Flame thrower tests weed killing cultivator in Hawaii fields
A U S Department of Agriculture trial uses a flame thrower on a tractor to burn weeds in sugar cane fields in Hawaii. Major Price McLemore developed the device, showing it can thin weeds without harming the cane and could ease wartime labor shortages on plantations. Trials expand to Alabama Iowa Mississippi Texas California and Louisiana with cost around 800 dollars and 1500 pounds of metal in the machine.
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Major Price McLemore
Honolulu
Major McLemore
Alabama
Hawaii
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Mississippi
Texas
California
Louisiaa
McLemore
Soldier From Lexington Relives Pearl Harbor Fight
Cor poral Lacy Francis Manley of Lexington described a solo defense at Wheeler Field Hawaii on December 7 1941. He fired a submachine gun at Japanese planes for an hour aided later by an air corps lieutenant and ground anti aircraft crews. They downed three planes and the water depot remained intact as Manley earned Pearl Harbor campaign and Asiatic defense ribbons.
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Camp Butner
Lacy Francis Manley
Pearl Harbor
Lexington
Wheeler Field
Hawaii
Manley
Air Corps
Corp. Manley
Asiatic Defense
Lessons on public opinion and race in Baltimore
The passage argues that social betterment cannot remove immediate danger by itself and riots must be prevented by building public opinion. Suppression is a police issue, while prevention requires both races to act. Each group must handle its own part, with mutual aid possible but no one side can do the other's job. If both races deter disorder, trouble is unlikely to start.
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Baltimore
Streetman Dies Suddenly in Thomasville at 62
James L. Streetman 62 a resident of 201 Carmall Street Thomasville died suddenly at his home early Sunday Born in Commerce Georgia April 6 1881 he worked at Amazon Cotton Mill seventeen years He leaves a widow six sons and three daughters among others Funeral services likely Tuesday at Pine Woods Methodist Church cemetery interment to follow
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Thomasville
James L. Streetman
Carmall Street
Commerce
Georgia
J. B. Streetman
Sarah Martin Streetman
Amazon
Hudson River Baptist Church
Masonic Order
Pearlie
Charles H. Streetman
Los Angeles
Calif
FE. L. Streetman
Athens
W. L. Bone
Morris Campbell
Atlanta
E. L. Seagraves
J. C. Green and Sons
Pacific Attack Forecasts Great Blows At Japanese
A lengthy war field report predicts new Allied strikes in the South and Central Pacific. It discusses potential targets from Munda to Raoul and Attu, the shift from defense to offense, air superiority gains, and the goal of isolating and eroding Japanese bases across multiple ocean regions. The piece frames strategic moves toward island hopping and possible future operations toward Japan.
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South Pacific
Munda
Solomons
Australia
Papaua
Washington
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Britain
New Zealand
New Guinea
Tennessee
Lae
Salamaua
Rabaul
Equator
Central Pacific
Mauru
Hawaii
Midway
Wake
Guam
Marshall Islands
North Pacific
Attu
Back-to-Work Move Underway In Coal Fields
Pittsburgh July 12 insurgent strikes last week kept over 17 000 miners from work in southwestern Pennsylvania soft coal fields. Major company pits employing about 3 000 men resumed, several smaller mines partially operated, while about 14 000 miners remained absent. Pickets who halted the pits earlier largely disappeared though at Big Gates H C Frick Coke Co unit some 200 pickets blocked 500 diggers on Saturday.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Theiave
Pittsburgh District Steel Mills
Big Gates
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U. S. Steel
Tugboat Catches Bear In Sound
NORFOLK, Va. July 12. Bozo the bear, reportedly the only bear ever caught by a tug boat, was taken by Capt. Fran Meekins aboard the J. Albert Clark of Wood Towing Co back to Albemarle for return home. The unusual rescue involved the tug catching the bear during a sea incident and delivering it to shore.
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Norfolk
Bozo
Fran Meekins
Wood Towing Co
J. Albert Clark
Albemarle
Little Joe Ferguson Stirs Ohio Governor Conference
Joseph T. Ferguson Ohio state auditor, a Democratic lone-wolf, disrupts Republican plans at the annual governors conference by proposing a caucus of Democratic governors. Bricker and Spangler dodge the idea. Ferguson’s charm highlights cross party intrigue amid a Republican-dominated state scene. Notable governors include Bricker Warren Dewey Arnall.
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Columbus
Ohio
Little Joe” Ferguson
Joseph T. Ferguson
John W. Bricker
Martin L. Daves
Little Joe
House
Harrison FE. Spangler
National Republican Committee
John
W. Bricker
Spangler
Chicago
Bricker
Earl Warren
California
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Arnall
Bear rescued from tug near Camden Point North Carolina
Sound yesterday and pushed his overboard somewhere near wh the animal was found. Captain Meekins caught the husky black bear last. Friday afternoon about 3 o clock, while towing barges with sand and gravel in Albemarle Sound off Camden Point in North Carolina. The bear was swimming about two or three miles off shore. The tug halted. A rope was thrown around the bear and he was pulled onto the deck of the vessel. The animal then was chained.
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Roanoke
Clark
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U. S
Betty MacDonald
MNEA
Maj. Prime McLemore
J. L. Streetman
Sicily
U.S
United States
Algiers
Associated Press
U. S. Navy
News OF Colored
Bertha Dixon
St. Mark Methodist Church
W. S. McLeod
Hairlip’s Chapel
United Club
Lee Lettafi
West Street
Ladies’ Auxiliary
John McLean
The
American Legion
Lula Dixon
Gaylord St
Cpl
Lawrence Barrie
Spartanburg
S. C
Thomas M. Johnson
NEA
Paramushiru
Tokio
Kuriles
Kiska
China
Russia
Reichswehr
Vladivostok
Nce
National Strailways
YSTE
Jack Jenkins
Jack
U. S. Employment Service
America
Trailways
Ani
Neoe
Firestone
N. RB
N. Main
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