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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1940
Page
10
The Ramparts We Watch is showing at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as noted by the New York Daily Mirror on September 20. This review highlights the production as part of a current theater run in Manhattan.
Lee Mortimer reviews The Ramparts We Watch at Music Hall New City a March of Time pro by Louis de Rochemont. The film traces American anger against Germany from 1914 through 1919 and contrasts wartime zeal with 1940 Nazi propaganda.
Berlin reports a German scientist, Prof Viktor Schilling, has perfected a portable blood transfusion system usable in trenches. The device uses a universal type blood carried in a sausage shaped container with sugar solution, warmed to near blood heat and injected directly into wounded soldiers.
The Koch Institute in Berlin is assembling preserved type O blood from about 40 percent of Germans. Blood kept at low temperatures can be dispatched by air to any point, remaining usable for up to three weeks. Officials aim to accumulate enough reserves to meet large scale attack needs.
Civilians may receive aid after air raids with donors offering 20 marks and a special allowance of meat milk and fat. Many donors are Red Cross nurses who have frontline service.
Britain will cut butter rations to two ounces per day starting September 30. Meat purchase allowance rises from one shilling ten pence to two shillings two pence.
A large photograph of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra backs a robot conductor shown in the Miles Music Co window. The animated display taps a baton in time drawing crowds. It travels city to city and will tour Zenith radio dealer showrooms.
Cleveland September 25. L H Weir of New York urged at the American Institute of Park Executives 41st annual convention that rifle and revolver ranges be set up in public parks to aid national preparedness. He argued Germany’s youth program rests on physical training that could be provided in American parks.
State selective service officers at a Washington conference discussed having school teachers register draft age men on October 16. Adjutant General James Dozier said teachers might be better trained and qualified than election officials to fill registration cards and certificates.
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