Allied Drive Pushes Nazis Back Across Western Front
Allied forces surged into France and southern regions driving retreating German units toward the Reich border. US and British armored columns and bomber fleets pressed the Seventh army as historic sites fell to Doughboys and 45 000 enemy prisoners were taken. In the east German fronts buckled as Red Army pressure widened in the Carpathians and Hungary. Hungary formed a new military cabinet under Col. Gen. Lakotas while Kurt Dittmar urged a peace if Allied aims softened.
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Paris
France
U. S
Reich
Toulon
Cannes
Rumania
Carpathian Mountains
Hungary
Carpathians
Romania
Bulgaria
Vitez Geza Lakotas
Germany
Kurt Dittmar
Coal Industry Sees Progress Toward 1944 Output Goal
Coal output averages 12,000,000 tons weekly as the industry aims for 625,000,000 tons in 1944. Up to mid August U S miners produced 401,000,000 tons, 29,000,000 more than a year earlier. Government assures dealers no further retail quota cuts despite wartime supply issues.
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U. S
Labor Demand Surges Across Sectors For War Production
The services face revised production demands requiring at least 400,000 workers. Shipbuilding artillery and ammunition seek 176,000 employees, with lumber 57,000, food processing 45,200, electronics 22,000, tire making 16,000, truck and tank foundries 10,200, and cotton duck production 4,600 monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Italy
MacArthur Strategy Seen Favoring Philippines Return
Military experts in the South Pacific anticipate General MacArthur using his favored tactics to isolate and strike weak points, possibly enabling a Philippines return with minimal casualties. Bombing campaigns continue, while hog and cattle markets show tight supplies and firm prices as autumn runs approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
South Pacific
MacArthur
New Guinea
Fitness Drive Planned Across Schools to Boost Public Health
The nation will launch a fall fitness program in schools and colleges under the Joint Committee on Physical Fitness, with 364 national groups participating. Goals include preventing defects, correcting deficiencies, teaching healthy living, and enabling physical development. Col. Leonard G. Rowntree notes the aim is to foster stamina and agility for fuller life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Service
Joint Committee On Physical Fitness
Leonard G. Rowntree
Selective Service
Postwar Cotton Outlook and Tobacco Production Trends
The article discusses cotton accounting for a fifth of national cash farm income and over a third of the population in the South, with Bankhead seeking wartime parity but warning of a postwar price slump. It cites Guaranty Trust Company on price concessions and subsidies, plus production and tariff adjustments. Tobacco supplies and a 1944 45 flue cured crop outlook promise larger inventories and labor easing as cigarette plant workers return. The cigarette shortage is expected to peak in September.
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John H. Bankhead
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
Dried Vegetables Allocation For War Agencies
War Food administration announces that about 95 percent of the 277 million pounds of dried vegetables will go to military and allied non civilian agencies such as the army navy and Red Cross. Roughly 265 million pounds allocated to war service and 12 million pounds to civilians. Production expected to rise about 67 percent from 1943 levels.
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Army
Navy
Red Cross
War Food Administration
War Service
Prisoners of War Find Escape in Camp Doings and Theater
Washington daily reports POWs in German camps use theater, humor, and sports as escape from routine. Kriegie Times notes plays like Charlie’s Aunt and Our Town staged in cramped spaces, while daily cycles include roll call meals classes and mail. Red Cross letters and food packages sustain morale as routes for aid shift amid war disruption.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Germany
War Department
Red Cross
Reich
International Red Cross
Kipling
Webster
Kriegie Times
Stalag Luft II
Sagan
Our Town
Tobacco Road
Stalingrad
Flieger
Kriegie
Army
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Marseille
Switzerland
Lisbon
Dose of Laughter Boosts Health and Recovery
Laughter acts like a medicine and exercise for the diaphragm. It stimulates oxygen intake and blood flow, giving a surge of energy from head to toe. The text claims health and recovery improve with more laughter and suggests laughers live longer.
Burial details from Burma front under Stilwell
A wartime brief notes Chinese troops in Burma under General Stilwell exposing the feet of dead Japanese soldiers for easier verification of casualty counts by American officers.
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Burma
Stilwell
Briefs: POW diet packs aid German hospital prisoners
Bankhage notes special diet packages sent to men in German POW hospitals. Captured prisoners travel to transit camps where a Red Cross capture kit is issued. Normandy POWs volunteer for harvest help in Britain. Youth groups back an army of school-age milkweed pod harvesters to supply floss for life jackets.
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Germany
Red Cross
Kit
Normandy
Great Britain
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CIO
House Campaign Expenditures Committee
Sidney Hillman
Political Action Committee
Hillman
Grocery Manufacturers of America
OPA
Cotton
Washington Digest
U.S
Baukhage
Stalag Luft III
Bellaas
St. Joseph
Peller
Win
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King’s ‘Heralds
SANE
Nortuciene
Cmnall
WLW
WPAY
WSTV
WLAP
WLB
WGEC
WCMI
WGEV
Staton
Fischmann
Fleischmann
Central Annex
New York 17
N. Y
Uncle Sam
Clarion
Warwick Manufacturing Corporation
West Harrison Street
Chicago
Illinois
Bankhage
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