News on liquor shortage fuels wartime probes
Dismisses on price, supply, and policy clash as officials from the White House Treasury Agriculture and industry push a survey to curb black markets bootlegging and unruly brands. Senate probes McCarran calls for action and potential tax hikes April 1 raise consumer costs while war needs push new alcohol sources.
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Noe God
Ray Tucker
White House
Treasury
Agriculture Department and Industry
C. S
Morgenthau, Jr
Senate
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
Secretary of the Treasury
Reform factions clash as candidates drift in Democratic scene
The piece outlines rifts within the party as Johnson, La Follette, and others lose support. It notes exit from campaigns, factional realignments, and efforts by Wallace and Ickes to reunite reformers. It mentions Madagascar looming as a distant note in the narrative.
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W. Johnson
California
Robert Marion la Follette
Wisconsin
Norris-Lardia-Marcantonio
Nebraska
la Guardia
Marcantonio
New York
Moscow
Stalin
Henry A. Wallace
Harold L. Ickes
Germans Have New Portable Pillboxes
Washington reports portable prefabricated steel pillboxes developed to defend infantry. Each two man crew shelter includes a gun aperture panel and heating system, hauled by tractor, and sited to cover flanking approaches. Camouflage hides them when partly buried, limiting visibility to about 30 yards.
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Washington
Aany C Kirby
Asheville
N. C
Alfred K. du Moulin
Wis
German radio to report on air situation hourly
United States government monitors noted a dramatic shift in German broadcasts as the German radio announced it would relay hour by hour reports on the air situation to the German people, with all transmitters involved.
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New York
United States
Money Plan Would Give Britain U S Gold
Rep. Smith charges postwar currency stabilization would veer the United States toward handing over large gold holdings to Britain. He says the aim is to make Washington assume Britain debts to others to restore London as the world’s banker and finance Britain’s trade and Beveridge plan. He calls the proposal an effort by Britain and debtor nations, aided by the current administration, to bleed the United States and damage its vital economy.
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Washington
Smith
Ohio
Great Britai
United States
London
Great Britain
Delvery
Ohiolaw
Southern Baptists Plan Centennial Session in Atlanta 1945
The centennial Southern Baptist convention will be held in Atlanta in 1945 after Augusta withdraws its invitation due to wartime facility shortages. The convention, started in Augusta in 1845, gathers about 5,000,000 white Baptists across 18 southern states.
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Atlanta
Augusta
Southern Baptist Convention
Fewer Workers Seek Job Changes in February Reports
February figures from 45 local offices of the War Manpower Commission show only 37 percent of 69,633 applicants seeking statements of availability obtained permission to change positions. 10,761 workers left local areas for other areas while 8,470 entered, indicating 2,291 more left than entered, with most releases inter area.
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United States Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
North Carolina
WMC
Miss and
Eee
J. S. Dorton
Soca
Civil Service
Interarea
Oae
Oon
Dr. Dorton
Committee Would Handle Vet Problems
In Raleigh on March 22 representatives of 17 civic service patriotic and labor groups adopted a resolution to create local clearing house committees to handle problems of veterans. Brig Gen J Van B Metts state selective service director told the conferees that the local committees act as an extension of the personnel division of the U S Employment Service.
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Raleigh
J. van B. Metts
Selective Service
U. & Employment V . . Service
Reclassifications at Board Four Meet March Fourteen
List of selective service train reclassifications shows many 1-A to 2-A and 3-A to 1-A moves. The document also defines classifications 1-A 1-C 2-A 2-B 2-C 3-D and 4-F with notes on age and exemptions.
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Woodruff
William L
F. Dennis
Roy J
A. Willard
Roy D
F. Dunlap
Miller L
A. Parker
Robert A
A. Ray
Samuel M
A. Hamilton
Shelton C
A. Lowe
Frank
A. Stone
Grayson W
F. Broadwell
Walter A
A. Dennis
Isaac N
F. Jones
Noel B
F. Overcash
F. Burleson
Norman R
A. Miller
Carl E
A. Beck
James L
Weedon
William C
A. Caddy
Walter B
C. Durham
Robert G
A. Barnes
Ernest C
A. Rose
Willie C
A. Nifong
Clifton B
A. Borland
Fred J
A. Bryant
Herman J
McNair Sends Special Troops From Camp Butner
At Camp Butner on March 22 Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair commander of army ground forces, sent special troops. The public relations office disclosed the move as part of ongoing inspections and activities at the facility.
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Camp Butner
Lesley J. McNair
Army Ground Forces
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