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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1940
Page
10
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced that Savings Bond sales through March 31 1940 reached 3860 273 475 in maturity value with purchases by about 1 987 374 investors. The total represents an average purchase of 2495 325 per investor.
General Paul F. Rollet, 71, known as the fightingest man in France, declares he is fit for duty and demands to return to service. He retired in 1987 after 46 years in the army and fighting in every war or border skirmish France engaged in.
The report details that as of March 1 1935 bonds began sales. It notes the outstanding maturity value of Savings Bonds on March 31 1940 at about 3 495 573 600 and the calendar year 1939 purchases totaling 1 104 060 000 with an average daily purchase of 3 667 975. It explains bonds are sold at a discount and mature in ten years for one third more than their purchase price. For example a 75 purchase yields 100 at maturity. Records of sales by post offices are tabulated by cash value.
University of Wisconsin biochemists report isolating a vitamin that prevents and cures hair graying in animals. They caution human effectiveness is unproven while experiments with rats show reversal of graying within weeks after adding the vitamin to diets.
The author decries defeatism as a virulent, parasitic mood in America, urging youths and oldsters to seize opportunities and act. He attacks those who quit, exploiting pity and “life done me wrong” rhetoric, and stresses personal responsibility, urging action over passive suffering.
The Virginia WPA report shows average monthly earnings of 54.60 for county workers and 37.57 for city workers through December 31, 1939. County projects include curb and gutter, a bridge, book cataloging, and classes with enrollments. city projects cover urban street work, sewers, water mains, and manholes. Garment production and instructional classes served hundreds of people.
Jailer George Price books 19 year old Roni Del Riantos at the county jail in San Antonio Texas where federal authorities hold her on suspicion of being a Nazi spy. Arrested in Eagle Pass Texas she was moved to San Antonio after attempting suicide in her cell.
In Bucharest on May 7 Romania speeds up defense planning amid war fears in Southeastern Europe. A compulsory registration law targets foreigners, with police and military to track and round up approximately 6,000 Germans and other visitors, who may be placed in concentration camps at short notice.
The popular Midwest cold storage locker plant tags on in the South where rapid freezing facilities are in demand and growing quickly.
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American interests have built a substantial manganese stockpile in Cuba, an essential war mineral crucial for steel production and allied military needs amid wartime pressures.
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