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Crusader Ball had just one week to tell his constituents what he thought about the war, before heading back to Washington. He started his campaign on July 3 at Cannon Falls, in the rich, rolling farmland of southeastern Minnesota. The crowd at the fair grounds, mostly slow-spoken, slow-thinking Scandinavian farmers, was stolid and quiet, but attentive. It was the same story next afternoon at Elbow Lake, when Joe Ball went on right after the hog-calling contest...
...Completion of Southeastern gasoline pipelines: 14,000 tons. (A Senate subcommittee heard railroad objections to a bill to speed these lines last week, reported favorably on the bill, nonetheless...
Daniel Saw the Stone (The Golden Gate Quartet; Okeh). The sort of exciting harmony and tempo usually heard only from colored spiritual singers in the remote Southeastern backwoods, and not in Manhattan nightclubs-where, it so happens, the Golden Gate Quartet does sing...
...first Nazi blow was struck at about the same time as the main attacks were biting into southeastern Yugoslavia, in Rupel Pass. There the Greeks fought hard, using the same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains. But the fight was vain: the Nazi break-through in the Vardar Valley, and the prong which had then turned eastward towards Salonika, threatened the troops' rear. It became necessary to abandon Salonika...
Somewhere on southeastern Hudson Bay fortnight ago solid ice or snow-drifted muskeg echoed back the hammering exhaust of a ski-shod plane flying north. Aboard were an inspector and a corporal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a doctor, a radioman, a pilot. They were headed for a barren mass of stone low on the surface of the Bay, the Belcher Islands. The reason for their flight was murder...