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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
7
National income hits record high as Reds close on Baltic front. See saw combat on Anzio Beachhead with heavy fighting. U S reinforces in Admiralty Islands as war coverage continues.
The Commerce Department reports 1943 national personal income rose to 142 billion dollars with two thirds spent on goods and services. Government spending hit 60 billion from July to March, leaving a near 35 billion dollar deficit. Alcohol expenditures rose per person, though total liquor drunk fell. Beers and wines saw mixed changes. A compromise federal ballot bill aims to help overseas servicemen vote while protecting states rights, with 20 states having absentee laws and nine considering action.
Red forces push across Narva into Estonia and converge on Pskov near Latvia as they press 800 mile eastern front. In Finland agitation grows for peace with Moscow while Moscow resists restoring 1940 borders. Farther south Reds clash with German lines aiming to hit Vatutin’s forces in Poland.
In tough see saw combat below Rome Allied forces under Gen Harold Alexander repel three Nazi tank assaults after heavy artillery prep. Allied air power targets Germany to ease the second front pressure and bolster European war industry. In the Pacific MacArthur reinforces to curb Japanese strength at Admiralty islands and Rabaul as U S bombers hit enemy shipping and bases.
OPA confirms a $1.16 corn ceiling through 1944 while War Food Administration schedules wheat allocations for food, feed, export and lend lease before June. Senator O'Brien urges a $1.45 corn top to ease hog feed strain as wheat output lags demand. WFA maintains egg price support at 30 cents per dozen through April 15 and reports shell egg purchases.
Rep Wallcott of Michigan urged a committee to add footnotes to all acts reading By God we mean it to express congressional intent. He also called for legislation written in words of one or two syllables to curb vague directives. An Air Force article notes jet planes can travel at least a hundred miles per hour faster than propeller aircraft as air becomes compressible at 450 mph, reducing propeller effects.
The Shannon region sees material shortages yet Irish industry runs at 66 percent capacity. 130000 Irish work in Britain and 100000 enlist in the British army, while 50000 remain idle. Closed industries keep workers on payrolls to aid postwar production. canning meat and milk for Britain and woolen textiles for home use thrive.
In a dramatic turn, an Argentine army officer led about 1000 troops in a failed bid against Gen Edelmiro Farrell's neutral government. The rebels abandoned their march from Buenos Aires and surrendered unconditionally, amid the Colonel’s Club backing. Argentina reaffirms neutrality and strengthens ties with Bolivia.
President Robert M. Hutchins urges abolishing professor and instructor titles to classify all teachers as faculty members. He argues salaries and jobs remain unchanged but argues prestige could fade in hard times, though streamlining education continues.
Allied forces push along Burma's western border freeing two divisions of British Indian troops trapped by Japanese. In separate sectors they strike in the China hills and push to clear a supply route to China in the north.
The War Production Board bans two pants with a vest and pleats in women's dresses due to manpower limits, while rayon shortages constrain linings. Australia wool imports were not halted by the Japanese navy, with 500 to 600 million pounds imported last year and in 1942, aided by an 18 cent per pound subsidy, creating large stocks.
London sources say Germany takes half a million carats of industrial diamonds yearly from Belgian Congo via a smuggling route. Diamonds are sent to neutral Turkey then pass through British-ruled Egypt and into Axis Balkans to reach Germany.
Washington reports the Truman committee will urge restoring civilian output beyond current levels while avoiding full scale production. The panel cites cancelations of war contracts, large steel stockpiles, and slow civilian return, with 100 top firms holding most war orders. It notes labor comparisons with Britain and records on tax renegotiations after war profits.
Secretary Wickard recalls Louis Bromfield’s food scarcity warning as February passes with plenty to eat. Farmers publish a refutation showing record grain stores. White House briefings note Mrs Roosevelt on the 2:30 list. Bolivia’s new government tightens grip. U S refuses recognition.
The piece traces Hermann Goering’s roots to a Jewish physician, Dr. Herman Eppstein of Tyrol, who raised Goering after his father’s career. It notes Eppstein’s death in 1935, Goering’s attendance at the funeral, and a vignette at a synagogue. Ripley mentions Winchell's German meaning of red as a truth detector.
In the Barberry Room foyer Raymond Paige captures a moment as a corporal offers to pin back a colonel’s fallen eagle badge. Earlier, a heavy rain afternoon on Amsterdam Avenue saw a crowded trolley halt for 20 minutes as a conductor ducked into a bar and grill to order sandwiches and a beer.
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