Allied Nations Report Jap Atrocities and Red Advances in War Report
The column details Lieutenant Colonel William Dyess describing brutal Japanese horrors on Bataan and prison camps. It notes Allied bomber strikes on New Britain and new Allied advances on Bougainville and New Guinea as Red forces threaten Leningrad while German units push near the Romanian border. It also covers Poland, Britain, and U S mediation efforts, Argentina breaking with Berlin and Tokyo, and Roosevelt's push for federal oversight of service ballots in 1944.
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Bataan
William Dyess
U. S
San Fernando
Dyess
War and Navy Department
Filippino
Fili
Army
Navy
Marshalls
mid-Pacific
U.S
New Britain
Rabaul
New Guinea
Bougainville
Leningrad
Poland
Cassino
Fifth Army
Rome
Argentina
Germany
Japan
Pedro Ramirez
Berlin
Tokyo
Bolivia
South America
Cordell Hull
Foxhunting curtailed by war drives in Kent
A 500-strong force of soldiers and citizens joined in a wartime hunt to kill 50 foxes in Kent, substituting sport for service. Feathers become a domestic product market as war boosts pillow stuffing, with chicken feathers replacing European and Chinese down.
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Kent
Europe
China
Farm Prices Supports Announced For 34 Principal Crops
The War Food Administration announced support prices for 34 principal farm products subject to congressional approval. The only large drop is hogs down 1 per hundredweight from October 1. Loans for corn and wheat set at 85 percent of parity, cotton rice and tobacco at 90 percent. Potato supports at 90 percent, soybeans up 14 cents per bushel, flaxseed 10 cents, barley and grain sorghums 10 cents, sweet potatoes 10 to 20 cents. Peanut supports up $10 a ton, sugar beets $1.50 a ton, sugar cane 30 cents a ton.
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War Food Administration
Tax bill proposals target luxury goods and services
Lawmakers push a 20 percent tax on jewelry and a 25 percent levy on cosmetics with broader plans to fund a $2 billion tax package through duties on amusement, air mail postage, and pool tables. Proposals come as oil synthetic rubber shortages threaten civilian tires and retread operations rely on reclaimed scrap.
FAO Plans For Family of Nations Buying
Washington analyst notes the FAO aims to organize a permanent feeding system under UN auspices. Hambidge says FAO plans a "family buying" approach where nations pool purchases to secure food supplies, signaling broader international welfare work linked to the State of the Union agenda.
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FAO
Congress
Washington
Franklin D
Churchill
Stalin
Teheran
Hambidge
Waxes help food and gear supply in wartime effort
The petroleum industry produced 390000 tons of waxes in 1943 with waxier micro-crystalline waxes planned for 1944 to aid food packaging and proof army shoes. The FAO faces forming a global plan to raise production and trade, reducing isolationist food dependence and preventing future world crises.
No Whisky To Be Manufactured In 1944 War Year
War Production Czar Donald Nelson declared industrial needs in 1944 will keep distilleries at 150 percent capacity yet prevent whisky production this year. Alcohol reserves fell to 80 million gallons by December 1943, prompting a drive to secure molasses and corn and press Britain to use Caribbean molasses. Interstate telephone rates will drop March 1, saving about eight million dollars annually, with night rates moved to 6 pm and reduced teletype overtime.
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Donald Nelson
Nelson
War Production Board
Caribbean
Bell Telephone System
Federal Communications Commission
Interstate Teletypewriter
Prewar baby carriages to reappear in six weeks
The War Production Board says prewar baby carriages strollers walkers and pushcarts will return to the market in about six weeks. Net cash farm income for 1941–1943 was over 24 times the five year prewar average. The War Food Administration will release about 440000 cases of canned pork and beans to civilians. Japanese tax law revision bills explained to U S monitors fill a document over four feet long.
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WPB
Atate
People’s Lobby
War Food Administration
U. S
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