Roosevelt Is Assured Of Renomination In 1944 Primaries
California and New Jersey voters head to the polls to confirm a Roosevelt first ballot nomination. Montana and Delaware set delegations supporting a fourth term, while New Jersey Republicans back an uninstructed slate, and Dewey gains influence in several states. Washington’s week end gains push Roosevelt closer to the nomination.
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Nn Sh Jeacey
California
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Montana
Dela Ware
Washington
Wallace
Earl Warren
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Walter E. Edge
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Ration Roundup for May Week and Token-Use Notes
Weekly OPA price and ration news summary for May 15. Food stamps cover Blue A through G Book 4 at 10 points each, with indefinite validity. Meats and fats Red A through 18 at 10 points, sugar stamps 30 and 31 remain valid five pounds indefinitely, sugar stamp 40 five pounds until Feb 28, 1945. Shoes Book 3 stamps unlimited. Gasoline A 10 coupons valid in four states. owners must write license number and state on coupons. Apply to local boards for supplements.
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OPA
Georgia
Florida
Carolinas
Virginia
Mrs Lyon Chooses WAC Pay Over Civilian Salary
A New York entry recaps Ruth Eileen Lyons deciding to join the Women’s Army Corps after her father Maj Edward F Walker argues the $50 base pay is financially better than a $200 monthly civilian wage once taxes, housing, transport, clothing, health, and entertainment costs are accounted for.
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New York
Ruth Eileen Lyons
Wacs
Maj
Edward F. Walker
Nation May Adopt Compulsory Training To Avoid Weaknesses of War-Time Draft
The piece argues for peace-time compulsory military training to ensure ready manpower. It notes the shift from random draft to age-based calls, cites Roosevelt directives tightening deferments, and cites Maj. Gen Hershey urging a system where 18 year olds serve a year to create a standing trained force for future conflicts.
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United States
Roosevelt
Lewis B. Hershey
Long
Congress
Sugar rationing at three high schools this week
Sugar for canning is rationed today and Tuesday at Leonard Street Fairview Street and William Penn high schools. Applicants must bring War Ration Book No 4 for every family member. Registration hours at each school are 1 to 5 30 pm and 7 to 9 30 pm.
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Leonard Street
Fairview Street
William Penn High Schools
East Lynne to Be Restaged Tuesday Night at High School
The play East Lynne will be repeated Tuesday night May 16 at 8 15 p m in William Penn high school auditorium.
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East Lynne
William Penn High School
First Baptist Church Mission Circle To Meet Monday
The Home and Foreign Missionary Circle No. 1 of the First Baptist Church will gather Monday night at 8 o clock. A linen shower for the sick chest is planned. Members are asked to bring or send a donation. Miss Anna Saunders.
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Home and Foreign Missionary Circle No. 1
First Baptist Church
Anna Saunders
Guest speaker announced for community meet ing
A guest speaker will address the community meeting. Details on time location and speaker not provided in the accessible text.
Young Peoples Meeting at St Stephens A M E Zion
The Young Peoples Christian stewardship will meet at St Stephens A M E Zion Church tonight at 7 p.m. All members urged to attend.
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Young Peoples Meeting
Young Peoples Christian Stewardship
St. Stephens A. M. E. Zion Church
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Deacons' Wives Meet at Mrs Tyson Home
The deacons' wives of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church will gather this evening at 7 30 at the home of Mrs. Ester Tyson located at 109 Thissell Street.
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Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Ester Tyson
Thissell Street
Brotherhood Meeting at St Mark Methodist Church Tonight
Brotherhood No. 1 of St Mark Methodist church meets at 8 p m in the church. Visiting mother Ora Adams Thelma Stalling Parthenia Harris of Passaic N J and Magaline Simmons of New York visit their mother Sarah Harris 44B Daniel Brooks Homes.
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Brotherhood Meeting Brotherhood No. 1
St. Mark Methodist Church
Ora Adams
Thelma Stalling
Parthenia Harris
Passaic
N. J
Magaline Simmons
New York
Sarah Harris
Daniel Brooks
Did United States troops fight Bolsheviks in Russia
In 1918 American troops went to Russia to fight Bolshevik forces, though the United States never declared war on the Soviet government. The San Francisco fire caused more damage than the Chicago fire. Aaron Burr defeated Alexander Hamilton in their duel. Words of Wisdom notes ingratitude. Etiquette hints say asparagus should not be eaten with fingers.
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Russia
Chicago
San Francisco
Hamilton
Burr
U. S
A. S
Aaron Burr
Horoscope for May 16 Birthdays and Traits
If your birthday is today you are a clear thinker with good memory and ideas. You show humor and love for home, face possible sadness next year but a bright, successful year ahead. Court and quarry, ask favors, but guard against overspending. Good for marital matters. A born host or hostess will be hospitable and artistic, with sudden reversals possible.
Polish Priest Accepts Order of Suspension
The Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski, longtime pastor of Our Lady of the My Church in Springfield, reportedly accepted a canonical suspension from Bishop Thomas M. O Leary after a Moscow trip. He did not attend four masses and remained away from a parish feast. The bishop ordered him to a monastery indefinitely and stripped him of priestly privileges pending further action.
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Mass
Stanislausmanski
Our Lady of the My Church
Moscow
Thomas M. O'Leary
St. Stanislaus
O'Leary
Orlemanski
Josef Stalin
George A. Shea
Gandhi sick with malaria and dysentery in India
A Bombay medical bulletin said Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian Nationalist leader, is ill with malaria fever and also has amoebic dysentery and hookworm. He is being treated for these conditions recently discovered.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Canadian Frigate Valleyfield Sunk With Casualties
The Canadian frigate Valleyfield was torpedoed and sunk on escort duty in the North Atlantic. Five dead and 121 missing with 38 survivors reported as of today. The report notes corn as a major Romanian crop.
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Ottawa
Valleyfield
North Atlantic
Artie Bracknell Heroic Death Protects Platoon in New Guinea
Private Artie Bracknell a leading scout for his unit in the Holladia campaign died after storming a Japanese pillbox. He crossed a river faced the enemy singlehandedly then waved his platoon to safety before being killed, hailed by comrades as a supreme act of valor.
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Dutch New Guinea
Artie Bracknell
Artie
Kollandia
Nation At War Honors Mothers In Wartime Ceremonies
Nation wide observances paid tribute to mothers in ceremonies and events. Esther McCabe of Lilly Pennsylvania named No. 1 war mother for having ten sons in the armed forces. In New York a 2200 ton destroyer christened Shea by widow Mrs. John J. Shea with Jackie Shea attending.
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Chicago
Esther McCabe
Lilly
Indianapolis
Shea
New York
John J. Shea
Jackie
Bethlehem Steel Company
Staten Island
Arlington
Mass
John Richard
Jackie” Shea
Average Worker Has 3 Months Pay in Cash
Washington May 15-4 The average defense worker has three months of cash to cover unemployment without redeeming war bonds. Senator Harness says a poll of 50 plants shows 90 percent would cash bonds within one week to two years if jobless. He cites 93 percent want to stay in current jobs, 85 percent oppose dumping surplus war goods, and 89 percent oppose government plants competing with private industry.
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Defense
Harness
R-Ind
Military Committee
Admiral Would Provide Sailors With Beer
Vice Admiral Hewitt, touring Allied Headquarters in Naples, said U S naval craft in northwest Africa would have beer aboard if not for a ban on all alcoholic beverages on American vessels. He noted sailors complain they are not ashore for a drink.
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Allied
Naples
U. S
Northwest African
H. K. Hewitt
Hewitt
Northwest Africa
Grave Brook humorist dies after heart attacks
James D. Rathbun reports the longtime manager of Ade properties died after two heart attacks within hours. Ade had been in a coma since Saturday night following a stroke in 1943 that caused temporary paralysis of one arm and leg. Manila plans rail motorcars.
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Brook
Ind
James D. Rathbun
Ade Properties
Ade
Baptists Gather In Atlanta For Meeting In 1944 Convention
The executive committee of the Southern Baptist convention met in Atlanta to consider a permanent reserve fund of about 4 million dollars to finance postwar agency work. About 3,000 messengers are expected for the 99th convention, originated in Augusta in 1845, with Gov. J. Mare of North Carolina delivering the closing message Thursday night.
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Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
Augusta
J. Mare
North Carolina
Unclear Source Fragment About Woodchucks and Uruguay
Fragment mentions a woodchuck eating two pounds of greens in a day and abruptly shifts to a garbled phrase about Uruguay. No coherent event or entities beyond these bits are identifiable for a news card.
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