1 B2 and C and should be blanched to become white and crisp as heads mature. Tie the plant with string to blanch and keep outer leaves intact while drying to avoid rot.
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Dean Halliday
Central Press Association
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