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New Yorker in Washington reports on Fort Ontario refugees in Oswego New York with a plan to declare the fort surplus by January or February The scheme would return those eligible for citizenship to the United States from Canada under existing quotas Those unreturnable or ineligible would stay in the United States at no cost until repatriation to Europe is arranged Approval depends on Senate and House committees and the President War Relocation Authority officials hint at an imminent Fort Ontario announcement Rep Hidwen C Fuller parish
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Washington
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Fort Ontario
Osswogo
N. Y
New York
Hose
U. S
Caada
United States
Europe
Senate
House
War Relocation Authority
Hidwen C. Fuller
Parish
Mail to Germans Delayed by Post Office Policy
Citizens learn from the Post Office Department that letters to Germans are not being delivered and parcels to displaced persons in the area are similarly stalled. Mail currently stops at the local post office with Germany’s central postal system described as in complete disarray.
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Germany
Oe Postoffice Department
Postal Rules for Displaced Germans After V E Day
The article describes postwar rules allowing displaced German residents to send correspondence and receive one gift parcel weekly by card at a post office. Parcels must not exceed five pounds. Other mail cannot be delivered until occupation authorities approve an arrangement, which is reportedly not in place.
18000 French Treason Charges Hit Nazi Occupied Allies
New York report says over 18000 French men and women including industrialists and bankers are slated for treason trials. A radio broadcast cited German records of contracts payments and conversations with German economists during the occupation as the basis for charges.
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New York
Brazadillo Radio
NBC
Pilsen Damage Estimated After Air Raid
Officials disclosed Prague air raid damage to Pilsen and Skodka Works town estimating losses around 500000 pounds plus housing destruction from a prewar total of 11129 seventy nine percent.
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Pilsen
Prague
Deer and Skodka
Ministry of Information
Aluminum Plant Output Totals Billions in Wartime
Coast Aluminum Co plant near Vancouver produced billions of pounds of aluminum from 1940 to 1944, with Alcon-owned and government plants together delivering over five billion pounds. The facility began Sept 23 1910 and celebrated wartime milestones as the industry planned peacetime use. government ownership rose to 88 percent of capacity, while reconversion plans focus on peacetime demand and expanded alloys and products.
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Aluminum Co. of Ammocia
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Ids
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Thayer
Miaslastppi
Alcon
United States
Alcoa
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M Company
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