Subsidy Row Tests Inflation Talk in Congress
The House and Senate move to ban government subsidies to producers to curb food costs, with Roosevelt veto expected and votes unsure. Debates frame subsidies as part of inflation, wages, and prices, while the Senate Agriculture Committee opens three days of testimony on anti subsidy legislation. Lucas warns compromise or inflation risk. The article notes historic Marines paid six dollars a month with rum rations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Capitol
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Cor
CCC
Senate Agriculate Committee
Pasage
Lucas
Ortiz Defends Bantam Title for $10,000 Purse
Manuel Ortiz defends his bantam title for the eighth time this year against Benny Goldberg next Tuesday at the Olympic auditorium. Ortiz is guaranteed 37 percent of a $28,000 gate with about $10,000 purse. Goldberg expected to earn around $3,000 after 46 professional bouts without a defeat.
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Los Angeles
Manuel Ortiz
Detroit
Benny Goldberg
Olympic Auditorium
Ortiz Garanteed
Goldberg
Continental Congress Lottery Fundraising Attempt
The Continental Congress attempted to raise money through a lottery scheme, seeking funds for colonial needs. Details on the lottery's scope, organizers, and outcome are unclear in the surviving text. Historical notes emphasize its role as a wartime financing effort.
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Continental Congress
Maxie Rosenbloom recalls USO tour adventures in Pacific
Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom, after a 19,000 mile USO tour to the South Pacific, shares a humorous incident in Fiji where a Navy man turns out to be former title challenger Tom Heeney. He notes tobacco as a key currency in New Guinea.
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Los Angeles
Maxie Rosenbloom
New Caledonia
Fiji Islands
South Pacific
Fijis
Navy
Tom Heeney
Tunney
Yanks Plan Atlantic City Spring Training Amid Weather Dangers
The New York Yankees will train in Atlantic City next spring with access to the national guard armory if weather disrupts sessions. Last year had no suitable indoor facilities forcing adjustments. Cape Horn note mentions Hoorn in the Netherlands, home of navigator Schouten.
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New York
New York Yankees
Atlantic City
National Guard
Cape Horn
Hoorn
Netherlands
Schouten
Civic groups discuss civil works participation in city
A joint meeting of the city planning board chambers on public works and the city council and board of public welfare considered the city s participation in the civil works program. The program could allocate 400 000 000 to projects and a jubilee service was set for Emmanuel Lutheran Church Sunday at 11. Personal notes mention Mrs Valette Harriss returning from New York and several convalescents at Burrus Memorial Hospital. An A B Club play titled The Boston Fireman and The Beacon Street Heiress was staged at the Junior High auditorium. A Russian recognition report was expected at the day s end. The M P church conference noted profits from the Children s Home farm in High Point. Duke students in Chapel Hill were cited for a raid and a shelling incident ensued without recovery.
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Chamber of Commerce
City Council
Board of Public Welfare
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Valette J. Harriss
New York
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Raymond Abraham
Charles Abraham
Montheu Avenue
Ray Idol
Margaret Hauser
Junior High
M. P
Thomasville
High Point
Duke IU
Local The American hut opened. memorial debate noted
Twenty years ago on November 19 1928 the American hut was formally opened with Dr I T Mann delivering the principal address critiquing Wrenn Memorial critics as unjust. Mrs Willie Simmons Webb, wife of Judge E Yates Webb, Shelby, died at 2 45 PM in a local hospital after nine weeks of treatment. A wedding occurred November 15 with Dr and Mrs A C Jones moving to 1101 Johnson Street. A wing of Virginia Normal College Farmville Va was destroyed in a blaze causing about 200000 dollars in losses. Britain warned France against further punitive actions toward Germany. Prohibition officers raided Union County Tennessee seizing six copper distilleries 50 fermenters 2000 gallons of beer and an automobile. seven men arrested and four others charged.
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I. T. Mann
Wilie Simmons Webb
E. Yates Webb
Shelby
Virginia Normal College
Farmville
Britain
France
Germany
Prohibition
Union County
Tennessee
Baptists Elect Officers At Convention
Winston-Salem November 18 1943 the Baptist state convention elected officers for its 113th annual session. The group agreed to hold the 1944 meeting in Charlotte and selected Rev Sankey Blanton of Wilmington to preach. It endorsed education goals and named Wingate Gardner-Webb Mars Hill Campbell Meredith Wake Forest among recognized colleges for funding and expansion support.
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Winston-Salem
Baptist State Convention
First Baptist Church of
Charlotte
Sankey Blanton
Wilmington
Wingate
Gardner- Webb
Mars Hill
Campbell
Meredith
Wake Forest
March Field Tulsa Game Postponed Over Transport Issues
A December 12 football game between March Field Fourth Air Force and University of Tulsa has been canceled due to transportation problems. Tulsa authorities declined invitation, canceling the match.
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March Field
Tulsa
Los Angeles
Fourth Air Force
Len University of Tulsa
National Grange Hears Broughton in Michigan Speech
Gov J Melville Broughton of North Carolina told the National Grange in Grand Rapids that farm problems will outlast the war and require a major farmer led share in world rehabilitation He urged government cooperation where needed but said Washington should not be the sole problem solver for farmers He warned international agreements must reflect American farmer hopes and opportunities.
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Mich
J. Melville Broughton
North Carolina
National Grange
Broughton
Washington
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