Prison to Discontinue Cultivation of 11 Farms
The third piece in a five part series by Frank Gibler examines Texas prison system finances and labor. It notes 11 farms being reduced to 7 as 2570 convicts farm 25,000 acres, with annual losses near 1 million dollars. It highlights agriculture as the primary inmate labor, a idle print shop, and calls for review of broader prison treatment.
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Frank Gibler
Huntsville
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Federal Farm Security Administration
San Antonio
South Texas
OPA Warns Buyers Of Businesses In 1943 Price Freeze
Clifton George Jr warns buyers to confirm legal operation under OPA rules before purchasing a business. Reports say some restaurants sold with menus at prices above the wartime ceiling. buyers faced required price reductions to meet OPA limits. Restaurant prices are frozen to April 4 10 1943 levels with copies of menus distributed by local war price and rationing boards.
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District Gpa
Price Executive
Gearge
Tran George
Britain imposes ban and censor on diplomats abroad
London reports a sweeping order barring diplomat travel outside Britain by neutral and Allied nations except the United States Russia and the British commonwealth. All diplomatic communications will be censored as military operations loom. The move immobilizes diplomatic staff and opens diplomatic pouches to censorship, a wartime measure not seen since World War I.
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United States
Russia
British Commonwealth
Foreign Office
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Actress Faces Charges in Hollywood Police Mayhem
Preneh-born actress Shapne Simon faced a police charge in Hollywood today for driving erratically after a reported incident. The event involved a sign and drew attention from local authorities and press.
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Shapne Simon
Clinton
Cornwell Wins Red Book Prize for They Dare Not Go A Hunting
Dorothea Cornwell of Louisville Kentucky has won the Red Book Dodd Mead fiction prize of ten thousand dollars for her first novel They Dare Not Go A Hunting a psychological study of a mother and daughter adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Two Texans Wounded In Mediterranean War Area
The War Department lists South and West Texans wounded in the Mediterranean theater. Named are William E. Orput, sergeant, Pecos, and his mother Mrs. Esther M. Orput. and William H. Pierce, private, San Saba, and his mother Mrs. Sarah A. Pierce.
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Mediterraneah
William E. Orput
Esther M. Orput
Pecos
William H. Pierce
Sarah A. Pierce
San Saba
Man Sentenced On Swindling Charges
Edgar H. Duedecke, 23, listed at an address, was sentenced by Judge C. J. Matthews to days in jail on two swindling charges after pleading guilty in County Court No. 2. He swindled two lawyers, four doctors, and a building alley proprietor out of $63 by passing bogus checks.
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Edgar H. Duedecke
C. J. Matthews
Luedecke
Shin
Indian Army Nearly Five Million Strong
Indian Army strength cited as nearing five million personnel. The figure highlights a large defense force with vast manpower and regional deployment across the country.
Plot to Destroy El Centro Dam Could Endanger Railroad
A 47 year old laborer, arrested for attempting to wreck a train, allegedly planned sabotage to destroy Boulder Dam as part of a broader plot. Harold Nathan, an agent, said the man tried to remove a rail on the San Diego de Arizona railroad near a bridge between El Centro and Calexico, fearing an approaching unscheduled train.
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Calexico
Nathan
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