United States for War Tasks and Production Push
President Roosevelt declares an unlimited national emergency as Europe nears the U S. He urges all citizens to sacrifice and vows support for Britain and allies. The article covers defense orders, training, naval expansion, selective service, labor mediation, farm labor, navy plans, and civilian housing.
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Roosevelt
U. S
Britain
Selective Service
Hershey
Gen. Hershey
Agriculture
Wickard
Atlantic Seaboard
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
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Patterson
New York
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Maritime Commission
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United States
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Harvard
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War Department
Air Corps
Leon Henderson
New England
middle-Atlantic
Defense
Palmer
Labor
Perkins
National Nutrition Conference For Defense
Parran
The
Public Health Service
Disease control through mosquito education and housing protection
Health guidance explains malaria transmission by the female Anopheles mosquito and stresses education and preventive actions. It urges screening homes with 16–mesh screens, sealing openings, and eliminating standing water where larvae develop, noting a twelve to fourteen day life cycle in summer.
Abolish airguns as birds fall to children in McKinney
McKinney residents urge action after airguns drive birds from shade trees, leaving insects to multiply. The McKinney Examiner calls for banning airguns, noting parents know better yet act carelessly as children hunt birds.
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McKinney
Farmers approve wheat marketing quotas by wide margin
In a county vote farmers backed rigid marketing quotas by 392 611 to 95 345 nearly 80 percent. The measure gives the Agriculture Department power to set quotas and levy a 48 cent bushel penalty for noncompliance, with an 85 percent parity loan for quota holders.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
Echoes of Luxury On The French Riviera
The Riviera shows a faded glamour with luxury hotels only a fifth full and crowds mostly gone. Rich visitors are few, travel by bicycle, and villas lie shuttered while yachts cluster in the harbor. Food is costly and scarce, with about 2,700 British and over 700 Americans remaining.
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Cannes
France
Riviera
Uninvited Buck Crashes Through Window During Dinner
In Iron Mountain Michigan Mrs John Angela planned a dinner but a buck deer burst through the kitchen window landing on the table and fleeing to a bedroom. She restrained the animal until conservation officers arrived to take it away. Sell it with a Sun Want Ad.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
John Angela
Angela
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U. S. Conciliation Service
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Madison
Wis
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Barbara Scully
Frank Harnaday
Martha Baron
Opera Under the Stars
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Geo. W. Cox
Austin
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Whitewright, Texas
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