Wilson Urges Public Loans Be Restricted
Mobilization director Charles E. Wilson asks state and local governments to seek National Voluntary Credit Restraint Committee clearance before borrowing more than 1. Public works should be deferred unless linked to defense needs or essential for health and safety. He favored postponing soldiers bonus payments and memorials.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
National Voluntary Credit Restraint Committee
National Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Non-Defense Projects Face Budget Cuts
Senator Dworshak notes sharp cuts to non-defense U S government programs, citing a $62 million reduction from Truman's Interior Department request amid emphasis on defense spending. He warns Pacific Northwest water projects, including Libby Dam, Albeni Falls and Ice Harbor, face funding cuts as public pressure toward mobilization weighs on allocations.
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Washington
Dworshak
Idaho
House
Truman
Interior Department
Pacific Northwest
Libby
Albeni Falls
Ice Harbor
Housing controls relaxed for 6000 San Diego homes
Washington May 7 The Housing and Home Finance Agency says credit controls will be eased to support the construction of 6000 housing units in the San Diego area. Banks may issue larger loans for houses under the new rules. Naval personnel and in migrant defense workers at four aircraft plants in the area qualify for the housing enabled by the relaxation.
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Washington
San Diego
Calif
Housing and Home Finance ‘Agency
Raymond M. Foley
Naval
Illness Of Hap Arnold Shaped Yalta Decision How MacArthur Called Mistake
Washington May 7 Gen Douglas MacArthur called one of the gravest mistakes this country ever made could have been avoided if Hap Arnold had not grippe. Arnold fell ill in January 1945 delaying his Yalta mission and shifting duties to Lt Gen Laurence S. Kuter. The 20th Air Force reported Japan’s resistance weakening and suggested no Russian aid was needed to win the Pacific war, influencing plans discussed at Yalta.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Harry H
Hap) Arnold
Army Air Corps
Arnold
Roosevelt
Yalta
Laurence S. Kuter
Kuter
George C. Marshall
Army
Ernest J. King
United States Fleet
William D. Leahy
F.D.R
20Th Air Force
Pacific
Japan
Hitler
MacArthur
China
Darien
Port Arthur
Lemay
Spaatz aides and Yalta papers altered by wartime dispatchers
Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson and Gen Kuter aided by Spaatz couriers tried to push a bold Pacific paper story from Yalta but failed to reach FDR. Hopkins promised to take it to the president. illness stalled contact as Churchill and Stalin formed a wartime deal. Spaatz, LeMay, Arnold figures cited on atomic policy and outcomes.
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Frederick L. Anderson
California
Texas
Spaatz
Kuter
Yalta
Anderson
Pacific
Marshall
Army Names Two Killed In Accident
In Heidelberg Germany on May 7 AP reports U S Army authorities named two soldiers killed in a truck crash last Friday. Pfc James F Tew of Longview Texas and Pvt Aral Compton of Fishtrap Kentucky died when their six wheel truck skidded down a nine foot embankment beside a highway near Bad Kreuinach burying them under ammunition.
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Heidelberg
Germany
United States Army
Pfc
James F. Tew
Longview
Texas
Pvt
Aral Compton
Fishtrap
Bad Kreuinach
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