Evening Star Public Notice and Rates 1942
The Evening Star urges subscribers to report delivery delays to maintain service. It lists subscription rates for mail and carrier delivery and notes national representation by Delisser Inc and AP. The issue date is Tuesday June 2 1942 with a moral verse from Matthew.
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National Representatives
Delisser, Inc
Rockefeller Plaza
New York
Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulation
Star
Reduced School Budgets Signal Wave of Cuts
The Office of Education projects a 2 to 3 percent drop in high school enrollment from 1939 40 levels as war industry employment and enlistments reduce pupil numbers. New York City considers trimming the high school budget by 3.1 million and 125 teachers face possible dismissal amid protests about crowded classrooms and lingering declines in regional enrollments.
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Office of Education
Army
Navy
New York City
la Guardia
Board of Education
Federal Office of Education
We Should Learn From General Stilwell’s Burma Lesson
An editorial praises General Stilwell for his Burma campaign work and urges frank, fact based war reporting. It credits Roosevelt and Churchill for clear aims while noting mistakes in planning and communications and stresses need to know the true size of the effort to retake Burma.
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The
New York Times
Burma
Joseph W. Stillwell
New Delhi
Washington
London
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Stilwell
Mandalay
Middle East
Australia
Hitler
Iowa
Panama Canal
Colorado River
Clebra
War and the Bug Racket in War Times
Across Southern papers the war’s impact on the numbers racket is debated. The Atlanta Journal predicts tires and gasoline shortages may kill the operation, while Richmond Times-Dispatch weighs the gangsters immunity and wartime strain on writers and couriers. A six month follow up is suggested.
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Chattanooga Times
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The
Atlanta Journal
Georgia
Richmond
Journal
Curious but True: Rubber Shortage and Driving Speeds
The Staunton Evening Leader notes a rubber shortage with about 1,200,000 tons of rubber in tires and tubes owned by 25,000,000 motorists. Experts say driving fast wastes tires more, yet many drivers still run at fifty to ninety mph, despite the fuel and wear costs.
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Staunton Evening Leader
Mars
Call for Unified Federal Control on Gas Rubber in War
Congress debates centralizing authority to fix gas and rubber shortages. The Truman committee pins failures on dispersed control among OPM rubber reserve, RFC, and other bureaus, urging a single agency to avert further delays. Officials warn weeks to years before adequate tires for civilian use, stressing synthetic rubber as only possible supply.
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Washington
Congress
Donald Nelson
Truman Committee
Jesse Jones
War Production Board
Henderson
War Department
Ickes
OPM
Rubber Reserve Corp
RFC
Stettinius Advisory Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Nelson
Roosevelt
FDR
Ming
National Inventors Council
Brazil
Car thief streak ends as recovered auto shows extra fuel and tires
Brooklyn Missouri June 1 police recover John Walsh’s stolen motor car. The vehicle is undamaged and contains gasoline and two new tires and tubes not in the machine when stolen.
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Brooklyn
John Walsh
Hen in car lays claim to entire brood
A hen in a farmer's car, already laying an egg a day, swooped into the farm yard and proudly claimed the 1,000 hatching chicks in the back seat as her brood in a Wynot Nebraska report dated June 2.
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Wynot
Neb
Art Driver
Eighty Eight Patches Ate Louis Klusman Tube
In KING CITY Montana June 2 Louis Klusman patched his old inner tube after running over a radiator grill. The eighty eight patches proved more costly than replacing the tube itself.
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King City
Louis Klusman
Public figures clash over optimistic outlook and gas rationing
Donald Nelson voiced pessimism before Roosevelt speech, then stressed American ingenuity. The piece highlights authority division and chaos in gas rationing, noting Assistant War Secretary Fatterson issued a public warning though his exact role is unclear.
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Donald Nelson
Roosevelt
Mr. Nelson
Fatterson
How it Works Gas Rationing Faces Unified Authority Question
The piece explains petrol and gas coordination by Ickes with Nelson and Eastman then Henderson who controls rationing. It argues single headed authority could end confusion and allow a straight line policy, noting current multiple parties relay information and policy.
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Ickes
Donald Nelson
Nelson
Eastman
Leon Henderson
Cook for Soldiers In Five Wars
Sergeant Steven Prince cooked meals for soldiers in five wars including the Spanish American War Boxer Rebellion Mexican border skirmishes World War I and the current conflict. He recalls front line troops going 36 hours unfed and his staff delivering food strapped to their backs through mud in the Philippines.
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Ogden
Utah
Steven Prince
Philippines
Commando Girls Scatter at Mouse Steeplechase Drill
In Mayfair on June 2, 50 Women’s Home Defense Corps members faced a live bomb drill but panicked when a cat entered with a live mouse. The drill scene showed the fear of the mice as the only real surprise.
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London
Women's Home Defense Corps
Berryville teams split in county baseball clash
Henry Carbaugh’s out Berryville champions win 1-0 as 5S hens City ties Bobcats in Star’s county high school baseball league. Archie F Robertson not reappointed, but endorsed for Clarke schools superintendency by Berryville residents amid regional tensions. Britain acknowledges Mediterranean as Axis Sea.
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Henry Carbaugh
Berryville
Bobcats
Archie F. Robertson
Clarke Schools
Britain
Mediterranean
Feinberg A Farmville merchant in Irish Sweepstakes chase
Frank Feinberg of Farmville formerly a Main street merchant is among nine Americans selected to back the winning ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes and share a prize of 150000 dollars. United Automobile Workers Union files a formal charge against Ford Motor Co alleging unfair labor practices. Hull Wells and Roosevelt continue talks as European tension rises.
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Frank Feinberg
Farmville
United Automobile Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Hull
Wells
Roosevelt
Europe
Winchester Youth Drowns in Shenandoah River
Phineas S. Robinson, 17, of Winchester, drowns while swimming in the Shenandoah River below Riverton as veterans march toward Washington to press Congress on the promised World War II bonus. Dr. E. P. Berlin elected president of Berryville High School Alumni Association.
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E. P. Berlin
Berryville High School
Washington
Congress
Winchester
Phineas S. Robinson
Shenandoah
Riverton
Ex governor Cornwell to speak at Stonewall cemetery event
Ex governor John J. Cornwell of West Virginia is announced as the Sixth of June speaker in Stonewall cemetery. Churchill warns England faces a grave crisis over the Irish controversy as public attention centers on the national issue. Mary High of Norfolk defeats Roanoke to win the state high school baseball championship after beating Winchester in the semifinals.
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John J. Cornwell
West Virginia
Stonewall
Churchill
England
Mary High
Norfolk
Roanoke
Winchester Boys
Death of local farmer during excavation at Winchester project
John B. Chapman died yesterday from a heart attack while digging foundations for the Winchester Cold Storage building. Miss Sallie Mae Blakemore and Claude E. Garber are married. U. S. government agents plan wholesale arrests of enemy spies known to be operating in this country.
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John B. Chapman
Winchester
Sallie Mae Blakemore
Claude E. Garber
U. S
Injuries in Floor Collapse at Old Kinkel Building Demolition
Marvin Light and Walter Henry suffer injuries when the floor collapses during razing of the Kinkel building at the corner of Rouss Avenue and Loudoun Street to clear space for the Tiners and Merchants Bank. A heavy frost covers Frederick County with sleet near Mt. Jackson as the Shenandoah valley experiences a deepening cold spell.
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Marvin Light
Walter Henry
Kinzel
Tiners and Merchants Bank
Rouss Avenue
Loudoun Street
Frederick County
Show Falls
Mt. Jackson
Shenandoah Valley
Seven Star Quiz Questions on History and Geography
A newspaper quiz lists seven questions about deserts sea battles nickels Madagascar the Lepanto battle the Pulitzer prize 1941 plus options on insulation and ear anatomy. It asks which items are true or where events occurred and names a book winning a prize.
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Australia
Roosevelt
Churchill
U. S
Madagascar
Africa
Lepanto
Ellen Glasgow
Neksand
Albania
Eustachian Canal
New York
Mesopotamia
Miss Hayworth Reframes Life Story Phrase
A guidance note advises avoiding pronoun usage for long-dormant nouns. It suggests reintroducing the noun by name and placing the pronoun later, as in Miss Hayworth, in the story of her life, relates this incident.
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Miss Hayworth
Senator Walter Slated For Judgeship
Richmond June 2 Gov Darden announced plans to appoint late Senator Jefferson F Walter of Accomack and Northampton counties to the thirty first circuit bench to replace the late Judge John E Nottingham. Walter has chaired the Senate fish and game committee and sat on the courts banking agriculture and roads and internal navigation panels.
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Richmond
Darden
Jefferson F. Walter
Ftanley
John E. Nottingham
Acomack
Walter
Northampton
Walter Nas
Senate
Fish and Game Committee
After Pearl Harbor Bombardment Japanese Chamber of Commerce Closes
In Honolulu on June 2 the Japanese Chamber of Commerce suspends operations for the duration following the Pearl Harbor attack, marking a wartime closure by order and local response.
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Honolulu
Japanese Chamber of Commerce
Pearl Harbor
Jersey Journal Re elected A.N.P.A. President in 1942 Meeting
The Jersey Journal reports that A.N.P.A. reelected its president at the annual New York meeting in April 1942. The item notes the confirmation of leadership during wartime.
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The
Jersey Journal
Jersey City
N. J
A.N.P.A
New York
Army Third Lieutenant rank and naturalization provisions
The Army never uses a third lieutenant rank today. Congress created it 1813 to 1815 and again in 1832 to 1833. The Second War Powers Act allows naturalization for service members, with affidavits from U S citizens and special rules for stationed aliens.
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United States
Naral
Byrd Predicts Long War Across Nations
In Carlisle Pennsylvania Senator Harry F Byrd voiced a stark forecast at Dickinson College 169th commencement that the war would be long and hard fought on all oceans and continents. He warned of strong adversaries and urged rapid aid to the Allies while calling for drastic cuts in non essential federal spending including the CCC NYA and WPA saving two billion dollars.
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Carlisle
Dickinson College
U. S
Harry F. Byrd
Dva
Russia
Byrd
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Youth Administration
Work Projects Administration
Inspector Cowan Heads Wartime Traffic group
Inspector J. R. K. Cowan of the state police was named executive secretary of a wartime highway traffic committee to conserve road transportation facilities. He will work from the department of highways building and oversee conservation of equipment tires gasoline and personnel with members including Highway Commissioner James A. Anderson and Attorney General A. P. Staples.
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Richmond
J. R. K. Cowan
State Police
Darden
Cowan
Division of Motor Vehicles
Police and Safety
Department of Highways
Department
Col. M. 8. Battle
James A. Anderson
C. W. Woodson
A. P. Staples
L. M. Walker, Jr
R. V. Long
State Department of Education
Danger of Shortage of Quinine Not Imminent
Dr. Logan Clendening explains quinine supply stability amid the Batavia conquest impact. He notes nearly all world quinine came from the Dutch East Indies, but reserves and stocks built by the Army and Navy mitigate short-term risk. Long term, South American sources and quinine bark could secure future supplies.
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Logan Clendening
M. D
Batavia
America
Dutch East Indies
North America
Canal Zone
Tropics
South
South America
Lambia
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