Jefferson City Safety Council to take over Southside traffic
The engineering section led by Harry Griffith will study city traffic from a safety standpoint rather than political influence. The effort aims to fix inconsistent stop signs and enforce equitable rules, crediting the Safety Council with real progress after a long, costly survey. Support the Safety Council.
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Jefferson City Safety Council
Southside
The
Safety Council
Harry Griffith
Jefferson City
Amusing the Soldiers and the USO Drive
The piece argues homesickness cripples some soldiers, urges clubs and private groups to provide wholesome diversion, and praises the USO fund drive as essential for welfare. It notes officials guard against exploitative entertainment and cites Mussolini quips amid broader wartime sentiment.
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Army
Donnell
aMeilies
USO
Washington Daybook on the city’s defense era crowds
Washington swells with defense growth as 70 000 more residents join the capital and thousands more visit. Space chief Guthridge relieves crowding by reallocating offices and finding temporary quarters while employment climbs by about 4 000 monthly and civilian staff rise with new war and navy buildings nearing completion.
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Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Alexandria
Arlington
Chevy Chase
Bethesda
Silver Spring
Iteoms Ward
Man About Manhattan and the Kip's Bay Boys Club
New York writer highlights the Kip's Bay Boys Club at 301 East 52nd Street as a model for aiding underprivileged city youths. The club operates seven floors with three gyms a pool and programs in sports, crafts, public speaking and academics. It emphasizes cleanliness discipline and community service and notes several former members who became engineers and university instructors.
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New York
Sidney Kingsley
Jack London
Hboons
Kip’s Bay
East 52Nd Street
East River
G. Dana Younger
Kip's Bay
Hays
Mmauily
Columbia
City College
NYU
Ouhger
Zinc rationing eyed as civilian and defense demand grows
Washington report says a confidential defense study places zinc capacity at 935000 tons this year with 275000 tons for defense and 887000 for civilian use, leaving a shortage near 230000 tons. Rationing likely within 10 days will divert zinc from galvanized goods to military needs, with 1941 and 1942 demand projections and imports from Newfoundland and Mexico.
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Washington
Defense
Office of Production Management
Newfoundland
Mexico
Army
Navy
OPM
Tthe
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Civilian Supply
Dies Warns Factory May Be Destroyed
Cleburne Texas June 19 AP Congressman's Dies warns the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood California may be destroyed within weeks unless alleged fifth columnists are removed. He predicted foreign agents would halt production and blow up key defense plants if unchecked.
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Cleburne
Tex
Martin Dies
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Calif
Dies
U.S
Morris Sheppard
Slatin
Hitler
Mussolini
SAME NUMBER OF BOYS AS GIRLS IN SCHOOL
POPLAR BLUFF Mo June The school numerator found no mistake in counting white students total boys 1679 girls 1679. In St Louis The Rev Arthur R Hicks pastor of a Baptist church traveled 40000 miles to earn a BA from William Jewel College Liberty MO while commuting daily since 1938. The 1940 census will fill 64 volumes.
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Poplar Bluff
ST. Louis
Arthur R. Hicks
William Jewel College
Liberty
Hicks
Dakar Useless to Nazis Until Gibraltar Falls
The piece analyzes the Robin Moor sinking and argues the South Atlantic theatre hinges on Dakar and Gibraltar. It details possible Nazi use of Dakar, French West Africa oil limits, and strategic aims around Cape Verde, Azores, and Portuguese colonies amid wartime pressures.
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French West Africa
Cape Verde
Azores
Fred Vanderschmidt
Robin Moor
Mediterranean
South Atlantic
France
Germany
Dakar
West Africa
Africa
South America
Cape of Good Hope
Red Sea
Cape Verde Islands
Washington
Eric Raeder
United States Atlantic
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Basses
Gibraltar
Italyian
Italy
Portugal
Radio Schedule Highlights June 10 1941 KWOS
Daily MUTUAL BROADCASTING NETWORK lineup lists Fulton Lewis Jr Major General Woodruff and numerous dance orchestras plus news segments and sports. Notable items include Boston vs St Louis Browns, Raymond Gram Swing, BBC News, and midnight sign-off with Carl Hoff and Goodnight All.
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Fulton Lewis, Jr
James A. Woodruff
Honard and Shelton
Carl Hoff
Lang Thompson
Mexico City
Morton Gould
Raymond Gram
Dance Orchestra
Boston
St. Louis
BBC News
Marvin Dale
Jan Savitt
Gene Austin
Cheer Up Gang
B. S. Bercovici
Sam
John Metcau
Loft
Buckeye Four
John Agnew
Edith Adams
Rambling Red
Mountaineers
Art Mooney
Shafter Parker
Johnson
News
Solovox Symphony
Harold Stokes
Parade of Business
Delaware Park
Dick Gasparre
Jan Garber
Freddy Martin
Orch
Gondnight
Underground hangar plans underway in Air Corps
June 10 UP Col. Frank M. Kennedy, chief of buildings and grounds for the Army Air Corps, told Congress the Air Corps is planning underground hangars at outlying bases. He said continental facilities would not be put underground due to prohibitive cost, noting standard hangars cost 140000 dollars while underground equivalents would run about 1900000 dollars.
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Washington
Frank M. Kennedy
Army Air Corps
Congress
Air Corps
Lightning Kills Two Missourians
Lightning killed two Missourians in separate incidents near Excel Springs and Brunswick. Arthur E. Moore Sr., 55, was struck while driving turkeys to shelter from a hard rain on his farm near Excel Springs. Don ald Bachtel, 13, son of Harry Bachtel, a Brunswick area farmer, also died.
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Kansas City
Arthur E. Moore
Excelsior Springs
Donald Bachtel
Harry Bachtel
Brunswick
Mexican customs official and son rescued after five days pinned
Toaquin Miranda and his 10-year-old son Manuel were trapped under a wrecked car near a 200 foot cliff in San Diego for five days. They fired their pistol shots for help and endured hunger thirst and shock before Army patrol found them. Miranda refused his son's plea to amputate his leg. Both were saved and expected to recover at Camp Lejeckett Army Hospital.
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San Diego
Calif
Toaquin Miranda
Robert E. Maxwell
Howard D. Wetherell
Mirranda
Manuel
Miranda
Camp Leeckett Army Hospital
Gayda warns US strike crisis mirrors Civil War
Rome AP Vir ginio Gayda, fascist editor, says military intervention at a North American Aviation strike confirms his forecast that Washington policy will provoke Civil War like turmoil in the United States. He argues wage strikes could push soldiers to demand higher pay and that the War Department uses repressive measures.
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Rome
Virginio Gayda
Washington
United States
Il Diennale D
Italia
War Department
Gayda
Talley-Eckstrom divorce case enters fourth week
In Los Angeles on June 10 AP reports Marion Talley’s divorce suit from Adolph Eckstrom and custody of their daughter Susan continuing into its fourth week. Nurse Edith Klein resumes testimony and describes Eckstrom as a thoughtful father. Klein testifies Eckstrom telephoned from New York about Susan during a 1935 illness, while Talley did not. she says Talley received regular letters about the child.
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Los Angeles
Marion Talley
Adolph G. Eekstrom
Susan
Edith Klein
Eckstrom
Miss Klein
New York
St. Paul
Miss Talley
Girl Collects Biscuits in Fort Worth Display
Fourteen year old Betty Mitchell collects biscuits as a hobby and refuses to eat them. Her collection includes an 18 year old biscuit baked by her mother H. H. Mitchell, and her first biscuit, baked six years ago, is also part of the display.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Betty Mitchell
Betty
H. H. Mitchell
Minute to draw would doom democracy in hitler risk
A reader warns that being just one minute late to the draw against Hitler would strip 130,096,000 Americans of rights and liberties and surrender government to dictators. The letter imagines a return to Dark Ages, with 430,000,000 facing Hitler's rule and misery worse than death. The Kaiser failed to drop on Woodrow Wilson.
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The
Post-Tribune
Hoosevelt
Hitler
United States
Elizabeth
Hiller
Stark Urges Graduates to Shun Cynicism at WashU
Former Gov. Lloyd C. Stark addressed 731 Washington University graduates urging them to avoid cynicism as the deadliest ism. He called the class pioneers in a scarred but brave new world and urged using their talents to rebuild the next decade, noting the army as a vast technical school and presenting an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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ST. Louis
Lloyd C. Stark
Washington University Today
Army
Stark
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