Washington Digest Looks at War End Timing and Tradeoffs
In a column from Washington the author debates 1949 as a vanquish date for Japan, notes Pacific hurdles from Munda to Truk, and compares allies pace. He cites Admirals Horne and Halsey, MacArthur, and military geography, then shifts to home front concerns about food programs, price controls, and postwar farming capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Washington
Horne
Knox
1949
Halsey
Munda
Tokyo
Asia
Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
Nes
Rabaul
New York
Casablanca
Atlantic
Africa
Pacific
Bougainville Island
Truk
New Britain
Tunisia
Norway
War Goods Stored in Vast Utah and Tooele Ordnance Depots
Article details the U S Army Service Commands and non combat supplies stored at the Ogden Utah depot and the Tooele Ordnance depot in Utah. It describes vast warehouses private and public production facilities and the guard and civilian workforce manning these sites. It notes ordnance plants in Salt Lake City and Tooele storage methods and the planned salvage and repair programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufa Ordnance Depot
John Elbridge Jones
Union
U. S. Army
Brehon B. Somervell
Kenyon A. Joyce
Ninth Service Command
Salt Lake City
Utah
Army Service Forces
Ogden
Ralph Talbot Jr
Tooele
Army
Northwest
San Francisco Bay Area
Southwest
Ordnance Depot
War work and industry notes from home front brief
Shoes adopt diverse sole materials including plastic felt wood and fabric blends amid wartime production shifts. At Douglas Aircraft women workers now outnumber men in some plants reaching 59 percent of shop personnel. The third war loan drive aims for 15 billion dollars starting September 9. Italian coal supply pressures prompt plans to recover 40 000 tons of coal stranded in Trieste harbor after RAF raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tolley
Douglas Aircraft Company
Germany
Ruhr Valley
Trieste
Bushnell Hospital Emerges as New Military Center
Bushnell Hospital, part of the Ninth Service Command, rises as a vast facility near Brigham City, 60 miles north of Salt Lake City. It began construction after Pearl Harbor and now houses about 2,000 beds. Corporal John Kariger of Hershey Nebraska, injured by a Japanese bullet, received penicillin treatment that likely saved his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bushnell Hospital
Ninth Service Command
Pearl Harbor
Brigham City
Salt Lake City
Reading Notes on War Authors and Public Figures
A roundup of book notes and commentary covers W L White on Queens Die Proudly, H Ullstein on the rise of Ullstein, Max Hill Exchange Ship excerpts, H Allen Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory, Ben Ames Williams Time of Peace, Harold Ickes Autobiography, and Walter Graebner Round Trip to Russia. It highlights praise, criticism, and wartime observations across publishers, newspapers, and public figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Allen Smith
W. W
Ben Ames Williams
Houghton- Mifflin
Mark
Massachusetts
Ohio
Georgia
Mississippi
California
Oregon
Minnesota
Germany
Wales
Michigan
Tony
Harold Ickes
Reynal & Hitchcock
Russia
Walter Graebner
Lippincott
Graebner
U. S
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Washington Digest
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
MacArthur
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Buna
Salamaua
Lae
Rendova
Australia
Solomons
America
Southwest Pacific
Navy
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Donald Nelson
Prince
Antoine de Saint- Exupery
Leonard Lyons
France
Howard Tolley
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Utah Ordnance Plant
Ballistics Department
Tooele Ordnance Depot
Hirohito
Tooele Ordnance Plant
United Nations
Roosevelt
Mr. Churchill
Louise Anderson
Katherine Boswell
Bankhage
W. L. White
Harcourt-Brace
Boeing
H. Ullstein
House of Ullstein
Simon Schuster
Max Hill
Associated Press
Farrar-Rinehart
Feathers
Broadway
BL Lo
Missouri
Ira Iis P. O
Los Angeles
Calif
West, Oregon
Boise Valley
Ralph White Bowmont
Manter Aizes
Rolls & Exp
Pacific Photo Service P. D
San Francisco
Guernsey
Heifers
Chariton
Iowa
Salt Lake Desk Exchange
West Broadway
Neas
Man
Farms & Ranches
Bell
Lyman
South Main
Auto Mechanics
Buick
U.s.e.c. Arch Browning, Inc
Main
Salt Lake
Balt
la City
Crystal White Salt & Chemical Co
Bo State
J. Wear Hans
Pler’ S
Warry Tr
Wy Smid
W.N.U
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