Moonshine trade stalls as defense boom shifts loyalties
In Brevard North Carolina Ed Patton head of the Federal Alcohol Tax unit reports moonshining in the mountains is drying up as defense industry wages lure workers away and rising grain and sugar prices raise legal costs. He notes average blockade runners now make only two to three dollars a day and sessions with revenuer scrutiny have shortened run times.
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Brevard
N. C
National Defense
America
Ed Patton
Charlotte
Federal
Alcoholic Tax Unit
North Carolina
Patton
Sergeant Herbert Ferguson Transferred to Turner Field
Staff Sergeant Herbert Ferguson of Trinity Alabama has been transferred from Maxwell Field to Air Advanced Flying School Turner Albany Georgia. He enlisted August 28 1940 and rose from private first class after four months to staff sergeant in under a year at Maxwell. He completed two courses at Aberdeen Maryland ordnance school and now helps set up an ordnance office at Turner Field with his commander. He expects a 26 man company and is enjoying Army life in Georgia.
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Herbert Ferguson
Trinity
Alabama
Maxwell Field
Air Advanced Flying School
Turner Albany
Georgia
Ferguson
United States Army
Ordnance School
Aberdeen
Maryland
Army Administration
Albany
Ordnance Department
Turner Field
Georgia Peaches
Save Old Car Tags Is Plea Of Curry
Alabama Revenue Commissioner John Curry urged motorists to surrender old license tags when buying new ones this fall to conserve sheet metal for defense. No law requires the step but officials have been asked by the Office of Price Administration to request the surrender.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
John Curry
Office of Price Administration
Kiss Costs 21000 Dollars in A Yank in the R A F
Tyrone Power gave Betty Grable a twenty one thousand dollar kiss to end a love scene in A Yank in the R A F. Director Henry King sent Power from Westport to rejoin the cast in Hollywood. The principal item of the twenty one thousand included sixteen thousand for the crew and 70 actors. King filmed Power and Grable from many angles over two days.
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Hollywood
Tyrone Power
Betty Grable
Henry King
King
Westport
Conn
Power
Betty
Mrs Russell Narrowly Escapes Plaster Fall at Civic Unit
Mrs Ludie Russell a secretary in the chamber of commerce office narrowly escaped injury this morning when large plaster pieces fell from the ceiling onto a desk where she had been working moments earlier.
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A Ludie Russell
Chamber of Commerce
Civic Unit
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