United Fruit Reports Tropical Crops to Replace War Shortages
United Fruit Company releases eight month plan to grow essential tropical crops across Guatemala Honduras Costa Rica Panama Haiti Ecuador and Colombia. The program aims to substitute Malaya and Netherlands Indies materials with Hevea Castillon abaca roselle rotenone rice cocoa loofa castor oil soybeans peanuts citronella vetiver lemongrass oil mahogany cedar teak East Indian rosewood and tung oil in war industries. Experimental plots for Hevea in Colombia and Panama abaca in Panama total 6461 acres with abaca seed stock developed near Almirante to supply the Rubber Supply Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Fruit Company
Central
South America
Malaya
Netherlands Indies
American Tropics
United States
Tropics
Guatemala
Honduras
Costa Rica
Panama
Haiti
Ecuador
Colombia
Defense Supply Corporation
Dominican Republic
Tenguel
Rubber Supply Corporation
Almirante
Far East
Save Shoes and Rice at War-Time Weddings
SOUTH BEND IND Frank H Sibley Director for 17 counties of the Office of Price Administration says war time weddings are not to be celebrated and wedding guests should stop throwing rice and shoes. He notes shoes are rationed and rice is scarce and urges conservation. He also disapproves of tying tin cans to car bumpers to be flat and turned in for war scrap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Frank H. Sibley
Office of
Price Administration
Sibley
Bandit Steals Gas Books and Auto in Dodge City
In Dodge City Kansas Perry Hale a dairy employee reported two gunmen held him up with six shooters taking his A and B gasoline line books and his automobile license plates to misuse the records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge City
Kan
Perry Hale
Youth refuses draft card display in front of woman
In San Jose a youth told U S Commissioner Hall he could not show his draft card in the sight of a lady. The secretary left the room as the youth lowered his trousers and produced the card from his shorts saying it was a valuable document he did not want to see.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Calif
United States
Hall
Land transfers and notices amid Cameron and Milam county records
Court House notices detail property transfers in Cameron and Milam counties including 586 acres in the Wm. Thompson survey for 96380 dollars and numerous small tracts in Milam and Rockdale. Also listed are sport goods and local sales items from Gaither Motor Company and P. L. Bergum corn sale notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Evans Collier
J. J. Coffield
Wm. Thompson
Annie Wilburn Dusek
E. Flinn
J. P. Jones
Pete J. Elsenburg
W. L. Elsenburg
Milam
Pete Elsenburg
Willie Lee Elsenburg
Milam County
Elmer Sallisbuy
Erwin Cumming
City of Rockdale
Wm. Allen
C. E. Schething
Elmer Salisbury
Rockdale
Ewing Cummings
Joe Campbell
Varas
David Robinson
W. B. Elliott
E. C. Winfrey
Miguel Davilia
Citizens National Bank
Cameron
H. P. Culpepper
Jose Acosta
Juan J. Acosta
B. W. Holtzclaw
James Stevens
Wm. H. Walker
James Whitesides
Marshall Brown
West Cameron
Thomas Edwards
W. W. Lewis League
Annie M. Kirk
Theo L. Fuchs
Flemming
City of
Gaither Motor Company
Texas
Nebraska Visit and Public Spirit for Lawful Brewing
The speaker praises Nebraska and its vast cornfields and wheatfields while noting a national effort by beer producers urging retailers to follow the law and urging the public to report violations. Authorities and citizens collaborate to strengthen respect for law and order, seen as a important public spirited program.
Milam County War Bond Drive Totals Reported
Final tabulation shows Milam county purchased 3.565 million in War Bonds with banks contributing 1.8 million and individuals 1.765 million. Emory B. Camp notes 1878 residents bought bonds, about 20 percent of the population, as the drive ends May 1. Parma Radio Service offers repair of radios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
Oxsheer Smith
Treasury
Emory B. Camp
War Council
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Bandit
Court House News
William F. Jackson
Imogen
Lowise Bell
Albert Jaramillo
Cemils
Francises Mirals and
Mariandra
Albert Maybury
Freddie Mae Green
Jessie Sims
Emma Gruger
Elvin Morrison
Lala Pearl Hill
E. Walker
Henry W. Brown
Velma Newton Cox
Bernice A. Lester
D. Monroe Grant
Will Gorman
Pauline Raymond
P. L. Bergum
Joe Marsh
Nebraska
Parma Radio Service
Wallace
First National Bank
Cameron, Texas
Uncle Sam
Ideal Hatchery & Poultry
Grady
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