Food Prices and Farm Acreage Controls Ahead of War Demand
Government measures firm acreage allotments for crops including cotton and corn for next year to secure 725 million dollars in subsidies and storage loans. Wheat acreage rises to 62 million acres while production aims to balance demand amid wartime uncertainty. Cotton for rubber exchange with Britain and price trends for wheat, cotton, pork, beef, coffee, and sugar are analyzed by officials and labor statisticians.
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Agriculture Department
Wallace
United States
State Department
Great Britain
Britain
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Polish retreat and French advance on multiple fronts
Reports from the eastern front describe Poland retreating to the Vistula for strategic reasons with German claims of captured prisoners while the French push through the Siegfried line near Basel. British air forces dropped propaganda leaflets as U boats roam the Atlantic and the Siegfried line forts near Istein are reinforced.
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Poland
Sylt
Denmark
Warsaw
Madrid
Siegfried Line
Vistula
Bug
Bug- Vistula
Germany
Basel
Switzerland
Siegfried
Lauterbourg
Rhine
Saar
Moselle
Principality of
Luxembourg
Istein
Rhineland
Gibraltar
England
Atlantic
Ministry of Information
British
Royal Airforce
German War Progress and Censorship Across Europe
Reports from the German front claim advances toward Warsaw with towns captured and 25,000 prisoners taken since Friday. Civilians evacuate western cities as censorship tightens and telephonic lines fail to relay news amid a total war mobilization in Germany and occupied regions.
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Jane’s
Saarbruecken
Trier
Aachen
Aix-La- Chapelle
Bonn
Karlsruhe
Gdynia
Germany
East Prussia
Grudziadz
Adolf Hitler
High Command
Poznan
Wagrowiec
Oborni
Poland
Reich
Censorship Continues as Budapest Newsflow Expands
Censorship remains neutral as Budapest enjoys access to over 35 daily newspapers. Despite proximity to German-occupied Slovakia and the Polish front, locals know little of events beyond American reporting while copies of all papers circulate freely.
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Siegfried Line
Budapest
Hungary
Slovakia
Poland
America
Farm products up a billion by war boom
A war boom in commodity prices lifts the value of principal farm products by at least one billion dollars. Corn leads with about 39 percent rise, boosting market value of 257 million bushels owed on loans, while wheat prices climb around 30 percent, increasing loaned stock value and 1939 crop prospects.
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Chicauy
PLAN ELIMINATE FOOT-FAULTS IN TENNIS PLAN ELIMINATE FOOT
New York reports growing sentiment to remove foot fault judges from tennis as Forest Hills hosts the national championships. Yugoslav star Franjo Puncec loss to Frank Guernsey Jr by 6-1 3-6 2-6 6-3 7-5 in the opening round. faults cited in final set sparked controversy. Bobby Riggs now faces a clearer path to the semis after Puncec’s defeat.
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New York
Forest Hills
Franjo Puncec
Frank Guernsey, Jr
Puncee
Bobby Riggs
Bobby
Death of State Senator J M Daniels at Las Vegas
State Senator J M Daniels died yesterday in Las Vegas. The senate and his wide circle of friends will miss his sparkling wit and genuine humanness. A guilty plea on charges of possession and sale of gasoline failing state laboratory tests resulted in a 25 dollar fine for E E Ryan of Dexter, reported by P E Culver, director of the state gasoline tax division, to the bureau of revenue.
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J. M. Daniels
Las Vegas
Senate
E. E. Ryan
Dexter
P. E. Culver
Bureau of Revenue
New Mexico Livestock Exchange Company Chartered in Albuquerque
The New Mexico Livestock Exchange Company of Albuquerque is chartered by the state corporation commission to begin business with 2500 of its 25000 authorized capital stock. Incorporators include C. M. Dyer statutory agent of Albuquerque Albert Harrington Correo John W. Jackson Mountainair Fred Shumate Claunch and H J Jensen Albuquerque.
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New Mexico Livestock Exchange Company of
Albuquerque
State Corporation Commission
C. M. Dyer
Albert Harrington
Correo
John W. Jackson
Mountainair
Fred Shumate
Claunch
H. J. Jensen
Farm prices surge across major commodities in late August gains
Prices for corn, wheat, hogs, cotton, sugar, and other staples rose sharply since August 31. Corn up 39 percent, wheat 30 percent, hogs 30 percent, cotton 13 percent, sugar 39 percent, cattle 14 percent, lambs 12 percent, butter 8 percent, eggs 7 percent, soybeans 27 percent, rye 37 percent, barley 32 percent. Hog values reached 880 million with national hog population about 50 million head, up 225 million from a week earlier.
Australian rivals in final battle for title
The excerpt notes Quist and Jack Bromwich, both Australian rivals, are positioned in the lower bracket as the final rounds approach.
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Ing
Quist
Jack Bromwich
Japanese goodwill flight poised for Kansas City takeoff
Nippon goodwill plane and six crew members, led by Takeo Ohara, arrived in Albuquerque after a Burbank leg. They were hosted at a civic banquet and will continue to Kansas City, New York, and Miami before resuming the Central and South American route, with plans to skip some capitals due to European tensions and head to Rome via Dakar.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Kansas City
Takeo Ohara
Burbank
Calif
New York
Miami
Fla
Central
South America
Rome
Dakar
Africa
Auto racer Myer to quit racing
Indianapolis reports Louis Myer of Huntington Park Calif the sole driver to win the Memorial Day 500 mile race three times will retire from racing to take a master mechanic position. Bowes says Meyer signed with Ford to recondition engines in his plant near Los Angeles. He won the race in 1928 1933 and 1936.
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Indianapolis
Louis Myer
Huntington Park
Calif
Robert M. Bowes
Meyer
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Los Angeles
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Associated Press
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Robert Taft
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New Mexico
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McCormick
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Taos
Belen
Dillon Mercantile
Encino
Tom Summers
Ed Jackson
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Fred Beel
Summers
Miles
Vogue
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