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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1944
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union forecasts a strong cattle market while noting increased Nazi resistance in the West and a critical phase in the Chinese war. Analysts present opinions as those of the WNU, not necessarily the paper.
Allied forces press the Siegfried line from Aachen to beyond as U S and British troops push through heavy German resistance. Russians advance in the Balkans while fighting stretches across Hungary and Italy shows U S Fifth army moving toward Bologna. Government beef and hog price outlook remains high with cattle supply shifts.
A Senate committee urged against converting war plants to civilian use in 11 northern and eastern states, citing 65 percent of prewar production and 51 percent of wartime facilities. It proposed shifting output to the south and west, adjusting freight rates, patent attention, and tech aid to small firms.
The essay discusses Comptroller Morgenthau's proposal to deindustrialize Germany as a postwar punishment and its critics. It links the debate to Keynes on 1919 plans, contrasts with Clemenceau, and notes wartime wage trends and manufacturing earnings, implying economic power shifts after the war.
The article notes the first B-29 Superfortress cost 3 392 396 90 dollars while current production models cost about 600 000 dollars. It explains the first production model follows years of engineering and testing and typically takes about three years, sometimes five.
BRIEFS note nearly a million Girl Scouts join the War Production Board salvage drive for tin paper and rags on Oct 1. Other items report drafts of 15 year old German boys and 16 year old girls for frontier entrenchments and 1943 life expectancy trends among white workers with slight changes year over year.
Homemakers are urged to use power machines to create frilled curtains skirts and bed valances. The booklet MAKE YOUR OWN CURTAINS by Mrs Spears offers step by step directions measuring cutting and hanging all curtain types. Order the 32 page book by mail for 15 cents.
A 14 pound Tridacna pearl from the Philippines would crush a head from six feet. a giant could wear it as a curiosity. The article notes a US black opal of 21 cubic inches requiring cutting, a Magok sapphire nearly teacup sized, and a beryl from Grafton, New Hampshire weighing 2 1/2 tons, all incomparable curiosities.
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