American Seed Raisers Grow Record Crops For Wartime Demands
War Food administration reports U S seed exports to support armed forces and civilian needs. European and allied nations receive portions. contingency reserve grows to meet future shortages as 1943 harvests set records and yields rise in several seed categories.
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New Caledonia
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Red Cross
United States
Seed shortages hit grass and clover amid heavy Midwest needs
Weather reduced Minnesota crops by over a third and driven a declines in Blue Grass seed production to about one third of 1942 levels. Nebraska and North Dakota also fell short while Sudan grass seed gains loom for Northern Plains and Corn Belt. WFA seeks a 1944 import boost as wells run dry and dust rises in Iowa and Kansas.
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WFA
Secret Weapon to Combat Air Raids
London reports a new anti aircraft secret weapon to counter German raids. Brig Basil Schonland says the system targets every enemy plane with 30 second updates and can silence or intensify fire instantly. London guns are linked by underground operations rooms with radar and observer data guiding each shot.
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London
Basil J. Schonland
Guadalcanal
Greater London
RAF
All Army Ground Forces Train Under Fire
Washington report states that all army ground forces will train with live artillery firing just ahead of advancing troops. General Lesley J. McNair announced battlefield realism is the primary test in training to simulate actual combat conditions and improve coordination.
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Washington
Lesley J. McNair
McNair
Dutch Gunboat Sumba Forcibly Quieted Italian Batteries
The Netherlands gunboat Sumba, supporting Allied Sicily landings, battered shore batteries until Italian gunners signaled surrender. Sumba then shifted fire to Axis tanks, routing them. Flores aided by destroying a Uboat and received a congratulatory signal from Admiral Cunningham. Both ships escorted the Sicily-bound convoy with Dutch merchant ships serving as troop carriers.
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London
Netherlands
Sumba
Sicily
Flores
Adm
Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham
Mediterranean
Health Shows Strain of War in Great Britain
London reports Minister of Health Ernest Brown says Britons' health has held up well after four years of war though venereal disease and tuberculosis rose last year. He notes the war effort imposed a severe strain yet the population withstood it with determination and success.
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Great Britain
London
Ernest Brown
Brown
All Jewish Americans In Krakow Slain Reported
New York report cites Nowe Drogi stating that all Jewish American residents in Krakow were shot by German gestapo with no count given. The dispatch mentions no further details on numbers or victims.
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New York
London
Nowe Drogi
Poland
Gestapo
Hollywood Notes and Radio Arts Roundup
Virginia Vale reports on Bob Hope and Jimmie Durante publicity chatter and Columbia Presents Corwin gaining listeners. Profiles Marie MacDonald John Cardrine Connee Boswell Fox Winged Victory cast and other radio arts notes plus odds and ends on Milton Cross Dorothy Shay News Front George Sanders and action in Arabia.
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CBS
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Morton Gould
News Front
George Sanders
Arabia
Indian Chief Had His Own Idea on Contentment
An American gogetter urges an Indian chief near a wigwam to work and save for a bank account. The chief repeats Why? and notes he is not working now, implying contentment with present life and independence from banks or retirement.
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