Allied Leaders Plan Unconditional Surrender Policy In WW II
In a Near East meeting the Big Four plot Axis defeat with unconditional surrender. Roosev elt Stalin Churchill back joint administration of recaptured territories. They also align on Japan terms with Kai-shek for restoration of Manchuria Formosa and parts of China while returning other occupied areas.
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Near East
Germany
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Italy
Chiang Kai-shek
Egypt
Japan
Manchuria
Formosa
China
Kai-shek
Pearl Hart
Allies Strike German Lines in Southern Italy Push
Allied forces drive deep toward Rome in southern Italy through hill positions above the Sangro river. U S and British troops advance aided by fighter bombers and heavy artillery as German demolitions and reinforcements shape the clash.
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Ter
Italy
Rome
Eighth Army
Sangro River
U. S
Rommel
Australians Drive to Cut Jap Supply Lines in Southwest Pacific
Allied air and ground forces wage operations across Wewak Bougainville and New Guinea as U S liberators target Jap bases and communications while Australian troops push inland to isolate fortified outposts. In the Gilbert Islands heavy combat yields 3,722 American casualties with fierce Tarawa fighting and substantial Japanese losses.
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Wewak
New Guinea
Bougainville
U. S
Gilberts
Tarawa
Salerno
4 H National Congress Highlights 4 H Winners in Chicago
At the 22nd national 4 H congress in Chicago 17 year old Richard Lacey of Kansas Illinois raised his earnings to about 19000 with a grand champion Hereford steer sale of 4080. Other top youths include Billy Sol Estes Clyde Texas and Geneva Duhm Black Creek Wisconsin. Delegates from 800 vote to 700000 members helped raise millions in farm and livestock outputs and sold over 25000000 in war bonds and stamps.
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Chicago
Richard Lacey
Kansas
Roosevelt
Billy Sol Estes
Clyde
Texas
Geneva Duhm
Black Creek
Wis
Agricultural outlook for 1944 details meat and fat production
The Agriculture Department projects a 1944 rise in lard by 450 million pounds along with higher soybean and linseed oil outputs, boosting U S fats and oils stocks by about one billion pounds over 1943. It notes heavy wheat feeding, hog market congestion, and revised sow farrowing and cattle targets as winter prices slump amid packed packers and unsold hogs.
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Department of Agriculture
U. S
Department
Canada
Chicago
Fairs plan big reopenings as postwar activity returns
Delegates at the Chicago convention of the Association of District and County Fairs from 22 states resolved to reopen major fairs this year. Fairs reportedly drew larger crowds and higher earnings than in years past despite wartime disruptions. College football attendance fell 18.4 percent from 1942 across 57 schools, with the South hardest hit and the East least affected. A 19 percent drop also appears when comparing 1942 to 1941.
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Chicago
Association of District and County Fairs
Government Sale Policy Shapes Postwar Surplus Assets
Secretary Jesse Jones told Congress that the Defense Plants Corporation should dispose of factory facilities to private industry without creating monopolies. The War Production Board says 64 000 three burner stoves will be manufactured in 1944 with civilian output shared with military and hospital needs. WPB aims to widen supply through voluntary distributor cooperation to ease wartime bottlenecks.
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Army
Navy
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Defense Plants Corporation
Jones
War Production Board
WPB
German War Struggles to Reclaim Ukraine Front
Nazi forces halted their advance in Ukraine after briefly seizing the region famed for rich soil and minerals. German command pulled 300,000 troops from the Gomel bulge and faced setbacks as Soviet drives pressed along a 1200 mile front amid difficult transportation and rail disruption.
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Ukraine
Hitler
Gomel
Labor: CIO Steel Workers push to reopen contracts
The CIO United Steel Workers plan to press 485 companies to reopen negotiations to raise wages beyond 15 percent over January 1941 levels and seek a general pay increase of 17 cents an hour plus a guaranteed weekly wage. The senate was to consider a resolution for 1,100,000 non operating railroad workers to get 8 cents an hour, after OST blocked the raise, with proposed boosts from 10 to 4 cents.
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CIO
United Steel Workers
Senate
Office of Economic Stabilization
Blaming Parents for Juvenile Delinquency
Famed Boys Town founder Father Flanagan told a senate committee that the mother should stay in the kitchen, arguing war aims require protecting children at home. Dr. William Healey of Judge Baker Guidance Center said parental duty demands correcting natural tendencies in boys and girls.
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E. J. Flanagan
Senate
Flanagan
Judge Baker Guidance Center
William Healey
Boston
Mass
U S Planes Debate Prods Senate Air Inquiry
Washington hearing reveals production pace 8,000 planes monthly while delivery to fronts lags due to training, modification, and winterization. Arnold defends performance amid Wallgren questioning. notes pilots receive 500 hours vs 150 for Germans. Also notes synthetic tires coming January and Red Cross blood donations at 100,000 weekly.
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U. S
Washington
Army Air
Hap
Arnold
Senate
Truman Committee
Sen
Mon Wallgren
Wallgren
United States
Red Cross
Federal land purchases 1941 43 total six billion dollars
The federal government spent 6.447 billion dollars to acquire about 47 000 square miles of land from 1941 to July 1943 totaling 395 978 724 acres of holdings. The fair market value was 4.554 billion dollars and over 1.892 billion dollars exceeded land worth. Local tax losses of 89.3 million per year would continue until lands revert to private hands.
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Byrd
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
West Virginia
North and
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Federal Real Estate Board
California
Arizona
Nevada
Massachusetts
Postwar Prosperity If We Keep Wartime Production
The piece argues wartime production kept scarcity at bay but imposed taxes later. It notes high wartime output, debt to pay farmers for unraised crops, and future tax burdens. It praises Allied leaders and notes cigarettes as a favored home-front gift to service members. It ends with a 15 year old seeking a $30 weekly job and facing wartime wage realities.
Wheat Moved Railroads Save Year’s Crop Movement
Railroads have moved nearly all this year’s wheat from farms to elevators and markets despite heavy load on rolling stock. Grain at risk of spoilage has been hauled to storage as freight cars concentrate at Buffalo and Toledo to handle about 4 million bushels newly shipped to lakes ports.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Toledo
Ohio
Lakes
Barbara Bell Pattern 1877 Size 12 Requires 414 Yards
Barbara Bell pattern number 1877 designed for sizes 10 through 20 with busts 28 to 38. The size 12 (30) version requires 414 yards of 39 inch material. Send your order to:
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Estern Newspaper Union
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Tropical
Pacific Island
Southwest Pacific
Aussies
Aeve
Russia
Fight For
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Washington, D. C
Merry
Frank Boykin
Jesse James
Congress
Wallace
MacArthur
Australia
South Pacific
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Marshall
Europe
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