Canton Missionary Reported Safe After Burma Road Trip
Miss Loma Ruth Housley, Canton missionary to West China, reached Chengtu safely after a hazardous Burma road journey from Rangoon. A Ventura California radio relay on Feb 28 confirmed her safe arrival, with parents Rev and Mrs E L Housley learning of her status March 9. Chengtu’s 750,000 population and the challenging route via Lashio Kumning and Chungking are noted.
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Canton
Burma
Ventura
Calif
Rangoon
Loma Ruth Housley
West China
Chengtu
China
E. L. Housley
Tuscara
St FE
Chosen
Fla
Chungking
XCCY
Housleys
Charles E. Stuart
Burma Road
Miss Housley
Wayside
Russia has winning power praised by Detroit speakers
Maurice Boyajian of Detroit told Optimist and Optimisws clubs at Courtland hotel that Russia with 20 million fighting men can defeat Hitler and deserve Allied respect. He noted Turkey may cooperate while Russia stays with the Allies and recalled Armenia's history before German tribes. Also Optimist members were inducted and plans were made for a Red Cross benefit bridge tea on April 10 at Mrs. Smiley's Avondale home. next meeting April 17 at the Elks club.
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Russia
Hitler
Maurice Boyajian
Detroit
Optimist
Optiwives
Courtland
Boyajian
Armenia
Detroit College of Law
Turkey
America
John Blum
Carl Peirce
Optimist Club
E. C. Roberts
Optimissus
Red Cross
Robert Smiley
Avondale
Elks Club
Hitler Foresees Early Downfall, Welles States
Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, said Hitler knows his downfall is near after Hitler’s Berlin speech. He cited Hitler predicting Russia’s destruction next summer and Roosevelt’s failure to build a new Europe, urging the world against Hitlerism and tyranny.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sumner Welles
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Berlin
Russia
Roosevelt
Europe
Welles
United Nations
Ice Breakers Ready to Open Mackinac
The Great Lakes coastguard commander Capt. W. A. Benham said ice breaking would start Thursday in the Straits of Mackinac and the St. Marys river by the ferry Sainte Marie and four tugs. This will allow ore freighters to reach the head of the lakes for ore cargoes and coal from lower lake ports to enter Lake Michigan.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
W. A. Benham
Great Lakes
OpA Urges Motorists to Save Anti Freeze
From The Repository Bureau the office of price administration asked filling station operators to impress on motorists the necessity for draining and saving the anti-freeze from their radiators for use next winter. A successful campaign against waste will save millions of gallons of anti-freeze at a time when every gallon of alcohol is needed to make explosives.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Post To Be Liberal Independent Weekly
Two editors take over the Saturday Evening Post and pledge liberal independent policy with a wartime duty to voice constructive criticism. Ben Hibbs, 40, leads the change while distancing the policy from the New Deal and any political faction.
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Post TO Be‘liberal’ Independent Weekly
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Post
Ben Hibbs
Kansas
Wesley Wanans Stout
Hibbs
New Deal
Elk Island Park totals rise as buffalo decline noted
The department of mines and resources reports growing big game numbers in Elk Island National Park. Buffalo slaughtered in the early winter totaled 510, yet by the end of 1941 the herd reached 1,129 with 263 calves born that year. Counts show 550 elk, 144 moose, and many deer, tracing a long-term wildlife trend from 1906.
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Elk Island National Park
Department of Mines and Resources
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Loma Housley
West China Post
Mackinac
Barrett Everlox
Korbin & Froelich Construction CO
Calvert
Calvert Distillers Corporation
New York City
Canada
The
Ottawa, Can
Harry
Leo
Lil
Mas
Arrow
Lee
Lane Cedar Chest
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