Ed Wynn’s Boston Tryout Signals Comeback Triumph
Ed Wynn’s new revue Boys and Girls Together tests public judgment in Boston after a string of personal and financial troubles. The veteran showman, once nearly ruined by a fragile radio chain and lawsuits, recovers with fresh gags and his trademark hat humor, aided by new backers George Wood and Pat C. Flick. Wynn’s family roots in millinery and his early years in vaudeville are noted as shaping his comic resilience.
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Boston
Bret Fox Wynn
Park Avenue
George Wood
Pat C. Flick
Wynn
Vassar
Japan and Axis Sign Pact and Dakar Assault Backed
Edward C. Wayne reports on a new pact between Japan and the Axis powers. Britain backs Free French forces in the Dakar attack in West Africa. The piece notes 77 English refugee children drowned.
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Japan
Britain
Dakar
West Africa
Axis Pact and War Turbulence Shocks London and Dakar
A German Italian Japanese pact signals a new order in Europe and Asia as blitzes rock London and Dakar. De Gaulle presses Free French actions in Senegal while Vietnam signals loom. Roosevelt signs army draft rules governing manpower and dental standards.
Willkie Swing Campaign Opens With Broad Attacks
Wendell Willkie concluded his first nationwide swing in Madison Wisconsin delivering attacks on New Deal spending the third term and city machines. He outlined a three point program to revive industry defend the nation and unite the country. His tour moves east next. At Philadelphia Hall President Roosevelt received a doctor of laws from the University of Pennsylvania during its 200th anniversary celebration remarking that the date mars an election year.
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Wendell Willkie
Madison
Wis
Willkie
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
University of Pennsylvania
Johnson questions civilian pilot training program value
General Hugh S. Johnson criticizes the civilian pilot training plan to train 50,000 pilots via private schools, warning it lacks supervision and risks ineffective military readiness. He cites funding, inspection failures, and possible congressional investigation, then condemns pro British aid agitation as dangerous to US neutrality.
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Armed Services
Wayne Parrish
American Aviation
Commerce Hinckley
Roosevelt
Congress
CAA
Department of Commerce
Warsaw Mayor Starzynski Executed in Berlin, British Say
German air raids leveled Warsaw as Mayor Stefan Starzynski directed city defense by radio. Arrested by Nazis, he disappeared and, on the anniversary of his arrest, British sources report he was executed in Berlin.
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Warsaw
Stefan Starzynski
Starzynski
Berlin
German-Named Candidate Defeated in Yorkville Race
Joseph McWilliams self styled American fuehrer who preached Nazi doctrine lost in Yorkville with 674 votes. Joe Moe Nazi a leader of the Christian Mobilizers was hospitalized the next day for a sanity test.
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America
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Berliner Tageblatt
Olden
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Congress
Yorkville
New York City
Joseph McWilliams
Americanfuehrer
Joe Moe- Nazi
New York
Not Allowed to Play Ends in Tragic Self Harm
In Clinton Iowa authorities say Roy Hink nine years old may have died by his own action after his mother refused permission to go out to play. He was found hanging by an electric cord tied to a water pipe in the family bath room.
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Clinton
Iowa
Roy Hink
John Wheeler
Skunk Stands Off Rattlesnake in Mountain Showdown
In Staunton Virginia a spotted skunk fought a rattlesnake atop Mount Elliott and emerged the victor. Game Warden C L Miller recounts campers Lee Wilkins and spouse from Washington witnessed the encounter after a flashlight revealed the battle. The skunk, part of the weasel family and about the size of a squirrel, is rarely seen outside mountain areas.
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C. L. Miller
Lee Wilkins
Washington
Mount Elliott
Miller
Beaufort Library Wins Return of Duplicate Civil War Books
After 75 years the Beaufort library gains replacement duplicates for valuable books captured by Federal troops in 1861 and later burned. President Roosevelt orders the Library of Congress to transfer books of equal value from the seized Beaufort collection, once advertised for sale and later destroyed by fire after being housed in the Smithsonian.
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Beaufort
S. C
Roosevelt
Library of Congress
Beaufort Library
United States
South Carolina
New York
Smithsonian Institute
Boy Fends Off Bear With Punch Near Glacier Park
Butte report details carrier boy Denny Lodders and his family as a bear tried to enter their car in Glacier National Park. He punched the bear in the nose repeatedly to drive it away, though he was bitten in the process.
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Butte
Mont
Denny Lodders
Glacier National Park
Denny
Guardsman Finds Relative Grave on Civil War Battlefield
National Guard Sergeant Charles W. Farmer recounts stumbling onto a Civil War grave at Vicksburg Mississippi during a night march home from Louisiana maneuvers. The tombstone reads Lieut William Farmer 81st Illinois Regiment, his great great uncle who had been missing since the day he went to war.
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N. C
National Guard
Charles W. Farmer
Vicksburg
Miss
William Farmer
Charles
Pulp Process Will Use Up Douglas Fir Wastage
University of Washington scientists announce that Douglas fir can be pulped commercially with tear strength twice that of hemlock pulp. A sodium sulfite process regenerated 90 percent of chemicals, aiding log market stability and conservation, pleasing Pacific Northwest lumbermen.
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Seattle
University of Washington
Pacific
Watermelon Fatality Ends Rancher Journey in Modesto
Mrs Earl Baldwin drove her husband a rancher to a doctor when Wheat field wagon passengers hurled a watermelon at the car. A melon fragment struck the windshield causing Baldwin age 52 to clutch his chest and die instantly.
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Modesto
Calif
Earl Baldwin
Baldwin Auto
Baldwin
Bee attack during hay mowing in Creston Iowa
Homer Tibbot son encountered a swarm while mowing hay and toppled a honey bee hive. Ibbotson and his two children rushing to help were badly stung.
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Creston
Iowa
Homer Tbbotson
Ibbotson
Ace Credits Lucky Button
Glenboro Manitoba Acting Flight Lieutenant Mark Henry Brown of the Royal Air Force is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and credits his luck to the top button on his tunic.
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Glenboro
Mark Henry Brown
R. A. F. Flier
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