Wholesale Price Control Starts Affects Pork Market
Chicago reports wholesale price controls begin on pork with temporary ceilings set for about 90 percent of pork items from March 3 to 7. Retailers may hold firm on prices but expect limited changes. packers warn live prices must align with wholesale to keep operations economical while retailers adjust their counters to new ceilings.
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Girls Like Philadelphia More Dates
Philadelphia reporter notes locals and newcomers describe life in wartime city. Immigrants and workers transfer stories from Washington with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Personal experiences reveal dating patterns and housing concerns amid 112 percent wage tax debate.
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Jap Leader in China Receives Gifts From Emperor
From broadcasts March 2 Gen Tulare Ampkan returned from the China front rainily and submitted detailed military reports to an audience with Emperor Hirohits. The emperor gave him several gifts in recognition of his services on the central and north China fronts.
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Wartime thrift guide urges careful care of home goods
Wartime article urges conserving materials and maintaining appliances to support the war effort. It details prolonging life of cars, refrigerators, sewing machines, and other items, recommends prudent use of public transit, and stresses replacing costly purchases with better secondhand or repaired goods. The piece emphasizes reduced consumption and careful maintenance as essential to national needs.
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Brazil Seizes Axis Press in Secret Printing Plot
Reports from Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro describe raids on a secret Axis propaganda printing plant on Governor's Island in Gusivbara Bay and the discovery of a radio station nearby. Uruguayan officials say Montevideo and Beavil are preparing combined actions against espionage, following a suspected plot in southern Brill. President Haljtom orders cutting cable links between Uruguay and Axis nations.
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Texas railroad official to attend oil meeting
Ernest O Thompson of the Texas railroad commission will attend the quarterly meeting of the Klerslale Ol compact commission in Little Rock on March 27 and 28, after traveling to Austin for events on March 23.
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Ernest O. Thompson
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Klerslale Ol Compact Commission
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British Bomb Crete Greece During Weekend Raids
Cairo reports RAF raids across Libya and targets in Crete and Greece with bombings on Crete locations Retlma Tymprkton Hassani and Denaja Chenatea. British forces also raided Tyimi Martuba and shelled Martuba airfield with artillery.
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Bulgaria King to Discuss Axis Role and Balkans Guard
King Boris of Bulgaria reportedly travels to Berlin to discuss Bulgaria’s entry into the war with the Axis and its role as a guardian of the Balkans. Hitler and German ambassador von Papen are also noted as key figures in the talks.
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Axis
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Death Cheated in Long Sea Flight
Twenty survivors of the American freighter Ruth Alexander recount a harrowing voyage as their ship survived bombardment while fleeing from the Japanese and later being picked up by the Dutch navy. First Officer Joseph D. Cox and crew describe three bombing passes and a missing engine, with one cook killed and others wounded. Survivors reached San Francisco aboard another vessel after a perilous escape.
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Panhandle Oil Hikes Denied by OPA
Washington March 23 The office of price administration denied requests to raise maximum Panhandle crude prices to match Oklahoma and Kansas crude. Acting OPA administrator J. E. Bia n ia said further increases are unjustified based on information from the fuel division investigation. The Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association of Amarillo and J. P. Coleman of Wichita Falls asked elimination of a 10 cent a barrel anti-competitive lever tying Panhandle crude to Oklahoma and Kansas prices.
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Commander Not Aboard Lost Ship
The Navy states Captain Kenneth M. Hoeffel, reported Saturday as commander of the missing Runboat Asheville, was not aboard the vessel. His mother-in-law said his daughter telephoned from Cambridge, Mass, and received a telegram from the Navy Department confirming he was not near the Asheville when it was lost.
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Pilot Dies After Plane Parachute Fails in Crash
A RC pilot named Mattie Prentiss died when his plane crashed after the bailout chute failed to deploy. Airman Frank Farrell survived, found near a highway after the aircraft went down in blinding glare. The incident prompted a safety note on extending federal insurance protections to workers in civil defense and related roles.
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RAF Luftwaffe in Scoreless Week
JAINDON March 23 P Weatt ie kept the RAF grounded again ash night the ninth in a row since Stlugt bomber fleets amassed at Cologne on March 13. British sources say neither air force logged a single plane over Western Europe last week for the first time in more than a year. A British commentator called the past winter the worst for flying here since operations began.
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Australian Offers to Be Human Bomb
Sydney man AL White proposed extreme acts in a bizarre TV exchange claiming to be a high paid auto executive and offering to ram a loaded plane or speedboat into a carrier. Drakeford, 42, described himself in the report as married and highly paid, appealing amid the confusion.
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AVG Pilot Unmoved at Felling Japs
Ed Overend of the American Volunteer Group recalls Christmas in Burma after a ferocious air battle over Rangoon. He describes attacking 36 Japanese bombers, bringing down several, including one bomber whose wing came off and sprayed flame. He crash landed but survived with minor injuries, keeping his resolve to serve Uncle Sam.
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