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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1943
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union reports that Nazi forces damaged northern Italian ports to disrupt future Allied operations. The piece notes relief planning by the United Nations and provides current casualty figures issued by the United States, with an editor indulgently disclaiming opinions.
Italian ports at Leghorn and Pescara blocked by Nazi demolition squads to deny use to Allies. General Clark advances toward Rome through Mignano as Cassino fortifications loom. Eisenhower forms a relief and reconstruction commission to integrate Italy into Allied plans while 44 Nations back a six month European aid program led by Herbert Lehman as director general.
In the southwest Pacific Gen. Douglas MacArthur orders U S forces to Bougainville to cut Japanese supply and communications lines to Buin. Marines and soldiers occupy the jungle frontier to threaten the enemy from the rear. US casualties total about 120 967 for almost two years with specific breakdowns by army and navy. Since Salerno landings on September 9 the US has suffered 8 556 casualties in Italy including 1 295 killed and 4 764 wounded. Navy casualties amount to 12 548 dead and 4 228 prisoners. About 2 500 000 army troops will be serving abroad by year end.
Agriculture department estimates for 1943 corn at 3 billion 85 million bushels, down from last year's 3 billion 175 million. October weather favored late corn in Iowa Missouri Northwestern Ohio and parts of Michigan Indiana while South Central rains lifted late corn prospects. Northwest yields look record high along with rice potatoes and peanuts. Other crops projected include wheat oats barley rye flaxseed soybeans sugar beets and peanuts with record highs noted for the latter two.
Chicago stockyards handled more than sixty thousand live hogs after a three day shipment totaling 128 500 head. Packers paid 13 75 per hundredweight for heavier hogs in the 200 to 275 pound range due to government price support. Many bargains appeared in classes lacking a floor price while the floor prices remained high on the flooded market.
The Detroit Tigers will travel to Evansville Indiana for their spring training period. Emergency coal delivery rules were relaxed by Secretary Ickes with modified terms allowing dealers to sell to customers with less than 30 days supply. War Labor Board grants raise for test pilot inspectors to about 410 dollars monthly plus a four dollar per hour hazardous duty bonus. A 520 carat diamond, likely the eighth largest ever found, was unearthed in Sierra Leone British colony on Africa's west coast.
Redtroe forces press mile front west of recaptured Kiev attacking the last north south railway. Russians also strike at Nevel near Latvia, and at Krivoi Rog as German withdrawal through the Dnieper bend continues. In Crimea 75,000 Germans guard the Black Sea flank.
Production of synthetic rubber is projected at 818000 tons for 1944, down from 233000 this year, with only about 30 million tires planned for essential users. Normal output is 50 million. shortages arise from military demand, labor limits, reduced peace time inventories, rayon cord scarcity, and reduced crude rubber imports. Experts urge preserving tire carcasses for recapping and advise low speeds, proper air, and correct alignment.
Dr. Julius A. Vogel, plant physician for Jones and Laughlin Steel, produces penicillin at five cents a plateful in his Pittsburgh residence. He claims any doctor with proper equipment can grow it. Vogel reports complete cures in more than twenty external infections treated.
The article notes a 38 percent rise in girl delinquency and 11 percent rise in boy delinquency, blamed on weakened home supervision and war labor strains. It also covers U S lend lease with Britain totaling over 1 billion dollars, plus future private construction spending of about 5.25 billion in the first postwar year and 8 billion annually 1947–1951.
Washington report on U S Office of Air Safety training cadets stresses prevention and investigation, flight control, and safety education as key to reducing accidents. It cites cadet safety rates, RSOs, and practical measures from Seattle to improve instruments, weather routing, and breakfast and ditch removal at fields. It also notes rising miles flown and lower accident rates, and touches on postwar word meanings in psychiatry and forecasts on international cooperation.
About 90 percent of Maine's potatoes are grown in Aroostook County in the northern part of the state. Maxwell Anderson's Eve of St Mark has earned the best Swedish reviews in years in Stockholm per Afton bladet via OWI. The A F Davis Welding Library opens at Ohio State University. A German joke from bombed areas cites 69 bombers shot down and one town missing after a raid.
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