Prospects Bright For Returning Texas Vets To Find Jobs
Texas veterans face a hopeful postwar job market with 350000 openings and widespread CEO surveys in Dallas and Fort Worth. War veterans will be released gradually with GI benefits funding college and vocational training. Housing costs and available factory work shape local transitions as firms plan for postwar production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Rutledge
Associated Press
Johnnny, Jr
Texas
Johnny, Sr
United States Employment Service
Committee For Economic Development
Dallas
Fort Worth
Nathan Adams
Chamber of Commerce
Armed Services
C. E. Fritts
USES
L. H. Smith
Dallas Veteran Service Center
Orville W. Erringer
WMC
Defendants Appeal Usury Case Verdict In Texas
Notice of appeal filed by 30 defendants from a final judgment banning usurious interest rates. District Judge Moore upheld the injunction law against habitual usurers. The piece notes postwar labor shifts in Dallas County and broader Texas economic trends with veterans returning and consumer demand adapting to wartime changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Dist
J. D. Moore
98Th District Court
Dog Twice Saves Life Of Abilene Soldier In France
A heroic Pomeranian named Fleabite with Pvt Roy L. Mantooth of Abilene Texas saved their lives in battle near Saint Lo. Gen Montgomery ordered the pair to remain together in England as they recover from shrapnel wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dog
Abilene
France
NEW_ YORK
England
Bernard T Montgomery
British Information Service
Montgomery
Fleatite
Roy L. Mantooth
Tex
Spitz
St. Lo
Personnally
Mantooth
South Carolina
Glenn Smith
Ohio
Smith
Big Post War Road Program Planned
The Texas Highway Department plans postwar road work totaling about 60 million dollars pending material availability. State Highway Engineer Dewitt C. Greer says bids could be invited in two installments. Federal aid is expected but not guaranteed, with 30 million in short term bonds ready to convert to cash for construction if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ross
Dallas County
Texas
Johnny, Jr
Austin
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Dewitt C. Greer
Congress
Will Rogers Jr Serves in France With Tank Destroyer Battalion
The office of former Representative Will Rogers Jr. said the former California congressman is now serving in France with a tank destroyer battalion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Rogers
France
Washington
Will Rogers, Jr
California
Paris UP bureau reopened after war damage
Henry T. Gorrell reports the United Press Paris bureau at 2 Rue des Italiens is reopened. He notes surviving offices, damaged furnishings, and German tanks nearby as the area shows remnants of fighting and early postwar recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Henry T. Gorrell
United Press
United Press Bureau
Rue Des Italiens
Geremany
Emilio Herrera
United Press Paris
Ralph Heinzen
Ed Keen
U. P
Ernie Pyle
Pent Neuf
Seine
Richard McMillan
Rues Des Italiens
Opera
Grand Boulevard
First U S anti aircraft unit fights on Chinese soil in present war
The first Americans to fight on Chinese soil are U S anti aircraft gun crews on Mount Sungshan near the Salween River. They shell Japanese trenches, support Chinese infantry, and report downing two planes with two more probable in the China Burma India theater. A Brownfield Texas man, Cpl Buster Beck, and others from Omaha and Bronx are among the unit members facing Japanese mortars and rugged terrain amid misted peaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield
U. S
Sy Albert Ravenholt
Burma
Salween River
Mount Sungshan
Anary Salween River
William H. Fulford
Montgomery
Ala
Buster Beck
Texas
Thomas N. McGuire
Omaha
Neb
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Avalanche-Journal
SUN
Roper
Planing
OSAS
Panhandle
Fis Aiver
Doggett’s
Utica
Andings
Evelet Batiste
Woolen’s
Hite
SUE Denim
Cannon
Leaksville
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