Roosevelt sought to rescue REA from political control
Public pressure grows for Roosevelts intervention to name a capable executive head of the Rural Electrification Administration after Senate rejection of Aubrey Williams. The piece traces REAs wartime expansion, political maneuvering by Craig Ellis and Williams allies, and concerns over private interests steering the agency.
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Ray Tuckers
Roosevelt
New Deal
Senate
Aubrey Williams
Cane Rea
REA
United States
F.D. R
White House
Laterers
W. Norris
Nebraska
Opp
Reody
Morris L. Cooke
Harry Slattery
T of Agriculture
Itery
Craig
Alion
Copperweld
Stery
Sweild Company
Aubrey Wil
Mr. Slattery
Collins
Ippi
Mr. Williams
Ter
Aubrey
Williams
Ellis
Gray
Copperweld Company
Emergency Fund Hit For 20547 In Raleigh Budget
The North Carolina Council of State on Friday approved a 20547 emergency and contingency fund allocation. Of this total 5475 funds the state ABC board for wine law enforcement with hires for three months. The archives and history department received 9072 for soldier records copying and photo stating. An extra 3000 each was approved to pay for Bangs disease cow losses and health education instructors. Debate focused on legality of funding tuition substitutes through instructor payments if AG disapproves later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Council of State
Legislative Nations Committee
ABC Board
Department of Archives and History
Board of Education
Budget Bureau
Attorney General
Hughes Rhodes
Allies May Create New German Government for Surrender
The Army and Navy Journal says Allies may form a new German government to meet unconditional surrender terms. If Hitler retreats toward the mountains, he cannot be the government, the piece adds. A Paulus group faction reportedly could be expanded into an Allied approved organization. The article notes Russia jealously influences German Wehrmacht officers who urged surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army and Navy Journal
Hitler
von Paulus
Stalin
Germany
Hether
Journal Sa
Guilford College Fund Surpasses Two Hundred Fifty Thousand
Guilford College reports surpassing 250 549 dollars in its 350 000 campus development drive. The total follows completed campaigns in Winston Salem High Point and Asheboro with Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill to report Tuesday night and Burlington on Wednesday. Greensboro campaigns begin April 6 with Ceasar Cone II addressing volunteers amid plans for Fayetteville Goldsboro and Murfreesboro districts and later Reidsville Madison and Charlotte. The goal is 350 000 by Alumni Day May 26 for a science building women’s dormitory admin addition and Cox Hall renovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford College
Clyde A. Milner
Winston- Salem
High Point
Asheboro
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
Burlington
Greensboro
Ceasar Cone
Sister
Fayetteville
Goldsboro
Murfreeboro
North Carolina
Reidsville-Madison
Charlotte
Dr. Milner
Cox Hall
Pilot recounts bomber crash and air corps humor
Lieutenant Alan W. Goldman of Far Rockaway, New York, surviving a B 17 crash near Liège, Belgium, recalls infantrymen gathered around the bomber. A dogface quips that he likes everything about the air corps except flying. Goldman serves as navigator and aerial observer at RAF Redistribution Station No 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
INS
Liége
Belgium
Alan W. Goldman
Far Rockaway, S. 1
Goldman
No. 1
Boise Bronc Mollifies Nervous briefing with bombing mission
In the Philippines advance bomber base a Liberator named Boise Bronc completes its 87th mission. Captain Paul G. Glanville leads the crew at 9000 feet and 165 mph, dropping thousand pound bombs on a Japanese held town amid cloud cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise Bronc
Philippines
Everett Wood
Trinidad
Colo
Associated Press
Pacific
Liberator Boise Bronc
Paul G. Glanville
Oakland
Glanville
Edwin Kieler
McKees Rock
Penna
Manpower Shortage Affects Railroads in 1945 Deliveries
Washington reports that a lack of sufficient manpower, not materials, is the main factor delaying new rolling stock for war-burdened railroads. Officials say allocations exceed production capacity, and military needs for personnel have been more influential than army and navy equipment demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ree
Army
Navy
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ICE Delivery Company
Westroad Street
Wagger
Scott
R.J. Scott
England
Edward Dawson
Englewood
Formosa
Ae Ana Day
High Point, N. C
James F. Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
Baker’s Tire Service
U. S
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B. and H. Tire Service
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Boyles Tire Company
Norwalk Tires
North Main Street
Carolina Tire and Battery CO
Goodrich Tires and Tubes
Sieberling
Firestone Stores
Firestone Tires
North Main
Church Street
Greene Tire Service, Inc
Kelly Springfield
B. F. Goodrich Stores
Goodrich Tires
Goodyear Service
Goodyear
College St
Hiatt Tire Company
West High Street
Neal
General Tires
South Main
Sloop Auto Service
West Broad Street
National Association OF Independent Tire Dealers, Inc
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