Opening Weed Mart sales loom across Carolinas
Farmers, warehousemen, and buyers in North and South Carolina brace for the belt’s 14 markets to begin opening sales tomorrow as growers hold back leaf awaiting a Washington meeting on increasing the OPA ceiling price. Output is forecast near 1919 peak, with 289 million pounds expected across 73 warehouses. WFA notes season averages around 41 cents a pound, above the 1942 level, with Georgia Florida belt posting strong returns as Carolina belt enters its peak trading phase.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
OPA
J. Melville Broughton
Colgate W. Darden
Virginia
State Department of Agriculture
Department
South Carolina
W. P. Hedrick
Eastern Belt
Hedrick
Georgia-Florida
War Food Administration
WFA
Carolina Border Belt
Permanent Picketing Protest on Pegler
Two NMU pickets demonstrated outside the New York World Telegram building marking the first shift of a permanent protest against columnist Westbrook Pegler. The union plans daily 8 am to 6 pm picketing, while Pegler defended his statements as true.
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New York
National Maritime Union (Cio
Westbrook Pegler
New York World-Telegram
Pegler
NMU
Russia Keeps Litvinoff Post. Trade and War Talk Rise
The article notes continued Russian ambiguity over Litvinoff’s role amid London dispatches about a possible leadership shift. Tass representative Zhivaynov checked out from the Clarendon Hotel, while Stephen Early said the departure has no significance. Speculation centers on Litvinoff’s possible reallocation to another assignment.
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London
Russia
Litvinoff
Europe
Nicholas Zhivaynov
Tass
Clarendon Hotel
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Magnate recounts robbery attempt at San Francisco hotel
Walter Wilson, a hotel night clerk, testified the thief demanded a till key but not the safe. The bandit shrugged and left after sneering. A later note explains the term tank originated in 1915 when Britain used it to mask the true nature of an experimental fighting machine.
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San Francisco
Walter Wilson
Nazis Strive To Repair Ruhr Damage
BERLIN based Berliner Borsen Zeitung reports Germany is racing to repair Ruhr heavy industrial damage from Allied bombing. Todt battalions moved into the region with 1,000 new recruits daily from Berlin induction centers as manpower limits hindered work.
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Bern
Switzerland
Ruhr
Berliner Borsen Zeitung
Todt
Fritz Todt
Berlin
Borsen Zeitung
Germany
Maginot
Siegfried Line
Evacuation of Kharkov signals shifting German lines
Russian and Soviet reports detail Kharkov's evacuation by German forces after heavy losses. Moscow claims 9,500 German dead and 187 tanks destroyed in broader offensives across Bryansk Donets basin and Spas Demensk areas, while German reinforcements push west of the Donets.
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Kharkov
Russia
Stalingrad
Khakov
Red Army
Spas Demensk
Bryansk
Donets
Moscow
Berlin
Donets Basin
Izyum
Voroshilovgrad
Yankees whip Tigers in morning swing shift win
New York Yankees beat Detroit 4 to 1 behind Joe Gordon two run homer and Nick Etten RBI single. The victory came in the morning game of a swing shift doubleheader, with the second game scheduled for 5 30 p m EST. Also noted, over 108 miles of welding and cutting needed for one Liberty Ship.
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Detroit
Joe Gordon
Nick Etten
New York Yankees
Tigers
Allies strike Italian rail hubs in daylight raids
Allied air forces conducted daylight raids over southern Italy targeting rail junctions at Villa Literno and Aversa north of Naples and other supply depots near Cancello Pomigliano d Arco and Battipaglia. The operations involved Flying Fortresses Liberators and Marauders with heavy fighter opposition, 65 German fighters claimed downed over two days, with eight Allied planes lost Saturday and ten Friday.
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Paris
Associated Press
London
Naples
Foggia
Italy
Villa Literno
Aversa
Middle East
Mediterranean
Cancello
Pomigliano D'Arco
Battipaglia
Benevento
Radio Liberation
Crete
Blondie Alley GOP and Oscar Boom Mission in Sicily
Blondie Alley GOP and Oscar Boom head toward a time machine return to the 20th century but a prehistoric sense detects a strange scent as the nest gold cla
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Alley Gop
Oscar Boom
Sicily
SROT
Allied push refines Salamaua retreat in Pacific drive
Japanese forces withdraw behind their last line of defense as Allied troops press from Big Logus across the mouth of the Francisco to surround evacuated positions. American units clear Baanga islet near Munda airfield on New Georgia, capturing field guns and tightening the campaign against enemy supply lines in the Solomon Islands area.
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Logus
Francisco
Solomons
Southwest Pacific
Baanga
Munda
New Georgia Island
Wana Wana Lagoon
War talk and shifts as pressure grows for second front
The piece notes resentment over delay of a second Western front in Europe and Moscow’s ambassador reshuffles seen as rebukes to London and Washington amid the Roosevelt Churchill Quebec conference. It argues the war rushes toward major political changes, realignments of borders, and possible Russian territorial demands.
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NEA
Kuban
Ivan Tarasov
Europe
Stalin
London
Washington
Quebec
Africa
Russia
Barrington Village Boasts Nation's Highest Service Rate
Barrington Illinois, split between two counties, claims the highest proportion of men in uniform in the United States. Martin Shreiber, village honor roll chairman, says 471 residents with services account for just under 10 percent of those listing the village as a post office address.
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Barrington
United States
Martin Schreiber
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