Women Slated to Fill Jobs in Plants
California moves to boost defense labor with more women in factories. State Director R G Wagener says women will fill 25 to 40 percent of jobs in aircraft plants, easing manpower strain. Companies like Lockheed Consolidated and Vega plan increases and training for women in fighter mechanics and related tasks.
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Not Hard Here to Call the Roll in Washington
Sen W Lee O Danial faced first defeat as a legislator amid a military service extension bill debate. His amendment to outlaw violence at workplaces under state defense orders drew one aye and many nays. O Danial abstained from voting as Sen Clark of Missouri proposed the measure.
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Balkans Nurse Carr Ends Famed Aid Work
Alice O. Carr American nurse who aided poverty and famine in the Balkans and Near East retires after more than twenty years of frontline relief. She served with the Red Cross in Serbia, Poland and Czechoslovakia since 1917, witnessing bombardment and hardship she says is hopeless now. Carr returns home to Ohio with memories of wartime service and exhausted resolve.
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