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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1940
Page
2
Ford halts plane engine production for Britain
Washington reports government talks with Henry Ford over mass production of aircraft engines ended. Ford refused to build engines for Great Britain, prompting cancellation of plans to mass produce Rolls Royce motors by Ford Motor Company for U S use and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Ford
William S. Knudsen
National Defense Commission
Ford
Great Britain
Ford Motor Company
National Defense Advisory Commission
Commission
Ford Company
United States
Congress
Defense Commission
Knudsen
Detroit
Purchasing Commission
Rolls Royce
Britain
Itching First Application of Blue Star Ointment Ad
Agonizing itching from eczema rash ringworm and scabies is claimed to be resolved in one application of Blue Star Ointment. Money back guarantee offered if not satisfied.
Man Blown 40 Feet by Gas Tank Blast
Merle Dunning of Denver 29 was blown 40 feet by a 1,000 gallon gas tank explosion. He smothered the burning clothes of Wayne Hall who suffered only minor burns. Dunning was burned critically in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Merle Dunning
Wayne Hall
Dunning
Taylor's Condition Held Satisfactory After Vatican Operation
Myron C. Taylor, Roosevelt's representative at the Vatican, underwent a two hour operation reported as satisfactory. Surgeon Dr Allan Whipple of New York led the procedure with assist from Professor Raffaele Bantianelli. Mrs Taylor was at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Myron C. Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican
Allan O. Whipple
New York
Raffaele Bantianelli
Italy
Taylor
Urban wage earner protects health details
Washington June 4 The Labor Department reports that the average urban wage earner spends 59 dollars a year on health protection. Breakdown shows 13 dollars for the doctor 11 for the dentist 10 for the drug store 6 for the hospital and 19 for eyeglasses insurance and other medical items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Heavenly hydro carbon found by astronomers
Harvard astronomers Dr. Fred L. Whipple and Dr. Leo Goldberg report the discovery of a carbon-hydrogen molecule in interstellar space. The finding, described as a heavenly hydro carbon, marks the first detected combination of elements between stars and notes carbon as a new interstellar constituent alongside potassium and sodium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Mount Wilson
Harvard
Walter S. Adams
Mount Wilson Observatory
California
Fred L., Whipple
Leo Goldberg
Earth
Woman President Idea Is Dropped
Pittsburgh June 26 Mrs John Homer Jordan who urged the Republican national convention nominate a woman for the presidency dropped the idea temporarily saying it began late and might make the men hostile. She planned to travel to Philadelphia to push for Dorothy Detzer of Washington as a nominee she calls the most intelligent woman in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
John Homer Jordan
Jordan
Philadelphia
Dorothy Detzer
Washington
United States
Concordia Farmers Meet and Farm Bureau Drive
A Concordia parish mass meeting discussed joining the Farm Bureau Federation of Louisiana. Speakers urged soil conservation and AAA information use, while farm leaders noted Bangs disease rules enforcement. The article also covers a National Farm Association meeting in St Joseph and local election results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concordia Farmers Meet
Ferriday
Concordia Parish
Farm Bureau Federation of Louisiana
Philip Watson
Farmers Organization
C. B. Hadden
Northeast Louisiana Experiment Station
G. L. Burleson
AAA
National Farm Association
St. Joseph
Tensas Parish
J. Curry McPherson
R. O. Terral
Thomas M. Wade
Gasper Bruno
Joseph Witaker
J. Claude Earnest
Bang
E. P. Flowers
Louisiana Livestock Sanitary Board
Tennis Birdie Incident Stuns Davidson Student
In Lexington North Carolina S G Wel, a Davidson College student, scored a birdie in a tennis match but a bird swooped low as he served and was struck dead on the court, a rare fatal accident during play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
N. C
S. G. Welborn
Davidson College
France Backs Gold Transfer From France to United States
Officials disclosed that the United States purchased a large sum of gold from France and transported it to the U S Vincennes last week. The daily treasury statement showed a 259 million dollar rise in government gold holdings, equaling a full month of normal imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
France
Vincennes
Treasury
Navy Departments
U. S. S. Vincennes
Vincinnes
Portugal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Canada
Roosevelt signs farmer measure for parity and conservation
President Roosevelt signed an agriculture appropriation bill totaling 918 million dollars for the year starting July 1. It allocates 212 million for parity payments to five major crops and 500 million for soil conservation benefits. The bill authorizes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to loan up to 100 million to rural electricification firms and 50 million to needy farm tenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
California and Louisiana Hold Unique Below Sea Level Terrain
The article notes that only California and Louisiana have land lying below sea level, highlighting the unusual geographic situation in these states and its implications for drainage and development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Louisiana
States
Colonists Move to New Homes Near Grants Pass
A group of 25 to 30 families departs Long Beach for a 680 acre tract near Grants Pass Oregon to establish a cooperative colony. By mid July about 125 families in total will have left for the settlement with log cabins under construction and a sawmill moving to the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
Oregon Trail
Grants Pass
Ore
R. J. Wilson
Pioneer's Club
Wilson
Oregon
Oolumber
Young pupil copies text at sixty words a minute
Joyce Ann Rudolph, a 10 year old girl from Gary Indiana, hopes to be a speech typist. Her father, a doctor, taught her the touch typing method enabling rapid copying of unfamiliar material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvel
Gary
Ind
Joyce Ann Rudolph
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