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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1945
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union reports allies storm river barriers as they mount twin drives on Reich. floods render thousands homeless and prompt emergency relief efforts across affected regions.
Allied forces push across the Rhine with Hodges 1st Army leading the river crossing below Cologne. Patton inspires troops after swimming the river to avoid German fire, as other Allied units mass for further crossings toward the Ruhr. Russians drive on Berlin from the Oder as the front expands into open terrain.
Despite heavy casualties in the Philippines and Iwo Jima, Japanese forces retreat to ship hulks in Manila Bay and hold out from mountain fortifications east of Manila. About 60 000 Japanese remain in natural strongpoints as 12 000 have fallen on Iwo Jima while Marines push to clear rocky hill positions.
The Ohio River and tributaries flood lowlands forcing thousands from homes as Pittsburgh Cincinnati Portsmouth and Louisville face rising crests and danger. Portsmouth endures near 63 foot flood wall while troops and volunteers reinforce sandbag levees. Across Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi floods drive residents to higher ground. Congress debates work or fight and labor manpower policy as nurses are drafted under war needs and the G I bill.
The Civil Aeronautics Board reports 51 000 student pilot certificates issued in 1944 up from 35 000 in 1943 as air consciousness expands. Women account for 15 to 35 percent of new students while youths 16 to 21 plan to join the air forces. older men use planes for business. Doctors and priests show growing aviation interest to serve wider areas beyond road travel.
The War Production Board announced an addition of about 60 million yards of cotton fabric for children’s clothing. Materials include outing flannel print cloths bread cloths poplins lawns and chambrays for dresses overalls coveralls toddlers pajamas gowns creepers rompers and crawlers as part of a drive to curb wartime clothing costs and inflation.
Mrs Roosevelt has received a variety of gifts from foreign sources, including an $8,000 mink coat from the Quebec Fur Breeders Association and a jewel crusted crown from an African potentate after the Casablanca conference. She noted the crown is too heavy to wear and emphasized the need for congressional approval for such gifts to the president.
A review of farm debt shows a fall from a 1923 peak of over 10 percent of the federal debt to 5 percent by January 1945, with a 20 percent drop in the last five years. War boom boosted farm income, realty and plant values, livestock, machinery, and land, while currency and war bonds holdings rose. Mortgage ownership shifted toward federal land banks and life insurers, with commercial banks showing only small declines.
The National Foreign Trade council cites American investments abroad totaling over 13 billion dollars in 1941 with 8 percent of foreign holdings in the U S. Most investments lie in Europe and Canada. Europe holds about 4 billion with Germany at 1% billion and Britain over 1 billion. Canada and Newfoundland total 4 billion. Asia has over 1% billion including 170 million in the Philippines and 165 million in China.
Washington journalist discusses how personalities shape diplomacy from a sunspot linked weather analogy to Franco American relations. He analyzes Roosevelt De Gaulle tensions over Yalta invitations and notes how personal clashes influenced alliance dynamics and the handling of France at the UN talks.
A bombed American freighter off Leyte saved by quick crew action and merchant seamen gunfire, while dog Skippy, wounded, revived Capt. Andrew W. Gavin in his wrecked cabin. The vessel with 14 armed guard casualties endured heavy blast damage and fire during unloading.
An all time high dividend of 3,894,616 dollars representing 25 percent of 1944 cash receipts from national forests will be shared by 653 counties in 40 states. The largest U S treasury checks ever written for federal timber sales forage water power and other uses on national forest lands are due to wartime demands for lumber and rangeland ford production.
A farmer trades a two year old horse for 15 cartons of cigarettes and jokes about burning the carpet rather than the road. The piece mocks German rocket designs, price controls on strawberries, and concerns about worker illness from mental strain. It ends with a wry line about work being the curse of leisure classes.
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