Senator Wheeler seeks Sept 15 showdown on draft of fathers
Senator Wheeler of Montana plans a September 15 floor fight to bar the drafting of pre Pearl Harbor fathers for the rest of the year. An administration aide said odds favor postponing inductions after January 1. War policy chief McNutt orders local boards to begin calling prewar fathers October 1. Secretary Stimson opposes a blanket exemption.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate
Congress
Senate Military Committee
Rep
May
D-Ky
Paul V. McNutt
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
Gas Shortage Warning as East Faces Dry Pumps
Interior Secretary Ickes warns of acute gas shortage in the east with ration coupons outpacing quotas and civilian use exceeding allotments. He says fuel use must be limited to essential travel as military demand rises and warns of tighter supplies nationwide. Also notes shortened tobacco market day in North and South Carolina due to labor shortages. Quebec remains a hub for Canadian pulp and paper industries.
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Washington
Ickes
East
Southwest
Middlewest
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Raleigh
North Carolina
South Carolina
U. S. Tobacco Association
McNutt
Kaiser Yard
WPB
Nelson
New York
la Guardia
National Service Act debated as war labor gaps widen
Reports of regional man power shortages threaten U S war production schedules and spur talk of a National Service Act when Congress reopens. McNutt may steer a volunteer plan first, with talks of drafting women and curbing civilian labor to ease factory pressure.
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Albert Leman
Congress
Paul V. McNutt
WMC
Indiana
Washington
Management and Labor
McNutt
Fire destroys camp of prominent newspaper executive
In Peekskill New York a night fire swept William E. Haskell camp, waking him and his caretaker as an automobile horn in the garage sounded due to heat from the blaze. The camp was leveled by the flames, and the horn continued to sound as the structure burned.
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Berlin
der Fuehrer
Germany
Greek Macedonia
Sofia
Boris
Peekskill
N. Y
William E. Haskell
DeWitt Outlines Shuttle Attacks On Japan Timing
Gen John L DeWitt says major hurdle is supplying bases in China and the Aleutians before a shuttle bombing of Japan is possible He notes US airfields are now as close to Japan as the Hornet's launch point He is praised for Aleutian campaign leadership and receives an oak leaf cluster in a private ceremony by Roosevelt.
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China
Aleutians
U.S
Japan
John L. DeWitt
Aleuian Islands
Western Defense Command
Fourth Army
United States
Hornet
Tokyo
Roosevelt
DeWitt
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