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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1941
Page
2
Edward C. Wayne argues Middle East oil reserves redraw war lines toward Iraq while the Atlantic fighting remains the central phase. The column notes the strategic value of Middle East oil in ongoing conflict and frames the Atlantic theater as the primary ongoing struggle.
Long analysis outlines a proposed Axis strategy in North Africa and the Middle East. It discusses a likely fall of Suez to German Italian forces, the British defense at Alexandria, and a two pronged approach involving Greece and the Balkans, with oil interests around Kirkuk Haifa and Mosul. It notes Russian misgivings and the hope of Allied aid and Atlantic victory to tilt the war.
The convoy issue dominates pre war public discussion as isolationists condemn convoying as war and Roosevelt faces pressure on foreign policy. Tobey Nye claims of inside convoy data spark front page controversy while Vichy and Lindbergh push anti intervention voices toward a possible showdown. The America First Committee strengthens opposition as debates over aiding England heighten congressional scrutiny.
The state department issued unlimited licenses to the British Iron & Steel corp and the British purchasing commission allowing customs to accept shipments of specified products without license forms to British New Guinea and other Pacific territories. Stetttinius ordered blanket priority ratings for airplane frame, engine, and propeller manufacturers to speed U S and Britain war production and applied inventory controls to 16 vital defense metals to curb excess stocks.
Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on defense taxes. He urged informing the public that taxes fund national defense and argued tax hikes on tobacco gasoline and other products would reduce funds for farm products.
The quiz asks: 1 how far apart North America and Asia at the Bering Strait narrowest point 2 definition of a thimblerigger 3 why a polar bear avoids slipping on glassy ice 4 St Pauls epistles to Thessalonians to inhabitants of the city now called what 5 the smallest deer in the world 6 the principal constituent of pewter 7 where the Grand Banks are 8 Brazil's size compared to the United States 9 who founded psycho analysis
Fifty six miles and a swindler using three thimble cups and a pea. Polar bear feet have thick hair for traction. Salonika is named. The Indo China mouse deer weighs about four pounds. Tin is identified. Off Newfoundland is noted. An area larger by 250000 square miles is mentioned. Sigmund Freud is referenced.
Ruth Wyeth Spears offers interior decorating tips for avoiding repetitive window and shelf rectangles around a fireplace. She describes a mantel built from three boards, swag drapes to soften angles, a large picture or mirror, and shelf accents of vines and books.
A father, returning home with his five year old son Herbert, discovers a foreign coin in his change. In a sequence of shops the grocer and then the druggist confirm the coin is not United States money. Herbert reveals the coin came from the grocer who refused it.
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