Navy yard manpower probe faces Detroit follow up
Washington officials report the investigating committee plans to extend its manpower study beyond Norfolk to Detroit and other cities. Navy defends Norfolk’s 1944 record of repairing 2 458 ships and docked ships per day, while noting morale and uniform manpower concerns and potential agency reforms.
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Bauhta? Wees Investgating
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Vet Says Japs Use Women For Shields
Temple reporter notes veteran James Cole of Houston hospitalized at McCloskey General Hospital describes Japanese troops driving women and children to the front in battle. Cole served with combat engineers of the 27th Division from Oahu to the Marianas and says he has four brothers still in service.
Texas House opposes Anglo American petroleum treaty
In Austin on January 23 the Texas House rejected a resolution by Rep. M. B. Morgan of Denison opposing a petroleum treaty with Great Britain. Morgan argued the pact would create an international oil commission with British dominance and powers to set production quotas fix prices and shut US wells for three years while the East stays open.
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East
Germans Open Drive Berlin Announces
London reports Nazi broadcasts claiming a new Allied offensive is imminent and that German forces have driven into northern Alsace, breaking the Maginot line on a 40 mile front. Transocean cites patches Seventh Army retreat and captures including Haguenau near Strasbourg as part of a broader coordinated offensive with the Russian drive.
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Germans Claim 1000 Americans Captured On Front
The German communique asserts about 1,000 Americans were captured yesterday on the Western front and more than 100 British tanks disabled in five days. It also cites 330 men and 11 officers capitulating under artillery fire in the Ardennes and 450 of the 45th division captured at Reipertsweiler in Alsace. In Houston, the Consumer Advisory committee of the Houston OPA district plans a meeting on Thursday to discuss reactions to price control and rationing led by Mrs. C. R. Vickers.
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Alsace
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