Truman Names Liberal Cabinet Aides In Broad Shakeup
President Truman picks Clinton Anderson and Lewis Schwellenbach as agriculture and labor secretaries and Tom C. Clark as attorney general in a move to ease White House Capitol Hill ties. He seeks executive reorganization to cut agencies for efficiency and economy.
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Harry S. Truman
New Deal
Clinton Anderson
N. M
Lewis Schwellenbach
Wash
Agriculture
Labor
Truman
White House
Capitol Hill
Department of Justice
Tom C. Clark
Mr. Truman
Perkins
Claude Wickard
Department
Biddle
Boss Pendergast
Congress
Anderson Schwellenbach
Security Confab and Doenitz Capture Mark End of War
Reports describe Japan bolstering home front defenses as B 29s attack Nagoya and Tokyo while mobilization expands to 20 million students and agrarian militia. The San Francisco UN conference advances regional settlements and US led trusteeships. Doenitz is arrested in Flensburg ending Germany as a state. Himmler commits suicide as allied forces move to occupation zones.
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Japan
Nagoya
Tokyo
U. S
Air Corps
Dessau
America
Britain
Russia
France
China
United Nations
San Francisco
World Security Organization
Congress
Karl Doenitz
Flensburg
Germany
Doenitz
Eisenhower
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Lueneberg
Himmler
Freight Rates Equal Break Aids South Parity Claim
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered equalized rail charges for manufactured and high grade goods across regions, boosting eastern rates while trimming South and West costs. The decision lets bulk commodities like coal, livestock, lumber, grain, cotton and sand fall to lower South and West rates, promoting more balanced regional competition.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
ICC
Gas ration boosts and Pacific redeployment outlined
The report details a June start for higher A and B gas rations due to Germany's capitulation and wartime production boosts. It also notes the U.S. 1st Army’s redeployment from Europe to the Pacific, with many divisions reconstituted and veterans released under the point system. The unit, led by Lt Gen Hodges, spearheaded Normandy and Remagen roles before shifting theaters.
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Germany
U. S
Pacific Theater
Ist
Pacific
France
Elbe River
U. S. 1St Army
Europe
War Department
1St
C. Hodges
Normandy
Reich
von Rundstedt
Remagen
Rhine
George Patton
U. 83Rd Army
Food Outlook Sees Pork Shortage and Crop Drops
The Agricultural Adjustment administration warns pork production will fall about 5.3 million head below War Food goals, reducing eight pounds per person. AAA also reports crops like corn and potatoes will drop below goals, signaling tight supplies into 1946. Churchill forces Britain’s general election as he resigns. Conservative hopes rise with possible Eden leadership.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
War Food Administration
AAA
Winston Church
Great Britain
Conservative
Churchill
Commons
Anthony Eden
Labor Party
Gonte
Household Cleaning Hints From Everyday Practice
The text offers practical tips for home care including using rice water for starching fabrics, washing fancy linens, avoiding ironing, using discarded rubber glove fingers as finger guards, and bandaging cuts. It also describes rinsing lettuce under running water to keep leaves intact, taping a scourer can to prevent rust stains, and advises against using sheets or pillow cases as laundry bags due to weak weave.
Wing Circle Needlecraft Bridal Linens Pattern 7481
A nat ural color motif for a bride’s linens features birds and flowers. Pattern 7481 offers twenty motifs arranged 7 by 2 with a 44% by 10 design grid, described as simple line art suitable for transfers.
Costly miniature train serves Maharaja's table
The Maharaja of Gwalior owns a costly silver miniature electric railroad that circles the dining table during meals. Its twelve trucks carry fruits nuts condiments and wines while automated stops allow serving and clearing without human motion.
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Gwalior
India
Collier’s
Royal Palace
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Thomas
Tom) C. Clark
Deep South
Sam Rayburn
Tom Connally
Texas
Bowing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph
Chicago
New Royal Phosphate Bakin
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