Washington Roundup Congress Votes 3 Billion For Mustering-Out Pay
Congress approves 3 billion mustering-out pay for war veterans. The bill, after conference, pays $200 to veterans with under 60 days service and higher sums to others, aiming to aid veterans returning home. President Roosevelt had urged financial arrangements to assist reintegration.
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War veteran aid and public works plan announced
Senator Johnson cited a three billion dollar veteran education and job program with a projected 70 thousand monthly discharges and an immediate need of 250 million. Secretary Ickes outlined a vast postwar public works plan to employ about 480 thousand veterans for three years across construction and manufacturing sites.
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Government to Extend Farm Settlements and War Aide
The secretary listed wartime department activities for the year ending June 30, including hydro power development in Jer, mineral ore discovery, radio insulators and helium production, and increased western food output. Postwar planning focuses on keeping Pacific Northwest factories busy, with Bonneville Power Administration expanding irrigation to 6 million more acres and the water supply to 9 million acres. The Treasury expects tax form simplification, but a larger revenue bill is anticipated.
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Nurses Tell Of Hospital Ship Sinking
Nurses recount the hospital ship sinking, detailing the perilous incident at sea. They describe evacuation, injuries, and the ship’s final moments, highlighting the human impact and ongoing search and rescue efforts.
Nurses recount daring escape from sinking ship
Miss Heindeman and Miss Berret describe leaping into freezing waves as the vessel listed then sank. They clung to a raft with a patient, fought suction, and were rescued after about an hour by Leinster lifeboats. Both nurses had frontline Tunisian and Italian campaign service. The Daily Mail says Britain will protest to Germany via Switzerland over three hospital ship bombings off western Italy.
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S A Sees How Bond Dollars Are Spent In War Drive
Soldiers and civilians witnessed a Fourth War Loan parade in San Antonio detailing spent bonds totaling 24 million dollars for equipment. Exhibits ranged from bazookas and field ambulances to aircraft engines and anti aircraft guns as bands played along Alamo Plaza and Broadway.
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Yank's Chute Jump Ends On Morse's Back
A U S bomber base in England January 27. Tech Sgt Johns M Webb of Yorkville Ohio an aerial gunner probably is the only man to parachute from a Flying Fortress onto a horse's back Webb bailed out of a burning fortress near its base and sailed to a field where a horse was grazing landing squarely on the animal's back The horse reared up and the man dropped to the ground.
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Britons Lost in Jap Ship Sinking
London reports a transport carrying British prisoners of war from Java sank on November 29, 1943. A Japanese government list of victims has been received by the War Office. The main statement did not include casualty numbers and inquiries into the sinking are ongoing.
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