Patton’s American Troops May Be Key to Axis Defeat
WIT MacKENZIE reports that Patton’s fast moving columns operating from Gafsa threaten Rommel’s rear and coast near El Harnma, with Allied airpower targeting Axis tanks. Rommel fights back at Mareth, but Patton’s push near the coast could trap the German marshal and open the road to Axis defeat.
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Patton
MacKenzie
Montgomery
Marshal Rommel
Ander
Figz
Mmel
Mareth
Rommel
el Alamein
Egypt
Tunisia
Nazt High Command
Alamein Q
Atrick
el Harnma
Gabes
Mareth Line
el Guetar
Allid
It All Depends On The Point Of View
A Raleigh court hearing features a defendant answering about past prison time. He says he served 30 years for fighting, explaining the rival fighter died, prompting the judge to question the sentence's length.
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Raleigh
N. C
Pra
City Tax Imposed on Tattoo Artists in Petersburg
Petersburg officials levy a new $100 tax on tattooers to capture revenue from expected influx of tattoo artists after Camp Lee reopens nearby. The move follows AMA notes that no such tax existed before the camp's opening.
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Petersburg
Camp Lee
American Municipal Association
Market Report From St Louis and Chicago Ledger
At St Louis Livestock Market traders saw hogs mostly steady to 5 lower from average with some 160 lb hogs down 10. Sows were mostly steady. cattle and calves varied with feeders and cows in mid ranges. In Chicago prices fell as Price Administrator Brown opposed farm bills, wheat and oats slumped, corn and rye mixed while cash wheat and various grains posted varied quotes. New York stocks climbed on rails and industrials with broad gains though some profit-taking appeared late. cotton faced pressure from farm price legislation and a looming food agency.
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National
U. S
Chicago
Prentiss Brown
Congress
New York
Aircraf Air Bemh
New Food Agency
Roosevelt creates food production and distribution admin
President Roosevelt announced the Agriculture Department will form an administration of Food production and distribution led by Chester C. Davis forthcoming from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and former head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Davis will take leave from his bank duties and report for duty next Monday.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Chester C. Davis
Federal Reserve Bank At
St. Louis
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
White House
Department
Department of Agriculture
War Production Board
War Manpower Commission
Davis
Adkins Addresses Ouachita Students
Arkadelphia March 25 Governor Adkins warned Ouachita college students that Red and pink professors threaten democracy. He cited a 1940 poll claiming a socialist or communist presence in major universities and urged soil cultivation to barren such agitators. He praised Baptists and the institution for upholding Christian teachings and American forefathers’ goals while urging faculty vigilance against indoctrination.
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Arkadelphia
Adkins
Ouachita College
Universiteis
Adkinson
Arkansas
Baptists
Las Quachity
Surplus food distributed to Hempstead county schools
In February 26,785 pounds of surplus food commodities valued at 2702.78 were sent to 4,450 children in 34 Hempstead county schools. Judge Fred A. Luck stated the commodity mix included dry whale eyes dried prunes and tangerines.
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Hempstead
Fred A. Luck
Cotton futures tumble as prices close near day lows
May and Oct bids slipped to 20.44 and 19.94 with May at 20.32 and Oct at 20.16. Traders cut losses on liquidation and hedging amid a firm to lower day, closed near lows. midling spot at 22.02 down 11. Poultry live markets in Chicago show 7 trucks firm with market unchanged.
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Jay
Fitres
Chicago
Just Like The Movies Debut At Coq Rouge
Tina Beaumont, a Hungarian contralto raised in Switzerland, debuted at New York cafe Coq Rouge where singer Gizony urged her to sing louder as Beth Bizony’s escort listened. Frank Banacchini offered a contract after the performance. Beaumont had prior concert appearances only. U S Army shoe specs limit hides to the top third. In 1789 Massachusetts Humane Society began crude hull shelter for shipwreck victims.
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New York
Vei
Tina Beaumont
Beth Bizony
Gizony
Frank Banacchini
Youn
Switzerland
Miss Beaurmont
United States
Take or Leave Problem Up to President
Washington March 28 A take or leave problem faced President Roosevelt today as a tandem measure sought to raise the national debt limit but leave intact the $25 000 salary cap. The House approved the conference bill by 297 to 46 to nullify the president’s October order and set up a legislative salary ceiling, with Senate expected to concur.
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Washingto
Roosevelt
House
Senate
White House
House Weys and Means
Treasury
Capito Hill
Veto Override Question Raises Political Tensions
A debate over a possible veto override stirs contention as lawmakers weigh risks and consequences. The move highlights partisan divides and concerns about executive power, with analysts noting potential impacts on policy and governance.
Tax Collector Sees The Hands Of Labor
Denver official Lester Ww Law notes a shift in hands presented to the internal revenue as a cashier describes a change in taxpayers. Law recalls prior years' clean, manicured hands and now sees callused, soiled hands with missing fingers signaling toil at Talbar or similar rough work. The article also references the lute and its Arab origins for context.
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Denver
Lester Ww
Law
Tern Revenue
Department of Internal Revenue
Pbs
Talbar
Fasterth denture powder promises firmer, slip-free fit
PASTEETH is described as an improved powder sprinkled on upper or lower plates to hold false teeth firmly in place without sliding or slipping. It claims no sour taste or lingering feel and is marketed as an alkaline non-acid product. Get Fasterth at any drug store.
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Blaise
Cox and Gibson Drug Stores
Randolph Field
Tex
Market Report
T. Louis Livestock
Geo
Nashville
Hope Star
Ouachita
U. S. Army
Massachusetts
Hu‘mane Society
the Pines
Edgar Galloway
Walt Lewp
Wary Lea Taylor
Sauer Kraut
ALL Brands Cigarettes
Baby Ruth
the Pines Dairy
W. M, Ramsey
Harry W. Shiver
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