Draft Law Sets Oct 16 Registration for 16.5 Million Men
President Roosevelt signed the first peacetime conscription bill and issued a proclamation directing the September 16 registration of 16 500 000 men aged 21 to 35. The act creates a volunteer option for a one year term while establishing a national draft by lot and local boards to assign and examine draftees. Simultaneously about 60 000 National Guard members began the first federal mobilization since World War I for a year of training under a three fold plan including weapons instruction and replacement of regular troops if needed.
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United States
Congress
Lot
National Guard
War Department
How the draft will work in the national lottery system
On October 16 men aged 21 to 35 will register at local sites. Local boards assign numbers from shuffled cards and draw numbers in Washington. Those with drawn numbers undergo questionnaires and are sorted into classes I and IV. State quotas are set, volunteers reduce the quota, and men are called in order of the national draw with physical exams to determine eligibility. deferred class I men can fill quotas if needed.
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Washington
Washington Board
Army
Ford Dealers Attend Display of New Cars
Ralph Williams and Herbert Walton owners of Walton & Williams Motor Co with Leland Hill and Paul Garner salesmen are in St. Louis for the display of 1941 Ford Mercury and Lincoln cars and Ford trucks at Municipal Auditorium. About twelve hundred Ford dealers and salesmen will attend the annual showing. The new Fords will be wider with no running boards and will be on display in Sikeston on September 27. Watch for them.
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Ralph Williams
Herbert Walton
Walton & Williams Motor Company
Leland Hill
Paul Garner
St. Louis
Municipal Auditorium
Mr. Williams
Sikeston
Williams
Roosevelt outlines color line in wartime draft plan
President Roosevelt announces that about 36,000 of the first 400,000 men drafted will be Negroes and that colored citizens make up about nine percent of the population. The Civil Aeronautics Board will begin training colored pilots and mechanics as a nucleus for colored aviation units. Three Negro National Guard regiments will be called soon for one year of active duty and later recruited to full strength.
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Roosevelt
United States
Civil Aeronautics Board
Uits
London's Buildings Stay Under Two Hundred Feet
A report notes that none of London's structures rise above 200 feet, confirming a city planning limit on height. Authorities cite zoning rules and safety considerations guiding skyline development and future construction projects.
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London
Poplar Bluff Child Hurt in Car Crash
A Poplar Bluff child, Bobby Gene 12 to 15 stitches, suffered a four inch neck wound and facial injuries when a City Cab struck the family car at Center and Ranney. Others injured included Mrs. Scheihing and Mrs. Barnes group members. all received hospital treatment. Pedestrian and ambulance details noted.
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Poplar Bluff
Bobby Gene
Marie Seybold
A. D. Martin
Center
Ranney Streets
Seybold
Ranney
Center Street
Wilburn Cockrel
Cockrel
Ford
William Scheihing
Scheihing
Sikeston General Hospital
A. A. Mayfield
John D. Barnes
Canalou
Martin
Sikeston
A. P. Veasman
Barnes
Ancient ballot using black beans to signal a nay vote
In historic practice voters used black and white beans to cast ballots, with black beans indicating a nay. The method reflects early voting quirks where color coded beans conveyed approval or rejection.
Plan to build 50,000 airplanes yearly outlined
The proposal estimates an annual production of 50,000 airplanes at about three and a half billion dollars. It also notes that factory capacity will need roughly four years to reach that output level.
Negro dies after train-van collision in Salcedo road crash
Theo Branson a 34 year old negro from Sikes ton died early Friday at St Marys Infirmary Cairo from severe face cuts and internal injuries after his Lair Company truck collided with a Frisco freight train. His companion Luther Hill is recovering from an arm fracture and bruises. Funeral services were held in Charleston with Lair Company employees in attendance. Interment followed in Charleston cemetery. Surviving are Bransons wife and four children.
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Theo Branson
Sikeston
Lair Company
Charleston
Branson
Trucks Driven by Brothers in Tangle
Two west bound transport trucks driven by brothers collided on the Highway 60 bridge crossing St. John's drainage ditch near Sikeston Sunday afternoon. Neither driver was injured though one tractor was badly damaged. both trucks carried cabbages from Racine Wisconsin to Memphis Tennessee.
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St. John's Drainage Ditch
Sikeston
Clay Cook
John Tandy
Paul
Racine
Wisconsin
Memphis
Tenn
Officer Named For Missouri Home Guard Unit
Adj Gen Lewis M Means commander of the Missouri National Guard announces Col Ward L Schrantz of Carthage as commander of the 2nd Missouri Infantry home guard unit. The unit will serve in Southwest Missouri while the 203rd Coast Artillery trains. Schrantz formerly led a machine gun battalion in France with the 2nd Missouri Infantry when it joined the 35th Division in World War I.
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Adj
Lewis M. Means
Missouri National Guard
Ward L. Schrantz
Carthage
2Nd Missouri Infantry “Home Guard
Missouri
203Rd Coast Artillery
National Guard
Schrantz
2Nd Missouri Infantry
France
Modern airliners shrink time and space coast to coast
The piece asserts that airliners now allow a single day journey from New York to San Francisco. It notes breakfast among New York skyscrapers and dinner under the Golden Gate, highlighting the rapid, time bending travel era. The tone showcases wonder at transcontinental speed and urban contrasts.
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New York
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
House Thieves Are Again Active
Two house burglaries reported to the State Highway Patrol last week remain unexplained. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sells Jr. lost suits, shirts, shoes and a wrist watch from their North Kingshighway home during Sunday night. Mrs. Nellie Bugg’s North Ranney Street residence was ransacked after a back window was broken and a brick thrown through it. A man named Robert Davis, claimed to be from Georgia or Michigan, was linked to the Bugg case but not charged. investigators seek to interview him. Loot included a leather bag, a Philco radio, ten quilts, sheets, pillowcases, towels, handkerchiefs, an alarm clock, a safety razor, soap, and ten dresses. The Bugg break-in likely occurred Thursday night during the four-day absence.user else code
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State Highway Patrol
Ben Sells Jr
So4
North Kingshighway
John Tandy
Nellie Bugs
North Ranney Street
West Plains
Robert Davis
Philco
New Army Instructor for Guard Regiment Arrives
Lt Col R F Love takes command as instructor for the 140th Infantry Missouri National Guard arriving in Sikeston Tuesday night. He and his wife and seven year old son Tommy recently returned from two years in Hawaii where he served with the United States Army. Their home is in Wyoming.
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R. F. Love
140Th Infantry
Missouri National Guard
Sikeston
Col. Love
Tommy
United States Army
Hawaii
Wyoming
New Chevrolets on Display Next Saturday
Clay A. Mitchell of Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet announces the 1941 Chevrolet will be introduced locally and nationally this Saturday September 21. He says the new model is larger inside and out with standard vacuum power shift and a sturdier valve-in-head engine, promising a strong fall in sales.
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Clay A. Mitchell
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Company
Mitchell
Chevrolet
Sikeston
Mitchell-Sharp- Chevrolet Company
Metropolitan Life reps to attend Kansas City banquet
Assistant Manager Marion S. Temerlin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and local representatives Fred L. Bowman Frank S. Clinton and H Garwood Sharp Jr will attend the companys annual 100000 banquet at the Muehlbach Hotel in Kansas City tonight. Attendance requires each representative to have written 100000 life insurance during the past year. Temerlin and assistants return home Friday.
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Marion S. Temerlin
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Fred L. Bowman
Frank S. Clinton
H. Garwood Sharp Jr
Muehlbach Hotel
Kansas City
Mr. Tomerlin
New Seven Family Apartment Under Construction in Sikeston
Construction began Monday on Park and Wallace streets for a seven family brick apartment house by B. J. Murbach. First floor features three units including a six room living space for the family and two three room units with built in beds. second floor adds four more three room apartments. Penzel Construction of Jackson leads the project, due to be completed by mid December, with numerous applications already received.
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Park and Wallace Streets
B. J. Murbach
Sikeston
Murbach
Penzel Construction Company of
Jackson
New Brick Home for the Standleys
Construction began Monday on a buff brick five room home for Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Standley on Moore avenue. The house will include living and dining rooms, kitchen, two bedrooms, bath, dinette, full basement, and modern heat. John A. Sutterfield of Likester is in charge. The Science Museum in Kensington houses an early 69 inch telescope built in 1842.
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John A. Sutterfield
Likester
The
Science Museum
Kensington
England
Cullinan Diamond Tops List of World’s Largest Gems
The Cullinan is the world’s largest blue white diamond at 3024.75 carats. The Excalibur ranks second at 971.75 carats and the President Vargas third with 726.6 metric carats.
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Vargas
McCormick Deering Drill Boosts Fall Grain Sowing
When fall seeding time arrives a McCormick Deering Grain Drill helps sow winter wheat rye and other small grains. The drill promises accuracy that increases next year s yields and speeds completion.
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McCormick- Deering
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