Five Power Conference Aims To Resolve Danzig Crisis
Winding through European diplomacy the piece outlines Mussolini's shift to curb war over Danzig, with plans for a five power conference including Germany Italy Poland Britain and France. It notes Mussolini's aims to gain colonial concessions and predicts strained Anglo French plans if Moscow talks falter. In Washington Senator Russell unveils a certificate plan to aid farmers and shift parity payments, while wheat export subsidies extend to July 31 1940 and crop forecasts drop on hot dry weather.
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Jong
France
Britain
Danzig
Germany
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Sudetenland
Rome-Berlin
der Fuehrer
Il Duce
Galeazzo Ciano
Salzburg
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Ciano
Hitler
Mussolini
Munich
Vatican
London
League
Kurl J. Burckhardt
Berchtesga
Paris
Washington
Georgia
Richard B. Russell Jr
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Agriculture: Food Script to Be Used Nationwide
Agriculture officials report that orange and blue stamps as relief aid evolved into a universal food script. Secretary Henry A. Wallace announced plans to implement the program nationwide after successful trials distributing surplus commodities to relief families and non-relief groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry A. Wallace
Business and labor clash over Congress actions
The piece notes Congress failed to fully boost recovery and ease business tax and labor woes, pushing business and labor into national politics. NAM president Coonley urges a conservative trend with more positive action, including Wagner Act amendment, while CIO VP Murray advocates a national unemployment conference to tackle relief.
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Congress
Howard Coonley
National Association of Manufacturers
Washington
LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee
Coontey
N. A.M
Phillip Murray
John Lewis
Public Dog House
John Garner
Roosevelt
Murray
America
I. O
Wagner
Arrow heads to Carlin Nevada in the news
Across the same page Rio de Janeiro also figures, signaling a world snapshot. The questions point to a wealthy newspaper publisher indicted for income tax evasion. The Manila infant’s heart issue is noted. A quiz at column end asks if Congress appropriated 13,000,060,000 for 1939 40.
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Carlin
Nev
Rio de Janiero
Manila
Congress
Roosevelts 1940 outlook fuels party realignment
Post session clashes between Congress and the White House spark forecasts for 1940. Roosevelt touts progress on the court budget reform, warns of a Democratic bolt over a conservative platform, and draws varied replies from Sen. Burke, Rep. Rayburn, Sen. Nye, and Sen. Lundeen on party fate and potential liberal coalitions.
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Congress
Democratic Party
Nebraska
Edward R. Burke
Roosevelt
Texas
Sam Rayburn
Fort Worth
Minnesota
Farmer
White House
Train derailment in sabotage plot kills twenty
A passenger train collision resulting from an apparent sabotage plot leaves twenty dead and forty injured as authorities probe the attack and assess security lapses. The incident sparks a national debate on rail safety and anti sabotage measures.
Ellsworth and Byrd share polar quest and fame
NEA service profiles Lincoln Ellsworth as a wealth born explorer returning to Antarctica to pursue scientific aims, contrasting with political motives of other nations. Born 1880 in Chicago, he debarked into engineering, rail surveys, gold prospects, wartime aviation, and collaborations with Roald Amundsen, culminating in the 1926 dirigible North Pole flight and later explorations. Also featured is British biochemist J B S Haldane, famed for extreme self experiments, fatigue studies, and his book Daedalus, earning the tag G B Shaw of Science.
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Ney York
Elleworth
Antarctica
Lincoln Ellsworth
Admiral Byrd
Mr. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Chicago
Hill School
Pottstown
Columbia
Raoul Amundsen
Paris
North Pole
Daedalus
G. B. Shaw
Science
Finland busy preparing for 1940 Olympic Games stadium ready
Finland speeds up preparations for the 12th Olympic Games to be held in Helsinki in 1940. English and German courses spread among service workers and vendors as Finns study languages to greet visiting nations. The new stadium seats 60 000, built 1934 last year, with a 400 meter track and grassy infield for football and other events.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Mational
Seogrgphle Hoe Society
Helsinki
Lotta Sward
Paavo Nurmi
Finand
Russia
Stockholm
Hannes Kolehmainen
Paavo Nurmi l
Egyptians Build All Weather Road Across Sinai
Egyptians construct a new all weather road across Sinai linking Ismailia on the Suez Canal to the northern Suez area. The route aims to shorten weather delays for troop movement between Palestine and Egypt, reducing washout risks on the southern path near Suez. The piece notes Sinai’s biblical associations and the enduring landscape amid air travel and rail activity.
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Biblical
Sinai
Africa
Asia
Red Sea
Heyptian
Palestine
Egypt
Ismaila
Suez
Sunel
Mary
Mount Sinai
Moses
Sina
Germanic People Find New Homes On Foreign Soils
The article surveys the global distribution of Germanic people and German-speaking communities. It cites Dr Heinrich Bruening in Germany, estimates German minorities across Europe, Volga Germans in the Soviet Union, Liechtenstein’s stance on economic union, and German-stock populations in the United States led by New York State, noting notable individuals like Bruening, Lotte Lehman, and Marlene Dietrich, plus Latin American Germans numbering about one million.
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Germany
Memel
Moravia-Bohemia
Reich
France
Poland
Rumania
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Italy
Latvia
Denmark
Lithuania
Estonia
Belgium
Crimean Soviet Republic
Middle Volga
Soviet Russia
Volga-German Republic
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
United States
New York State
Heinrich Bruening
German Republic
Harvard University
Lottie Lehman
Marlene Dietrich
Latin America
Dish Towels Marked In Your Hand Writing
Ruth Wyeth Spears offers a simple method to label towels with handwriting, tracing from paper or by direct script, then outlining with colored embroidery thread. It promotes distinct colors per towel and decorative bias binding edges. Also announces Sewing Book No 3 for homemakers, 32 ideas, 10 cents postpaid, send name and address to Mrs Spears Chicago.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
S. Desplaines St
Chicago
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Duce
Western Newspaper Union
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Ciano Danzig
Howard Hughes
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TWA
Campobello
N. S
Langley Field
Army
San Diego
Navy
Oregon
Idaho
Ariz
Calif
Nevada
Politics
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Rayburn
Miami
Rio de Janeiro
Rilo Harbor
Ming
Moses Annenberg
Philadelphia
Budget Bureau
Kentucky
Abben Barkley
John Taber
By Lemuel F. Parton
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Canada
Northwest
Grand Trunk
Prince Rupert
B. C
Peace River District
Haldane
Thotis
Oxford
Consolidated Features
WNU Service
Sen
Bellsang
Age of Bellans
Lydia E. Pinkham
Grover Cleveland
Lice
WMLN
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Nature
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