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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
8
Georgia's Representative Ran Speck, age 53, a Democrat and party whip, was reported in Washington as improving conditions after a medical incident. The item notes his status and location, reflecting a congressional update.
Chicago reports the war food administration outlines a 12 million labor pool with a 200000 person mobile task force to shore up harvests. The plan includes 4000000 temporary workers including 800000 women and 1200000 children recruited from U S communities.
IRM Spain Feb 24 The first of three diplomatic exchange trains carrying 36 wounded American aviators crossed the Spanish frontier from France en route to Lisbon Portugal More than 300 diplomats Red Cross workers and newspapermen accompanied them on the crossing
Non combatants from the United States and other American republics are to travel on three trains to Lisbon for a prisoner exchange with German nationals. They will sail home on the Swedish liner Gripsholm. Most were interned at Baden Baden since November 1942 after German occupation of southern France. The article notes an American circumnavigator, Captain Ro rate-pL, sailing from Boston in a prior era, and mentions a 56 mile Roman aqueduct.
Hugh Comer president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association announced at a Charlotte meeting that governors and members oppose shipping large quantities of cotton textile machinery to other nations under the lend-lease program. The stance targets public officials and seeks to influence policy decisions.
Comer warned the proposed postwar rehabilitation plan could threaten economic stability of the southern cotton textile industry, framing it as part of government rehabilitation efforts.
The annual conference of the southeastern jurisdiction of the Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church ended in Raleigh today. Worship services, reports of jurisdictional work, and addresses by returning missionaries aboard the liner Gripsholm marked the conclusion of the gathering.
The February issue of Alumni News from Ithaca College lists 624 alumni and students serving in the military or who spent two years or more at the college. The honor roll includes six gold stars for those who died in service.
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