Wartime shifts reshape U S population maps and migration
War spurred massive moves to industrial hubs as California Oregon and Washington absorbed about 1.7 million migrants by 1944. Southern and western cities surged in growth while the northeast and north central areas shed population amid enlistments and war impacts.
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Washington
West
Far West
Bureau of Census
Metropolit
Tropolitan
Hern
California
Oregon
Pacific
Portland
Ore
Son Angees
San Francisco
Detroit
Rocky Untaing
Mississippi Riv
Ohio
Potomac Rivers
Tion
Rmanent
Census Bureau
Philip M. Hauser
Hauser
Army release notes officer promotions and loans probe
Elliot Roosevelt asks to be relieved from active duty amid congressional inquiries into large loans. The report lists wartime growth areas in Class A regions including Macon Savannah Augusta and other southern western and western cities with varying postwar prospects labeled excellent good or coming back.
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Apter
Tvo
Wi Winchave
Elliot Roosevelt
Congressional
International
Macon
Savannah
Augusta
Austin
Tex
Binghamton
N. Y
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Paul
Peoria
Shreveport, la
Charlotte, Winston - Salem
Asheville
N. C
Brutal Treatment of Yank Prisoners Alleged by House Panel
Washington reports recount a subcommittee finding on mistreatment of American soldiers at Lincoln Army Air Field. Pvt Warren C Miller of Warren Pa, court martialed in 1944 for pockets on formation, faced beatings by Pvt Alfred L Winkle and others under Capt Leonard Dunn provost marshal. Acquittals for Dunn and Lt Jones cited. lingering questions on morale and disciplinary justice.
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Washington
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Lincoln
Neb
Army Air
Warren C. Miller
Warren
Miller
Alfred L. Winkle
Minneapolis
Leonard K. Dunnn
Stanley T. Jones
Winkle
Dunn
Post Hospital
Odus L. West
West
Jeshloug Parisi
Jones
Lincoln Field
War Labor Board wage ruling praised by senator
University of North Carolina president Frank P. Graham wrote the Southport decision on wartime labor policy that the OWI broadcast worldwide. Senator Wayne Morse credited Graham as the author of a historic ruling prohibiting pay disparity for equal work and praised the decision in Congress.
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Chapel Hill
War Labor Board
Southport
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
WLB
OWI
Europe
Africa
Australia
Asia
Graham
United States Senate
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Congressional Record
Morse
United States
Boston
John Fulbright
Aas
Army air forces deputy commander to visit Rio de Janeiro
Lt. Gen. Ira C. Baker, deputy commander of the army air forces, will visit Rio de Janeiro on Monday for ceremonies honoring the Brazilian air force which returned from Europe.
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Washington
Ira C. Baker
Army Air Forces
Rio de Janeiro
Europe
Negro Recommended For U.S. Judgeship
Washington August 4 The CIO recommended President Truman appoint William H Hastie dean of Howard University Law School to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Hastie is a former U S district judge for the Virgin Islands and is described as an outstanding leader with learning and broad sympathies by CIO President Philip Murray
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Washington
CIO
Truman
William H Hastie
United Ae Court of Appeals
Dist of Columbia
Howard University Law School
Hastie
U. S. District Court For
the Virgin Islands
Philip Murray
United States
Bold initiative on the part of the founders
A compact note highlights bold initiative by the founders and their continued faith in the venture's future.
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