Notes on Newsroom Curiosities and Obituaries
A compact reminiscence recalls UP’s scoop culture from 1917 when Bob Bender secured a war declaration headline after a tense White House exchange with Joe Tumulty. It cites dangers of complacent Americans amid threat from Hitler and notes on obituary practices for famous figures like Father Divine.
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New Yorker
United Press
Bob Bender
White House
Joe Tumulty
Wilson
Bender
Weekly News Analysis by Edward C. Wayne
Edward C. Wayne provides an analyst’s column reviewing current events. The piece is released by the Western Newspaper Union and carries an editor’s note distinguishing opinion from editorial content.
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siBy Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Bulgarian Hostility Flares as German Staff Seizes Sofia Hotel
American envoy George H. Earle reports boot-clad German officers and staff occupying Sofia's main hotel and Sofia resort, while Bulgarian generals study maps. A brawl erupts near a night club when a German major allegedly hurls a bottle at Earle, as police struggle to control the fracas lasting about an hour.
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Adolf Hitler
Bulgaria
Rumania
Sofia
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Emtee
Tipperary
Earle
Air Crash and Ex Monarch Alfonso XIII Death
The report notes a mid August Eastern Airlines crash near Atlanta killing seven, injuring nine including Congressman William D. Byron and Eddie Rickenbacker. The next day a U S Army bomber crash occurred in Panama Bay with seven crew missing. King Alfonso XIII died in Rome after two weeks illness ending a 29 year reign with eight assassination attempts.
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Eastern Airlines
Atlanta
Congress
William D. Byron
Maryland
Eddie Rickenbacker
Balboa
Canal Zone
Panama Bay
Spain
Alfonso XIII
Rome
Peacemaking offers and rising Pacific tensions
Japan offered to mediate world disputes while Indo-China peace talks unfolded under Japanese influence. The U S Navy moved forcefully, Marshall and Stettinius directed defense priorities, and rapid production was staged to arm Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, and Samoa as Congress funded fortifications and procurement.
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Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Churchill
U. S
Indo-China
Thailand
Siam
Saignon
Philippines
Dutch East Indies
United States
America
Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
Pacific
Hawaii
House
Guam
Samoa
Defense Commission
E. R. Stettinius Jr
Aluminum and
Stettinius
Hitler’s Atlantic Pig Boats Signal Widened War Plan
The Munich speech framed a spring campaign against Britain’s Atlantic lifelines while admitting Luftwaffe limits. Nazi planners push pocket submarines, with estimates around 1000 boats, aiming to choke sea lanes as Britain tightens its navy. Mussolini blamed British numerical superiority and internal discontent for Africa setbacks.
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Hitler
der Fuehrer
England
Atlantic
Munich
Norway
Denmark
Belgium
Netherlands
France
United States
Germany
Britain
U. S
War Possibilities Show Split Opinions On Britain And Germany
Washington debate on war prospects between General Johnson Jays and Major George Fielding Eliot outlines two camps. One favors keeping the war away from shores with economic strangulation and selective support, the other warns such a strategy risks endless conflict without military pressure and threatens U.S. finances.
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Washington, D. C
George Fielding Eliot
Germany
England
Major Eliot
Gibraltar
Suez
Aden
Singapore
Corregidor
Capetown
Falkland Islands
Panama
Honduras
Hawaii
Europe
Russia
O.K
Britain
Triangle lands Glen d ale wife in jail over visits
A Glendale incident involves Esther M. Moore seeking repeated visits to her husband Sergt G G Moore at an army air school. The veteran Moore is finishing a flying course while Mrs Moore is jailed on a disorderly conduct charge after multiple efforts to pass sentries violating army rules.
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Glendale
Calif
U. S. Army
Esther M. Moore
Sergt
G. G. Moore
Moore
Convoy Aid to Britain Spurs War Debate and Policy Shifts
Washington defense chiefs quietly curb One Dollar men in government while preparing for lend-lease expansion. Public opinion weighs against convoys though mobilization and British demand for supplies loom, with Hitler’s blockade efforts intensifying and shipments to Britain rising.
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Congress
Great Britain
Defense Commission
Britain
High Seas
Hitler
Liverpool
Washington
Capitol Hill
One Dollar
Defense Organization
Office of Production Management
OPM
Ernest M. Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Dexter S. Kimball
Cornell University Engineering School
William E. Wickenden
Case School of Applied Science
W. S. A. Pott
Elmira College
S. S. Stratton
Harvard
Barkley
Mr. Smith
South America
John Hay
Jock
Whitney
Rockefeller
National Defense Commission
Senate
Latin America
U. S
Hollywood
State Department
Norman Armour
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Armour
California
United States
William Howard Taft
Bob
Charley
Roosevelt
America
Boy's pledge jab mocks politics at private school
Joseph Clark Baldwin faced a joking moment when his four year old son, attending a private school, recited the pledge incorrectly mixing allegiance to the flag with Republicans. The incident followed political talk at home and involved the frightened teacher.
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Joseph Clark Baldwin
Kenneth Simpson
Dorsey recounts Hollywood producer's bid for star
Jimmy Dorsey narrates a Hollywood producer attempting to woo a rival studio's big box office personality. He shows a contract and asks yes or no, the actor shakes his head, then the producer presses for a definite maybe.
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Jimmy Dorsey
Hollywood
Japanese Delegation Tours Curtiss-Wright Plant in Paterson
A visiting Japanese delegation toured Curtiss-Wright in Paterson New Jersey with guided access to motors and parts for photos. After the tour they passed through an X-ray room that ruined their exposed films, leaving no pictures usable and no diplomatic strain.
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Curtiss-Wright Aviation
Paterson
N. J
Broadway Alien and the Hands of Fate Parody
A whimsical verse scene portrays a charmful Broadway figure who greets with heart questions, tips to ladies, borrows with a headache, and avoids alibis. The character cites his father’s luck meeting his mother, with light humor about casual misfortune and manners.
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New York
Father Divine
Defense Board
Aberdeen
Capitol Steps
Mussolini
Il Duce
Italy
Africa
Marshal Graziani
Egypt
Kremlin
Moscow
Communist Party
Central
Maxim Litvinoff
Paulina Shemyonovna Zhemchuzhina
Molotoft
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle
James Stewart
General Johnson Jays
Latin-America
Taft Brothers
Merry
John R. Steelman
U. S. Conciliation Service
Broadway
Cholly Adler
Goering
London
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