Shortage of Husbands Seen as War Ends
Census Bureau reports 1,000,000 unmarried men aged 21 to 34 nationwide and 4.25 million women in the same age range, with more women than men over 21. It notes marriage rates rose during the war but will slow until soldiers return, predicting a rebound in marriages when World War II ends. Median ages: grooms 24.8, brides 21.8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
Toyc
Bueau
Bureau
Johnny
Babe
Carter's Little Pills Aid Digestion After Nature Fails
An advertisement claims Nature should produce two pints of digestive juice daily and urges Carter's Liver Pills to increase digestion quickly. It promises relief from headache and irritability within about 30 minutes and pitches pills at 10 and 26 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Carter
Nae
Sugar Shortage Tightens U S Markets Amid War Efforts
Washington dispatch outlines sugar squeeze with beet and cane dynamics, beet crop shortfalls, heavy home canning demand, milk and egg production increasing consumption, and refinery labor issues. Notes imports in 1944 outpacing 1943 as midwest areas shift to cane refiners on the East Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Middle- West
War Food Administration
Contention Upheld in Union-Dealatan Ruling
The fourth regional War Labor Board ruled that three Reynolds Alloys Co. assistant transportation superintendents in Listerhill Alabama shall not be required to join a union. The decision upheld that supervisory operational personnel were not subject to union membership despite a verbal agreement covering construction jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
Reynolds Alloys Co
Listerhill
Ala
M. T. van Hecke
Conference Held in Montgomery on Medical School Pact
Governor Chauncey Sparks met with the state medical school building commission to discuss a proposed contract with Jefferson County for the state medical school project. Sparks called the talks technical and legal, with further similar discussions planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
State
Jefferson County
Chauncey Sparks
State Medical School Building Commission
Sparks
Laura Reynolds Plans a Weston Library Move to Russell
Laura Reynolds, busy with a failing lending library in Weston, resolves to marry Russell Smith now to halt Anne Wilson’s interference. She faces Anne and family tension, weighing practical steps over romantic delay as she aims to turn her cultural project into a shared life with her fiancé.
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Laura
Weston
Rome
Russell Smith
Anne Wilson
Anne
Russell
Miles River Road
Baltimore
Miss Tiller
Miss Reynolds
Laura Reynolds
Lucky crew survives dud shell on Siegfried line
A U S Army halftrack crew near Aachen escaped injury when a three inch German shell failed to explode after striking their vehicle. Seven men including T-5 Louis Lancaster and Pvt James Holmes recounted the near miss as they moved to an assembly area. Medics in Ubach and a command post crew also endured a fierce bombardment with no injuries.
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U. S
Germany
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Palenburg
Louis Lancaster
Memphis
Tenn
James Holmes
Belmont
Mass
Lancaster
Michael de Vunn
Passaic
N. J
Nelson B. Johnson
Baltimore
Wilson Fosdick
Walworth
N. Y
Ubach
Fosdick
Donald J. Dan Caster
Tenth Ave
Green Bay
Wis
Millard
A. Richardson
Center Ridge
Ark
Glenn Young
Sargent Ave
Local Notes Highlight Morgan County Residents and Visits
Mrs Pauline Morris and Miss Martha Ellen Howse visited from Birmingham while local families joined in funeral attendance for Mrs Alton Praytor at Bethlehem. Cpl Perry Howse from Bainbridge GA visited relatives, as Miss Clarence Penn stayed with Mrs Sallie Bet Hardwick. The Orr and Tanner families hosted and hosted guests over the weekend amid health updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Ellen Iowse
Birmingham
C. E. Howse
Sallie Patterson
Alton Praytor
Bethlehem
Coleman Blackwood
Obe Praytor
Cpl
Perry Howse
Bainbridge
Clarence Penn
Hartselle
Sallie-Bet Hardwick
James Orr
W. M. Parker
Grady Orr
Effie Lee
Sarah
Dorthyell Tanner
Jim Summerford
Drake raid on Callao obliterates port in Peru quake era
Callao, chief Peruvian port, faced a raid led by Drake and allies in a coastal area. The assault left the area shattered as a powerful earthquake wave reportedly wiped out nearby settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callao
Peru
Drake
Plants Begin Peace Talks
Washington officials reported civilian goods production authorized in over 750 plants under the spot authorization plan with about 500 new applications weekly. The program may bridge war to peacetime output as autumn war hopes fade and WPB scales back controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Production Board
Germany
WPB
Maytag Company
Newton
Iowa
Storage prices to be upped slightly
The Office of Price Administration announced a 3 cent per 4 bale ceiling increase on government owned cotton storage and other services for the 1944 45 crop. The hike is effective immediately and runs through July 1 1945. New ceiling prices apply to storage of cotton in warehousing and related services.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Widespread Community News From Morgan County
Mrs. W D Bullard returned from Norfolk after visiting son Sir Gillman Bullard and attending his ship commissioning. Mrs. Leon Osborn and son Charles Edward visited Roy Osborn's family. Mary Wallace, granddaughter of Wallace Sims, lies ill in Jeffersonville. Family travels, reunions, and births fill a Morgan County notice from Hartselle to Oak Ridge and Rock Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Bullard
Norfolk
Sir Gillman Bullard
Leon Osborn
Charles Edward
Roy Osborn
Jack
Allen
H. Morris
Hopewell
T. L. Speakman, Sr
George Sims
Jeffersonville
Ind
Rock Springs
Robert Bolan
Hartselle
Billy Lorance
Rural Grove
Oakee
Henry Bolan
Opal Morgan
Edith Curtis
Ernest Speakman
Bertha
Compression facility cotton storage price terms
The text states 18 cents per bale per month for bales in operating compressing facilities and 21 cents per bale per month for bales in non operating facilities. Both maximum prices deduct the cost of fire insurance on a valuation of 50 dollars per bale.
Cotton plan for exports advanced after CCC talks
Washington details of a subsidy cotton export plan moved toward final form after a two day conference between garment officials cotton and CCC representatives. Marvin Jones will review the formula once the plan is completed and sent to him for approval. The agreement is a variation of three government plans and a fourth from ship interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tive World
Marvin Jones
War Food
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
C.C. Smith
Ship Smith
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By James Marlow
George Zielke
A&p
South America
Maven Ren Howard
Joseph K. Still
Blackville
S. C
Howard Johnson
Frankfort
Edward Brennick
Staten Island
Luther Thornton
Nashville
Still
LOS
Hunter Furniture Company
Morgan County Massey
Pauline Morris
Charleston
Hamburg
South Carolina
Southern Railway System
South
All America
Southern Railway
Southern
Southland
Ernac
Rallway S
Caddell Dia
Walgreen Agency
Turner Coal & Grain CO
Checkerboard
Moulton ST
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