Food outlook dampened by delayed planting nationwide
Washington reports official warning that spring planting trails three to four weeks due to heavy rain floods and cold. Labor shortages machinery repairs and other hurdles limit recovery, with crops such as oats corn rice tobacco beans and vegetables at risk. Despite abuse storage limits, current supplies exceed demand and a poor season could shrink future stocks.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Department
Brichter
Invasion Preparations Amid D Day Focus and Sevastopol Recapture
Allied preparations for the great D-Day invasion loom over European war efforts as Sevastopol falls, accelerating Russian offensives and signaling looming crossfront battles. The piece notes anticipated Allied naval bombardment, air power, and coordinated landings with Montgomery visiting the home fleet to acknowledge the naval role.
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Ed Asa F
Berlin
Preess
Winston Churchill
Sevastopo
Light Brigade
Florence Nightingale
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Stalin Has Plenty To Do At Home
Forrest Davis of the Saturday Evening Post quotes Stalin in a Teheran briefing saying the Soviet Union has no wish to own Europe. Stalin reportedly added Russia is only half populated and must tend to internal tasks before any new territorial duties.
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Forrest Davis
Saturday Evening Post
Marshal Joseph Stalin
Post
Soviet Union
Teheran
Davis
Stalin
Europe
Fire Auxiliaries On New Errand
Wakefield Massachusetts May 11 A special alarm called out the town s auxiliary fire fighters last night When the 25 men arrived they found a brush fire the regulars had been battling for six hours had been extinguished The regulars tired from the effort had sounded the alarm to let the auxiliaries roll up the hose
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Wakefield
Mass
High Wages Won't Last Always
The Regional War Labor Board ruled that welders shifted to non welding work cannot keep welding rates. It denied continued higher pay for 32 Twin Coach welders and rejected reimbursement for welding training costs. The board ordered a 1.5 cent raise for 40 assistant foremen to correct intra plant inequities, placing them 10 percent above the workers they supervise.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
CIO
United Auto
Twin Coach Company
Kent
WLB
Local Markets Review and Typo Disclaimer
Local markets listed daily by The Star are presented as correct at time of publication. The Star not responsible for typographical errors that may occur in the market listings.
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The
Star
Local Wholesale Market Flour and Farm Price List
A dense price list from a local wholesale market outlines patent brand flour pricing by bag and barrel, corn meal and mixed feeds, dairy prices, live poultry values, and livestock quotes including roosters, springers, ducks, cows, hogs, lambs, calves, and chick grower feeds, with regional price variations and unit measures.
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Canada
Cscesscesessa
Local retail market flour and feed prices listed
A historical price sheet shows multiple flour bag sizes with per 100 lb and per bag rates including 10 lb to 98 lb bags, cornmeal, bran, middlings, mixed feed, scratch feed, and creamery butter with scattered illegible entries. Prices include 5.43 for 100 lb flour, 10.20 for various bags, and 3.35 for 10 lb cornmeal per 100 lb.
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Vestenes
Cissencs
For Sale Autction Awning Frame at former Penney Store
For sale items include an awning frame displayed in front of the old Penney Store and a triple plate mirror suitable for store use. J. C. Penney Co., Inc.
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Old Penney
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