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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
4
Weekly ration reminders cover meats fats processed foods sugar and blue stamps with varying expiration dates across regions. Advice urges pool token coordination, while safety tips urge careful behavior to prevent accidents that hamper war effort, including stair safety and electrical cautions.
American fighting men in this war are getting every food nutritionists say is necessary to keep them in top physical strength. They also receive ice cream turkey soft drinks and candy bars. A living war memorial in Scotland would house invalid and disabled soldiers with families, proposed by an ex servicemen organization and to be built once endowment and site are secured.
Nazis attempted to ship prisoners from Belgium back to Germany packed in cattle cars. A Belgian underground ordered engineer delays, forcing only 15 miles in 24 hours amid Gestapo threats. Officials then freed the detainees to avoid further trouble as Nazi collapse began in France.
Displaced Dutch workers, fearing pursuit, recount their escape from Nazi control. They describe being hunted like animals, adopting assumed names, and living in fear of Gestapo. Now they await news of relatives and hope for direction after years of wandering across Europe.
Steelmakers in Mexico boast about 600000 tons of annual capacity, the highest south of the Rio Grande. Brazil, soon to be joined by a government sponsored plant, trails with about 570000 tons. Mexico also holds an estimated 440000 tons of pig iron capacity against Brazil's 700000 tons.
Robert Gruver visited Waterloo last Thursday at the Harry Baldwin home. Robert Schmid Vernon Wede Merlin Miller and Pvt Gerald Hoyer spent last Wednesday at the Robert Mott home in Waterloo. Arthur Hoff, Calmar farmer, owns a farm machine shop with on farm made tools including a lathe and self built equipment such as a saw mill grain tank and small grain elevator. No Trespassing signs offered by the Echo office cost four for 25 cents for posting farm tips.
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