Plan To Place Manpower Wherever Needed Is Being Studied
Washington date Feb 7 plan to create a manpower control administration to apportion Americans to factory farms and firing line. Sidney Hillman likely to head the agency as White House considers an executive order this month. Officials say selection may occur at draft board level as needed, with congressional action required for broader powers.
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War Production Board
Office of Production Management
Ead
Rawpower Control
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Salvation Army Band to Play Sacred Concert at Guilford General
The Salvation Army Citadel band will give a sacred concert for Guilford General Hospital patients tomorrow at 3 PM. Major Vernon Carter, director, announced a program of descriptive sacred selections and hymns. This marks the band’s first public appearance this year with updated arrangements.
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Salvation Army Citadel
Guilford General Hospital
Vernon Carter
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Navy launches destroyers and submarines in 1941
The Navy launched eighteen destroyers and thirteen submarines during 1941, signaling expanded wartime shipbuilding.
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Navy
Conscientious Objector Heads to Burma Road Aid Mission
James W. Stanley a Buck Creek camp conscientious objector travels to Lagro Indiana en route to the Burma road to aid Chinese bomb victims and help reconstruction on a 9000 mile journey. He will study first aid mechanics and the local dialect before crossing the Pacific with other objectors. Stanly was born in Kaifeng China to American missionaries. Eugene Leroy Mercer Jr plans to join seven other C Ds to England for war relief work after paperwork.
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Burma Road
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Burma
Kaifeng
Henan Province
China
Eugene Leroy
Bud) Mercer, Jr
University of Pennsylvania
Othr C.D
England
Future Of North Carolina Tourism In Doubt In 1942
North Carolina tourism faces an uncertain 1942 as industry leaders predict a range from low to high figures. Optimism grows with war mobilization and wartime recreation reports, while resorts fear air raids and tire shortages. Shorter vacations and shifting travel patterns may favor mountains over beaches, with Roanoke Island’s Lost Colony under military review. The industry hinges on tires, time off work, and consumer money.
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Bob Thompso
England
Defense
State Department of Conservation and Development
North Carolina
Roanoke Island
Washington
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Navy submarine class description from page one notes
The article continues on U S from page one detailing a submarine fleet with an S class including a seven inch gun and four twenty one inch torpedo tubes. It notes these are among the navy s oldest submarines and references Jones fighting ships authoritative manual mentioning a missing complement for the 26 dollar amount.
Axis forces reach Ain El Gazala near Tobruk
Mier Mussolini's high command claimed Axis troops had reached Ain El Gazala and captured the Gi alo oasis 250 miles west of the Egyptian frontier. British Middle East HQ reported no change in the land situation while RAF fighters and bombers struck the Axis spearhead, destroying a large number of German Italian vehicles.
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Middle East
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Chicago Market Report Cites Unsettled Butter Eggs
Census Bureau figures show in some states fewer than half of rape convicts received prison terms. The Chicago market notes Butter receipts 300,200 unsettled and unchanged. Eggs receipts 17,042 unsettled with local and car lots listed. Current receipts 2872, dir ties and checks 28.
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Census Bureau
Chiefs of Staff Board to Direct Allied War Effort
An eight man combined chiefs of staff board was formed in Washington to direct joint British American land sea and air operations and production and distribution of war supplies. Members include Admiral Stark General Marshall Admiral King and General Arnold for the United States alongside Field Admiral Sir John Oil Admiral Sir Charles Little Lieutenant General Sir Colville Wemyss and Air Marshal A T Harris for Britain. The board will issue joint recommendations and act promptly on current operations while coordinating with other nations and establishing a new munitions assignment board led by Harry Hopkins.
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George C. Marshall
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End of sugar coating in war talks as 1943 dawns
The piece mocks optimistic wartime reasoning from Holland and Britain. It contrasts Dutch sugar hoarding and German aims with American fatigue, notes Japan's actions, cites Russian counteroffensive signals, and warns that Churchill and others see 1943 as a start, not a finished victory.
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Pacific
Winston Churchill
United Nations
Bataan and Manila Bay Fronts Report Heavy Fire
General MacArthur’s army echoed Aguinaldo's surrender plea as Japanese forces press from Lingayen Gulf and Manila Bay. American and Filipino troops endure heavy artillery and aerial bombardment while two U S fighter planes down one of four enemy dive bombers. Dutch East Indies action sees P 40s attacked with losses on both sides.
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Manila
Cavite
Manila Bay
Bataan
Netherlands Indies
Bali
Philippines
Lingayen Gulf
Singapore Holds Firm as Japanese Bombard Island Defenses
British forces defend Singapore Island amid raids and blackout orders as air and naval operations continue. Japanese shelling reaches Johore Strait while Allied ships rescue hundreds of troops stranded along the Malayan coast. A radio broadcast urges surrender of MacArthur, and a Commonwealth spy hunt targets leaks from non-Japanese sources.
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MajJacca Strait
Ceiling on sugar prices threatened by Leon Henderson
Price Administrator Leon Henderson warned the government could set maximum retail sugar prices unless voluntary limits curb costs. He urged consumers to protest any five pound sugar bag price over the December 1941 level, calling excessive increases profiteering. Also reported: Elwood Anthony, Lexington, was arrested for forcible trespass at Gene Yates home in Thomasville and will face trial Monday.
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Henderson
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Fifth Avenue
Lexington
Gene Yates
Harris Street
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SCRAP OLD CARS ORDER BY ITALY TO SCRAP 1930 MODELS
Rome February 7 The Italian cabinet ordered all automobiles and trucks manufactured before 1930 turned over to the government to be scrapped for recovery of prime materials needed for the war economy. The United States consumes over 200 million dollars worth of biscuits crackers and pretzels annually per census.
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tAndi Agency
Lo AP
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