22 Feb 1940
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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
1
AP reports Berlin faces scarcity as chicory coffee and similar substitutes grow rarer. Traders note prices rise while demand shifts toward other roasted beverages. Local cafés and households seek affordable options amid reduced imports and supply chain disruptions.
An ordinance from the Reich's food supervisory board requires products to contain 25 percent sugar beet chips, marking a policy shift in Germany toward mandated beet-based content.
The United States embassy announced the release of the last eight American Civil War prisoners, including Harold E. Dahl of Champaign Illinois. They will sail for New York aboard the Exiria from Seville, as the long diplomatic effort ends. others named include Clarence Blair Rudolph Opara and Conrad Stojewa. Dahl had been in custody since 1937 after parachuting behind Franco’s lines. The group’s release closes a protracted negotiation.
Robert Rautenburg of Wilmington Delaware, a renowned German born sculptor who specialized in ecclesiastical works, died last night. Giovanni Battista Troccoli of Santa Barbara California, an internationally known artist, also died last night.
Archbishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland marked a half century in priestly service with the ceremonial imposition of the pallium by Archbishop John I. McNichol in St Johns Cathedral. Attending were Archbishops Mooney and nine bishops from Columbus Toledo Pittsburgh and Cincinnati among others.
Doris Clayton 23 vowed to return to husband after a Valentine's tryst with divorced businessman Charles Souza 45. Souza shot her, swallowed poison, and hanged himself after the unidentified body lay 24 hours. Clayton, a steel worker, said he had consented to the trips in the hope she would stay. He claimed she promised not to see Souza again. Sheriff and coroner noted a report of an uncontrollable infatuation and a fatal triangle.
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