Show TREND how the wind Is blow blowing ng manufacture electrical p power ower for the week of august 3 reached second highest all time peak representing a gain of 12 per cent over same week last year Building The federal reserve board announced that defense orders have pushed construction contracts to the highest level in 10 years agriculture farm land sales are picking up both to investors and to tenant operators a survey of farm realty sales organizations by the northwestern national life insurance company indicates investors seem to be turning back to the land as a good bet in a war conscious conscious business world BASES not at home nazi air marshal hermann goering writing in facts in review official and free publication of the german library of information 17 battery place new york said if american defenses are what they should be particularly if american air force 4 ia properly developed ve loped built up organized and strategically based america can defy any group of powers less than a week after the publication li was circulated president roosevelt announced he was holding conversations with great britain for acquisition of naval and air bases on british possessions in this herni hemisphere later prime minister winston churchill told the house of commons that britain had decided to offer suitable sites to the united states in newfoundland and the west indies on 99 year leases he said england was not asking for any advantage in return naturally he said no transfer of sovereignty is involved F faces aces north meanwhile president roosevelt it met prime minister mackenzie macken zie king of canada in a joint announcement they revealed a permanent board of joint military defense had been set up the board will survey problems by air land and sea as well as material and personnel personnel may mean a commander in i chief already is being selected in case canada is invaded and the arar armies ties of the two nations are called to act as one agreement for a military link sets a definite departure from established policy for both nations am america erica i never before has made such an agreement even during the world war being only an associate of the allies miscellany its a pleasure C L in elizabeth N J the city assessor got a letter from philip woolf jeweler woolf said that since the assessors last visit his business had improved and he felt his personal estate now rated a higher valuation 1 I 1 will gladly pay the additional taxes woolf said it is a pleasure 11 the assessor said the 1940 taxes could not be raised but he will be glad to oblige in 1941 C patrolman thomas moran who has been on the cleveland police force since 1905 surprised a burglar in a store near his home ile he thereupon made his first arrest in 25 years moran was off duty at the time 41 L stamp collectors who spend millions each year to get letters on new fast air mail routes have adf another to seek cy williams city engineer of miami fla left for the new york worlds fair on a bicycle with 1000 envelopes bearing the cachet first flight bicycle mail miami to new york |