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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union report notes Allied success against Japanese reinforcements and efforts to iron out a massive highway program. Editor's note preserves WNU opinions separate from this newspaper.
News from Leyte shows U S airmen sinking 10 Japanese transports in a single convoy assault, 4 000 troops lost and total reinforcement losses reaching 26 ships 92 750 tons and 21 000 men as ground fighting on Leyte stalls amid heavy rain. Elsewhere Chiang Kai shek’s forces struggle to blunt a Japanese drive toward Chungking while Japan advances near Kweiyang and the Burma road. In Washington Congress works on a postwar federal highway program approving 450 million annually for three years by the Senate and a House plan of 500 million annually with both requiring state matching funds and regional distribution.
The fighting widens along the western front as U S Ninth and First army units press toward Julich and Duren. German forces shift troops toward the front while Canadian troops join Dutch fronts. heavy artillery and tanks dominate ground combat under poor weather. Sedition trial in Washington ends after seven months with 26 defendants and Justice Eicher’s death. potential new trials loom.
A collage of snippets and jokes on taxes, fascism, elections, travel, and wartime topics. It riffs on tax forms with a playful verse about a mythical tax tree, mentions General Franco, Donald Nelson, and Ford gliders, plus light quips about travel, airlines, and wartime sentiment. The piece blends humor with contemporary concerns and public notices.
Washington digest discusses plans to reorganize congressional committees and streamline the legislative machinery. It notes the joint committee on organization, ongoing studies, and calls for reducing executive overreach by boosting committee independence and expert testimony while facing lobby pressure and limited funds.
The American Meat Institute reports the largest November production of beef and veal at federally inspected plants. Total meat output reached 1,539,000,000 pounds, up 6 percent from October. A Holstein bull calf sold for 775,000 in war bonds at Omaha, with an insurer buying it for 380,000 in bonds then reselling for 375,000 to the Douglas County Dairy Breeders association for future use.
A fragmented note recalls Barbs Washington ranked 84th of 92 cities on a wind phrase. It cites Hull tariff levels near 1913 baselines and Underwood act comparisons. It muses on Congress streamlining and hypothetically slimming its members to fit.
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