Entertaining Soldier Visitors in Jefferson City
Jefferson City should organize weekly entertainments for soldiers from Camp Leonard Wood on furloughs. Soldiers crowded the town last Sunday, seeking diversions at picture shows, the swimming pool, or strolling about. Civic groups already think of dances and parties, but no city-wide plan exists yet. The Chamber of Commerce could kick off a program and others follow to avoid losing initiative to rival cities.
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Jefferson City
Camp Leonard Wood
Chamber of Commerce
Broadening Fight Against Lug System Debate in Senate
The editorial condemns the lug system as harmful to government honesty and efficiency. It supports restricting governors from future office while noting the bill only partially addresses the issue and may target a former governor. It argues for broader reform beyond the current measure.
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Senate
The Airplane Aids Fast Production Gains
Air express data show shipments to and from airplane plants rising sharply with a 287 percent increase over two years. Plans parts dies and light machinery now wing through air routes between factories, shaving days and minutes from aircraft production.
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Air Express
State controlled press distorts public opinion in Germany
The text argues that German readers were misinformed about consuls being expelled by the United States and that Germany retaliated by expelling American consuls. It claims the state propaganda creates a misguided view among Germans about who acted first and the reasons for the moves, undermining informed public opinion.
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United States
Germany
Europe
More Records Broken In Industrial Drive To Victory
The era of endless record breaking continues as May marks new highs in electric power generation and a fresh monthly peak of 60 million dollars for machine tools, nearly doubling May 1940. The drive aims to end global tension and restore relaxation after twenty years of war.
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America
Music good music for a boomtown story of Hans Kindler
Washington Daybook profiles Hans Kindler conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra. The Holland-born American by choice helped launch bold outdoor concerts on the Potomac shoreline, drawing thousands including Roosevelt and diplomats. His plan blends Beethoven to Gershwin, aiming to stage a new Washington boomtown music scene.
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Washington
Hans Kindler
National Symphony Orchestra
America
Java
Sumatra
Bali
South Sea
Kindler
Water Gate
Lincolin Memorial
Potomac
Jessica Dragonette
Elsie Houston
Lovelies
Lacey Monroe
Virginia Johnson
Beethoven
Brahms
Dvorak
Strauss
Mozart
Roosevelt
White House
Man About Manhattan by George Tucker in New York Studios
New York’s Broadway studios teem with dozens of dance bands rehearsing before tours. The vast reception hall holds clerks, musicians, vocalists in a lively, high spirited crush. Names like Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, and Woody Herman anchor a vivid snapshot of the life on the road and in the studio.
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New York
Broadway
Billy Rose
North Carolina
Jimmy Dorsey
Harry James
Woody Herman
New Hampshier
Decca
Williamsburg
Richmond
What Others Say Our Bunker Hill of Tomorrow May Be
Report quotes President Roosevelt about a distant Bunker Hill of tomorrow, suggesting a vision stretched far beyond Boston. The remark frames progress as a nationwide or global horizon, hinting at ambitious national projects or ideals. The piece presents the president as shaping public imagination toward distant sites of achievement.
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Bunker Hill
Boston
Roosevelt
Japanese Find Themselves Holding Sack in the Pacific
In a critique of Hitler's Mein Kampf, the author argues the book reveals Germany’s shifting aims and warns that the Tripartite Pact leaves Japan holding the sack in the South Pacific. It notes Japan’s easing pressure on the Dutch East Indies and the risk of Germany pulling back from its eastern policy.
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Pacific
Fred Vanderschmidt
Moscow
Rome
Tokyo
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Britain
Italy
Mein Kampf
Russia
Dew
Germany
England
Japan
United States
Atlantic
Dutch East Indies
South Pacific
Indictment Alleges Fire Brick Price Fixing
A federal grand jury charged the American Reform Fractories Institute, five operating companies and seven individuals with conspiring to fix prices in the fire brick industry in violation of antitrust law. Names include A. P. Green Fire Brick Company Mexico Missouri and president W J Westphalen of St Louis. Arraignment set for July 16, trial likely not before autumn.
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Philadelphia
American Refractories Institute
A. P. Green Fire Brick Company
Mexico
H. B. Plunkett
Claclede-Christy Clay Products Company
St. Louis
W. J. Westphalen
St. Leuis
Defense Bond Quiz Q What is a U S Defense Savings Bond
A quiz style note explains Defense Savings Bonds as United States Government loans for national defense with 2.9 percent annual interest if held to maturity, ten years. It urges buying Defense Bonds or stamps and directs readers to post offices, banks, or the Treasurer of the United States in Washington DC for information.
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Kindler
National Symphony
Hans Kindler
Washington
Monument
Europe
U. S. Defense
United States
Dicselors
Friends of Freedom
Washington, D. C
Aldermen Face 10 Dollar Fine for Absences
St Louis aldermen must attend board meetings or incur a 10 dollar fine per missed session. The city charter authorizes the penalty but it has not been enforced for eight years, after two democratic members incurred a fine for a recent meeting.
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ST. Louis
Glamour Boys Burn Night Oil for Uncle Sam Hollywood
Movie glamour figures including Ronald Reagan Wayne Morris Robert Cummings Hayden Stirling Hayden Robert Stack William Lundigan Franchet Tone and others are taking correspondence courses tied to national defense. They balance early morning study with acting careers while awaiting potential military call ups in various reserve branches. The piece notes each star’s chosen field from cavalry to aerial photography and engineering.
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Hollywood
Glamour Boys
National Defense
Ronald Reagan
Cavalry Reserve
War Department
Wayne Morris
Navy
Morris
Robert Cummings
Air Corps
Hayden
Stirling Hayden
South Seas
Naval Reserve Commission
Robert Stack
Tank Corps
William Lundigan
Franchet Tone
Man's preliminary battery hearing pushed to July 1
Marysville Ohio area report states John Wilson, a farmer, had his preliminary hearing continued for assault and battery with intent to kill and leaving the scene of an accident after his wife was injured in a collision traveling at 50 miles an hour. Funeral services for Mrs. Wilson were held yesterday after she died from a fractured skull and other injuries. Wilson said there was no reason for his wife jumping from the car.
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Marysville
Kens
John Wilson
Marshall County
L. OG. McLaughlin
Wilson
Deaths Last Night: Col Harvey C Carbaugh and Elliott Dexter
Chicago Colonel Harvey C Carbaugh aged 83 former judge advocate of the Philippine Islands cited for gallantry at El Caney and in the San Juan Hill action Amityville Elliott Dexter star of silent films and former husband of Marie Doro the actress passed away last night.
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Harvey C. Catbaugh
Chicago
Harvey C. Carbaugh
Philippine Islands
el Caney
San Juan Hill
Amityville
N. Y
Elliott Dexter
Marie Doro
Lutherans to Meet at Saginaw in 1944
Saginaw Mich chosen by the Missouri Evangelical Lutheran Synod committee to host the next Triennial Convention in 1944 to mark the centennial of Pranconien Bavaria immigrants. The synod’s thirty-eighth session also elected four vice presidents including Dr. Herman Harms, Dr. Henry Gruber, and Dr. Arthur Brunn. A nominating committee proposed candidates for a board of control and an electoral college for 15 colleges and seminaries across the Americas.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Saginaw
Mich
Missouri Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Pranconien Bavaria
Herman Harms
Davenport
Henry Grueber
Milwaukee
Arthur Brunn
Brooklyn
Board of Control
United States
Canada
Brazil
Argentina
Pension Relief Slashed by Senate Committee
Old age pensions and direct relief, the state's top aid programs, faced deep cuts as the senate appropriation committee reduced the house amounts by 3,000,000 for pensions and 1,500,000 for direct relief, plus 325,000 from social security administration. The revised social security appropriation totals 58,522,624, with 33,750,000 from state funds and the rest from federal matches, a level higher than 1939 49 but still short of the commission's minimum needs.
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Senate
Social Security Commission
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