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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
3
A condensed digest notes Allies loosening Nazi control in France and Soviet allies pressing into German soil. It references wartime critiques from the Eastern Newspaper Union and hints at a regional impact in Ohio Valley after Seavy Wester’s travel notes.
Allied forces drive the Nazis from the Falaise pocket and encircle retreating units as Patton and Patch lead swift advances from Paris to the south. British and Canadian troops expand the push to the English Channel while airborne troops disrupt German lines behind the front. French resistance activities intensify as sabotage targets Nazi communications.
Russian forces under Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky crossed the East Prussian border to push the war into German soil for the first time in 30 years amid heavy Nazi resistance and counterattacks. German troops, aided by reserves from Himmier’s home guard, fought back as front lines shifted toward Warsaw and the central German border.
The War Production Board plans limited civilian goods production using surplus labor and factories. Officials say output will not rise significantly until Germany falls, then reach about 39 percent above current levels. Priority assists go to makers of electric ranges stoves pails and buckets irons farm machinery water storage tanks and similar items.
U S bombers range west of New Guinea and hit Bonin islands while ground forces press in the Marianas. Admiral Nimitz says Japan invasion may not be needed for lasting peace. June-August drought reports show Ohio Valley area suffering 45 to 62 percent normal rainfall, harming corn soybeans and pasture and prompting cattle stock purchases holdbacks.
BRIEFS describe a British expert proposing wireless photo-telegraphy stations that can send complete pages at 25 pages per second, vastly faster than the current six minutes per page. The inventor claims speeds up to 15,000 times faster may be possible. A separate item notes a burglar in New Haven breaking into a station, stealing gasoline coupons and 100 sticks of gum after smashing a vending machine.
Senate moves to loosen enforcement of the soldier voting law after the army’s strict reading of the term sponsored barred government funded political material. The act originally banned all government sponsored media with political content from distribution to the armed forces, causing broad censorship in military camps.
Agricultural pioneers trace the idea to czarist days with artificial insemination at royal stables. The Soviet agronomist Prof. N V Tsitsin says an edible perennial wheat with 60 percent gluten arose from cross pollination of agropyron grasses and wheat. Initial harvests were satisfactory though future tests are pending. U S breeders report limited success and a hybrid lacking regular qualities.
Senator John H Bankhead urged Browers to keep cotton off the market to raise prices toward parity from eight to two dollars above 1944 loan levels. He spoke during talks with government officials and cotton manufacturers on setting parity for agricultural crops and aligning textile prices with parity. A final option discussed was parity loan coverage from 97 to 100 percent.
Reported plans at high levels discuss a point system to discharge servicemen and women after the war based on abroad service, length of service, campaigns, marital status and dependents with largest point totals released first. Roosevelt and top command weigh camps for veterans study and defense force modernization. Also: War Food Administration holds eggs stockpiled to 80 percent parity with five million cases bought. possible distribution to Britain and liberated lands in dried form.
A concise reflection urges that true honor comes from courage to follow reason and conscience, preserving human dignity and the station we are given. The author attributes the sentiment to Jeremy Collier and frames duty as a moral imperative guiding action.
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