Washington Draft Policy Storm Shapes Public Life
Washington observers say the manpower draft, food production, and price control top the 1941 political agenda. The Wheeler bill and Baruch Byrnes exchanges reveal tensions between labor hoarding, defense needs, and election year politics. A White House conference and Byrnes remarks underscore the debate over how to deploy workers without hurting production.
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Wheeler
Pearl Harbor
Pearl
Byrnes
Bernard Baruch
Baruch
Vandenberg
Truman
Congress
Mr. Baruch
How America Treats Axis War Prisoners In Camps
An article discusses how Axis prisoners in the United States are housed and treated under Geneva rules. It notes prisoners may work, pay rates, food rations, and housing, with emphasis on humane treatment to preserve future treatment of American captives. It covers Japanese conduct, camp layouts, and the agricultural nature of prisoner labor across 22 camps and about 70,000 prisoners.
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U. S
Tunisia
Sicily
Eisenhower
Geneva
Japan
Russia
United States
Wainwright
Corregidor
Bataan
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Kiska
Attu
Tokyo
Doolittle
Shangrilia
Hornet
És War
Japanese Empire
Hasan
Camp Breckenridge
E. P. Dutton
Detroit
Ass’t
FBI
Bugas
Congressional
Ocean vessel hits milestone as 2000th ship delivered
The 2000th ocean going vessel built under Maritime Commission contract since Pearl Harbor was delivered with steam up on Saturday September 11. The War Shipping Administration says the Merchant Marine must recruit at least 35 000 experienced officers and men next year to meet Allied invasion demands. 1425 aliens serving overseas were granted American citizenship by Immigration and Naturalization Service representatives. Public Roads Administration reports only 40 automobiles remain where 100 were before.
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Mr. Vandenberg
Mr. Baruch
Byrnes
Van
War Mobilization Committee
Baruch
Maritime Commission
Pearl Harbor
The
Immigration and Naturalization Service
War Shipping Administration
Gifts for Overseas Servicemen Rise in Demand
Merchandise Mart estimates a 20 percent per capita increase in Christmas gifts to overseas servicemen and women this year with larger reciprocal gifts from home. Early mailing dates, expanded gift counters, better knowledge of stations, and diverse frontline needs drive demand across pins, jewelry, vanity items, pillows, handkerchiefs, watches, games, and travel gear amid growing service member numbers and more post exchanges.
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John C. Goodall
Merchandise Mart
Chicago
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Mediterranean
Switzerland
Pacific Front
Private Papers of Cub Reporter Wee Washington Wire
A brisk column reports rumors of a 1945 appointment for a new Chief Justice and critiques postwar taxation plans and FBI DoJ tensions. It notes Otto Hapsburg’s army rejection, Stalin's projected March war end, and publishing industry fodder.
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Cub
Wee
Washington Wire
Treasury
Randolph Paul
U.S
Democratic Naz
Otto Hapsburg
Stalin
Germany
Danish King balks at Nazi Nuremberg laws
A State Dept briefing notes tension before the Denmark crisis. Nazis press King Christian to implement Nuremberg laws framed as oppressing Jews, but the king refuses, asserting his title as king of all Danes and denouncing the laws as barbaric.
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Denmark
Christian
Transforming Old Furniture Sketches From Book 5
Note from a booklet series promising more than nine ideas for transforming old furniture and odds and ends. Readers are invited to request Book 5 by sending 15 cents with their order to the specified address.
Lemon wake up drink to ease constipation
Drink juice of one Sunkist Lemon in water first thing each morning to stimulate normal bowel action. Lemons plus water provide vitamin C, energize, aid digestion, and freshen the mouth. Use California Sunkist Lemons for this morning helper.
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Siaraias
California
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Washington, D. C
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Public Roads Administration
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George McCarthy
England
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Robert Casey
Casey
Star
New York
Mutual Radio Theater
52Nd St
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Troika
Capital
Washington Voice
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Coney Island
Park Central
A. I. Walker
Shor's
Mother
Cktic
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
Samuel Peal
Bfgoodrich
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