24 Feb 1944
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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
1
Major aerial blows cripple German positions as Allies finalize the conquest of the Solomons. Troops entrench in the Green Islands and press to reduce civilian access to canned goods. The campaign highlights strategic gains in the Pacific theater and the ongoing supply challenges faced by civilians.
The Solomons campaign nears its end with Gen. Douglas MacArthur announcing decisive landings in the Green Islands that trap 22,000 Japanese and jeopardize their supply lines from Rabaul and Kavieng. Allied forces also pound Calais, Berlin, and disrupt Nazi supply routes around Anzio and Cassino, while the Casito Abbey of Cassino lies in rubble after heavy bombing.
Axis nations possessions in the United States including more than 300 business enterprises and 30 000 patents have been seized by the Alien Property Custodian Leo T Crowley. Many assets are being used for the American war effort with royalties waived and licenses granted to U S interests.
Senators George and Murray push a bill to compensate manufacturers within 30 days of war contract cancellations. Reimbursement would cover costs plus profit, with final adjustments. Proponents cite 100000 prime contracts and 1 million subcontracts at risk and a potential 75 billion dollars of surplus goods to be sold postwar.
The War Food Administration tightens rationing for 1944 45 with reduced civilian allocations of canned fruits and vegetables. Provisions cut from 30 million to 17 million cases for fruits and from 128 million to 104 million for vegetables, demanding canners reserve 70 percent of fruit and 50 percent of vegetables for military and lend lease use. Current farm stocks as of February 1 show large supplies across beef pork lamb and mutton lard butter frozen foods including eggs cheese and fruits and vegetables.
Weekly roundup notes military postal chiefs urge readers to stop sending minor letters to service members. Officials say such mail slows delivery of important letters and clogs facilities. Some blame cartoon characters for triggering the flood of correspondence.
President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago urges abolishing current school frivolities and the adding machine credit system. He criticizes eight years of elementary schooling, four of high school, and four of college as duplicative and proposes substitute methods of lectures, general reading, and general exams.
The U S Cadet Nurses corps must recruit 28 000 additional student nurses by July 1 to reach 65 000 for the period starting last September. To restore 1941 levels, 115 000 must be recruited in the next ten months. Shortages began in 1942 as hospitals closed departments for lack of personnel. Training bottleneck is instructor scarcity, with many graduates offered scholarships to teach. Five U S nurses were killed on the Rome battlefront while aiding wounded in field hospitals.
In Batesville Indiana a pipeline leak flooded a creek bed with gas threatening the water supply. Volunteers built an emergency dam while townspeople gathered with buckets and carried gas home, some filling cars directly at the site.
National income reached 241.717 billion dollars in 1943, with farmers receiving about 19.009 billion from crops and produce, and livestock income rising four billion from 1942. Wheat, cotton, oil bearing crops and vegetables all posted regional gains, while poultry and eggs, hogs, and regional oil crop receipts surged amid record marketings. The American workers’ share totaled 100.603 billion, up nearly 21 billion from last year, with total interest and dividends at 9.04 billion for 1943. Army and Navy decorations surpassed 133,598 by year start, with air corps medals dominating.
War era prosperity hits Berlin with big cash trade and a booming leather goods plant but concerns rise over New Deal policy and labor unions. Farmers laud high prices for corn and oats while bootleg corn circulates above OPA ceilings. Local officials and business leaders warn against centralized spending, praising small business resilience and the ingenuity of local entrepreneurs amid national policy disputes.
W. H. Patey and many Berlin residents resist monopolies while acknowledging distinctions among moguls Henry Kaiser, Henry Ford, and Wendell Willkie. Kaiser supports unions under proper management, easing production burdens. Willkie opposes labor racketeers yet backs union workers. he denounces cheap racketeers exploiting labor.
Do not rely on harsh laxatives. Start mornings with the juice of one Sunkist lemon in a glass of water on an empty stomach. This routine stimulates normal bowel action day after day and provides Vitamin C and B vitamins, aiding digestion and alkalinizing the system. Try it for ten mornings with California Sunkist lemons.
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