Soybean diet eyed by U S D C speaker
Washington July 17. A D C speaker recounted a Kilgore subcommittee discussion on food shifts to aid wartime needs. He warned southern fried chicken and hot dogs could be replaced by soy beans with more protein and less meat, suggesting changes in tobacco and cotton farming for food production. He quipped that Americans may adapt while noting a soybean lunch tasted good.
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Washington
D. C
Speaker
Kilgore
D-W Va
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
United States
Local Servicemen Ranked and Assigned Across Forces
Charles H. Deving Jr. has been promoted to third class petty officer in the U S Navy and is stationed in Norfolk Virginia. Sgt Sinclair P Horney was promoted to second sergeant after furlough with his mother at 604 South Main Street and now serves as an instructor in New Mexico. Flight Officer Thurman A Horneyright, brother of Sinclair, earned pilot wings in Yuma Arizona and is an aeronautical instructor at Mather Field Sacramento California after earlier playing high school football and attending Duke and Catawba College.
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Charles H. Deving, Jr
C. H. Deving
Hedrick Ave
U.S. Navy
Norfolk, Va
Sinclair P. Horney
J. C. Bobo
South Main Street
Panama
New Mexico
High Point High School
High Point College
Thurman A. Horneyright
Sinclair Horney
Advance Flying School
Yuma
Arizona
Mather Field
Sacramento
Calif
High Point
Duke University
Catawba College
U. S. Air Force
Reunion of German Fines Behind News Surge
An undercover House Committee probe on steel shortages targets major producers U S Steel Bethlehem Republic. Hermann Brasshert, a German exile linked to Goering iron works, testifies privately about sponge iron and potential government contracts amid fears of sectional freight biases. Bruce Leman style analysis notes rising labor and war mobilization tensions.
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Ray Tucker
Oykin House
Brasshert
Reich
State Guard Ready For Bragg Training Encampment
North Carolina's State Guard about 2000 strong will move into Fort Bragg for a 10 day encampment the first home guard maneuvers on a federal reservation Brig Gen James W Jenkins commands the troops with Col William S Pritchard in charge of the training routine and Brig Gen J Van B Metts in advisory role A review for Governor Broughton closes the encampment and a banquet honors the governor Two medical detachments accompany the units and the encampment marks a first for full guard participation on federal soil.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Guard
Fort Bragg
Home Guard
James W. Jenkins
Henderson
114Th Field Artillery
Wiliam S. Pritchard
Fourth Service Command
J. van B. Metts
Broughton
John T. Kennedy
General Metts
Governorton
Pearl Harbor
Col
W. W. Sharpe
Greensboro
James Howell
Waynesville
Eight Youths Die In Bay Tragedy At Tawas
EAST TAWAS Mich July 17 Bodies of eight boys and girls aged 12 to 22 were recovered from Tawas Bay after panic swept an excursion barge spilling water. Nine others jumped into the bay as life preservers were thrown. Names include Robert Paquette 12 Shirley Dwyer 13 Ida Minthorn 22 Bertha Smith 16 Ruth Smith 16 Harry Bascone 16 Wayne Cross 17 and Shirley Peterson 17 with Nels Peterson 17 still missing. Boarding party for Saginaw District Methodist Young People’s Institute had arranged a bay cruise on Gordon MacAndrews tug and a 36 foot barge. vessel shifted causing water intake leading to panic. Recuperation by fishing tugs coast guard and state police continued.
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East Tawas
Mich
Tawas Bay
Robert Paquette
Cheboygan
Shirley Dwyer
Saginaw
Ida Minthorn
Reese
Bertha Smith
Midland
Bay
Shirley Peterson
Care
Wayne Cross
Ruth Smith
Bay City
Harry Bascone
Nels
Enem Sub Bays Yank Merchant Ship In Caribbean Sea
A small American merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the Caribbean. The armed guard crew fired at the Uboat but the sub stayed submerged, leaving the merchant crew of 35 and 12 gunners as survivors landed at Miami. The report mentions several USNR sailors and their home towns. Also notes a visit to England by Eric A. Johnston and wartime economic topics.
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Norfolk, Va
Caribbean Sea
England
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Eric A. Johnston
Navy
Miami
China
Norfolk
Medicated powder for diaper rash sunburn and itch relief
An ad style note advises using medicated powder for minor skin itching including diaper rash heat rash and sunburn. It promotes Mexcana formerly Mexican Heat Powder, claiming it coats with just a few cents and urging to ask for genuine Messana.
Speed Of Motor Vehicles In N C Averages 38 MPH
Raleigh July 17 The average speed of all motor vehicles on North Carolina highways during a recent driving period was 38.3 miles per hour the division of Statistics and Planning of the Department of Motor Vehicles said today James S Burch engineer of the division said checks were made at seven points into North Carolina and that more than motor vehicles including bus and trucks were checked A new state speed limit is 35 miles per hour Busses were the major offenders adding that percent of them exceeded the speed limit Eighty five per cent of out of state vehicles also needed the new speed limit.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
James S. Burch
Carolina
Burch
Eigty
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Bob) Deviny
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