Congress Backs Pearl Harbor Probe Amid Domestic Policy Clash
Congress supports a joint inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster with Barkley leading the push and Vandenberg Ferguson offering amendments while lawmakers clash over Truman's domestic program. Debates loom over draft extension reconversion pricing unemployment aid full employment and anti discrimination measures as postwar plans unfold.
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Congress
Pearl Harbor
Truman
Barkley
Dem
Senate-House
Vandenberg
Rep
Mich
Ferguson
Philippine
Wake and
Midway Islands
Senate
House
Rayburn
Texas
War impact on Japan recovery pace vs industrial nations
Dr. John W. Stanton a Northwestern University professor and former war department consultant on Japan argues Japan will rebound faster than the United States due to its prewar agricultural base. He notes two thirds of Japanese people worked in agriculture and fishing versus one third in industry and commerce, contrasting with Germany and the U S Britain where industrial recovery will be slower.
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Japan
United States
John W. Stanton
War Department
Northwestern University
Germany
U. S
Britain
Paul A. Neal
Division of Industrial Hygiene
U. S. Public Health Service
Jones Beach
Long Island
N. Y
Rockford
Minois
A. L. Ahnfeldt
Surgeon General’s Office
Army
Lister
California
Walnut
Missouri
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Simmons
Army Medical Corps
Quisling Defends Self Amid Treason Trial Portrayal
In Oslo during the treason trial, Henrik Bergh casts Vidkun Quisling as a constructive European statesman and foe of Bolshevism while noting his links to Hitler in 1939 and to Chamberlain for peace efforts. Bergh suggests Quisling’s sympathy for the Nazi occupation stemmed from fears of Allied invasion and Poland-style battles. The piece also mentions postwar U.S. reconversion labor clashes, Ford and Hudson production cuts, and large-scale plant layoffs and walkouts affecting war-to-peacetime transition.
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Vidkun Quisling
Henrik Bergh
Oslo
Norway
Bergh
Quisling
Hitler
Chamberlain
Germany
Britain
France
Poland
Russia
Ford and Hudson Automobile
Washington, D. C
Truman
Ford’s
Kelsey - Hayes Wheel Company
Hudson’s
Sect rites fatal bite ends preacher case near Birchwood
32 year old Lewis Francis Ford a lay preacher of the Dolly Pond Church of God near Birchwood Tennessee was bitten during a rattlesnake handling rite and died in a Chattanooga hospital. His death follows that of Mrs Harvey O Kirk of Wise Virginia who died from a rattlesnake bite during a religious rite and left a nonviable newborn.
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Lewis Francis Ford
Dolly Pond
Church of God
Birchwood
Tenn
Ford
Chattanooga
Harvey O. Kirk
Wise
JAP Resettlement Lift Aims to Return 45000 Coast Natives
U S relocation authorities predict that 45000 of 110000 Japanese ancestry residents removed after Pearl Harbor will return with the lifting of the resettlement ban. About 50000 have found new homes in other regions, another 50000 remain in relocation camps. Maj Gen H C Pratt urged Pacific coast residents to grant resettlers equal rights. Separately, the Commerce Department says surplus war goods will be sold at fixed prices to wholesalers and retailers, with 300 million dollars worth of material available and 80 percent of dollar volume under the new pricing policy.
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Pacific Coast
Pearl Harbor
U. S
H. C. Pratt
Western Defense Zone
Department of Commerce
Department
OPA
Miracle Insecticide DDT Not a Panacea
Washington editorial notes DDT saved lives in war and public health but is not a universal cure. It details limited supplies, safety assurances, and varied agricultural and home uses, including sprays and powders for pests while warning of ecological impact.
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Zeidler
Paul Muller
Paul Langer
America
United States
Alan
Creation of Production and Marketing Administration
Secretary Clinton P. Anderson announces consolidation of more than a dozen fires and agricultural agencies into the new Production and Marketing Administration PMA. John B. Hutson becomes head as Under Secretary, with 10 commodity branches plus the Commodity Credit and Federal Crop Insurance Corporations forming the core structure.
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Department of Agriculture
Production and Marketing Administration
Average Citizen Has Answer to National Welfare
The piece outlines two opposing views on postwar civilian spending and economic recovery. It cites a committee for economic development with optimistic market forecasts, three postwar phases, and notes on meat rationing ending soon but strong meat demand likely to persist into fall and early winter. Range conditions are excellent and ranchers plan larger cattle supplies over winter.
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Committee For Economic Development
Anderson
Creating Illusion of High Ceiling in Room
A 32 page booklet Make Your Own Curtains showcases tricks to make rooms look taller through cut and hung bed and window curtains. The bedroom example features harmonized fabric decorations and home projects like a dressing table shelf and a blanket chest with a material list and illustrated carpenter directions. The booklet and Chest Pattern 259 are 15 cents each with request details.
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Western Newspaper Union
Higashi - Kuni
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Higashi-Kuni
Hirohito
G.i.s
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Ordnance
Tokyo
Rubber Manufacturers Association
Washington Digest
Winfield J. Dryden
WNU
Bankhage
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Florida
U.S. Department of Agriculture
England
Bfgoodrich
Wyld
Ist
Joseph
Soretone
McKasson & Robbins
Sea
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