U S Farm Machinery Production Cut To Boost Repair Parts
The Office of Production Management orders the farm equipment industry to curb new production and raise repair parts output to conserve metals and maintain existing machinery. About 1200 companies and 90,000 workers affected, with 1940 as base year and varying production rates for items from windmill pumps to wheelbarrows.
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Washington
OPM
Middle West
Department of Agriculture
Half Of All Production For War Effort Is Goal
CLAUDE A. JAGGER reports that the United States faces a vast national mobilization as defense costs surge toward new heights. The piece outlines wartime production potential, economic strains, and the push to ramp arms output to match Axis powers, with projections of steep future spending and full national effort.
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New York
America
Pear Harbor
United States
Japan
Department of Commerce
War costs and mobilization pressures reshape American economy
The text outlines looming material curtailment, 24 seven production, and labor shortages as Roosevelt seeks 50 percent metal cuts. It notes unemployment estimates, the shift of workers to arms plants, rising production costs, stock market declines, bond gains, and the expectation of higher taxes to fund expanded wartime spending.
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Roosevelt
Fac
Stock Exchange
France
Russia
Far East
Britain
Dizzy Doings Of The Year 1941 Recap Of Oddities And Ventures
A look back at 1941 highlights quirky tales from across the U.S. A Racine man seeks a prison honor farm escape, a Chicago resident seeks his missing mother, a runaway horse in Cape, S C, and a Kansas City dealer warned about gun sales. Other items include beer policy votes, marriages, naval enlistments, odd tax issues, and wacky court rulings. The piece ends noting 1942 promises more such frolics.
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Illinois
Axel Witt
Racine
Fort Bliss
Chicago
Missing Persons Bureau
Cape, S.C
Rey
Tire rationing board named for Morgan county
Mayor T R Harrison announced the appointment of the Morgan county tire rationing board members: John Peach Harry Malone both of Decatur and Adlai Sample of Hartselle. Alabama reports 27th county boards completed bringing total to 96 percent in process with Autauga Baldwin Bullock Chambers Crenshaw Dallas Escambia Franklin Houston Lauderdale Lee Limestone Madison Morgan Perry Pickens Randolph Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa on the list.
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T. R. Harrison
Morgan County
John Peach
Harry Malone
Decatur
Adlai Sample
Hartselle
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Autauga
Baldwin
Bullock
Chambers
Crenshaw
Dallas
Escambia
Franklin
Houston
Lauderdale
Lee
Limestone
Madison
Morgan
Perry, Pickens
Randolph
Talladega
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Rents Rise in Gadsden Area as Defense Jobs Grow
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports rent increases on about two of every five homes rented by white tenants in Gadsden Alabama during the two years ending October 15. Rents rose more after October 1940 due to defense-related employment opportunities attracting new workers.
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Washington
Gadsden
Ala
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Manila Declared Open City Under Hague Rules
The United States Navy announced Manila is an open city per the 1907 Hague Convention Article 25, following hours of unopposed Japanese bombing. General Douglas MacArthur confirmed the capital’s open status as undefended, joining Rotterdam and Belgrade in recent bombardments. Japanese representatives Tsudzuki and Sato signed the Hague accord aimed at banning attacks on undefended towns.
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Washington
Japan
Manila
Navy
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Rotterdam
Belgrade
Keiroku Tsudzuki
Aimaro Sato
German Soldier Returns Iron Crosses for Valor in WWI
Dr. George H. Hirsch, a German World War I veteran in New York, turned in two Iron Cross awards for bravery shown against American forces in 1918. He sent the crosses to the American Legion for unity.
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New York
George H. Hirsch
The
Legion For American Unity
Notice to Navigation on Tennessee River Contract Dredging
Tennessee Valley Authority begins dredging in the Colwell Bar Section Mile 468 to 460 between Market Street Bridge Chattanooga and Chickamauga. Excavation starts January 5 1948 with a buoyed auxiliary channel 4 feet deep and 90 feet wide. present channel remains marked and access cleared for passing craft. Navigators should proceed with caution and follow the 1999 War Department signaling regulations.
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Tennessee River Navigation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Market Street
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Chicka
Colwell Bar
Mile 460
Tennessee River
Secretary of War
Corps of Engineers
Price Admin Works To Stem Cigarette Price Rise
The Office of Price Administration moved to block a potential wholesale increase after American Tobacco added 57 cents per thousand cigarettes. Leon Henderson asked nine other major tobacco firms not to follow, and invited American representatives to discuss the action. A separate move set ceilings on 30 grades of green coffee, aligned with October levels to ensure ample supply and prevent wartime inflation.
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American Tobacco Company
Leon Henderson
American
Price Administration
Henderson
Beauty Shop Proprietor Bonds For Assault After Early Scuffle
A. L. Moye, owner of a local Beauty Shop, is out on $300 bond after a quarrel with a man named Moore led to a stabbing. Police report say Moore was cut and treated at Orient Society Hospital for non life threatening injuries. Moye admitted the cut but claimed prior quarrel between the two. He is set to appear in court Tuesday morning.
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Iowa Society
Texas Railroad
Alphonse Tallante
Salem
Mass
Alphonse
William R. Lewis
Scranton
James Stewart
Big Boy
Philadelphia
Charles N. Jones
Graham
N. C
A. L. Moye
Toc
Bill Moore
Moye
Kilgore and
Maddox
Moore
Ed Moye
Orient Society
Wy Moye
Red Cross to Offer Course for Civilian Defense
The second Red Cross first aid class for civilian defense will start January 6 at 7 30 p m in the Lyons hotel assembly room with instructors Eugene Speer Jr and Dr B E Chenault. Registration is on January 5. entrants must be 17 or have completed the eleventh grade.
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Red Cross
Eugene Speer, Jr
BE. J. Chenault
Lyons Hotel
Lyons Hotel Assembly Room
Filis D. Pysal
American Red Cross
Girding for Red Cross War Drive in Morgan County
Morgan County readies a Red Cross war drive aiming to raise 6000 in the first call. Marvin R Rankin is drive chairman with Decatur civic clubs and War Council backing. The campaign starts early January with broad county participation expected across races and ages. Whooping cough deaths among infants last year exceed diphtheria and scarlet fever combined by sixfold.
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Red Cross
Morgan County
Marvin R. Rankin
Decatur
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Waynesburg
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Betty Nollman
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Tire Rationing Board
King
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Eft
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Stestaff
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