Fifth Column Jitters Worry Nazi Regime On Spy Drive
Wartime dispatch reports Nazi controls tighten as Goebbels pushes an anti spy campaign while fear of Allied agents grows. Foreign workers face restrictions. posters for shadow men appear. Himmler vows harsher measures to deter treason and sabotage.
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Stockholm
Thierack
Ter of Justice
Dr. Goebbels
Hamburg
Oberturmbannfuehrer
Germany
Usche Allegemeine Zeitung
Reich
Berlin
Himmler
Himm& Police
Goebbels
Rollin
Himmiler
One-Minute Test Secrets on Empire and Directoire Decor
Empire period followed Directoire in decoration. The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for pomegranate tulip motifs in their household decor. The famous American cab maker with back chairs is Duncan Phyfe.
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Empire
The
Duncan Phyte
March Born Crowns and Courageous Traits Horoscope
March birthstone bloodstone stands for courage the jonquil flower represents purity. Those born March 1 show artistic tendencies faith in self and ability and a chance for lasting love. Expect favorable outlooks in the year ahead with rising finances and potential clashes with others.
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Ity
Shortage of picker sticks hits textile industry
GREENSBORO Feb 29 The Picker Stick Association warns of an acute shortage of picker sticks looms and other implements, urging textile officials to be tolerant during the impending crisis. Current stocks are about one third normal and a sudden cut by manufacturers could force about 80 percent of mills to close.
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Greensboro
Picker Stick Association
Tex
Irving Bullard
Charlotte
Pay Hoard Tokens Pittsburgh
A new type food ion tokens will be easy to read. The fiber change making will have no expiration date and remain valid for 12 weeks of the current four.
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Pittsburgh
Britain Prepares for Heavier Nazi Air Attacks
Sir Archibald Sinclair told the House of Commons Britain’s defenses are ready for heavier German raids before invasion. He warned the enemy’s strength is not final and outlined RAF army navy cooperation to liberate Europe. He noted Berlin faced heavy bombing, and Allied air power has forced Germans to concentrate fighters in the west.
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London
Archibald Sinclair
House of Commons
Britain
Sinclair
RAF
Europe
Berlin
United States
Sir Archibald
Peiping
Isles
Poe Named Chairman of North Carolina Hospital Commission
Dr. Clarence Poe of Raleigh was chosen as chair man of a state hospital and medical care commission by Governor J M Broughton. He will lead studies on hospital needs in North Carolina with emphasis on Negro communities and a goal to prevent poverty related lack of care.
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Raleigh
Clarence Poe
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
North Carolina Short On E Bond Purchases
Pi-State War Finance Chairman Clarence T. Leinbach said North Carolina sold 39.8 million dollars in Series E bonds in the Fourth War Loan drive, 10 percent short of the 44 million dollar goal. A state war bond spokesman called chances to reach the quota by purchases yesterday and today very slim.
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Winston-Salem
Pi-State War Finance
Clarence T. Leinbach
North Carolina
State War Bond Headquarters
Chocolate Easter Bunny Sentiments Aired By WFA Director
Chicago reports that cocoa shortages will keep chocolate Easter novelties from market this year. F. O. Pollock, Midwest regional director of the WFA food distribution division, said the traditional chocolate bunnies and other Easter chocolates will likely be unavailable this April.
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Chicago
F. O. Pollock
Midwest
WFA
Margaret Crown Aids War Effort At 78
In Erif Pennsylvania Miss Margaret Crown aged 78 works as a telephone operator at the Sarah Reed Home and folds baby garments four days weekly for St. Vincent's Hospital. She plans to continue while labor shortages persist.
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Erif
Margaret Crown
Sarah Reed
St. Vincent's Hospital
Rural Deaths in 1943 Decrease Car Part From Prior Year
Rural deaths in 1943 fell by a noticeable percentage, reflecting improved safety or reporting. the article compares the figure to a prior year, highlighting the downward trend in rural areas and its impact on road safety statistics.
Car makers eye postwar output within four months
Detroit reports industry leaders expect car deliveries to resume about four months after hostilities end. postwar prices may rise up to two percent from 1942 levels. reconversion challenges loom as firms shift from war to peacetime production, aiming to ramp to 1941 levels within a year under favorable conditions.
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Detroit
Eek
Pearl Harbor
Daniels Faces Contempt Charge
President Roosevelt aide Jonathan Daniels faced possible contempt penalties after refusing to answer questions before a Senate subcommittee probing the rural electrification administration. Chairman Smith warned against blocking investigations as Daniels claimed his White House connections were confidential. The panel cited criminal penalties for defying questions, but Daniels remained noncommittal about his testimony.
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Washington
Jonathan Daniels
Roosevelt
Senate
Rural Electrification Administration
Smith
D-Sc
Daniels
REA
Harry Slattery
White House
Slattery
Carroll Beedy
Subcommittee
Beedy
Local Woman Dead After Apparent Self-inflicted Shot
Morganton report states Mrs. W. A. McCall 51 wife of a local building contractor died of a self-inflicted pistol wound last night. Acting Coroner Stanley Moore said the death was by her own action.
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Morganton
W. A. McCall
Stanley Moore
Birds Nest Found On Car Engine In Jackson
In Jackson Michigan on February 29 a service station worker found a bird nest atop a car engine after a customer complained of a singing noise. Attorney Benjamin Kleinsiiver advised checking the engine as the nest was the likely cause.
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Jackson
Mich
Benjamin Kleinsiiver
Fighting Men Pray and Swear War Talk in Italy
In Italy on February 24 a wartime correspondent notes soldiers mix profanity and prayer amid constant danger. Chaplains stay beside troops, quotes vaunt a blunt humor, and a general's radio exchange over unconditional surrender shows blunt language even in victory.
Four Negroes Questioned In Parker Killing At Wilson
Four Black men were taken into custody for questioning after R. H. Parker a 65 year old farmer was shot to death Saturday night in Wilson. Parker's daughter Mrs Ellis E Phillips Jr 25 was wounded in the neck and back as she fled to the door. Sheriff Weathersby said robbery may have been the motive.
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W. A. Weathersby
FEPC fights for funds to continue wartime anti discrimination effort
The FEPC created by President Roosevelt faces abolition as Congress weighs its future. It seeks funding to run at least another year while awaiting complaints from workers, mainly African Americans, and battles over its lack of enforcement power amidst a wave of investigations into railroad and other discrimination cases.
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Ington
FEPC
Roosevelt
Congress
Sean
Fea
Nees
Southern
Arizona
Wilmington Placed in Shortage of Labor Area
The March 1 report by Dr. J. S. Dorton, state director of the war manpower commission, declares Wilmington and surrounding New Hanover Columbus and Pender counties as group 1, giving 30 days to comply with a 48 hour work week and halt new contracts. Other areas remain in group 2 or 3 with varying levels of labor stringency and potential shifts.
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Raleigh
J. S. Dorton
War Manpower Commission
Wilmington
Dorton
New Hanover
Columbus
Pender
Burlington
Charlotte
Elizabeth City
New Bern
Winston-Salem-Greensboro
Durham-Raleigh
Asheville
WAC Lieut Virginia Wight Cleared by Army Board
The attorney who defended Lieut. Virginia Wight a 24 year old WAC from Philadelphia said she has been exonerated and completely vindicated after a special army reclassification board reviewed charges of insubordination in January.
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Washington
Virginia Wight
WAC
Philadelphia
Special Army
Wallace Gains Strength As V P Candidate Says Friends
Friends of Vice President Wallace report favorable responses from a bloc of 200 Democratic delegates in six states and scattered elsewhere. They expect Wallace to win backing from Pennsylvania California Minnesota Iowa Washington Oregon, while noting Roosevelt will likely decide the running mate.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Wallace
Pennsylvania
California
Minnesota
Iowa
Oregon
Roosevelt
Secretary of Commerce
Jones
Board of Economic Warfare
Orgunaie
Senator Truman
D-Mo
Marvin Jones
Murder Charge Is Considered By Grand Jury
The Mecklenburg grand jury weighed presentments seeking indictments of Dr H C Parker and Lee Sikes for murder in the death of Jim Clinstock an Indian wrestler in Charlotte on January 29. Testimony filled most of the session and no report was issued. Clinstock died after being removed from the S S dental lab and a habeas hearing found autopsy showed a heart attack. Witnesses said he became berserk in the lab and struck several women. Parker and Sikes are free on 5000 bonds. The panel also reviewed a presentment seeking indictment of Pvt Charles Lewis Reynolds for murder in the death of Pvt Lee M Riley found strangled February 7 in a hotel here. Reynolds is jailed.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg Grand Jury
H. C. Parker
Lee Sikes
Jim Clinstock
Clinstock
Sikes
Parker
Reese Hog
Liberty
Charles Lewis Reynolds
Columbus
Lee M. Riley
Webster City
Reynolds
Dodger Officials To Decide Durham Baseball Issue
The Durham Athletic Commission leaves Durham Piedmont League baseball fate to the Brooklyn Dodgers. A telegram asks whether the local park lease will be renewed by March 2 as dispersal plans and logistics pressure the potential move to a Virginia city discussed at a Richmond meeting of Dodgers directors led by Kaytee Roettger.
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Durham
N. C
Durham Athletic Commission
Brooklyn Dodger
Dodger
Noraey
Kaytee Roettger
Pepeenant
Dodgers
Ofmont
Richmond
Virginia
Tin Recovered From discarded Tubes Surpasses Million-Pound Mark
In New York, authorities report that over 1,000,000 pounds of tin were recovered in 23 months by reclaiming metal from used toothpaste and shaving cream tubes.
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New York
Paulette Goddard Arrives With Troop Party in Chungking
Paulette Goddard and three companions landed in Chungking after a 16 000 mile journey to entertain U S Army GIs in Free China. They plan a month of shows at lonely outposts and Red Cross urges greater support in 1944.
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Paulette
Chungrking
Chungking
Paulette Goddard
U. S. Army
Free China
British ingenuity kept planes at exactly 45 feet over water
Wing Commander Guy Gibson explains in Sperry scope how RAF crews used twin lights on each aircraft to align at precisely 45 feet during the Mohne dam raid. No altimeter could guarantee the height, so the method relied on converging light spots to guide the attack at 250 mph. The Mohne night was calm but visible with flak reflections.
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H.W. Blakesler
New York
Mohne
Eder
Germany
Guy P. Gibson
Sperryscope
Sperry Corporation
Gibson
Mohne Dam
Damon's Call for a National Lottery to Fund Veterans
Damon Runyon argues for a national lottery to finance war veterans and fund the U S treasury. He contends a drawing with cash prizes couldReplace race gambling and raise vast revenue while avoiding moral concerns by targeting widespread participation. He notes states already engage in turf gambling and urges abolition of other public gambles before backing the lottery plan.
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United States Treasury
Roosevelt
Barkley
Theone
Morgenthau
New York
Florida
Maryland
Arkansas
New Jersey
Illinois
Michigan
California
Treasury
Cas
Mid-West
New York City
San Francisco
Mine cave ins threaten Pittston residents and city plan
In Pittston Pennsylvania residents fear more mine collapses after a yard sinkhole. Mayor Reilly says the city expects state funds and coal-company contributions to seal or fill abandoned mines. Police note rising subsidences as community pushes for action and safety measures.
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Pittston
Elizabeth Estus
Yester
Jule Ann Fulmer
John J. Reilly
Williams&. Kearney
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