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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1946
Page
3
Weekly news analysis notes President Truman taking his battle to Congress directly as the CIO broadens its campaign to preserve high take-home pay. The column reflects editorials from the Eastern Newspaper Union and urges readers to consider the union stance with caution.
President Truman urges public support to prod Congress into action on nine points for postwar policy, including 30 day strike penalties, rapid housing for five million, extended price controls, and emergency authority. Labor unrest looms with CIO wage demands and steel and coal disputes. Arab boycott of Zionist goods looms amid Palestine tensions. Navy uniform updates and personnel wear also noted as changes trialed.
Eastern German provincial officials with Soviet authorities implement sweeping land and industrial reforms. About 7,000 estates totaling 4 million acres are redistributed to nearly 300,000 peasants with amortization terms, while land is sold at fixed prices and non Nazi former owners may be compensated. Industrial changes place workers on company boards and provincial governments control production, wages, and distribution, with a state plan set for years and free markets limited to small farm transactions.
A British wife of an American G I in Birmingham gave birth prematurely to a rare two headed infant. The girl lived 50 hours despite two formed heads and separate breathing systems. The event, among about 25 similar cases in medical records, drew wide attention before the baby died.
The iron and steel industry reports record annual capacity now larger than ever and more widely distributed, with 27 states hosting facilities. About 845 steel ingot capacity totaling 95,505,280 tons is in four states Oregon Virginia Tennessee and Utah, which lacked such plants in 1938. Altogether 25 states have open hearth capacity, up from 22 in 1938.
Professor Oliver J. Lee of Northwestern University predicts a near maximum of six eclipses in 1841 though only one will be visible in the United States. The US eclipse will be a solar event with about 44 percent of the sun obscured.
Dr. C. C. Taylor of the bureau of agricultural economics notes farm population fell by 5 million, over 15 percent, from 1940 to 1945. Males aged 14 to 24 dropped 40 percent from 1940 to 1944, and those aged 25 to 44 fell more than 20 percent.
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