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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
7
Weekly analysis notes American fleet and air strikes against Truk in the Pacific and a major Japanese base, combined with Allied-Nazi exchanges at Anzio. It outlines tightened farm labor deferments and broader wartime pressures across theaters.
Two years after Pearl Harbor the United States launches a major Pacific strike against Truk in the Caroline Islands with carrier air power and a strong battle fleet. Liberator bombers focus on Ponape as ground forces mop up Marshall islands fighting and Solomons landings trap 22 000 Japanese troops on Bougainville Buka and Choiseul.
Draft changes redefine deferments for farmers with six month 2-C deferments for essential work. About 1.7 million farmers deemed essential will shift to 2-C. 700,000 in 3-C now face reclassification. City dependencies lost deferral and industrial deferments face stricter rules as military needs rise by July 1.
The report states Russian troops pushed along the Estonian border as winter battles press Nazi defenses near Leningrad. German forces withdraw to avoid rear encirclement, edging closer to Latvia and Lithuania. Finland weighs Moscow peace terms based on the 1940 border while resisting loss of naval and military bases.
Allied forces with U S and British troops push against German defenses at Anzio as the Rome assault looms. Heavy fighting on the Cassino front continues with Americans storming pillbox fortifications and advancing toward the monastery hill amid artillery and air bombardment.
Congress moves to end subsidies on meat butter milk and other foods to curb inflation. GOP members warn veto could trigger inclusion in price control extension while emergency provisions extend Commodity Credit Corporation life. Supporters warn price rises and wage pressures if subsidies vanish.
AFL President William Green told a Senate military committee hearings that wage stabilization and price controls are key to preventing strikes as Congress debated consumer subsidy cuts. He warned the labor draft would be involuntary servitude, forcing civilians into private profit plants. Senator Austin argued it would cut turnover in war plants and tighten War Manpower commission control.
A 21 year old New York woman hiccuping for 44 days appeals to the President for a furlough to let her physician, an army captain, treat her. The President grants leave for the officer to treat her. CENTENARIAN: George W Camerer, Civil War veteran, turns 100 in Jerseyville Illinois. He jokes about Africa and notes ten grandsons and two great grandsons serving in World War II.
Brig. Gen. Albert J. Browning, director of purchases, says costs of military goods have fallen 20 percent since 1941. Total savings reach about 9 billion dollars, with an additional 4.7 billion to be saved in the first half of 1944. Price analysts helped find cheaper production methods and tighter material use to protect profit margins. When costs weren't trimmed, management lacked incentive to lower prices, Browning notes.
A 6 year old Los Angeles housemaid files formal declaration of intention to run for the Republican presidential nomination. She contends she can perform the presidency better, despite never holding public office.
Rep. Jennings Randolph introduced and Congress quickly passed a bill to spend 30 million dollars on experimental fuel plants to produce gas from coal oil shale and agricultural and forest products. The Bureau of Mines says coal could supply gas for about 3000 years versus 14 years of oil reserves. The Truman committee urges diplomacy to secure foreign oil reserves for allied war needs.
About 60,000 men took part in the RAF bombing raid on Berlin, the 15th heavy assault on the German capital. Of these, 7,000 were aircrew, 4,000 loaded bombs, and 1,000 planes consumed 1,000,000 gallons of fuel. Thousands of gallons of oil and 750,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition were used. roughly 43 planes were lost. The operation matched the earlier Hamburg strike in scale and impact on September 22, 1943.
Argentina's Ramirez delays war against Germany and Japan as the military caste known as the Colonels Lodge pressures change. Ramirez sacks the foreign minister and reshuffles the cabinet to keep factions aligned while exiled pro Allied General Arturo Rawson watches from Brazil. Dr. Floyd Reeves warns rural to urban migration shapes national destiny and city population decline.
A political and military opinion piece surveys claims that army wives affect officers promotions and expediency. It cites Gen Pershing, Gen MacArthur, Gen Patton, and Gen Arnold to illustrate tensions between female influence and traditional male authority within the armed forces.
A tour of iconic sites in Manhattan and surrounding areas including Jim Fiske and Josie Mansfield venues, Broadway lore, the Roxy Theatre foyer, Tudor City park, Fraunces Tavern presidency, Tom Paine’s grave marker, Harlem’s dense population, a mute church, Radio City Music Hall lobby gold leaf, Grand Central Depot traffic, Sixth Avenue subway depth, NYU stonework by Sing Sing convicts, MacDougal Alley gas lamps, and the 20s–50s residential belt amid urban decline.
Vignettes describe policemen averting eyes at private moments of couples in dark midtown doorways. A 48th Street spaghetti house features a headwaiter described as a midget. A Western Union messenger near Radio City district is a woman about 70 who keeps up with war news. A blind 3th Street pencil peddler wears a swallowtail coat and knickerbockers with a straw skimmer.
A playful toddler pinafore frock in stripes uses yellow and brown baby duck appliques on soft striped cotton. The design covers sizes for 2 3 and 4 years, featuring a charming gay little duck parade motif for dress up and play.
The Royal Indian Navy allows officers and sailors to suspend usual racial and caste distinctions while serving, unlike the Indian Army which maintains such differences.
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