Peace and Victory: Westbrook Pegler Warns of German Japanese Threat
Westbrook Pegler argues the United States must win decisively or face total subjugation. He warns Germany and Japan would destroy freedoms, impose brutal rule across the Pacific Coast, and erase American civilization if the Allies fail. He urges hard, uncompromising action to prevent another Holocaust-like fate at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
United States
Poland
France
Norway
Japan
Pacific
West Coast
Hangman
Berlin
Bund
Tobruk
Aleutians
Germany
Bushmasters: Southwestern Pioneers Train for Jungle Warfare
A northwestern Army training camp hosts a new unit called the Bushmasters. Comprised of selected engineers from Arizona and other regions, they are heavily armed for jungle operations in the Caribbean and Panama area. They use machete heavy arms and Indian radio coded communications, led by Col. J. Prugh Herndon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
United States
Engineer
Caribbean
Panama Canal
Tucson
Arizona
Col. J. Prugh Herndon
Intibuca
Honduras
Southwest
East
The Life-Guard's Sales-Talk On War Bonds
The piece attacks wartime bond and stamp sales as a misapplied salesmanship. It argues government sales lack true profit motive and warns against treating bonds as a market game. It likens urging investment to a life guard proving swimming helps on a cruise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Hitler
Two World Leaders Share Eighth Cousin Link via John Cooke
The editor of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record asserts that Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are eighth cousins once removed through ancestor John Cooke. The finding, supported by the society’s imprimatur, notes a 250 piece Yankee lineage linking Churchill to early Plymouth colonists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
New York
Bible of Genealogy
John Cooke
Plymouth
Mr. Churchill
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Adolf Schickelgruber
Proverbialist, King George II Meet at Steve Vasilakos Stand
The article recalls a meeting between Steve Vasilakos a Washington peanut vender with is naturalized status and two Greek soldiers and King George II of Greece at his peanut and popcorn stand near the White House. It notes Steve’s long tenure and a past eviction threatened but reversed with President Roosevelt’s help. It mentions Lexington as a symbol and hints at wartime sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Vasilakos
Washington
George II
Greece
White House
Steve
Roosevelt
Crete
North Africa
Atlantic
Tings
Pianuts
War era scrap drives affect infant carriages in rationing order
In a wartime note the text suggests baby carriages are repurposed for scrap under priority rules. It mocks Goebbels as a self styled truth lover and implies a trapped, constrained plight for a girl amid restrictive censorship.
The Sheriff and His Six Scooters
Arthur Baer humor column describes a Wild West scene with rustlers and a sheriff who prefers six-scooters. A Texas cowman lassoes a tire thief, Emily’s rope episode is cited, and a teen dream of piloting a Flying Fortress appears in a playful editorial tone.
Union Bigs Crowd WPB With Demands Amid War Strain
Washington dispatch notes rising union pressure aimed at war production, with Jobs feared as strikes surge to 3–8 daily since Pearl Harbor. UAW seeks substantial gains at Chrysler. WPB sees about 200 labor cases, 125 ongoing, no wage pattern set. Rommel outflanked Tobruk, driving British forces toward Egypt before regrouping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Washington
WPB
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corporation
FDR
Ryan Aeronautical
Mallon siege and Libyan campaign critique in war dispatch
The piece argues the Tobruk defense gained time for readiness while blaming British leadership in the Libyan campaign. It rebuts claims that German 88 mm guns were in tanks, notes the General Grant tank performed well with limited traverse, and asserts Allied tanks and tactics could have won with better command despite Nazi artillery effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tobruk
Malta
Rommel
Egypt
Mallon
Europe
Libya
Grant
Small War Plants board race in Washington sparks debate
Washington debates who leads the Small War Plants corporation with $200 million in defense funds. Nominees include Louis Holland and Pete Nehemkis while Mark Brown and Sidney Weinberg push for influence. a separate note praises aplite as an effective incendiary extinguisher and patent plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
England
Beaverbrook
United States
Congress
Small War Plants Corporation
Jim Murray
Montana
Jim Mead
New York
Nelson
Mark Brown
Chicago
Brown
Sidney Weinberg
Wall Street
Louis Holland
Kansas City
Holland
Tive
SWPC
Pete Nehemkis
Elizabeth Brandeis
University of Wisconsin
Supreme Court
U. S. Geological Survey
Aplite
Virginia
Dominion Minerals Co
Edgewood Arsenal
Army Chemical Warfare Service
Interior and Justice Departments
Interior Department
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Westbrook Pegler
Little John W. Public
Duffel
Lexington
Southwest Pacific
Goebbels
Gal
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Baer
Burma Road
Texas
Emily
Eoe
Wild West
Detrol
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
L.A.B
Rochester
N. Y
John A. Ross
L. E. Rehner
Navy
Clifford
Detroit
Michigan
H.H.E
Camden
N. J
National Inventors’ Council
Miami
Florida
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