Allies Tighten Rule In German Occupied Lands As War Rages
Allied forces press across Europe with Aachen and the Vosges front lines intensifying. Nazi leadership vows guerrilla warfare as Hitler urges universal mobilization while Allies outline strict military government measures in occupied Germany and preparations to suspend civilian communications.
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Aachen
Reich
U. S
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Rhineland
Siegfried
Kleve
Ruhr
Venray
U. S. Seventh Army
Vosges
Belfort
Hitler
Germany
East Prussia
Gestapo
Himmler
MacArthur Lands at Leyte as Pacific War Swings
The article details General Douglas MacArthur leading the Leyte invasion in the Philippines using a broad air and naval umbrella. It notes U S Sixth Army operations with Third and Seventh fleets, aimed at splitting Japanese forces and threatening supply lines from the Indies, while trenching into Luzon Mindanao sectors. It also discusses wartime coal and oil production and distribution, including outputs by Texas California Oklahoma and other states.
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Solomons
New Britain
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Leyte Island
Philippines
U. S
Sixth Army
Luzon
Mindanao
Indies
Tacloban
Juichi Terauchi
MacArthur
Islands
Third Fleet
Formosa
Manila
Leyte
General MacArthur
Texas
California
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Kansas
Illinois
New Mexico
Wyoming
Arkansas
Florida
Pamphleteering Revival Shapes CIO Political Push
Washington digest reviews CIO pamphlets in the 1944 campaign, noting glossy eye catching pieces by Bernard Bryson and Norman Corwin. It highlights the "Every Worker a Voter" series, race and labor portrayals, religious associate efforts, and the aim to mobilize union and farm voters for FDR amid postwar politics.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
CIO Political Action Committee
National Political Action Committee
CIO
Samuel Johnson
Cio’s
Bernard Bryson
Norman Corwin
America
Roosevelt
Musky Bites Spoon. Boat Collision Near Hayward
Chicago angler Frank Shriner hooks a 3% foot musky in the Chippewa River west fork near Hayward Wisconsin. The fish bump the spoon twice then charge third time and strike the spoon. The musky crashes into Shriner’s flat boat side, lies belly up briefly, then rolls, frees the lure and swims away.
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Chippewa River
Hayward
Wis
Frank Shriner
Chicago
Shriner
Women Run Melbourne War Plant In Fourth Year
A Melbourne war plant operated entirely by women aged 25 to 40 marks its fourth year. They produce steering gears for Bren gun carriers and telescope holders and many workers had not held jobs before. Parcel shipments to armed services abroad need no export licenses per a Foreign Economic Administration notice. The War Food Administration says this year’s onion crop will be 45 percent above the 10 year 1933 42 average.
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Melbourne
Australia
Bureau of Supplies of the Foreign Economic Administration
War Food Administration
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Wee
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Carpathian
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Philippine
Washington Digest
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Era
Dwight Bradley
New York
Action Committees
Cio-Pca
I. F. Stone
Detroit
Cleveland
Ohio
Michigan
Stone
Bankhage
United States
American Can Company
Southern
Clinton
Lockwood Drives
Louisiana and
Bell
McKean Bros
Rt. 5
San Antonio
Mauermann
Houston
Fulshear
Chet Searcy
Cactus Hotel
San Angelo
Houston Land & Trust Co
Hilscher Nursery
E. Rosedale
Fort Worth, Tex
D. McLendon
South
Bexar Mortgage CO
Gunter Bldg
ED Heinemeier
Kingsbury
Gurinsky Implement CO
Laredo St
Simonton
Hoffman
Julian Holland
Ballinger, Tex
Andrus Box
Llano
Casey Fannin
Madisonville
de- Lendon
Sanitary Farm Dairies
Bryan
H. C. Moeller
Brayshire Farm
Columbus
North
Decatur Street
Portland
Oregon
Diamond Exterminating CO
W. 23Rd St
R. I
Comfort Hatchery
Comfort
S. Haskell Ave
Dallas
Waukesha Hessellman
Flanders Construction CO
Telephone
Tex
Charles E. CO
Sidney Street
Elk Avenue
Yoakum
United States War Bonds
Lee
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