Traffic decline foreseen on 24 highways, study shows
Traffic counters on 24 main highways indicate volumes fell 16.1 percent from March to April 1941 with further drops expected. Officials note larger declines in urban and secondary roads, while U S routes show mixed changes. Speed linked to highway deaths discussed amid census data.
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Enterprise Buea
Sir Walter Motel
Raleigh
Highway Commission
Department
Planning and Statistics
James Burch
Burch
U.S. 70
New Bern
U. S. 301
Halifax
Highway traffic and speed decline noted by safety division
Traffic volume has fallen by 16.1 percent from March 194 to the present, with a general drop in speed observed by the highway safety division. The report highlights a broader slowdown in highway activity and efficiency.
Enterprise Defense Q&A column on war effects and civilian life
The Raleigh Enterprise Bureau answers reader questions on war impact. Topics include conscientious objectors in camps doing CCC work, gas and refrigerators stock limits, WPB typewriter access through OPA, railway skilled labor demand, bicycle frame size limits, Navy Negro reserves on smaller vessels, included work uniforms for women, draft evaders Convictions, and gas price postings at stations.
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WPB
Navy
Modern Etiquette Q&A From Roberta Lee
Soup etiquette advises dipping the spoon away from the diner and using the spoon’s side to sip without noise. For luggage transfers hotel staff should be asked at the Porters or Transportation Desk. Bridge players should not comment on bids. Fire causes in the United States include careless smoking, with airway beacons first used in 1930 on the Chicago to Cheyenne airmail route.
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Transportation Desk
A. Wever
Chicago
Tlf
Cheyenne
Wyo
Hitler
Russia
Ukraine
Britain
Middle East
United States
United Kingdom
Berlin
Tokyo
von Reichenau
von Neurath
Axis
Japan
Europe
Wirohito
England
America
Fuehrer
Holland
We prayed in fox holes on Bataan and a priest saved a life
National Whirliat reports on Lt. Col. Warren Clear in Bataan, where bombardment forced him into a fox hole, prayer rising amid destruction. A Catholic priest later saved the regimental commander, sparking gratitude and a vow to attend mass. Troops overseas crave scriptures and sermons, and the Army prints Bibles and prayer books for every soldier.
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Warren Clear
Bataan
Clear
Manila
Vleric
Philippines
Arnold
AEF
War Impasse Report From Inner Circles In All Belligerents
A terse dispatch indicates the war has reached an impasse as powerful leaders within belligerent governments weigh monumental decisions. The report notes strain within allied and opposing camps as strategic options are debated amid global tensions.
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New York
Albert
Leman
Production Rate Stepped Up In War For Survival
New York April 20 Wide World It became the Survival War last week as Roosevelt called the conflict an arms production program for a total war economy. Plans for comprehensive controls on prices wages profits and rents to curb inflation were under consideration. Producer counsel David Ginsburg urged concentrating civilian goods production in a few plants and converting others to war work. Non essential construction faced curbs, with war building expected to total 14.75 billion this year, a record high above 11.5 billion in 1941. Pierre Laval’s return aroused stock market jitters while the 60-stock average fell to 1933 spring levels. food markets held buoyant on hopes of higher consumption and government price support.
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New York
Wide World
Roosevelt
David Ginsburg
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Pierre Laval
Associated Press
Myths about Japanese marksmanship debunked by Medical Times
An article notes changing perceptions of Nipponese soldiers after extensive ethnological studies and hospital case reports. It cites eye shape and inbreeding as myths, finding glasses, exercises, and aids can improve gunnery. It describes pilots tested for color blindness with mosaic plates and mentions gear like eye screens and gas mask spare tenses.
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SLARE
Flirohite
Tub
Medical Times
Passage on medical trials and pilot selection by enemies
An odd fragment notes that medical work is scientifically excellent and attracts attention from Australian air corps medics. It suggests an unusual cross alliance where the Nips assist in choosing pilots who later conduct bombing missions against them. The passage is unclear and sensationalist but hints at wartime medical credentials influencing officer selection.
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Australian Air Corps Medicos
At Least 3 N C Persons Killed During Week End
Violent deaths totaled at least three in the state over the week end. Four year old Carolyn Jean Gibson, daughter of Hugh and Mrs. Gibson, fatally burned at home in Laurinburg when clothes caught fire beside an open yard fire. Corporal Walter J. Beuce of Fort Bragg killed in a traffic accident near Clinton. William L. Bickett, 18, a sailor from Charlotte, killed. Mr and Mrs R M Freeve of Concord and George Harold Barger named among the injured in an auto crash six miles from Albemarle.
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Carolyn Jean Gibson
Hugh Gibson
Laurinburg
Walter J. Beuce
Fort Bragg
Clinton
Shannon
N.C
William L. Bickett
Charlonte
R. M. Freeve
Concord
George Harold Barger
Hickory
Albemarte
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Lincoln
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HOGA
Maria Kramer
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York City
Edison
New H., D.C
Roosevelt Hotel
Dwight F. Davis
Foreign Legion
Senate
House
Davis
Armed Services
Office of Civilian Defense
Washington
Sam
Germany
Laval
Atlantic
Brazil
Africa
Thepublic
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Casablanca
Dakar
West Africa
Sky Hawks
Cape Town
Mississippi
Ohio
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Memphis
Paul Gesner
William Pinkerton
Tnto
U. S
Ocean
Egypt
Vichy
Dakara
Oran
Charlotte
Ewes Aa
Mann Drug Stores
Renover
Uncle Sam
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