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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
7
Joe Utar of Dallas chair of the A and M athletic committee states Texas A M did not authorize letters in support of a candidate. The college policy is to refrain from participating in any candidacy for public office and to remain neutral.
Baton Rouge legislation ends hanging as a method of execution in Louisiana with the House approving 80 to 7 after Senate support. The plan authorizes purchase of a portable electric chair to be used in parishes carrying out death sentences, mirroring a similar move in Mississippi this year.
This guide describes making peach and citrus marmalade. Peel rind, chop, simmer with water and soda, process pulp and juice, then combine with peeled peaches and sugar to a rolling boil. Add pectin and hot paraffin, cool briefly, and yield about eleven glasses.
New York reports on the grim fate of World War I prisoners in German camps. Exposures by Red Cross and neutral visitors reveal brutal conditions, forced labor, disease, and severe confinement with many dying in camps like Mannheim Cassel and Limburg.
The article surveys treatment of POWs in wartime Europe and beyond. It notes Rastatt camps on the Rhine, varying conditions in England Austria France Italy Russia and Turkey, with details on humane care in Britain and Wales, food shortages in Italy, high mortality in Siberia and Turkey, and mistreatment of British captives after Kut el Amara.
CHATHAM Virginia August reports that potato blackleg costs the United States about 5.9 to 6 million dollars annually. J A Prickard of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station explains that weather is not the sole cause. 62 varieties of bacteria can cause the disease.
Reiner Bonde describes 62 potato related rot varieties in the agricultural journal Phytopathology. The varieties may affect corn worms and other hosts, spreading unnoticed to fields, though none appear harmful to human health.
Japanese papers today condemned President Roosevelt for drafting Col. Frank Knox and Henry L. Stimson into his cabinet as navy and war secretaries. They predicted the move would worsen Japanese American relations and some commentators called it a prelude to war. Theodore Roosevelt, aged 42, is noted as the youngest president.
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