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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1942
Page
9
Washington reports a broad legislative program to revise federal labor laws. The plan includes suspending the 40 hour work week standard and shifts authority away from the administration to handle labor management issues, with details to be presented to Congress early next year.
A plan from unnamed proponents would suspend premium pay in wages and hours, allow overtime paid in war bonds, outlaw strikes in war industries, prevent closed shops, and amend anti corruption laws to bar labor unions from political contributions. The new board would include CIO AFL manufacturers chamber and the public. Proponents aim to avoid disrupting war production while preserving the current wage scale.
YMCA runs more than 1 000 vehicles in the United Kingdom while USC club attendance surpasses 7 000 000 monthly, signaling broad reach for both organizations.
A Christmas wish from Maryse Deszangles, a ten year old French girl in North Africa, asks for an American bicycle a small car and candy. The letter to American Santa was sent to Allied forces and soldiers will ensure Santa reaches Boghari inland near Algiers with funds raised by the adjutant general to buy Maryse gifts and aid Red Cross relief.
The writer recalls Jerusalem and Bethlehem sights from the Nativity to the Gethsemane tomb and the Church of the Nativity. He notes soldiers visiting the holy sites, their battles casting a grim atmosphere, while sensing a rising moral and spiritual wave and a fight to preserve Christianity.
Stockholm dispatch reports Goebbels mobilizing hundreds of Nazi speakers to deliver nationwide pep talks as German food rations dwindle and war news worsens. Goebbels and Robert Ley pace a mass meetings program while German press pushes morale by deeming North Africa setbacks temporary and Russia the decisive front.
Local notes report visits from naval personnel at Great Lakes and Norfolk, arrivals of relatives from Des Moines and Minnesota, and holiday stays with Huron families. Includes addresses and small notices of shop hours and Christmas promotions.
Mrs. Wilks Welker left yesterday for Alliance Nebraska to visit her husband Lt Walker for a couple of weeks. The advertisement promotes fur coats with a clearance offer and mentions Los Angeles based furriers in the After Christmas sale.
Miss Mary Ethelyn Habicht a Macalester College junior from St Paul arrived home for the holidays to spend time with her parents Mr and Mrs C W Habicht She is a member of the colleges 80 voice choir which broadcast last Saturday over the Mutual System under the direction of Hollis L Johnson.
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