Market Ends Month With Slow Session
The New York stock market closed a desive month with modest support for selected issues as activity remained slow. Trading was light with few big movers, while investors waited on potential war developments. General Motors slightly improved after a satisfactory first quarter. Montgomery Ward held steady as other major names fluctuated.
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Chesapeake & Ohio
Phelps Dodge
Labor Board Seizure Battle Tests Wartime Law
The Labor Board resists ward management efforts to test constitutionality of seizure orders in war. A Chicago judge issued a night restraining Ward from pursuing business, while Ward argues the order seizing property is illegal and officers trespass. The case drags on as government shifts to civilian seizure via Commerce Department.
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Navy Has No Place For Morons
A wartime mock quiz at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station exposes a cadre of 150 recruits offering absurd answers to simple questions. The piece mocks political figures, inventors, and geography with satirical responses, noting none of the respondents are currently serving aboard ships or at naval establishments.
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New Highways Open Mexico To Tourists
Mexico City outlines completion of the Inter-American Highway network to boost political unity and weather links from the United States to the Mexican Guatemalan border. Describes sections: Laredo to Mexico City, Mexico City to Oaxaca, Acapulco route, Vera Cruz corridor, and Monterrey industrial region with historical notes on Oaxaca and Jalapa.
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Home Nursing By Mary Beard Addresses Elder Care
Director Mary Beard of the American Red Cross outlines home nursing for the aged. She notes aging senility varies by health and care, compares elderly care to caring for children, emphasizes simple food and safe environments, and highlights preserving dignity while providing comfort in later life. Written for NEA Service.
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Tourists Warned of Forest Fire Hazard
The State Conservation Department urged weekend visitors to forest areas to take extreme precautions as low humidity and winds raise fire risk despite recent heavy rainfall. Ten fires burned about 60 acres in the state Friday.
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Newport emergency crews respond to overturned truck
An emergency crew in Newport Oregon was dispatched after No. 3 crew truck overturned while responding to a mishap. No. 2 auto mishap unit arrived to assist, details unclear.
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Major Mexican Industries and Highways Highlighted
Mexico's key industrial sites include sneated iron and steel mills a guayule rubber plant and the nation's largest breweries. Torre stands as a major cotton producing center in the fertile La Laguna valley. These are among the longest highways in the country with others referenced.
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Sneated Iron and Steel
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la Laguna
Japanese American Girl Enlists in WACs
Miss Marion Seiga Doi, a 23 year old from Binghamton, daughter of Japanese born parents, joined the Women’s Army Corps on Friday stating she wants to do her part and prove Japanese Americans are as true to the United States as other Americans.
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Marion Seiga Doi
Women’s Army Corps
United States
Garden flowers for Victory Gardens and home plots
This guide lists dwarf petunias, galardia, Torenia, snapdragon like blossoms, Busy Bloomers, linarias, and other perennials for sun or shade. It notes soil prep with plant food, seeds sown in a ready bed, and mentions edging with canna and gladiolus as backdrops for tomatoes and vegetables.
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Torenia
Heating Year For Fuel Oil Starts Sept 1
The 1944-45 fuel oil heating year starts September 1, thirty days earlier than planned. Indefinite value coupons, known as period coupons, will be valid through the 1944-45 heating season rather than expiring on fixed dates. The changes aim to reduce bolted deliveries by preventing invalid coupons and will set future coupon values after dates fixed by GPA.
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GPA
Parents win big in hospital burn suit over infant limbs
A Massachusetts court awarded 73 750 to Chelsea parents over burns suffered by Willem E Lichmar at a Boston hospital. The infant, born tiny, required amputations after burns from an electric heater kept in a bassinet. Two doctors faced guilty verdicts. Also reported a sailor dead in Rochester crash and a fuel oil budget program update.
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Jacob Lichman
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Willem E. Lichmar
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