Farm Groups Fight Wallace Takeover of Farm Credit Admin
Farm organizations plan to appeal to Congress to override any move giving Secretary Wallace full control of the Farm Credit Administration. They fear loss of independence and warn the shift could turn the agency into a political tool. Gannett condemns the transfer as harming financial integrity and independence. The Grange also supports FCA independence amid the dispute.
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Congress
Wallace
Farm Credit Administration
E T Benson
The
National Cooperative Council
Benson
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A Wallace
Credit Administration
FCA
F. F Mill
A.G Black
Agriculture Department
Frank Gannett
Rochester
New York
Bar
Roosevelt
Early
Gannett
Department
National Grange
Navy Enlistments for Week Ended December 15
The Navy reported Tuesday en listments during the week ended December 15 totaled 1770. There were 1446 the preceding week. First enlistments last week totaled 1682, continuous service re enlistments 52 and broken service reenlistments 36.
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Navy
East Prairie Milling Plant Burned In Dust To Ashes
East Prairie Milling Company suffered a Friday night fire that destroyed the cob house, elevator, storage room, office, and cab house. About 50,000 bushels of grain in the elevator were saved. damage estimated at $40,000 with some insurance. Firefighters from East Prairie and Charleston fought flames. a box car and track were damaged. files saved by secretary Mrs. Harley Nelson and employee Rainey Johnson. Company president A A Swingle said rebuilding decision pending.
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East Prairie Milling Company
East Prame
Charleston
Harley Nelson
Rainey Johnson
A. A. Swingle
Germans to drink needled coffee as war power grows
German chemists, cited by the Koelnische Zeitung, are producing caffeine synthetically to ease a coffee shortage. They aim to inoculate grain coffee with caffeine and test it with rye and barley substitutes. Army labs explore how this stimulant blends with ersatz brews, while consumers get only scented malt coffee for now.
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Koelmische Zeitung
Sergeant Otis E Walls Takes Command Of Troop E
Sergeant Otis E Walls of Birch Tree is put in charge of Troop E in the Southeast Missouri State Highway Patrol succeeding Captain A D Sheppard who is named temporary superintendent Walls has served since 1931 and mostly worked in the western district The piece also notes a historic English spelling reform by Benjamin Franklin and a trivia claim about which fish sleep
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Otis E Walls
Birch Tree
Missour Division
State Highway Patrol
A D Sheppard
Wallis
Benjamin Franklin
Missouri Birth Rate Rises in 1938 Health Report
Missouri health department data for 1938 show a birth rate of 1488 per 1000 estimated population, the highest since 1934, with live births totaling 59,365 and a maternal death rate of 3.82 per 1000 live births. Death rate overall reached a record low 1067, save for 1921, while midwifery remains common in rural areas, especially among Negro populations. Lead causes of death include heart disease, cancer, nephritis, and pneumonia, with notable drops in typhoid fever and epidemics. Automobile fatalities numbered 882, lower than recent five year averages.
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Missouri Health Department
Associated Press
Malana
Milliners To Get Wage Increase January 15
The Wage-Hour Administration set a 40 cent per hour minimum wage for milliners to take effect January 15, affecting about 3500 workers of 23,500 in the industry according to officials.
Malone Theatre To Offer Free Christmas Shows
The Malone Theatre will stage two free events for Sikeston children on Christmas morning. Ten reels of comedy and animation with Donald Duck Mickey Mouse and Our Gang will be shown. Lions Club adds a free morning show on December 23 at 9:30 with a food drive for needy families.
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Malone Theatre
Kiddes
Sikeston
Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
Our Gang
Lions Club
Sikeston Lions Club
Dillon Theatre Opens in Morehouse With Wizard of Oz
The Dillon Theatre will debut in Morehouse on Sunday December 24 under W H Dillon and son Kennard Dillon. The opening matinee features The Wizard of Oz with news and a comedy among attractions. Additional showings include Miracles on Sale On Borrowed Time and Shine on Harvest Moon in the remodeled Dan Alen building on Main Street with 400 seats.
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Morehouse
Dillon Theatre
W. H. Dillon
Kinnard Dillon
Dan Alen
Dillon
Forty Seven Jobs in Forty Seven Weeks
Miss Lyra Ferguson of Reeds Missouri, a self named feminine rolling stone, travels coast to coast seeking a coffee roasting job to complete her goal of fifty jobs in forty eight states and weeks. She has worked in a Maine lighthouse, a mountain ranch, Mississippi oyster shucking near Biloxi, Vermont maple tapping, and a Worcester Massachusetts hospital, hoping Washington DC will yield a final position.
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Reeds
Rolling Stone
New Orleans
Washington, D. C
Miss Ferguson
Maine
Buloxi
Miss
Vermont
Worcester
Mass
Louisiana
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