Southern States Train One Hundred Thousand For Defense
The Southeast region has trained nearly 100000 additional workers to man expanding defense plants in the last year. J E McDaniel of the Training Within Industry program says the in-plant method, used by about 3800 plants across Georgia Florida Alabama Tennessee and Mississippi, places untrained workers beside skilled operators to learn by doing. After on‑the‑job periods, trainees take over, allowing veterans to move into supervision.
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Atlanta
OPM
J. E. McDaniel
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
McDaniel
Georgia Woman Guest Of President Roosevelt At The White House
A 75 year old Georgia farm woman Mrs. L. R. P. Jordan of Reidsville who is partly blind met President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House on Tuesday. She told him of her family’s pledge to defend democracy if fighting is needed and arrived with Congressman Peterson of Georgia. The visit came after a prior attempt to meet the president at the White House and Union Station.
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Washington
Georgia
Roosevelt
L. R. P. Jordan
Reidsville
Jordan
White House
Union Station
Hyde Park N. Y
Rep. Peterson
Dga
Three-Year Cruise Around Cape Horn Starts Sept 28
Thomas A Romeo Lenora Romeo and Rhett Bryson a Georgia Tech student plan a three year voyage in a 30 foot pulling sloop starting Sept 28 from Columbus Ga. They will sail via the Chattahoochee to the gulf toward Miami the Caribbean and down the east coast of South America ending on the west coast of the United States.
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Atlanta
Cape Horn
Straits of Magellan
Thomas Andrew Romeo
Lenora
Rhett Bryson
Georgia Tech
Dothan
Ala
Columbus
Chattahoochee River
Gulf
Miami
Caribbean Islands
South America
Romeo
U. S. Navy
New York
Norfolk
Bryson
United States
Calf Eats Currency in Georgia Farm Cash Mystery
Moultrie Georgia tale of Eschel Sears whose calf found and ate $21 in new U S currency hidden in a stomach. After recovering the notes, Sears secured an affidavit from Court Clerk R J Lewis and Uncle Sam reimbursed the loss.
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Moultrie
Georgia
Eschel Sears
U. S
Sears
R. J. Lewis
Sam
University of Georgia Summer Graduation Speaker Named
John Wade head of the English department at the University of Georgia will deliver the baccalaureate address at the summer school graduation exercises. The event will be Friday night August 22 at 9 o'clock with about 209 persons to receive degrees.
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John Wade
University of Georgia
Dixie Baptists Launch Big Campaign for Soldier Morals
About 5,000,000 Southern Baptists across 18 states unite in a rapid evangelism drive near military camps to shield soldiers from moral decline. Leaders survey camps, pledge swift action through Home Mission Board and state boards, aiming to mirror wartime conversions seen in the Civil War era.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
Birmingham
Home Mission Board of
Mission Board
J. B. Lawrence
Home Mission Board
J. W
Merritt
Georgia Board
Dr. Lawrence
British Baptist Missions
Raising Standards for Low Income Farmers in Taylor County
Miss Ellie Etheridge of the Farm Security Administration outlines three main points to raise living standards for low income farm families in Taylor County. Focus areas include increasing farm production and marketing facilities, encouraging home living, and guiding stamp-based purchases during the cotton Stamp Plan. Emphasis on better buyman ship will expand with the stamp plan, with studies on cotton fabrics to aid selecting durable goods.
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Department of Agriculture
Taylor County
Ellie Etheridge
Farm Security Administration
Miss Etheridge
FSA
Big Demand Seen For Saleable Pine
Americas Georgia Timber and not cotton will be a major money maker in the future with the defense program demanding merchantable pine says W L Shaddix Atlanta a rep of the Southern States Forest Fire Commission who conferred with local education leaders The defense program s demand on merchantable pine will require growth of timber for future supply in domestic as well as export use Some farmers who own only one hundred acres have made a record of 3200 per year income from logs they carry to sawmills year after year Mr Shaddix said the future of the South s timber is solely dependent upon conservation minded citizens to keep out fires Fires constitute 90 per cent of the danger to forestry.
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Americas
Georgia
W. L. Shaddix
Atlanta
Southern States Forest Fire Commission
Shaddix
South
Not Foolish: Stop Look Listen Not For Engineer
A reader argues that the warning phrase stop look and listen at railroad crossings is not meant for engineers, suggesting a broader safety message or misinterpretation of its target audience. The remark implies confusion over who the instruction primarily serves.
Farmer Invents Flame Cultivation Device for Cotton
Montgomery July 19 war born device may revolutionize cotton farming as a flame thrower kills grass without harming cotton. Captain Price McLemore says units cost about 10 dollars per mule plow and 1 cent per acre, using fuel oil and compressed air. A pilot model mounted on a hand plow and a two row tractor hoe expels 2,200 degree flames along rows, with grass browning within hours while crops appear unaffected.
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Montgomery
Ala
Price McLemore
Gunter Field
McLemore
Openings for Young Unmarried Men in Army Aviation Division
Technical Sergeant Cecil Mayes at the Atlanta recruiting station says the U S Army Aviation Division seeks unmarried men ages 18 to 35 for 28 phases of technical air corps training. Vacancies exist at Craig Field Alabama Selma Biloxi Ellington and Barksdale Fields. Requirements include eighth grade education and suitable physical and mental standards.
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Army
Cecil Mayes
U. S. Army
Atlanta New Post Office
Air Corps
Mayes
Craig Field
Selma
Ala
Kessler Field
Biloxi
Miss
Ellington Field
Tex
Barksdale Field
McCain Can't Make Dummy Out of Me Says Gene
Atlanta Governor Talmadge challenges Agnes Scott College president McCain over the state board of regents. Talmadge argues the governor is the only regent elected by the people and should remain on the board. McCain urged excluding the governor to depoliticize regent selection.
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McCain
Gene
Atlanta
Talmadge
Board of Regents
J. R. McCain
Agnes Scott College
Griffin
Georgia
Funeral services for Fenn O. Stone in Clayton Ga
Funeral services were held Monday at Clayton Georgia for Fenn O. Stone age 65 a noted industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Stone Baking Company of Atlanta. He died of a heart attack while swimming in Lake Rabun near his Lakemont summer home.
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Clayton, Ga
Fenn O. Stone
The
Stone Baking Company of
Atlanta
Lake Rabun
Lakemont
County Schools Plan Nine Month Session in Marion County
County school superintendent H. H. Clements announced that all county schools will open September 1 in Marion County marking the first nine month school term in the county history. Pupils have previously attended only eight months.
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H. H. Clements
Marion County
New Atlanta Evening Post Named to Debut Oct. 15
The Savannah Press reports a planned Atlanta afternoon daily to be titled the Atlanta Evening Post. O E Bright of Savannah joins the advisory board for the new venture run by Press Publishing Co. President M G Perkins led earlier journalism work in Savannah. Initial plans listed T H Scott and others, with the name Atlanta Graphic considered before finalizing Atlanta Evening Post.
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Savannah Press Press
Atlanta
O. E. Bright
Savannah
the Press Publishing Co
Atlanta Evening Post
M. G. Perkins
Savannah Evening Press
Atlanta Constitution
T. H. Scott
A. C. Bromberg
M. A. Forst
J. P. Cheeves
A. Q. Dobbs
A. L. R. Bush
J. G. Kenan
Atlanta Graphic
Eld Roquemore to Attend Western Primitive Baptist Session
C J Roquemore known as Uncle Neal leaves for Cincinnati to attend the Western Primitive Baptist Association meeting as a Mt Ramah delegate. After the Cincinnati session he goes to Detroit to visit his son J S Roquemore for a few days.
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C. J. Roquemore
Neal
Cincinnati
Detroit
Chicago
Western Primitive Baptist Association
Mt. Ramah
Taylor County
J. S. Roquemore
Price of tobacco averages 20 cents per pound in state
Atlanta reports the Georgia bright leaf tobacco auction belt sold 19,390,136 pounds for 4,226,186 dollars last week, averaging 20.75 cents per pound. The decline from the prior week’s 22.79 cents stems from incomplete reports from Douglas, Nashville and Hazlehurst. Quality was noted as better by the state Department of Agriculture.
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Atlanta
Georgia J Bright Leaf Tobacco
State Department of Agriculture
Douglas
Nashville
Hazlehurst
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N. L. Halley Reynolds
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