Handley Library notes on wartime reading list
A library note outlines recommended wartime books and defense training texts. It lists works by Halsey Struther Davies Yutang Snow Bromfield Forster Sassoon and Maugham among many on international affairs and home defense. It promotes books like Civil Air Defense and Aircraft Spotter and invites borrowing at Handley Library.
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United Nations
Margaret Halsey
Mrs. Miniver
Jan Struther
Moscow
Joseph Davies
Leo Bolstoy
Louis Bromfield
Australia
C. H. Grattan
G.M. Wrong
Siegfried Sassoon
A. M. Prentiss
Tecton
Peter Ott
Marcus Langley
C. B. ‘Ole
Don’ts for Pimples and Skin Irritations Ad
Don’t scratch or squeeze pimples you may infect yourself. Don’t suffer from it a ree Ples eczema angry red blotches soothe look better feel better 35¢ all druggists. Money back if one application does not delight you. Peterson’s Ointment also soothes irritated tired or itchy feet and cracks between toes.
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Peterson
Knotty problem given Uncle Sam for a decision
Detroit July 8 The case of Joseph W Ehasz 27 of Washington PA challenged Recorder Judge John J Angson who said a Solomon could not solve it but Uncle Sam might The defendant a war plant worker used subterfuge to juggle two women wife Rosyina and Mary Jane MacDonald who appeared as Mrs Ehasz The court noted Ehasz was reclassified and placed on probation until drafted with both women seeking him back
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Detroit
Joseph W. Ehasz
Washington
Recorder
John J. Rngson
Solomon
Sam
Ehasz
Rosylena
Mary Jane MacDonald
Trans
Mary Jane
Rosyina
Pennsylvania
Mrs. Lloyd Bradley Given Position
Joan Hopkins Hall Jr from Appomattox is appointed principal clerk in the statistical division of the Department of Labor in Richmond. A native of Appomattox she has lived in Richmond several years and is a graduate of Appomattox High School Averett College and a business college.
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Richmond
Joan Hopkins Hall, Jr
Labor Commis
Appomattox
Statistical Division
Department of Labor
Business College
Averett College
Danvill
Judge Fines Boy Over Bike Lockup Incident
A judge tells a boy he must pay five dollars or have his bike locked up for 15 days. The boy cannot pay, and explains his father has locked the bike after a ticket was issued. The judge quips that the father beat him to the lockup, as a local fudge shop clerk observes.
Heart Ailments Continue Lead In Virginia Mortality
Virginia mortality from 1941 shows heart disease as the top killer with 6,862 deaths, followed by cerebral hemorrhage, nephritis, accidents, cancer, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. Declines are noted in typhoid, diphtheria, whooping cough, scarlet fever, childbirth complications, polio, measles. Emphasis on public health gains and the need for personal health actions.
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Virginia
I. C. Riggin
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Health Department
Man chester track is right handed and 1 6 miles wide
The Manchester track is a right hand circular course one mile and six furlongs long and ninety yards wide throughout. Five and six furlong races run on a straight course.
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Manchester
Eng
Exchange of Notes Closed Incident
Buenos Aires reports the exchange of notes with Germany over the torpedoing of the Argentine freighter Rio Tercero is closed. Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guinazu said contradictory views on vessel marking ended with no useful purpose in further dispute. Deputies from Radical and Socialist parties planned to question him next week on Germany's claim the attack was a mistake.
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Buenos Aires
Enrique Ruiz- Guinazu
Germany
Argentina
Ruiz- Guinazu
Chamber of Deputies
New Tale Of Heroism At Pearl Harbor
Akron Ohio reports a Pearl Harbor tale told by Blake Clark, former University of Hawaii English professor. A chaplain aided sailors escape through a ship porthole and offered his turn repeatedly until escape was impossible. His last words were I’m all right fellows Go ahead.
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Akron
Pearl Harbor
Blake Clark
University of Hawaii
Fellows
Sketches of Men Going On Trial For Doing Spying
Eight men go on trial before a secret military commission for violations of the laws of war. Names include George John Dasch and Edward Kerling leading groups in New York Florida and other states. Each man’s background spans Germany birth, U S entry, Bund activity, and attempts to return to Germany or Japan during wartime.
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Washington
George John Dasch
Speyer
Rhine
Germany
Long Island
Hamburg
Philadelphia
New York
San Francisco
Sacramento
Los Angeles
United States
Edward John Kerling
Weisbaden
Florida Group
Miami
Fla
Lisbon
Ernest Peter Burger
Augsburg
Herbert Hans Haupt
Gergman
Mexico
Japan
Henry Harm Heinck
Werner Thiel
Essen
Bund
Friends of
New Germany
Siberia
Richard Quirin
Berlin
Schenectady
N. Y
Gales And Snow Strike Southern Brazil S
Severe gales and snow lash Brazil's southern states during winter. A sea tempest today sank the schooner Rosa with an estimated eight lives lost.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Rosa
Food Center Ad Promotes War Stamp Campaign
Local advertisement urges residents to take change for war stamps and to include one in their phone orders. The note lists The Food Center at 108 N Leudons St and phone number 6453.
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the Food Center
N. Leudons St
German saboteurs trained near Berlin in Nazi school
German government employee tool maker at Braunschweig until last spring. Hermann Otto Neubauer 32 German born merchant sailor entered the United States in 1932 visited Germany in 1936 married an American in Chicago returned to Germany in 1940 and served in the German army. All reportedly took a special training course at the Nazi sabotage school near Berlin.
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Braunschweig
Germany
Hermann Otto Neubauer
United States
Chicago
Berlin
Ammunition For Nimrods Ample This Fall
Washington reports that despite War Production Board limits on sporting ammunition since May 31, government sources say dealers and most hunters hold heavy stocks and will not face shortages this season.
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Washington
America
War Production Board
Fighting Archdeacon Leads Australian Warship
The former Anglican archdeacon of Fiji now commands an Australian warship from an undisclosed base. Officers nickname him the Fighting Archdeacon, and he requires a full hour for Sunday devotionals aboard.
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Australia
Fiji
British Use Trailing Rockets Revealed as Defense
London reports trailing rockets as one of Britain's newest defense weapons against aerial raiders, disclosed officially on July 8.
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London
Britain
Historic anti-ship rocket system described in fragment
The fragment describes a weapon used to defend merchant ships for over a year. It references a projectile that opens into a shaped device and mentions rockets fired as aircraft approach, causing enemy planes to veer off course or risk entanglement.
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