Stride Toward Victory From North Africa Meeting
Roosevelt and Churchill report a major step toward victory after their North Africa talks. They promise united action for unconditional surrender and closer cooperation among the United Nations while noting Stalin could not attend. Giraud and De Gaulle agree on uniting French efforts for liberation though unified command remains unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Churchill
North Africa
Britain
United States
France
United Nations
Stalin
Russia
Chiang Kai-shek
China
A Week of the War and Lend-Lease Aid Overview
A summary of U S lend lease to the Soviet Union during 1941 15 months of aid by year end totals planes tanks and vehicles shipped to Russia and the UKs role while noting the broader impact on Allied efforts. It also reports on the National War Labor Board plan to establish 12 regional War Boards with tripartite representation and review processes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
U. S
United Kingdom
United Nations
Soviet Union
Stettinius
Urals
Australia
Africa
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Tunisia
Middle East
China
Little War Labor Boards
National War Labor Board
NWLB
William Davis
NWI
Washington
Supreme Court
National Board
NWILB
Two Way Cooperation Needed In Wartime Economy
Government and private sectors must jointly stabilize wages and boost wartime production. The piece urges practical cooperation over punitive measures, notes cost of living trends, highlights Guadalcanal gains and North Africa air raids, and criticizes bureaucratic price controls while advocating sensible policy.
Politics and Production Won’t Mix
Peter F. Drucker in the Saturday Evening Post argues that the production battle is won not in Washington but in factories nationwide. Engineers in Detroit and Cleveland chemists in Kanawha Valley and foremen across plants have transformed the country from the least armed to the best armed among the great powers. The individual American worker plays a key role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter F. Drucker
Saturday Evening Post
Washington
Detroit
Cleveland
West Virginia
Kanawha Valley
War production as a citizen driven enterprise
The article argues war production rests on individual initiative across raw materials and finished goods. It emphasizes that while Washington sets goals and regulates orders, true efficiency comes from independent citizens who run industry and remain the backbone of victory and postwar reconstruction.
O Mahoney Speech Warns of Growing Executive Power
United States Senator O Mahoney of Wyoming delivers a forceful 1942 address warning that danger to liberty comes less from enemies and more from a shifting ideology toward an authoritarian state. He argues expansions of executive power through regulations and policies threaten Congresss authority and the founders balance of powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Director of Economic Stabilization
Congress
Senators Warn of Executive Overreach and Bureaucracy
Senator O Mahoney cautions that government by executive order and bureaucratic pronouncements sidetrack Congress and risk a drift toward a permanent bureaucracy, where weak executives wield concentrated power. He argues experts must govern and guide what they ought and must do.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Mahoney
Navy Urges Recruitment Drive for WAVES and SPARS
The Navy plans a 50 percent expansion of the Waves and Spars for 25 000 volunteers this year as men are replaced. Women aged 20 to 36 may enlist with two years of high school or business school education, and officers require college education. Training is sped up to fill naval duties quickly with postings to yards bases or coast guard establishments. Ensign Regina B Flanigan heads local wave recruitment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Naval Reserve
R. B. LaPorte
Baltimore
Maryland
Office of Naval Procurement
Navy Department
Armed Services
Navy
Naval
Coast Guard
Regina B. Flanigan
Oil Industry Cooperating To Ease Winter Rationing
States face fuel oil limits as submarine sinkings disrupt transport. A Midwestern oil firm halts shipments within 100 miles of refineries and terminals, shifts to truck hauls for short distances, and spends about half a million dollars upgrading facilities. 5350 tank cars are freed for long hauls to the East, pipelines expand, and refineries pivot to distillates over gasoline and asphalt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Defense Transportation
Essential trips limit during emergencies in seventeen eastern states
The guidance lists types of essential travel allowed without alternatives: to job related meetings, emergency training and preparations for threats to life health or property, weddings baptisms and christenings, and regular church services. Other social welfare civic meetings are not considered essential trips.
Change and progress fuel life of America
Lifelong faith in change drives American progress in government industry and human relations. War production for defense demonstrates the system at work, while normal times push for better living, fair rewards, and new methods to settle disputes. If individual incentive fades, America’s life could suffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Preston Area Social and Fire News Across Week
Preston notes show a Canners' Convention attendance in Philadelphia and multiple local gatherings. Social events include Women's Society circles hosted by Mrs. Cannon and Mrs. Donaway, visits by Patchett and Todd families, and card clubs in Preston. A fire damaged the rear of the Dean residence.
Death notice and tax filing dates in Denton area
Relatives in Denton received notice of the death of J Woodall Greene Jr son of Major J Woodall Greene a former Dentonian stationed at Edgewood Md He was a cadet in a U S Aviation camp and died after a short illness in a Kansas hospital on January 21 The funeral and burial were in Augusta Ga at the home of his maternal grandparents A deputy collector of Internal Revenue will be in Caroline County to assist taxpayers with 1942 income tax returns Denton Feb 11 12 153 Post Office Federalsburg Feb 8 9 10 Post Office Mr and Mrs Arthur L Pine of Perryville Md formerly of Denton announce the birth of a daughter on Wednesday January 27 born in Havre de Grace Md First Sgt Paul W Finn of Camp Campbell Tenn and Mrs Finn of Sparrows Point visited their parents Mr and Mrs William Finn this week For Sale Steam heating plant with lot of pipe Inquire at The Journal Office
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
J. Woodall Greene Jr
J. Woodall Greene
Federalsburg
Arthur L. Pine
Perryville
Havre de Grace
Paul W. Finn
Camp Campbell
Tenn
President Taft
Caroline Gannon
James M. Rickards
Queen Anne
SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Easton
Eugene Murphy
Spring Hill
Annie Griffin
Samuel Griffin
Baltimore
T. OQ
Crouse
Rachel Griffin
Wilbert P. Butler
Tuckahoe Neck
Butler
Minnie A. Thachey
Sherman L. Tribbitt
310Th Field Artillery
Camp Meade
Mary J. Parker
G. J. Trotti
Williston
South Carolina
Margaret Parker
Preston
J. T. Richardson
Miss Parker
Trotti
Dental Reserve Corps
Arthur Brookes Cullen
Wilmington
Sarah Cullen
James Bradford Shawn
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church
James C. Sipple
Bowers
Susie Harris
Bridgetown
Bracks Colescott
Harrington
Ethel May Scott
Alva J. Fishell
Stella M. Smith
J. Roland Chaffinech
Hobbs
Denton National Bank
Chaffinch
Lizzie B. Twilley
J. B. Twilley
Seaford
H. E. Larmer
Oak Grove
Reliance M. E. Parsonage
E. Marshall
Josephine Kirchoff Brogley
August Brogley
Alsace
France
August M. Brogley
St. Elizabeth's
In Memoriam Louise DeFord One Year After Death
In sad remembrance of Edna Louise DeFord who departed this life on January 30 1942 One year has passed since the sudden loss We who loved her recall a mother father brother and sister expressing enduring grief and faith Think of her in heaven as still dear for she is not dead she is away
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Louise DeFord
Louise
Deaths mark season of service in Caroline County
Mrs. Josephine E. Blades of Hillsboro dies after icy drive to Greensboro School. A beloved public school teacher for over thirty years, she leaves a husband Edgar Blades a daughter Mrs. Virginia Thawley and two grandchildren. Funeral 2 p m Sunday Hillsboro Methodist Church. Also noted are the deaths of Mrs. Carrie V. Trice of Hickman Del and Mrs Frances H Thawley of Rehoboth Beach with details of survivors and funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine E. Blades
Edgar Blades
Hillsboro
Caroline County
Greensboro
Virginia Thawley
Brown P. Thawley
Milford
Del
Beverly Ann
Brown Parris Thawley
Smithville
Benjamin
Christine Wright
Hickman
Hickman Methodist Church
Concord
Ira Crumm
John Rosser
Federalsburg
Trice
Francis Trice
Denton
Benjamin Trice
Philadelphia
Ralph Trice
Harry H. Trice
U. S. Navy
James Foxwell
Charles R. Morgan
Claymont
Oscar Tor
Rebekah Lodge
Westminster Presbyterian Church
William Addison Thawley
Air Corps
Maxwell Field
Ala
Thomas Melvin Thawley
Pittsford
N. Y
Alvin T. Thawley
Rehoboth Beach
Sadie Chambers
Wrightsdale
Martha M. Collins
Charles Altland
Lancaster
Aaron
Robert
Henry Altland
Elam
Thawley
REA Coop Head Reports On National Meeting
F E Yeoman of Choptank Electric Cooperative reported from St Louis on the National Conference of REA system representatives. Speakers described electricity boosting farm production with less labor to meet 1943 food goals amid expected help shortages, with calls for continued local control in future river basin developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
REA Systems
F. E. Yeoman
Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc
United States
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
Olds
TVA
Food For Victory
United States Department of Agriculture
J. S. Russell
Food Distribution Administration
Thomas J. Grayson
Jefferson Barracks
Mississippi Rea Co-Operative
John Denton
Huntington
Pennsylvania
Printers Ink Keeps Merchandise Fresh and Selling Fast
A brief marketing note urges using printers ink to keep goods clean and presentable so they won’t sit dusty on shelves for long, implying enhanced appeal and quicker turnover.
Twenty Five Years Ago in Denton area news
Ponds show ice fifteen inches thick and snow depth around 12 inches the deepest in nine years. Potatoes and sweet potatoes sell at set prices. Obituaries note Mrs. Caroline Gannon 78 and Mrs. Annie Griffin. funeral details. Local sports include a farmer patent ride-on corn planter invented by Wilbert P. Butler. Numerous marriages, licenses, and public notices plus juror selections for April term.
Methodist Woman's Shelf guides 1943 Latin America study
The adult study courses for 1943 focus on better understanding Latin American countries and Methodist Church missions. One course centers on This Foundation by Stanley Rycroft with five Outlook pamphlets covering Latin America, the West Indies, Mexico, Brazil, River Plate, and Western Republics. A second course pairs Latin American Circuit with Latin America U S A detailing church missions. Wall maps and discussion aids are available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Stanley Rycroft
Evangelical Witness
Latin America
West Indies
Mexico
Brazil
River Plate
Adams In sad but loving remembrance of our father
A short memorial note from his First Children marks Roger E. Adams departed this life on January 26, 190? or 1927, sixteen years past. The verse expresses a calm, sorrowful tribute to his memory and enduring light.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wey &Pape
War Front
Sanananda
Papuan New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Mount Austen
Henderson Field
Solomons
Alexander M. Patch
U. S. Army
Alexander A. Vandergrift
U. S. Marine Corps
Millard Harmon
New Zealand
Middle Eastern
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Castel Benito
War Patterson
Roosevelts
Coast Guild
Patterson
Germany
Wickard
Food Administration
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service Bureau
Agriculture Department
WMC
Ther
Office of Price Administration
Busines
OPA
Life OF America
Fulton Noble
S. E. Douglas
Theodore Fletcher
Wm. McAllister
R. O. Dulin
Lee Noble
Dallas Bindes
Charles Noble
A. D. Cannon
Women's Society of Christian Service
W. A. Donaway
Charles Dean
J. C. Bateman
North Carolina
Dorothy Lee Patchett
Jean Patchett
J. Frank Patchett
Beatrice Todd
Owingsville, Md
Raymond Todd
Louis Geiger
Lawrence Hubbard
Uss.n
Lee Price
Virgil Holl
Harry Hollis
H. M. Hollis
E. B. Blades
Salisbury
Edward Patchett
Lloyd Cannon
Card Club
H. Calvin Todd
John Noble
Theodore Schmick
Memoriam
REA
Father Cotter
Michael Schreiber
George Kibler
Frank Kibler
Joe Kibler
August Kibler
John Kibler
William H. Adkins
Edward H. Morris
David I. Coleman
J. Frank Lane
T.H. Gough
John T. Carter
Marion E. Jarman
Thomas P. Green
Goldsboro Smith
Harry H. Moore
Raymond Rawlings
M. K. Newnam
Ralph Swann
J. W. Beauchamp
William H. Deen
Thomas G. Clark
George L. Blades
Owen C. Garey
A. Thurman Garrett
Charles E. Andrew
Albert F. Hubbard
Charles M. Turner
Jesse T. Dennis
Burton Proctor
Arthur J. Messick
W. A. Smith
Harry E. Kinder
W. A. Mowbray
Louis Trice
T. D. Nabb
Edward G. Wright
W. L. Thompson
N. J. Cade
T. A. Schlegel
George L. Wilson
W. T. Cannon
the Methodist Woman's
Cailing
Eastern Shore Public Service
Reddy Kilowatt’s
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