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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
3
Western Newspaper Union analysts report Allied forces pressing the Gustav line while Japanese troops push in China. The piece notes a delay in inducting men over 30 as war demands shift.
Allied reports describe 80,000 Japanese forces pushing beyond the Peiping Hankow railway while Chinese defenders withdraw. U.S. and Chinese troops under Lieut. Gen. Stilwell advance in north Burma to clear the Ledo road for supplies to war-torn China.
An eye bank has been established at New York hospital to store corneas for potential sight restoration in those blinded by explosions burns and ulcers. Corneas may be taken from living donors or from the deceased within four hours of death. Cornea transplants restore sight in about 20 of 100 cases.
Europe braces for a three front assault as U S and British forces in Italy drive against the Gustav line below Anzio while Allied airpower targets France Belgium and Germany rail networks Rommel races to move troops. In Russia a major offensive is anticipated to align with western actions under Allied command in Italy led by General Harold Alexander.
James Feor Restal, a New York investment banker and former undersecretary to the late Frank Knox, is named secretary of the navy. A World War I veteran, he is 52 and steps into the cabinet post amid wartime staffing changes.
The USDA predicts a 1944 winter wheat crop of 62,275,000 bushels from 40,943,000 acres at about 16.2 bushels per acre. Rain since January 1 improved soil moisture across much of the Great Plains, though germination failures and dryness harmed western plains stands and floods affected the Mississippi and Missouri basins.
Coffing M. Arslanian, a Montclair rug merchant living in a 450 foot tree-top bungalow since 1936, finally has his residence recognized as legal. Election officials confirmed his voting eligibility after long ado over his unusual roost above the town.
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