Four Southeastern States to Ration Electric Power Monday
Four southeastern states Georgia Alabama South Carolina Mississippi and Gulf power companies will curb electric use starting Monday to prevent drought driven cuts in defense production. Industries not on defense orders must cut weekday consumption by one third. households and businesses asked to voluntarily curtail likewise. Georgia mills to cut one third, freeing about 1,000,000 kilowatt hours daily for defense use.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Mississippi
Gulf Power
Charles A. Collier
Georgia Power Company
Southeast power cut eyed as rains fail demand relief
Germans plan daily consumption limits to sustain a barely safe water reserve while heavy rains are needed to raise streams and reservoirs. A. L. Henson says a ruling allows Sunday operation of plants with unfilled orders for goods under lend-lease. TVA reports rainfall only half of needed water. Alabama Power warns four to five weeks of hydro storage remain. Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina plan or urge voluntary reductions to support defense industries and Georgia power. Farming varies with rain, cotton and tobacco improving in some areas while corn lags but not severely damaged.
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A. L. Henson
Georgia Labor Department
Alabama Power Company
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Alcoa Aluminum Company
Alcoa
Mississippi
South Carolina Power Company
Georgia Power Company
Building Work Back Again On Normal Level
Building activity in High Point dropped back to normal levels last week and permits for new construction totaling 312,831 were issued by City Buildings Inspector E. K. Ingram. Permits covered a mix of repairs and new structures across the city including a large factory renewal and several residences and garages.
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High Point
E. 1K. Ingram
General Renairs
J. C. Shore
Renairs
White Oak Street
C. S. McWkenzie
Monroe Street
High Point Overall Company
Hamilton Street
High
West End Baptist Church
Redding Street
R. S. Staley
East
Lexington Avenue
H. C. Beal
Deoiny Street
Myrtle Desk
Tavior Street
Millis
C. W. Griffith
Lindsay Street
J. W. van Loan
Colonial Drive
Hervey Mills
English Street
W. S. Cleavenger
Carrick Street
M. H. Harmon
Willowbrook Street
J. R. Elliott
Montlieu Avenue
East College Drive
W. T. Blackwell
Welborn Street
W. C. Beavens
Mangum Avenue
Six Strikers Facing Draft in Los Angeles Plant
Six men deferred from military service have not returned to work at North American Aircraft Corporation since the army took over the strikebound plant. Their names were sent to draft boards. Deferment arose from essential defense industry employment. Branshaw granted week-end leave to about 800 of 3,400 soldiers on duty as production rises. Walter Smethurst with CIO aviation division directs union HQ during reorganization of the UAW local.
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Los Angeles
North American Aircraft Corporation
Army
Charles E. Branshaw
Branshaw
Walter Smethurst
CIO
Aviation Division
Richard T. Franken- Steen
United Automobile Workers
France's Exiled Politician Sees Democracies Winning
Pierre Cot, France's prewar air minister and now a fugitive with Yale teaching duties, argues Hitler’s defeat is likely through a mix of military action and widespread European resistance. He notes France's air force failures, warns of continued war length, and predicts a postwar Europe built on democracy extending to economy and international affairs. Cot criticizes Vichy and calls for renewed unity among democracies. He stays in New Haven teaching a graduate class while planning a study of French political institutions between the wars.
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New Haven
Conn
The
Enterprise Special News Service
Pierre Cot
France
Chamber of Deputies
League of Nations
Cot
Yale
Hitler
Napoleon
Europe
Britain
Tam
Leon Blum
Popular Front
Luisa Phelps
Munich
Mussolini
Herriot
Blum
Mandel
North Africa
England
United States
Petain
Weygand
Alps
Maginot Line
Vichy
Cats
Francoise
Jean Pierre
Catherine
Protest Day Set on Randolph School Bond Issue
Asheboro June 14 The Randolph County board of commissioners will hold protest day June 30 on the proposed $600,000 bond issue for school improvements. The board of education petitioned for the election after a postponement due to a legal technicality. Superintendent T Fletcher Bulla presented a tentative budget to the board, the figures of which were not released.
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Asheboro
W. C. Lucas
Randolph County Board of Commissioners
Board of Education
T. Fletcher Bulla
Haifa Reported Unuseable Port in Bombing Broadcast
New York June 14 The Berlin radio said in a broadcast heard by NBC that Haifa Palestine a key port at the terminus of an oil pipeline and a strategic harbor in British Middle East operations had been made unusable by repeated bombings and air raids.
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New York
Douai
Lancheres
France
CBS
Haifa
Berlin
NBC
Palestine
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Yale University
Paul D. Gormley
Chungking
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Duke Power Company
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Linthicum Certified Concrete CO
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