Hitler to Reply to Roosevelt Peace Appeal on April 28
Hitler summons Reichstag for April 28 to announce his response to President Roosevelt peace proposals. Berlin Rome press attacks predict a joint Nazi Fascist rejection. Britain strengthens anti-aggressor alliance. Soviet aid to British-French coalition rumored. Mussolini meets Goering and Ciano as Hitler’s stance is said to guide discussions.
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Hitler
Reichstag
Rome
Germany
Italy
Mussolini
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Galeazzo Ciano
Bad form or good taste in a gravy joke
A humorous exchange follows a dinner date where Rastus defends using bread to sop up gravy. He quips that while it may be bad form, it is certainly good taste, highlighting playful dialect humor.
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Rastus
Liza
Willing to Serve Master Maid Dialogue
A humorous exchange where a master instructs maid Anna that he will ring three times for her, while she offers to come at the second ring, highlighting playful power dynamics and consent in a domestic setting.
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Anna
Navy Life from Billy Montgomery Aboard USS Hopkins
Billy E Montgomery writes from the U S S Hopkins detailing a secret early 1940s voyage from San Diego to Balboa. He describes maneuvers, canal transit, refueling, and life on a destroyer including rough seas, sleep on gun decks, and coffee rations. He visits Guan tanamo Bay Cuba Haiti and Puerto Rico, noting shipboard drills, a 90 mile overland trip to Le Citadel, and a crash scene visit. He signs off from Port au Prince and recounts daily routines, shipboard conditions, and mail delays.
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Billy Earl Montgomery
Mark Montgomery
U. S. S. Hopkins
Navy
San Diego
Balboa
Diego
Idaho
Colon
Atlantic
Limon Bay
U. S
Gatun
Canal
Haiti
Guantanamo Bay
Yorktown
Cuba
Island of
Santiago
Cervera
Port Au Prince
le Citadel
New York
San Juan
Porta Rica
Culebra
Virgin Isles
Isles
Porto Rico
Gonavus
Billy E. Montgomery
Texas Highway Danger Spots Survey Reveals 42863 Hazards
State Highway Department and U S Bureau of Public Roads report 42863 danger spots on 20000 miles of Texas highways an average of over two per mile. Excessive curves grades and intersections with inadequate or limited view identified. driving speeds have worsened risk. Montgomery urges greater highway construction expenditure to reduce hazards.
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State Highway Department
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Julian Montgomery
Austin
Highway Department
Montgomery
Boy in Oklahoma City Almost Hangs Self
A 13-year-old boy, facing alleged family troubles, attempted suicide to escape shame from ragged clothes and absence of a mother. He cited his father’s life term for murder and a stepfather’s drunken driving charge. Police found the mother intoxicated in a beer parlor. He was placed in the custody of the man who saved his life.
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Oklahoma City
Lloyd White
Why do snowflakes dance during winter days
A playful exchange imagines snowflakes as dancers practicing for snowball battles, treating winter whimsy as rehearsal. The lighthearted line blends meteorology with imagination, hinting at childlike wonder in a snowy scene.
Marchers Demand HOLC Foreclosure Relief at Capitol
Several hundred protesters from New York and Northeastern states marched on the Capitol to press HOLC for lower mortgage rates and a foreclosure moratorium. They delivered a committee to meet John H Fahey as they filled the House banking committee hearing room. The group sought rate cuts to 3 percent, a 30 year amortization, abolishing deficiency judgments, and a two year principal moratorium.
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Washington
New York City
Capitol
Home Owners Loan Corporation
John H. Fahey
House Banking Committee
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
HOLC
Matthew Napear
Alex Rose
American Labor Party
Dust Bowl Priest Develops Quickmaturing Corn
In Waukomis Oklahoma priest Father H B Mandelartz claims a new corn variety matures in 62 days enabling early June harvests. The former Mount Angel College biology professor says the hardy drought resistant ears combine traits of ancient and modern corn, potentially aiding agriculture in Oklahoma and southern states.
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Waukomis
Okla
Oklahoma
Southwestern
Dust Bowl
Parish
H. B. Mandelartz
Drouth
Mandelartz
Garfield County
J. B. Hurst
Mount Angel College of
Oregon
700-Pound Woman Moved Down Plank Runway in New York
Mrs Samuel Sem ler 40 of Brooklyn weighing 700 pounds was moved from her home to a hospital for bronchial pneumonia after 18 policemen two ambulance drivers and surgeons plus bystanders assisted. They built a four plank runway to carry her down stairs using a canvas net and belts as aids and used oxygen during the descent.
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New York
Samuel Semler
Brooklyn
Upkeep Jibe Sparks Barber Wage Talk at Fair Exhibit
Exchange by a customer and barber at the 1939 New York World's Fair North Beach Airport exhibit reveals women’s haircuts cost more than men’s. The airport project cost 15 million dollars to complete.
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North Beach
Hints For The Housewife Highlights Everyday Tasks
Practical home hints cover heating milk to prevent overflow, peeling new potatoes with a pot cleaner, furniture care on a davenport, fabric tinting cleanliness, paint odor reduction with hay in water, slow drying of shoes, preventing egg breakage with a funnel method, and baking soda cleaning for refrigerators of all types.
Go North, Young Man Says Eskimos Health Secret
A Canadian doctor returning from eastern Arctic regions reports unusually low disease rates among Eskimos. Heart and lung ailments are less frequent than among white populations, and generally health improves with distance north. The article notes Eskimos live healthfully without salt, defying expectations about Arctic living.
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Arctic
Eskimo Living Habits Challenge Popular Beliefs
The article notes Eskimo diets include salty foods and questions the vigor of Arctic life. It states half of North America's Eskimos have never seen a snow house and only a few have slept in one. Snow houses are usually made of whalebone frames with skin, built only when materials run out as emergency shelters.
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North America
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