steel shortages feared as defense orders cut civilian output
Civilian goods industries face limited steel deliveries as defense needs peak. Officials estimate finished steel at 5 million tons monthly with possible 9 percent redirected to defense in the last four months of 1941, leaving about 2 million tons for civilian use and prompting expected 30 to 40 percent cuts in production across auto, appliance and building materials sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Gesner
John Beckley
New York
News-Star Special News Service
OPM
Steel Company
Defense
First Defense Public Works Projects Approved
President Roosevelt approves the first defense public works program projects covering 26 undertakings in 12 states at an estimated cost of 5.77 million dollars. The focus includes recreation centers for soldiers and schools for defense workers with rapid contract letting anticipated. Louisiana Leesville sewerage work and Camp Polk housing relate to the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Defense Public Works Program
Federal Works Agency
FWA
John M. Carmody
Louisiana
Leesville
Camp Polk
Mississippi
Hattiesburg
U S Not Always Good Neighbor Says Mrs Roosevelt
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt says the United States has not always been a good neighbor and urges Western Hemisphere Girl Scouts to help wipe out misunderstandings. She spoke after visiting a Western Hemisphere Girl Scout encampment at East Otis, with participants from 15 countries and 24 states. She warns democracy dies if people grow lazy or fail to think.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Eleanor Roosevelt
United States
South America
East Otis
Plane Missing Over Brazil Found Near São Paulo
Searchers located the Panair do Brasil plane lost yesterday with 15 aboard near São Paulo. Early reports say 12 were injured in the mountain crash as the radio went silent five minutes from the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Panair Do Brasil
São Paulo
Churchill Returns From Atlantic Talks With Roosevelt
Prime Minister Churchill lands in London after his Atlantic conference with President Roosevelt. He presides over a war cabinet meeting, reports on talks, meets King George, and announces a Sunday radio broadcast. United States Ambassador Winant greets the premier at the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
Atlantic
Roosevelt
War Cabinet
George
United States
John G. Winant
Winant
Brooklyn Fire Deaths Reach Seven In Brooklyn Pier Blaze
Seven people are dead and about forty are missing after a devastating fire on a Brooklyn pier that destroyed the Cuba Marline ship Panuco and numerous small craft. At least 55 remain seriously injured as investigators probe the disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
United States Marine Inspection and Navigation Service
Panuco
Edward A. Hefferman
Cuba
IML Safety Record Accidents and Injuries This Year
Accidents to date this year 348 versus last year 294. Personal injuries this year 45 versus 48 last year. Deaths this year 4, unchanged from last year. Traffic rule of the day bans mufflers or cut outs that bypass exhaust muffling devices.
Strained Ties Grow as Japan Warns U S on Arms to Russia
Washington Tokyo relations falter as Japan cautions against American shipments to Russia via Vladivostok. Tokyo cites U S aid to Russia and restricts on Americans, while Amb Grew discusses limits and hostage fears with Japanese officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Russia
Vladivostok
Roosevelt signs flood control bill authorizing defense focused projects
President Roosevelt signed a $275 million flood control bill that authorizes numerous projects but withholds funding for nondefense needs. The measure expands prior authorizations and targets the Lower Mississippi and Red Ouachita basins, Bayou Teche, Vermilion, and White River areas, prioritizing projects with national defense value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Bayou Teche
Vermilion River
Louisiana
Mermentou River
Mississippi River
Yazoo Basin
Boeuf
Eudora
Red River
Pineville
Aloha-Rigolette
Grant and Rapides Parish
Bayou Bodecau
Red Chute
Loggy Bayou
Narrows
Little Missouri River
Ark
White River Basin
Augusta
Clarendon
Davalls Bluff
Young woman clerk chases robber in San Francisco
Miss Georgia Truttman, 35, refused a gunpoint robbery, hurled a mayonnaise bottle at the thief, then pursued him for five blocks. She rounded the suspect into a crowd and two radio patrolmen, helping capture the robber after a tense confrontation outside the chain grocery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Georgia Truttman
Roosevelt asks firm to accept mediation board terms
Reports say President Roosevelt urged Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock to accept national mediation board recommendations and end a 12 day strike at the Kearny New Jersey yard delaying 493 million dollars in work. If rejected the government may take over the yard. C S O union seeks a union maintenance clause. Korndorff calls it a closed shop and would hand yard to the navy. Also 1800 Pullman Standard Car workers struck Michigan City plant over seniority and union rules. Eight hundred Building Trades workers walked out earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
National Mediation Board
Kearny, N. J
C. S O
Mediation Board
L. H. Korndorff
Navy
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Michigan City
Ind
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Carmen
A. F. of L. Building Trades
J M Reighney Dies At 58 In West Monroe
John Marion Reighney 58, West Monroe printer and owner manager of Quality Printing, died Tuesday at 6 am at his home 209 Coleman street from heat prostration. Funeral at his home Wednesday 4 pm with Rev F L Hearne officiating Dixie Funeral Home in charge. Survived by wife Pearl Kendall Keighney two sons William Jack a daughter Mary Burt Carrol a grandson John F Carrol and sisters Mrs W J Vinson of Swartz and Mrs Gladys Shuler of Dallas. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Marion Reighney
West Monroe
Coleman Street
Twin Cities
Reighney
Quality Printing Company
F. L. Hearne
Dixie Funeral Home
Mr. Reighney
Pearl Kendall Keighney
William
Jack
Mary Burt Carrol
John F. Carrol
W. J. Vinson
Swartz
Gladys Shuler
Dallas
Tex
Dwight Pettit
Sam Humphries
J. A. Daniel
B. F. Belt
E. F. Cotham
W. C. Fisher
World War II Updates From Front Lines And Diplomacy
Germans and Russians engage in fierce fighting 75 miles southwest of Leningrad as the Red Army admits a Nazi seizure of a rail gate near the czarist capital. Berlin cites 60 000 prisoners captured and new battleships unfinished as Allied forces push through Ukraine west of the Dnieper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Leningrad
Red Army
Hitler
High Command
Ukraine
Dnieper River
Odessa
Berlin
Nazi
Japan
United States
Russia
Vladivostok
Tokyo
Singapore
Churchill
King
Roosevelt
London
Sortavala
Lake
Ladoga
Axis Shipping Losses Hit 4,007,000 Tons to Aug 16
London reports admiralty totals show Axis shipping sunk captured or scuttled amounting to about 4,007,000 tons through August 16. German losses 2,321,000 tons, Italian 1,533,000 tons, Finnish 34,000 and 119,000 tons deemed useful to the enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
Williams Named A F L Regional Director for Three States
Shreveport August announcement states Lige Williams president of the Louisiana Federation of Labor has been appointed by William Green to direct organization work for the AFL in Louisiana Arkansas and Oklahoma. He will establish regional offices in Shreveport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
FE. H
Lige) Williams
Louisiana Federation of Labor
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Correspondent Captured in War Game By Third Army
A. P. correspondent Norman Walker reports being captured for a 24 hour mock hold as part of Third Army maneuvers in Western Louisiana. He describes the playful yet realistic drill with 200 prisoners awaiting shade, food, and a bath while under rifle guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Walker
Associated Press
Louisiana
War Front
Walker
German forces claim large Ukraine and Black Sea gains
The German high command says troops overran all Ukraine west of the Dnieper and threatened Odessa. They report capturing Soviet fleet units at Nikolaev and disabling three warships near Odessa. British and Allied notes warn of the critical Ukraine situation and the potential fall of Leningrad’s frontline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Dnieper River
Odessa
Black Sea
Nikolaev
London
Dnieper
Semeon Budyenny
Budyenny
Don
Dniepro-Petrovsk
Moscow Residents Adapt To Air Raids Amid War
Moscow's millions adjust to nightly bomb threats, turning to the Metro as shelter. The city, after July 21 bombings, enforces an 8 p.m. train stop and opens subway tunnels for women and children to sleep, while residents adopt a stoic “nichevo” attitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Lazar Kaganovich
Price Control Action Urged by McNary in Congress
Senator McNary urged swift House and Senate action on a price control bill. The measure would let President Roosevelt set price ceilings with farm products exempt from cuts below parity and salaries excluded. McNary pressed for timely consideration amid congressional delays and administration inaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McNary
Oregon
Congressional
House Banking Committee
Senate Committee
House
Roosevelt
Train Crash Near Vivian Injures Three Rail Workers
The Southern Belle streamliner rear-ended a freight train five miles south of Vivian Louisiana injuring three crew members. Engineer W H Williamson of Shreveport was pinned in the cab and seriously hurt. Fireman Bill Thomas of DeQueen Arkansas and J E Christy of Shreveport had minor injuries. no passengers were harmed. The train slowed from about 60 mph to between 2 and 30 mph before impact.
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Vivian
Southern Belle
Louisiana
Here
W. H. Williamson
Shreveport
Bill Thomas
DeQueen
Ark
J. E. Christy
Streamliner
Thomas
Three Priorities Govern Discharge Of Selectees Guardsmen
The War Department outlined three release priorities for National Guardsmen and selectees as it projected homecoming after about 14 to 18 months of service. Priority one covers dependency and hardship cases, priority two targets men 28 or older as of July 1 1941, and priority three grants discharge to married men at the end of the initial 12 months. President Roosevelt may extend service by 18 months if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Department
Roosevelt
Army
General Krueger Captured by Own Troops in War Game
Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, was captured by cavalry troops from the Eighth Corps during a war game in Louisiana. He was released after an umpire intervened, and he remarked on the large number of sawed-off shotguns used in the trap. The two Fort Bliss cavalry units penetrated into enemy Fifth Corps territory to set the ambush on a key highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Army
Louisiana
Walter Krueger
Eighth Corps
Fort Bliss
Tex
Fifth Corps
Judge bars illegal audit of Tangipahoa sheriff records
District Judge Bert S. Ellis Jr issued an injunction against Jerome A. Hayes preventing any illegal audit of Sheriff Frank M. Edwards books and ordering return of records. The ruling narrows the case by removing Gov. Sam Jones and other defendants while Hayes faces possible actions for alleged slander and destruction of records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amite
Bert S. Eilis, Jr
Jerome A. Hayes
Frank M. Edwards
Tangipahoa Parish
Hayes
Ellis
Edwards
Crime Commission
Sam Jones
Eugene Stanley
G. T. Owen
Six Arrested for Evasion in Mississippi Delta
In a delta crackdown the FBI reports six people arrested in Clarksdale and jailed for charges of evading the selective act by failure to return questionnaires or filing address changes. Names include Andrew Jones Foote William Stevenson from a Clarksdale plantation Levi McIntosh Byhalia Mack Rivers near Lomardy Richard Lovelace Leland and Robert Green Canton. 48 others were apprehended and a roundup continues toward Meridian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Delta
Meridian
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Clarksdale
Federal Grand Jury
Percy Wyly
Missisippi F. B. I
Wyly
Andrew Jones
Foote
William Stevenson
Levi MclIntosh
Byhalia
Mack Rivers
Lombardy
Richard Lovelace
Leland
Robert Green
Canton
Maneuver Deaths Increase to Four in Louisiana War Games
In Alexandria Louisiana the death toll in the blitz war games rose to four as 115000 Reds defended against 75000 Blues. Sergeant Frank Haughn 26 of Leip sic Ohio died when a patrol truck overturned near Basile La Three other soldiers from Camp Shelby Miss were injured Private Stanley Zeycezey Corporal Gaylord Miller and Private Chester Idzowski. Earlier fatalities included an electrocution from a downed power line a tank rollover and a reconnaissance car crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Louisiana
Frank Haughn
Leipsic
Basile
148Th Infantry
Camp Shelby
Miss
Stanley Zeycezey
Gaylord Miller
Chester Idzowski
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U.S
America
Kokumin
Grew
Joseph C. Grew
Koh Ishii
Cabinet Information Bureau
Ishii
Shipbuilding Company
J.M. Reighney
The
Royal Air Force
Netherlands
Neutral
Lige Williams
Green
A. P
THIRD
Czar Capital
Krueger
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