Ingenious refugee money smuggling across Europe
A detailed account of refugees moving money and jewels from Nazi territories. Methods include hidden cargo in vegetables, bread, fruit, beer bottles, pen tubes, and inside sausages. Tales describe snowball transfers across borders, coins in carrots, and a Milan banker who evades racial laws by convincing police to help him place funds in Lugano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Rumania
Bugaria
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Slovakia
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Alsace
France
Thse
Vienna
Munich
Paris
Berlin
Frankfort
Giordani Giordano
Milan
Lugano
Switzerland
An Interesting Town Clovelly on a North Devon Cliff
A Los Angeles Times correspondent describes Clovelly as a steep coastal town with no wheeled traffic. Provisions and baggage move on sledges and donkeys carry people who venture the slope. Houses vary in stone construction brought up from the beach by ancestral inhabitants.
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Clovelly
North
Devonshire
Crovelly
Los Angeles Times
Vegetarian car invented by Japanese inventor Matsumoto
Akishige Matsumoto claims to have built a vegetarian automobile that runs on botanic fuel. He says the car grazes on fruits and vegetables and digests wood chips, and it could travel across open country faster than a donkey. A copper map of the Dominion of Canada decorates the Canadian pavilion at New York. Some writer describes youths absorbed in amusements as fluffy minded, a not wholly bad term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akishige Matsumoto
Matsumoto
Dominion of Canada
New York
London
Zola
Alexander Pope
China
Glad- Stone
Leeds
Dr. Lu
Great Britain
Macao
South China
Christie's
Staffordshire
Bow
Chelsea
Derby
Royal Worcester
Coalport
Spode
Dresden
Ellen Douglass
Moon Phases Cut Trout Catches in August Peak
A Cornell study of 27 000 rainbow trout from 1932 to 1936 finds fewer fish caught after full moons. The strongest drop occurs during August full moon periods on the 1000 acre Canadian lake. Average August catches were six fish per day, two per man, dropping to four per day during August moons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Motley
Cornell University Department of
Prestige of Speed lifts British air travel on European routes
The London Times notes Britain will have the fastest aircraft on Paris Berlin and Budapest routes, with five, fifteen and fifty five minute improvements. The Ottawa Journal says air prestige drives policy, as subsidies rise and self sufficiency is relaxed to speed up passenger service.
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London Times
Paris
Berlin
Frankfurt
Budapest
Times
Great Britain
Britain
the Times
Europe
Ottawa Journal
Moon Mountains Stand Taller Relative to Surrounding Plains
The article notes lunar peaks reach about 19 000 feet above the Moon’s plains, appearing loftier than Earth mountains since Earth ranges sit in regions already one mile or more above sea level.
Smallpox Treatment Shows Sulfanilamide Benefit
Dr. Walter O. McCammon of Springfield Kentucky reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that four patients treated with sulfanilamide showed rapid fever subsidence and minimal to no pock marks. Three control patients on orthodox therapy developed the usual eruption and longer absence from work. The drug derives from a dye with prior infection-fighting value since 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tion
Walter O. McCammon
Springfield
Long-term Optimism Prompts Industry Prosperity Outlook
William Will, former Allied Newspapers director, predicts rapid industrial growth and a unprecedented prosperity once Europe settles from current bomb and bombast issues. He highlights England’s Forestry Commission as the nation’s largest landowner with 516 390 acres of forested land. A new coin in a slot machine monetizes travel accident insurance policies.
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William Will
Allied Newspapers
Europe
England
Forestry Commission
Pattern 6346 Embroidered Kitty Panel Transfer
Pattern 6346 offers a 15 by 20 inch panel transfer with color chart and stitch illustrations. To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in coin to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houehold Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Special Practice For Landing On A Carrier Deck
A report from the Courageous in the Firth of Forth describes pilots undergoing eight consecutive landings on Fairey Swordfish aircraft. The process uses arrester wires, deck signals, and a rear hook to catch a wire, with crash safety boats nearby as the destroyer trails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firth of Forth
TSR
Manchester Guardian
End of Glass Flower Legacy at Harvard Museum
Rudolf Blaschka died at 82 in Hosterwitz Germany ending the secret craft shared with his father. The Blaschkas created 40 species of glass flowers and 3 500 sections supplying Harvard since 1887, viewed by 250 000 annually, and did all the work themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard University
Rudoph Blaschka
Hosterwitz
Germany
Harvard
One Name For All An Inconsistent Police Dog Debate
Our Dumb Animals argues that any dog trained for police work becomes a police dog. It notes German shepherds dominate police roles, while Labradors outperform in tests, and warns Black German shepherds are sometimes misnamed Belgian sheep dogs, a breed rarely seen here.
Young British conscripts to join anti-aircraft service
Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha announced in the House of Commons that young conscripts will be attached to anti-aircraft defences in batches of 22 000. For three months they will be stationed permanently at posts along the defence lines. A Chicago inventor has created a lure designed to attract large fish by depicting a larger fish swallowing a smaller one. Fisheries on the bleak North Atlantic coast aided North American colonization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Chicago
Mice Age Rapidly Compared To Humans
An article notes mice age quickly with a two year old mouse resembling a seventy year old human. It discusses accelerated life history and implications for biology. Researchers examine metabolic rates and genetic factors driving rapid aging in mice.
Seaman Fined for Carrying Indian Hemp into Scotland
Hans Laumann, a seaman, was fined $20 in Dundee after pleading ignorance of the substance he carried. He attempted to bring one ounce of Indian hemp into Scotland and testified he did not know what the hemp really was. A witness said a minute quantity in a cigarette could render a man unfit for days.
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Scotland
Hans Laumann
Dundee
Laumann
Veteran postwoman Tramps Nine Miles to Deliver Mail
Miss Fanny King of Edge Gloucestershire at 65 remains one of England's few post women. She tramps nine miles every morning to deliver mail to isolated farmsteads and has performed this task for 20 years.
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England
Fanny King
Edge
Gloucestershire
Wood Buffalo and Silkworms Mentioned in Park Note
In Canada’s Wood Buffalo Park 1 500 wood buffaloes remain the last of their race. A fragment notes that 18 000 000 people rely on the silkworm for livelihood in Japan.
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Canada
Japan
Spontaneous Singing Boosts Family Harmony Doctor Says
Dr Miles Dresskell of Columbia Teachers College endorses spontaneous bursts of song around the home. He notes singing brings emotional outlet and increased kindness within the family, but warns against forced singing as it robs the activity of its charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles Dresskell
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Florida fruit juice bar touts orange output and talking birds
The State of Florida showcases a juice bar aiming to squeeze 287000 oranges daily and 64660000 before the New York Fair ends. Fifteen trained birds including macaws cockatoos and parrots perch on the patio and chant Come to Florida with Southern accents.
Clever crow Jacky learns tricks from Burridge owner
A talking crow named Jacky, owned by Mrs. C. H. Bulbeck of Burridge England, was taught to shake hands fetch a paper ball open a cracker can extract one for visitors and pull clothespins from a wash line on wash days.
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Jacky
C. H. Bulbeck
Burridge
England
Congregation of 15 Families Attends Fenwick Presbyterian
A small Ontario congregation of 15 families, with an average age of 65 years, attends the Presbyterian church at Fenwick.
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Presbyterian Church
Fenwick, Ont
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M. Giordano
Adolf
Adolf Hitler
Journal of the American Medical Associa
Artists
Glass
Heid
North Atlantic
North America
Postie
Florida
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