Indiana conservation clubs grow to record level
Progress of Indiana conservation shows larger club membership and more active clubs with 4021 currently active, averaging eleven per county. More local clubs will run game bird breeders and fish ponds, boosting fishing and hunting. Violations of fish and game laws have fallen due to club work and educational programs. State parks forests game preserves and fish hatcheries attract more visitors yearly.
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Indiana
Virgil M. Simmons
Department of Conservation
Turkey’s stance on strait passage amid war fears
Istanbul dispatches report Turkey will not permit French or British warships to pass into the Black Sea through the Dardanelles unless at war or directly threatened. The squares between Allied blockades and Turkish policy are cited as a key tension in the Balkans and Near East.
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Istanbul
Turkey
U.P
Black Sea
Dardanelles
Germany
Balkans
Near East
Straits
Britain
France
Turkish stance on straits and Montreux limits amid war talk
Observers circulated claims Turkey would open the straits to warships, but officials emphasize Montreux limits as binding while Turkey stays non belligerent. Yunus Nadi of Cumhuriyet argues rumors are unfounded and stresses security zones in the eastern Mediterranean and Balkans. Aggression toward these regions could force war, triggering strait use only in such cases.
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Batum
Germany
Turkey
Montreux
Black Sea
Yunus Nadi
Cumhuriyet
Mediterranean
Balkans
Farmers in Greene County Receive Lime and Phosphate
Greene county farmers in the 1940 AAA Farm Program ordered 6600 tons of limestone and 21% tons of triple superphosphate under the grant of aid. The materials support soil building practices on permanent pastures and legume seeding as part of the enhanced soil conservation emphasis for 1940. County and state AAA offices report substantial lime and phosphate use across the region by May 11, with 28,946 tons of limestone and 1,013 tons of super phosphate allocated in 51 Southern Indiana counties.
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Greene County
AAA
Basil D. Archer
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Department of Agriculture
Triple A
State Aaa
Indiana
Driver in Bangor Recovers to Halt Runaway Car
N Dana Willard was thrown from his automobile when it struck a telephone pole but quickly recovered, caught the rolling car and prevented further damage in Bangor Maine.
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Bangor
U.P
N. Dana Willard
Fingerprinting Program Urged by Elite Club
Elite club submits an article supporting universal fingerprinting to aid missing persons work. Captain John G. Stein of the New York City Missing Persons Bureau argues it would speed identification, reduce police work, and ease family suffering, urging national civilian fingerprint files.
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U. S. General Federation of Clubs
Daily Citizen
John G. Stein
Missing Persons Bureau
Police
New York City
Stein
Washington
National Central
Justice Department
Medieval castle losing glamour in historian view
Dr. Leon Marshall of Westminster College says medieval castles offered little privacy or comfortable heating. He notes the lord and lady had only small alcoves off the main hall for private space, and a single large fireplace heated the entire building.
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New Wilmington
U.P
Leon Marshall
Department of History
Westminster College
Marshall
Graduation Plan for One Seventy-Six Class in Cortland
Cortland County Union school officials face a unique June commencement with a single graduate Miss Adah Louise Randall aged 16. The lone senior in the Union school plans to graduate, prompting decisions on ceremony format and arrangements.
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Cortland, N. Y
U.P
Cortland County Union School
Union School
Adah Louise Randall
Odd case studied in Massachusetts
Wayne E. Phelps, 32, a gasoline station attendant, has baffling doctors for two years due to a strange anemia. He has just had his sixth transfusion as doctors note he fails to produce enough blood to maintain health. Treatments are given in six week intervals.
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Watertown, Mass
WUP
Wayne E. Phelps
Phelps
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