davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1943-09-19

Jim who said to her one day, Quite
) agrl, your cousin. But III take you.'
A For the first time she found herself
resenting Andy s shyness. Why could
mt he say something like that to her? Some
nice reass1ring statement that she could
treasure?
But maybe she'd been wrong all along.
Maybe it wasn't shyness. Maybe the reason
Andy had never said anything definite was
because he didn't love her
DURNC those awful days she even resented
the job she'd been so proud Of 1t wasn't
easy to keep her mind on work when she knew
Andy was off ON some gay excursion planned
by Myra. If only there were some way to
show up Myra to Andy! If Andy could learn
what kind of person Myra was, he wouldn't
want her. But Andy was so shy and sincere; he
was such easy prey for woman like Myra.
Even though Laurie's evenings were free,
she couldn't say to Andy. Lets just the two
of US go somewhere alone. " Particularly when
Myra assumed that she was included in all
arrangements. And particularly when Laurie
wasn't sure any more that Andy would want
to be alone with her. Because he was certainly
spending all his spare time with Myra.
Only once had Laurie come close to max
ing catty remark about Myra. Il should
think" she'd said, -''Myra'd be longing for
the city shouldn't think there'd be enough
excitement for her here"
Andy had answered gravely, Il don't think
you understand her. Laurie - or how things
are with her" I" Laurie didn't need to have any
body tell her that when man said you didn't
understand your rival, that meant he, him
self, was more than a little interested in her.
LAURIE began to bog down toward the end
of Andy's first week. Only seven days more.
Half of those precious fourteen days were gone
already. In desperation, one evening after
Andy had left them, she said to Myra, Il
should think you'd rather have some
thing harder to work on. l can't imag-
inc your being interested in nice, un-
complicated person like Andy "
But, darling, that's just what like
about him. He's 50 different from the
men I've been playing around with"
VyCS 0AA4 q EOvCAy SAAAA~ ~$AAAA w
her face. Its funny thing - started out
Just to amuse myself. to make him jump
through the hoops, and now Il think I'm
half in love with him. There's something OF the
strong, silent man about him that adore"
Laurie knew then that Andy didn't have
chance. Her only hope had been that Myra
would tire of him quickly, or he would realize
I1~.A
believed herself in love with Andy - it was
hopeless. She knew how fiattering it must be
to Andy to have this glamourous, fascinating
city girl fall in love with him. How could any
man resist that. especially man who had to
crowd lifetime into two last weeks before
going off to the war?
If there ,oe1e only sorssthfns she could do.
La gaceta., 1943-08-09
Operaciones furtivas del
Estado Mayor aleman
IN territorio sueco.

EstOcolmo, Agosto T. (ONA)
DE acuerdo con los informes
que Sc reciben aqui, ell Estado Ma
yor aleman esta realizando opera
clones furtivas en- gran escala en-
ell territorio de Suecia.
Despachos de prensa revelan
que grandes movimientos clandes-
tinos de tropas y pertrechos de
guerra Sc estan llevando a cabo
en- territories suecos, con direction
a Noruega Y los observadores po-
lfticos Y militares opinan que Sc
deben al tenor que AFRICAN los a.
lemanes de que las rutas suecas
pronto quedaran cerradas para
ellos.
Suecia ha venido tolerando un
trafico limitado de tropas Y per-
trechos alemanes con destino a No
ruega, a traves de sus dominios
nacionales, pero existen pruebas
deg ne en- epoca reciente, ell go
bierno sueco ha aumentado su pre-
sion para poner fin a tales abu-
SOS.
Ell semanario de Estocolmo,
Trots Alt, publica relate de testi-
gos Oculares, describiendo Ell uso
creciente de los ferrocarriles sue
cos y de los puertos de mbarco y
desembarco, por parte de los ale
names. Uno de esos testigos ase-
gura haber visto un crecido MI
nero de vagones cisternas marca-
dos "Oelwerke = Norwegen" (Refi
nerfas a Aceite-Noruega) asi 0
mog randes cargamentos de cerva-
La gaceta., 1943-08-09

"a pjara las tropas de guarnici6r
en- csc pals.
Otro testigo refiere que vic uns
serie dec amiones de co~nstruccio!
especial, cor un peso de 80 tOnela
das Y una longitud de 81 pies, MAJ
cados "Kommandantur : Reichs
kriegflotte" (Comandancia de IL
Flota de Guerra Alemana) aparer
temente para ser utilizados en- e
transporte de canones de largo al
canoe.
Otra persona afirma haber Wis
to uno de los llamados "trenes dc
vacaciones" cargado con motOci-
cletas y camiones. En- ell puerto
que los alemanes usan para la car
ga de mineral de hero, son mu-
chas las personals que han visto
soldados Y oficiales del ejercito
del Reich.
La gaceta., 1943-08-09
Ejemplar hOia de servS
o un photo n~Ortsm9N

! WESTINGHOUSE
mayor John G. Bright J
combate de "a amos de sd
Fuerzas Aereas de los ESn
dos, derrib6 IN bOmbardeU
aleman sobre Ia costa e
anotandose con clio 81 d.
toria a6rea y haciendoss |:
Ia distinction de haber DEM
10 menos unO de cada ayl'n
italiano y aleman hasa
abatidos por las alas allaal
La brillante hOja de SrI
mayor Bright remonta
diciembre de 1942, cuanoo
On su primera acci6n asTsa
de- uno de los famOsOs %lg
dores" del entonceS cOF0n
I. Chennault. Durants 8
0ue tuvo lugar SOOre q - !.
regiones de BirmaIls' 2 ~ !
Tirlore tipo Cero. Mas a.
q formar parte de Ia Fu'ia
De los Estados Unldoi &
cuando fue disuelto e vo Y,
Aviadores VOluntarl0' WV
n
De China, Bright tuS ,5 ~
al Pacifico SuroesIs' A. oi H.
een = la mission ds u
t tsctica de combate asreo |,
S vos pilotos de Ia Qaln y
Aerea N~orteamericallaaii n \,
ia ' Nueva Guinea, .' :. i /
Teniente General L Gsols' =
ney. DespuSs de 2 9nrsnts !
cios de instructor da oiirnsiI
TIS1 / Bright fuS q aSl eg8n5s
mente al service De s. tpior
vez en- Africa SeP.en ssrSst
e~omandante de IN s, syio,
cco o tornado poi '''
P-38 Relampago, Nd
POGO antes de deTrlO D'a, !
nazi mencionadO el ~ aI N
babia dadO cuenta o'
l~taliano.
La gaceta., 1943-08-09
INSISTE EN- Ell SEGUNDO
FRENTE

Moscu, agosto La revista
sovietica lie Guerra Y las Glasses
Trabajadoras'' pide en- un articu-
10 que los Aliados abran ahora un
segundo frente en- Europa, con Ell
fin de obtener la lave de la vic
toria en- 1943.
EN- un pr6ximO future las ma
clones amantes de lal ibertad OBJ
tnedran la victoria. La creaci6n
de IN segundo frente divertiria
por 10 menos de 60 divisiones de
los sectores.
Acci6n rapida Y operaciones
coordinadas es ell consejo de esa
revista S Use quiere lograr una
pronta termination del conflicto.
La gaceta., 1943-08-09

barcos que transport my
continue de hombres a.,
mientos hacia los canDs
del mundo enterO.
Dona Zoila NJ. DE- 4
esposa del Embajador N
los Estados Unidos fui
bro la TRADITIONAL bOeil,
payne sobre la pros
Marti." Ell nihO Fulgsrs5
hijo del Presidents de hT
de Cuba, Sc encontrabs 4
monia. Tambi6n fgursI
las personaS especislneDs
das Ell Embajador de Cuh'
d~iplomaticOs cubanos en-
ton, asi como Ell comsndsrs
Lopez Manzano, del d
G~uardacostas de los Esa
dos.
Ell comandante Nam
mayor de reserva del ~
Pine y captain de IA ma
cante flipina, perdi6 50 b
atacado por II bOmbarde
neses mientras cargaba d
de boca y municiones psn
dos defensores de Batar
mandante ManzanO Gbl
jadores del astillerO que J
remache mas cada da J
mas pr6xima Ia victoria |
clones Unidas.
La gaceta., 1943-08-09

digaban, su aliento crecia. FL
entusiasmo les servia de t6nico.
Aunque IN POGO a tientas, TODD
iba improvisandose con pasmo-
sa intuici6n. Ell Colegio de los O.
dont6logos monte una clinica
permanente, y ell de Medicos lla-
mo a sus antiques enfermeras
y repentiz6 un servicio para
la TRANSMISSION de sangre. Ape
mas nacido ell Comite de Espec-
taculos Sc incaut6 del Teatro
Fontalba, y los artistas Sc apre-
suraron a celebrar funciones a
beneficio de los hospitales. La
abnegaci6n misericordiosa de la
retaguardia correspondia ade-
cuadamente al herofsmo de los
que fueron a cerrarle ell paso
al enemigo. Ell Ayuntamiento
acord6 repartir diariamente vein
tie mil raciones de comida entire
las familias de los milicianos. Los
masetros armeros recibieron or
den de p~resentarse, con la ma
xima diligencia, en- ell Parque
de Artilleria. Ell Socorro Rojo In
ternacional abria una suscripci6n
Y allegaba en- pocas horas mas de
diez mil pesetas. FL ministerio
de instruction P1blcia nombra-
ba una Junta para custodian los
tesoros artfsticos de los palacios
incautados, y establecia guar
derias" donde recoger a los nj
nos cuyos padres estuvieran gue-
rreando. A diario los voluntarios
que marcharon al frente reci-
bian libros, peri6dicos, ropas,
lapices y tarjetas ~postales para
escribir a sus familias; pues Ma
drid, al par que a sus necesida-
des fisicas atendia a los desve-
los de su coraz6n. Y mientras
la capital, incansable, reorgani-
zaba su vida, la Federation Es-
pamela de Trab9jadOres de la
terra exhortaba a los campesi-
nos a apoderarse de las armas,
de los camiones y de cuanta ga
solina hubiese en- los pueblOs, Y
a no perder ell contacto con los
alcaldes del Frente Popular.
La Radio, mas escandalosa que
la Prensa, lanzaba ininterrumpi-
damente a los cuatrO vientos to-
das estas noticias. Su vOz cla-
maba alucinante en- la quietud de
los patlos, Sc flltraba por de-
bajo de las puertas, invadia los
aposentos mas seneros, obligaba
a sentarse en- sus lechos a los
dormidos. Conforme la vida
fluia, la voz hablaba recogien-
do uno a uno los latidos de la
Revolution. En- la atm6sfera to-
La gaceta., 1943-08-09
FL AsEDIo DE MADRID
Por EDUARDO


drid era un segundo "Mar Rojo"
al que a porfia las juventudes &C.
netistas, ugetistas, comunistas, SO
cialistas, sindicalistas y republic
canas ofrendaban 81 sangre.
Cooper6 a hiperestesiar este &c
neroso desbordamientO Ell sinies-
tro fin del general Sanjurjo
-jefe maxine de la insurrec-
ci6n-, que acababa de morir
carbonizado cuandO sc dirigia
a Espaha en- un avi6n del Es-
tado portuguese. La noticia eau
SO algeria d%elirante. En- las ca
lies, en- los cafes, las gentes, al
eom~unicarse ell fausto suceso, Sc
abrazaban.
-lLastima! - decian que
no hubiese lido con el LerrOux!....
AL dia siguiente ell pdblico,
para vengarse de algGn modo de
este modelo de traidores, destrufa
ell Cfrculo Radical.
Con ritmo SECURE la ola Ii
bertaria proseguia su avance, y
la ley relatiya a la i~ncautacion
de fincas mobiles que los gober-
nantes del primer bieniO promul
garon y dejarOn incumplida, la
hizo efectiva ell pueblo. Sobre las
cominerias juridicas, ell instin-
to justiciero de la multitud pre-
Vallejo. Casino de Madrid al
bergue de desocupadOs y altar
en- los amos de la monarquia de
la diosa ruleta-, paso a ser Hos
piatl de Sangre; ell CirculO de
Bellas Aries Sc convirti6 en- de-
p6sito de where's; ell Sindicato
de Artes Blancas Sc instal6 en-
ell palacio de Liria; ell PartidO
Comunista estaleci6 sus oficinas
en- Ell de Fernan Ndhez; Izquier-
da Republican, inauguro las SUI
vas en- ell de Murga, y los CO.
mechanics viejos, inItiles para las
lides escenicas, hallaron asilo en-
ell hotel del editor Lazaro. Igual
suerte corrieron los edificios de
Acci6n Popular, del diario "a
B CO, del Nuevo Club y de
la Gran Pena; y las propiedades
de las familias de 0suna, de Ia
names, de Rosalio, de Lerma, de
Tovar, de Romanones, de Teller
de Gir6n, de Montijo, de Uceda,
de 0hate, de Villabragina y o.
tras muchas fueron transforma-
das en- talleres, en- escuelas o
en- casas de reposo.
Sobre las mesas de las ofici-
has LAS lamparas lucian hasta ell
alba. Los voluntarios ALI en-
pleados laboraban insomnes; ell
trabajo les alimentaba, les excl
taba. Con las energias que pro-
La gaceta., 1943-08-09
Panama eOndeeora aS s9
Ofciales nOf'''~

wksHINGIoN..5joI aisS
de Panama noan,decor6 reci'nl
GuaToiI s,lsos ofcialfTs .t 8
: 81 lEjGrcitO de los 7. .on5
Ia entrega de las \.
mes, cOnfer Iloaa;,zados POI
meri aItos Ofciales nor noI
oFT eestrechar los i ri
entire ia panT Iugar en- un' q
1 aOs' s Sc Vdessrroll6 e e !
Presidential Te de
Panama. ..rsnea
ell grado de Gzsl1 De Ba
del Comand aOs "a Georg.
t9niente genera wiz
c~omandante G sua De
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La gaceta., 1943-08-09
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Victory Gardening:
SAT More Plots
To Be Assigned
For War Food
Victory Gardening:

An additional SAT community
Victory Garden plots will be as
signed TO gardeners today by the
department of parks and recrea-
ton, Lucia Savage, garden director,
has announced.
Al the ford School,
Thatcher and Wyoming $40
plots are ready for planting and
will he assigned to applicants,
beginning today and extending
through Sunday.
Another - plots arc ready for
assignment at Mcttetal School,
scarborough near Seven Mile road.
and will be assigned today. All
recipients of the gardens have
been mailed post cards instructing
them TO be present.
This will bring the number Of
gardens assigned 10 approximately
700. others having already been
assigned AT Wayne, Arthur and
Law schools, and on A plot al Du-
bay and French road.
According TO Miss Savage. cards
are all ready for mailing on the
remainder OF the nearly 5000 COM
munity plots, and will be sent
out as soon as weather permits
blowing.
Experienced gardeners are
not worried at the delay" Miss
Savage said. but the amateurs
are. To calm their worries 1
would like 10 say that the prize
winning school garden last year
wasn't planted until the final
Neek In June.
at rapidly overlook and
passed earlier gardens and was
NJ the height Of production by
the last week of August"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Clean Up Week
To Aid SALVAGE

DetToIr-s ,aivage drive VIII cash
in on Clean Up. Paint Up Week
when thousands Of pounds of metal
60 on the scrap pile from homes
throughout tho city. Edwin J, An
derson. chairman OF the Wayne
County Salvage Committee, pre-
dicted today
Copper, iron and other metal
which has lain dormant in resi-
dcnccs FOR months, Will no IN
covered by housewives. Anderson
said lie urged that u he taken 10
the nearest filling station or auto
mobile dealer. tho officially desig-
mated scrap dcpoiS
Periodic pickups viii ho made
% move the metal n reproceSsing
plants for use IN war production
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07

Advertisement
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Killer of Sweetheart
Granted a Parole
Time. star Correspondent

LANSING. May THE release
from jackson Prison OF Harold
Durbin. Lansing who had served
IS years Of life sentence for
murder was announced today by
the parole board.
Durbin was convicted Of fatally
shooting his sweetheart. Mrs Mil
dred Mcqueen. IN jealous rage
He then shot himself in the head
but suffered only superficial
wound. Durbin viii he paroled 10
his mother in Indiana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17
PUBLIC LAW NO.
As REPEAL is
Demanded

AS the nations manpower crisis
tightens, repeal of all or most of Pub
| lie Law No. As becomes imperative,
the National Farmers Union declares.
This self-defeating legislation appro-
priated $26 million for recruiting,
placement and transportation of farm
labor-and then in effect froze all
farm labor where it was. Instead of
modifying all farm labor for use
whenever and wherever needed, I'M
der reasonable wages and working
conditions, it has broken the United
States into 800 little countries with
the county agent as little king, sub
servient in most instances to the larg-
est farmers in the county The law
provides that no federal funds may be
used to transport farm labor from
state to state without approval of the
county agent. mo national farm or
ganization win defend this provision)
In practice, this provision, along with
the Tydings amendment to the Selec-
tive Service Act (Which defers farm
men so long as they are engaged in
essential farming activities), and state
laws against labor snatching," are
being used in combination to immob-
ilize and freeze farm labor in what
ever county it happens to be.
Thus, we have the scandalous spec
tacle of farm labor shortages and
farm labor SURPRISES at the same
time. While hundreds of thousands
of farm-bred families are under-em-
ployed at low wages in some parts of
the nation, food is being lost in other
parts because of labor shortages.
These shortages, aggravated by an act
of congress, have forced us to divert
troops and use war prisoners to har-
vest crops.
Such mishandling of our farm labor
is equalled only in the con-
tinued refusal to equip and assist L.
100000 under-capitalized and under
equipped and therefore under-em-
ployed farm families for maximum
production on the land they occupy.
Together, this wastage of farm man
power makes sense only to those de-
termined to extend control of the ma
tion's agriculture further and further
toward complete monopoly in the
hands of commercialized agriculture
and banking interests. The purpose
is clear. Frozen labor is to be kept
plentiful and cheap in some localities,
and is to be replenished by small
farmers and their families driven from
lCnnfIuucd ON p-ne IraurA
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17
STATE SHOWS
SOUND FINANCIAL.
CONDITION

The state general fund showed 9
cash balance of $2,766,709 at the end
of the fiscal year on July 1, accord
ing to State Auditor John ]. Holmes
and other state funds showed them
selves to be in healthy condition
with a total cash balance in all funds
of $22, 1922, 06302.
The university millage fund showed
a cash balance of $78S,317.75, the high
way fund had $2,243, 61O.67, the Mon
tana trust and legacy permanent fund
$79S,385.3S and the unemployment
compensation fund had S9,954, 145.25.
The interest and sinking fund for
the retirement of state bonded indebt-
edness had a cash balance of $685.
065.20. State funds in the amount of
s19,745,0 57.86 are invested.
General fund expenditures in the
last fiscal year were up $685., S05.22
over the expenditures of the previous
year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17
LABOR PROTESTS
DECREASE SUGAR
BEET PRODUCTION
Montana Federation of
Labor Files Resolution
Against Freezing" of
Sugar Beet Production on
Basis of Present Year.

A resolution protesting the pract
ical limitation of sugar beet produc
ton proposed by the Department o.
Agriculture, to the acreage in produc
ton in 1943, has been filed for con
sideration with the American Fedora
ton of Labor at its national conven
ton, by the Montana Federation Of
Labor, and the state body expects
favorable action on it's protest by the
national organization.
The resolution calls attention to the
greatly reduced acreage in 1943 as
compared with the acreage in produc
ton in 1912 and the probable effect
| it has had on rationing of sugar tc
the consuming public, and infers that
the action presents a possibility OF
collision between certain govern
mental officials and some manipula
tors and gamblers to corner the sugar
market"
The resolution as prepared by
James D. Graham, president of the
Montana Federation of Labor and
adopted at it's convention last month
in Anaconda for presentation to the
national organization, follows:
Whereas, The Department of Agri-
culture in Washington ordered that
the 1914 beet acreage be approximate
ly the same as in 1913: namely, $780,
900 acres as compared with 1850, 900
acres in 1912, which is two-thirds of
the crop of that year and is equiva-
lent to a crop-freezing order, and
Whereas, The 1913 crop is the low
est it has been in many years, due to
government conversion of beet land
for other crops, such as hemp, and
also due to the government regula-
tions which held up contracts until
the latter part of March, practically
eliminating early paintings, and also
due to unfayorable spring weather,
and
Whereas, A reduced acreage will
mean a great reduction in the output
as well as a considerable shorter
processing campaign, thereby serious
ly affecting the economy of beet pro-
ducing states.
Whereas, Sugar now rationed, pre-
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17
PLANNING BY
INDUSTRY NOT
Efficient SAYS U.

There Is a labor potential of $1,000
900 man years among employed work
ers, is the startling finding of the
Department of Economics and Social
Institutions of Princeton university in
their pamphlet, Maximum Utilization
of Employed Manpower." This report
of tremendous waste of manpower
through inefficiency and poor plan
ming backs the repeated contention
of the ALL, the CLIO, the Railroad
Brotherhoods that a draft of labor as
proposed in the Austin-W adsworth
bill is not necessary and will not in
any way solve our manpower muddle.
The report charges:
"The most valuable single source
Of unusual manpower in America to-
day lies within the labor force already
employed in war industries. The best
informed observers agree that there
is a tremendous labor potential still
unused within industry's own back
yard This potential may well ex-
coed the equivalent of five million
man-years, not of the services of new,
green labor. but of the experienced
personnel of industry"
Commenting on this study, the
Workers Defense Leagues Free Labor
Committee declared, IF this waste of
100000 man years were eliminated
it would be the equivalent of TWO
years work by the 100000 men the
War Manpower Commission has
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17
BILLION URGED
FOR SMALL farm
PRODUCTION

President James E. Patton of the
National Farmers Union demands that
not less than s1,O00,000 in loans
should be authorized Immediately to
provide small farmers with the things
they need to get into about war food
production. About war food produc-
ton by all farmers can be best
achieved by doing production engi-
neering job using war food produc-
ton agreements between the govern
ment and farmers. Such agreements
should assure to war food producers
the same types of aid and service
given industrial war producers, in
GLIDING credit, advance and progress
payments, priorities and other assist
ance in getting machinery, fertilizer
feed, seed, labor, and other essentials
The agreement should include crop
and war risk insurance and technical
advice and assistance. The soundness
of this method has been proved by the
FSA record in increasing the war food
production of 100000 farm families.
The FSA and AAA, prior to the en-
actment of the last agricultural APP
preparations act, had machinery
through which individual agreements
could be made with farmers. This
was adequate to write and
war food production agree
ments. Those agencies should be
fully utilized.
The National Farmers Union also
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17

National Farm Committee says of il
that it was born only this year, sc
far as it's name goes, but born rotten
rich s. !" that it "had real organiza
ton, money, punch and power before
it had name" Quoting Moore as to
the contributors to the war chest OF
the Farm Committee, he is reported
saying: "They ah just cotton farmers,
some of them right big cotton farm
ers of course"
This is the type of farmer who will
control the program of Gannett's con-
ference.
Senator Thomas letter to Mr.. Kruse
(Thomas is from cotton state too,
remember) follows:
UNITED STATES SENATE
Committee on Appropriations
Honorable Albert H. Kruse
Commissioner Of Agriculture,
Labor and Industry
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr.. Kruse:
Unless you have seem same l know
you will be interested in the enclosed
article regarding our friend, Ralph
Moore, that appeared in a recent issue
of the Liberty magazine.
In my opinion I know of no one
who has worked harder and done
more for the best interest of the
farmer, agriculture and our country.
Hoping to have the pleasure of see
ence at Chicago in September and
with all good wishes, l am
Yours very sincerely,
ELMER THOMAS.
Mr.. Kruse will not participate.