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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union reports allied forces pressing toward the Ruhr while Japan readies for U S invasion plans. A forecast shows reduced grain acreage, signaling agricultural tightening amid wartime mobilization.
Europe fronts shift as 60 year old Field Marshal Albert Kesselring assumes supreme German command in the west. Allied forces from the U S and Britain close on the Ruhr after securing the Saar basin while Canadian and British units push the front. Soviet Red Army pressures Berlin from the east with heavy actions in Upper Silesia and western Hungary.
The Securities and Exchange Commission notes Americans saved billions amid wartime controls. By end of 1944 total holdings reached 148 billion dollars with 25 percent of income saved. Last year savings added 17 billion cash and deposits, 15 billion government bonds, 3% billion insurance, and 900 million in savings and loans. City payrolls totaled 122 million monthly for 852,000 workers, with payrolls rising despite job declines and longer municipal work weeks in many cities.
The Japanese government imposes wartime precautions amid U S air raids and threats of invasion while China-focused plans, civil mobilization, and potential land expropriation loom. U S bombing weakens industry. Tokyo evacuees rise. In agriculture, USDA projects 1945 acreage shifts with declines in corn barley soybeans and rises in wheat rice tobacco and sugar beets.
The United States produced 418,094,000 pounds of wool in 1944, down from 449,578,000 in 1943. Local market prices averaged 42.4 cents per pound versus 41.6 cents in 1943. Sheep shorn totaled about 44,324,000 head, 9 percent fewer than 1943.
The article notes growing pressure on Americans to ration and share food for liberated civilians amid a tight U S stockpile. Churchill warns Britain has under six million tons in reserve while UNRRA seeks about 800 million pounds from the U S for April through June to feed Europeans and war zones.
President Roosevelt revealed that monthly draft calls may drop from 135000 to 93000 by July 1945 to provide replacements. A congressional panel heard that after Germany falls, inductions will continue in the Japanese war to replace discharged veterans. Older men 30 to 37 would be drawn to cover the gap in essential industries and deferred 18 to 29 in steel mining and rubber would free up younger workers.
Vivid vignettes capture New York at dawn and night from Broadway to Rockefeller Center. Crowds, defense workers, fashion, and skyline scenes are described with poetic imagery and city life snapshots. The piece highlights soldiers, theatergoers, shops, and a Flying Fortress salute over the Statue of Liberty.
New York revelers drifted beyond the 1 am curfew after amusement owners declined to use Mayor La Guardia’s extra hour. The Army Navy order to close and War Mobilization Director Byrnes’s statement the government cannot enforce midnight curfew due to police shortages left venues open briefly.
More than 5 000 hatching eggs were shipped by air from the United States to tropical American countries to bolster poultry industries as part of an inter American food growing program. The University of Maryland had shown feasibility of air shipping eggs within the United States with aid from the U S Department of Agriculture.
HESE potholders are bright and decorative. They measure 614 inches and feature two blue birds on a cherry tree branch with two blossoms, offering a charming accent for kitchen or bath.
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