Government Moves To Boost Low-Cost Children’s Clothing
The War Production Board authorizes over 2 million dozen infants and children's garments for early 1944 and the War Manpower Commission adds children's wear to its essential activities list. Officials say this aims to assure adequate supply and set material and price constraints to prevent shifting output to higher priced lines.
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James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Earl
Roy Cheney
Underwear Institute
Real Pd
CPA
War Profits Renegotiation Faces Senate Study
Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee may reopen the 2.275 billion second wartime revenue bill after Christmas recess to press renegotiation amendments. Taft and others survey the issue as administration opposed provisions loom. Debates center on mandatory exemptions and retroactive tax cuts for contractor machine tools and related items.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Taft
Ohio
George
D-Ga
Congress
House
Final Rites Held For Albert E. Primm
Funeral services for Albert E. Primm Jr. were held at Green Funeral Home in Thomasville and later at Green Street Baptist Church in High Point. Rev. Julian S. Hopkins led the rites with pallbearers including Fay Kizer and Julius A. Green. Interment was in Oakwood Cemetery, High Point.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Alert E. Primm, Jr
Green Funeral Home
Green Street Baptist Church
High Point
Julian S. Hopkins
Fay Kizer
B. Morris
Richard Primm
al Primm
Julius A. Green
Bill Mack
Catherine M. Arnold
Oakwood Cemetery
Autograph Card Becomes Battle Talisman for Blood and Fire
CAMP VAN DORN MISS Autographs of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill join the Blood and Fire division in battle. The unit born June 15 after the Casablanca conference adopts a red flame insignia with a bloody tipped golden sword. A signed card from Casablanca leaders circulates among attendees to accompany troops into combat.
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Camp van Dorn
Miss
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Casablanca
BC Relieves Headache and Neuralgia Quickly
A quick acting formula provides fast relief from headaches neuralgic pains muscle aches and functional periodic pains. Keep a small package of BC handy for prompt relief when minor pains strike. Use only as directed and consult a physician if pains persist.
Ration Roundup for Various Stamp Books and Coupons
The notice lists validity dates and item coverage for rationed goods. It covers meats fats and other items with stamps L to Q valid through January 1, spare stamp No 1 through January 1, green stamps through January 20, plus G J and other stamps through February 70, sugar stamp 79 through January 15, shoes stamps with indefinite validity, gasoline coupons across regions with varying expiration dates, fuel oil periods 1 2 3 with regional dates, and unit values of ten gallons per coupon.
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Rocky Mountains
Par West
Midwestern
Middle West
South
East
Far West
Royal and World War Era Knowledge Quiz
Questions list prime ministers and premiers from 1936 and 1914 1918. Answers include Stanley Baldwin Edward Daladier and David Lloyd George. Also offers etiquette tips and Shakespearean quotes for New Year motivation.
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Stanley Baldwin
Edward Daladier
David Lloyd-George
Polish leader seeks Roosevelt mediation on Polish Soviet clash
Premier Mikolajczyk of the Polish government in exile reportedly travels to Washington to press President Roosevelt for mediation of the Polish Soviet breach. Britain’s Eden has briefed him on the Teheran conference and Russia's terms, including redrawing borders and dismissing Sosnkowski. The Poles reject forceful decisions and push to defer frontier questions until after the war.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Roosevelt
Anthony Eden
Mikolajczyk
Russia
Poland
Ukraine
Lwow
East Prussia
Silesia
Moscow
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Sosnkowski
Sunday Times
Ship Launched in Wilmington Named for Sprinter Paddock
The S. S. Charles Paddock, a Liberty ship named for 1920s track star Charles Paddock, slid into the water at California Ship Building Corps yards as his widow Mrs Neva Prick Paddock watched. Paddock, a Marine captain, died in a military plane crash near Sitka Alaska on July 11. His track shoes will be memorialized in the pilot house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Calif
S. S. Charles
Nine Deaths Above Last Christmas Week Toll
The Associated Press reports violent deaths totaled 339 for the Christmas week end, with traffic fatalities at 216, fires 38, and miscellaneous accidents 85. New York led with 31 deaths overall. New York and California tied at 20 traffic deaths.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
New York State
California
New York
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaway
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Tinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Louisiana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
WyoMing
Infant Pressley Dies in Thomasville Home
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Paul Pressly of Ford Street Thomasville died at the home Sunday night The father serves in the US Navy stationed at Camp Perry Williamsburg Virginia Surviving grandparents include Mr and Mrs L J Pressley and Mr and Mrs Glenn Loflin all of Thomasville A graveside service is to be conducted this afternoon in City Cemetery
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Paul Pressly
Ford Street
U. S. Navy
Camp Perry
Williamsurg
Virginia
Alma Loflin
L. J. Pressley
Glenn Loflin
Centuries talk marks Long Beach trio ages total 306
Three Long Beach residents Mrs. Mary Conger 101 Charles Manning 103 and Charles C Spencer 102 chatted in sunlit chairs recalling events from the last century Their combined ages reach 306 with Manning the eldest born in Prairie county Missouri Conger noted as the youngest at 101 Spencer the third in age born in Pleasant Mount Wayne county Pennsylvania
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Long Beach
Calif
Mary Conger
Charles Manning
Charles C. Spencer
Conger
New York
Manning
Prairie County
Spencer
Pleasant Mount
Wayne County
Free Asthma Relief Trial Offered By Frontier Asthma Co
Frigid damp air worsens asthma as cold winds trigger attacks. The Frontier Asthma Co offers a free trial of a method with no cost or obligation. Readers in all locations are urged to send for the trial to find relief from lifelong suffering.
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Belk-Stevens CO
Albert E. Primm
England
Edward VIII
France
Czechoslovakia
Yale
Ahe
Ges
Aunt Clara
Pittshigh
Brownsville
Alleghenies
Pressley
Frontier Asthma Co
Frontier Bidg
Niagara Street
Buffalo, New York
Wagger's
Elwood Wotel Conner
Dorothy Gray
Farllee
O.D.T
Flarllee’s
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