Postwar economics eyed as path to lasting peace
United Nations experts urge a World Bank style plan to stabilize major currencies as a key to peace after WWII. The piece traces how poverty and currency collapse fueled Germany’s rise and stresses need for financial understanding among powers to prevent future conflicts. It cites Russia supporting banking principles and America’s gold position, then shifts to a Truman Committee review of war production.
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United Nations
World Bank
Churchill
United States
League of Nations
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm
Hitler
Nazi Germany
Dawes Commission
Young Commission
Russia
America
Allies Brace For Anything on India Front
Allied headquarters declared forces ready to meet any Japanese threat in Imphal and Kohima areas as infantry and tanks push outward from the Manipur plain. Japanese reinforcements were reported near Kohima, while Dive bombers aided the cleanup northeast of Imphal. Stilwell’s forces pressed toward Mogaung to sever Myitkyina, with Chinese divisions advancing and British and Indian troops redeployed to Kohima.
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Thoburn Wiant
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Kohima
India
Manipur
Bengal- Assam
Tokyo
Mboirang
Loktak Lake
Bishenpur
Silchar
Calcutta
Assam
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
14Th Air Force
Claire L. Chennault
China
Dimapur
Stilwell
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Ledo Road
Mogaunger
Wararup
Mansum
Toyko
What a Gadget for Boy in Orchard
In McMinnville Oregon three farmers showcase home built tree-shaking devices to cut labor in prune orchards. Herbert Holzmeyer uses a hook and tractor power to knock fruit free while Rex Warren notes one machine can clean ten trees in eight minutes replacing 12 to 15 men. The piece also mentions about 2,500 lizard species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMinnville
Ore
Oregon
Herbert Holzmeyer
Rex Warren
Penny Robber Juveniles Sentenced in Reform School Case
A 10 year old and an 8 year old received sentences for a penny robbery in a chain of offenses at J. L. Green Pressing and Cleaning shop Western Union office and Wade Warren grocery. Judge Fred Luck withheld names due to the youths being juveniles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reform School
Fred Luck
J. L. Green Pressing and Cleaning
Western Union Office
Wade Warren
Anti-Sense Society Initiates Get Wet
In Canton New York St Lawrence University prepares freshmen women to join Aleph Semek Gimel a satirical secret society formed in 1997 The anti sense group dons red and pink colors and uses the call Meow meow Ach Himmel Initiates will be doused with buckets of water after serenading male dormitories.
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Canton
N. Y
St. Lawrence University
Aleph Semek Gimel
Ike Fooled Schoolmates at Abilene High
Filer Idaho report recalls Dwight D. Eisenhower as a sandy haired quiet high school senior at Abilene Kansas who had little time for girls. The 1909 class prophecy saw him as a future history professor rather than a man who would shape history.
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Filer
Idaho
Earl Romsey
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abilene
Kas
Eisenhower
Arkansas Power Light rate case recessed after AP L completes its case
The Utilities Commission hearing on Arkansas Power and Light Co rate base structure was recessed over the weekend after AP L completed its case. The action followed lengthy testimony and argument from the commission and AP L about the rate base and its calculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Utilities Commission
Arkansas Power Light Co
Withholding Tax Aims To Eliminate Returns For Salaries
The House Ways and Means Committee nears final passage on a bill to remove annual income tax returns for about 30 million taxpayers by instituting a wage and salary withholding system. The plan would set higher withholding for those earning up to 5,000 dollars annually and take effect January 1, with no changes this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Lemay
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Doughton
D-Nc
Treasury
Editors Call for Global Free Press and World Communications
American Society of Newspaper Editors urged worldwide freedom of communications and press to prevent future wars. It voted to form a committee with government agencies, while stressing no government subsidy of the press. Calls for amending the First Amendment were discussed as modern threats to press freedom.
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Washington
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Carl W. Ackerman
Columbia University School of Journalism
Nathaniel R. Howard
Cleveland News
David Lawrence
United States News
Today
Congress
America
Wilbur Forrest
New York Herald Tribune
Buenos Aires
la Nacion
la Prensa
ASNE
Roy Roberts
Kansas City Star and Society
Kraft Cheese Company Eyes Arkansas Expansion
J L Kraft of Chicago announced to the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce that Kraft Cheese Company is conducting a survey in Arkansas for possible expansion of operations in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Kraft Cheese Company
Arkansas
J. L. Kraft
Chicago
Mussels Oysters and Clams Aid Shore Cleanup Effort
Mussels oysters and clams remove large debris from nearshore ocean water as crews undertake coastal cleanup operations.
World Bank plan aims to stabilize postwar money system
Money experts from 34 nations unveiled a plan for an international fund of 8 billion dollars to stabilize exchange rates. The United States would contribute about 2.5 to 2.75 billion in gold, with potential expansion to include neutrals and Axis nations. Morgenthau called it the keystone to postwar economic planning. Russia endorsed the plan, while U S Congress awaited action on funding and legislation.
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George Zielke
Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
United States
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Russia
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Midway Field Producing 6830 Barrels Daily In Arkansas
The Midway oil field in Lafayette county Arkansas reports 6830 barrels of oil daily from 41 wells and about 7 million cubic feet of gas. Barnsdall Oil advances Luzenia Creek No 2 drilling while Lion Oil near pay zones at Cusetta No 1. A new Midway gasoline plant is under construction with WPB approval and primary foundations underway.
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Stamps
Ark
Barnsdall Oil Company
Luzenia Creek No
CNE
Midway
Lafayette County
Lion Oil Refining Company
McKamie
Midway Field
Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission
War Production Board
WPB
Cellophane Fights Bug Invasion
New Orleans report says cellophane in dressings acts as a mechanical barrier to organisms invading wounds. Dr. Neal Owens Tulane University notes it can block passage through multiple gauze layers and could reduce hospitalization and material use when applied between pressure bandage and adhesive closure over burns.
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New Orleans
Neal Owens
Tulane University
Troops Strong Before Week Ends At Camp Van Dorn
At Camp Van Dorn Mississippi the camp infirmary reports more patients Monday morning than any other time and the fewest on pay day. An officer says boisterous weekends do not explain it and that Mississippi germs work harder on Sunday.
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Camp van Dorn
Camp
Soviet Siege Tightens at Sevastopol Amidst Allied Operations
Soviet forces press the siege of Sevastopol as Red Fleet ships and bombers thwart evacuations while German and Romanian troops contend for ship passage. Meanwhile Allied naval strikes from Ceylon and Sumatra hit Sabang and Port Blair drawing off Japanese air strength.
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Thoburn Wiant
Kandy
Ceylon
Indian Ocean
Sumatra
Sabang
Shong
James Somerville
Southeast Asia
Pacific
Associated Press
Eugene Burns
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Port Blair
Andaman Islands
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Russia
Red Fleet
Sevastopol
Dimitri Nikolaev
Old Poland
Red Army
Stanislawow
Carpbhatian
Prut
Dnestr
Lwow
Berlin
Ukraine
Pripet
Fritz Eric von Mannstein
Carpathian
Uay Aq
von Mannstein
Crimean
Black Sea
This Is What Fighting Men Talk About Aboard Carrier
Aboard a Southwest Pacific aircraft carrier on a combat mission the crew talks about daily life and memory rather than war. They discuss business, television inventors, baseball, postwar studies, poetry, hometowns, whiskey, and ports, with little political talk and fewer women due to distance and infrequent mail.
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William L. Worden
Hal Boyle
Southwest Pacific
U. S
Hamilton
Iowa
Dartmouth
Baltimore
States
Liberators Strike Balkan Rail Hubs and Fight Nazi Skies
Allied Liberators blasted rail targets at Bucharest and Turnu Severin near the Yugoslav border and claimed 35 Nazi planes down. Seventeen Allied aircraft were lost, with raids extending to Rome area rail lines and Italian port targets Genoa Santo Stefano Livorno Piombino. Wellingtons and Liberators set fires to disrupt German shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Heinerling
Naples
Mediterranean Air Force
Bucharest
Turnu-Severin
Italy
Rome
Genoa
Santo Stefano
Livorno
Leghorn
Piombino
Romania
Russia
Twenty One Wounded Land at Spa Hot Springs by Army Plane
Twenty one patients arrived at the Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs in the first U S army hospital plane landing there. The plane flew from Stark General Hospital in Charleston South Carolina in under five hours.
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Army Hospital
Spa
Hot Springs
Army and Navy General Hospital
U. S. Army Hospital
Stark General Hospital
Charleston
S. C
War Romance Is in the Bag at Arkon War Plant
Thelma Kipe, a war plant worker in Arkon, put her name and address on a floating rifle bag used by the army. Pvt Floyd Williams of New York City wrote from overseas seeking a long letter and a picture, noting he did not know if she is married or single.
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Arkon
Thelma Kipe
Pvt
Floyd Williams
New York City
Williams
Thelma
Tough Last Mile For Gas Coupons
Portland, Ore. The incinerator bound truck carrying CPA-canceled gasoline coupons ran out of gas with the driver out of coupons. Police escort called a tow car to complete the trip.
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Portland
Ore
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20Th Century-Fox
Betty Grable
Harry James
Ike
Free World Press
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Ssi
U.S
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Europe
W. W. Hercher
London
France
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RAF
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