Housewives Use War Scrap Drive To Exploit Children
FRANK GIGLER reports on neighbors pressuring youngsters in Riverside area salvage drives. Some adults demand payment or use attic cleanouts, while many households cooperate with child collectors. Fire stations serve as collection points as volunteers and boys and girls push toward wartime paper goals.
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Frank Gigler
San Antonio
Firmen
War Salvage
The
Light
Ibid
F-2441
Texas Pacific Oil Pipeline Disapproved by PAW
The district PAW committee rejected the West Texas to Pacific coast oil pipeline説 stating demand and transport limits do not justify construction. West Texas crude supply, rail capacity, and critical materials needs were cited as factors undermining feasibility and urging focus on salvage campaigns and war efforts.
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Housiun
Guy
Hrte
Petroleum Administration For War
West Texas
Pacific Coast
Supply and Transportation Committee
Railiardsi
Une
Adventurous Cocker Breaks Out of Crate
Rusty a brown cocker spaniel breaks from an express crate en route from California to Kentucky. He escaped at St Louis station, leaving his collar behind. Mrs Kay Easter of Owensboro Ky, arrives to help search and view a brown rocker answering to Rusty in nearby University suburb.
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ST. Louis
CINS
Rusty
University
Tire shortages foreseen as June releases inch up
Eugene Kurtz, associate mileage railing representative for the district OPA of rigs, said June tire availability in Bexar county will rise slightly over May but still lag demand. Fewer heavy duty truck tires will be produced due to civilian and military needs, with 22,000,000 passenger tires expected in 1944 and 15,000,000 later this year, though per car supply remains below current usage.
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Bexar
Eugene Kurtz
Distrles Opa
Kurtz
Texas City Store Sales Still High in May Week
Department store sales in Dallas Houston Fort Worth and San Anonio rose above last year for the week ended May 27, with Dallas up 28 percent Houston 18 percent Fort Worth 18 percent and San Antonio 21 percent according to the Eleventh District Federal Reserve Bank report.
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Dallas
Texas
Eleventh District Federal Reserve Bank
Houston
Fort Worth
San Anionle
New Ammunition Container in Use
Middletown Ohio June 2 Charles B R Hook president of American Rolling Mill Company announced a new artillery ammunition container. The sheet metal container can be thrown from moving vehicles submerged in salt water or exposed to tropical climates without damaging the ammunition and is in production in several locations nationwide.
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Middletown
Ohio
Charles BR. Hook
American Rolling Mill Company
Hank
Three Die and Three Hurt in Los Angeles Auto Crashes
Multiple night crashes in Los Angeles claim three lives and injure three others. Victims include M. O. Walker, 67, a fireman, struck by a speeding truck near Pleasanton Road and Mayfield Boulevard. A negligent homicide verdict was returned in a separate wreck on Fredericksburg Road, where Glan Garrett McDonald, 37, and Barbara Rose Page died when their car struck a parked truck. others injured included William Kerr Page and Ella Moebler, with kerosene flares noted at the scene. Additional incidents in the area involved a pole collision injuring Cecilia Thompson and Patricia Ramirez suffering a broken leg from a crosswalk accident. drivers cited include Otto T. Lentz and Lewis Noel Kemper.
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M. O. Walker
Mayfield Boulevard
Kelly Field
Pleasanton Road
Walker
J. W. Sage
Glan Garrett McDonald
Dallas Street
Barbara Rose Page
Lotus Street
Bexar County
Fredericksburg
William Kerr Page
Robert B. Green Hospital
Cecilia Thompson
East Commerce
Walters Streets
Willis Bates
Belmont Street
New Braunfels
Patricia, Ramirez
Waters Street
East Commerce Street
Otto T. Lentz
Roman Ernst
Kentucky Avenue
Zerramora Street
Lewis Noel‘Kemper
Space Street
Amarillo Holds Two In Slaying Inquiry
Amarillo police held a man and a woman in jail for questioning as possible material witnesses in the slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Snelson. Her almost decapitated body was found on a street last Sunday. Investigators ruled out a transient with a knife as the killer and examined clothing found in a cleaning plant for traces of human blood.
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Amarillo
Dorothy Snelson
Tey
Revised Layoff Plan At Douglas Plant
Douglas Allcraft officials revised layoff estimates after contract cancellations. Only about 2000 of 8000 affected workers may lose jobs, with most absorbed by El Segundo and Long Beach plants. Northrop to hire 2000 more workers to reach an 80 percent boost in P-61 Black Widow production.
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Santa Monica
Calif
INS
Douglas Allcraft Corporation
Tvorkers
el Segundo
Long Beach
Douglas
Northrop Aircraft
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