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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1944
Page
5
Western Newspaper Union notes deeper Soviet advances into Poland while Nazi forces retreat under Allied air strikes across Western Europe. The column highlights increased bombing sorties in 1943 and the intensified Southwest drive shaping the war.
U S forces push inland through jungle terrain in New Guinea and New Britain with landings at Cape Gloucester and Arawe while air bombardment and artillery clear paths for infantry. Maj Gregory Pappy Boyington is reported missing. labor strikes in 1943 reached record levels with millions of lost workdays. Allied air pressure extends across Europe as Germany fortifies new Siegfried like defenses. Senate leaders oppose repricing war contracts and exemptions for standard commercial goods in proposed revisions.
Hog shipments reach 476 500 in three days, up from 278 400 a year ago, with only 200 to 300 pounders selling at 13 75 per hundredweight. Packers urge curtailment amid unsold stock and possible pneumonia fears as labor constraints bite in Chicago with 200 soldiers aiding packers.
River shifts boundary between Decatur and Perry townships in Indiana reducing tax base by moving power company property out of township limits. No Decatur schools will close for funds reasons. In New York state allied groups filled 210000 farm jobs last year with only 3 percent as farm hands. Eleven public delousing stations opened in Naples by Allied health officials to curb typhus spread.
Prohibitionists lined up behind Rep. Joseph R. Bryson’s bill to ban sale or manufacture of beverages over one percent alcohol during congressional hearings. Rep. Emmanuel Celler said supporters reportedly raised 10 million dollars for lobbying in Washington as the Anti-Saloon League stayed on the sidelines urging Roosevelt to declare prohibition a war measure.
Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood of Purdue University reports no college football fatalities in 1943 for the second time in 12 years of work. He notes nine high school deaths, attributes declines to equipment limits and urges adoption of military style crash helmets amid wartime shortages.
City sponsors a bid for both Democratic and Republican national conventions in Chicago with hotels restaurants banks and utilities pledging up to 150000 to cover hall expenses. Chicago is favored by the Office of Defense Transportation for train schedule reliability citing 11368 beds in sleeping cars versus 7129 in New York as a key factor.
Government sources say about 100 to 150 million extra bushels of Canadian wheat will be imported this winter to supplement 350 million bushels fed to U S livestock. Railcar movements allow 25 to 50 million more bushels than usual due to Great Lakes freezing, while dairy and poultry regions improve and droughty south central areas need feed concentrates totaling 169 million tons as overall rail and transport records climb.
Valuable attar of roses, a perfume base, holds high value in Bulgaria's rose oil industry and is deposited in banks.
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