Duke of Windsor reveals Wallis Simpson left him to save throne
In Life magazine installments the former king recaps Wallis Simpson's decision to leave and his choice to stay kingless. He recalls the abdication crisis and her resolve that he remain on the throne despite personal cost.
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England
Life Magazine
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Winston Churchill
Churchill
Stanley Baldwin
Officials Who Should Know Dispute American Strength
Senator Margaret Chase Smith analyzes reader questions on U S defense readiness and wartime mobilization. She advocates stronger reserves and national guard training and critiques NSRB leadership while warning against concentrating power in a single chairman. The piece reflects interagency debate during wartime planning.
Five Die In Flaming Midland Scot Train Crash
Beattock Scotland June 9 five passengers died as a Birmingham Glasgow express burned through three coaches. Witnesses saw flames sweep corridors and jumped to safety. A man woman and two children perished in the first coach behind the engine. jewelry valued at £10000 was reported missing from the wreck.
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Winesses
Moffatt
Beattock
Albert Bastien
Bastien
Combination Bed From Thompson Furniture
Classified ad lists a combination bed sold by Thompson Furniture at EB. St. with contact phone 23433. The brief item highlights a compact bedroom furniture option priced at 43 dollars.
Mission to Rebuild Hiroshima Church Proposed by Augustana
Dr S Hjalmar Swanson head of Augustana Lutheran foreign missions seeks to establish a new mission at Hiroshima to honor 44 communicants killed in the 1945 atomic bombing. He notes Hiroshima has no current Augustana mission and Japan doors are open for missionary work amid postwar reconstruction.
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Johnson
National Security Resources Board
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Vinson
Truman
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Government faced with record dairy stockpile amid weak markets
Washington reports a massive surplus of butter cheese and dried milk valued at about 125 million dollars. The Agriculture Department holds 137 million pounds of butter 250 million pounds of dried milk and 43.5 million pounds of cheese bought under price support. Officials say they cannot sell at government prices and must store or seek relief use. Lifting margarine tax may hasten shifts from butter to margarine, increasing storage burden. New York notes a 4.41 billion dollar gain in construction contracts for January to May, a peacetime high.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Million Bucks Go To Local Resident
Tucson resident Mrs. Ruby Dickey Bartges won a $1,575,000 divorce settlement in district court, half of her former husband George P. Dickey’s estate, after five years of litigation. Judge Walsh found Dickey amassed millions after their 1924 marriage and ruled Bartges was entitled to half the estate valued at $3.9 million at the divorce. Bartges later remarried Warren Bartges.
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Ruby Dickey Bartges
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Ariz
George P. Dickey
Kansas
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Walsh
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Private contract awards rise in weekly totals
Friday evening figures show 206,467,000 the previous week and 226,161,000 the like week last year. Private contracts account for 128,391,000 of the week’s total, versus 100,340 the prior week and 137,000 in the year-ago period. The first 23 weeks total 4,844,542,000, up 43 percent from a year earlier.
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Murphey Realty & Mortgage CO
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Pveres
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
White’s Jewelers
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White's Jewelers
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Electric Light & Power Company
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