Charge Delay In Barge Plan
The Senate defense investigating committee criticized inexcusable delay and confusion in a barge construction and conversion plan to ease East Coast oil shortages. The interim report cites excessive talk over action and urges adherence to the President’s committee recommendations, noting possible transfers of tugboat power and alternative engines could have aided motive power.
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Washington
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Roosevelt
Truman
Missouri
Navy
T H Rixey of Clayton Dies
T H Rixey 59 a prominent rancher and banker of Clayton New Mexico died suddenly at his home from a heart attack. He moved from Weston Missouri 30 years ago and led the Farmers and Stockmens Bank and the local Rotary Club. Survivors include his widow Mrs Adrian Rixey two daughters Mrs Morris McDaniels and Mildred Rixey and a sister Mrs Mary Everest. Funeral arrangements to be announced after word from Missouri.
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Clayton
N. M
T. H. Rixey
Farmers & Stockmen's Bank
Rixey
Weston
The
New Mexico Bankers’ Association
Clayton Rotary Club
Adrian Rixey
Morris McDaniels
Liberal
Kan
Mildred Rixey
Baylor
Waco
Mary Everest
Missouri
Slow Down and Don’t Get Angry Says Doctor
Dr Walter Alvarez of the Moya Clinic Rochester Minnesota urged overworked executives to slow down rest adequately and delegate authority. He told several hundred business leaders that conserving executive health is essential to meet wartime problems. A historical note recalls British sailors changing neckerchiefs to black in 1805 for Lord Nelson’s death.
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Chicago
Walter Alvarez
Moya Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Alvarez
Lord Nelson
Saunders vows to attack Tokyo as next Christmas target
Brig. Gen. Laverne Saunders, West Point football star and Pacific war hero, predicts heavy bombing of Japanese bases in the South Pacific and hopes to spend Christmas over Tokyo. He notes vast losses for Japan, cites Fortresses' kills, and reflects on the South Pacific's operational challenges. Also reports a 70 percent rise in wartime auto industry production in October 1942.
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Charles P. Arnot
Seventh
United States Air Force
Hawaii
U.P
Laverne G
Blondy) Saunders
West Point
South Pacific
Saunders
Tokyo
Solomons
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Aberdeen
Alan Sewart
Pan-American Airways
Brownsville
Tex
Jack Lee
Alamogordo
N. M
Lee
High School Youth to Face War Jobs Across Nation
Chicago report by Lyle Spencer and the Science Research Associates finds about two million high school boys and girls must take part-time after school and vacation work to aid the war effort. The study lists 20 key subjects from agriculture to wood working and notes teens may not plan beyond current schooling unless training targets wartime occupations.
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Chicago
Lyle Spencer
Science Research Associates
Spencer Agriculture
Chinese Raps Allied Help
London director Dr. K C George Yeh of the Chinese ministry of information asserts that war supplies reaching China are ridiculously small. He comments on President Roosevelt’s Congress address noting lend lease into China is limited and the Burma Road’s capacity was never maxed.
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London
K. C. George Yeh
Chinese Ministry of Information
China
Roosevelt
United States Congress
Burma Road
WAAC Recruiter Here Tomorrow in Texas Panhandle
Lieut Rose Smothers WAAC recruiting officer will visit Amarillo Claude and Clarendon this afternoon and tonight to interview volunteers for a second WAAC platoon after the Texas Rangerettes were inducted at Fort Des Moines yesterday. About 47 Panhandle women joined the Rangerettes and more than 15 are due in Lubbock for physicals as the drive aims to finish early next week.
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Rose Smothers
WAACS
Amarillo
Army
Claude
Clarendon
Smothers
Texas Rangerettes
Fort Des Moine
Iowa
Panhandle
Rangerettes
Lubbock
Lieut
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