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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
7
Western Newspaper Union release highlights shocking accounts of Japanese mistreatment of prisoners, as the Red Army advances near Leningrad and the U S Fifth Army presses toward Rome, with editorials noting analyst opinions.
A Military release details the Death March from Bataan with horror of captives, prisoner deaths, and brutalities. Allied air and ground actions on New Britain and Bougainville, plus large-scale Russian front fighting near Leningrad and near the Romanian border, are reported with strategic notes on Poland and mediation attempts.
Fifth army advances inland from Rome beachheads as U S and French forces push through Cassino fortifications to control the highway to Rome. British units attack the enemy flank while Allied bombers strike retreating German columns threatening 100,000 troops.
General Pedro Ramirez denounces an Axis spy ring in Argentina and cuts diplomatic ties with Berlin and Tokyo. The move follows U S objections to Bolivia's revolutionary government linked to a regional subversive movement aimed at unsettled Allied relations. Cordell Hull welcomes Argentina's shift as part of regional security plans.
President Roosevelt urged federal supervision of service ballots in 1944 arguing that absentee voting by states would be slow. He proposed distributing blank ballots for soldiers to fill in with candidates or party names to speed the process. Critics favored state control over registration to ensure voter identity and objected to federal timing decisions during battles.
A 500 soldier citizen group reports a wartime push to utilize domestic chicken feathers for stuffing pillows and cushions. With 80 percent of down previously sourced from Europe and China, new preparation methods promise sanitary, softer material amid the conflict.
The War Food administration announced support prices for 34 principal farm products subject to Congress approval. The main cut is hogs dropping $1 per hundredweight from Oct 1. Loans for corn and wheat set at 85 percent parity, cotton rice and tobacco at 90 percent, potato supports at 90 percent, soybeans up 14 cents per bushel, flaxseed 10 cents, barley and grain sorghums 10 cents, sweet potatoes 10 to 20 cents, with peanut supports up $10 a ton, sugar beets $1.50 a ton, and sugar cane 30 cents a ton.
Senators and congressmen draft a $2 billion tax bill with over $1 billion in luxury levies. Only silver plated flatware escapes taxation as 20 percent tax on jewelry is set. Proposals include 25 percent tax on cosmetics, 1 cent per 5 cents on amusements, 30 percent on cabarets, $20 annual tax on pool tables and bowling alleys, air mail 8 cents, local mail 3 cents.
Oil to synthetic rubber processing problems plus higher military demand threaten a cutback from 30 million to 20 million civilian tire casings in 1944. Heavy duty tire production for buses and trucks also likely to decline due to natural rubber shortages. Recapping plans affected as the government again directs reclaimed scrap for retreads.
The petroleum industry produced 390000 tons of waxes in 1943 to meet military demands for waterproofing and protection. In 1944 the focus shifts to micro crystalline waxes valued for food ration packaging, moisture resistance, and maintaining flexibility in cold, plus shoe proofing against mustard gas and protection of metal parts.
War Production Czar Donald Nelson announced no whisky would be manufactured in 1944 as alcohol needs rise to 632 million gallons and distilleries run at 150 percent of capacity. He cited reserves down to 80 million gallons in 1943 and urged securing molasses and corn, urging Britain to process Caribbean molasses and rushing new grain alcohol plants.
Rates across the Bell system drop under a pact with the Federal Communications Commission. Estimated savings total about eight million dollars yearly, with the shift of night long distance rates from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. accounting for most of the reduction and the rest from lower interstate teletypewriter overtime charges.
Washington observers parse Pravda critique of a British effort toward a separate peace with Nazi Germany. The piece links Kremlin messaging to Western policy pressures and Teheran era tensions while noting Russian diplomacy and the public reaction to casualty reporting in wartime.
The column riffs on Benny Goodman and a Hollywood signing, Clare Luce with Lonsdale and Miller, plus sour notes about Somerset Maugham. It catalogs lampooning quotes from various celebrities, critics, and public figures, highlighting theatrical gossip.
A health note promotes lemon and water as a natural stimulant for bowel action. Drinking the juice of one Sunkist lemon in a glass of water each morning is claimed to aid digestion, boost vitamin C intake, and refresh the mouth. It suggests California Sunkist lemons for the drink.
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