Fleming Outlines Ambitious Program For The FWA
CHAPEL HILL NOV 24 Professor K King named associate dean of the graduate school at UNC by President Graham and Chancellor House. King, longtime administrator and educator, previously headed the education department and served as consultant for TVA and the consolidated university. He contributed to journals and co edited Secondary Education in the South. Guam’s recapture area noted as U S Pacific base history.
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Five Billion Dollar Public Works Plan Outlined
Maj. Gen. Fleming, head of the federal works agency, proposes a five billion dollar annual program to cushion postwar unemployment. The plan covers highways, federal buildings, housing, conservation, sewer systems, and local public works, with federal state matching for highways and a broad array of projects expected to create substantial job opportunity.
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Wives Of War Criminals Hope For Early Return
Berchtesgaden reports show wives of Hitler era figures press local war crimes officials for their husbands to be freed or returned home by Christmas. Frau Jodl and others contest imprisonment, arguing their spouses acted within military roles or were misunderstood.
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Center-Stanton H Sears Discharged After Overseas Service
Center-Stanton H Sears son of the late Dennis E Sears of High Point Rt 1 was discharged at Fort Bragg separation center after entering in April 1942 in San Francisco. He served 30 months overseas participating in campaigns in Tunisia Rome Arno Southern France Rhineland and Po Valley and earned the American theater medal EAMET campaign medal with five bronze stars one bronze arrowhead good conduct medal and meritorious service unit badge.
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Public works program eyed for broad reach despite funding gaps
Congress has yet to provide funds for a sweeping public works effort now named community facilities. Fleming seeks 125 million for planning loans and a 2.5 billion construction program looms, with hopes for vast activity across 48 states and thousands of local bodies. Ickes proposes 1.5 million veterans’ one year interior project jobs.
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Parri Resigns as Italian Premier Reported by Swiss Radio
Swiss radio quoted a Rome dispatch saying Italian Premier Ferruccio Parri resigned. The broadcast reported he announced the resignation at a four four meeting of the committee of national liberation.
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Deep Oil Hole Reaches 16,555 Feet in Texas
The world’s deepest oil drill in Brazoria County, Texas, continues to bore and has surpassed 16,555 feet, with operations ongoing.
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Rubber surplus to relieve the global shortage warned
A London meeting of American British French and Dutch experts reports a looming long term rubber surplus for two to three years. They expect new uses and products as competition rises between synthetic rubber in the United States and natural rubber from Malaya and the Dutch Indies. Annual world capacity tops 2.7 to 2.8 million tons, while demand may be about 1.5 million tons annually.
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Admiral Claims Tojo Forced Japan Into War With America
Rear Admiral Katsugi Masaki accused Hideki Tojo and his allies of provoking war with the United States to shield themselves from blame for China's failures. He named several high officials including Teiichi Suzuki and Akira Muto, noting Muto faces trial in Manila as Yamashita's fate is decided.
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Atomic Hearing Delayed To Tuesday By Senate Panel
The first open hearing of the senate atomic energy committee moved from Monday to Tuesday due to a clash with the foreign relations committee meeting. Maj. Gen. Groves head of the Manhattan project is expected as first witness, with about a dozen scientists including Nobel laureate Dr. Harold Urey to follow. U.S. lead production of lard reached 3,075,000,000 pounds in 1944.
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Ten lashes administered in yard at New Castle workhouse
John Colter, 42, was whipped ten times on his bare back in the open prison yard of the New Castle county workhouse in Wilmington. The sentence also includes three years of imprisonment for larceny, with the lashes carried out by Warden Elwood H. Wilson as the thermometer stood at 37 degrees.
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