27 Jan 1944
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
1
The weekly news analysis notes congress debating a labor draft measure as wartime needs rise. The Red Army advances in Poland draw attention to shifting fronts. FDR calls for a 100 billion wartime budget to fund mobilization. A House group studies a prohibition bill amid broader social policy debate.
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a 206 billion dollar wartime appropriation to fund mobilization, planning, social security expansion, and foreign trade boosts. He warned debt could reach 253 billion by next year while taxes would rise to help cut the burden. Meanwhile, Allied air and ground offensives pressed Nazi targets from Greece to Italy and the USSR front as crews pounded factories and supply hubs.
Wartime notes in Chicago from National Pickle Packers Association directors warn of a civilian pickle shortage unless cucumber acreage expands in 2944. Current stocks stand 1% million bushels below three year highs amid high WW II demand from armed forces and public.
Civilian goods policy shows the War Production Board keeping a 1946 ban on steel use with limited civilian exceptions. Army and Navy oppose removing material limits until war needs are clear, while expanded civilian production may worsen shortages of coal petroleum lumber for packaging and transport. Monnett Missouri becomes U.S. corn capital due to a CPA topography error, receiving large carloads despite Chicago’s different top price.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to approve a national interregional highway network of 34,000 miles to employ about 2,000,000 workers at an estimated annual cost of 750 million dollars. The plan would reuse existing federal routes, sharing costs among local, state, and U.S. agencies, with rapid action for land acquisition and preliminary work.
U S production of fats and oils for 1943-44 is expected to reach about 11.2 million pounds, nearing last year’s 10.6 million. Stocks could run low if supplies are needed abroad in a potential Allied victory in Europe in 1944. Soybean output is set at 187 million bushels, peanuts 2.6 million pounds, and cottonseed 5.5 million tons, with fat and oils production likely dipping in 1945 due to lower lard and grease output.
Hopkins, recovering in Bethesda Naval Hospital, faced a charge based on a letter Sparks published claiming a GOP leader allied with Wendell Willkie. The letter supposedly showed Hopkins promising to secure Republican support for a Texas Democratic Senate candidate. Hopkins called the letter a forgery and asked the FBI to investigate.
In Concordia Kansas a German officer Capt Felix Tropschuh hanged himself after a self administered court found him guilty of anti Hitler talk and escape plotting. Two guards watched for 30 minutes. Another death was Franz Kettner, 39, who killed himself after fears of violence over his belief in a free Austria.
The Veterans Administration plans to expand its facilities and reorganize finances to handle vast wartime disbursements. Capacity rises to 300,000 beds from a nominal figure, while pensions continue for widows of 1812 and Mexican War veterans.
The War Department announced a jet propelled aircraft would soon enter production. A diagram shows the general principle of jet propulsion and the latest development in aircraft technology.
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