World War II Analysis Says Russians Drive Balkans and Crimea
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Soviet forces pressing into Romania and Crimea while Allied bombers target Fortress Europe. It cites British Brit ish-Indian defense in the Naga hills against Japan and U S air strikes on Vienna Budapest and New Guinea as part of a wider war strategy.
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Crimea
Western
Europe
India
Russia
Balkans
Rumania
Black Sea
Jassi
French
Belgium
U. S
Italy
Vienna
Budapest
Rome
Naga Hills
Pacific
Kurile Islands
Nippon
New Guinea
Philippines
Assam-Bengal
Joseph Stilwell
Burma
China
Industry ponders postwar readjustment and reserves
The piece reports major companies building large postwar reserves for civilian production and worker layoffs. It notes U S Steel 104 million, General Motors 76 million, General Electric 73 million, Du Pont 31 million, Sears 28.5 million and other sums. Byrnes outlines loans, unemployment support, worker reallocation, fast wartime contracts settlements, and surplus sale measures to stabilize the transition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
United States Steel Company
General Motors
General Electric
E. I. du Pont
Sears, Roebuck
United Aircraft
International Harvester
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Borden Company
National Dairy Products
General Foods
Commodity Credit Corporation
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Egg production hits new March record as hens rise
U S egg production set a new March high with 6.763 billion eggs laid, up 4 percent from 1943 and 49 percent above the ten-year 1933-42 average. Hens rose 5 percent to 483.985 million. A tiny 21 pound furnace, similar to military aircraft heaters, may heat a 20 room house for about $50, using new compact heating units.
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America
Wheat prospects rise on rainfall boosted 1944 harvest forecast
The USDA projects a winter wheat crop of 601,759,000 bushels for 1944, up 72,153,000 from 1948. Domestic supplies for 1944 45 are seen at 1,130,000,000 bushels versus 1,440,000,000 last year. Moisture shortfalls in western Kansas and nearby states are offset by rain, though Nebraska needs precipitation.
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U. S
Commodity Credit Corporation
South Pacific
New Zealand
Defense Supplies Corporation
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Colorado
Nebraska
U S ACES Rick Tops Record In World War II Efforts
Captains Richard Bong and Don Gentile surpassed Eddie Rickenbackers WWI mark of 26 enemy aircraft in air combat. Bong, flying a Lightning in the South Pacific with a nose art portrait of fiancée Marjorie Vattendahl, downed his 27th on April 12. Gentile added a high total in Europe but seven of his were ground kills.
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Army Air Force
Richard S. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Don S. Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Eddie Rickenbacker
South Pacific
Marjorie Vattendahl
Superior
Bong
Gentile
Europe
Rickenbacker
Ser Sgt James A. Raley Survives 19000 Foot Plunge
Wartime tale recalls Sgt James A Raley of Henderson Kentucky who was trapped in a Flying Fortress tail during a bombing run. The tail broke away and plummeted 19000 feet before landing in a tree top, leaving him with only a slight chin cut.
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James A. Raley
Tion
Henderson
Roosevelt and Dewey Lead As Delegates Grow
By April 12 Roosevelt held 203 of 236 pledged delegates and 46 pledged plus 157 claimed total 203. Dewey had 148 of 356 pledged and 25 pledged plus 123 claimed total 148. Nebraska primary showed strong write in support for Dewey.
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Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
N. Y
Dewey
Nebraska
Navy plans bigger growth to meet heavy fighting ahead
Congress is asked to pass a naval appropriations bill of 32.647 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1. By July 1945 the navy will field 10,244 self propelled ships 74,925 other craft including landing vessels and 37,735 airplanes with personnel totaling 3,657,000 officers and men including women. The Marine Corps expansion is planned to reach 478,000.
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Congress
Navy
Marine Corps
Labor: Hit Power Politics
AFL Vice President Matthew Woll denounces Soviet Russia for altering Europe in defiance of UN principles and urges settling frontier issues by popular vote. David Dubinsky of the International Garment Workers Union condemns divide-and-rule spheres and Poland’s compensation by ceding eastern Germany as a perpetual flashpoint.
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Europe
American Federation of Labor
Matthew Woll
Russia
United Nations
Woll
David Dubinsky
AFL
International Garment Workers Union
Poland
Germany
Dubinsky
Black Market Gasmenace Threatens Civilian Fuel Program
Petroleum Administrator Ickes warned that illicit gasoline traffic imperils civilian motor fuel. He cited over 2.5 million gallons daily sold through illegal channels and widespread counterfeit coupon use as evasion methods. He urged crushing nationwide illegal traffic to raise civilian allowances.
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Ickes
Egg Glut Spurs School Lunch Funding Debate in Washington
Washington grapples with an eggs surplus and a looming halt to federal school lunch funding after July 1. Government buys eggs to prop up farmer prices while urging Congress to extend the lunch program amid rising production and concerns for poorer communities.
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Kansas City
War Food Administration
Washington
Office of Education
House of Representatives
Congress
WPA
Department of Agriculture
Senate Appropriations Committee
War impact and propaganda across Europe and labor goals
The report notes gasoline demand rising eightyfold since Dunkirk per the U S Petroleum Administration for War. The British Red Cross sent over 14 million food packages to prisoners in Europe via British Information Services. Madrid requires half its outdoor ads for the totalitarian party messages. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins aims to cut work accidents by one million in the coming year through cooperation of American labor and management.
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London Daily Mail
United States
London
John Henry Jones
America
The
Daily Mail
Jones
States
Dunkirk
British
Red Cross
Europe
British Information Services
Madrid
Spain
Secretary ‘of Labor
Frances Perking
American Labor and Management
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
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U.S. Petroleum Administration
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Bill Sullivan
Chevrolet CO
NicGeo
Lynn H. Maughs
Fulton
Missouri
A&p
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A. Reich & Sons, Inc
Wyoming St
Idland Flour Milling CO
Armour Rd
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Feathers
Wahlert & Guntzler
North First
Saint Louis
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Abbey Studios
St. Louis
C, Mo
Delcos & Kohlers
General Products Delco Distributors
St. Francis
Wichita
Leonardville
Durkee
Paola
Eureka
E. L. Wallach. & Sons
Ereka
Otto Swanson
Albuquerque
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Greenwood
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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