OPA acts to end overcharging by meatpackers
Will seek injunctions in 18 cities to compel price order compliance
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Planes slash Rommel in record raids
U.S. fliers join RAF in non-stop battering all along Axis lines
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Army gives women job preference over men of military age
Washington (UP) –
Secretary of War Stimson revealed today that the War Department has adopted a policy of hiring women in preference to civilian men of military age.
He said the employment of women will be extended as far as possible so that men will be free to serve with the Armed Forces or other vital war production tasks for which women are unfitted.
About 300,000 women are already employed in War Department activities, and as many more can be absorbed, Stimson disclosed. Besides clerical jobs, they are working in arsenals and other Army plants which range from running complicated lathes to driving 15-ton trucks.
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Willkie is expected in Ankara Saturday
Ankara, Turkey (UP) –
Wendell Willkie, it was understood today, will arrive here by airplane from Cairo Saturday on the second leg of his mission to the Middle East, Russia and China.
President Gen. İsmet İnönü will come here from Istanbul to meet Willkie, it was already reported. Willkie is expected to stay here two or three days.
Labor rally to honor Russian woman sniper
Lt. Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Russian woman sniper credited with killing 309 Nazis, will be given a silver plaque for the Red Army at the Labor Day celebration of the city and state CIO councils at 2 p.m. Sunday in Central Park.
Other awards will be made to the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines and Air Forces in line with the CIO appeal to its members to spend Labor Day at their jobs.
Chinese smash to within 15 miles of Canton
Battle rages near Kinhwa, airbase city in range of Tokyo
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Boro firm simplifies trench mortar shells
Eliminates need for costly drop forging equipment – women used in all operations
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Jap alien arrested; was on Olympic team
Albany, New York (UP) –
The arrest of a Japanese alien, a member of the Japanese team which participated in the 1932 Olympic Games at Lake Placid, was announced today by the Albany office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Taken in a series of spot raids conducted by Albany FBI agents and state police at Lake Placid, he was held on a charge of possessing contraband in violation of a presidential proclamation.
‘Jap Eradicators’ buy bonds
Merrill, Oregon (UP) –
Members of the Merrill Service Club organized an auxiliary “Jap Eradicator Club.” Each member contributes 25¢ for every Jap ship sunk and 10¢ for every plane downed. The proceeds go into defense bonds.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9237
Authorizing the appointment of certain employees in the Postal Service without regard to the Civil Service Rules
By virtue of the authority vested in me by paragraph Eight, subdivision SECOND, Section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403, 404), it is hereby ordered that temporary clerks, carriers, and laborers required for part-time or intermittent work in the Postal Service in connection with the holiday or seasonal business from November 15, 1942, to January 15, 1943, may be appointed without compliance with the requirements of the Civil Service Rules.
This order is recommended by the Postmaster General.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House
September 3, 1942