Ickes Orders Safer Coal Mines to Meet Legal Standards
Interior Secretary Ickes announced steps for government mines to strictly comply with safety laws and report measures taken. He cited higher coal mine accident casualties than armed forces since Pearl Harbor, warning 1943 could see 1500 deaths without action and urging better ventilation, rock dusting, electrical maintenance, and heightened caution to reduce deaths, injuries, and production losses.
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Pearl Harbor
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Tate
Guiet
Women Aid In Harvest In Kansas Two War Wives Harvest Wheat
PRETTY PRAIRIE KAN July 7 Two Kansas farmers began harvesting 720 acres of wheat with three hired hands including an experienced man a former university beauty queen and a New York girl visiting the West The two women Mrs Venore Voran and Mrs Dottie Watson are war wives whose husbands serve in North Africa They drove a tractor and loaded whey from a combine under the hot sun working up to 12 hours a day The region shipped 2217 cars of grain to Kansas City since the Fourth of July run since 1941 Also noted is a studio makeup for Helmut Dantine in To the Last Man creating a snowbound look with glued eyelids and a pink cast on the skin.
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New York
West
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Pretty Prairie
Dottie Watson
Downsville
N.Y
North Africa
Homer and
R. French
Kansas City
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