Navy to Expand Fleet For Amphibious War In 1944
A House Naval committee report outlines a $5 billion fleet expansion emphasizing amphibious warfare. The plan adds 2.5 million tons of auxiliary vessels and 1 million tons of landing craft, with sources including the Army and Maritime Commission. The measure may require further Congressional action before year end. A separate note covers severe Aleutian weather damaging a Quonset hut and a record 112 mph wind recorded last April.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Congress
Maritime Commission
Navy
Eeneral
Simon B Buckner
Lemon Juice Recipe Claims Fast Rheumatic Pain Relief
An old advertisement touts a home remedy using Ru-Ex compound and lemon juice to relieve rheumatic arthritis and neuritis pain. It promises rapid results within hours to overnight and offers a money back guarantee if no relief is felt after two weeks. It claims widespread doctor and drugstore backing.
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Mann's and
OPA College Men Doing Well Agency In Danger
Washington dispatch reviews the clash between OPA critics and college professors in the agency. Former OPA leaders Leon Henderson and aides Galbraith and O Leary move into high paying private posts while Congress contemplates stripping OPA of powers on pricing coal oil and food. Uncertain fate looms as bids for new control emerge.
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OPA College
OPA
Leon Henderson
OPA J
Henderson
Washington
Research Institute of America
Brow Company
Atlas Corporation
O'Sullivan
Rubber
J. K. Galbraith
Paul M. O'Leary
Galbraith
Princeton Economics
Fortune Magazine
O'Leary
Cornell
Congress
Waite
War Food Administration
Employe Election Fight Reaches Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
The R J Reynolds Employees Association appeals to the Fourth Circuit in Baltimore seeking to stay two court orders by Federal Judge Johnson Hayes. The orders dissolve a state restraining order on NLRB conduct of an employee election and prohibit further steps by the association. A hearing was set for 10:30 a m. in Baltimore, while CIO ally urges the NLRB to schedule the election by December 9-10. In Raleigh the agriculture department reports North Carolina laying hens rising from 8 121 000 in 1940 to 11 175 000 by year end.
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Winston-Salem
R. J. Reynolds Employes ‘Association, Inc
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Baltimore
Johnson Hayes
Hayes
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Reynolds At
Employes Association
Circuit Court
Donald Henderson
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America
CIO
Raleigh
North Carolina
Department of Agriculture
Strange Legal Circumstances Frees Slayer
Paul Harrison who was committed to the Illinois Security Hospital at Menard in 1932 for hammer slayings was freed after a jury found him sane. Prosecutor Gordon Nash moved to strike murder charges with leave to reinstate if new evidence appears. Harrison, 38, denied the killings in sanity hearings and plans to live with his mother in Burlington, North Carolina.
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Chicago
Paul Harrison
Illinois Security
Menard
Harrison
Gordon Nash
Rudolph H. Desart
Edbothel
Pastas Gees
Nash
Cneaten
James Shaffer
Earl Davis
Charles Pagel
Norma Newby
Burlington
N. C
Grace
Pilots of Bamboo Fleet Recall Philippines Adventures
Colonel John C. Caldwell of Searcy Arkansas, operations officer on a B 26 group in England, flew with the Bamboo Fleet in the Philippines. He joined during the Japs attack and flew from Clark Field among other airstrips, recounting daring early days.
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U. S
England
INS
Bataan
John C. Caldwell
Searcy
Ark
Jack
Gary Cooper
Islands
Philippines
Clark Field
University expert notes stallion stock decline in Minnesota
A. L. Harvey, animal husbandry professor at the University of Minnesota, says a survey of 500 stallion owners shows a 50.8 percent decline in stallion stocks in Minnesota in recent years.
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ST. Paul
A. L. Harvey
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
War pay tale shows penny wages for WWI official
In Albuquerque H B Hening, once assistant director of agriculture for the war finance committee, earned thirty four cents for nine months while receiving a one dollar and a German helmet bonus as a WWI veteran. The note comments that English is spoken by over 270 million people.
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Albuquerque
N. M
H. B. Hening
War Finance Committee
Noted evacuee pilot and night flight while in islands
The account recalls a pilot skilled at selecting flyers to evacuate personnel from the Philippines to Australia. Old ships broke apart as he and others who ferried five old airplanes continually flew at night, as the enemy rarely flew unless moonlight.
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Ign
Phillippines
Australia
Synthetic elastic yarn offers slow snap and versatile use
A Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp report, in the Scientific Journal, unveils a new synthetic thread that stretches 150 to 400 percent and resists air oxidation. It remains durable under boiling water but stiffens with soap and extreme temperatures, suggesting potential comfort gains for elastic garments despite slower recoil.
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New York
Carbide
Carbon Chemicals
Scientific
Review of Scientific Instruments
Train mix up leads to mistaken car in travel tale
A travel mishap in Kansas City ends with a conductor revealing a woman was in the wrong car and a man on the wrong train after a seating dispute. The vignette mentions 75 pyramids in Egypt and a grandmother with home remedies for colds.
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Kansas City
Robert Caldwell
Caldwell
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