Vinson urges keeping US Navy intact after war for world peace
Rep. Carl Vinson of Georgia, head of the House Naval Affairs Committee, says the United States should not scrap any naval vessels after the war and must maintain a full fleet as a safeguard for world peace. He argues for a balanced force including battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers, and notes the difficulty of a quick victory over Germany or Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romney Wheeler
Vinson
Germany
Carter's Little Liver Pills Improve Digestion Fast
A vintage ad explains digestion relies on liver bile and promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills to boost bile flow. It claims effects in about thirty minutes and encourages purchase for 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Casual Comment and Tragedy Reflections By W A Bivins
A columnist muses on August travel weariness and eyeing American sights from Blowing Rock to the Grand Canyon. He contrasts romantic vacations with practical travel, then shifts to timelessness in art and life, discussing divorce, the eternal triangle, and famous works. Mentions of history, liberty, and figures like Washington and Napoleon frame a broad meditation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Denning
Paragon
Washington
Baltimore
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pyramids
Egypt
Newark
Niagara Falls
Grand Canyon
Colorado
America
Ickens
David Copperfield
Mark Twain
Nero
Napoleon
St. Helena
Mussolini
Italy
Hitler
Our God
Priority system moves 4500 troops to key metal mines
Washington Aug 11 1943 a WPB official says 4500 soldiers will be furloughed to join vital metal and mineral mines facing worker shortages. About 76,000 workers across 100 top mines need 8000 more, with a four tier priority guiding where troops go and ensuring essential production stays on track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
America
War Manpower Commission
WMC
U. S
Rvice
Butte
Montana
Phoenix
Arizona
50,000 Dead in Hamburg Destruction Report
Stockholm reports Allied bombing of Hamburg destroyed 11 of 40 districts and may have killed at least 50,000 people. Hamburg Tageblatt chief editor told foreign correspondents Berlin the city was partly alive and described the bombardments as unsurpassed in world history. The article notes Hamburg’s unchanging mindset amid suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Hamburg
Hamburger Tageblatt
Berlin
Baseball Manager Lor Aids Puzzle Revealing Hidden Word
A crossword style puzzle lists clues for a baseball manager named Lor and includes many definitions from who manages a base team to various word solutions. The grid-like prompt combines sports and vocabulary, culminating in a final music note.
Bootleggers Hope For Sugar Relief From Rationing Rules
Denver August 11. Treasury Department agents forecast a new bootlegging surge if sugar joins the whisky shortage on the ration list. District Supervisor A V Anderson and investigator J L White warn unrestricted sugar sales would aid illicit distillers while noting continued rationing can deter bootleggers and preserve a safeguard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
America
Alcohol Tax Unit
Treasury Department
A. V. Anderson
J. L. White
Chestnut Colts Brings 66000 at Keeneland Yearling Sale
William Helis of New Orleans purchased a chestnut colt sired by Blenheim II for 66000 at Keeneland Park in Lexington after a transfer from Saratoga. The sale marked the highest American auction price in 15 years, surpassed only by New Broom in 1928 and Hustle On in 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
William Helis
New Orleans
Whirlaway
Saratoga Springs
Keeneland Park
Battlewagons in the Pacific and Puerto Rico politics
Private and Navy yards push wartime ship production with faster builds of the Pennsylvania and the Iowa, while Roosevelt faces Ickes on Puerto Rico governance. A sales list for soldiers reveals odd items from hair nets to lipstick, prompting a quip about fighting versus flirting. Albert Leman is on vacation.
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Ray Tucker
United States
Pacific
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Ito Rico
Congress
Harold L. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Bexford Guy Tugwell
War Department
Quartermaster Corps
Harold Cooley Attacks Farm Collectives Under Tugwell
Los Angeles August 11 congressional committee says it is tracing a rainbow of collective farms modeled after Russia's FSAs vast expenditures exceed a billion dollars with 10 million suspended. Cooley claims many projects lack legal authority and reveal corporate schemes, with families living rent-free or paying minimal rent and self perpetuating charities acquiring land and incurring debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Congressional
Russia
Harold D. Cooley
D-N. C
Tugwell
Cooley
Rexford G. Tugwell
Puerto Rico
FSA
Washington
Texas
Berlin School System Moving to Prussia
Stockholm reports German dispatches say Berlin's entire school system will be moved to undisclosed locations in Brandenburg East Prussia and Warthegau before the city becomes another Hamburg. The city president says instruction has stopped while children remain. Digging of slit trenches air raid shelters and water reservoir work continues. Scientists estimate the sun is about 1.5 times as dense as water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Berlin
Brandenburg
East Prussia
Warthegau
Hamburg
Radio Schedule Highlights From August Eleventh Evening
Radio outline for Eastern War Time includes a wide mix of dramas serials news and music. Notable items feature The Jack Armstrong serial Dance Band segments Captain Tim Healys Spy Stories and Amos and Andy style entertainment along with Fred Waring and Tommy Dorsey orchestras and news analysis by Paul Schubert.
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590
Iain Bill
Abe
Jack Armetorng
Leago
Chick Carter
Farrel
Archie Andrews
Biu American Women
Cbs
Kiddies
Mbs-Basie
Newa
U. S. Navy
Akhildren
Quincey Lowe
News Time
Dbe
Mbs
Golden Gate Quartet
Dbhs
Tim Healy
bin Dancing Music Orchestra
Dancing Music Orchestra
Jack Armstrong
bin West
Jeri Sullavan
Verseeas
Bill Stern
Nbe
Lowell Thomason
Fred Waring
Dramatico
Cbha
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Harry James
Ilias
Johnson
Blu
Easy Aces
Cbs Basic Dancing Music Orchestra
Cbs Dizie
Naltenborn
Mr. Keen
Cbs-Basic Dancing Music Orchestra
cbs-Dixie
North
Nice News
Dally
Sammy Kaye
Red Barber
Cbs- Cal
Jean Hersholt
Christian
Ebs
Judy
Nbeo
John Freedom
Lionel Barrymore
Gabriel Heatter
Dancing Music
Jack Carson
Soldiers With Wings
Harry Wismer
Kay Kyser
Dhs
Raymond Gram Swing
John B. Hughes
Lile and
Johnny
Morton Gould
Alec Templeton
Radio Forum
Paul Schubert
Clu
Cbe
Air Minded Era 250 Firms Seek Postwar Routes For Helicopters
Washington reports that many aviation interests foresee helicopter potential but warn against premature public use after the war. About 250 route certificate applications cover thousands of miles, with bus and truck firms eyeing rotorcraft for future service though civilian models require safety testing and CAB approval. The act may restrict surface carrier control, and a shift to mixed air surface transport awaits policy clarity. The piece notes helicopter tech limits like vibration and tail propeller countermeasures.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Guilford County Realty Transfers High Point and nearby townships
Realty transfers listed include Prudential to Charles R Montgomery and wife on East Lexington Avenue, J T Walden to Lou Walden and others on J W Clinard property, Roy Vestal Snyder to H J Hodgin on Clark and Millikan subdivision lots, Everette Stout to R F White on Jones Road, and several others across Morphead Gilmer Sumner Monroe and Jeffer son townships. Transactions involve multiple buyers, sellers, and parcel details including East Lexington Avenue Florida Street Spring Garden Street West Green Street and Freeman Mill Road.
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High Point Township
Prudential Insurance Company
Charles R. Montgomery
Lexington Avenue
J. T. Walden
Lou Walden
J. W. Clinard
Roy Vestal Snyder
H. J Hodgin
Clark and Millikan
Everette Stout
R. F. White
Jones Road
Corbitt
Roy C. Brown
DE Headen
West Green Street
David E. Walden
R. L. Pope
Louisa Clinard Wrenn
High Point Furniture Company
R. B. Gantt
George L Hundley
Morphead Township Guaranty Title and Bond Corporation
H. L. Holton
Florida Street
Tenvacar Realty Company
KH. E. Koontz
Spring Garden Street
Z. H. Howerton
J. D. Shular
Thomas Wakefield
Asheboro
Perry H Ritch
Elam Avenue
Sherwood Street
Lizzie Donnell
Mattie Donnell
Geraldine Donnell
Peterson's Ointment Gains National Fame for Pile Relief
A Buffalo druggist 30 years ago created an ointment that quickly cools and soothes itching from piles. The product gained nationwide fame and became a favorite in thousands of homes. A 35 cent box or 60 cent tube with applicator is offered with a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved.
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Buffalo
Peterson
Luncheon Dance Melodies and Afternoon Radio Schedule
Radio program lineup lists Luncheon Dance Melodies and multiple features from 12 to 5 PM with names such as The Beso Reporter, Mirth and Madness, Sketches in Melody, News segments, and various acts plus Tonight and Tomorrow morning schedules including The Eye Opener and Do You Remember.
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Beso
Taylor
Arey Longmire
The
Guiding Light
Hows
Ma Perkins
Ethel Waters
Senge
Art Dinson
Gene
WW. Chaplin
Hotel Statler Orchestre
Alice Cornell
Whee Airl
Portia
Sundown
Baso
Red Waring
Piedmont Parm
Ranch
Carolina Kereille
Betty Brows
Road of Life
Haffer
Lancheon
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Robert Young
Cairo
Sony Llorf
Patricia Morrison
John Carradine
Loraine
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Tyrone Power
Black Swan
W. A. Bivins
George Washington
Dutch Guiana
Turkey
State Theatre
Salem Street
Anna Baxter
Barbara Stanwyck
Michael O'Shea
Peel
Tag
Friends
Make
Liberty
Duke
Kromwel
Iad
White
Ickes
Abe Fortas
Ray McGowan
National Catholic Welfare Conference
P. R
Capitol Hill
Albert Leman
Harold Cooley
Tar Heel
Prussia
Normandie
New York
U.S.S. LaFayette
Hudson River
By James J. Strebig
Somaliland
Manchukuo
Guilford County Realty
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