Nazi Drive Into Low Countries Marks Fierce Fighting
The German advance into Holland Belgium and Luxembourg triggers heavy combat as Dutch and Belgian forces resist. Allied assistance arrives with British troops and French support while air raids hit French airfields and rail centers. Dutch East Indies impose controls on Germans. global leaders react with warnings and appeals.
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Belgium
Luxembourg
Low Countries
Hitler
Junkers
John Bull
Brussels
Dutch East Indies
Japan
U S Defense Moves Speed Up in War Armament Drive
Washington pushes for rapid armament expansion as war abroad accelerates. Secretary Woodring seeks a possible 400 million dollar Congress grant to equip a million regulars and reservists, speed aircraft production, boost small manufacturers, and recondition 25 S class submarines. Churchill and Chamberlain politics frame Britain’s wartime leadership.
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Philadelphia Navy Yard
Thomas
Oklahoma
New York
Sol Bloom
King
Utah
Roosevelt
Guffey bills $243,361 to console Biddle family losses in Poland
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania introduces a bill in the upper house to grant 243,361 dollars to compensate the American ambassador to Poland Anthony Drexel Biddle for furniture tapestries pictures and other items lost during the Polish blitz last fall. The Biddles villa near Warsaw was damaged by bombs and their silver was taken. Biddle is attached to the Polish government in exile in France. SCIENCE: A newly discovered substance named U-235 shows immense power surpassing all known materials. Physicists at Minnesota and Columbia report extraction progress with tiny samples and discuss potential uses and extraction challenges from uranium and pitchblende.
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Guffey
Pennsylvania
Poland
Anthony Drexel Biddle
University of Minnesota
Columbia University
Alfred O. Nier
Columbia
Senator Lundeen Touts Garand Sharpshooting
Senator Lundeen of Minnesota, described as a pacifist and isolationist, praised U S military rifle fire in Washington. He reportedly scored 28 bullseyes and claimed the Garand can fire eight shots without reloading while the Johnson rifle fires 11, with eyeing guards reacting to the display.
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Senator Lundeen
Minnesota
Washington
Army
Lundeen
U. S
Johnson
Sewing a shady blue shelter frame in Ruth Wyeth Hays era style
Mr Newhouse built a backyard shelter from second hand pipe with a blue frame and green white striped awning. Mrs Newhouse chose cool colors and 30 inch wide fabric 12 yards long with 15 yards blue bias binding for a scalloped edge. The article promotes Mrs Spears Sewing Book No 1 offering home sewing directions for coverings and crafts.
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Mrs. Newhouse
Mr. Newhouse
Spears
Soviet Reading Greatly Surpasses U S in Stalin Works
In Moscow a claim states nearly 300 million copies of Stalin’s works have been read in Russia, while Lenin’s works total around 130 million. Wage gaps are reported as 500 to 1 in communist Russia versus about 100 to 1 in capitalist Germany, with the Soviet disparity said to exceed America’s.
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Stalin
Russia
Moscow
Lenin
Germany
America
OUR YOUNG DEWEY AND HIS RIVALS
Tom Dewey returned to New York after a cross country trip as Idaho gave eight votes and Maryland sixteen for the Republican convention. In Maryland Senator Tydings strengthened his power in the Maryland Democratic party while Roosevelt beat Garner six to one in California and Garner carried Texas by about twenty to one. Alabama Democrats endorsed Speaker Bankhead as their favorite son.
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Tom Dewey
New York
Idaho
Maryland
Tydings
Roosevelt
Garner
California
Texas
Bankhead
Alabama
Reorganization Plan to Move CAA Under Commerce Approved
The Senate committee approved a plan to fold the Civil Aeronautics Authority into the Department of Commerce, reducing its independence and placing it under Harry Hopkins. Flyers oppose the proposal after two days of hearings.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Department of Commerce
Senate
CAA
Harry Hopkins
Notable World and Political Fever Spans Leaders and War Fear
California Governor Olson pushes third term demand as Roosevelt wins big in state primary. Pope urges peace amid pilgrims in Vatican City. Pianist Cowell released on parole after three and a half years of a fifteen year sentence. Berlin faces shortages as tobacco and alcohol rations bite citizens. Romania seizes Polish gold to cover debts and aid refugees. Willkie honored in New York for views on aiding allies. Scouts chief West and Carrie Catt noted in gold crowd. Debate over brass knuckles versus Mickey Finn in democracy rhetoric persists.
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Culbert Olson
California
Roosevelt
Olson
Vatican City
Henry Dixon Cowell
St. Quentin
Cowell
Berlin
Dawn
Nature's Touch Sparks Global Kinship in One Line
A brief reflection on how a single touch of nature can unite people across borders, echoing the idea that shared natural beauty and environmental harmony foster kinship among diverse communities.
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Birmingham
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