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March 18, 1942

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50% AIRPLANE RISE REPORTED BY NELSON; He Warns Three-Month Gain Is Not Enough -- K.T. Keller Asked to Head Output NELSON REPORTS 50% PLANE RISE

By Special to THE NEW YOKK TIMES

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3,485 FIRST NUMBER; All Night Is Required for Drawing That Affects 9,000,000 Men USE IN NAVY IS URGED Hershey Also Suggests Assigning Some Labor for War Projects Third Selective Service Drawing Proceeds In Washington; 9,000,000 Men Affected

By Unknown Author

lottery; Stimson draws 1st number; drawing continues all night; numbers listed; Hershey s; N Y C registrants reaction described; McDermott recording numbers illus; Stimson drawing 1st number illus

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GENERAL FLIES OUT; Wife, Child Accompany Him on Trip From Philippine Post ORDER BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Asserts All Americans Back It -- Expect Action Now M'ARTHURMEN: SHOWN WHILE THEIR CON VOY WAS STEAMING DOWN TO AUSTRALIA GEN. M'ARTHUR GOES TO AUSTRALIA POST

By Charles Hurdspecial To the New York Times

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Bill for Women's Auxiliary Corps Of 150,000 Passed by the House; HER BILL APPROVED HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR WOMEN'S CORPS

By Nona Baldwinspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The House passed today a bill creating a volunteer Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, whose members, by taking over duties now performed behind the lines by enlisted men, would release many men for combat duty.

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PRESIDENT WARNS AGAINST RUSHING ANTI-STRIKES LAW; No Problem Exists at Present and Things Are Going Along Pretty Well, He Cautions HE EXPLAINS 40-HOUR ACT But Bill to Ban It Is Pushed to Hearings in House -- Senate Also Swept by Debate PRESIDENT AGAINST STRIKE BILL RUSH

By W.h. Lawrencespecial To the New York Times

Roosevelt backs time-and-a-half pay, reveals he asked Combined Labor War Bd to give up union contract rules requiring Sunday double pay; scores press and Cong speeches for causing pub misunderstanding; Green and Murray comment

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Notable Births

1942Kathleen Collins, American filmmaker and playwright (died 1988)^[†]

Kathleen Collins was an African American polymath from Jersey City, New Jersey,, notable for her contributions as poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator.

1942Jeff Mullins, American basketball player and coach^[†]

Jeffrey Vincent Mullins is an American retired basketball player and coach. He played college basketball with the Duke Blue Devils and in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the St. Louis Hawks and Golden State Warriors. Mullins served as the head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1985 to 1996.

Historical Events

1942The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.^[†]

The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also operated the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, which was the only refugee camp set up in the United States for refugees from Europe. The agency was created by Executive Order 9102 on March 18, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was terminated June 26, 1946, by order of President Harry S. Truman.