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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analyst notes shock over reports of Japanese atrocities on prisoners and civilians amid World War II. Reds surge forward below Leningrad as the Fifth Army presses toward Rome in a broad Italian campaign update.
A War Department release details the Death March from Bataan to San Fernando, describing six days of brutal marching, executions, and camp deaths. It covers mass graves, starvation, and forced labor, while noting Allied bomber campaigns against Jap supply lines and Soviet-Nazi front activity across Europe.
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 right flank while German counterattacks test the line and Allied bombers strike retreating columns.
Gen Ramirez declares Argentina will sever ties with Berlin and Tokyo after accusing a large Axis spy network of seeking to overthrow the country. The move follows U S rejection of Bolivia’s revolutionary government and Cordell Hull calls for continental security measures. The soldier vote issue gains urgency as Roosevelt seeks federal supervision of service balloting amid wartime concerns.
In Kent a 500-strong force of soldiers and citizens killed 50 foxes in a wartime drive. The war shifts hunting traditions as foxes threaten poultry and lambs and busy schedules forego sport for defense. Feathers from chickens enter new domestic markets for pillows and cushions.
The War Food administration proposed support prices for 34 principal farm products with the main cut being hogs down 1 per hundredweight from October. Loans for corn and wheat at 8 percent parity, others at 90 percent. Potatoes 90 percent parity. soybeans up 14 cents per bushel. flaxseed barley grain sorghums and sweet potatoes up 10 to 20 cents. Peanut, sugar beet and sugar cane supports adjusted. A separate tax proposal edges higher levies with luxury taxes and 20 percent jewelry tax. cosmetics, entertainment, cabaret and pool hall levies planned. air mail and local mail postage hikes also urged.
Chemical processing difficulties in making synthetic rubber and higher military demand push civilian tire output down from 30 million to 20 million casings for 1944. Heavy duty tire production for buses and trucks also drops due to limited natural rubber stockpiles from underdeveloped South American growing programs. Recapping plans are affected as the government again urges reclaimed scrap for retreads.
The petroleum industry produced 390000 tons of waxes in 1943 to aid water proofing for military use. In 1944 emphasis shifts to micro crystalline waxes for packaging food rations, resisting moisture and staying flexible in cold, and for proofing army shoes against mustard gas and protecting metal parts.
War Production Chief Donald Nelson announced no whisky will be manufactured in 1944 as industrial alcohol needs rise to about 632 million gallons and distilleries run at 150 percent capacity. He cited dwindling alcohol reserves and calls for securing molasses and corn, urging British cooperation on Caribbean molasses, and rapid completion of new grain alcohol plants.
Interstate telephone rates will drop starting March 1 after an agreement between the Bell Telephone system and the Federal Communications Commission. The change saves about eight million dollars annually with most savings from shifting night long distance rates to 6 p.m. from 7 p.m. An additional saving comes from lowering the overtime rate on interstate teletypewriter service.
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