Draft Evasion Tactics Under FBI Roundup Faced By Men
Miriam Ottenberg reports on the nationwide Selective Service and FBI crackdown on draft dodgers. Story highlights include a Minnesota case with a loner hiding in a cabin and receiving prison time, and figures such as Steve Kaslov of the New York gypsy clan linked to evasion schemes.
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Miriam Ottenberg Washington
Selective Service
FBI
Minnesota
Duluth
Draft Board
Steve Kaslov
New York
King Kaslov
Texas
Stephen Weinberg
Farm income in Texas rises 20 percent in September
Texas farm cash income climbs to 144 million dollars in September, a 20 percent gain from August, per the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. January to September total reaches 728 million, up 31 percent from the prior year, with cattle revenue at 15 million as prices rise despite fewer cattle marketed. At century start artificial silk was unknown commercially.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
milk subsidy payments issued in Sherman for October
From Friday through Monday 120 applications for the milk subsidy plan were approved and checks totaling 2232.14 were issued. Payments ranged from 1.50 to 156 dollars at 50 cents per hundredweight on whole milk and six cents per pound on butterfat, as compensation for losses from milk price controls.
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Sherman
W. W. Gunn
Agricultural Administration Office
Gunn
Ceiling prices set for 13 vegetables at shipping points
Washington and Texas A and M College Extension Service report OPA and War Food Administration ceilings for 13 vegetables. Texas basing points include Brownsville Crystal City and others with prices for cabbage spinach and tomatoes and rules on freight cooling and markups. Seasonal shifts may lead to broad pricing zones at retail.
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College Station
Washington
Texas
A. and M. College Extension Service
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
Brownsville
Jacksonville
OPA
The Tide Has Turned Salesman
A salesman offers a pressure cooker to a potential customer in a turn of phrase that captures shifting attitudes toward domestic gadgets and bargaining dynamics. The snippet reflects a period style of sales and social exchange.
Firestone Sees Synthetic Rubber Persist Postwar
Harvey S. Firestone Jr. told the Economic Club of Detroit that synthetic rubber can sustain itself without tariff protection. He warned the tire crisis remains, citing 1943 shortages and 1944 civilian tire needs as around 30 million, with peacetime capacity cut by about half.
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Detroit
Mich
Harvey S. Firestone Jr
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Economic Club of Detroit
Firestone
Drinkin' Papa in Army Now Take Him Away
A Poinsett County Arkansas father of seven who drinks lemon extract is drafted after his wife mails a scathing letter to his draft board printed in the Selective Service Bulletin. She cites poverty, calls him “no good,” and asks the Army to take him far away. The article notes a new servicemen allowance of $200 monthly to the wife.
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Papa
Washington
Poinsett County
Ark
Selective Service Bulletin
United States Army
Army
Texas posts receipts rise on Christmas package shipments
Christmas packages sent to the boys overseas boosted Texas postal receipts in September to 2,090,035 dollars, up from 1,697,979 dollars in September 1942, according to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research.
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Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Pension rolls show decrease in October for November payments
Old Age Assistance rolls fell by 462 cases from 182 305 to 181 843 while average payment rose to 20.80 dollars. Total November distribution reaches 3 783 141.48 dollars. Blind rolls gained 68 cases. 4 672 recipients receive 24.60 dollars on average. Aid to Dependent Children declines by 340 families and 695 children. 10 678 families with 23 600 children will receive 21.26 dollars on average in November. Lifeguard joke closes with father planning marriage.
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Austin
Telecasting of paper tested in Schenectady trial
In Schenectady New York a newspaper aired on television before about 50 experts. The Albany Times Union and General Electric sponsored the test to compare TV with print. George O Williams Times Union managing editor said TV cannot replace newspaper coverage due to precise reporting requirements.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Albany
Times-Union
General Electric Company
General Electric
George O. Williams
The Grandest Book I’ve Seen A Precious Ration Book
A reader extols a ration book as the finest item among many books sampled, calling it precious and priceless and noting the joy found in its value. The monologue frames the ration book as a cherished relic amid widespread scarcity.
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P. H. Connelly
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J. E. Morgan
Tom Barbee
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