Social Hygiene Progress Highlighted by War Effort
The 1944 annual report of the American Social Hygiene Association details wartime gains in combatting venereal diseases. It cites federal aid needs, public opinion support, and enforcement of laws against commercial and social vice. The report notes 600 studies across 48 states and the District of Columbia, 10 000 prostitution cases distributed to military and federal programs, and penicillin showing major treatment advances.
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Walters
Social Hygiene Associ
Jon War Fund
Assation
Clarke
Army
United States Public Health
District of
Ibia
Chambers of Commerce
Forth
Brooklyn
Battle Over National Intelligence Service Sparks Washington Clash
The article outlines a White House plan to create a national intelligence service with limited wartime power shared among War Navy State and Justice, while Donald Donovan and J Edgar Hoover stake claims to lead postwar sleuthing. It cites FBI wartime successes and cautions about the risk of bureaucratic bickering as demobilization nears.
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National Intelligence Service
White House
United States
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
South America
Hoover
Latin Republic
Argentina
Truman Sets Plan for Wartime Mobilization
President Truman outlined a multi pronged effort to sustain war footing until Japan is defeated. He asked Fred M Vinson to secure pledges from business leaders and officials to remain on the job through peacetime production. A V E Day radio appeal and a call for extending wartime price and ration controls were announced.
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Washington
Truman
Japan
White House
Fred M. Vinson
Office of War Mobilization
Jonathan Daniels
Germany
Vinson
Negro Boy Killed as Bus Backed Over at Carver School
A six year old Negro pupil Nathaniel Banner was killed when a school bus backed over him at Carver school. The driver J C McQueen 17 faced manslaughter charges and was released on a 100 dollar bond.
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Winston-Salem
Nathaniel Banner
Carver School
J. C. McQueen
Amputee Veterans Traveled East From Mare Island Trainload
A train carrying 121 severely wounded sailors and Marines with amputations left Mare Island California for Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The largest such convoy to depart the west coast moved under the care of Captain A G Churchill and included Navy doctors nurses and corpsmen plus Red Cross workers providing recreation and support aboard the hospital train.
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Iwo Jima
Philippines
U. S. Naval Hostal
Mare Island
Calif
Navy
U. S. Naval Hospital
Philadelphia
West Coast
A. G. Churchill
USNR
Naval District
Red Cross
White House backs OPA amid Taft condemnation
President Truman pledged full White House support for the OPA as Congress debates renewing the price control act. Senator Taft criticized the president’s praise as blocking an agreed banking committee report while Bowles offered to resign if needed.
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Washington
OPA
White House
Truman
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Banking Committee
Mr. Truman
Price
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Six Yanks Take Jap Islet On Okinawa
Six U S artillerymen in an amphtrac assaulted and captured a Japanese Pacific islet known as Kiesi Shima off Naha Okinawa after air support from cub planes. The operation left no American casualties, and Col. W C Lucas described the tide of fire and subsequent Japanese boats attacking the larger island, which the Americans repelled.
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Okinawa
Cub
W. C. Lucas
Charleston
West Point
Schofield Barracks
Oahu
Kiesi Shima
Naha
U. S
Kenfu Shima
Lloyd J
Lloyd J. ‘Swink of New Orleans, la
Oliver Clark
Memphis
William Woodward
Baltimore
Irvin Mellon
New Bedford
Mass
Cubs
Woodward
Lucas
Kisei
Kenfu
Brown Engineer Pvt Brown Aids 6th Army Group in France
Pvt Brown of the 344th Engineer Regiment served with the 6th Army Group in France. He helped build bridges across the Doubs and Moselle rivers and opened supply lines within hours after capture. The unit rebuilt a blown tunnel and maintained about 2,000 miles of roads, with veterans of 38 months overseas. Brown is home on 45 days’ recuperation before possible return to Germany.
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6Th Army Group
France
Rufus O. Brown
N. C
Doubs
Mos Selle
Alxander M. Patch
Seventh Army
England
Algeria
Ital
Pvt. Brown
States
Germany
Allied Radio says Hacha regime seeks Bohemia occupation talks
The Luxembourg radio in Allied hands reported that Emil Hacha’s puppet government in Bohemia-Moravia was attempting to negotiate with the U S army to accept occupation of Bohemia without a fight.
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New York
Luxembourg
Raedio
Emil Hacha
Bohemia-Molivia
Boicant
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San Francisco
Truk
Formosa
Lied Control Commission
Reichswehr
Berlin
Sweden
Russia
Franco
Spain
General von Seeckt
Red Army
Economic and Social Council
Dumbarton Oaks
Charles L. Gifford
Cotuit
Massachusetts
New England
Will L. Clayton
Ray
Texas
Gifford
Mann Drug Stores
Harry S. Truman
Edward D. McKim
Omaha
Neb
Edwin Pauley
California
International Reparations Commission
President Truman
William O. Douglas
Supreme Court
John W. Snyder
St. Louis
Madam Laurel
High Point
N. Y
Studio House
Greensboro Road
Laurel
East
Libers E. Shipton
USMCR
Co. Franklin Street
Rers
McCarran
D-New
Jap Islet
Dillard Arnold Byerly
Byerly
Mallory Street
Marsh Furniture Company
Soith
Fred Palmer
Galenol Co
Aulanta
American Bakeries Company
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