12 Oct 1944
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
1
The weekly analysis notes Allied forces advancing into the Siegfried Line as heavy artillery pounds German positions. President Roosevelt weighs wage increase proposals while war efforts and domestic policy compete for attention in Washington.
Allied forces press the 460 mile front with Patton and Patch advancing toward strategic targets in Germany while the First and Seventh armies push through Siegfried defenses toward Julich and Belfort Gap. Soviet units strike in Yugoslavia and Hungary as German forces stagger to slow the drives toward Budapest and the Carpathians. Baltic refugees and retreating units flee Riga amid heavy fighting and strategic coal and copper sites come under contest.
U S bombers swept enemy supply lines toward the Philippines while American troops cleared Palau Islands, reporting over 10 000 enemy dead and 187 captured. Bombers struck defense works across the Kiriles to the Marshalls as Japanese pushes threaten the eastern Chinese coast and force retreat from four bases.
The Polish Committee of National Liberation in Lublin attacked the London government in exile as it backed Gen. Tadeusz Komorowski to replace Gen. Sosnkowski as commander. The claim belittles the exile government and accuses it of being out of touch with Poland's people while ratcheting tensions with the Western-backed authorities.
Mexico exports about one fifth to one fourth of all cattle produced to the United States, according to department of agriculture reports. Most buyers trade young bulls aged one to two years weighing 200 to 700 pounds, with Mexico retaining an export quota of 600,000 head that last year will hold for a period.
President Roosevelt met AFL and CIO leaders to keep wage controls in place through the November election. The plan would hold current wage limits until war contract cancellations reduce hours, then raise basic hourly rates. The War Labor board weighs allowing increases during reconversion without government approval if not used to raise prices or lure workers from war plants.
Brooklyn veteran Dixie Walker won the National League batting title with 191 hits in 995 at bats and a .357 average. Cleveland's Lou Boudreau led the American League with 180 hits in 894 at bats for a .337 mark.
In Lille Charles de Gaulle outlined an economic program favoring a planned economy with state direction of activity while preserving initiative and profit. He urged use of national resources and empire to end concentration of interests. Britain's Trades Union Congress proposed public ownership or control of all industry with labor representation and public boards to standardize, pool resources, and create joint marketing agencies.
Alexander Sonnenberg of New York reportedly created a new disposable diaper design. The inventor, known for cigarette concessions in midtown Manhattan hotels, designed a diaper that folds rectangularly or squarely with a tape mechanism through loops on both sides to secure it.
With limited storage and damaged British elevators, Canadian flour mills operated nearly seven days a week, producing 24,474,698 barrels of 196 pounds last year, about 13.5 million exported. This year output is forecast at 26,366,000 barrels as milling soaks up 100 million bushels of wheat and bulk exports reach 283 million. Wheat production may hit 447 million bushels, with farmers guaranteed $1.25 a bushel under a retention quota. Lard and cattle weights fall, storage stocks shrink, and the government holds half of lard reserves while packers trim production to cope.
Despite July dipping from last year, early months offset the decrease. For seven months national income reached 84.63 billion dollars this year versus 82.154 billion last year. Analysts expect a moderate rise into October with a fall anticipated in November and December.
A wartime clothes rationing scare was averted by a simple order limiting stock to prewar levels after meetings led by Irwin Wolf and Donald Nelson with WPB officials. The move, praised by Nelson as saving civilian supplies, also signals postwar spending caution and shifts in dollar a year staffing under Nelsons policy.
A rough collage of postwar chatter cites Beveridge plans after the Armistice, Miami Beach property shocks amid gambling bans, CBS eyeing Johnny Morgan to replace Fred Allen, and industry skirmishes over PR and musicians. Betrothals, social climbers, Hemingway, Abbott and Costello, Langford tea tales, posters urging peace, transit chief Delaney’s local-interest quip, Winds mail woes, Tilden’s play option, Ruth Portugal in a best stories list, a New York novelette jewel mystery, and Madeleine Carroll joining the Red Cross. Also notes on public sentiment, policy prompts, and wartime personalities inclinations.
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