Veterans May Pick Doctors Under New Plan, Says Rankin
Rankin leads a congressional probe into Veterans Administration hospitals and calls for a new method to select physicians. He notes crowded hospitals and equipment shortages while salaries of VA doctors from 3200 to 1400 a year deter top talent. Dr. Charles Griffith says higher pay would attract better physicians.
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Wader
Rankis
House
Willer
R-Neb
Congress
Frank T. Hines
Veterans
Afitter, S
Veterans Administration
Pas
Charles Griffith
Veterans Administration faces doctor shortages and personnel gaps
The article notes a wartime shortage of doctors as 400 experienced physicians serve in the armed forces. Social workers and attendants earn up to $2,900 annually while recruitment struggles persist due to military calls and war industry salaries. Discussions of a VA medical corps, selective commissions, and facility transfers across multiple states are reported along with several representatives’ assessments of veterans hospitals and care.
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Army
Rep. Rankin
Boston Hospital
Rogers
Mass
West Roxbury
Mess
Veterans
Boston
Hines
Ramey
R. Ohio
Veterans’ Meuropsuchiatric
Roanoke
Chillicothe
Ohio
Veterans’ General Hospital
Huntington
West
Allen
D.la
Alexandria
Nazi Propagandists Abandon Hopes As War Near End
London reports Nazis drop pretenses of future fighting in World War II. Hamburg radio announcer says the war will last only a few more hours and that the German spirit must endure even if occupied. Dr. Schiarping concedes the war is racing toward an end.
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London
Hamburg
Elbe
German River.” Previously Dr. Schiarping
Berlin
Slaughterers Must File OPA Form Registration Urged
District OPA called on Class 2 slaughterers in the Troy Argu area to register with Form 1 to curb black market meat. Investigators were appointed to check quotas for May and June, with quotas set for cattle calves sheep and lambs. No names of investigators were released.
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Troy Argu
OPA
Addiniesa 2
Carle
Qalves
State Resumes Fare Hearings in Traction Co Case
Albany inquiry by the State Department of Public Service into fares charged by United Traction Co and its Troy area bus lines resumed before Examiner George N Mack. Department and company experts presented records on revenues expenses and taxes as token prices and temporary rate reductions are reviewed. The hearing continues this week with a final decision pending review by the Public Service Commission.
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Blaff
Albany
State Department of Public Service
Feres
United Tracetion Co. Transportation System
Bus Lines
Troy
George N. Mack
Public Service Commission
Thetrona
Jobs Found for 775,495 Veterans in 1944 Report
The United States Employment Service says it placed 775,495 World War II veterans in jobs from February 1944 to March 1944 including 88,653 disabled servicemen. Since January 1942 through 1944, non-farm placements reached 1,382,840 with 806,189 in 1944.
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Washington GP
United States
Employment Service
One Front Airplane Production Plans Drafted
The Army Air Forces drafted a revised schedule aiming to raise monthly airplane output to about 2,000 planes by year end. The plan, submitted yesterday, would shift some 7,900 craft to other uses as needed and aligns with broader European war efforts and production tests.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Esterday
Iysemert Committee
eMeux
Basing Cutbacks Yield Paper Reductions In War Plan
Fragments indicate reduced production concepts in wartime air fleets. The piece notes that aside from standout aircraft like the Basing Superfortress and the Vultee B22, most AA combat planes see cuts that are largely symbolic. Effects are delayed by months while actual deliveries lag.
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Needa
Pacific
Pope Plans Message Via World Broadcast
Vatican circles report Pope Pius XIE plans a two world broadcast message. The Vatican indicates the third European war is announced and may be connected to forthcoming remarks.
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Vatican City
Pius
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Pammons
Sagland Motua
Tesuzatee Company
Crnosetts
THE
New England
Mutiag
Life Insurance Tompant
Soni
Uoder
Ascot
St. Reoarener County
New York
Bimonian
Diba
SFE
Okinawa
America
Carnahan
D. Mo
Jefferson ‘Barracks
North Latte
Rock, Ark
Divilian
Cunningham
R.yowa
Bennett
Veterans Tubercular Hospital
Excelsior Springs
General Hospital
Wadsworth
Kas
Auchincloss
M. O
New Jersey
iState
Traction Co
Chen YU
Peerless
Pat Perkins
Iitty Cottons
Don
Sibs
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