Meat rationing urged as restaurants dominate beef sales
Chicago Aug. 11 The National Retail Meat Dealers Association blamed beef shortages on large restaurant purchases and urged rationing of meat to eating places. It backed a high livestock price ceiling to ensure fair living for producers and retailers and to feed the nation, citing that OPA ceilings have shifted supplies from retail to restaurant channels.
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Chicago
National
Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
Association
58Th
Emergency Food Council
Congress
OPA
Churchill in Canada on North American war talks
British leader and Roosevelt press ahead with war deliberations in Quebec as Churchill and Mackenzie King host high level military chiefs and Canadian officials. Names of British staff officers are disclosed while top American and Canadian leaders join the discussions at the Chateau Frontenac amid arrival ceremonies by rail.
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Axis
Churchill
Dudley Pound
Charles Portal
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Louis Mountbatten
Hastings Ismay
Mary
Auxiliary Territorial Service
North America
Britain
Dominion
Quebec
Mackenzie King
Citadel
Roosevelt
Washington
United Nations
Capablanca
Kenneth Stuart
Army
Percy W. Nelles
Navy
L. S. Breadner
Active Part II
Chateau Frontenac
St. Lawrence
Eugene Fiset
Province of
Adelard Godbout
Quebbec City
Lucien Borne
North and South Carolina Warm With Scattered Thunderstorms
The weather forecast notes continued warmth this afternoon tonight and Thursday forenoon with cooler conditions in the northeast. Scattered thundershowers are expected southeast this afternoon in North Carolina and late this afternoon or early tonight in South Carolina.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
New French Regime Will Be Recognized
Reports from Algiers say the United States and Britain will recognize the French Committee of National Liberation as the de facto government for French overseas interests. A joint statement on recognition by the Giraud and De Gaulle movement is expected after a Roosevelt Churchill meeting. Some fear a possible limitation clause delaying full leadership until a free election.
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Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
United States
Britain
Algeria
Henri Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Canada
France
Giraud
Europe
Liberation Committee
Germans declare state of alarm in Bergn Norway
Stockholm reports the German government has declared a state of alarm in Bergn Norway. Cycle patrols are active and gun crews have been reinforced at all road intersections and key bridges as the emergency measures continue.
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Stockholm
Bergn
Norway
Chateau Frontenac Close Brings Guests Home Early
Guests were told the Chateau Frontenac would be closed from August 7 to August 27 for reasons beyond control. The hotel filled with signal corps members and officers from Canadian, British forces and U S services. Rooms became offices and conference rooms while guards were stationed outside.
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Chateau Frontenac
Signal Corps
U. S
Sicilian Battle Focus on Randazzo and Luftwaffe Losses
Allied advances press on in Sicily with Randazzo under heavy bombardment as American and Allied air forces destroy ships, rail targets, and fortifications. Berlin reports indicate German defense uses moving warfare while American gains remain cautious. Aircrews claim large enemy losses and significant ground damage across the Mesina area.
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Randazzo
Tunis
Bizerte
Sicily
RAF Wellingtons
Sicilian
Mesina
Italy
Associated Press
Berlin
Anxis
Novara
Two Problems for Roosevelt and Churchill Conference
The article anticipates a Roosevelt Churchill meeting addressing two main issues Europe’s western front and postwar Allied unity. It weighs invading France versus pressing through the Italian peninsula and Balkans, arguing a France invasion could shorten the war, while cautioning on Italy’s limited gains and the need to outpace autumn weather.
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Russia
Mediterranean
Sicily
Hitler
France
England
Europe
Italian
Italy
Balkans
Moscow
Carolina belted sales show strong prices despite lower grades
SC two percent under last year's production but above the department's forecast of 771,499,000 pounds per month earlier. Yesterdays Carolina sales totaled 1,831,958 pounds at 40.88 cents. For the season South Carolina averaged 40.91 cents on 3,078,009 pounds and North Carolina 3,072,742 pounds at 41.31 cents.
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North
South Carolina
Carolina
WFA
North Carolina
Raid on Nuernberg and British Air Offensive Rise
The communique says Nuernberg was very heavily bombed after RAF raids on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. British coast observers note a large Bomber Command force crossing the Channel at dusk, one of the biggest sorties in months. Germany replies with a first Briton raid this month, Fast Anglia bombs. RAF has dropped 136100 tons on Germany since the war began, over half since Jan 1. German losses are 71000 tons on Britain, 2000 in 1943.
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Messerschmitt Fighting
Britain
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Rhineland
Fast Anglia
Air Ministry
RAF
Germany
Central Solomons Push Joins Forces Near Bairoko Harbor
United States jungle troops closed in on Bairoko harbor in the central Solomons, severing Japan's last foothold on New Georgia. Forces entering from Rice Anchorage July 5 linked with units capturing Munda airfield near Bairoko, advancing within two miles of the harbor. A Japanese air raid on Rendova island was repelled by American fighters. fifty attackers were routed as the campaign tally nears 350 Japanese planes downed. One American plane was lost but the pilot was saved.
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Solomons
Bairoko Harbor
Japan
New Georgia Island
Rice Anchorage
Munda
Bairoko
Rendova Island
Tobacco And Cotton Cuts For State
North Carolina faces cuts in two major crops as a Tobacco and Cotton forecast shows tobacco production likely down about two percent from last year with 555,570,000 pounds and cotton at 695,000 bales, down from 727,000. Regional belts vary, with eastern NC down two percent and the border belt down nine percent.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
J. J. Morgan
State Agriculture Department
N. C
One Killed in Mountain Affray in Jackson County
In Pin Hook Gap Transylvania County line a family shooting left one dead and four seriously wounded. Harley Mc Call, 55, woodsman and farmer, died shortly after the incident and was buried today. Sun spots range widely and Peru is cited as the largest vanadium producer.
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Brevard
Transylvania
Pin Hook Gap
Jackson County
Harley McCall
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