Texas Solons Start Move For Increase in Oil Price
Texas congressmen have launched a drive for at least a 5 cent per barrel rise in crude prices to spur drilling. Speaker Rayburn cited the need for new discoveries to replenish above ground reserves and pressed for action to boost price ceilings, involving lawmakers from El Paso and Gilmer who warned of a looming petroleum shortage and hardship for marginal producers.
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Dallas Flier Lind Funeral Set In Dallas
Funeral service for Lieut. Robert B. Lind 20 an army air force pilot killed in a Ferry Point Md crash will be held here Thursday. An automobile struck and killed J W Web 14 at a rent intersection yesterday.
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Walter Winchell On Broadway Gossip Notes
A brisk column of social snippets and city scenes from New York. Notables like Ann Rutherford, Greer Garson, Irving Berlin, and Congresswoman Luce appear among Broadway vignettes, fashion and mobbed bylines. A lively snapshot of midtown life with nightlife, tastemakers, and future projects.
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Army Officer Disappears at Camp Claiborne
Capt. Thomas Pope Fullilove, 34, of Shreveport Louisiana, last seen Sept 19 driving a dark red Mercury sedan with Louisiana and Camp Claiborne tags on his way back to camp. Officers fear foul play or amnesia. Col. Landon J. Lockett requests information. wife and three children remain in Shreveport.
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Prison Urged for Price Violators
INXIGO CITY September 27 Senator Vidal Ding Munos said he would offer a bill to impose prison sentences on retailers who violate price ceilings recently set by the government on food wires and a few other products. He argued fines were insufficient and his bill would authorize prison terms up to six years.
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Vidal Ding Munos
M ‘Ose
Texas Farm Income Up and Rising Throughout The Year
Texas farm income for the year reached 390 million dollars with August contributing 127 million. Eight month total was 42 percent above the prior year and August's income climbed 71 percent from last August. UT Bureau of business research notes gains in farm prices and overall income likely to persist.
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Taft Pushes Draft For Fathers Under 30 In Senate Showdown
Washington move shifts focus from Wheeler bill to Taft substitute directing selective service to draft only family heads under 30. Taft argues 1,000,000 married men under 30 with children are available to fill quotas, while Wheeler’s plan would delay pre war inductions past January.
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Pearl Harbor
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Wheeler
Farmers to Study Issues at Texas district meetings
Farmers across Texas will discuss issues crucial to producers as they work toward wartime food and fiber goals in 1944. Topics include farm labor machinery and supplies price ceilings feed subsidies and rollbacks parity prices for tart products. Meetings run October 4 through October 18 in Dallas Wichita Falls Amarillo Lubbock Big Spring Abilene Marshall Tutkin Brenham Floresville and Sinton.
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Marshall
OPA loosens order on grade 3 tires for dealers
The OPA permits auto dealers to use Grade 3 tires from stock to equip cars for sale. Replaced tires must be worn out, not repairable, and replacements require OPA tire inspector approval. The move aims to reduce tire stockpiles and ease automobile shortages.
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Washington
Maury Urges Heavy Spending After War Ends
Maury Maverick, director of the war production bonds division, told the League of Virginia Municipality that heavy spending must continue after the war. He argued private capital may not meet all needs for returning soldiers and urged a building program financed by general, state, local, and private funds to keep the nation working. He warned the war’s grim period is just beginning with heavier casualty lists anticipated as campaigns with Nazis and Japs intensify.
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War Production Bond
League of Virginia
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San Jacinto launches as new aircraft carrier replaces Houston
Houston's loss prompts launch of the San Jacinto, a 84,500 ton carrier begun as a 10,000 ton cruiser and financed by 384,500 residents of Hidalgo, Texas. The ship slides down the ways as Navy action builds a stronger fleet. Dr Ricardo Volk, 66, renowned dermatologist in Mexico City, dies, native of Vienna, noted for skin tuberculosis work.
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Sheng
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Texas
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