14 Mar 1943
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1943
Page
1
A collection of colorful opinions on wartime policy and social issues. Topics include rationing, politics, agriculture, Red Cross drives in Thomas County, a Camilla peanut butter plant, tax deadlines, and criticism of Nazi ideology. Mentions Gandhi orange juice, Clark Howell, and Talmadge.
The nation faces food shortages with debate over farm work reforms and officials warning of limited supplies. Restaurants retain extensive menus while homes grow vegetables, urging reliance on home gardens and controlled rationing to meet public demand.
The country expects the gasoline pleasure ban to be lifted on March 22. Public sentiment favors resuming car use for any purpose as rationing hinges on compliance and hoarding. authorities will lift only if they can handle the permit load and enforce regulations.
The piece argues Finland must choose between remaining with Germany or seeking peace terms through the Allies as Russia and Axis pressure shape its fate. It warns of continued German control and Russian demands, predicting possible disintegration if terms favor the Axis. It notes Finland’s parliament leaning toward Allied terms and critiques wartime rationing comparisons.
The War Production Board halted about 409 construction and repair projects in the southeast under an order banning non-essential work costing more than 200. WPB Regional Compliance Manager H. S. Moyer announced the takedown and noted 300 violators across seven states with under 40 investigators. He cited widespread violations due to ignorance of WPB rules.
A detailed record of payments to individuals and organizations including Red Cross, Thomasville Stock Yards, Archbold Memorial Hospital, banks, utilities, and vendors. Entries show amounts ranging from a few dollars to several hundred dollars and cover payrolls, welfare, medical, supplies, and services recorded by the county.
New York March 15 A simple funeral service will honor internationally known banker J. P. Morgan who died at Boca Grande Florida Saturday at age 75 Rites will be held in St.
A Georgia youth fear of surgeons travels to a large city hospital where ether and operations yield a humorous misadventure. The patient sways in a ward of convalescents as jokes fly about missing sponges and stitches. The scene ends with the surgeon seeking his hat amid the uproar.
The funeral for a Morgan family member will be held at Stuyvesant Square Episcopal Church at 19 a.m. led by Rev Rush R Sloane. The service will be open to friends and business associates with no flowers or viewings. Cremation follows at Fresh Pond in Queens, ashes to Hartford. The body travels with Lt Comdr Henry Sturgis Morgan and Mrs Paul G Pennoyer, arriving today to be placed at the Morgan Library at 29 East 36th Street.
In San Francisco rough crowds along Market and Turk streets prompt police to aggressive actions. Mike the copper notes many so called drunk rollers among mobs. In three nights about 1000 arrests are made as Chief Dullea promises mobile response by 1800 officers to curb stabbings and brawls. Oakland grand jury begins study of rising crime as residents fear to venture out at night.
The Department of Agriculture will extend its food program for community school lunches and child care day centers, as revealed by the extension service.
An early wartime portrait of the Civil Air Patrol shows pilots and ground crews from diverse walks of life. The CAP, under Gen. Arnold, with Major Earle L. Johnson as national commander, has flown 26,600 pilots registered plus 20,000 in training and 20,000 ground crew. They carried modestly armed planes and cheap bombsights, proving crucial in spotting survivors and submarines, and forming the first effective inshore air patrol.
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