Congress Nears Vote On Major 1.1 Billion Dollar War Bill
The House schedules consideration Monday of a 1,104,972,814 supply measure for indepen dent agencies criticizing federal employees who advocate for funds. The bill largely funds the Federal Security Agency and cuts other departments and programs including the War Manpower Commission and vocational education.
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Washington
Case Appropriations Committee
Congress
Children’s Bureau
Office of Education
House
District of Columbia
Federal Security Agency
Labor Department
Employees—Compensation Commission
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
Railroad Retirement Board
War Manpower Commission
Retail Sale Total Down in Alabama May Report
Washington May 27. Sales in independent stores in Alabama fell three percent versus April and four percent versus March as the Bureau of Census reported. Eleven department stores in Alabama showed a ten percent rise over April 1943, though down seven percent from March. Dollar sales for the first four months of the year rose four percent from 1943. Non durable goods gains included men’s clothing 17 percent, women’s ready to wear 13, restaurants and drug stores 9, dry goods 9, food stores. Declines appeared in shoe stores 7, lumber and building materials 7, hardware 10, jewelry 12, and motor vehicles 32.
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Washington
Alabama
Bureau of Census
Bureau
Demotion to Fulfill Pilot Dream for Lt Samuel Wolfe
Lt. Samuel Wolfe, 25, drops from captain to first lieutenant to train as a pilot at Southern Airways. He previously served overseas with RAF units including the 91st Bomb Group and hopes to fly fighters after earning his wings. Wolfe’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. James H. Wolfe of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Southern Airways
Wolfe
Army
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
California
England
91St
Memphis Belle
States
China
Casablanca
Dakar
Natal
Brazil
James H. Wolfe
Salt Lake City
Utah
Gasoline charged back to distributors in Atlanta crackdown
OPA officials in Atlanta disclosed that 73,776 gallons of gasoline were charged back to distributors due to unendorsed and counterfeit coupons. Of this total 9,456 gallons were counterfeit coupons and the rest unendorsed coupons.
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Atlanta
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Danube Mines Slow Traffic Across Axis Supply Route
RAF coastal command torpedo and rocket bombers crippled the blockade running feedline in the Bay of Biscay and their Danube mining campaign disrupts German waterway traffic. The operations reduced Romanian oil shipments to Germany and strained central European rail, with hundreds of ships assessed and many sunk or damaged.
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Ruth Cowan
London
RAF Coastal Command
Bay of Biscay
Coastal Command
Danube River
RAF Liberators
Strategic Force
Naples
Iron Gate
Germany
Hungary
Britain
Honor Rolls Made Public For Decatur Junior High
Honor rolls for the first and second semesters at Decatur Junior High were released on Saturday. The list includes many students led by John Arantz Martha Blizzard Joy Botin Mary Ann Blackwell and Bettye Zane Douthit among others with numerous additional names across two sections.
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Decatur Junior High
Escort crews of 000 men trained gunners
A fragment notes 000 men largely trained gunners assigned to escort duty. Details or units are not specified in the readable text.
List of Names Appears in Historical Record
A sequence of personal names is listed, including Ann Givens Mary Jean Gregg Paul Gene Hargrove Barbara Hardin Charles Jones Albert Kizziah Needham Long Elizabeth Motes Alfred Matthews Marie Mooney Lemuel Pratér Paul Rozear Jack Riethmeyer Richard Smith Sarah Stickney Mary Simmons Hugh Terry Betty Tuck Mirian Watson Joyce Whitmire Jane Walker Jean Williamson Mercia Yarbrough Sarah Vinson.
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Ann Givens
Mary Jean Gregg
Paul Gene Hargrove
Barbara Hardin
Charles Jones
Albert Kizziah
Needham Long
Elizabeth Motes
Alfred Matthews
Marie Mooney
Lemuel Pratér
Paul Rozear
Jack
Roosevelt Eyes Abroad Visit As War Plans Grow
President Roosevelt reportedly contemplates a trip abroad to observe the war closer and to discuss a potential joint wartime world organization with Churchill and allied leaders. A draft postwar framework is being prepared in Washington, with talks among United Nations seen as possible in the near future.
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John-M-Hige
Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
Churchill
Europe
London
Charles de Gaulter
Casablanca
Cairo
Teheran
Organization of World Security
Sugar Corp starch plant to open in Florida Everglades
In Clewiston Florida on May 27 the United States Sugar Corp announces a planned 7 million dollar starch house to open next fall. The facility will convert oversized sweet potatoes into starch for war industries and provide a new crop for the Everglades growing district.
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Clewiston
Fla
United States Sugar Corporation
Everglades
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