Sweden Fears Attack Across Norway Front
International News Service reports amid wartime communications cuts in Scandinavia that German troops deserting into Sweden prompt an official appeal to German soldiers. Norway's coast and borders are sealed, shipping restricted, and Oslo garrison expanded as Stockholm weighs the risk of Allied invasion and Sweden’s vulnerable position if Norway falls.
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London
INS
Norway
Sweden
Oslo
F. Kenhorst
Swedis
Nord
Stockholm
Svenska Morgenbladet
Falkenhorst
Iceland
Allehanda
Petsamo
Finland
Denmark
Germany
Uncle Sam Attacks Big Bad Wolf in Rapides Parish
In Alexandria Louisiana authorities report federal aid to farmers as the wolf problem grows. The parish police jury approved a project with the Federal Interb dungeon? of the sharing expenses of a trapping expert to control roaming wolf packs. Several other Louisiana areas have faced roaming wolf issues threatening calves pigs and hogs.
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Alexandria
Rapides Parish
Parish
Federal
Tnter
Trolley Car Fans in St. Louis Ride City Lines for Fun
More than 100 members of the Electric Railroading Association in St. Louis joined a five hour street car excursion over city and suburban routes. Enthusiasts trade recollections and marvel at collections of maps equipment and transfers while drivers enjoy the ride and friendly waves to onlookers. The Public Service Transportation Company grants semi annual outing access using city cars.
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St. Louis
Electric Railroaders Association
Von
Pyravataes
Somechi
Coun
Edwin A. Schell
Public Service Transportation Company
Wartime Paper Goes Home War Use Expands Into Everyday Goods
Wartime paper use shifts from military to household items with over 5 000 grades of paper for war. Douglas Malcolm notes impregnated paper aids Army Navy and aviation, creating water resistant materials and new home products like paper stoves fireproof baking tools and containers for cosmetics and toothpaste. The trend includes rainwear and fashionable kitchen accessories reflecting broad wartime innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
Douglas Malcolm
Aviation
Raincoas
Z Mandnes
Names In the News And How to Pronounce Them
FRANK COLBY provides pronunciation guides for leaders and places in eastern Europe and the Ukraine. Examples include Ramirez, Ion Antonescu, and city names like Dnepropetrovsk Pavlograd Poltava Desna and Melitopol with tips on syllable stress and vowel sounds.
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Frank Colby
Pedro Ramirez
Argentina
Ramirez
Ion Antonescu
Rumania
Ion
John
Vovorossiisk
Russian
Black Sea
Dnepropetrovsk
Ukraine
Pronunciation Guide for Italian Town Names in Wartime
The passage explains anglicized and Italian pronunciations for Ventotene and Padova Padua, noting Ventotene’s location near Naples and Padova’s relation to Venice. The English and Italian forms are given with phonetic cues to aid readers during Allied occupation coverage.
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Ventotene
Naples
Padua
Venice
Pad-Yoouh
Padova
Graduation a Habit for Soldier
Aviation Cadet Roper O. Prady of Monroe, North Carolina, twice earned college diplomas in one year. He received one diploma as a civilian from Wofford College, then a second during a five month pre flight course under the Army Air Corps, after three and a half years at the same college.
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Spartansburg
S. C. Upi
Roper O. Prady
Monroe
N. C
Purdy
Army Air Corps
Wofford College
Wofford
Memphis woman cites marshmallow trap mishap
Miss Elizabeth Bigger reported a pet mishap after giving her cocker spaniel a marshmallow to play with. The dog discarded the treat and later became stuck when a marshmallow remained on the kitchen floor, trapping the mouse.
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Memphis
Tenn
Elizabeth Bigger
Turtle Graduates But Not College
Lyons Kansas UPI report tells of a husband who bought a tiny turtle for his wife and kept substituting slightly larger ones as it grew. The wife celebrated the growth, unaware the animal was changing, until the husband finally revealed the prank after cycles of rapid and then stunted growth.
Spontaneous Growth in Boise Garden Mystery
Idaho woman Mrs. Dewey Sorenson planted flower bulbs in a paper sack on a garage shelf and forgot them. Later that summer she discovered them blooming with 12 inch stalks, growing without water or sunlight.
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Boise
Idaho
Dewey Sorenson
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Lowell Bennett
International News Service
Aent
Uncle Sam
Big Bad Wolf
U.S
Amiens- Glisy
France
Sicily
Italy
UNION
Famous Lane
Cole
Kroehler
Scranton
Posture
Axminster
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