Intercollegiate athletics plans loom for next year
Roundup by Hugh Fullerton Jr notes expected action from Eastern Athletic Directors and possible service use of college facilities for Army and Navy training centers. Mentions football’s future, boxing commissions over a bout, hockey growth, and scouting for naval aviation instructors, with various figures and clubs referenced. Turkey production warned by Agriculture for next year's meat supplies.
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Hugh Fullerton
New York
Army
Asa Bushnell
Fleet Sinking Is Described Fleet Sinking Is Described
The first eye witness account from Toulon describes the scuttling of the French battle fleet as German forces attacked on November 27. French submarines Casablanca and another escaped to Algiers, confirming crews remained to defend the arsenal while most troops had been moved. A fourth submarine, Le Glorieux, reached Valencia before heading toward Allied ports. Governor O Conor and family left Annapolis for Florida, with unclear itinerary.
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Toulon
Casablanca
Algiers
North Africa
Toulon Arsenal
Toulon Harbor
Brunswick Native Executed Lincoln Bust for San Marino
A 1697 San Marino national holiday accompanied the unveiling of Raymond Granville Barger's Lincoln bust. The Brunswick native, artist and former track captain at Carnegie Tech and Yale, rose to prominence in New York with notable works at the 1939 World’s Fair, including the Mermaid Fountain and Goddess of Perfection in the Heinz Pavilion. He married Edith Barnes, studied in Rome, and produced major pieces for the Metropolitan Life Parkchester project and regional commissions.
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Potomac River
Frederick County
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Kellogg's All-Bran Solves Wartime Constipation
A reader recalls chronic constipation during wartime and explains that medicinal laxatives only offered temporary relief. They credit Kellogg's All-Bran with fixing the issue by supplying bulk in meals, along with adequate water, praising its taste and noting it is produced by Kellogg's in Battle Creek.
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Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Greatest Battleship To Be Launched Dec. 7
The battleship New Jersey, the heaviest ever built, will be launched December 7 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Rear Admiral M. F. Draemel, Fourth Naval District commandant, announced the event. Its exact tonnage remains a wartime secret, but will exceed the Iowa’s displacement. The two ships are the first of a new class and were initially announced as 45,000 tonners.
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New Jersey
Philadelphia Navy Yard
M. F. Draemel
Fourth Naval District
Iowa
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New Jersey Christening Amid War Lessons and Edison
The New Jersey will be christened with lessons from World War II battles. Mrs Charles Edison will perform the christening while former Navy Secretary Edison, now New Jersey governor, officiates and aids at the keel ceremony on September 16, 1940.
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New Jersey
Charles Edison
Navy
Edison
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