Federal Service Publicized Skilled Jobs at Pearl Harbor and DC
Washington announces three manpower notices through the Winchester civil service office. Pearl Harbor Navy Yard seeks shipfitters electricians machinists riggers instrument makers and boilermakers with overtime pay and transportation home paid. A government stenographer job pays 120 dollars monthly requiring 96 wpm dictation. Army Signal Corps Civilian Diesel motor mechanics are offered salaries comparable to private industry plus six dollars daily for foreign living expenses.
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Herman Lee
Winchester
Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
Pearl Harbor
Civil Service Manager
United States
War Department
Army Signal Corps
Lee
September Morn Painted by Paul Shabas in 1912
The work titled September Morn by the late Paul Shabas earned a medal of honor in Paris at the Spring Salon of 1912.
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Paul Shabas
Paris
Newly Completed Rail Line Targets Indo China Aggressors
Frederic J. Haskin reports from Washington on a new railroad linking Hanoi and Saigon in French Indo China. The line, after forty years of planning, connects two Europeanized hubs amid a jungle frontier. Cities feature Parisian influences, colonial governance, and rising modern amenities alongside native life and rice economy.
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Oriental
Hanoi
Saigon
Paris
Asia
Parisiennes
Gulf of Tonkin
Tonkin
Indo-China
Europe
Rue de la Paix
Cochin China
China
Capon Springs Busy Holiday Visitors and Illness Update
Capon Springs West Virginia residents shared Christmas holidays with family in the area. Nesmith of Martinsburg visited his son Fred Nesmith in Capon Springs. Local visitors included Kenneth Reynolds and son from Cold Stream. Clarence Bland moved from Winchester to Hopemont Sanatorium for lung treatment. Janet Jones of Washington spent the night with Myrtle Simmons. John Doyle Ruth Watson Judith LaFollette hosted visitors. Lawrence Wilson of Washington spent holidays with parents. L M Wilson and families also shared dinner with Boyd Simmons household.
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Capon Springs
W. Va
B.M. Nesmith
Martinsburg
Fred Nesmith
Kenneth Reynolds
Cold Stream
Pleasant Grove Church News and Social Visits
Pleasant Grove news records a Sunday sermon by Rev L C Messick and dinner guests of him and Mrs Messick at Mr Robert Catlett. The Grove Christmas program is noted as very interesting with local families visiting and church society meeting at Mr Clark Millers.
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Pleasant Grove
Oakley Catlett
Willetta
Lester Oates
Eloise
Keyser
W. Va
Ellen Oates
Coryells
Delbert Whitacre
Johnny
Betty Ann
Kenneth Lee
John Coryells
Ir. Donard Welford
Fred
Carl Albaugh
Fred Whitlocks
Community Notes From Stephens City On Church and Guests
Stephens City Virginia reports church events, visits by residents and relatives from Bruniswick Maryland to Wardensville and Madison Virginia, and local military notes. The air raid station move is announced and a Quartermaster Office update discusses using wood for materiel. About six million one hundred seventy one thousand dollars in Revolutionary aid from France is noted.
Government freezes new cars and trucks production nationwide
Washington January 2 An order by Donald M Nelson and the priorities board halts purchase sale and delivery of new passenger cars and light trucks while an automobile rationing system is prepared. Production will stop within weeks with rationing likely limiting future purchases to government lend lease and essential civilian use.
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Washington, Jan
Donald M. Nelson
OPM Priorities
OPM
Leon Henderson
Nelson
SPAB
Automotive
Lend-Lease Administration
Eye sight ranges and World War veteran bonus Q and A
The discussion notes normal eyesight allows recognition at 165 yards and seeing at 330 yards. Connecticut has no veteran bonus law, a 1933 bonus bill was rejected. The Katsuki 19 bomber is a twin engine craft with about 2500 mile cruise range and 220 mph speed.
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Connecticut
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