Slim Pickings at Mart as Furniture Market Closes
Chicago reports austere inventories at the International Furnishings Market held at the Merchandise Mart. Dealers face rigid material allocations limiting purchases to alternate merchandise and postwar orders for Europe. Lumber rules may push bed rails to metal saving 15 million board feet yearly. modernization clinics draw interest as 95 percent of dealers plan postwar renovations. The piece notes the 1904 arrival of New York’s first auto taxi on Fifth Avenue.
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Chicago
Merchandise Mart
Europe
John C. Goodall
Generalorp
New York
Fifth Avenue
Negro Nurse Training Center Established at Fort Huachuca
The War Department announced the first basic training center for army Negro nurses is established at Fort Huachuca Arizona. A medical training center for Negro WACS also opens at Huachuca with courses leading to commissions. The fort’s medical facilities become a regional station hospital under Col Mechan O Bousfield of Chicago.
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Washington
Fort Huachuca
Arizona
War Department
Huachuca
Fort
Mechan O. Bousfield
Chicago
North Carolina Dairy Association Cancels August Meeting
Raleigh July 15. The North Carolina Dairy Products Association has called off its August semi annual meeting in compliance with DDT recommendations. Executive Vice President Marcus L. Ham announced the decision today.
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Raleigh
The
North Carolina Dairy Products Association
Marcus L. Ham
Indians to Take Part in Winston Festival
Catawba Indians will descend on Winston-Salem for the Festival of Music and Art from July 19 to 23. They will demonstrate pottery making, weaving, rug hooking, and other native crafts alongside exhibits by noted artists including Don Mattison Franklin Watkins Rudolph Ingerle and Clare Leighton. The festival opens July 19 with Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise and features evening shows for ticket holders. A large folk festival and a performance of The Daughters of the Regiment are scheduled for July 21 and 22 respectively.
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Winston-Salem
Winston- Salem
North Carolina
Don Mattison
Franklin Watkins
Rudolph Ingerle
Francis Yay Hobson Pittman
Vollian Rann
Lamar Dodd
John Pike
Clare
Gwendolyn Mitchell Farrell
Greensboro
Keefie Jackson McIntyre
Salisbury
William E. Shields
USNR
America
Bowman Gray Memorial Stadium
Reynolds Auditorium
Daughters of the Regiment
Clifford Bair
National Federation of Music Clubs
Voice
Opera Dramatics
School of Music
Salem College
Rudy Vallee Returns To Civilian Status
Rudy Vallee, famous radio and film band leader, is placed on the inactive list as a coast guard reserve lieutenant after two years of service. He led the coast guard band at war bond rallies and patriotic events and asked to be returned to civilian life, though subject to recall. The article notes the largest coal mine in the world is in Hainois Ulster, and mentions Ulster is composed of six counties.
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Los Angeles
Rudy Vallee
Coast Guard
Vallee
West bungles defense in contract bridge deal
In a bridge hand, West doubles four spades and then misplays by leading heart ace and nine, allowing a successful contract. East correctly anticipated a diamond shift but West ignored it and shifted to clubs, squandering defense despite a strong king of clubs.
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West
East
Fast
Hearts
Baby Album celebrates multiple local children birthdays
The feature shows Martha Jane Thompson three, Rebecca Jean McMahan three, David Lee Craven one, Charles Raymond White three, Katherine Mae Weiss one, John Harry Weiss two, and Linda Ruth Henry one. Families listed include the Thompsons at 808 South Main, the McMahans at 35 B Clara Cox Apartments, the Cravens at 1601 Larkin Street, the Weiss family in Trinity, and the Henrys at 1718 Ragan Street.
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Martha Jane Thompson
R. EF. Thompson
Mr. Thompson
South Main Street
Katherine Mae
John Harry
George Weiss
Trinity
FBI annual report cites no enemy saboteurs in 1943–44
FBI figures show 16,295 suspected sabotage inquiries and 1,736 cases of deliberate destruction in the year ending June 30, with 1,736 found and 531 convictions. 51 sabotage convictions, 531 total from incidents, and no enemy-directed actions. Hoover calls it the busiest year in FBI history with 13,616 convictions and 33 years plus in sentences.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau
FBI Laboratory
Buccaneers Receive Highest Single Unit Presidential Citation
The Navy announces the Buccaneers Bombing Squadron 104 will wear the Presidential unit citation for eight months of action against Japan. The unit led hazardous masthead bombing attacks to ensure direct hits on enemy ships using Consolidated Liberator patrol bombers in numerous assaults.
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Washington
Navy
Quiet Please Rangers Guard War Workers Sleep
The Chicago Noise Abatement Commission launches Quiet Please Rangers to curb nighttime noise. The program targets war plant swing shifts and aims to reduce disturbances caused by vacationing children radios and open-window gatherings, in cooperation with the Office of Defense Transportation.
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Chicago
INS
Commission
Office of Defense Transportation
Montgomery Home For Family Visit
Hollywood dispatch reports former film actor and Navy commander Robert Montgomery arriving home for a family visit. He commanded a destroyer in the English Channel during the invasion and was met at the air terminal by his wife Elizabeth and their daughter Elizabeth, 11.
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Hollywood
J. Comdr
Robert Montgomery
No Navy
Montgomery
English Channel
Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth
Heavy Rain Relieves Drought in Raleigh After Dry Spell
Raleigh recorded its heaviest rainfall since mid winter last night and this morning, easing crop losses from a hot dry period. The U S weather bureau reports relief from drought conditions.
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Raleigh
U. S. Weather Bureau
Renters Told to Seek OPA Adjustments for Hardship
The Office of Price Administration announced that renters who paid below the ceiling to join a husband’s transfer may apply to area rent directors for a rent increase. Additional adjustments cover defense rental areas with peculiar circumstances and substantial hardships since the maximum rent date due to tax or operating cost increases.
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Washington
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Major Clark Gable To Resume Film Work
Hollywood July 15 Clark Gable, recently placed on the army air forces inactive list after two years service, will resume motion picture work this fall, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced. He is en route to his Grants Pass ranch on a hunting and fishing vacation.
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Hollywood
Clark Gable
Army Air Forces
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Gable
Grants Pass
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Raymond G. White
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Eugene McMahan
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Edward Henry
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Tical
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