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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1945
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Japan fears homeland invasion as U S forces press Okinawa and air campaigns hammer industrial centers. It outlines Allied gains from Iwo Jima to Berlin, postwar talks, and Pacific supply restrictions shaping meat and civilian rations.
State governors trimmed official travel by 430,254,900 miles in 1944 through mileage reduction programs versus 1941 figures. The unused miles equated to saving 26,613,000 gallons of wine, 78,228 tires, and 7,171 new passenger vehicles, reflecting wartime resource conservation across agencies.
A new incendiary device called the M74 figures in U S raids on Japanese industrial centers. The 10 pound tubular bomb releases a gel blend of highly flammable chemicals onto targets, including a magnesium powder coated with asphalt mass described as goop.
The House extended the reciprocal trade treaty act for three years and empowered the President to cut tariffs by half. It approved the Bretton Woods monetary agreements, creating an 8.8 billion dollar currency fund and a 9.1 billion dollar world bank for reconstruction. Opponents warn the currency pool may impair sound currencies and stabilize exchange rates.
U S correspondents describe Berlin a month after its capture as a city of death with ruined streets piles of debris and burned walls. Russians push for cleared routes while survivors seek shelter in cellars and lower floors living on meager rations and lacking fuel.
Despite eased restrictions and upcoming quota removal, farmers face critical gaps in gray and malleable castings such as cylinder blocks and rear axle housings. Output of mowers and harrows may drop due to limited parts and manpower, with foundries hardest hit.
The article states U S casualties in fighting Germany since D Day total 514 534 with 89 477 killed 367 180 wounded and 57 877 missing among 60 U S combat divisions plus 14 British and Canadian divisions totaling 184 512 casualties including 39 599 killed 126 145 wounded and 18 368 missing France contributed 11 080 casualties from eleven divisions and one Polish division suffered 5 593. Of missing 57 877 15 000 to 20 000 may be prisoners. Also notes business leaders urging passage of reciprocal trade act extension and debt cancellation to aid postwar recovery through the Committee for Economic Development led by Paul G Hoffman.
A Washington Digest analyzes the Moscow declaration and the U S plan to prosecute Nazi leaders under an international military tribunal with Justice Robert Jackson as chief American prosecutor. It outlines policy aims, trial scope, staff, and the aim to reveal Nazi crimes without bias, plus a note on wartime income payments and inflation risks in early 1945.
Government sells the New Jersey camp seized from the German American Bund. The site will be a boys camp not a concentration camp. German businessmen asked how to apply for reconstruction loans to rebuild a city. Field Marshal Mannerheim congratulated Stalin on a victory over Germany in 73 words. Stalin replied in 19. The BBC says truth telling is more effective than calculated lying. May be Goebbels was wrong after all.
Paintings handsomely mounted for sale at $2.00. Stuart Covington of Columbus Mississippi offers a store and filling station for sale or trade with about $3,500 worth of merchandise at half price. Partner possibilities discussed with Al Fred Wilson of San Marcos Texas Rt. 1.
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