Navy reports loss of three big warships in Solomons battle
The United States Navy disclosed the sinking of heavy cruisers Quincy Astoria and Vincennes during a night action in the Solomon Islands campaign begun last August. Most crew were saved but casualties reported. The loss marks a major fleet blow since Pearl Harbor with nine American ships sunk in the Solomons and at least two more damaged. Japanese losses in the campaign include at least thirty-eight ships.
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Washington
United States
Quincy
Astoria
Vincennes
Solomon Islands
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Canberra
Australia
Solomons
Rescue of Sailors Cost 100000 Each in Midway Battle
San Francisco reports the rescue of five sailors from the carrier Yorktown during the June Battle of Midway cost $100000 per man. Marines who acted include Private First Class Peter Schultz of Short Hills New Jersey who shielded a sailor with his life jacket and jumped overboard to help. Sgt P E Canton Minneapolis, Cpl Peter Kikos Minneapolis, and Pfc Stanley Kobleski Turner Falls Massachusetts praised by the Marine public relations department for aiding the sailors.
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San Francisco
Uncle Sam
Yorktown
Peter Schultz
Short Hills
N. J
Marine Public Relations Department
Salors
P. E. Canton
North Minneapolis
Peter Kikos
Minneapolis
Stanley Kobleski
Turner Falls
Mass
60 000 Additional Pickers Needed for South Plains Cotton
The United States Employment Service in the Lubbock district plans to import about 60 000 more cotton pickers to harvest the bumper crop in eleven South Plains counties. F E Rector told extension leaders that employment service efforts will supplement the 15 000 already here. Sun advertising gets results.
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Lubbock
South Plains
United States Employment Service
F. E. Rector
Employment Service
A Plan to Protect Agriculture After This War
A wartime plan to prevent a postwar farm tragedy by expanding domestic crop uses and industrial shifts. It notes rubber from guayule and milkweed fibers, starch from potatoes, tung oil, and new crops, plus a Senate idea to allocate 20 percent of war profits to Recovery Bonds and farm research.
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Guayule
East Indies
Chemurgic Council
America
United States
United States Senate
Agriculture and Labor in Postwar Welfare Ties
Wheeler McMillen argues agriculture has strong reasons to care for labor. Postwar conditions will affect farmers, as full time workers with good wages are better customers and less prone to extremist agitation. He advocates constructive use of agricultural influence to address abuses harming all parties.
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Wheeler McMillen
Real stimulant quote from Javier Prado
A quotation from Javier Prado on American values. It emphasizes self-made success through activity, effort, and competing spirit as the true stimulus and pride of individuals in the United States. The passage frames personal development and winning as central to American identity.
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America
United States
Javier Prado
Easy to Fireproof Cotton Materials
COLLEGE STATION Fireproofing cotton fabrics is simple says Mrs. Bernice Claytor from the A and M College Extension Service. Dip fabrics in a borax boric acid water solution and re-dip after laundering.
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Bernice Claytor
A. and M. College Extension Service
$1,790 a Second War Spending Reaches July Peak
U S war spending rose to 1790 dollars per second in July as Treasury disbursements and Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion outlays for war efforts hit 4.794 billion. Daily, hourly, and minute rates are given, though commitments far exceed current expenditures. Over the two years to last July contracts and commitments reached about 130 billion, with total appropriations around 223 billion.
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United States
Office of War Information
The
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Obituary Note for J. A. Mauk
Expressions of sympathy flow to the Vestal family after the death of J. A. Mauk. They thank friends for thoughts and memories honoring their father and grandfather.
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J. A. Mauk
Grayson County Calls Beer Election on Oct 24
Grayson County commissioners court called a local option beer election for October 24 after receiving a petition with 2 400 signatures. Of 1 513 names checked as qualified voters 1 412 were deemed sufficient to trigger the call. Beer has been legal there since 1933 with a 1940 retention noted. Results are canvassed within five days and take effect within 30 days.
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Sherman
Grayson County
County Commissioners Court
Notable Pseudonyms and Global Cocoanut Leaders
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. The Philippines ranks as a principal cocoanut producing country. The Earth's underground water volume is estimated at about one third of the ocean's.
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George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
Philippines
Zero Compared to Fast Boxer Who Can't Take Punch
In Los Angeles, Tye Lett Jr. compares the P-40 and the Zero, noting the Zero's maneuverability but the P-40's armor, gas tanks, and instruments offer protection. He says a dive by the P-40 allows close gunfire, while the Zero relies on agility. Ethiopia sits amid Italian neighbors with no harbor.
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Los Angeles
Tye M. Lett Jr
Lett
China
Motor Company
Chenault
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T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
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Texas
Fort Worth Press
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U. S
Paul Owen
Ely
Sun Office
Woodmen Circle Home
Whitewright
Rock Road
Tom Barbee
J. M. Parrish
Kentuckytown
Robert Morgan
Ector
Dallas News
Whitewright Sun
S. Donihoo
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Grayson Beer
Ethiopia
Manning & Meadow Furniture — Farmalls — Hardware
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