Overseas GI film view and British rural aid features
American service personnel abroad see more films than civilians and usually three new releases weekly. Netherlands coin minting prepares for liberated Holland with government funding. U S writers marry Australian women in the Southwest Pacific. Malaria declines in New Guinea due to joint control efforts. A 15 year old British cow sets a world milk record. A mobile clothes exchange aids British village children, with Women’s Voluntary Service delivering outfits.
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War Department
Netherlands
United States
Holland
U. S
Southwest Pacific
Australian News and Information Bureau
New Guinea
United Kingdom Information Office
Great Britain
British Information Services
Women’s Voluntary Service
War era traffic speeds and cotton substitutes reported
The United Kingdom Information Office notes children rarely knew fast road traffic during the war. The Netherlands Indies News Agency says Japan faces cotton shortages while seeking milkweed floss as a kapok substitute for life jackets. They are experimenting with absorbent cotton from kapok.
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United Kingdom
United States
Netherlands and Netherlands Indies
Texans Like Own State But Many Others Migrate Here
Texas residents born in the state show strong attachment with 5,036,550 of 5,929,750 living there. About 18.3 percent of Texas's population was born in other states, with New York recording 15.8 percent. Net interstate in-movement to Texas totaled 236,688 in 1940, led by migrants from the South, North Central, and adjacent regions, shaping Texas's diverse population.
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Washington
Bureau of the Census
Texas
Union
California
New York
South
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Minnesota
Iowa
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Prohibitionists Win McLennan County Local Option Vote
McLennan County voters approved local option prohibition by a 653 vote margin on Saturday. The election outcome makes the county dry in the aftermath of the statewide mood in Waco.
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Waco
McLennan County
Political Announcements for Democratic Primaries 1944
The column lists Democratic primary candidates for July and August 1944. For Congress 4th Dist G C Morris and Sam Rayburn. County Judge Jake J Loy and Vernie Henderson. County Clerk Calvin Buchanan and Hub White with E C Looney. County Attorney Olan R Van Zandt. Representative Place 1 George Shields. Public Weigher Pct 3 Finis Alverson seeking second term.
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J. C
Calvin
Finis Alverson
New Artery Repair Method Shows Promise in War Injuries
A new technique bridges severed arteries with metal enclosed veins from cadavers to reduce amputations. Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore and colleagues presented the method at Johns Hopkins Medical Society, highlighting its speed and suitability for battle conditions using vitallium tubes left in the body.
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Baltimore
New York
Johns Hopkins Medical Society
Arthur H. Blakemore
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
New York City
Blakemore
Jere Lord
Paul L. Stefko
New York Hospital
Sign Messages Honor Fire and Flood Tragedies
A theatre sign warns Do not smoke Remember the Iroquois fire. A prank adds Do not spit Remember the Johns town flood. The quip echoes historic disasters to mock the warning.
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Iroquis
Johnstown
Reverend Jones inquires about Heaven a humorous exchange
A brief exchange features Reverend Jones asking Rastus about a home in Heaven. Rastus replies affirming but notes he is not homesick, delivering a light rural humor moment.
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Reverend Jones
Rastus
When Will Men Learn And The Aristocrats Of Earth
An editorial from the Paducah Sun-Democrat argues that intelligence heightens biblical trust yet men cling to wealth and ease. It claims many choose mammon over freedom, while a few favor God, making them the true free men and saints.
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Earth
Heaven
Paducah (Ky
Sun-Democrat
Penny Pinching Landlady’s Dining Room Placard
A landlady in hard times posts a placard in her dining room urging restraint on appetites. A visiting guest adds a quip about a bit in the mouth being better.
Why Sam Rayburn Should Be Reelected
Editorial from Denison Herald defends Sam Rayburn for reelection. It counters smear tactics and cites his alignment with the New Deal and war-time unity while contrasting Rayburn with opponent G. C. Morris, noting Morris’s youth and wartime service debate.
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Sam Rayburn
War Records and Military Acts of a Texas Legislator
A Texas legislator backed extended WWI era military aid and postwar benefits including hospital care education loans and pensions. He pushed Guam fortification and lobbied for a large aircraft program before war, helped extend selective service before Pearl Harbor, and opposed armory funding and ROTC in Texas.
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Guam
Pearl Harbor
Farm records of two candidates Rayburn Morris
Bio sketches compare MR. RAYBURN author of the Rural Electrification Act aiding over 9,000 farms in the district and backing AAA measures while raising cotton and cattle. MR. MORRIS co author of a Texas House bill to abolish the Agriculture Department, opposed pest control funding, and aided a 1937 bill to let farmers form co operatives to distribute electrical energy under federal law.
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Rayburn House
AAA
Morris
Texas House of Representatives
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas A. & M. College
Congress
Rayburn Record Highlights Long Washington Service
The pamphlet for Mr. Morris focuses on the Omni bus Tax Bill funding social programs, while Mr. Rayburn’s record emphasizes veteran national and state work. Rayburn authored stock and bond regulation, the Railroad Holding Company Act, the Securities Act, stock exchange regulation, and the Utilities Holding Company Act. He helped pass the Federal Reserve Act and Clayton Anti-Trust Act, served as majority leader, and became Speaker of the House in 1940 and again in 1941 and 1943.
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Rayburn
Washington
Morris
National Social Security Program
Mr. Rayburn
Congress
Texas
Securities and Exchange Commission
Texas Power & Light Co
New York
Wilson
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Evangelistic Services
Claude C. McClung
Arlington, Texas
Church of Christ
Whitewright, Texas
Mcclennan County
G. C. Morris
Jake J. Loy V. R
Vernie) Henderson
Olan R. van Zandt
Geo. Shields
E. P
Edgel) Jackson S. B
Ben) Vaughan F. F
Frank
Trimm
Pascal Farley
Total Capital Accounts
First National Bank OF Tom Refan Teyasg
Bpestbreng Bbs
Federal Reserve Bank
Grayson
C. H. Lackey
Leta Ball
A. S. Luby
W. E. Pennell
E. O. Thomas
Sherman
A. Y. Creager Company
M. & P. Bank Building
Sherman, Texas
Southwestern Bell
TEL
Denison Herald
The
Herald
the Herald
House
Time
Newsweek
Bonham
A.F.L
C.I.O
Fair Practices Employment Committee
Rayburn’s
Armed Services
Greenville Banner
MR. Morris
Germany
Japan
Texas National Guard Armory Board
Texas 36Th Division
Toll
Till
Institution of Military Training
University of Texas
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