Allied Columns Thrust Toward Industrial Rhine Belt
Western Newspaper Union summary says U S First and Third armies push into the Rhineland aiming at Cologne Dusseldorf Duisburg and Essen while Seventh army presses Belfort Gap. Patton Hodges and Alexander S seventh drive through Moselle and Saar coal regions as Allied forces converge on Germany with Red Army actions on multiple fronts.
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France
Belgium
U. S
Third
Siegfried Line
West Wall
Courtney Hodges
George Patton
Aachen
Rhine Valley
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Duisberg
Essen
Hodges
Rhineland
Patton
Moselle
Saar
Alexander P. S Severth
Belfort
Vosges Mountains
Germany
Seventh
Holland
Employment figures show women reach 18.44 million in U.S.
The Census Bureau reports 53.17 million people employed in the United States with women at 18.44 million. It notes 3 million women added to payrolls in the 12 months ending August 1943, but little gain in the following year as the civilian labor force fell by about 1 million from July to.
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U. S
Bureau of Census
Huge Crop Harvest Predicted as August Rains Help
The USDA forecasts a bumper 1944 grain harvest led by corn at 3.10 billion bushels and wheat at 1.12 billion, with oats soybeans and barley also high. The note cites ample feed for livestock and steady prices on grains amid war-era demand and rationing pressures.
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Mississippi
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Commodity Credit Corporation
No Strikes Pledge Maintained at UAW Convention
CIO President Philip Murray and UAW leaders urged members to uphold the no strike pledge for the war, arguing wartime pay limits under the Little Steel formula must not spark wage-cost pressures. At Grand Rapids convention 6,463 voted yes while 3,801 voted no on keeping the pledge.
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CIO Pres
Philip Murray
United Automobile Workers Union
Germany
UAW
Grand Rapids
Mich
Bigwigs
Grand Rapids Mine Workers Convent Opens Amid Reform Talks
The United Mine Workers hold a biennial convention in Cincinnati as John L. Lewis denounces mine disaster deaths as butchery and a national shame urging safer operations. Roosevelt Churchill discuss postwar European issues at Quebec with Stalin's stance on Poland and reparations shaping armistice terms. Byrd cites a rise in federal payrolls despite civil service cut reports.
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Grand Rapids
United Mine Workers
Cincinnati
Ohio
John L
Lewis
Plan for Local Offices To Aid Demobilization
The Retraining and Reemployment administration, created by executive order, has established over 8,000 information centers to contact discharged veterans and war workers. The program, led by General Hines under War Mobilization, coordinates with existing agencies to place and train ex servicemen, funded by GI Bill rights and future legislation. Local committees, Mayors, and chambers of commerce mobilize to connect veterans with jobs and training, strengthening community readjustment.
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Congress
Baruch-Hancock
Office of War Mobilization
Byrnes
General Hines
Veterans Administration
Bailey
Hines
Labor
Federal Security
War Manpower
Selective Service
War Department
Navy Department
War Production Board
C. W. Bailey
Policy Board
Armed Services
United States Employment Service
Veterans
Senate
House
Dewey
Chambers of Commerce
Postwarair travel plans dominate airline orders
Three major airlines contract for 93 Douglas super sky ships costing over 50 million dollars. DC4s carry 44 passengers and cargo at four miles a minute, DC6s carry 56 at five miles a minute. The four engine planes, derived from the C54, use Whitney Wasp motors and aim to slash coast to coast trips, Chicago to New York in 2 hours 40 minutes.
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Douglas Aircraft Company
Douglas
Chicago
New York
Briefs on wartime labor mobility and medical uses of curare
Briefs note that placements of physically handicapped persons by the U S Employment Service may total near a half million in 1944. Rail disruption in southern France leads to shipping American trucks to Europe for prisoner of war parcel transport. Curare, once a feared Amazon poison, is reported to save lives by relieving spastic paralysis and relaxing muscles in convulsive shock for UN fighters.
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U. S
Sen
Harry Byrd
War Department
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Byrd
United States Employment Service
France
Europe
Amazon
United Nations
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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