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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1941
Page
3
British observer in Ottawa notes England's food distress despite ships and aid. Canada weighs postwar grain surpluses, granaries, and Europe’s needs, proposing aid to 400 million Europeans per St Pauls teaching. The plan may influence peace and future trade with Britain and the United States.
The piece discusses Canada’s wartime impact including casualties, overseas deployments, and austerity. It notes more than a thousand killed or missing by July 1, five divisions raised for overseas service with a sixth planned, ninety thousand overseas, three hundred thousand on active service elsewhere, and likely soon to ration coal gas and select foods. It cites income tax burdens and an 8 percent sales tax, explaining the tax system as an invisible wholesale levy. It also analyzes Canada's diverse population, noting less than half of eleven million are of English extraction and three and a half million speak French, with Mackenzie King quoted on joining Britain in the war.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation fully repaid the $90 million loan to Central Trust, ending a banking panic in Chicago during 1931. President Hoover, Dawes, and RFC helped avert a wider crash, with no loss to Central Trust depositors and all major banks later stabilized.
A former leader recalls the Insull collapse and warns that current government spending mirrors a new financial tower of Babel. He argues bills must be paid by workers and farmers and warns inflation and rail wage demands will hurt households. He also notes Hitler’s mortality and the fall of hate structures, predicting future European power plays.
The Transportation division of the OEM says 232,000 tons of abandoned rails lie buried in city streets and will be scrapped to boost defense needs. Defense savings stamps will be available at nearby retail stores as part of the campaign to reuse scrap metal from old steel rails.
Arey Wilson, producer of the Hardy Family pictures, received a Master of Arts from Colorado State College of Education for artistic and ethical screen contributions. The National League of Decency condemned Life Begins for Andy Hardy as unsuitable for children. Norma Shearer returns to Hollywood to film We Were Dancing with Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo, and Constance Bennett. Douglas stars in The Twins with Garbo.
Lyle Moraine says inspired by Bob Hope's Caught in the Draft he wrote Ive Been Drafted Now I Am Drafting You and hints part of the title was prophetic. Moraine later announces a compulsory army role on the Louisiana Purchase set.
Dinah Shore remains in New York after being re signed for Eddie Cantor's new program. Cantor will stay in New York and return to stage in Banjo Eyes. Rudy Vallee's show expands to a six writer and four composer team as John Barrymore sometimes ad libs the script.
Lana Turner leads Hollywood with three high profile projects. She stars opposite Spencer Tracy in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Clark Gable in Honky Tonk. Next, Johnny Eager with Robert Taylor dark underworld tale follows. Ellen Drew marries Sy Bartlett after Nevada location shoots. Paramount releases Prison Widows while The Parson of Panamint circulates.
Mildred Coles was sidelined by acute appendicitis after a week of filming Scattergood Pulls the Strings and Susan Peters filled in. Now Coles returns as leading lady in Scattergood Meets Broadway and is back in the spotlight.
Ann Sheridan to appear in The Man Who Came to Dinner and King's Row for two months while Mutual plans five championship boxing bouts this late summer and fall. Waite Hoyt, once fearless on the mound, now fears the word particularly on air. Betty Harrison, Deanna Durbin's stand-in, to debut in It Started With Adam. Tyrone Power earns fresh laurels returning to the stage at a small eastern theater.
A study of George Frederick Root, the composer behind The Battle Cry of Freedom and other Civil War era hits. Root wrote 56 war songs shaping Union morale, with hits like Just Before the Battle Mother and Tramp Tramp Tramp, and helped found a major Chicago publishing firm.
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