Willkie Offers GOP As New Dealer Haven
Mendell L. Willkie argues the Republican party should be the political resting place for millions tired of the New Deal. He says the right course is neither the prewar regimentation nor narrow nationalism, but one that promotes initiative economic liberty and broad international cooperation to maintain peace.
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Wis
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Victory gardens: twenty million planted in 1943
In 1943 the nation planted twenty million victory gardens to bolster food production during wartime. The effort mobilized households and communities across the United States, reflecting a broad national push for self sufficiency and home front contributions to the war.
Larger Food Supplies For Civilians
Civilian food supplies for the coming months are likely larger than last year, says Paul S. Willis of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. He projects 1944 total food supplies to be about the same as 1943, aided by higher output of eggs citrus winter crops meat butter and lard with War Food Administration stockpiles. Meat supplies may dip in April to June as out of storage movement resumes after a January March liberal period. Coffee chocolate and tea are noted as early advertised foods.
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New York
Paul S. Willis
Grocery Manufacturers of America
Willis
War Food Administration
International Peace Group Explored Following League Pattern
Secretary Hull has urged congressional committees to prepare for hearings on an American version of an international peace organization. The plan, discussed after the Moscow conference, would mirror the League of Nations but grant stronger powers to prevent war and involve many nations. Senator Connally disclosed the move as debate grows over forming the new body.
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Moscow
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Russia
China
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Ball
R-Minn
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Third Anniversary Of State Guard To Be Marked This Week
North Carolina plans State Guard Week beginning March 27 with Gov. J. Melville Broughton delivering a radio address at 6 30 p m. The High Point armory hosts nightly interviews and recruit talks as the 42 company brigade under Brigadier General James W Jenkins marks three years since formation. Six companies have already been activated for service including duties at Pisgah National Forest.
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J. van B. Metts
North Carolina
James W. Jenkins
Henderson
Pisgah National Forest
World peace drive shapes early talks on international cooperation
Senator Austin and Hull push for an early world organization to preserve peace. They urge a coordinated U S Britain Russia and China policy with a plan to curb aggressors and potentially form an international police force. Hull favors postwar boundary negotiations.
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Great Britain
Austin
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Russia
China
Hull
Red Cross: Give More in 4
The rd seal is the Pacific coast variety of the common harbor seal. It is more often spotted than the Atlantic variety.
Draft head targets all men under 30 for July 1
New York Selective Service director Brig. Gen. Ames T. Brown said today all physically fit married men under 30, and likely many 30 to 38, will be drafted by July 1 unless deferred as essential. He projected about 90,000 New York men drafted before July 1 to meet manpower needs.
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Ames T. Brown
New York State
Selective Service
Brown
New York Guard Association
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National Selective Service
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Sizea
Chaplin Trial Enters Second Week In Los Angeles
The United States versus Charles Spencer Chaplin enters its second week as defense blocks testimony about Joan Berry and relationships with other men. The trial on Mann Act charges draws hundreds to the hall while the defendant, 54, faces an indictment covering a 1942 trip from Hollywood to New York and back for immoral purposes.
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Los Angeles
Colony
United States
Charles Spencer Co
Joan Berry
Funnyman
Joan
Hollywood
York
Hannegan Calls GOP to Name Presidential Candidates
In Boston at a Jackson Day banquet Democratic National Committee chair Robert E. Hannegan urged the Republican Party to reveal its prospective presidential nominees. He criticized a hidden candidate as a “blushing violet” and demanded openness and discussion of fundamental issues facing the nation.
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Boston
Robert E. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee Tonight
Republican Party
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Hannegan
GOP
Women pilots join Air Transport Command ferrying unit
In September 1942 women pilots were first employed by the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command in the Army Air Forces, marking a milestone for women in military aviation.
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Air Transport Command
Army Air Forces
Showgirl Is Lonergan Witness in Canadian Case
New York March 25 The blonde showgirl Wayne Lonergan escorted to the theater the night before his heiress wife was bludgeoned and strangled arrived from Miami to testify as a state witness in the Royal Canadian aircraftman case. Lonergan identified the actress Mrs Jean Murphy Jaburg as the person he escorted to a musical comedy and night clubs on Saturday Oct 23 hours before Patricia Burton Lonergan's nude body was found. He said he took her to lunch on Sunday after the slaying.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Miami
Royal Candian
Lonergan
Toronto
Jean Murphy Jaburg
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Beekman Hill
Edward
Tobacco growers seek $7.52 differential on leaf prices
Carolinas and Virginia tobacco growers vote a $7.52 per hundred pounds price gap between untied, ungraded Georgia Florida belt tobacco and tied graded Carolina Virginia leaf. The differential will guide Monday talks before presenting the case to the Office of Price Administration. Red Cross: Give more in "44.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Virginia
Georgia-Florida
Office of Price Administration
Italian Patriots cause fatal harm reported by Bern radio
New York March 2 CBS reported 32 German policemen fatally harmed and many more injured in Rome on Thursday as Tianan patriots clashed with Nazis. The broadcaster said Nazi authorities held about ten people amid the violence.
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Bern
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CBS
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