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These farms and acres, machines and animals need some twelve million hard workers to keep them going. A year ago. the Agriculture Department urged farmers to produce as never before. Then farm help was plentiful. But as the crops bloomed into harvest the draft and juicy war jobs started taking farm people away. About 570,000 left farms in 1940. More than 1,000,000 left in 1941. By seeding time next spring, an estimated 1,300,000 more will have gone. Now farmers can no longer tend all their acres, milk all their cows. They must somehow reduce operations...
Short, glib Joshua Bryan (for William Jennings) Lee is an ordained Baptist minister, in the Senate represents legally dry Oklahoma. To the bill to draft 18-& 19-year-olds he tacked an amendment: ". . . In the interest of the common defense it shall be unlawful within such reasonable distance of any military camp, station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of War shall determine . . . for any person, corporation, partnership, or association to sell, supply, give or have in his or its possession any alcoholic liquors, including beer, ale, or wine...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt said today the Administration has reached no decision on means of solving the critical manpower problem and warned against premature conclusions that plans for national service or "labor draft" legislation have been abandoned...
Discussing the general manpower out-look at his press conference, he also disclosed he may call for nationwide registration of women, largest untapped source of labor, to uncover potential workers for ever-expanding war industries. He emphasized that there are no plans to draft women...
...Orchestra will absorb about 30 girls, mostly of the string-playing species, thus bolstering the draft-depleted personnel of that organization. "Bigger and better things are hoped for next year," said Jaffe, whose increasingly Radcliffe minded orchestra began its rehearsals last night...