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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union reports a weekly news digest showing reduced 1944 manpower requirements, raids severing Nazi rail lines, expanding action in the Southwest Pacific, and the anti subsidy battle widening in scope.
The House bill trims draft needs by 548000, placing fathers at bottom of the list and delaying induction to 60 days. Occupational deferments face district appeal boards, a five man medical panel may lower standards, and the army’s total force falls to 7.652 million while saving over 13 billion from a 127 billion appropriation.
U S forces reinforce Bougainville for a major drive against 40,000 Japanese defenders at their last Solomons stronghold. Liberator bombers strike Gilberts and Marshalls while ships pound Buka air base. In New Guinea, Australian troops move from Finschhafen toward Madang and Wewak as Japanese aerial attacks target Allied bases.
Agricultural directors from five states assail continuation of the administration subsidy plan as the Economic Stabilization Director weighs payments to millers to hold bread prices. Critics say subsidies inflate prices by boosting purchasing power while plans to pay mills 14 cents a bushel for wheat target bread costs.
Harry Moulton of the Brookings Institution told the American Finance conference that peak war production demand is over. Raw material stocks are now adequate and sometimes excessive, with more contract cancellations expected. Electric irons loom as a wartime product. WPB may release metals for 500000 irons in Q1 1944 after Whiteside urges supply.
New maladies named Jeep Disease and Destroyer Stomach are reported among Doughboys and sailors. Jeep Disease involves a cyst near the base of the spine from rough armored vehicle riding, with some cases requiring surgery. Destroyer Stomach stems from prolonged sea sickness and irregular meals in rough North Atlantic waters, causing subacute gastritis and nervous strain.
Congress weighs an eight cent per hour wage rise for non operating railroad workers as shortages persist. October 1943 rail employment stood at 1,367,817 with a 4 percent rise from 1942 but 100,000 under needs. OS refused wage award, proposing 10 cents for lowest paid and 4 cents for highest. Maintenance and structural categories fell 3.57 percent from October 1942.
The War Department studies peacetime disposal of 43 million acres while the federal government holds 383 million acres, rivaling the combined size of many Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states. Army and Navy purchases include 15 hotels for 15 million dollars, with some later sold to private owners such as the Stevens in Chicago. A British MP urges wages for homemakers, arguing family income belongs to husbands under current law and citing a recent court ruling on a wife’s saved wages.
UNRRA estimates about 134 million people in Europe and Asia will need assistance after the war with 84 million in China. Special units will check epidemics in reconquered areas and civilians will be funneled through centers for feeding vaccination and quarantine. Lend lease food shipments abroad amount to about one eighth of US supply with civilians receiving three fourths of production. Victory gardeners to raise 25 percent more next year and calls for more tools fertilizer and insecticides plus 600000 pressure cookers for canning.
An advertisement describes Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1873 B for a princess-cut jumper and matching long sleeve jacket for sizes 2 to 6 years. It notes fabric requirements and envisions a warmly dressed young girl in the completed outfit.
About 160000 war inventions submitted to the National Inventors' council since 1940. Roughly 50 have been adopted and are in production. More than a thousand are under testing.
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