Inflation Curb and Farm Parity Prices Debate
Washington reports the House farm bloc backs parity price aims in anti inflation legislation. Proposals include revised parity calculations to include hired labor, potentially lifting ceilings on major crops like wheat corn and cotton while protecting some products above parity.
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Washington
House Farm Bloc
Senate
Administration
House Farm
Rep
Brown
D-Ga
Ovid A. Martin Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Europe
Gannett backs farmers in anti inflation bill fight
Frank Gannett publisher of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle urges farm groups to press for adequate prices as farm labor shortages threaten food supply for 130 million and allies. He warns America could face a grave food shortage that could impede the war effort. The Star also notes a civic advertising notice from Jess Davis about a personal draft update.
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Frank Gannett
Rochester
N. Y
Democrat & Chronicle
Gannett
Best of Allmerican
Farmine Envne
Mr. Gannett
America
New York State
Upstate
Congress
Farm Labor Crisis Prompts Call for National Service
Secretary Wickard warned of a looming farm labor shortage threatening food production and the war effort. He urged considering a national labor service act as hearings on the farm labor problem opened. Evidence of growing support for service legislation emerged amid reports selective service officials fear worsening shortages.
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Washington
Wickard
House Agriculture Committee
National Labor Service
United States
Fulmer
D-Sc
Flannagan
Dve
Women to Join Police Force on Regular Beats
Women soon will be walking regular police beats in Phoenix Arizona with salaries from 1620 to 2328 dollars annually. Applicants aged 25 to 45 should have a high school education and preferably college experience with social work background. Civil service secretary Leroy Brenneman says the drive is to replace officers leaving for war service.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Leroy Brenneman
Civil Service Board
Becase
British Hit Axis Outposts Behind Egyptian Lines
British desert patrols conducted large scale land incursions 500 miles behind the Axis lines near Benghasi Garee and Gialo oasis. Attacks targeted Benghasi Garee and Gialo with heavy aircraft losses on the Axis side, while British forces reported destroying ammunition dumps and causing numerous enemy casualties.
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Africa
Gairo
mDarlig
Giulo
Tobruk
el Alamein Line
United States
Bengasi
Desert Riders
Glalo
el Alamein-Qattara
Egypt
Buree
Sore
Bongasi
al Gialo
Bengesi
Barce
London
Bengasi- Barce
Airc
Gialo Oasis
Bengasi and Barce
Gialo
Daba
Herndon Named Hempstead County Coroner
Litue Rock, Sept. 23. Governor Adkins appointed W. R. Herndon of Hope as Hempstead county coroner to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. J. H. Weaver. The decision follows the recent passing and aims to restore county medical examiner duties promptly.
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Litue Rock
Adkins
W. R. Herndon
Hope
Hempstead
J. H. Weaver
British troops seize Antananarivo after French resistance
London bulletins report British forces broke through stiff French resistance 15 miles north of Antananarivo and occupied the inland capital of Madagascar in a broadcast dated tonight.
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London
Tananarive
Madagascar
Scrap Appeal by Nelson A H Washburn
Nelson M Nelson War Production Board chief urges nationwide scrap drive to boost steel and scarce materials. He calls on citizens to turn in scrap metals rubber and rags and to build victory stockpiles across counties as part of the national salvage program. Addressed from Washington on Telegram Santa 21 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Washburn
Star
Hope
Ark
War Production Board
United States
America
Amnesia Victim and Hubby to Stay Married
Hollywood, Sept. 23. Pretty Mrs. Glory Weller Miller and her husband, once strangers due to amnesia after her husband’s death, plan a trial marriage to test a permanent bond. Dr. Paul J. De River says recovery is likely. she awoke in a new city remembering little, though her earlier life remains clear. Miller, 42, urges patience as they share a Hollywood apartment and consider divorce only if needed.
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Hollywood
Glory Weller Miller
Miller
Las Vegas
de Silver
Harrisburg
Murray C. Beck
Binghamton
Weller
MacArthur's Aircraft Sweep Through New Guinea and Solomons
U S forces launched extensive air and sea strikes across New Guinea New Britain and the Solomons in a large offensive. Bombers hit air dromes and shipping while fighters set fire to dumps huts and fuel depots along the Buna Kokoda trail and at Rabaul Guadalcanal area.
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MacArthur
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Buna-Kokoda Trail
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Bataan
New Britain
Solomons
Buna
Kokoda
Owen Stanley
Wakape
Humusi River
Coral Sea
Buka
Solomon Islands
Rabaul
Navy
Guadalcanal
Salomons
Gwen Blanley
Port Moresby
Two Defense Areas Added in Arkansas for War Worker Housing
Camden and Newport in Arkansas were added to the WPB list of defense housing critical areas yesterday. The designation entitles them to priority aid in building dwellings for war workers and military personnel and their families.
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Washington
Ayo
Camden
Newport Ark
WPB
Defense House
Hoag Reappointed to Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission
Basil Hoag of Texarkana was reappointed by Governor Adkins to the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission for a six year term. The article notes electricity used in armor plate production could power an average home for 15 months.
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Little Rock
Basil Hoag
Texarkana
Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission
Adkins
United States Scrap Drive Looms Across Nation
The U S to Start Scrap Drive September 28 marks a nationwide effort led by newspapers to boost scrap collections essential for steel production. With mills short on scrap, Donald M. Nelson urges communities to gather items from wash trays to radiators as campaigns run Sept 28 to Oct 17 and beyond.
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Associated Press
Victory
America
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Pearl Harbor
Scrap Ad Donated By The Star For War Effort
The Star donates a full page scrap advertisement on page 5 in support of the National Scrap Salvage Campaign. It is the first in a series of ads donated by the newspaper to back the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, in support of Donald Nelson and the War Production Board.
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American Press
the Star
National
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Second Look urged as scrap drives war materiel output
American mills exceed Axis steel output by one third yet armament production peaks January first. A vast scrap reservoir exists in homes farms and offices and another sweep yields metal. Newspapers join WPB rally, aided by 12 000 state city rural salvage committees and 421 industrial committees with thousands of volunteers. Continued on Page Two.
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United States
WPB
Perseverance Drives 225th Learner Permit in 25 Years
Flashes of Life column recalls a Lambertville man who failed a 1917 driving license test but recently obtained his 225th learner permit in 25 years. In Augusta Kansas a high school student slipped on steps delaying a safety meeting and needed medical aid. In Chicago, drivers were warned of strict enforcement of President Roosevelt's 35 mph limit with 331 citations issued for safety court appearances.
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Associated Press
Laimbertville
N. J
Lambertville
State Motor Vehicle Bureau
Hasten
Chicago
Roosevelt
Slminonses
Edwin Hasten
Seize Jap Notes to Be Used in Australia
Military authorities disclose the seizure of a large supply of bank notes printed in Japan for use in an invasion of Australia. The notes, captured during recent operations, resemble other overrun country issues and may have been seized in the Milne Bay area in southeastern New Guinea where a Japanese trace was wiped out.
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Sydney
Australia
Japan
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Three Burned in Little Rock Gasoline Fire
Three men were burned, one critically, when gasoline storage tanks at Square Deal Oil Company near Little Rock exploded and burned. Edward King, 18, was burned all over, James J. Bird, 50, and Robert Nadison, a Negro, suffered arm and face burns. Five storage tanks, a garage, five cars, and a tank truck were destroyed. $10,000 loss.
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Little Rock
Square Deal Oil Company
Edward King
James J. Bird
David S. Kerr
Geyer Springs
Claresie’ Ar Williams
Bond Program at Saenger on September 29
A War Bond program will be held at the Saenger theater next Tuesday night September 29. Manager Hiram M. Meeks announces a new picture World at War shown for this tally. Admission by War Bond. tickets via telephone 133 or at all War Bond outlets.
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Saenger’ Theater
Hiram M. Meeks
Sabotage on Increase in Netherlands Reported
A Basel National Zeitung dispatch notes rising Dutch sabotage against German forces as invasion fears prompt stronger coast fortifications. Reports claim daily acts hit German roads and factories while reprisals push Dutch workers to Germany and authorities arrest about a thousand hostages including writers and scientists.
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Bern
Switzerland
Netherlands
Bassler National Zweittung
Germany
Tuich
Willkie Faces Question on Second Front in Russia
In Moscow district a crowd at a factory asked Wendell Willkie about a second front. Willkie, Roosevelt’s volunteer messenger, visited workers and spoke with Rev. Leopold J. Brown, an American Catholic priest in Moscow, Sept. 23.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Russia
Moscow
Willkie
Roosevelt
Leopold J. Brown
Spet
Stalingrad Battle Rages With Heavy German Push
Reports from Moscow recount brutal street fighting as Soviet defenders repel massed German tanks and bombers in Stalingrad. Red Star notes 7,000 German deaths, 400 losses northwest, and tanks pouring into the city while aerial assaults from the Don and Caucasus fronts continue.
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Europe
Henry C
Cassidy Pena
Moscow
Andi
Oii
Stalingrad
Tles
Volga
Pravda
Hitler
Stalin
Stalingra -Two
Gompaniag
Red
Donin Voronezh
Caucasus
Novorossiskan Terek
Red Star
Voronezh
G Mans
Don
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Mozdok
Grony
Caucasu
Fedor von Boek
Stockholm
Staliingrad
Vo Bock
Air Raid Wardens to Meet Thursday Night
Local air raid wardens will meet Thursday night at 7 30 at the hall announced by the Civil Defense office All wardens are required to attend.
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Clyllian Defense Office
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Alex. H. Washburn
Jess Davis
Herndon
New Hempstead
Bulletins
Nelson
Telegram
Washington, D. C
U.S
Pacific
Hoag
U. S
Augusta
Kas
Chick Evans
Saenger
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