Aluminum salvage drive aims to fuel long range bombers
New York reports a national aluminum salvage campaign expected to yield about 20 million pounds, enough for 630 large long range bombers. Experiments in Virginia and Wisconsin produced 80,000 pounds, far above estimates, as officials discuss aircraft needs and bomber production ratios.
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New York
UPI
Office of Production Management
Frank Bane
Division of
State and
Office of Civilian Defense
Bane
Richmond
Henrico County
Virginia
Madison
Dane County
Wisconsin
Washington
Office of Production Management Today
Gano Dunn
OPM
Roosevelt
Dunn
J. G. White Engineering Corp
Cleveland
Friday the 13th tale from North Carolina magician
Hendersonville AP report profiles Bert A. Bord the self described greatest disbeliever in superstition. He lives at a 13 apartment uses 13 mail and laundry numbers and counts 13 in his career from badge 13 at Western Union to Rotary 1913 and chairing boards. He is an amateur magician with 13 membership and a notable opal pin symbolizing bad luck.
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North Carolina
Hendersonville
J. C
Bert A. Bord
Boyd
Western Union Telegraph Company
Indianapolis Board of Trade
Rotary Club
Board of ‘Trade
Grain Association
Board of Trade
International Brotherhood’ of Magicians
Roosevelt warns unions not to start raiding one another
President Roosevelt urged government departments to notify officials that labor unions should not raid fellow unions for memberships. Production of defense ships in the San Francisco Bay area hinged on AFL machinists returning to shipyards after directives from their international council. Other actions included Curtiss Wright propeller plant talks at Pittsburgh and a San Diego Consolidated Aircraft contract ratification. Water from a Musselshell County coal mine may irrigate farms via a proposed dam and reservoir project under Works Progress Administration approval.
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Tobin
Defense
San Francisco Bay Area
AFL
International Executive Council
Washington
Harry Hook
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Executive Council
Pittsburgh
Curtiss Wright Company
Defense Mediation Board
AFL Machinists Union
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
San Diego
Consair
Army
Navy
Britain
Mont
Musselshell County Board of Commissioners
Works Projects Administration
Novel silo built for twenty-one dollars near Hollis
James P. Lamberth of ten miles northeast of Hollis built a silo from slats held upright by wire and lined with treated paper for 21 dollars. Paper lining costs 5 dollars annually. The structure holds 25 tons.
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Hollis
Okla
James P. Lamberth
Woman pays record price for a Buddy Poppy in Pasadena
Mrs Ruth Wiser reports she received 60 dollars for a single World War II Buddy Poppy in Pasadena. An unidentified woman slipped the money into the collection box, claiming it to be the largest amount ever paid for one poppy.
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Pasadena
Cal
Ruth Wiser
Goebbels Warns England Could Fall Like Crete
Berlin dispatch says Propaganda Minister Goebbels in a Voelkischer Beobachter article suggested England might face invasion similar to Crete. He argued British maneuvers show invasion is possible and warned of surprise developments within two months. He contrasted British caution with German military improvisation and noted past French Maginot line misreadings.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Voelkischer Deobachler
England
Isle
Crete
Britain
Goebbels
Goebbel
Hitler
Germany and Russia face tense standoff over grain and troops
Dispatches report Germany pressing for access to Ukraine grain and troop movements through Russia as Britain and the Free French push toward Damascus. German and Soviet lines are described as bluffing and counterbluff in a perilous game, with alerts of massed Nazi divisions along the Soviet frontier and uncertain invasion timing.
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Germany
Kremlin
Helsinki
Bere
Switzerland
Sovet
Ankara
Turkey
Russia
London Times
Benin- Moscow
Times
London
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Middle East
Damascus
Syria
S.T
Flashes of Life: Unlucky hits and odd headlines
PHILADELPHIA American war will not be shot in the pants. A new armor plate under airplane seats aims to stop What might be called unlucky hits from below. Indianpolis decor scandal of missing papier mache camels tied to Shriners convention. Eleven camels located, four in hotels, one in union station. Kansas floods yield carp, golf and irony. Des Moines license 13 cited as unlucky run of misfortune. Manitowoc joins arc of base story as army interrupts acrobat Raymond Rosinsky in circus act.
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Philadelphia
U.S
Manitowoc
Wis
Raymond
Rosinsky
Propaganda Bureau Urged For America New York June 13
The Publicity Club of New York urged Roosevelt to establish a national department of propaganda to counter subversive messaging and promote militant democracy. It called for expulsion of anti democratic propagandists and saboteurs operating in the country. Camp Funston Painted at Fort Riley area painters coated 918 buildings with 35 000 gallons of paint and some interiors received upgrades.
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New York
Clui
Roosevelt
Department of Propaganda
Camp Funston
Camp Funston, Kas
Allied Push Delayed but Advances Reported in Middle East War
Reuters reports Allied forces made progress in several sectors by nightfall while bloodless capitulation talks for Damascus delay entry into the city. The RAF carried out heavy raids on the Ruhr and defended against Messerschmitt attacks as tensions rise over German retaliation and reparations. Berlin says German public remains uninformed about the submarine episode. In the Middle East, British forces close in on Beirut and Damascus.
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Lers
Reuters
Damascus
Germany
Ruhr
Daver
Washington
State Department
Robin Moer
Berlin
Middle East
Beirut
Doctors Warn About Constipation and Olive Tablets
An Ohio doctor, F. M. Edwards, touted his Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle, vegetable bowel cleanser that also aids liver bile flow to improve digestion. Sold by druggists with price options of 15¢, 30¢, or 60¢.
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Ohio
F. M. Edwards
Edswards
Flag Day Celebration Proclaimed by Jefferson Mayor
A 1941 mayoral proclamation urges citizens to display the U S flag and participate in a Flag Day parade or chorus at the Capitol. Merchants vote to close stores 6 to 7:30 p m on that Saturday afternoon. The note mentions the Caspian Sea as the world s largest inland sea.
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Merchants’ Committee
Chamber of Commerce
City of
Jefferson
United States
Capitol
Merchants‘ Committee
Ohio to Reduce Aliens to Citizenship Papers
In Columbus Ohio Dr Carl Watson WPA administrator says about 18000 aliens in Ohio attending naturalization classes. He forecasts roughly 12000 will receive citizenship papers in the next six months amid WPA efforts.
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Ohio
Columbus
Chio
Carl Watson
WPA
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Kas
Kansas
C. Intyre
Lawrence
Des Moines
Marjorie Smith
Iowa
Propaganda Bureau
America
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Nida Alin
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Paul
Glenmore
Walker’s Beluxe Bourbon
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Schenley
Ancient Age
Windsor
Bond & Lili
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O.R
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Aholstering Co
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