Russians and British State Nazis Fleeing Across Fronts
The report notes Soviet and British forces retreating in places while the North anchors of the siege of Leningrad show signs of easing. Finnish and Soviet offensive actions shift pressure, with claims of large battles around Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega and possible German withdrawal from the siege. Revolt armies move against the German occupiers in Yugoslavia and Greece, and a U.S. gasoline tax figure for 1949 is cited.
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Bningrad
Svet
Torn
Lake Onega
London
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ees
Leningrad
Hitler
Europe
Yugoslavia
Greece
U S To Be Hard Boiled About Drafting Husbands
Washington reports that the government will take a hard line on husbands with self supporting wives as it plans a much larger army than 4,006,000 men Brigadier General Wade Haislip told the Senate military committee He described a rapid expansion of the army and proposed family allowances modeled on World War I practices to support dependents General Hershey urged tighter board rules and warned many farm youths must be inducted to safeguard agriculture He predicted local boards would draft husbands in marriages of convenience while the allowance system would curb abuses and ensure wives are supported by their husbands pay notes that the army must grow to meet possible global demands with a cross section of ages and no single target number.
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Washington
Senate
Wade H. Haislip
Senate Military Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service System
Hershey
Congress
Sai
Selective Service
Genersl
Hersney
Hassip
Alr
Germany
War Department
Industry-Labor Meet Recesses During War Pact Talks
Washington dispatch reports the industry labor conference recessing after an hour so labor, management, and government can draft non strike agreement recommendations for wartime unity. The full 26 member board will reconvene at 2 p.m. with separate proposals from each group.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Industry-Labor
William H. Davis
Ham Sandwich Saved by Emergency Run at Tampa Hospital
In Tampa Gilbert Holdren confined in an iron lung woke at midnight asking for a ham sandwich. The hospital staff searched for ham but found none until an orderly was sent on an urgent errand and the patient received his sandwich.
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Tampa
Fla
Tampa Hospital
Gilbert Holdren
Missing General Dargue Plane Sought Over California
A plane carrying General Dargue disappeared six days earlier after departing Blythe California en route to Palmdale. The craft, a 21 passenger twin motor transport likened to a latest commercial ship, was last tracked northwest toward the San Joaquin valley toward the San Francisco area. War department notes suggest data from his flights aided the Philippines defense, while Dargue’s career includes command of the First Air Force and the Pan American flight around South America earning the Mackay trophy.
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Blythe
Calif
Dargue
Palmdale
War Department
San Bernardino
San Jacinto Moun
Tains
San Joaquin Valley
San Francisco
Hamilton Field
Pershing
Mexico
South America
First Air Force
Pano Ama Canal Zone
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