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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
2
Allies press offensive in France weaken German lines as Soviet and Western forces push toward German soil. Summer drought tensions ripple through the Ohio Valley and surrounding regions amid wartime reporting.
Allied forces advance on multiple fronts across France and Normandy. U S troops around Paris trap retreating German units and push along the left flank. British Canadian units attack north while Seventh Army drives inland in southern France. Paratroopers disrupt lines as French resistance boosts sabotage.
Russian forces led by Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky crossed the East Prussian border despite heavy Nazi resistance and rocket fire. German counterattacks, fresh reserves from Himmler’s guard, and bitter fighting marked the broader 1,000 mile front as Nazis tried to slow the Red advance toward Warsaw and central Germany.
The War Production Board limits civilian goods production to surplus labor and facilities, with a 39 percent prewar output target after Germany’s defeat. The fourth reconversion step prioritizes items like electric ranges, heating stoves, pails, electric irons, farm machinery, and farm water storage tanks for agriculture.
U S bombers patrol west of New Guinea and hit Bonin islands as 150000 Japanese troops in the South Pacific tighten the noose. Ground forces strengthen Marianas while Adm. Nimitz questions large scale invasion of Japan. Ohio Valley drought lingers with subpar rainfall across Illinois Indiana Kentucky Ohio and surrounding regions threatening crops and livestock feed.
BRIEFS reports a British radio and TV expert proposing wireless photo-telegraphy stations that can flash complete pages at 25 per second, versus six minutes per page now, with speeds up to 15,000 times claimed by the inventor. A New Haven burglary case details a thief smashing a vending machine at a filling station to steal 100 sticks of gum, ignoring pennies and cash.
The army’s strict reading of the political propaganda ban in the soldier voting law curbed government sponsored materials in camps. Senators moved to soften enforcement, aiming to permit broader reading by relaxing the interpretation of sponsored content and its distribution at military posts.
Agricultural notes trace the idea to czarist times with artificial insemination at royal stables. Prof. N. V. Tsitsin says Russians developed an edible perennial wheat reaching 60 percent gluten. It arose from cross pollination of wild grasses with wheat, showing promising early harvests though next season tests remain. US breeders reportedly have limited success with hybrids of wild grasses and wheat.
Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama pushes farmers to withhold cotton to raise prices toward 1944 parity. In talks with government officials and cotton manufacturers a plan was outlined to revise textile prices to parity and lift market prospects. As a last resort parity loans of 97 to 100 percent were considered.
The war’s end plan hinges on a point based discharge system prioritizing service abroad length of service campaigns and family status. Roosevelt and top brass weigh using camps for veterans retraining and defense force modernization. The War Food Administration holds 100 to 150 million dollars of egg stock to maintain prices at 90 percent parity with five million cases bought and potential shipments to Britain and liberated nations in dried form.
Washington column analyzes the push toward federal bureaucracy amid postwar reconversion debates. It cites Alfred Bingham on two revolutions driving growth, the common man and technical progress, and contrasts federal control with state distribution of unemployment and GI Bill programs, noting political incentives behind bureau expansion.
World War II coal output rises with one third fewer miners than World War I, while Red Cross messages to service families climb ten percent. A national back to school push launches from the US Office of Education, the Federal Security Agency and the Labor Department to reverse waning high school enrollment. In Japan 550 schools grow rabbits to supply clothing for soldiers.
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