War Production Board reveals $106 billion war plan
The War Production Board outlines a 1943 program eighty percent larger than 1942, totaling $106 billion for war including arms output, construction, and armed forces support. The plan calls for reallocating civilian labor to war plants and stresses planning a rapid transition to a peacetime economy after the war.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
United States
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
Office of War Information
Nelson
Commander In Chief
OWI
Postwar economy dampens civilian goods outlook amid production notes
A wartime letter to President Roosevelt warns of lean civilian supplies in late 1942 and 1943 as distribution inequalities bite. It notes 1942 production fell short of goals in many categories yet overall output supported war aims, with 1943 expectations higher in both quantity and quality. Also mentions a new telescopic sight expanding rear gunner fire arc.
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Nelson
Roosevelt
Monroe postoffice opens second unit at Selman field
A new Monroe post office unit at Selman field provides stamps money orders parcel post register and insurance while avoiding main post office congestion. Cadets and instructors gain convenient access though war stamps bonds and COD and registered mail sales remain at the main office. Two enlisted clerks Private First Class John Weir and Private Frank Kelly supervise the unit under the Monroe postmaster.
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Monroe
Selman Field
Bombardier Navigator
Advanced Navigation
John Weir
Frank Kelly
New York City
Alumni 10 Get Chance to Meet College Friends at Selman Field
College alumni among Selman field officers cadets and enlisted men may now locate fellow members by a registration book at the College Registration Center in the Hotel Frances lobby. Carl H. McHenry leads the effort with assistance from Mrs. Fay R. and the College Registration Service network.
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Selman Field
Hotel Frances
Carl H. McHenry
Bernhardt
Monroe
McHenry
College Registration Service
Fay R
Local college list posted with coordinators in Monroe
More than 106 colleges are listed in the downtown center with a page for each college. Local alumni coordinators are being sought for each institution. until named, Mr McHenry will serve as representative. His business phone is 3025.
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Mcsaid
Monroe
McHenry
Fashionable blue veins on French faces and car starters
A nostalgic note on French women's beauty trend painting facial veins blue to accent skin and a skeptical remark that quickly revving a car engine before turning it off does not aid starting in modern vehicles.
Pythian chief guest visit to Monroe lodge 1943
On Wednesday June 16 1943 at 8 pm at Pythian Castle Monroe Louisiana Stonewall Lodge No 8 Knights of Pythias and El Miro Temple No 187 Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan host a joint meeting honoring Brother W J W Scott imperial basha of Khorassan Charleston WV who will visit and speak on fraternal service during wartime. Members urged to attend with many in service already.
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Pythian Castle Hall
St. John Street
Monroe
Stonewall Lodge No. 8
Knights of Pythias
el Miro Temple No
Dramatic Order
Knights of Khorassan
W. J. W. Scott
Imperial Basha
Charleston
W Va
Stonewall Lodge No
el Miro Temple
Scott
Brother Scott
Pythian Order
W. Va
West Virginia
Knights of
Imperial Palace
Roanoke
The
Lions Club
el Miro
Herbert Milford
Walter Rosbury
J. J. Burroughs
J. Norman Coon
C. E. Faulk
Paul Fink
Charles Garvey
R. W. Germany
C. C. Gillett
R. W. Hazel
R. F. Humble
Charles Schulze
E Richards
W. E. Hinckley
L. J. Hunnicutt
Lewis E
IMPERIAL BASHA TO VISIT MONROE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
W J Scott of Charles ton West Virginia head official of the Dra will honor all Pythians by visiting Monroe Wednesday night He began his work in 1922 and has a long record with Pythianism and with the Knights of Khorassan holding top offices He is a Lion Civitan U C T Mason Scottish Rite member Presbyterian elder and Sunday school teacher for 13 years His hobby is photography.
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W. J. Scott
Charleston
W. Va
Dramatic Order
Knights of Khorassan
Monroe
Civitan
Final Rites for Edward New Today at West Monroe
Last rites for Edward EB New a 21yearold civilian flight instructor with the army air corps who died in a plane crash near San Marcos Texas will be held this afternoon at 3 oclock in West Monroe Services will be at First Baptist church with Rev C E Awtrey officiating and interment will follow in the local cemetery
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Edward EB New
Army Air Corps
San Marcos
Texas
West Monroe
First Baptist Church of
C. E Awtrey
Student flyer among crash deaths near Laurel Mississippi
Mr New, son of Mrs New who runs Coleman tue Grocery and Market at 704 man avenue, died in a fatal crash near Laurel. A fellow student flyer also perished. The West Monroe flyer trained at Northeast Juniors of L S A, then worked in Gainesville before being stationed at San Marcos. The article notes Me 109 Me 262 era aircraft jettison provisions and safety devices.
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Hasley Cemetery
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Mr. New
New
Man Avenue
Laurel
Miss
West Monroe
Northeast Juniors
Gainesville
Tex
San Marcos
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Walter S. Cooper
U. S
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Silverstein
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New York
Air-Conditio
Seersucker
Jersey
DeSiard
Rth Louisian
Imperial Basha Scott
Frank Masling
W. J. Mills
P. S. Mulhearn
C. L. Thompson
J. H. Watkins
C. A. Nonney
Rev. R. L. Ross, Jr
J P. Royce
C. V. Sanders
Eugene Shows
J. Arthur Smith
Albert Trotter
C. S. Walker
John S. Williams
Joe Williamson
Stonewall Lodge
Armed Services
George Fink
Max Fink
Jesse Frazier
Harvey French
Homer French
Claude Gilliland
Minor EB. Goss
C. P. Gray
John J. Griffin
Edmond A. Guyton
Howell Heard
Oliver S. Heard
Willie S. Heard
Walter Lee Hill
Thomas W. Holden
G. P. Hopkins
H. F. Hudson
Ed L. Ikard, Jr
B. A. Kennedy
Elvin Kilpatrick
Irvin Kilpatrick
George Kincaid
Max Kuleke
Lucien Larche
Lewis E. Lee
Dewitt le Seur
T. H. Lewis Howard EB. McCullurm
Wayne J. McDonald
James McGuire
R. P. McKay
Jack May
Lao M. Mayo
H. H. Mullina
C. M. Nelms
Darwin
D. Curtis Smith
W. L. Smith
Kurt Stevenson
Albert Taylor
Charles E. Thomas
C. EB
Fred M. Ussery
Robert T. Waldrop
S. John Williams
Frank A. Wood
Edward New
North Loutst
Vilverstein
Trud Fiji
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