Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1994 TAG: 9409200012
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes reported plans were well advanced for a vast industrial reconversion after the defeat of Germany and recommended it be accompanied by a return to a 40-hour work week and a lifting or easing of many economic controls.
Lt. Cmdr. Manning Kimmel, son of Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel, who headed navy forces at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, was presumed dead after the submarine he commanded was reported long overdue from patrol and marked lost.
More than 1,500 U.S. heavy bombers and fighters smashed German war factories for the second straight day in an effort to starve the Germans out of their Siegfried line garrisons. Meanwhile Russian troops raced 37 miles downhill across Transylvania to within 220 miles of Budapest and opened a massive new offensive in southern Poland.
Admiral Chester Nimitz reported heavy blows by American Pacific fleet cruisers and destroyers and carrier-based planes against the Palaus, Japansese-held islands, guarding the Phillipines on the east. A navy flying boat on patrol near Mindanao island sank a 10,000-ton Japanese tanker.
Jay R., Jene L. and Joe D. Hinkle of Walton, Ind. were the first triplets in the history of the Army Air Corps to complete training together and win their wings.
New Washington Redskin Coach Dud De Groot announced plans to use the T-formation in the coming season. The move to the new offense was desgined to feature the passing wizardry of Slingin' Sammy Baugh, the Redskins quarterback.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Quebec for a meeting with President Roosevelt to plan the defeat of Japan. It was their 10th and possibly last meeting before the end of the war with Germany. Churchill told a crowd gathered around his train that this was not his first trip to Quebec but `we have never been here before when the skies were brighter.`'
U.S. First Army troops and tanks smashed into Luxembourg and plunged five miles further onto German soil. Elsewhere ``long tom'' guns in Belgium opened up on the Aachen area of Germany in the first U.S. artillery bombardment of the Reich.
Venus Ramey, 19, of Washington, D.C. became the 1944 Miss America at the Atlantic City, N.J. pageant. She was the first auburn-haired beauty to win the title.
Tuberculosis cases were reported on the increase in war-torn Europe.
Republcan presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey lashed out at the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, accusing it of being ill-prepared for war and for conversion to peace.
German troops invaded the tiny republic of San Marino near the Adriatic end of the Italian front.
American carrier-based aircraft destroyed at least 200 Japanese planes in the west central Phillipines.
A state planning committee went on record against a proposal for the large-scale resettlement of veterans or war workers on Virginia farms. Fewer farmers were needed they said because of advances in technology.
French radio reported that participants in a peace riot in Berlin had routed a contingent of SS troops before fleeing in the face of reinforcements.
Twenty-two air force veterans, some of whom had compelted up to 50 combat missions, were killed in the head-on collision of passenger trains near Terre Haute, Ind.
Roanoke Judge J.L. Almond ruled that William Jordon Smith, a 34-year-old negro, was justified in defense of his home and family in killing Harold Eugene Powell, a 16-year-old white boy. Almond said his opinion was based on the law and said as long as he occupied the bench there would not be one set of rules for negroes and another for whites.
American marines and infantrymen tightened the grip on Peiliu and Morotal islands in the Palau and Halmahera island groups and had cut off 300,000 Japanese from escape.
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