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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
6
Get out your scrap bag and start your Calico Cat quilt. Patch measures about 4 by 8 inches and easy to apply. Pattern 1583 includes patch pieces a diagram and yardage chart with simple cutting sewing finishing instructions and a quilt layout. Send 15 cents for the pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York.
A handbill from 1758 at East Grinsstead Old Theater for Theodosius or the Force of Love shows Mrs Crawford causing shrieks and groans while Mrs Siddons drew stronger reactions with her own scream and groan. The clipping also mentions Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and a line about absent ones being found in the wrong.
A report on Austria's abrupt annexation by Germany details the Anschluss, the collapse of Austrian independence, and the installation of Arthur Seyss-Inquart as ruler. It covers the border move, submissions by Schuschnigg and Miklas, and initial reactions from Britain, France, and Italy, plus economic and church unifications under the new regime.
Unconfirmed reports indicate unrest within select Soviet army garrisons with limited fighting alleged. Messages describe internal security actions and possible leadership purge amid vague, fragmented details from the Rig peninsula and surrounding units.
Senate finance panel opened review of the revenue act after the house passed it. Chairman Pat Harrison warned that rising spending would require widening the income tax base and lowering exemptions while opposing the undistributed profits tax and proposing a flat 15 percent tax on long term capital gains. Across the South and in western states farmers faced stiff penalties under new crop control rules for exceeding quotas destined to curb cotton and tobacco sales. Navy war games involving 105 ships and hundreds of planes began across Pacific and Alaskan-Hawaiian routes with thousands of personnel en route to Honolulu by April. Senator Wheeler led opposition to a government reorganization bill, arguing inefficiency may persist under democracy and opposing presidential power to transfer or abolish agencies, while urging Congress to preserve existing bureaus.
National Geographic notes Singapore as a pivotal naval hub with docks able to receive battleships, a free port gateway for Asia to the Mediterranean, and a city island at the Malay peninsula's tip. It details its strategic role, rail and air links, urban growth, and the legacy of Sir Stamford Raffles shaping a cosmopolitan port city with diverse trade.
Practical household notes on cheese frying at low heat to avoid tough texture, adding lemon slices to punch at serving time, proper flour measuring by sifting and spooning, and fashion tips to create slender silhouettes with fabric, dresses, and accessories.
Clarence Darrow, Chicago's famed defense attorney, died after a long illness at eighty. A longtime foe of capital punishment, he defended figures from Eugene Debs to Leopold and Loeb and John T. Scopes in the Tennessee Monkey Trial, upholding the underdog in landmark cases.
Franco directs rapid insurgent advances in the Ara Bon offensive as government lines retreat toward the east coast. Reports say English Canadian and American government units were driven back in a salient near Belciite as a decisive civil war battle looms.
Eighteen former Soviet leaders were found guilty of treason in Moscow as the trials concluded. Most sentenced to death or long prison terms, with three others receiving prison terms. Names and details appear garbled but indicate a major crackdown on alleged traitors from the Red Peachilow era and associated diplomats.
Fragmentary notes describe a wedding scene with unclear names and pledges. Readers glimpse wishes and congratulations but many words are garbled, leaving only isolated phrases about bride, groom, and venue.
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