Army unveils plan to build vast war logistics and manpower
General Somervell outlined a wartime supply bill to expand to 7.533 million enlisted, bring 900 airfields and 4,500 Army posts, provide millions of beds and prison camps, and sustain 9,000 training planes with spare engines. He said United drive shifts from defense to offense and aims to strike across Japan Germany and Italy.
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McNarney
Africa
Japan
Germany
Italy
Nalsadan
Somervell
Reciprocal Idleness Insurance Pact Between New York and Canada
Albany reports New York State and Canada will act as agents for each other’s unemployment insurance systems. Unemployed workers can file claims in either country for benefits earned while in the United States or Canada. Claims will meet eligibility rules and regular reporting. no extra financial obligations arise.
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Albany
New York State
Canada
State Labor Department
New York
United States
War facts noted in Syracuse Herald Journal items
The page reports on wartime production and policy highlights including the War Department’s cost savings, ration adjustments, and the Ordnance Department’s new explosive. It notes Lt Gen Somervell praising the M 4 tank, projected military expenditures, and large daily food and ammunition outputs, plus training pilot and crew production goals for the coming year.
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Syracuse I Herald
Park
Toykodef
United States
Ordnance Department
Robert P
Transportation Corps
War Department
Brehon B. Somervell
Ihief
U.S
Quartermaster Corps
Army
Air Corps
Pinkley Named UP European General Manager
Hugh Baillie, president of United Press, announced Virgil M. Pinkley as European general manager. Pinkley, at an air base in North Africa with Allied forces, will head to London later to establish headquarters. He succeeds Webb Miller, killed in a 1940 blackout, bringing broad global news and business experience to the role.
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Pinkley
London
Hugh Baillie
United Press
Virgil M. Pinkley
North Africa
Webb Miller
Search for 7 year old continues in Cayuga Lake area
Ithaca June 17 The search for seven year old George Fonda who disappeared after leaving home Sunday intensified into its fifth day. Believed drowned in Cayuga Lake or Fall Creek, the boy is the son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Fonda as authorities pursue new leads.
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Ithaca
Indorsement of Women’s War Effort By Committee Report
MacNarney and the committee praised the women’s organization and condemned those who malign the group. The report expresses hope Axis powers avoid chemical warfare and approves a chemical warfare service budget of 1.154 billion dollars with 812.474 million carryover. It states readiness of U.S. and Allied forces in all theaters to meet any eventuality.
U S Prisoners of War Being Well Treated
Washington reports from Army officials say Axis powers generally observe the Geneva convention on prisoner of war treatment and hospital ships. Hearings before the appropriations committee noted no shackling of American POWs and described treatment as very good, per printed hearings of the Army supply bill.
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Washington
War Department
Appropriations Committee
OPA Warns Stores Over Soldier Ration Certificates
Albany district office reports retailers refuse to honor ration certificates issued to service members on furlough. Some merchants would not open pound packages of coffee or sugar to fill quarter pound orders. OPA regulations entitle servicemen to quarter pound quantities.
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OPA
Albany
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Maine
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Rom Siegelman
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Siegelman's
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