Persians Fear War Over Them As Allies Clash
DeWitt MacKenzie notes Iran as a hot spot where Persian fears of foreign domination persist. He cites British and Russian influence, a 1941 Anglo-Soviet-Persian accord, and hopes America can act as a buffer postwar. The piece traces Persia’s history from 1600s to 1940s and warns against a new division of influence.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Iran
Persia
Washington
Ersia
United States
Pet
Russia
Persian Gulf
Teheran
Atlantic
Strenth
Taft
Germany
America
Pussy Rides the Rails Kitten Travel Tale From Montana
A week old kitten rode a freight train from Butte to Deer Lodge, clinging to a wheel housing when the cars reached Deer Lodge. Trainmen believe the cat covered about 50 miles in that precarious position. Separately a note says drugs and medical products account for about four percent of the nation's peanut production.
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Deer Lodge
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Butte
Beet Tops and Roots Nourish Victory Garden Food
Beet tops and roots provide high nutritive value with vitamins A and C in the tops. Sowing thinly ensures most plants grow. thinning yields usable greens and small beets for fresh eating and canning. Beets store well in root cellars, few pests attack them, and colorless leaf patches indicate leaf miner but cause little damage.
Market Report from St Louis Livestock March 20
Hogs traded weak to 25 lower with 160 lbs and down easing to 14.00 to 15.40, good and choice 190-270. Cattle steady to weak versus Friday last. steers about 17.00 at 1069 lbs, heifers 15.75 at 873 lbs, cows 11.00-13.00, slaughter steers 13.50-13.75, vealers 16.75. Sheep none. clipped lambs weak up to 25, other classes steady. week’s top lambs 16.73, No.1 skins to 15.25-9, yearlings scarce. Grain outlook softer. May wheat around 1.45-1.46, oats higher, corn steady near 1.00, soybeans around 1.09-1.11.
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ST. Louis Livestock National Stockyards
U.S. Dept
Los
Chicago
Cotton futures rise on Pace bill passage then retreat
New York cotton rallied up to ten cents a bale on House passage of the Pace bill but gave back most gains as profit taking and hedging set in. May opened 20.24. closed 20.10. July 20.08 to 19.95. October 19.90 to 19.74. December 19.85 to 19.74. March 19.40 to 19.64.
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New York
Jly
Poultry and Produce Prices in Chicago Steady
Chicago market firm receipts show 507 058 dollars as quoted by the Chicago price current. Prices remain unchanged for poultry and produce items as of March 20.
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Chicago
New York Stocks See Rail Stocks Rebound After Early Dip
New York stock market opened with a dip as rails fell, but demand quickly steadied and selling slowed. Prices recovered from a brief decline with little slack in offerings, and the market moved toward equilibrium by late morning.
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New York
Peanut Crop Parity Support From Rep Harris
Congressman Oren Harris told Hempstead County Farm Bureau committeemen Andrew Avery and Lewis Yocum that Congress backs a single price parity plan for peanuts produced for the 1943 war effort. He urged including farm labor costs in parity formulas and promised to push for a fair price with no discrimination. The Hempstead County Farm Bureau meeting, to discuss parity goals, is set for March 27 at 1 30 p m in the County Courthouse Hope.
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Andrew Avery
Baird's Chapel
Lewis Yocum
Hempstead County Farm Bureau
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Farm Bureau
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Department of Agriculture
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Arkansas and American Farm Bureau Federation
Harris
Amery
Yocom
Il Am
County Farm Bureau Board
Hope
Court trials for war crimes once more urged
Washington writer notes calls by Rep Emanuel Celler and others for international courts to try wartime atrocities. He recalls Versailles Commission of Fifteen listing 900 names led by Kaiser Wilhelm II and figures like Hindenburg and Tirpitz, with punishments ranging from four-year naval sentences to six months. Holland’s resistance is explained as royal pressure. The piece argues history may repeat if justice is delayed.
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Svar
London Daily Express
New York Times
John Hayes Hammond
Geller
Library of Congress
Commission of Fifteen
Versailles
International Judicial Tribunal
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Hindenberg
Ludeworff
Count Bismarck
Admiral von Tirpitz
Europe
Aid for Small Sawmills Is Discarded
Washington reports that a wartime finance plan for small sawmills was shelved. President says the Forest Service will cooperate with WPB while production targets remain high. Lumber groups argue sustained yield plans strain manpower and moan extra effort would hurt war output.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Forest Products Service
PPS
White House
WPB
Donald Nelson
U. S
Lumberindustry
American Forest Products —Industries Ten
Lumber Manufacturers Association
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
U. S. Forest Service
Wartime Yields Drive Forest undercutting and reforestation debate
Archival notes reveal wartime demands limit lumbering as manpower and fuel shortages force overcalling and undercutting of less essential forest areas. Lumbermen say seed trees remain to permit natural reforestation despite officials’ concerns.
Army cot has long life near Fort Strong visit
Lieutenant Governor elect John Lee Smith toured an army barracks in Fort Strong, Mississippi, and found his initials carved on an army car. He noted the markings endured for 25 years since his time stationed there, a green white red motif with a central coat of arms featuring an eagle.
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Tex
John Lee Smith
Fort Strong
Mess
Fort Stray
Mexico
Mag
Flashes of Life in Brief Signals From Across the Nation
A collection of short vignettes from the Associated Press notes oddities and daily scenes. Wooden dippers go missing at Louisiana campus as souvenir collectors are blamed. A Philadelphia theater executive receives a two inch beef steak as a strange gift. A Los Angeles attendant balances oil changes with baby care at a service station. A Nebraska sergeant earns a promotion in the Army Air Corps. A Spokane reporter calls a bomber. a neighbor asks for the blaze status. In Oregon a robber repeats his act, taking five dollars after a single prior theft.
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Los Angeles
Vivian Clarks
Bureaucrats Flayed by McClellan in Congressional Letter
Washington March 20 Senate debate featured Sen McClellan DArkie reading a published letter from Miller County Farm Bureau officials Arch Smith and Ray Hopkins. They condemned bureaucratic bungling and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, urging Congress to curb what they call unwarranted government forms and employment curbing labor from Texarkana farms during wartime production efforts.
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McClelan
D-Arkr
Senat
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Miller County Fark
Farm Bureau
Arch Smith
Ray Hopkins
Secreatry
Texarkansat
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Congress
Texsrkana
Farmers of America
Tax Skipping Continued Debate On Forgiving Taxes
A House majority report argues against forgiving taxes, deeming it a grave error in wartime policy. It urges taxpayers to pay current and overdue liabilities but allows hardship-based relief for those unable to front multi-year payments, while noting plans to cancel 1942 obligations are rejected by most Americans.
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Simme
Beards-ley Ruml
Federal Reserve Bank
New York
House
154 Track Stars Gather in Chicago
A field of 154 track stars, including five world record holders and seven AAU champions, compete in the Chicago Relays at Chicago Stadium tonight before a 16,000-strong indoor-season crowd. Ensign Cornelius Wutmerdam of the Cloudbusters attempts 15 feet 2 inches in pole vault, while Greg Rice aims for his 63rd straight two mile win and a side against Ollie Hunter of Notre Dame, who set Notre Dame’s 9 00.14 record.
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Chicago
Greg Rice
Ollie Hunter
Notre Dame
Greg
Hunter
Rice
New York A. C
More Food in Sight Thinks Government
A government crop report suggests farmers will plant more food and livestock feed crops this year, easing some consumer shortages. Wheat and soybeans for processing look strong, while peanut and some vegetable acreages forecast limits may temper gains. The survey notes early vegetables in several states show plantings below last year. Tripoli’s long history is traced through numerous civilizations.
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Ovida Martin Washington
Rourees
Agriculture Wickard
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Wickard
Arizona
California
United States
Crop Board
Mark Superior Tops Rice’s Best in University Meet
Herbert Thompson of Jersey City, national A.A.U. sprint king, is regarded safe after his fourth win in the spring series. Rice’s world record of B.51.1 was clocked two years ago at the realys board oval. Teams there head into what looks like a wide open race.
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Mark
Rice
Realys
Herbert Thompson
Jersey City
A.alu
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