Little German Girl in Nurnberg Faces War’s Aftermath
In Nazi era shadows, Hertha Strobl recalls a bombed home near Nuernberg Castle. She describes ruined streets, scarce food and clothing, an air raid shelter life, and a dream of running a chocolate shop. The reporter notes postwar propaganda and the need to heal young minds.
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Nuernberg
Hertha Strobl
Strobls
Muernberg
Hertha
Strobl
Old City
Albrecht Durer
Julius Streicher
Germany
Frau Strobl
Herr Strobl
Russia
Bavaria
International Military Tribunal
We Bombed First Chorus German Boys
Two young boys discuss the Nazi war crimes trial noting it is too lenient. One boy shows blood-thirsty sentiment, proposing to break up the criminals and dump them. They echo that Germans did it to the British and Americans.
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Der
Nuernberg
Farm family pays off 1939 mortgage in Alabama
Florence Alabama report highlights Louis Olive who bought a 120 acre Fairview farm in 1939 with a $4,080 FSA loan. Mortgage paid, the Olive family now grows crops, stores meat and fruit, and plans soil conservation and a live at home program with Howard Olive leading landscape work and vocational education.
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Florence
Ala
Louis Olive
Fairview
Gage
Mabel Anderson
Farm Security Administration
Olive
Florence Herald
FSA
Howard Olive
Central High School
Name Your Price And You Can Buy Alien Properties
James E. Markham, alien property custodian, lists a diverse government role including selling patent licenses and operating farms, forests, camps, apartment houses, and a $69 million film company. He can be bid on for farms across the country with over 46 000 acres of rural land available.
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Walter A. Shead
WIU
Washington
James E. Markham
U. S
Alien Property Custodian Sells Remnant Lands Across States
The alien property custodian holds total real estate valued at 3.622 million dollars including 24 800 acres of agricultural land 460 acres of extractive and oil lands 14 070 acres of wooded lands and 6 290 acres of unimproved land with concentrations on the Pacific coast and middle Atlantic. Parcels are listed across California Texas Missouri Ohio Pennsylvania and New York. Rents collected last fiscal year totaled 174 000 dollars as he disposes of holdings and has recently sold 200 acres owned by the German American Bund for a boys camp.
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Pacific Coast
Middle Atlantic States
California
Texas
Missouri
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York State
Bund
Aviation Notes Fly During Vacation
Cliff and Mary Rowland and John and Marion Lawson of Bronxville New York took flying lessons during two weeks of vacation. All four soloed and called it their finest vacation yet. They plan to fly again next year.
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Cliff
Mary Rowland
John
Marion Lawson
Bronxville, N. Y
Texas Leads in Private Planes and Flight Interest
A Gallup poll shows one in four Americans want to learn to fly. About 30 percent of men and 22 percent of women desire to become pilots. Vagrant Breezes notes tail winds for planes traveling opposite ways and varying winds at different altitudes.
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Gallup
Air travel gains steam for farm shipment growth
Farm Bureau notes air transport increasingly moves farm and other goods. Three Youngstown veterans toured the skies to view the country, while jet propulsion and wartime engine feats are discussed alongside historical notes on propulsion and the V-2 bomb.
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Youngstown
Ohio
I. E. Holt
F. Devine
P. DeMatteo
I0er
Washington, D. C
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Manchester
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Wichita
Kans
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AIR
American Farm Bureau Federation
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Greece
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
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Chicago
Kellogg’s
Sarah
A. E. Staley Mfg. Co
Decatur
Illinois
A. E. State Ae Co. Dept
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Ill
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