Labor Day boosts war production and navy milestones
Donald Nelson tightens control of manufacturing priorities as July munitions output rises 16 percent. The 45,000 ton USS Iowa slides into Brooklyn Navy Yard amid a White House style ceremony with Mrs. Henry Wallace. Five similar battleships are under construction. Howard Hughes teams with Harry Kaiser on wood based cargo planes, while WAVES training begins at Smith College and Amherst College editorializes on women in uniform.
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America
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Wisconsin
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Howard Hughes
Jean Harlow
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Kaiser
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Fort Des Moines
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Amherst College
WAACs Sweep OCS First Class in Des Moines and Elections Loom
The first WAAC officer candidate class of 28 includes four former deans, eight department store executives, and Irene Rich’s daughter Frances. At Fort Des Moines 436 Army WAACE completed OCS and were sworn in as Third Officers. General Ulio praised them as Mrs Hobby called them wonderful. Eight of 444 candidates failed to qualify. Remaining officers stay for two weeks of schooling, then head to camps or England. Labor Day also brings election news with Dewey and Farley in New York, O'Daniel winning Texas Democratic nomination, and California primaries showing Karl Warren sweeping Republican governor votes while Olson leads Democratic race. Roy Owens of Ham and Eggs also ran in California.
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New York
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John J. Bennett, Jr
Brooklyn
Texas
W. Lee
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Pappy
O’daniel
Senate
James V. Allred
California
Karl Warren
Culbert L. Olson
Roy G. Owens
Red haired Mrs Days shot by hunter in woods misidentified
Bloomfield Indiana reports a 19 year old red haired woman Mrs Dexter Days was shot after a hunter mistook her auburn hair for a squirrel. She was hospitalized with 53 pellets in her body. The incident highlights dangerous misidentification in hunting.
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Dexter Days
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