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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
2
Uncle Sam needs clerks typists nurses doctors border patrolmen sundry staff to carry on big work nationwide. Enclose 14 cents to get your copy of Getting a Job with the U S Government from Readedoureside Service in New York City.
A couple dined at a restaurant and found the husband could not pay the bill. He offered his wife as security, prompting the proprietor to ask for an alternative. The husband retorted that his wife was worth more than a dollar, while the proprietor replied that he already had a wife.
Ad Dy Vinginia Vale and Rita Hayworth are highlighted for co starring opposite Fred Astaire in Columbia’s Has My Uncle with Cole Porter songs and Robert Altman directing dance sequences. Bing Crosby radio guests reveal Naish’s singing baritone, and Elia Neal’s rapid three film week. Gloria Swanson’s potential return in Father Takes a Wife. Joan Crawford receives a two foot birthday autographed card. Also notes on Bernie’s quiz show twist and several project updates from Gordon G. Gallas, Lana Turner, and REO Michell Arlen with The Green George.
An editor’s note introduces a weekly analysis by Edward C. Wayne on the Balkan front where Germans, Greeks, and British incur heavy losses amid fierce combat. The piece also reports that U S citizens will endure higher taxes to fund a national defense bill.
German blitz in Greece drives rapid Greek collapse as King George II flees to Crete and Athens faces potential evacuation. Debacle centers at Thermopylae Pass with British and Greek troops withdrawing amid heavy losses and censorship. Economic toll feared as Nazi Balkan conquest may disrupt supply channels.
A House committee nearly approved President Roosevelts 3.5 billion tax plan to fund national defense but opposition signaled later debate. The plan would raise income taxes, widen surcharges on childless pairs and lower brackets, hit insurers and banks, and add the 4 percent tax with surtaxes starting at 2000. Treasury estimates say the changes could raise about a billion dollars yearly.
There was no doubt that price trends affected the coal strike as Leon Henderson loomed in discussion. The strike situation, though improved, was not yet resolved. Roosevelt’s personal appeal to southern coal operators to renegotiate with northern operators and workers yielded some fruit, but rapid settlement remained uncertain.
Mrs Pierre Clemenceau and her son Paul step from a Clipper plane at LaGuardia after arriving from Lisbon. The image highlights a tiny American flag as a possible symbol of the Clemenceaus new haven in the city.
The fragment discusses Allied naval actions in North Africa around Tripoli and Tobruk, noting British bombardment and siege efforts. It mentions Barida and Tobruk defenses, the attempt to raise the siege, and Japanese and Dutch reactions in the broader Axis theater.
Fragmentary notes describe how tanks were used in World War I tests before public debut. Early models moved covertly to avoid alarming the enemy and to study formation changes. The nine stock ranks appeared in the September 15 1916 British assault on Flers.
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