SPAB bans for emergency duration non-essential pub and private bldg using critical materials; pub projects inclusion gives D M Nelson responsibility for reviewing Cong and exec depts action; ban effective immediately; OPM priorities div to implement it; existing bldgs repair not affected; nearly completed bldgs likely to get materials; M M Watson, Assoc Gen Contractors of Amer pres, predicts wide unemployment; SPAB dissents; asks local and State govts to suspend codes requiring excessive amts of critical materials

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1941Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter^[†]

Peter Coyote is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator of films, theater, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films, such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Femme Fatale (2002).

1941Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (died 1995)^[†]

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. He was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in the Niger Delta whose homeland, Ogoniland, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.

Headlines from October 10, 1941

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Nazis Warn Dutch Press On Dog Pictures for News

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RUSSIANS HIT BACK; Report Germans Fought to a Standstill in Their Drives on Moscow BUT TELL PEOPLE OF PERIL Civilians Called to Arms in the Vyazma Zone -- Nazi Pressure in the Far South Continues RUSSIANS HIT BACK ON CENTRAL FRONT

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE; Edict Bars Projects Not Vital to Defense or Public Health WIDE EFFECT IS PREDICTED Contractors See Big Job Loss but SPAB Expects Switch to Defense SPAB ORDERS BAN ON NEW BUILDING

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