War agencies overhaul economy under Byrnes directive
President Roosevelt ordered wage and price controls across wages profits farm prices and rents. James Byrnes resigned from the Supreme Court to head a new Economic Stabilization Board with eight agency heads and six private citizens to craft national policy. Price ceilings cover 90 percent of the family budget. Wartime production and military operations expand across Aleutians New Guinea and Europe as U S forces gain ground and shipbuilding hits record output despite shortages.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Wickard
Tylertown
Miss
Navy
U. S. Army
Army Intensifies Recruiting Drive for 18 and 19-year-olds
Washington reports an intensified Army recruiting campaign opened Saturday for volunteers aged 18 and 19. With Congress considering lowering induction age, 13 branches are open to volunteers as Gen Somervell calls it elective service vital to balance age groups. Prospective volunteers under 20 require parental consent but no release from draft boards.
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Army and Selective Service
War Department
Army
Quartermaster Corps
Ordnance Department
Chemical Warfare Service
Medical Department
Corps of Military Police
Selective Service
Hershey
Armed Services
Washington
Congress
Brehon B. Somervell
The
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Want Ads for Sale and Help Wanted Blakey Sherman TX
Want ads note a good used bicycle with good tires from J W Blakey. Also seeks feeder hogs 100 pounds up for Woodmen Circle Home Sherman Texas with contact phone 2348. If
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J. W. Blakey
Woodmen Circle Home
Sherman
Texas
Survey of Farm Workers Being Made
COLLEGE STATION A spot check of farm labor problems in 57 counties is being completed this week according to the Texas USDA War Board. Requested by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard a member of the Manpower Commission the survey is being conducted throughout the nation and is expected to establish def-
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College Station
Texas Usda War Board
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
Manpower Commission
Card of Thanks for Charles E. Andrews
The Andrews family thanks friends for sympathy shown after the death of brother and uncle Charles E. Andrews. Sincere gratitude from Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Jim Henry Andrews and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. F. Mays.
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Charles E. Andrews
Lucian Andrews
Jim Henry Andrews
R. EF. Mays
Farm Labor Trends Highlighted in Texas Survey Data
A Texas farm labor survey compiled by AAA committee men with county USDA and war boards collects data on farm type and size, cows milked, other livestock for 1941 1942 and 1943 projections. It also records workers by age and sex during early September and lists farm leavers from Sep 1 1941 to Sep 1 1942. Leading reasons include drafted enlisted nonfarm job moves and stays.
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AAA
USDA
War Boards
Texas
Older Men Cannot Fill War Labor Demands
The Census Bureau says wartime labor needs cannot be met by older men. In 1940 there were 1.3 million men over 45 unemployed and able to work, about 700,000 of whom were 65 or older, many already at work. The drop in fighting forces creates a gap to be filled by older workers and others from 18 to 44 without dependents, as well as women and students.
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U. S. Navy
Andrean
Aleutian Islands
Kiska
Navy
U. S
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Efogi
Owen Stanley
Grunion
Pacific
United Nations
Washington
Census Bureau
Bureau
Ford Scion Joins Army as Plain Buck Private
Benson Ford grandson of Henry Ford enlisted in the United States Army and was inducted as a private at Kalamazoo Michigan Thursday afternoon a Ford spokesman said here. Young Ford originally rejected for service later passed medical review and joined the ranks.
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Ford Scion
ARMY
Plain Buck
Detroit
Benson Ford
Henry Ford
United States Army
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Young Ford
Soldier with near blindness gains enlistment clearance
An Army recruit with almost total blindness in one eye required special permission from the War Department to enlist. He passed examination at Kalamazoo under the name B. Ford.
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War Department
Kalamazoo
B. Ford
Insecticide Law To Be Proposed In Texas
Senator George Moffett of Chillicothe said he will introduce a bill in the January session to stop the sale of adulterated insecticides. He noted a substantial amount of adulterated products have been manufactured and sold within Texas, and that no state labeling law currently applies. The federal law bans interstate shipments but not intrastate production and sale.
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Austin
George Moffett
Chillicothe
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Moffett
Texas
Pneumonitis Warning Issued To Texans
Texas physicians were warned not to confuse pneumonitis with influenza. Dr. George W. Cox said the virus pneumonia has appeared in Texas in recent years and can be severe and hard to diagnose. The health department noted 231 influenza cases for the week ending Sept 26 versus a seven year median of 71.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Health
George W. Cox
Department
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T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
Marta Plains
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Rock Road
Tom Barbee
J. M. Parrish
Kentuckytown
J. E. Coggins
Ely
Geo. K. Stephens
Uncle Sam
Paul Stephens
W. A. Goodnight
Pilot Grove
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Carr
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