Manpower Commission Rules Draft As FDR Halts Enlistments
President Roosevelt suspends all military service inductions as the War Manpower Commission orders a draft write up. Harry Hopkins coordinates wartime personnel policy while Wickard takes charge of the U.S. Food Program to stabilize supplies. A new axis front threatens Libya prompting strategic shifts.
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Manpower Commission
FDR
Wickard
U. S
New Front
Libya
Roosevelt Names Wickard National Food Administrator
President Roosevelt appoints Claude R. Wickard as national food administrator with authority over U S food production processing and distribution for civilians military and allies. He will coordinate with WPB and OPA leaders and unify agencies handling food and shift rationing and allocation to a single head to meet 1943 agricultural goals.
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Roosevelt
Claude R. Wickard
United Nations
Wickard
U. S
U.S
Donald Nelson
WPB
Leon Henderson
OPA
Herbert Hoover
Department of Agriculture
War Production Board
Board of Economic Warfare
Enlistments Halted by FDR Tightens War Manpower Control
President Roosevelt suspended army and navy enlistments and shifted selective service to the War Manpower Commission. Physically qualified men cannot enlist, the navy and marine corps will include non volunteers, and ages 38 plus face induction suspension. McNutt gains authority over who serves and civilian job assignments, Hershey remains director under new supervision, with local draft boards operating but subject to War Manpower orders.
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Roosevelt
Army
Navy
War Manpower Commission
Marine Corps
War Department
Paul V. McNutt
Armed Services
Director of
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
McNutt
Allied pressure and new axis threats in North Africa
North Africa reports describe the British First Army holding a rugged line in Tunisia amid German dive bombings and tank assaults while awaiting reinforcements. A possible axis advance from Fort Lamy through southern Libya looms, with native Algerian units reported on the Algeria Tripolitania frontier. Naples harbor suffered heavy bomb damage as American bombers struck ships and dumps, with rebuilding expected to take time.
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Tunisia
First Army
Libya
Sahara Desert
Tunis
Morocco
Henri Giraud
Algeria- Tripolitania
Djanet
Algeria
Fort Lamy
French Equatorial Africa
Bizerte
Naples
Tripoli
North Africa
Washington Digest on Payroll Deductions as Inflation Cure
Office of War Information warns that war costs could push inflation high, citing 75 billion debt and 63 percent living cost rise in 1914 1918. Discusses seven keys to economic security including taxes price ceilings and payroll deductions to curb spending and fund war bonds.
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WNU
H Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
John Q
Office of War Information
Henderson
Congress
Rock in a Weary Land an oasis of calm at the Federal Reserve Building
A reflective piece describes the Federal Reserve Building as a rock in a weary land, contrasting its serene, formal interior and courteous staff with the wartime push for wage stabilization, rationing, and shifting labor needs including equal pay for women.
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Federal Reserve Building
NO HIBERNATION: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE SHARPENS WINTER FIGHT
Russian forces counterattacked across multiple fronts after an initial German push. The Russians claimed 192 German planes destroyed in a week and repulsed Nazi counterattacks while pushing the campaign into the Caucasus and near Stalingrad with heavy German losses and thousands captured.
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Russia
Moscow
Caucasus
Stalingrad
War Production Cuts Ice Cream to Boost Butter
War Production board orders ice cream output cut about 20 percent in December and January to free butter for war needs. London betting markets show improved Allied position with some brokers betting the war ends by June 1943. Swedish dispatch notes Germany shifts freight cars from Norway to Germany amid rolling stock shortage. Germany develops a submarine with surface speed that can overtake most fast merchants.
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War Production Board
London
Norway
Germany
Reich
Two-Piece Frock With White Collar Ad for Pattern No 8269
Pattern No 8269 offers a two piece frock with a white collar in sizes 10 through 20. Size 12 with short sleeves uses 35 yards 39 inch material and of yard contrast for the collar. orders to be sent to the indicated address.
Dust bowl families boost war effort with wool and crops
In the High Plains dust bowl region about 60 000 families reclaim land to grow food and feed crops for victory while the army and navy seek wool supplies. It takes 199 pounds of wool or 26 sheep fleeces to outfit a soldier for a year. United Nations controls over 90 percent of world wool. At Fort MacArthur the camp paper notes the line All work and no play makes JAP a dead boy.
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Great Britain
Canada
High Plains
United Nations
Fort MacArthur
Calif
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Western Newspaper Union
Sardinia
Corsisca
Europe
French North Africa
Washington Digest
Britain
White House
Mr. Morgan
Lee
Russian Steppes
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Bankhage
America
Lydia E. Pickham
Pinkham
Marguerite de Valois
Tabasco
Washington Hotel
All R Bath
Kingshighway
Washington, St. Louis
Sgoo
Hulman & CO
Terre Haute, Ind
Bomber Command
Green House
Roger
Marines
Coast Guard
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