Joe Louis Sees Talent Growing From Military Service
Joe Louis shared views on emerging boxing talent among servicemen like Elzria Thompson and Johnny Ebarb while en route to Camp Sibert Alabama. He predicted Mills and Tommy Whig would struggle postwar. Louis recalled artillery missions in Italy and a near miss with plane trouble during a war-time trip. He expected to defend his title after the war and noted many heavyweights may emerge aged 35 or 36 from military service.
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Elzria Thompson
Reading
Ene
Johnny Ebarb
Oakland
Italy
George Culberson
Ebarb
Louis
Mills
Tommy Whig
Jack
London
Camp Sibert
Ois
Fred Maly
San Antonio
Tex
Louis Sca
Mary
Airene
Conn
Billy Conn
Joe
Osmena Leaves Washington for Philippine Liberation
President Sergio Osmena of the Philippine government in exile has departed Washington likely to return home as MacArthur forces prepare to liberate the island commonwealth. The move follows Brigadier General Carlos Romulo who said he would return to the Philippines.
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Washington
Sergio Osmena
Douglas MacArthur
Commonwealth
Carlos Romulo
Congress
Philips
Answers to the Daily Quiz in Bulgaria Feature
The text lists quiz answers from a Bulgarian source with scattered names and numbers. It references Anthony Eden and Gertrude Stein and mentions September 1, 1944 along with several incomplete items including Vermont and ancient prophetess.
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Vermont
Gertrude Stein
Prigate
Ration Calendar Highlights Stamp Validity For 1945
The notices outline indefinite validity for meat and fats stamps A8 to Z8 and A5 to R5, with sugar stamps 30 h 33 lasting indefinitely and stamp 40 for five pounds through Feb 28, 1945. Shoe stamps 1 and 2 remain valid, new stamps to be issued Nov 1. Gasoline coupons 11-A through Nov specified, with 13-A four gallons through Dec 21.
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Anc
Ee Eee
Shecatere
Anna And The King of Siam at Handley Library
Margaret Landon presents Anna Leenowens the governess who taught English to King Mongkut's sixty seven children in 1860 Siam. Her diaries reveal a brave reformer who aided prisoners and shaped King Chulalongkorn, leading to abolition of slavery and modernization. Borrow this book from Handley Library.
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Mongkut
Siam
Anna Leenowens
Anna
Margaret Landon
Chulalongknng
King
Handley Library
Man claims wife faked birth of four-pound son in Detroit
Police linked a alleged baby kidnap plot to Mrs. Smith and her husband in Detroit after he reported his wife claimed to have given birth in Chicago and sent him a four-pound infant. Investigators traced inconsistencies after reading reports of the missing child. The Smiths were detained for questioning.
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Smith
King
Wencel
Detroit
Metropolis
Chicago
Smiths
Market Quotations Livestock And Produce Markets
Baltimore market notes show produce steady with apples unchanged and poultry market steady. Egg receipts 1 058 cases with butter at 77 645 pounds. truck receipts light and quotations unchanged.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Market Quotations for Livestock and Hogs
Baltimore market report shows cattle receipts heavy with steer demand weak to lower, cows and heifers down. calves and vealers mixed to higher, hog prices steady to high, sheep and lambs slow but near Tuesday levels. Top vealers 16.00. porkers 15.05-30, lambs 15.50-16.00.
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Baltimore
Market Report Chicago hogs cattle and sheep prices
Chicago stockyard figures show salable hogs 8 000 of 14 000, steady demand with 150 240 lb hogs at 14 75 and cattle at 11 000 salable with steers and yearlings around 11 50, beef cows down 10 15 cents, vealers 16 00, sheep market unsettled with small lambs at 14 50 14 85 and slaughter ewes 4 00 6 00.
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Chicago
W.F. A
Fedheifers
Grain futures ease after record crop forecast
Chicago grain futures slipped in early trading as traders weighed yesterday’s government report predicting record crops for wheat and corn. Prices eased across wheat corn oats rye with December contracts near mixed levels.
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Chicago
Stock Market Reports Steady Trade Amid Leadership Gap
New York October 11 Stocks were steady with little leadership apart from specialties and low priced utilities. Early gains in several key industrials held near the fourth hour while many others were unchanged or slightly down. Leading movers included General Motors Chrysler U S Rubber Sears Roebuck United Aircraft Kennecott Pan American General Electric Santa Fe Great Northern Canadian Pacific with lively activity in Gamewell Mullins Mfg and Foster Wheeler among specials and high volume utilities United Corp Commonwealth Southern and Columbia Gas & Electric.
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New York
General Motors
Chrysler
U. S. Rubber
Sears Roebuck
United Aircraft
Kennecott
Pan American Airways
General Electric
Santa Fe
Great Northern
Canadian Pacific
Gamewell
Mullins Mfg
Foster Wheeler
United Corp. Commonwealth & Southern
Columbia Gas & Electric
Smithsonian Displays Ike’s Chair and Desk
The Smithsonian in Washington displays the chair and desk used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. The items are shown with the consent of Eisenhower and the War Department.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fortress Europe
Smithsonian Institution
Eisenhower
War Department
Lists Lend Lease Supplies To China
Chinese cabinet spokesman P. H. Chang said by May end lend-lease shipments to east and south China included 50 anti-tank guns 60 mountain guns and 30 million rounds of rifle and machine gun ammunition. He urged more aid citing transport problems and blamed recent reverses in Henan Province on shortages of anti-tank guns and tanks.
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Chungking
China
P. H. Chang
Henan
Hagerstown ODT District Office to Close
The Highway Transport Department district office in Hagerstown will close on October 15 as part of district consolidations announced by Melvin R. Greene. E. R. Gisburne will stay as field representative, maintaining a local office under Baltimore District with enough staff to serve the Hagerstown area.
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Hagerstown
Highway Transport Department
Office of Defense Transportation
Melvin R. Greene
Philadelphia
Greene
E. R. Gisburne
Baltimore
Maryand
Chief Justice Stone Turns 72 On Oct. 11 Today
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, presiding over a term start at the Supreme Court, marks his 72nd birthday. He will spend the day on the bench and in conferences with colleagues. He has been eligible for retirement since Oct. 11, 1942 but remains head of the tribunal with full pay. Stone was appointed to the Court by Coolidge and named chief justice by Roosevelt in 1941.
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Washington
Harlan F. Stone
Supreme Court
Stone
Coolidge
Roosevelt
Mrs Sanna Grieg Mills Rites Held At Home
Sanna Grieg Mills widow of Nathaniel Mills will be laid to rest Thursday at 2 PM from her late home. Funeral services led by Rev. R A Witten will precede burial in Macedonia Methodist Cemetery on the Front Royal Pike. Pallbearers named: Homes Carper, Calvin Armel, John W Barb, Frank Kremer, William Carpenter, Mervil Purtlebaugh.
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Sanna Grieg Mills
Nathaniel Mills
R. A. Whitten
Mace
Donia Methodist Cemetery
Front Royal Pike
Carper
Calvin Armel
John W. Barb
Frank Kremer
William Carpenter
Mervil Purtlebaugh
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