Oil Trade Web Ties Japan to Dutch East Indies
A tangled postwar oil deal links Japan with Dutch East Indies producers and shells through Standard and Shell affiliates. Through cross ownership and distributors, Dutch East Indies oil reaches Japanese markets despite embargo tensions. The setup spans Batavia, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java with multiple interlinked companies.
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Ign
Kenkichi Yoshizais
Batavia
Indies
Germany
Alane
Teibuting
Tastice
dJapaniese
Americahvoritrols
Koloniste Standard-Vacuum
Bataaishke
Shell
Borneo
Sumatra
Java
Rising Suh Oil Company
Shelf
Standard-Vacuuum Company
Japan
Standard- Vacuum
Standard Oil
Socony
Vacuum
Standard Gil
Standard
Dutch East Indies
Ja- Pi
Bataafshke
Dutch Shell
Rising Sun Petroleum Co
Shell Oil Products
Yokohama
California
Yokodese
Palembang
Yerger to Play Negro All Stars Benefit Game at Yerger Park
The Hope Negro all stars will meet the Yerger Tigers in a benefit football contest at Yerger park Thursday at 2 15 pm. Admission is 3 and 10 cents with proceeds going to the Tigers and related community causes.
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Negro All-Stars of Hope
Yerger Tigers
Yerger Park
Tiger
Sweater Fond All Stars Team Lineup Recalled
The lineup lists players with positions and weights including Nelson 173 Yerger sprinting, Dunlap 155 guard, Cooper 171 end, Smith 155 tackle, Piggee 150 guard, Walker 180 tackle, Gilmore 170 center, Shaw 170 Johnson, Austin 160 McFaddin 189 Walker 179 Carrigan 173 Carson 135 Pondexter 157 Hawthorne 160 Grady 175 Green 192 Haney 150 fullback.
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Yerger
B. Dunlap
Astthimratee T. Cooper
Smith
A. J. Piggee
Walker
Johnson
Austin
McFaddin
Carrigan
Carson
Pondexter
Hawthorne
Grady
Bags Green
Haney
War Efforts Knit Bermuda Closer To Empire
Bermuda tightens bonds with Britain as 12 local fund groups raise money, government pledges 540000 pounds in wartime aid, and 1000 volunteers defend the colony. The Bermuda Flying School has sent 10 pilots to England, while U S bases, censorship shifts, and a wary economy shape daily life.
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Bermuda
Empire
Bermuda War Fund
Volunteer Rifle Corps
Military Artillery
Bermuda Flying School
Luscombe
England
Britain
Flanders
Admiralty
Bermudians
U. S
Bombs pull windows out by outward force
Science editor notes a bomb outside a building tends to blow windows outward rather than inward. Nature explains two forces at play: the initial compression wave drives fragments outward, while a following suction partly creates a vacuum behind it, contributing to outward glass displacement.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Science
New York
Nature
Our Good Neighbor Montevideo and Uruguay in War Era
The piece notes Montevideo as a heal thiest and gayest city, locust swarms harm crops, Uruguay restricts immigration to contract workers, travelers must prove yearly funds, and meat consumption includes mutton. It references Britain's war effort and hints at Bermuda's direct role in the war.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Letters Propose Democracy Agency And Town Meetings
The author writes to Wickard, Studebaker, Perkins, and the American Youth Commission proposing an active agency of democracy tied to town meetings. He argues such meetings, open to all residents, would solve communal problems without government imposition. He recalls New England roots and muses on modern adaptation and lively debates in future town gatherings.
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Agriculture
Wickard
Education
Studebaker
Perkins
American Youth Commission
Ald
Plymouth Bock
New England
Middlewest
Fred Allen
Vowrhis
Nova Scotia
Explosive Blast Glass Breakage Theory Notes
A bulletin notes that blasts tend to cause glass to shatter outward rather than inward. It explains that fragments are usually expelled on the outward rebound and that the initial inward shock is less likely to shatter the pane.
Move to Stop Strikes in Defense Work Proclaimed
President weighs issuing proclamation to seal up inboard to prevent strikes in defense industries when conciliation fails. He seeks a modernized War Labor Board, inspired by 1918 model, with authority to act and possibly retroactive settlement to keep production going.
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Bady
Washington
Inber Board
War Labor Board
Jett Lauck
118
C. I. O. United Mine Workers
Gack
Sidney Illman
Latek
Edsward F. McGraddy
Labor
War Department of Labor
Lauck
War
Navy Departments
Labor Department
Wilson
Labor and
Samuel Gonders
Iastener
Ren Vepling
William Howard Taft
Frank Walsh
Oither
Wilson Toote
Quotes on democracy and reform from notable figures
A set of provocative statements on democracy, policy, and reform from Charles E. Hughes Brooks Emeny Arthur Garfield Hays and others. The quotations critique punishment for literature, administrative overreach, and social sciences meddling with the family, ending with a paradox about a self‑imagined powerful rowdy.
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Forea
Dusfice
Charles E. Hughes
Brooks Emeny
Council On Foreign Relations
U. S
Arthur Garfield Hays
American Civil Liberties Union
Pitirim A. Sutekin
Harvard
Con Artist Calendars Reflected in Barbershop Mirrors
Patrons at a Columbus barbershop try to decipher diagonally mirrored 1940 calendar pages printed backwards. A note notes the calendar error and a corrective action while a second excerpt mentions a rider and a follower in a curious, unclear sequence.
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Columbus
Matiem
A four page country weekly shows wide reach of services
The piece highlights a four page weekly with 600 circulation offering weather, world and Washington news, state and county stories, local recipes, market and crop notes, Hollywood and radio notes, and listings of births deaths marriages church events clubs and local happenings. It argues newspapers connect 10000 similar weeklies and dailies to Americans free from censorship.
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Washington News
Hollywood
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Path of
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Inj-Jabanese
Penney’s
Penney
Josephine Johnson
Blaine Faber
Jane Sterling Adriance
Sweater Fond
the Ineup
All-Stars
Nelson
Rele
Butane Gas Systems
Farm Water Systems
Saints
Harry W. Shiver
Hope Hardware Co
Wouldi Eatioh
Weibinaten
Tenhchdend
Ben Coley
Prince Albert
Handy Tik of
Prince
Albert
Is Tobacco Co
Inston
Reyna
Robinsons
Panama
America
Newspaper Publishers Committee
Snessagey
Worman Chandler
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