Russian Air Pioneers Set Long Distance Flight Record
The Moscow Pravda notes a 6262 mile Moscow to San Jacinto record by a single engine plane piloted by Mikhail Gromov. The feat drew praise from Roosevelt and Stalin while aviation circles praised the aircraft’s compact design and engine reliability after 62 hours midair.
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Meoacen
United States
Berlin
Portland
Ore
Mikhail Gromov
Moscow
San Jacinto
California
Pravda
Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Canadian Navy names 43 ships after Canadian places
The Royal Canadian Navy has 43 ships carrying Canadian city and town names in service and overseas. The destroyer Hamilton is the largest, with most vessels named after rivers bays towns and cities, and Prince Edward Island is not yet represented. Ontario and British Columbia lead with 10 each. Quebec eight with others across provinces.
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Hamilton
United States Navy
RCN
Navy
Prince Edward Island
Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Nova Scotia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Dawson
V.T
Royal Navy
Canada
Kootenay
United States
Bermuda
R.C.N
Brandon
Dauphin
Saskatoon
Moose Jaw
Battleford
Rosthern
Camrose
Lethbridge
Wetaskiwin
Agassiz
Chilliwack
Trail
Kamloops
Ambulance Fleet Presented to Canada at Parliament Hill
A fleet of nine ambulances donated to the Royal Air Force by the British-American Ambulance Corps was presented for use in Canada at Parliament Hill Ottawa. Thirteen women in American Women's Voluntary Services uniforms brought the vehicles and were welcomed by War Services Minister Thorburn.
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Royal Air Force
Touring company quits after family audience rejects show
The touring troupe faltered in second place and, after performing to the owner’s family at a country theatre, withdrew when the audience left after the first act. Two actors then head back to London, securing a barge passage. A passerby overhears a banter about fertilizer and actors aboard.
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Little Country Theatre
London
Bert
Cyril
League and Red Cross plan Geneva disease reserves
A joint committee of the League of Nations and the Red Cross works in Geneva to assemble large reserves of serum vaccine and medicine to prepare for potential large scale disease outbreaks in war torn Europe.
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League of Nations
The
Red Cross
Geneva
Europe
Chinese are a dogged race pace and odd ironer
The text notes a slow steady pace by Chinese and mentions someone ironing shirts. It adds a statement that Hampands are not inflammable in air but burn at 5850 degrees Centigrade in pure oxygen.
Malaria Fight Nurse Rich Greece to Retire After War Hardship
Alice Carr, long time Red Cross nurse from Yellow Spring Ohio, retires after 20 years in the Balkans and Middle East. She helped Greece fight malaria from the Marathon plain to Ankara era and earned three government decorations.
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Alice Carr
United States
Balkans
Middle East
Yellow Spring
Ohio
Greece
Miss Carr
Red Cross
Serbia
Poland
Czecho- Slovakia
Rockefeller Foundation
Marathon
Saturday Report on Father’s Afternoon With Children
Father, an accountant, records a quiet afternoon with the kids after mother’s request. Dried tears nine times, shoes tied thirteen times, balloons bought three per child with an average life of thirteen seconds, cautions not to cross streets twenty one times, children cross street twenty one times, and he concludes he will do this again zero Saturdays.
Whole milk and cheese supply key nutrients in dairy
Whole milk provides protein fat calcium phosphorus milk sugar and vitamins A G and others. Cheese from whole milk concentrates these nutrients, delivering higher amounts per serving.
Tanks Help Win the War and That Includes Gas Tanks
A wartime report highlights the role of armored tanks and supporting fuel storage in sustaining offensives. It notes advances in logistics, supply lines, and fuel depots as critical to battlefield success.
Warren William Develops Lawn Vacuum Mower Patent
Hollywood actor Warren William, famed as a daffy yet skilled inventor, unveils a practical lawn vacuum cleaner mower hybrid. He built the device in his Encino machine shop, secured a Washington patent, and claims it functions as both a vacuum and a power mower.
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Warren William
Hollywood
Warren
Encino
Washington
Churchill declines option on 600 Havanas cigars in wartime supply
Prime Minister Churchill, who says he does not want to be a hoarder, turned down a bid on 600 Havanas as supply dwindles and may not be replenished before war’s end. His cigar merchant, a Turk named Zitelli, notes Churchill buys cigars in batches and praises him as a fine judge of cigars despite the cost.
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Churchill
Rats plague prompts Pasteur aid for Strasbourg
As Strasbourg was evacuated early in the war, dried sewers turned into rat corridors invading cellars and warehouses. German officials seek Pasteur Institute assistance to control a rising rat plague endangering the city’s habitability.
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Strasbourg
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Training Glass Blowers Center Opens in Britain
The first training centre for glass blowers in Britain begins operation to address a growing shortage of glass for instrument makers.
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Britain
British wartime broadcast misreads message near coast
A Plain English broadcast from a south England observation post ends with a quirky misread of a naval alert. An officer orders Priority 1A about enemy formations, while a telephonist relays a muffled joke about Hitler and Goering, ending with a playful aside.
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Stephen King-Hall
North America
England
Bull Point
Alf
Itler
Goering
Disappearance of 16 year old Edwin Days in Melbourne
Edwin Days a butcher boy vanished in March 1940 in Melbourne. His father a WWI veteran suspected enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force. After a yearlong police search, the father published the boy’s photo in newspapers and a Tobruk digger in hospital claimed the image matched a boy in his unit doing a man sized job.
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Edwin Days
Melbourne
Tobruk
Navy minister salutes Gracie Fields at luncheon
Angus L Macdonald thanked British comedian Gracie Fields for her Canadian tour at a Navy League luncheon. He said the tour grossed 90000 dollars with the Navy League receiving 18000 dollars, enabling construction of a building to house 500 men.
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Navy League
Canada
Navy
Angus L. Macdonald
Gracie Fields
Comedienne
Germans preparing for long winter campaign in Russia
Berne reports from foreign military quarters in Berlin that the German high command plans a prolonged war in Russia. A stock of 5,000,000 fur coats is arranged for troops, with 2,000,000 already obtained from Afghanistan, Turkey, and Iran two months before the Russian war. Sweden Norway and Germany are being combed to supply another 3,000,000.
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Berne
Switzerland
Berlin
Russia
Afghanistan
Turkey
Iran
Sweden
Norway
Germany
Tribute to the Troops: Iceland Receives British Beauty Aid
The report notes shipments from Britain to Iceland and the Faroe Islands carrying lipstick vanishing cream face powder and skin refresher. Icelandic women reportedly began using these items before the war and the Faroes had been largely unknown to such aid until recently.
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Iceland
Britain
Faroe Islands
Faroes
Hitler word triggers mass mobilization of German experts
More than one thousand German administrators engineers and business experts led by Dr Alfred Rosenberg await Hitler's command to dispatch them into occupied Russia to assist in administrative industrial and technical control.
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Alfred Rosenberg
Adolf Hitler
Russia
London man fined for possession of blades and perfume
A London man was fined £5 for unlawful possession of 500 razor blades and 14 bottles of perfume. Four hundred blades were found in his socks.
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London
Fake Dutch wooden airfield tricks British bombers
Nazis in Holland built a wood airfield with painted hangars and planes to fool RAF crews. One night after completion a British aircraft flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on the decoy.
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Holland
Funds Grow For Spitfire Production In Britain
The Ministry of Aircraft Production says funds started during the Battle of Britain have reached 14 million pounds about 62 million dollars and contributions continue arriving.
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Ministry of Aircraft Production
Britain
Ministry
German Wounds Return From Russia Darken German Mood
New York Herald Tribune notes Berlin faces a long war as wounded roll into Germany from the Russian front and ghettos of temporary hospitals rise. Propaganda fails to soften the grim news, while Hitler’s distrust of home reporting echoes in German nerves and resolve.
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Germany
Berlin
Carlada
Hitler
Russia
New York Herald Tribune
Britain Produces All Sugar Domestically Under Ration
A ministry official says Britain now meets all domestic sugar needs from its expanded sugar beet industry. Lincolnshire leads in beet area and hosts several factories. Annual consumption under wartime rationing remains secret, with weekly allotments and prewar per capita use noted. Imports in 1938 reached about 47.45 million hundredweight. beet factories produced around 19 million hundredweight.
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Britain
Ministry of Agriculture
Lincolnshire
Mayor and Queen discuss cigarette waste and stubs profits
The Queen, with Mayor T. J. Shilitoe of Sherditch, notes the King cut smoking due to shortages. They visit Maurice Hotel and discuss wastage as the mayor claims cigarette makers profit from discarded stubs more than consumed cigarettes.
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Sherditch
T. J. Shilitoe
Maurice Heatel
Mr. Shilitoe
Rejected Proposal on General Armament Limit Talks
A 1910 U S Congress resolution proposing general arms limitation is noted. Britain supported the idea while Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany reportedly refused to back the plan.
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New York Herald Tribune
United States
Britain
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Germany
Might Work Out Advertisement for Small Loans
Reliable and hardworking clerk seeks 10 exchange small loans with any honest party. Gets paid on Monday and is broke on Wednesday. Prefers partners paid on Wednesday who are broke on Monday.
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T. Claude Ryan
Charles J. Lindbergh
St. Louis
E. E. Mouton
Department of Commerce Aviation
R.A.F
Ottawa
Acon
Jim
Ankara
Port Weigand Beoomes
Syria
Maxime Weygand
Winston Churchill
Panzers
New York
Tories
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