WPB officer accuses armed forces of delaying reconversion
Retired War Production Board official Lester Doidge charged that Army and Navy blocking on requirements slowed civilian reconversion. He cited shortages of refrigerators and electric ranges, noting OCR’s plans were obstructed while war supply needs persisted. He said top WPB officials heard concerns but military demand hindered broader civilian production.
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Washington
War Production Board
Lester P. Doidge
Consumers’ Durable Goods
WPB
Office of Civilian Requirements
OCR
Doidge
Navy
M Street
Army
Doidge Says Civilian Goods Could Be Made Despite Shortages
Doidge argues that some cities currently can produce civilian goods despite wartime limits. He notes sheet steel is scarce and claims military justification for curbing civilian production due to manpower shortages, while insisting some factories could supply civilians now.
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Doidge
Russian general casts doubt on Hitler death proof
Col Gen Alexander Gorbatov, head of the Allied Kommandantur for Berlin, said there is no definite proof Hitler is dead and did not rule out the possibility he remains alive in hiding. He noted a claimed jawbone report but said he had no further confirmation.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Alexander Gorbatov
Komandantur
Red Army
Gorbatov
Hitler
Moscow
Army Increases Infantry Strength by 100000 in 1944
Washington reported that the Army raised infantry strength by more than 100000 through transfers from April 1, 1944, to June 30. General Jacob L. Devers said 26404 transfers expanded infantry proper and 77713 in parachute infantry as part of the Pacific theater build up.
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Washington
Jacob L. Devers
Army Ground Forces
War Department
Pacific Theater
Rice Institute Plans Higher Standards And Pay Scale
The Rice Institute in Houston unveiled a ten year plan to reduce class size to one teacher per ten pupils, down from a prior ratio of 15 to 20. The trustees also seek a competitive salary scale, a new building program, and a modern library with administrative space, starting immediately.
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Houston
Board of Trustees of
Rice Institute At
Rice
Jeep price set at 1090 dollars fob Toledo
The first civilian jeeps will sell for 1090 dollars fob Toledo plus taxes. The OPA set the ceiling price for peacetime Jeeps rolling out of Willys-Overland in Toledo. Production targets include 300 this month, 3000 in August, and almost 20,000 by year end, with the jeep described as a four wheel drive half ton truck for utility and farm use.
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Washington
Toledo
OPA
Willys-Overland
Jeep
James F Brownlee
Texan Held Services in Oxen Stable
Chaplain Howard F Bombhoff of Austin conducted services for GI worshippers in an oxen stable near Temple due to cold weather and shell fire. He noted the space had no stained glass, no oil paintings, but its stone walls offered protection from enemy fire with thirteen oxen in attendance.
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Temple
Howard F. Bombhoff
Austin
Wanted to Buy Henhouse Move
W. C. Musser seeks to purchase a henhouse that can be moved. Flowers for all occasions offered by Mrs. Allen T. Short at phone 100, sole agent for Hannah's.
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W. C. Musser
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Flowers of
Sherman
Carl May
Jer sey City Munitions Pier A World War II Hub
New York port officials disclosed that a secret pier in Jersey City New Jersey was the war’s largest munitions shipping point. The site loaded 2 696 811 tons of bombs and ammunition from 54 000 freight cars into 1 800 ships over three years and will be superseded by other Atlantic sites away from populated areas.
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New York
New York Port
Atlantic Seaboard
State Hospitals See Rising Patient Payments Revenue
Austin report shows patients able to pay $5 weekly contributed $293,603 in the first ten months of the fiscal year. Collections from paying patients have risen 200 percent over two years, enough to cover a year of operating costs for three institutions: the Austin State Farm Colony, Confederate Women's Home, and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored and Orphan Children.
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Austin
Weaver Baker
Board of Control
Austin State Farm Colony
Confederate Women's Home
The
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute For Colored and Orphan Children
Baker
Ickes Sees Cold Coal Less Winter State Warning
Secretary Ickes warned the Senate that next winter could be the coldest of the war unless enough miners are released from military service to boost coal production. The note underscores wartime fuel shortages and policy urgency.
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Ickes
Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Senate
Labor Black Market To Be Investigated
Three federal agencies the War Labor Board the War Production Board and the War Manpower Commission will join efforts today to curb suspected black market labor slowing government projects. Investigations will start in Houston at a naval hospital site then Camden Ark and San Antonio where Navy rocket plant and Army hospital work lag.
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Dallas
War Labor Board
The
War Production Board
War Manpower Commission
Houston
Naval Hospital
George L. Noble
Camden
Ark
Navy
San Antonio
August cotton price set at 23.12 cents per pound
The Commodity Credit Corporation announces the August selling price for middling 15 16 inch cotton at Memphis Tennessee is 23.12 cents per pound. The rate is 25 points above August 1 parity after accounting for the 10 spot market spread between 7 8 inch and 15 16 inch middling cotton.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Memphis
Tenn
Agriculture Department
Okinawa Hold Held Beer Bargain Backlash
On Okinawa civilians rioted over a Japanese bomber strike that penetrated air defenses and hit a beached freighter's hold. The blast damaged the ship little, but the hold contained thousands of cases of beer awaiting transfer, triggering angry protests.
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Okinawa
Mass graves near Modlin hold 80000 bodies said to be Hitler Youth victims
Warsaw radio reports 80,000 bodies uncovered in mass graves near Modlin in Polish Silesia. Preliminary inquiry suggests victims were killed by Hitler Youth units during the war.
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London
Warsaw Radio
Modlin
Polish Silesia
Army losses since war start total nearly two million
The Army reports 1 883 000 losses since Pearl Harbor through last April 30 including 238 000 battle and non battle deaths 1 336 000 honorable discharges 106 000 prisoners and missing and 203 000 other separations or retirements of regular Army personnel
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
War Department
Snakes Hidden By Holiness Healers in Virginia Hills
In St. Charles Virginia four large rattlesnakes were concealed by Holiness Faith Healers during a Sunday snake charm demonstration. Police moved in as healers swung snakes over their heads. four snakes were killed and four healers were arrested and released. A venomous encounter saw three additional snakes killed by police clubs. The governor ordered action to curb the dangerous event.
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ST. Charles
Holiness
Virginia Hills
H. W. Lawrence
Colgate Darden
Virginia
Six Families Sickened by Suspect Milk In Austin
Violent illness struck six neighbors who had bought milk from the same supplier. Five victims left the hospital, the sixth to be discharged soon. The report notes milk impurity as the probable cause. The note mentions cellophane invention by Dr. J E Brandenberger.
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Austin
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