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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1941
Page
4
Retail demand for silk hosiery surged as government commandeering of silk supplies sparked buying in stores. Sales rose 20 to 26 percent from last year with many customers stocking up amid rationing and anticipated shortages. Wholesale orders climbed 25 to 50 percent as trade shows set high purchase tones.
Philadelphia social leaders pledge to abandon silk stockings and wear cotton or substitutes to conserve silk for Army and Navy parachutes and powder bags. Notable figures include Mrs. Harry Lippincott Cassard and Nina Liggett.
Arizona public employment services reported 2,276 placements in July, up from 2,095 last year. Lewis Irvine, director of the state employment service, announced the change. Unemployment benefit claims fell from 2,848 to 2,082.
In Paris, dancers are expected to petition nylon manufacturers to boost output. Offstage, they wear lisle mesh hose and businesswoman Mrs. William Hamill notes she would wear cotton or substitute stockings when cotton becomes available, predicting a rush as soon as it appears.
The agriculture department projects this year's cotton crop at 10,817,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight based on Aug 1 conditions, down from 12,566,000 last year and well below the 10 year average of 13,457,000. The census bureau reports 1,966 running bales ginned by Aug 1, versus 32,187 last year and 137,254 two years ago.
Thailand sent 2,144,220 buffalo hides to the United States during the previous year, reflecting a large trade flow between the two countries.
Valley National bank wins tax case against Pima County with a $23,740.60 judgment covering 1938 1939 and 1940 taxes. Judge Dudley W. Windes ruled counties must tax branch banks by apportioning capital stock rather than real and personal property within the county. The agreement stemmed from talks between bank attorney John L Gust county attorney J Mercer Johnson and special county counsel Gerald Jones. Recoveries include excess taxes and interest for 1938 1939 and 1940 totaling amounts listed.
Elsie Robinson argues belief must be actively maintained. She urges readers to pour courage into faith, question inherited certainties, and forge personal beliefs through reality and effort despite widespread brutality and disillusionment.
Dave Henes outlines Army slang from food to aircraft terms and daily life. Soldiers use quirky phrases like battery acid meaning coffee and sky winder for a air corps member, with terms for bunks, pay days, and equipment reflecting a unique vernacular.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau told the Senate finance committee he would approve striking all silver legislation from the books. He discussed subsidies of about 77 cents per ounce for domestically mined silver and a law allowing Treasury purchases of foreign silver. He noted the program could be mildly inflationary and cited roughly 26 million dollars in domestically mined silver bought so far this year.
A glossary style note explains harsh Army slang terms like latrine rumor for unfounded reports, meat wag on for ambulance, juice jerker for electrician, glamour boy for draftee, refugee for recruit, and Roger as okay, with ding how for all right, hinting at soldier talk to ease conversations.
A Philadelphia abolition society formed in 1774, the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, still operates today.
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