Newspapers Launch Second War Loan Drive Beginning Monday
Washington reports the nation’s newspapers will mobilize a $13 billion war loan drive to run about three weeks starting April 12. Treasury aims to finance the war and curb inflation with bonds, urging readers to buy extra bonds and divert funds from nonessential purchases while press, radio and motion pictures support the effort.
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James D. White
Washington
Uncle Sam
Tury
United States
Morgenthau
Frank FE. Tripp
Allied Newspaper Council
United Action
Treasury
The
Newspapers
Basil L
Walters
Minneapolis Star-Journal and Tribune
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Journey for Margaret stars Young Day in bomb torn London
In a dramatic wartime program Robert Young Lariane Day and five year old Margaret O Brien headline Journey for Margaret a screen adaptation of W L White's book about a war correspondent and his adopted war orphans The film features strong performances with young Margaret providing the title role and a supporting cast including Billy Severn and the veteran cast delivering earnest portrayals.
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London
Margaret
W. L. White
Robert Young
Lariane Day
Margaret O’brien
Billy Severn
Young
Miss Day
Senator Smith to Probe Grocery Prices with Food Purchases
South Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith plans to subpoena grocery items including black eyed peas hominy grits and cabbage to a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee. He will have clerks buy basic vegetables to document retail prices and compare them with what farmers receive.
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Francois J. Kelly Washington
Ellison D
Smith
South Carolina
Senate
Office of Price Administration
Senate Agriculture
Explosion shakes Evansville lab injures workers
An explosion at Serve Inc testing lab on Evansville north side injured several people. One man, Clarence O Bryan, in charge of testing under Army supervision, was seriously hurt with a severed leg and severe burns and taken to St Marys hospital.
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Evansville
Ind
Serve, Inc
Clarence O'Bryan
Army
O'Bryan
St. Mary's Hospital
World War I Veteran Serves In Second War
Paul M. Hall, 44, a Thomasville native and World War I veteran, serves with the U S Army Air Corps in Ardmore Oklahoma. He joined in November last year, trained at Fort Jackson South Carolina, then moved to Florida and Oklahoma. Despite age rules he chose to stay in the service and recently visited his daughter Mrs John Briles in Thomasville during a short furlough.
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Thomasville
Paul M. Hall
U. S. Army Air Corps
Ardmore
Oklo
Hall
Fort Jackson
U S. C
Florida
Oklahoma
John Briles
East Guilford Street
Army Air Corps
U S Shipyards Set New Record For Construction
U S shipyards in March set a new record by turning out 1 516 000 deadweight tons of vessels an annual rate of 18 000 000 tons about five ships daily. West coast yards led with 50 89 percent of tonnage, east 36 49 percent and Gulf 12 62 percent. A separate fire in New Zealand destroyed 10 000 Pinus insignis trees in a nursery plantation.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
West Coast
East Coast
Gulf Coast
Oron Downs
New Zealand
World War veteran joins Army Air Corps in wartime service
Thomasville veteran Paul M. Hall 44 enters the Army Air Corps despite age limits. The Raleigh labor report notes 370 inspections closed under the federal wage and hour law in March, with 356 establishments employing 11 674 workers inspected for North Carolina compliance. The article also mentions the origin of the term C D meaning collect on delivery from 1841 in New England.
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Raleigh
State Departsment of Labor
North Carolina
Forrest H. Shuford
C. D
New England
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Pennsylvania
George C. Marshall
Tripp
Gannett Newspapers
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Don Bridge
New York Times
Indianapolis News
Treasury War Finance Committee
Tripp Bridge
Jerome T. Barnum
Syracuse Post-Standard
Reitzel Morgan
High Point
University of North Carolina
Morgan
Carolina
Bishopric
Velvet Moon
Harry James
Sean
Rommel
S. C
U. S. Shipyards
International Squadron
Ronald Reagan
State Theatre
Salem Street
Flying Fortress
Richard Green
James Cagney
Joan Leslie
Tokio
Berlin
Tokyo
Duke Power Company
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