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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1944
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysis surveys two major theaters. Red Army offensives trap German divisions southeast of Kiev while Cassino fights intensify in Italy. Pacific veterans face furloughs as war notes and notes on policy and morale.
Russia announces a plan giving 16 republics formal self government in foreign affairs and defense while remaining under Moscow through the Communist party. Molotov states new republics include Estonia Latvia Lithuania White Russia and Karelo Finland and would join the peace table. Red forces push along Baltic and prewar Polish fronts while attrition warfare continues in Ukraine as Japan concentrates for a Pacific clash.
Tiny Paulette Matthes of Chicago weighed six pounds five ounces at birth and at one year old weighs twenty two inches long and a bit over three pounds lighter than birth. She eats little formula and requires constant care as doctors work to understand her growth and health. Paulette smiles on her first birthday as her mother tends her care, alongside a thriving brother Ronald.
Lipstick imprints blur V mail film and hard pencils or faulty typewriters hinder photographing letters. V mail travels by air with about five days delivery. Daily handling reaches roughly 100000 pieces. Accidents kill 94500 and injure 9700000 last year, death rate 70.4 per 100000. motor vehicle deaths 23300, at home 33000 killed, nearly 5 million injured. Occupational deaths drop 3 percent from prior year.
The report describes fierce combat near Cassino as U S troops push into the ruined town behind advancing tanks. German paratroopers and reinforcements defend strategic heights and supply routes north toward Rome, as U S and British forces press the drive.
Southern representatives in the Capitol pressed for state control of soldier voting opposing the administrations plan for a federal ballot. A compromise sought a federal ballot for those states lacking absentee voting by July 1, while the House backed a measure to mail ballot applications to servicemen and ensure prompt ballot delivery if accepted.
Highlights from the week note restrictions on neoprene usage by the rubber director, affecting garters girdles and fabrics. Plans for shoe cement elastic yarns and fabrics were paused due to new military demands. Independent retailers show 13 percent sales growth in 1943, while department stores rise 17 percent. Britain’s railroad shops prepare special cars and locomotives for Western Europe invasion.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics says a 16 percent fall in the 1944 spring pig crop and open pastures reduce feed demands, easing tight supplies. Despite better regional distribution due to corn price ceilings and set-asides for high protein feeds, overall 1944 prospects remain not strong. Laying mash prices rise 12 to 15 percent, egg-feed returns unlikely to improve. Chicken slaughter in 1944 should approach the 1943 record of 3 billion pounds.
The New York Stock Exchange posted a 1943 profit of 675 509 against 1942 losses of 815 972. Initiation fees 228 900 were moved to capital, not profit, after 296 000 fees the prior year. Trade volume jumped with 278 742 000 shares in 1943 versus 125 685 000 in 1942. daily average rose to about 1 000 000 shares from 450 000. The brisk market continued into 1944.
In Washington Kilgore of the American Farm Bureau outlines a plan to curb broad subsidies. Jones warns the CCC renewal is key. Debates on extending the CCC with anti subsidy provisions loom as farm labor and consumer groups mobilize amid war time price controls.
Bankhage Wood growth runs about 21 500 cubic feet per minute while harvests reach 13 billion cubic feet annually. Losses from fire insects and disease total 2 billion cubic feet yearly. Barter stores rise in Berlin as the chamber of commerce pushes barter waves. Texas farm woodlands report fire loss under one percent yearly.
A camera so large that the photographer works inside is used by laboratories of a telephone company.
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