Allied push in Europe narrows Nazi hold as Cherbourg fights on
U S forces close on Cherbourg while Nazi resistance stiffens to last stand. Allied bombers strike rear areas and Calais rocket-launch depots amid heavy fighting. In the east Red Army launches a major offensive against German forces on the northern end of the front while Allies advance in Italy pursuing a new line of defense.
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U. S
Cherbourg
Cotentin
Britain
von Rundstedt
Calais
England
London
Finland
Warsaw
Berlin
Italy
Bill of Rights for World War I Vets Passes Congress
Congress and the President approve a veterans bill offering unemployment pay of 20 dollars weekly for 52 weeks during the first two postwar years. It guarantees college support up to 500 dollars tuition plus 50 dollars monthly subsistence and 25 dollars per dependent, plus 50 percent loan guarantees up to 2000 dollars for farms homes or small businesses. The Veterans Administration may spend 500 million for hospital facilities.
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Veterans’ Administration
Pacific War Actions and Postwar Price Reforms Report
The article covers a naval clash near Saipan where Adm. Spruance’s Fifth Fleet challenged Japanese forces, with Japanese losses of ships and planes over two days. It also notes U S ground fighting on Saipan and U S food policy shifts extending the OPA to June 1945, including parity prices for key crops and stock disposal plans after the war.
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Japan
U. S
Fifth Naval Force
Marianas
Philippine Islands
U. S. Marine
Saipan Island
Fifth
Adm
Raymond Spruance
Saipan
Senate
House
Army surplus trucks offered to aid wheat harvest
County AAA offices will allocate limited surplus army trucks to farmers and haulers based on critical need. After applicant certification, dealers will buy trucks from the U.S. Treasury procurement office at an appraised price and sell to the user at or below OPA ceilings.
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AAA
U. S. Treasury
Reasonal Procurement Office
Surplus Goods Policy Debated for Postwar Disposal Overseas
A government advisory committee argues surplus overseas should be sold to foreign buyers for maximum profit to aid early postwar restoration. It suggests tying sales to purchases of new U.S. equipment when bids are low and notes WPB split over allowing some manufacturers to resume civilian output before others.
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M. Lee Marshall
War Food Administration
WFA
Marshall
Europe
U. S
War Production Board
WPB
Donald Nelson
Charles Wilson
Nelson
Wilson
Whisky: May Ban Corn and Patent Court Ruling
Distillers face possible whisky corn limits due to War Food Administration opposition amid tight feed supplies. Farmers have delivered about 65 million bushels of corn, with none diverted to alcohol. In a separate ruling the U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected granting patent rights solely to hinder future inventors, calling for patent office procedure reevaluation.
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War Food Administration
WFA
U. S. Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
Allied Show of Power Affects Enemy Morale
A wartime column discusses Germany's rumored secret weapon the remote controlled bombers and a theatrical zeppelin illusion. It notes German morale anxieties, Allied air strikes, and the parallel news from the Pacific front including B-29s targeting Japan. The piece cites third man rumors and Nazi nervousness while stressing ongoing Allied momentum.
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Hitler
Reich Air Ministry
London
Herr Goebbels
Japan
Germany
P O W Strike Over Pay Change Halts Beet Field Work
German war prisoners near Scotts Bluff Nebraska refused to work in beet fields after pay was shifted from 80 cents daily to 30 cents per quarter acre thinned. Lt Col Clyde Dempster warned of disciplinary action if the strike continued. The same week commerce reports a monthly loss of 100000 war plant workers since the year began, with overall factory employment down while nonwar jobs hold steady.
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P.O.W
Scotts Bluff
Neb
Clyde Dempster
Department of Commerce
Congress Plans Fiscal Cut After Pearl Harbor
Congress will reduce appropriations below 100 billion for the coming year starting July 1. Chairman Cannon estimates about 66 billion dollars for 12 months with roughly 5 percent for financing the national debt. He notes postwar outlays and stockpiled war materials drove totals previously to 147 and 114 billion.
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Congressional
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Pearl Harbor
Congress
Briefer War News From Europe and Asia
Britain’s Dover cliffs have receded making crossing by sea harder. In Italy Nazi slave labor drafts now target unmarried women aged 18 to 30. Hungary and Balkan regions offer a gas bribe for pillow feathers. Japan trains use a regular seat changing signal as riders swap places.
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Italy
Hungary
Balkan Countries
Japan
Kaleidoscope Quilt Pattern by Ruth Wyeth Spear
On the YME front Ruth Wyeth Spear notes the kaleidoscope effect of a six inch quilt block as a decorative pattern. The article highlights rich colors and versatile use for bed spreads and room accents with patterns No 209 and others.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spear
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Western Newspaper Union
Last
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Atl
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Pacific
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Washington, D. C
Washington
D-day
West Wall
Gestapo
Journal de Geneve
Lokal Anzeiger
High Command
National Geographic Society
Tokio
National Geographic Bulletin
Imperial Palace
Marunouchi
National Geographic
Bankhage
Julius Caesar
Dover
Spears
Ruth Wilted
Bedford Halls
Moon York
Adauress
B. F. Goodrich
Bfgoodrich
Liberty
Taio
Tanglefoo
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