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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
6
United States bombers strike in the Philippines as Moscow keeps pace in Paris area. Western Newspaper Union notes editorials show U S strategic actions shaping the global balance.
Allied forces push toward Paris with U S and British troops advancing from the west and north while Canadian units struggle near Caen. U S tanks and guns target Brittany ports Brest Lorient and St Nazaire to secure Atlantic supply lines as Russian mobilization escalates.
The report from a fallen German unit praises U S fighting qualities at St Lo and notes their artillery accuracy and depth maneuvers. Allied plans include a major push on the Gothic Line as Liberators raid Mindanao Nagasaki and Palembang amid Pearl Harbor conferences with President Roosevelt and General MacArthur.
Heat and drought depress crop prospects from Kentucky to Ohio while western fields show strong corn potential in Iowa and Nebraska. The US Britain oil pact aims to curb raw material withholding and set up an international oil commission to advise on production and sale with fair access and equal opportunities.
The OPA removed utility grades of beef and lamb from rationing and restored pork loins hams and canned fish to the lists. It raised cheese point values to slow movement into consumer channels. The changes reflect market movements hog marketing canned fish shortages and cheese supply conditions.
Army officials press for higher output of tanks trucks big guns and ammunition to meet front line demands. Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay urges a 77 percent rise in aircraft bombs in H2 1944, with heavy artillery ammo up 110 percent and trucks and tanks increasing substantially.
A 75 year old Amalfi artisan adds a 47th child by his second wife making 47 offspring total after 30 with the first wife. Mary Phillips a 19 year old from Trimsaran Wales stowed away to a Normandy beachhead then returned to Britain unharmed. Sheriff Claude Sullivan of Murphy Idaho closes his store after injuries from a car accident leaving the town with only a billiard parlor as a business.
Senators clash with southern Democrats over Kilgore Murray bill giving a federal work administrator power to deny unemployment relief. The George bill favors state control with $15 to $22 weekly benefits and shifts of federal workers to state systems. WPB plans to shift CIO tire workers and protect seniority with pay boosts, while land sales favor veterans and homeowners based on earning capacity. Claude Wickard outlines surplus land policy amid 6.5 million acres acquired.
Leslie Fenton and Ann Dvorak, among the first returning wartime couples, recount their England service and early careers. Fenton directed and served aboard a British PT boat, wounded at St Nazaire, while Dvorak drove ambulances and later acted in films. They describe resuming home life, keeping ranch duties, and continuing to pursue directing and acting as the war winds down.
The article recalls C B DeMille’s planned film Rurales started 30 years ago and a 1915 bid by Pancho Villa to meet DeMille at the border and guard him. Villa offered to be DeMille’s bodyguard and to name his own salary. DeMille replied with a witty warning that dead he could do no good, alive he could make a good picture, and Villa’s bid fizzled.
Washington analyst describes a large volunteer effort by about fifteen thousand DC residents to aid farm labor during harvests. He notes participation by White House staff, cabinet members, senators, Marines, WAVES, and WACs plus civilians, with camps and pay. He also probes German Nazi and Junker clandestine networks and Argentina’s suspected Nazi links amid broader hemispheric tension.
War Food Administration announces 1944 support prices for canned peaches pears apricots fruit cocktail and fruit mix at 86.4 percent of area average ceiling or lower cannery gross civilian ceiling prices. International Apple Association predicts a 123 million bushel apple crop with 10 million for armed forces and 36 million for lend-lease food. Maximum prices are set for the 1944 crop.
A German soldier in France wrote a notebook line about retreat to see homeland again. Production of 12 782 electric ranges in Q3 1944 was authorized for three manufacturers without affecting war work. A pamphlet from the Office of Defense Transportation outlines a simple method to detect slow tire leaks to prevent flats. German dentists are ordered to restrict care to urgent measures.
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