Cruiser launched
San Francisco, California –
A new United States cruiser, the Oakland, was launched here today at the Bethlehem Steel Corp. yards.
Absentees won’t hear victory swing session
Washington –
Unexcused absentees at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven, Connecticut, were told they might got no tickets for a big swing band jamboree to be sponsored by the Victory Drive Committee there.
End of 40-hour week urged by Senate manpower chief
Elimination of overtime and time-and-a-half included in Reynold’s proposals as committee resumes hearings
By A. Shirley Brown, United Press staff writer
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All is quiet as New York heeds alarm
Only eight arrests mark first daylight test in the metropolis
By Robert G. Evans, United Press staff writer
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Los Angeles employees in service get extra pay
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
Officers and city employees of Los Angeles who enter the Armed Forces after one full year’s service with the city will receive 30 days’ extra pay under an ordinance recently adopted by the city council, according to the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada.
To reserve the salary of the presentee for his use, his vacated position will be kept open for thirty days.
Land ordered to allow OWI to read talks
Davis says controversial speech wasn’t passed on by his office
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OPA faces new headache in liability angles of car-sharing
Effective insurance policy advised as best production to owner
By Ned Brooks, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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New Yorker in Paris loses $100,000 worth of furs
Vichy, France (UP) –
Paris police today investigated the loss of furs valued at more than $100,000 from the wardrobe of Mrs. Sibyl Kaye Kemp of New York.
She had left him with a servant at the time of the exodus from Paris during the Battle of France. When the servant went to get the furs from several steamer trunks yesterday the trunks were empty.
5 killed in bomber crash
Sebring, Florida –
The entire crew of five men aboard an Army bomber were killed when the plane crashed near here last night, military authorities at the Hendricks Field base announced today. Details surrounding the accident were not disclosed. The plane had been on a routine flight.
Here is how the victory tax works
‘Typical’ family man, earning $60 a week and with sizeable debts, will find gross new levy is $124 – but he’ll get $54 returned
By Peter Edson, Press Washington correspondent
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Spending tax, once refused, faces revival
Signs increase Treasury will request levy in new revenue bill
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OPA’s decree fixes prices on pork, bread
New edicts are expected to spread supplies, hold down costs
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