Axis Propaganda Tactics Spur Efforts Across Neutral Nations
The Office of War Information outlines Nazi and Japanese propaganda aims in Turkey Sweden and Spain to sway neutrals and hindrance Allied ties. Berlin broadcasts six news services seven daily newscasts reach Turkey while German films, products, and subsidies target Turkish publics officials and educators. Similar campaigns unfold in Sweden and Spain with subsidized newspapers and paid professors. The report notes Tokyo mirrors tactics to turn China and India against the United Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Churchill
United Nations
OWI
Europe
Germany
House
Subcommittee On
Danzig
Sudetenland
Scandinavia
Spain
Portugal
Berlin
Sweden
Latin America
Far East
India
America
Citizens asked to avoid Memorial Day travel by ODT director
Col J Monroe Johnson director of the Office of Defense Transportation urged Americans to stay home during Memorial Day weekend. He warned civilian travel would strain trains and buses and keep service members from furlough visits with family and friends. The call emphasized thrift and sacrifice for those in uniform possibly going overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Colonel Johnson
Bethany Degrees Confer Doctor Titles on Clergy
Bethany college conferred a doctor of divinity to Rev Hugo Haterius Avoca Tex president of the Texas conference of the Lutheran Augustan Synod and Rev Knut Eric Erickson comptroller of Augustana College Rock Island. The doctor of laws was conferred upon Rev Carl A B Swanson pastor of Salen Lutheran Church Axtell Kan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Swanson of
Axtell
Lindsborg
Bethany College
Hugo Haterius
Avoca
Tex
Texas
Lutheran Augustan Synod
Knut Eric Erickson
Augustana College and Theological Seminary
Rock Island
Carl A. B. Swanson
Salen Lutheran Church
Kan
County weed program talks set for June in Douglas
T F Yost state weed supervisor will visit Douglas county on June 9 to discuss funding for the 1945 bindweed program. Ebon Anderson says 1234 tons of sodium chlorate are stored for 1944 eradication, with about 50 acres in five townships already cultivated. Re-treatments are planned, and original treatments may restart in July. Contact Anderson if bindweed is on a farm, and note seed spreading must be halted to free the county from bindweed.
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T. F. Yost
Douglas County
Ebon Anderson
Anderson
Cordley Children Make Dish Mats of Corn Husks
Fifth grade students at Cordley school under Mrs. Oscar Brownlee finished a craft project turning Kansas corn husks into hot dish mats. The lesson emphasized using native materials, braiding and shaping, and dyeing husks for color. Mats were gifted to mothers for Mother's Day.
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Cordley School
Oscar Brownlee
Lawrence
Kansas
Madagascar
Indirect Lighting Aids Night Jungle Fighting
Native materials are planned for school uses while the Bougainville theater of war reports indirect lighting aiding American troops at night. The report notes Yankee ingenuity in trapping enemy forces on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands with improvised lighting and tactics.
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Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Vpi
Nocturnal searchlights reveal Japanese infiltrations
Anti-aircraft searchlights sweep the front as clouds reflect their beams. The glow helps spot Japanese attempts to infiltrate American lines at night, aiding defense and warning of enemy activity near the front.
John Wendland Fined for Public Drunkenness in Court
John Wendland was fined $25 in police court this morning for being drunk in a public place. He was taken to the county jail pending payment of the fine.
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John Wendland
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