Peace talk and global plans drive wartime Briefing
A Western Union analysis reports ongoing Allied air raids on Japan while peace rumors swirl around a Big Three summit. Senate action advances Bretton Woods and UN Security Charter, with Taft opposing some terms. The Agriculture Department warns of 1946 food tightness as OWI prepares a Europe relief drive and Americans face rationing.
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Japan
Senate
Pacific
U. S
Nippon
Hokkaido
Honshu
Tokyo Bay
Marshal Stalin
House
Bretton Woods
Taft
Rep
Ohio
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations
Wife Defends Il Duce in Background Fight
Donna Rachele Mussolini denied rumors she had influence over Mussolini. Shesaid he was closest to her when low and distant when high, claiming he never involved with other women and blaming others from Badoglio to the king for the blame.
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Donna Rachele Mussolini
Tate HE Duce
Donna Rachele
Mussolini
Donna Rachele Bittefly
Badoglio
Farm Notes on Poultry Demand in 1945 Outlook
Production will rise seasonally for chicken and turkey through fall but demand stays unusually strong due to meat scarcity high consumer purchasing power and large army procurement. Prices for chickens and turkeys are likely higher in 1945 than the same period in 1944.
Army feeds civilians after liberation in Europe
Since liberation began last year the army has shipped over 2,000,000 tons of foodstuffs mainly wheat and flour to feed civilians in liberated and occupied countries. Feeding civilians by Allied troops is an obligation to prevent disease riot or unrest that could threaten operations or the lives and health of GIs.
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G.j.s
War Production And Miners Free Meat Rations Amid Strikes
War production is cut to an annual rate of 49.0 billion in July with further reductions planned through the year. By December output across major munitions and equipment falls sharply, while ammunition and rockets rise. OPA grants August meat rations to miners after a nationwide strike wave, sparked by Illinois miners demanding 50 red points monthly for coal digging.
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Hovind
Marott
OPA
OPA Action
Illinois
Illinoiis
Reconversion Old Prices Plan Aims to Halt Inflation
The OPA drafts a detailed formula to hold consumer goods near 1942 costs during reconversion. Manufacturers with annual sales of 200000 or more may add increased costs but may apply only half the 1930 industry profit margin to keep prices down. smaller producers may use their own margins. Firms will set prices and seek OPA approval before general industry costs are set.
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OPA
Jobless Grants Seek Increase for Unemployment Aid
Senator Kilgore proposes a comprehensive bill to extend unemployment compensation to federal maritime and agricultural workers, include firms with fewer than eight, and raise benefits to 25 dollars weekly for 26 weeks. The federal government would cover the difference up to that max, with veterans benefits raised to 25 for singles and 30 for dependents for 43 weeks and travel allowances for job referrals.
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Kilgore
W. Va
Hotel Boom States Wartime Travel Lifts Industry
The hotel industry in the United States, worth about 5 billion dollars, is profitable for the first time in years due to wartime travel. Guests have doubled since the war began in Europe, and last year’s sales reached over 1.5 billion dollars, up about 60 percent from 1929. Room occupancy rose from 62 percent in 1939 to a record 93 percent.
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Truman
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Sydney Sun
Hirohito
Japan
United States
America
Europe
Radar explained how it detects objects in war
In a feature on radar principles BAU News explains sending electrons into space, echoes returning from planes ships and obstacles, and how timing and angle yield distance and height. The article notes German radar since early war, Iwo Jima and Okinawa bases, and the Hood Bismarck encounter as key examples, with a forward look to peacetime uses.
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Intelligence Branch
Kbage Entata
Vegor
France
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Japan
Hood
Iceland
Greenland
Bismarck
Redoot
Firat
Japs Make Kitchen Knives From Bomb Casings
BRIEFS describe wartime humor and incidents. Japs are said to craft kitchen knives from American incendiary bomb cases and prepare for home life as protests of conflict continue. An American flier reports better treatment of prisoners as Japan shows signs of defeat. The piece notes music, morale, and the army’s DDT insecticide claim, ending with reference to a secret weapon against Japan.
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Dep
Japan
Truman Committed Carries and Allied War Notes
Senators Kilgore and Brewster questioned German occupation conditions at Patch HQ, then dined with Patch. Gen Arthur White resisted, Brewster and Kilgore defended ongoing inquiry. Also notes on Italian underground broadcasts by Ugo Carusi and wartime Schweinfurt ball bearing plant outlook.
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Kilgore
West Virginia
Dem
Brewster
Maine
Rep
Germany
Mead Committee
Truman Committee
Alexander M. Patch
Lwep
U. S
Arthur White
Patch
Truman
United States
Schweinfurt
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