Typewriter shortage spurs government shift to two shift use
A wartime analysis notes a severe deficit in typewriters with the government hiring thousands of stenographers while production orders are slashed. Agencies seek rationing and space efficiency, proposing two shift operation and reallocation of machines to keep offices running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pearl Harbor
Zefiough
WPB
Army
Navy
Treasury
War and Navy
Maritime Commis
Budget Au
Pro‘ement
Isman Supply
Opening Day in Washington as Wallace Substitutes Roosevelts Spot
Wartime opening day for the American League drew Washington fans despite a somber mood. Vice President Wallace delivered the first pitch as a last minute substitute for President Roosevelt, who was kept away by war and work. The scene in the Presidential box reflected a nation focused on the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Yan
Senators
Goolse Egg
Wallace
Roosevelt
Eastern Star Banquet and Meeting Set for Thursday
The Hope and Prescott Chapters Order of the Eastern Star will honor the Worthy Grand Matron with a banquet Thursday at seven at the Soda Hotel, followed by a meeting at the hall. Guests from the eighth district are expected and all members are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Star
Hope and Prescott
Order of the Eastern Star
Soda Hotel
Hassett Catches Boomerang Throw In Ballgame
Yankee utility man Buddy Hassett snags a Wallace throw on second base as Mrs Randolph Hamby and bridesmaids look on. A Treasury note item recalls a Mobile counterfeiter nabbed by ink on trousers while another tale touches a Virginia woman’s forgotten date amid wartime memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddy Hassett
Hassett
Second Base
Alex Carrasquel
Clark Griffith
Mr. Wallace
Treasury Department
Jrom No. 1
Mobile
Ala
Score Service
Virginia
Sunday School Council Meet Set at First Presbyterian
Calendar note shows The Sunday School Council of the First Presbyterian church will meet at the church at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 22. The second line offers a proverb about sons imitating their fathers, reflecting a common humor of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
First Presbyterian Church
Tax reform talks aim to ease costs for families
Washington notes from a Capital Cuff describe two Treasury proposals that may pass congress. Allow medical expense deductions from income on large pills and extend college age dependents to age 21. The column argues doctors’ bills deserve deduction and raises, versus extending dependent age, with many taxpayers backing relief as costs grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
The
Treasury
Sore war bond literature prompts Lincoln quotation complaint
A writer addressed the Treasury Department in a dispute over wartime bond literature that contained a quotation from Abraham Lincoln. The complaint highlights concerns about the use of Lincoln's words in government materials during the war period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Treasury Department
Abraham Lincoln
Halts Tires on Farm Machines
The War Production Board ordered a halt to all rubber tired farm machinery except harvesters and threshing combines, with a deadline of April 30 for general tires and January 31 for the reducers. The halt includes all farm tractors with rubber tires as makers seek substitutes, with additional time granted for combines due to new designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Drunk Breaks Out City Jail
John R. Beavers about 50, of Little Rock, escaped the city jail Monday night after being arrested for drunkenness. Police said he dug through the wall with a screwdriver, described as extremely small and able to crawl through a tiny opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Beavers
Little Rock
Beavers
Government order forces textile plants to shift to war production
Washington reports the government ordered about half of the cotton textile industry to convert facilities to war production within 50 days. Mills must switch looms to produce bag osnaburgh and bag sh eelings, doubling output of materials for sand bags, food and agricultural bags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hempstead Court Awards $10,400 in Personal Injury Suits
Hempstead Circuit Court adjourned after awarding two local men sizable judgments. Theo Johnson received 10,000 against Standard Materials Corp. for alleged truck accident injuries near Blevins. Grover Ward won 400 against J Cookey Morgan for damages from a highway 67 auto crash near Muck's tourist court. Judge Dexter Bush presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
Hempstead County
Dexter Bush
Theo Johnson
Standard Materials, Corp
Indiana
Blevins
Grover (Buck) Ward
First donors flock to San Juan blood bank opening
Two band men and eight women led the first group to donate blood for San Juan's new blood bank opened by defense authorities. A daily average of 25 donors was requested as the program begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan, Por
Hum
San Juan
Fiull
Laurel pipes boom from Laurel Laurel wood
In Johnston City Tennessee high on Roan mountain the war disrupted imports of briar from Mediterranean sources. As a result about ten local plants have begun sawing rhododendron and laurel burls to produce pipe blocks for eastern factories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tohnston City
Tenn
Roan Mountain
Penessee
Nort Carolina
Mediterranean Sea
Visitor in Hope Ties to National Politics
Garrett Whiteside, secretary to Senator Hattie W. Caraway and longtime figure in national political circles, visited Hope on Tuesday. He remains at home in Nashville on vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett Whiteside
Hattie W. Caraway
Hope
Nashville
Rubber By the Tons All Free
U S grazing service has about 180000 tons of rubber it would give away. Survey shows rabbit brush on federal lands could yield 117258 tons of chrysil rubber, with private land bringing total to around 150000 tons. Rutledge urges rapid harvesting and two western processing plants for chrysil rubber to aid wartime needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
U. S
Grazing Service
America
R.H. Rutledge
Rutledge
Uncle Sam
Rutledge E
Salinas
Calif
Washington Housing Tangles Amid Growth and Pride
The piece notes rising housing strain in Washington as births rise 16 percent in the District since Pearl Harbor. It critiques federal workers who drive solo to work, ignoring pedestrians, and jokes about cherry trees being renamed in wartime style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pearl Harbor
District of Columbia
High School Youth Speak for War Effort and Health
The essay urges Roosevelt’s leadership and calls for health, discipline, and education as wartime duties. It highlights high schoolers as potential future technicians, pilots, and nurses, stresses conservation of resources, and urges skepticism toward rumors to maintain civilian morale. It argues students should study hard, conserve energy, and prepare to aid democracy and defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Salinas Plant Aims At Rabbit Brush For Rubber Content
Western rubber beating plant notes Guayule yields higher rubber content than rabbit brush but needs more care and smaller growing area. A rabbit brush processing setup exists with funds for the Salinas plant. Any farmer or WPA worker can harvest enough brush daily to keep a truck moving to the rail. Rabbit brush spans nine western states led by Nevada New Mexico and Oregon. Rutledge seeks to plant grasses where brush chokes land and invites a conference with the service poised to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guayule
Salinas
WPA
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Rutledge
Also Mentioned on This Page
Auto Supply
Bob Elmore
Hope Mattress Co
Perkison’s
South Walnut
Star Barber Shop
R. S. Jones
Ernie Ross
P. Blany
Ron
United States
Lin
Albert Graves
Prescott
Helen Hesterly
Sutton
Wakefield Saunders Rouse
Humphries
Jing
Hot Springs
Rayburn Smith
Smith
E. Glenn
T. E. Bulter
Bodean
Theo Bulter
C. B. Cox
Herman Thornton
Robert
Adam Thomas
Ralph Moncrief
Shreveport
Gretrude Moncrief
John Thomas McRae
Gretrude and
Miriam
T. C. McRae Jr
Mrs
Randolph Hamby
Spend
Rubber Czar
Arthur B. Newhall
B. F. Goodrich
Pper & Brass
Mr. Brown
Brown
Wm. Brownper
S&s Brass Slyfer Brags
Mr. Browns
Washburn
the Newspaper Publishers Committee
Olr A
Sirah
We. Bro
Harold F. Osborne
Wide World
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!