Art project brings WPA art to Big Stone Gap visitors
In Appalachia a WPA art center here opened to bring painting and crafts to a 300 mile remote area. Since 1936 attendance grew from 12 745 to 30 818 in 1939 while daily class and exhibition attendance average about 100 and 30 respectively. Adults and children participate. the oldest student is 62 and the youngest five. Twenty portraits of local judges and clerks hang in courthouses. weaving, handicrafts, woodworking, and model building are taught alongside painting.
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Big Stone Gap
Appalachia Mountains
WPA
Bus
Ept Ding
Io-1 I
Americans By John Grover On Education In 1940
The piece notes a transformed American school system as 30,135,000 students return to classrooms in 1940. Vocational education expands under the national defense program with 1,200 schools set to train up to 1,000,000 high school pupils and 2,200,000 older workers. Female teachers outnumber males by over three to one, and enrollment has risen from 6.9 million in 1870 to 30.1 million today. Strong emphasis on Americanism grows amid war and global tensions shaping curricula.
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John Grover
Weiler
Washington
Grandpop
Uns
Europe
John W. Studebaker
U.S
Gaul
Night London Bombardment Deepens WWII Pressure
Berlin reports a night raid on London lasting over six and a half hours with German bombers and British defenses clashing. Air Ministry says at least jazi planes shot down and British planes missing amid destruction of apartments, an electrical factory, and other city buildings. In a year of war, German sources claim 5 million bombs dropped and 4,960,860 tons of shipping sunk or damaged, with 39,000 dead and 24,000 missing.
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Sit Ss
Raf
Berlin
Londort
Air Ministry
Bor
London
Natl
Corcoran Cohen Faction Split Over Draft Strategy At Convention
At Chicago convention the Corcoran Cohen group clashed with Hopkins driven draft efforts. Hopkins favored a sweeping victory and party harmony through compromise with conservatives. Vo McNutt resisted Hopkins in campaign matters, creating cabinet tensions and signaling a possible exit from the campaign.
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Gorana Cohen
Corcorana Cohen Crowl
Hopkins
FDR
Corcoran-Cohen
Paul Vo McNutt
Zald
Hilmin
Ga Ag
Congress
Senate
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Wilkie
Third Uckel
Ambulances Pouring From Detroit for Britain Aid Effort
British bound ambulances are rolling from a Detroit factory at over two daily. Ruxton and a large donor network fund the British-American Ambulance Corps to supply 1350 dollar ambulances, 1059 for the vehicle and 300 for aftercare, with first 100 for the British Red Cross.
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Norman Kahl
NEA Service
Detroit
New York
William W. C. Ruxton
New York Stock Exchange
British Isles
Ruxton
Tate
Tolay
Terrell van Ingen
Greenwich
Iielf
England
British Red Cross
Mechanized Transport Corps of
Great Britain
Man Defeats Nature at Yellowstone geyser balance
Yellowstone reports naturalist George Marler studied geyser Daisy overflowing in Briliant pool. After raising the pool level two inches with a dike, Daisy erupted higher, suggesting underground water channels were unbalanced and restored by the added pressure.
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Yellowstone National Park
George Marler
Daisy
Marler
Mind Your Manners 7 ML REG U 5 Bat Off
A reader asks about etiquette for engagements and weddings. Answers: avoid engraved announcements unless couple agrees. announce only if they want it. be pleased when told. if unsure about the ring, discuss openly. a man should learn preferred settings or include her. as a bride to be, offer guidance on flowers if asked, otherwise defer.
Island Study by Los Angeles Museum Crew
Los Angeles county museum expedition seeks data on the tiny Anacapa Island off California. The national monument since 1938 is noted for unusual plant and animal life. London subway transports carry nearly 2,000,000 passengers daily in normal times.
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Los Angeles
Anacapa Island
California
Los Angeles County
London
Decline in German studies amid World War disfavor
The piece notes that in 1935 one quarter studied German, but now under 2 percent pursue it. Job-oriented subjects surge as interpreters warn pressure toward practical study. High school enrollment hovers around 7.16 million, while college attendance rises to about 1.425 million as birth rates, while dipping, are projected to rebound by 1942.
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U. S
Texas Ordination a Family Affair
Three generations participated in a family ordination at Zion Lutheran Houston Texas. H F Anders Jr was ordained with his father conducting the ceremony and grandfather Rev Teo Anders assisting. His brother Rev Willard Anders preached the sermon highlighting a family milestone in ministry.
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Houston
Texas
H. F. Anders, Jr
Zion Lutheran Church
Teo Anders
Anders’ Broter
Willard Anders
Hopkins Resignation Stirs New Deal Circles
Bruce Catton reports that within the Roosevelt circle Hopkins abruptly resigns from the cabinet. The move splits loyalties among New Dealers, with a widening gap between Hopkins and the Corcoran Cohen group as Roosevelt’s personal ties edge toward distance.
Discovery of 4 Turkish bath pits at Navajo site
Miss Marie Wormington of the Colorado Museum of Natural History reports four Turkish bath like pits at a Navajo site near Cisco Utah. A 40 foot diameter room held 14 lava pits with scattered pottery pieces used as game pieces by the Alvajos.
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Grand Junction
Colu—Pih
Marie Walmington
Colorado Museum of Natural History
Cisco
Utah
Way Out Wast in Kansas Theater Pazzo Pocketed Pistol
An elderly couple returning to their seats in Topeka theater noticed a youth dropping a pistol in the aisle. The young man pocketed the weapon and hurried away, leaving staff to secure the area and inspect the scene for safety.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kans
Nda
Coincidence Brings Two Akron Workers Together on Vacation
In Winchester Virginia Bert Cochran and W A Leslie, longtime rubber company colleagues from Akron Ohio, ran into each other while both on vacation. Neither knew the other planned travel, revealing a curious coincidence after 25 years in the same division. The Yenisei river is noted as the world’s fourth longest in a separate casual fact.
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Winchester
Bert Cochran
W. A. Leslie
Akron Ohio
Cochran
Leslie
Yenisei
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