Tate withdraws from Congress race to take U S post
Steve Tate, chairman of the State Highway Board, resigns from his Ninth District candidacy to become special adviser and representative for M. E. Everett, head of the space control committee for the Fourth Service Command. Tate will remain as highway board chair and assume duties coordinating government and armed forces on warehousing and storage of war materials. He recalls prior service ambitions and stresses benefit to Georgia and the Southeast. Tate formerly led the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
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Atlanta
Steve Tate
Tate
State Highway Board
Congress
M. E. Everett
Fourth Service Command
Highway Board
RFC
War Property Administration
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Southeast
Ninth’ Congressional District
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
First War Correspondent Killed in Invasion Actions
London June 11 Arthur Thorpe naval correspondent for Exchange Telegraph was killed in action at sea Sunday. The 42 year old father of three was the first war correspondent reported killed in western Europe invasion operations.
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London
Arthur Thorpe
Exchange Telegraph
Western Europe
University of Georgia maps veterans division plan
Athens June 12 University President Caldwell announced formation of a veterans division to supervise and address the educational needs of returning service men and women. Associate Dean R M Strozier will head the group with one year special university courses prepared by the schools and colleges.
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Athens
University of Georgica
Uniersity
Caldwell
R. M. Strozier
Duke Heiress to Name Ship in Georgia Launch
Doris Duke Cromwell will travel to Brunswick to officiate at the launch of the J. B. Duke Liberty, named for her grandfather. The ship built by J. A. Jones Construction Co. is the 43rd vessel launched at the yard. J. B. Duke founded the family tobacco business in Durham and organized the American Tobacco Co. in 1889.
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Brunswick
America
Doris Duke Cromwell
J. B. Duke
J. A. Jones Construction Co
Durham
N. C
American Tobacco Co
PAYS 300 ALIMONY IN SMALL COINS
In Chicago on June 11, M. Davis paid a $300 alimony installment in pennies and nickels. Attorney Friedman asked Judge Miner to cite Davis for failing to pay the final installment of $1,080. Two guards carried a 145 pound sack of coins to the courtroom addressed to Fried man. The coins were sent to a bank to be counted.
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Chicago
E. M. Davis
Friedman
J. H. Miner
Circuit
Davis
Westinghouse chemist unveils fasterite plastic replaces rubber
N C Foster a 29 year old Westinghouse chemist announced a plastic named fasterite that seals radar and electrical parts making them moisture proof. Demonstrations showed a transformer coated with the plastic underwater remaining energized for months. Two additional plastics were described for forming complex shapes with high strength and a third that stretches while hot.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co
N. C. Foster
Westinghouse
Cc. F. Hill
Million Dollar Reduction In Electrical Rates
Georgia Power Company announces a one million dollar rate cut that becomes effective with June meter readings. Commercial customers under 1000 kilowatt hours monthly save 650 000 while larger users save 245 000. Forty one municipalities and thirty two rural electric cooperatives also gain savings totaling 165 000.
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Georgia Power Company
R.E.A
Three Nazi Prisoners Recaptured in Illinois
Three German prisoners of war who escaped from Camp Breckinridge Kentucky on June 3 have been recaptured. FBI official Fred Hallford announced the capture by two state police near Dixon Springs Illinois. The men identified are Valentin Mueller aged 21 Lothar Drechsel aged 31 and Hajo Hoffman aged 23.
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Springfield
Camp
Unloaded Rifle Fatal to Child in Decatur Home
A Decatur accident ends in the death of 8 year old Millard Baker after his brother Claude, also a Baker, fired an unloaded rifle. DeKalb county police report the bullet struck near Millard's heart. The youths were sons of Mr and Mrs K L Baker. Claude died about 20 minutes later.
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Atlanta
Decatur
Millard Baker
Claude
DeKalb County
K. L. Baker
Escaped German Serjeant Aided Invasion Planners
New York June 11 London radio reported that a German sergeant who escaped from France to England last summer in a fishing boat aided invasion planners in Javanian France. The CBS broadcast said numerous foreign workers also escaped to England and provided information for the operations.
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New York
London Radio
France
CBS
England
Finland plans to pay WWI debt to United States
Washington reports Finland intends to meet the June 15 installment on its World War I debt to the United States to maintain its record. The government seeks to use funds in the United States to cover about 140000 dollars in interest, requiring a Treasury foreign funds control license for access. An application has been filed.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Treasury
Foreign Funds Control Division
Government Sets Ceiling on Used Car Prices
The Office of Price Administration will cap prices on all used passenger cars at January 1944 levels starting July 10. The order covers about 23 makes and 6,000 models from 1937 to 1942, with 1937 models used as the ceiling for older cars. Dealers opposed the move citing loss of new car revenue.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Senate OKs comprehensive G I Bill of Rights for veterans
Washington reports the Senate passed a compromise G I Bill of Rights reserving benefits for veterans of the present war. The plan costs an estimated 3 to 6.5 billion dollars and includes unemployment pay, education support, loan guarantees, and housing aid with deductions from future bonuses.
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Senate
Washington
House
Finance Committee
George
D.-Ga
Bullet Pierces His Helmet But Macon Boy Is Unscathed
Aboard U. S. Transport Off France on June 10 a Macon Georgia private, Earl Williams, had his helmet pierced from side to side by two jagged bullets. Williams said the bullets barely grazed his head as bullets whistled around earlier in the morning.
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Macon Boy
U. S
France
Pvt
Earl Williams
Macon
United Press
Wm. R. Higginbotham
Germans Use Wooden Bullets Against Rangers On Beachhead
June 9 reports say German forces fired wooden bullets at American Rangers near the beachhead. Rangers found 20 millimeter and rifle wooden slugs among discarded ammo. The wooden bullets splinter and wound badly but travel poorly beyond about 100 yards. One theory suggests a steel shortage.
Paratroopers Landed On D Day In Vast Allied Air Armada
Washington reports about 24 000 paratroopers were flown from British fields to the French invasion front on D Day in over 1 000 Army transport planes with a loss of about 24 aircraft. The armada is described as the largest fleet of transport aircraft ever assembled. The figures cover soldiers flown in by power transports and exclude glider ferries across the Channel.
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Washington
War Department
Department
U. S
English Channel
Journal's Mar Editor First To Broadcast Invasion News
Atlanta reporter Wright Bryan, managing editor and war correspondent, spoke from London as the first eyewitness to report the Allied invasion of Nazi Europe. He accompanied U S paratroopers in a C 47 with the Ninth Air Forces Troop Carrier Command, delivering the invasion’s early air account to the nation. The broadcast aired in the early hours of June 6.
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Atlanta
Wright Bryan
London
America
Europe
Journal
Bryan
U. S
Ninth Air Forces Troop Carrier Command
France
Alll
The
All of
Georgia
Million and a Half More Men to Enter U S Army in 1944
Atlanta June 13 Lt Gen Bre Hon Somervell declared that an additional million and a half men will be inducted into the Army and Navy. He cited labor as the bottleneck and said prisoners of war can supply labor only in limited areas. He called for a larger war production program in 1944.
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Atlanta
Brehon Somervell
United States
Army
Navy
Army Service’ Forces
Somervell
Ration Calendar Updates For Various Items
The notice outlines validity and expiration dates for processed foods red and blue stamps, sugar stamps, canning sugar, airplane shoes stamps, and fuel oil renewals. It advises applying to local boards for supplemental rations and requires car owners to stamp license numbers on gasoline coupons when issued.
Negro convict slain at Tattnall Prison
Atlanta June 14 The slaying of a negro convict by a white prison er in the bread cutting team at Tattnall State Prison was revealed by State Corrections Director Francis Hammack. The victim, Benjamin Hughes of Fulton county, had a baseball bat when found. The slayer, Gilmor L. Wiswell of Richmond county, fled the scene and gave a bloody kitchen knife to a guard. An inquest is planned and a special investigation begun. Wiswell was serving one to ten years on a burglary charge.
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Atlanta
Tattnall State Prison
Francis Hammack
Benjamin Hughes
Fulton County
Hammack
Gilmor L. Wiswell
Richmond County
Wiswell
Southeastern Regional Girl Reserves Conference Opens at Andrew College
One hundred fifty Girl Reserves from five Southern states gather at Andrew College in Cuthbert Georgia for the annual Southeastern Regional conference. The Tampa Florida delegation opened the event with a playlet Follow the Gleam, as Dr. H.C. Cliff welcomed participants at the first session. The meetings conclude with a candlelight ceremony on June 17.
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Cuthbert
Young Women's Christians Association
Andrew College
Tampa
Fla
C. Cliff
Andrew
Odd Lot Shoes to Be Ration Free in July Sale
Washington announces a national odd lot sale from July 10 to 29 offering about seven million pairs free of rationing. Shoes must cost at least 25 percent less than June 1 price and target men women and boys sizes 1 to 6. excludes misses and little boys footwear. Less than 1.5 percent of 1944 shoe supply included.
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Washington
OPA
Democratic Committee to Meet in Atlanta
Chairman Lon Duckworth of the State Democratic Executive Committee calls a meeting in Atlanta on June 22 to select 32 delegates and 32 alternates for Georgia to the Democratic National Convention. Delegates will hold 26 votes at the convention and the committee will arrange travel and related convention details.
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Lon Duckworth
State Democratic Executive Committee
Atlanta
Georgia
State Committee
Chicago
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U. OF GA. Maps “Vets” Division
Illinois
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Tattnall
Cuthbert and Andrew College
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