Parties Can Name New Candidate If One Should Die
In New York a constitutional question arises if a presidential candidate dies before Election Day. Both major parties at their conventions authorized their national committees to appoint or nominate a replacement if the nominated candidate becomes incapacitated or dies. The vice presidential pick is not required to be the successor.
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New York
Dewey
Pacific Coast
White House
Roosevelt
National Committee
Soldier writes parents after being missing in action
Staff Sgt. Thomas E. Sanderson, stationed in England as a radio gunner, writes from presumed safe status after being reported missing since May 29. He says the Yanks liberated them September 7 and mentions returning to the States, Fort Sam Houston, and reuniting with family.
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Elmer Sanderson
Thomas E. Sanderson
War Department
Sergeant Sanderson
Department
O. K
States
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Thomas
Sanderson
England
France
Old Age Assistance Rolls Decline in September
A September drop of 351 in old age assistance rolls left 170 509 recipients averaging 21.58 this month. The average certified needs exceeded funds by 1.25. Total payments reached 3 697 018. Needy blind checks averaging 24.10 went to 4 623 persons, up 12 from August. The dependent children air program paid an average 20.88 to 10 697 families with 23 262 children.
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Austin
Department of Public Welfare
Captain and WAC Exchange Jailbreak Witty Banter
A boot camp exchange features a captain joking about being kept from class by acute indigestion while the WAC responds with acute engineer. The light remark reflects military humor in a training setting.
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WAC
Ballot printing details for Grayson County election
The Sun reports 31 000 ballots printed for Grayson County for the November 7 general election. Ballot size is 17 by 22 inches with eight columns for eight parties plus a blank column. Elector counts range from twenty three for four parties to three for America First, with Independent and blank columns empty.
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the Sun
Grayson County
Texas
Socialist
Prohibition
America First
Independent
America First Party
Roosevelt
Gov
Dewey
United States
Sun Honor Roll Adds Wide List of Names This Week
The Sun expands its honor roll with new and renewing subscribers amid steady growth. Names added this week include Margaret Lilley, T. J. Lilley, Dr. B. Wrenn Webb, Mrs. Maggie Montgomery, and many others.
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Sun
Margaret Lilley
T. J. Lilley
B. Wrenn Webb
Maggie Montgomery
Kay Kimbell
David O. Russell Jr
Clyde M. Russell
M. O. Carpenter
W. A. Martin
Earl Blanton
William B. Martin
E. R. Alexander
Willie Pearl Edwards
Oscar Young
T. A. Gray
D. E. Rouse
Food Prices Seen Dropping In 1945
Minneapolis report notes retail food prices may fall about 10 percent in 1945 with some lines down as much as 20 percent. Paul S. Willis of the Grocery Manufacturers Association says current inventories are higher than any prior period and crop production will likely approach 1942 levels.
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Minneapolis
Paul S. Willis
The
Grocery Manufacturers of America
Willis
Association of Manufacturers
Service members visit family and report updates from war fronts
The piece notes visits by Pvt. Percy G Tracy and Pvt. Oscar Spikes to Camp Fannin families, births and furloughs, sailors returning to Treasure Island, and soldiers aboard ships in the Pacific. It covers Lt Harold McMillin’s Liberator raid, and private letters detailing wartime experiences and a Good Conduct medal for Cpl Otto Russell Jr.
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Pvt
Percy G. Tracy
Camp Fannin
Lola Hood
Oscar Spikes
Clovis
N. M
Harold R. McMillin
Philippines
Mary Harrison McMillin
Whitewright
McMillin
Ernest Harrison
Pacific
Cpl
Otto Russell Jr
France
Russell
W. T. Kelley Buys Maddux Station
R. D. Maddux sold his filling station and garage Wednesday to W. T. Kelley. Kelley, who previously ran a Whitewright laundry and had garage experience, will continue Sinclair products and focus on the garage. He leased the building from Maddux.
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R. D. Maddux
W. T. Kelley
Maddux
Clyde Gibson
Kelley
Whitewright
New Mexico
Sinclair Products
Mr. Kelley
Simplifying Rural School Aid Sought
A Texas subcommittee aims to simplify the administration of state funds for rural schools to ensure money reaches the students intended. Senator Pat Bullock of Snyder chairs the effort, seeking the quickest, clearest path for the appropriation. Ireland had convents earlier than England or Scotland.
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Austin
Pat Bullock
Snyder
Ireland
England
Scotland
Supreme Command Moves to Paris from London
SHAEF headquarters ends 125 days of European invasion operations and departs London for Paris. Four planes carry the SHAEF staff crates of maps and 60 correspondents to Paris after a final map-lined conference. RAF Bomber Command and US Eighth Air Force news will still be released from London.
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London
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Europe
Paris
SHAEF
Royal Air Force Bomber Command
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Himmler orders brutal action against retreating Germans
The Luxembourg radio quoted Heinrich Himmler telling officer candidates near Metz that army officers must halt any retreat and may shoot those turning back. He urged sending brutal officers to enforce the stance and promised protection for action, even if drastic, while declaring he would not defend any softness.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
Luxembourg
Ministry of Information
Metz
Whitewright War Fund Drive Hits Quota With $1825 Payment
A $1,825 check was mailed to the war fund treasurer to meet the Whitewright quota shared by Kentuckytown Pilot Grove Ida and surrounding communities. The surplus from a prior drive is funding current pledges and future campaigns, including USO and allied relief, with gifts accepted at the First National Bank or via J. H. Waggoner.
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National War Fund
Whitewright
Bethel
Kentuckytown
Pilot Grove
Ida
War Fund Committee
USO
C. B. Bryant Jr
Red Cross
First National Bank
J. H. Waggoner
United Seamen's Service
Whitewright War Fund
Cotton Crop Is Forecast For This Year
The agriculture department forecast this year’s cotton crop at 11 953 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. The census bureau reported 3 984 761 running bales gained to Oct 1, with 79 percent crop condition. Texas shows 71 percent normal and yield of 168 pounds per acre for an estimated 2 500 000 total production.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Texas
Singing Convention to Meet Here Sunday at First Baptist
The County Line Singing Convention will gather at 2 30 p m Sunday at the First Baptist Church led by president W C Brown A Jaco quartet from Sherman will attend with others likely to join Whitewright expects a large crowd after several years since the last meeting Read all the ads.
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First Baptist Church
W. C. Brown
Association
Aachen in Flames as Allies Bombard City After Ultimatum
Allied forces pounded Aachen with 300 American fighter-bombers and 200 heavy guns after Germany spurned surrender terms. Fire raged through the 1100-year-old city with civilians fleeing as German troops tried a daylight breakout toward American lines.
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London
Aachen
Charlemagne
Heinrich Himmler
Wurselen
Haaren
France
Reich
Whitewright Girl Wants Home Paper
Letter from Myra Nell Vestal of Flint Michigan requesting a subscription to the home-town paper The Sun. She notes pride in readers in service, her husband a Marine in the South Pacific, and hopes for his return before Christmas while she continues teaching in the Flint school system.
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Sun
Fifth Army
Italy
Pfc
R. D. Moore
88Th
Moore
Route 4
Brashear
Woodrow Brand
Howard Hedgpeth
the Sun
South Pacific
States
Flint
J. S. Schultz
Myra Nell Vestal
W. Jackson St
Flint, Michigan
Send Home Teen Age Government Girls in Washington
Washington officials and civic leaders debate safeguards as hundreds of rural girls come to wartime jobs. After the death of Dorothy Berrum, 18, who was raped and killed near a Potomac River park, calls grow to evacuate or tightly supervise the female workers. A Marine is accused in the case.
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Washington
Ray H. Everett
Social Hygiene Society of Washington
Dorothy Berrum
Potomac River
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R. C. Vestal
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