Cotton Exchange Sets Postwar View on U S Cotton
The New York Cotton Exchange warns of reduced US cotton share due to foreign growths and rayon. It urges a free market to compete with synthetics, noting 43 percent of world production in 1943-44 and rising rayon output while calling for policies to preserve private marketing channels.
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Washington, D.C
United States
John H. Scatterty
New York Cotton Exchange
House Agriculture Committee
Stephen Pace
Georgia
Brazil
U. S
N. Y. Cotton Exchange
Cotton
Tire Manufacturing
Rubber industry to run seven day work week for four months
Tire plants will operate seven days a week for four months to meet Army demand. Lt. Gen. Somervell says the shortage could leave the Army 472 000 tires short in Q1 1945, prompting full cooperation from rubber companies and CIO union leaders to boost output.
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Washington
Robeat
Brehon Somervell
Rubber Company
Sherman H. Dalrymple
United Rubber Workers of America
CIO
Somervell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Western Front
Actor Laird Cregar Dies After Heart Attack
Los Angeles reports the death of 28 year old film character actor Laird Cregar. He suffered a heart attack late tonight after undergoing abdominal surgery the previous Monday following a dramatic weight loss of 100 pounds from 300.
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Los Angeles
Laird Cregar
Cotton growers seek price cuts and soil conservation plan
The text argues for lower prices to match competitors and measures like expanded soil conservation. It supports direct income payments to producers to balance domestic and international trade until equal competitive opportunities exist. It opposes tax or price-based consumer funding of producer income.
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America
Newark Cotton Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
Jealousy and a hidden medicine box in a mystery tale
In a tense village inquest aftermath, Drue faces accusations and a secret medicine box linked to Conrad and Craig. Sarah recalls clues while Anna reports gunshot suspicions and Peter Huber offers a ride as dusk settles and the case deepens.
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Conrad
Dr. Chivery
Digitalis
Drue
Drus
Peter Huber
Alexia
Craig
Peter
Nicky
Nicky Bo
Mr. Huber
Mignon C. Boachorts
Front Lines Picture Life From Patton's Third Army
Pfc Almer Lawrence writes his mother from a German town in Europe describing daily hardships in November 1944. He mentions cold weather and snow, sleeping in foxholes or houses with a big fire, and meals from a cook unit including steak and chicken. He notes gloves delays and plans to reunite in the USA after the war.
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Europe
Pfc
Almer Lawrence
Stella Lawrence
Cullman 2
Phelps
Good Old USA
Ohio
Alabama
France
Child labor rules urged for Alabama Christmas hiring
Birmingham December 11 federal official Joseph C. Noah warned Alabama employers about hiring minors during the Christmas season. He noted the need to follow national and state laws to avoid violations in wage and hour and public contracts programs.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Joseph C. Noah
U. S. Department of Labor
Two year old Linda Lanham asks Santa for cigarettes
A New York department store Santa asks Linda what she wants for Christmas and the two year old replies with the surprising request cigarettes. The incident highlights a child’s blunt answer amidst holiday scenes and family chatter.
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Smokes
New York
Linda Lanham
Mom
Pop
Linda
POW ARE NOT PAMPERED
German prisoners are neither pampered nor persecuted and they are not receiving any American cigarettes, according to a U S house military affairs committee report released today in Paris on December 11.
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Gladwin Hill
Paris
U. S. House Military Affairs Committee
Osborne Receives Distinguished Flying Cross
2nd Lt. Lewis D. Osborne of Decatur has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for 300 hours of operational flight on the India China air routes. Brig. Gen. Tunner announced the award detailing night and day high altitude runs over treacherous terrain and adverse weather on the Hump. The citation notes courageous performance during the period February 1 to June 29, 1944.
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Lewis D. Osborne
5Th Avenue West
Decatur
William H. Tunner
India
China
Air Transport Command
India-China
Himalaya
Prisoners at Chartres Camp Treated Fairly Under Geneva Rules
Lawmakers report prisoners sleeping in warehouses on straw pallets with minimal blankets and meals in a camp at Chartres. They describe access to captured German post exchange rations and personal items, noting home observers might view conditions as acceptable but not pampered.
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Chartres
Paris
Forest Harness
Matthew Merritt
D-N
Charles Elston
Ohio
Paul Kilday
D-Tex
Southern Officials to Retire Jan 188
Robert Pegram vice-president of the Southern for nearly 25 years will retire January 1. He began as a 15 year old office boy with the Memphis ton line, rose to vice-president in 1920, and later led the Atlanta Terminal Company and the Tallulah Falls railway. Bondurant from Union City Tenn was named assistant vice-president in 1940.
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Robert Pegram
Herbert W
Southern
Tire
Egan
Memphiston Line
Railway
Sothern
Atlanta T Company
Tallulah Falls Railway
Pegrams
Robert’ Ae Pegram
Age
North Alabama grocers cooperate in anti inflation campaign
More than 5000 retail merchants and scores of wholesale grocers in Birmingham area join an anti inflation campaign to comply with regulations as announced by the district Price Administration.
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Birmingham
Ala
Dec
North Alabama
District Price Administration
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