Ration Roundup of Stamp Validities and Periods
The notice lists validity dates for meat fats and sugar stamps G H J K A B C EF D U S with December through January expirations, shoes Book 1 stamp 18 and book 3 stamps on the plate sheet, gasoline 8 A 9 A coupons with regional gallon limits, fuel oil periods one through three with varying expiration dates in different areas, and each coupon unit worth 10 gallons or multiple units.
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Associated Press
Rocky Mountains
Midwestern
Midwest
South
Capital Airlines pledges postwar return to your city services
The letter from Pennsylvania Central Airlines explains wartime flyings and the pause in service. It notes PCA operated routes with the fewest planes for greatest reach and that many pilots aided the war effort. Service will resume when war conditions allow, and postwar plans reaffirm speed safety and progress.
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Bey
PCA
Pearl Harbor
Civil Aeronautics Board
Rommel
Egypt
India
Air Transport Command
War Department
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Washington, D.C
Heavily Armed Planes Hit Shipping Off New Guinea Coast
Mitchell bombers armed with 75mm cannons strike enemy barges and shipping along the New Guinea north coast near Wewak Saidor and between Sio and Saidor. Reports praise Lt. Gen. Kenney for airborne artillery advances and note improved range and accuracy.
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Robert Euison
New Guinea
Wewak
Washington
Sio
Saidor
Sam Co. Kenney
Allied
Southwest Pacific
United States
Kenney
Food for Freedom and Meth odist Preachers Tales
Rotary talk by Dean I O Schaub urges 1944 food production push with seven steps including concentrating on needed foods and rationing. The columnist shares humorous Methodist preacher memories and a country church cat anecdote from Iredell County.
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Food For Freedom
Dean I. O. Schaub
State
X- D. Railroad
Rotary Club of
Raleigh
Thursted
Tax Service Checks 300 Missouri Slot Machines
The revenue department reports it is surveying more than 300 slot machines in Missouri where gambling is outlawed. Gov. Forrest C. Donnell and county officers survey the scene. The first six replies all state No slot machines found.
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Jefferson City
Uncle Sam's Revenue Department
Missouri
Forrest C. Donnell
Nine Black Cats In A Row Story Told By Dr Scroggs
The Dr Scroggs tale of nine black cats in a row kept the congregation laughing for days. The preacher extended the joke about cats with nine lives and eighty one lives including imagined kittens, ending with a humorous benediction.
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Brethren and Sisters
Dr. Scroggs
Tragic Anecdotes From Leaves of Gold Fractured Humor
The Rev. Marinus Jones recounts anecdotes from Leaves of Gold about a churchgoer asking for a wheelchair after sermons and a wedding where a ring would not fit the bride's size leading to a ring file. A Duke Power magazine interview with Sparks and Cassidy discusses mourning bands worn on the leg due to a stepmother.
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Avotrdupois
Marinus Jones
Coslett Publishing Co
Honesdale
Sparks
Duke Power
Cassidy
Mike
Bhoy
Dan Imither
Mike Cemine
Berlin Bombing Ravages Rail and Traffic
Berlin reports show railway and street traffic still demoralized after RAF raids last week. Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says residents are in the most serious situation ever faced by any population.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Deutsche Allgemeineeitung
Local tax office expansion and holiday notes from 1933
The county tax office plans an enlargement and a fire proof vault. Santa Claus and Mary Christmas are billed for the city parade on December 6. Thanksgiving Day passed peacefully. A turkey shoot is set near Asheboro road at 1 PM Saturday. Mollie Haney visits from Concord. Elvina is in New York for Frances Eshelman. The civilian works administration lists 1,250,000 unemployed on payroll. Willie Sharkey, St Paul gangster, hanged. R. B. Mellon dies in Pittsburgh at 75. Derwick Silk Mill workers strike. a Labor Department conciliator is en route.
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Mary Christmas
Santa Claus
Tter
Asheboro Road
Ghent
Mollie Haney
A. A. Haney
Concord
Elvina
New York
Iss
Frances Eshelman
Mary Alice Sheloff
Charter
Civilian Works ‘Administration
Willie Sharkey
Alleg
Washington, D. C
Twenty Years Ago December 1 1933 Enterprise Lookback
A concise past page note reflects on events from twenty years earlier dated December 1 1913 and December 1 1933, noting missing 1923 records and the compiling status of the Enterprise file for December 1923.
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Enterprise
Flea Circus Sets Sights on Paris Street Fairs
The latest victims of the French food shortage are members of Monsieur Muhucha's flea circus, a long running Paris street fair feature for thirty years.
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Monsieur Muhucha
Paris
Von Papen Seen As Successor To Von Ribbentrop
Cairo reports from Istanbul claim Franz von Papen German ambassador to Turkey chosen to replace Joachim von Ribbentrop as foreign minister. Rumors say Von Ribbentrop resigned under army pressure amid Soviet advances. Von Papen travels from Berlin to Ankara. affair tied to shifts in German foreign policy.
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von Papen
von Ribbentrop
Cairo
Istanbul
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
la Suisse
Bern
Switzerland
Budapest
Ankara
Berlin
Operation of California Pen Is Under Fire
California prison investigation continues at Folsom Prison with Acting Warden James Adam in control. Suspended warden Clyde L. Plummer withdrew after refusing to recognize the suspension order. Lloyd Sampsell, central figure in the probe, was arrested after a San Francisco visit while under confinement. The surface area of the oceans is more than twice that of the land.
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Folsom Prison
Calif
State Prison Board
Warren
James Adam
Clyde L. Plummer
Plummer
Isaac Pacht
Oceans
Camp Grant to Play Rockford for War Chest Benefit
Camp Grant basketball team from Rockford area enters a benefit game on December 8 against Rockford Industrial League stars to raise funds for the war chest and community fund. Lt. Bob Harris leads the squad preparing for a 33-game schedule.
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Camp Grant
Grant
National Service
Rockford
War Chest and Munity Fund
Bob Harris
Coat
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Jlarllee
Ality
Parllee
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