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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1944
Page
6
Allied troops punch through Pacific defenses as forces push toward final victory. A new agency is organized to supervise surplus war goods sales while heavy aerial attacks target Germany.
Democratic friction erupts as Sen Alben Barkley and Rep Robert Coughton break with FDR over the $2.3 billion tax bill. Clayton organizes Surplus War Property to sell army surplus goods. Senate extends CCC life to 1945 with conditions to curb retail prices, while War Food Admin Marvin Jones’ postwar fund request is denied.
World War II dispatches report heavy German attacks on London with blockbusters while Allied forces press bomber campaigns over Nazi plants in Germany. RAF losses tally 3,835 bombers over western Europe from Jan 1943 to Jan 1944, including 2,688 British and 1,147 American.
A plastic bugle replaces brass as the army faces brass shortages. The new model sounds like metal, weighs half as much, needs no warmth up in cold weather, and costs less. Navy plans 20 Mars planes, JRM-1 cargo ships convertible to hospital ships or troop transports.
On the 26th anniversary of the Red Army, Soviet forces punched through German lines along an 800 mile front, targeted strategic hubs like Pskov, pushed toward Krivoi Rog, and pressed Finnish peace talks while Nazi troops withdraw on the eastern Estonian border.
U N Airships Inc seeks five world routes from Washington to Calcutta via Dakar and to Buenos Aires via Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town via Zanzibar and to Brisbane via Los Angeles and to Moscow via Glasgow. Blimps would carry passengers and cargo at 75 to 100 mph, offering long-range travel with luxurious quarters.
Army dental technicians report a new technique that pours cold water into the patient's mouth at eight ounces per minute while drilling and drains the same amount out. The circulating water cools the tooth, reduces pain, allows faster drill rotation, and enables about 40 percent more work per procedure.
About 6 percent of 20 million war workers eat in their factories and expansion of facilities is planned to serve an additional 5 percent this year. Another 8 million face poor conditions, while some plants provide cafeterias or snack wagons delivering free food to spur production.
The piece reports on French underground forces aiding Allied efforts, killing a dam and destroying a rail line to disrupt German supply. It outlines the French National Committee of Liberation’s evolving role in shaping a provisional government for liberated areas with plans for municipal elections and eventual national plebiscite. It notes women’s voting questions and arms demands from resistance groups.
Baukhage notes 4-H has 1.7 million members aged 10 to 21 across all counties, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Army air forces claim 40 percent of Germany’s fighter plane capacity destroyed. Prewar all-metal ice refrigerators won’t resume soon due to long conversion times. U S civilians to see more frozen vegetables over the next five months from high production.
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