First Blow in China and Europe Amid Global War Push
Allied forces mounted offensives on multiple fronts as 80,000 Japanese advances along the Peiping-Hankow line tightened their hold in eastern China while Stilwell’s mixed American Chinese troops pressed north Burma to clear the Ledo road for supply access to China. In Europe the western and eastern fronts heated with bomber raids on Rommel’s rail network and a major push in Italy toward Rome as Soviet troops mass for a big offensive.
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China
Peiping-Hankow
Joseph Stilwell
U. S
Burma
Stilwell
Ledo Road
Hitler
Europe
Italy
Gustav Line
Anzio
France
Belgium
Germany
Erwin Rommel
Russia
Britain
Harold Alexander
Rome
U S Ward’s War Labor Row Keeps Negotiations Open
Government troops patrol the Montgomery Ward & Company Chicago plant as an election on the CIO United Mail Order Warehouse and Retail Employees union rights proceeds. Ward’s supports bargaining but objects to extending the maintenance of membership contract, while draft deferments redefine age groups for essential workers. Local boards may defer men 30 to 37 indefinitely in essential jobs and must assess both WM commission lists and local needs.
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Montgomery Ward & Company
Chicago
CIO United
Ward’s
Ward
War Manpower Commission
Eye Bank Established At New York Hospital For Corneas
An eye bank has been created at the New York hospital to store corneas for restorations of sight. Corneas may be collected from living donors or from the deceased within four hours of death. Cornea transplants reportedly restore sight in about twenty percent of blindness cases.
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New York Hospital
New Navy Secretary James Forrestal Named at 52
James Forrestal, a New York investment banker and WWI veteran, is named secretary of the navy. He previously served as undersecretary to the late Frank Knox, department chief.
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James Forrestal
New York
Department
Frank Knox
Wheat crop prospects rise on favorable spring rains
The USDA forecasts a 1944 winter wheat crop of 662 million bushels from 40.94 million acres at about 16.2 bushels per acre. This follows a 1943 harvest of 529.6 million, with rainfall boosting soil moisture and improving development. but germination and survival suffered in dry western Plains and floods hit stands in the Mississippi and Missouri basins.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Great Plains
Plains States
Mississippi
Missouri River
Tree-Top Rug Merchant Seeks Voting Rights in Montclair
Coffing M. Arslanian, a Montclair rug merchant who has lived in a bungalow perched 50 feet above the ground since 1936, fights for official recognition of his tree-top residence as legal and eligible for voting. Election officials previously barred visitors to his roost.
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Coffing M. Arslanian
Montclair
N. J
Peoria Lab Spurs Penicillin And Oil Extraction Advances
The U S department of agriculture research lab in Peoria Illinois leads penicillin development by using spoiled cantaloupe mold for efficient production. British doctors Heatley and Florey studied at Peoria after London bombing in 1941. Separating penicillin from its growth medium spurred research alongside a new solvent extraction method yielding 99.9 percent oil from lung nuts for livestock feed and plastics. Tung oil applications include paints varnishes insulation and naval plane waterproofing.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Peoria
Ill
Heatley
Florey
London
R. S. McKinney
McKinney
War Production Board Allows Civilian Goods Production Expansion
WPB orders resumption of civilian goods manufacture to ease surplus materials and unemployment. Simple farm machinery may see relaxed production restraints while major items stay capped. Regions away from heavy war hubs benefit. urban centers require local agency permission. Helicopter airship roof plan for New York aims to land near business districts.
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War Production Board
WPB
Private enterprise housing outshines government in Spokane
A Western Newspaper Union piece contrasts private enterprise building 2300 homes for war workers in Spokane with 2500 government houses. The private homes offered individual lots, landscaping, basements, heating and other modern conveniences, selling on monthly payments. Government housing lacked foundations, basements, heating, and landscaping, and few were occupied. The article also critiques OPA regulatory burdens on grocers and notes shifting public opinion on Supreme Court appointments.
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Spokane
Washington
Tough crackdown urged on Sweden over ball bearings
Washington moves to pressure Sweden and SKF to halt shipments aiding Germany. Goering’s prewar aims cited as motives, as U S and British officials seek steel ball bearings key to Nazi aircraft. The piece also notes a lengthy court drama in Judge Edward C. Eicher’s federal case and lighter Capitol chatter about Bowles and Mexican worker earnings.
Keyes leads raid behind Rommel in bold desert action
A vivid account recalls Geoffrey Keyes leading aBritish commandos to strike Rommel, landing behind German lines near Sidi Rafa. Keyes dies in the hand to hand fight as Campbell and a sergeant fight through a stockade, keeping up a final blast to cover his comrades retreat. Ken Downs relays the scene from front line notes and a German prison camp letters.
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Ray Brock
Balkans
N. Y. Times
International News Service
Walter
Ben Tolstoi
Shepheards Terrace
Cairo
Ken Downs
Int’l News Service
Terry Allen
Europe
Geoffrey Keyes
Geoffrey
Roger Keyes
England
Egypt
Desert Commandos
Ken
Robert Jordan
Jordan
Keyes
Colin Campbell
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Rome
Sidi Rafa
Campbell
Wade
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William Jones
Peterstown
W. Va
R. J. Holden
Virginia Polytechnical Institute
United States
Yank
U.S. VS. Ward's
EYE Bank
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New York City
New Jersey
Connecticut
Long Island
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Lawrence Sullivan
Bobbs-Merrill
OPA
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Justice Frankfurter
Justice Black
Justice Murphy
Justices Black
Murphy
California
Uncle Sam
East
Washington, D. C
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State Department
Foreign Economic Administration
SKF Ballbearing Company
Philadelphia
William Batt
Schweinfurt
Goering
Federal District Court
Edward C. Eicher
Justice Eicher
Charles B. Hudson
Omaha
Neb
Eicher
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Ellis O. Jones
Los Angeles
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Tommy Dorsey
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