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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Allied advances on two fronts as German resistance stiffens. B 29 bombers target steel mills in Japan, signaling intensified strategic pressure as World War II moves forward.
Allied forces push to widen the Cherbourg peninsula pocket with U S troops reaching Quineville and advancing west of Carentan toward St Lo. Rommel deploys about 700 tanks in the eastern sector as Stimson warns of fiercer counter blows before France is liberated.
Delegates arriving in Chicago for the Republican convention see a bruising presidential fight as Bricker backers insist on a first ballot challenge to Dewey. Dewey enters with the most pledged delegates while the Democratic gathering in July names Oklahoma's Kerr as keynote speaker.
At a Chiado convention of the Gastroenterological Association Dr. Lester Morrison of Philadelphia presented a device claimed to detect diseased organs in unconscious patients by an alvanic reaction. Separately a National Industrial Conference report notes April factory earnings rose to 1.057 dollars per hour but shorter weeks reduced total earnings to 48.08 dollars on average, down 0.7 percent from March. average weekly hours were 45.2.
The House backed a parity provision under OPA extending price control. If processors don’t pay parity for any farm commodity they may charge 90 percent of the OPA ceiling. Parity resets farm buying power to 1909 14 levels. Cotton provisions and amendments caused House Senate friction. The bill risked a presidential veto over court testing of OPA rules.
Maj. Gen. Norman Kirk reports that 97 of every 100 wounded soldiers are saved, with World War II-era death rates for abdominal chest and head injuries far lower than in World War I. Abdominal deaths now 25 percent, chest wounds under 25, head wounds 4 percent, versus higher wartime losses in the past.
The article traces the development of airborne forces from early 1920s tests to modern paratroopers and gliders. It notes American origins with General Billy Mitchell, German and Russian precedents, and highlights airborne roles from Crete to Sicily and Normandy. It explains how airborne units support landings, seize airstrips, and work with troop transports, gliders, and ground forces.
The War Production Board plans June to August output of more than 2 000 000 dozen infants and children's wearing apparel. The War Food Administration authorizes release of an additional 12 000 000 pounds of dried prunes from 1943 production to civilians. Romanian authorities require servicemen to bring two changes of underwear due to army supply problems. US farm employment on April 1 falls about 3 percent from a year earlier.
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