Alabama Farmers Urged To Plan Postwar Needs
Alabama experts speak at Auburn extension conference urging farmers to align postwar operations with demand. Funchess notes meat prices rise and advises proximity to markets. Beaty outlines four tactics to boost profits by anticipating market needs, timing, and distribution. Extension officials discuss improving cotton and dairy prospects amid shifts in farm population and production.
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Birmingham
Mo JL Funches
Glan
Alabama Poly
Stechnide Institute
Aurora
Almiramia
Lawhy
Adard
Bo Porrent
J. A. Meaty
Subsidy debates and cabbage prices move in Georgia
An Atlanta market deal shows cabbage selling for $3.65 per hundredweight after a 125 mile haul from a Tee County farm while a Columbus sale fetched $4.75 per hundredweight. Senator John Bankhead argues subsidy payments inflate prices and suggests higher taxes and production boosts as fixes, warning of widening wage gaps with industrial workers if subsidies persist.
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Atlanta
Columbus
John Bankhead
Als
Bankhead
Arm
WACs Open Dothan Recruiting Station
A temporary Waco office in the Post Offices Building houses interviews every Monday and Tuesday at 3 15 PM with young Wirreasa women eager to serve. Private Frances Burr and Corporal Catherine McDade oversee efforts to enlist fit volunteers for front line duty.
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Waco
Frances Burr
Cpl
Catherine McDade
Privats Rare
Crooner Sinatra, wife welcome baby boy
New York AP reports crooner Frank Sinatra and his wife Nancy welcomed their second child, an eight pound 13 ounce boy born yesterday at Margaret Hague Hospital in Jersey City. The newborn is likely to be named Frank Jr. Their older daughter Nancy is about three and a half.
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New York
Frank Sinette
Nancy
Migaret Hogue Hospital
Jersey City
Sinatra
Hollywood
Frank, Jr
$400 Reward Offered for Lanier High School Saboteurs
A $400 reward was posted for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for weekend vandalism at Sidney Lanier high school buildings. Damages were estimated at $2,500. One half funded by the student government, the other by the Montgomery City Commission.
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Montgomery
Sidney Lanier
Fighters of Fighting 27 Engage Japanese Zeros in Pacific Action
Eight fighters and 70 Zeros clash over the Russell Islands. Fighting 27 claims six definite and three probable kills, with Lt Douglas Lebow missing in action and pilots Claude Frazier and Willard Sweetman returning badly damaged. A month later five of 27’s pilots join in a Rendova battle, Ensign James E. Foy credited with at least one confirmed kill.
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Navy
Russell Islands
Douglas
Lebow
Norman
Okla
Iz Usted
Claude BR. Frazier
Norfolk
Willard Sweetman, Jr
Wilmington del
Sweetman
Guadalcanal
Frazier
Hillsboro
Tex
James E. Foy
Atlanta
John R. Landis
St. Louis
Ensign Foy
Pilots Reported Missing After Damaged Planet Mission
The mission's commander reached base as his motor failed. Three of 2's pilots did not return: Mahony, Woods, and Walker.
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Mahony
Woods
Walker
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