Global Tensions Rise as Axis Divides Over Mediterranean
A European lineup shows Germany and Italy refusing to attend a Nyon conference to curb Mediterranean piracy while Britain Russia and France press ahead. Eden backs non intervention while ships seek safe passage. Far East tensions grow as US advised evacuations and Shanghai anxieties mount amid Japanese pressure and Chinese resistance. The war in Asia escalates with Amoy bombardment, big push rumors, and Kalgan capture.
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Dolf Nitler
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Nuremberg
Europe
Japanese Says China Must Submit In East Asia War
Emperor Hirohito and Foreign Minister Hirota assert Japan’s aim to force China to cooperate and end hostilities. They defend ongoing war funding as necessary to counter China’s mobilization and to secure a stable North China, with parliament reviewing a $592 million appropriation, lifting Japan’s war chest to $737 million.
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China
Kohi Hirota
Yapco
Hirohito
Nippon
Japan
Asia
Ching
Hirota
Untion
Army Rushes Completion of New West Air Center
Army fast tracks completion of Sacramento West Air Center by January 1999, to serve as a major maintenance base for all Army aircraft west of the Rockies. The depot sits on 1.2 square miles, seven miles northeast of the state capital, with vast steel and concrete facilities, a military post, and a two story equipment repair building featuring dustproof, climate controlled instrument rooms and a main office block 300 by 76 feet tall three stories.
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Rocky Mountains
Cnpla
Tiwa
World War II Air Base Likely To Feature Three Runways
Major Arthur W. Parker outlines a massive base with three 4 000 foot by 160 foot concrete runways and a 13 acre engineering and repair dock. The complex includes a ten acre supply depot, civilian staff for 600, and a military force of 250 to 400 officers and 150 enlisted men.
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Arthur W. Parker
Cure of Leprosy Claim Stirs Rhodesia Court
In Rhodesia a native leprosy patient carried to a commissioner's office was initially deemed incurable by a medical officer. A local witch doctor accompanied him and pledged a cure. Three months later the patient was declared fully cured, while the practitioner offered no method, only a drastic “kill to cure” suggestion.
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Bulawayo
Rhodesia
Plan to Restore Boone Home in St. Charles Missouri
The last home of Daniel Boone in St. Charles is to be restored to its original appearance. Colonel Francis Marion Curlee of St. Louis, a Boone descendant, owns the house built by Major Nathan Boone in 1310 with thick walls and adze finishing. Furnishings are largely reproductions.
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Daniel Boone
St. Charles
Francis Marion Cutlee
St. Louis
Boone
John
Henry Bollman
Dollman
Colonel Curlee
Nathan Boone
Colonel Curjee
Chainstitch on Dress Guides Lost Girl Home
An eight year old, Catherine Freeman, saved by a chainstitch reading 1001 A street Washington DC on her dress. She was returning from South Carolina where her grandmother lives and was to be met by her mother at the station but the mother was delayed. The dress marking helped authorities locate her.
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Washington
Catherine Freeman
South Carolina
Catherine
Inside a Pioneer Era Home Dining Room and Library
The article describes a basement dining room with south light, a ceiling of massive timbers, native brick floor, Windsor furniture, and an old sideboard. A kerichy long rifle hangs over the fireplace. The first floor has no other rooms besides the living area. The second floor holds three rooms reached by a hall turned library with about 2,000 books including Boone and a dueling code collection.
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Fred
Boone
Jadwiga Jadrejowska Dominates Final in Rys Match
The Polish star Jadwiga Jadrejowska defeats American champion Alcea Marble in the tennis finals at Rys N Y U. The victory highlights Jadrejowska's power, skill, and relentless pace, showing her gripping determination in a high pressure finish.
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Jadwiga Jadrejowska
Alcea Marble
Rys
N. Yu
Jadwiga
Why Paw Paw Michigan Earns Its Name
Townsfolk in Paw Paw Michigan explain the origin of the name. Attendants reveal the Paw Paw river and local paw paw trees inspired the name, not fathers. Indians named the river first, and in 1847 Lafayette township was renamed Paw Paw, echoing a simple but enduring tale.
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Michigan
Paw Vaw
Mich
Paw Paw
Paw Paws
Lafayette
Six Twins Enter First Grade at St Stephen’s School
Three sets of twins are enrolled to start the first grade class at St Stephen’s parochial school in September in the upper parish.
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Nilez
St. Stephen's
Uere
Something Varied Rare in Crochet Pattern 1402
Crochet lovers can fashion 10 inch companion squares from string yarn to create varied designs in cloth spreads or scarves. Pattern 1402 includes directions charts photographs and material requirements. Send 15 cents to The Sowing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
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Eighth Ave
New York
Mermaids Vanishing Species Digongs Sea Cow
The mermaids described are dugongs, sea cows once abundant in the Indian and South Atlantic oceans. Due to relentless hunting for meat and oil and shark predation on young, these creatures are becoming extremely rare and may soon be extinct.
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South Atlantic
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