Khyber Pass Builds Modern Defenses Against Invasion
A London Times special reports on the Khyber Pass defenses near the Afghan border. New concrete fortifications, dragons teeth, flame traps, and cliff gun chambers illustrate a modern, layered defense alongside ancient geography. Strategic roads link the hills as garrisons prepare for possible tribal uprisings, while trade caravans hint at a future trans-Asian route.
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London
Hitler
Khyber ‘Pass
Afghanistan
London Times
Khyber Pass
India
Lord Roberts
Caucasus
Middle East
Jalalabad
Hindu Kush
Kabul
Khyber
Shagai
Landi Kotal
Jarmrud
Samarkand
Central Asia
25 000 Youths to Receive Army School Funds Scholarships
Washington reports 25 000 military scholarships will be granted this summer for male high school graduates who qualified in tests last April 2. Funds cover tuition food housing and medical service with no basic training or uniforms during the scholarship period. Eligible youths 17 to 18 will receive direct War Department notification.
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U. S. Army School
Washington
Army
War Department
Doctor Sets Own Death Date and Almost Hits It
TECUMSEH OKLA A 72 year old doctor A S Cordell diagnosed many cases and claimed he could tell within hours when a person would die. He examined himself and named his death day. The day came and he did not die. He slept and never woke the next afternoon.
Silk industry roots in early America prompt home cultivation
An article traces colonial silk history in the United States from 1623 mulberry planting directives to 1735 Georgia exports. It notes legal incentives in 1656, early Virginia trials, and Savannah exports, showing long-standing interest in domestic silk production and a wartime revival in New Jersey cocoons and mulberry farming.
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America
New Jersey
Colonial Assembly
Secretary of the Treasury
Virginia
Georgia
Savannah
England
Thomas Lamhbe
Green Lumber Durable For Farm Construction
Farmers unable to obtain seasoned lumber can build farm structures from unseasoned timber. Green lumber can endure for many years in barns pig pens and other buildings. Logs should be stacked off the ground with spacers and covered to prevent warping. Vertical siding remains durable and joints need inspection a few months after completion.
DynamiTe Use Benefits Orchards in Clay Soils
About 5,000,000 pounds of dynamite are used annually for agriculture. It clears land, digs ditches, drains, irrigates, bores stumps, and builds roads in lumber camps. In orchards, small charges set at 30 inches deepen soil loosening, aiding root growth and enabling earlier bearing.
Frost Delays Cucumbers and Early Planting Tactics
Frost injures cucumber crops and open air planting should wait until frost danger ends. Use paper caps or covers to guard young plants gaining one week to ten days of extra early planting. Some growers plant in three waves to secure an extra early crop if first sowing survives.
Curculios Feed on Fruit After Bloom Ends
Curculios, small hard shelled beetles, scar and deform fruit and lay eggs that hatch into grubs feeding inside fruit. Found in most orchards east of the Rocky Mountains, they drop to the ground when disturbed. Jarring with a padded pole over a sheet catches many and is best done in cool morning hours.
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Rocky Mountains
Snow as the poor man's fertilizer in spring soil care
The saying snow is a poor man's manure appears and notes snow's value in protecting plants during freeze thaw cycles. It explains snow insulates roots, adds water, raises soil temperature, and limits cold penetration, especially in moist spring soils.
Bandits seize box but find only eggs at florist shop
Bandits grabbed a box thought to hold the day’s cash receipts from Ralph Beel and wife as they left their florist shop. The box contained only eggs and, with price ceilings, held little value.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Ralph Beel
Priest Laboring in Bleak Wilderness Near Laird River
In British Columbia near Lower Post on the Laird river a slender priest, Father Pierre Poullet of Lille, France, ministers to about 115 Athabascan Indians. He built a two story mission with limited funds, travels to hold services for American soldiers, and laments his two brothers held as prisoners of war in Germany.
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Victoria
B. C
Lower Post
Laird River
British Columbia
Alaska Military Road
Pierre Fpoullet
Lille
France
Lutz
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
Elphege Allard
Poullet
Sam
Germany
Mother Feels a Mental Snap Drowns Two Daughters
In Pittsburgh a 27 year old mother drowned her two daughters aged two and four in a bathtub and then tried to kill herself by inhaling gas. The father found them after returning home. Detectives say she admitted holding them under water and had been under mental treatment since the birth of one child.
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Pittsburgh
Raymond Gump
Gump
Hero Sergeant Throws Live Bomb to Save Plane
Master Sergeant John Cody Haddow of Pueblo Colorado earned the Air Medal after tossing a live bomb from a aircraft during a night photography test in Australia on July 25 1942. The bomber crew released four bombs and a fifth with a time fuse failed to exit. Haddow grabbed the arming wire hung bomb and hurled it out the bomb bay. it exploded after it left the plane.
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Australia
John Cody Haddow
Pueblo
Colo
Haddon
Charles Talesky admits firing gun over a dirty look
Chicago after a christening party intoxication Charles Talesky testified he fired the rifle twice to make a noise. One bullet struck a tavern and killed Analia Nauss a 28 year old mother of two. Coroner's jury recommends manslaughter charge.
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Charles
Chicago
Charles Talesky
Analia Nauss
Taresky
Coconut palms feed South Seas natives and economy
The National Geographic society notes coconuts supply most needs on coral island communities in the South Seas war zone. Coconuts provide food, drink, clothing, and shelter with copra as a major export. The green nut and coconut meat support natives, babies, and livestock, while leaves yield edible salads once called sailors cabbage.
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South Seas
National Geographic ‘Society
New England
United States
Solar Energy Per Day Surpasses Earth's Combustibles
Article explains solar energy reaching the Earth, about 75 trillion kilowatts at the surface, with 1.1 kilowatts per square yard at the atmosphere and 43 percent reaching the ground. It compares this to potential heat from burning all petroleum and coal in the crust, noting petroleum would match half a day’s solar energy and coal less than six months.
Repairing and Reusing Overstretched Sweaters
Learn to salvage sweaters by lining stretched yokes, adjusting size across shoulders and chest, and adding length with crochet edges or ribbon insertions. Use running stitches for lining, crochet to finish edges, and creative ribbed inserts to enlarge or lengthen sleeves and body.
How to Dry Sweaters Without Stretching or Shrinking
Rinse sweaters in clear lukewarm water then squeeze to remove moisture. Roll in a turkish towel or press between towels to extract more water. Lay flat to dry using prewash measurements, with a towel underneath to absorb moisture. Air dry in a warm airy spot away from direct heat, especially for multi color garments.
Japanese Beetles Threaten Corn and Beans in Gardens
Japanese beetles may attack sweet corn silks and bean foliage. Hydrated lime dust on silk repels beetles without harming pollination, while rotenone or pyrethrum dusts or sprays control beetles on beans.
Measuring capillary blood flow from retinal shadows
Scientists estimate human capillary circulation by projecting shadows of blood cell motion in the retina. Shadows appear as minute clear and dark spots moving along definite paths and speed up with pulse. a special lighting setup projects these shadows onto a screen for measurement.
Attu Japanese Hiding in Caves Like Moles
American troops report extensive tunnel and cave systems dug by Japanese to shelter, store supplies, and house crews on Attu Island. Sniper nests, machine gun caves, and underground command posts are described, including a conspicuous cone formation on a sandbar behind a gun position.
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Attu
Guayule Rubber Passes All Tests Satisfactorily
Salinas California reports the first US output of natural rubber since Pearl Harbor. Nine hours yield 200 pound rubber boxes from 45 tons of guayule shrub with a six ton per day plan and 600 tons available for the next three to four months.
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Salinas
Calif
United States
Pearl Harbor
Bomber Saved in Alaska by Gold Bar Fuse
A 29-year-old navigator recounts how a quick thinking engineer used a lieutenant's gold bar as a fuse to power a four engine bomber returning from Attu. With 800 gallons of gasoline in the bomb bay and no fuel flow, the bar replaced a blown fuse, reviving the electrical pump and enabling a safe return.
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11Th Air Force
Alaska
Mooseheart
Ill
James A. Ryan
Attu
Ryan
John H. Miller
Hillary's Cuba Letter Sparks Jail Guardhouse Tale
A Cuban letter claimed William J Hillary’s father ran a hotel in Cuba. Censors alerted the provost marshal. Police Chief Frank O'Malley investigated and found the jail in Grand Rapids housed AWOL soldiers as the guardhouse for an army training school.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
William J. Hillary
Cuba
Hillary
Frank O'Malley
O'Malley
Dream Breakfast Served in Bed By First Sergeant
Syracuse New York report recalls Private Thomas S Wood praising his first sergeant who served him breakfast in bed in the camp hospital. The sergeant acted as a waiter delivering the meal to Wood.
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Sarg
Syracuse
N. Y
Thomas S. Wood
Wood
French Ironworks at Le Creusot Led Schneider Empire
The Le Creusot plant became the largest Schneider unit and a French WWI munitions hub due to coal and iron riches. Located 160 air miles southeast of Paris, it flanked two miles of railroad with a 40 000 population before WWII, and 15 000 employed by Schneider. Industrial roots trace to 1774, prospering after 1836 under Eugene Schneider.
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Germany
Krupp
Schneider Works
le Creusot
Schneider
Paris
National Geographic Society
Eugene Schneider
Schneider's
Air Resistance Destroys Meteor in Full Flight
The article explains how meteors traveling several miles per second heat the front air cushion and face counterpressure, tearing the mass apart before reaching Earth. Heat and air friction collide with exiting fragments, so large objects entering the atmosphere at high speed rarely reach the ground.
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Earth
Cattle Feeding Advice Warns on Costs and Timing
University of Illinois expert F C Francis cautions cattle feeders that gains rise rapidly after steers reach good grade. He notes the initial four months yield the largest gains, then a steady drop. markets should be timed early due to high grain prices and scarce protein. Calves need more feed per 100 pounds gained in later periods, with age affecting grain use little.
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F. C. Francis
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Francis
Goering Appointed Reich Forst and Jaegermeister
Nazi leadership hinges on Wood as key resource with Goering stressing wood in war. Germany uses wood sugar and wood protein alternatives as soldiers and industry rely on wood derived materials for tires fuel lubricants and explosives.
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Goering
Reichforst Und Jaegermeister
Germany
Census Savings From Statistical Sampling Method
Federal dollars were saved in the 1940 census by using a statistical method that sent an extended questionnaire to a random 5 percent sample. A small probability of error was accounted for and measured, and the extra information gained was as valuable to the government as a full census at far higher cost.
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