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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Japan fears homeland invasion as U S forces press on Okinawa and raid industrial centers. Bombardments of prefectures continue while Allied powers redraw German borders and prepare postwar control plans amid Berlin talks and Moscow demands.
At San Francisco the Big Five agreed to permit discussion of disputes in the postwar peace organization’s security council with no veto on investigations or peace talks. The veto issue, a major hold up for weeks, yielded after talks between U S Envoys Hopkins Harriman and Stalin. The pact grants regional pacts and U S control of Pacific islands until transfer decisions by Congress.
The easing of manufacturer restrictions and July quota removal collide with a shortage of gray and malleable castings including tractor blocks and rear axle housings. Output of mowers, binders and harrows may be restricted while foundries struggle to hire workers. Government actions shift meat and military allocations to civilians, yet meat pinch persists into summer with fall hopes for improvements. April to June supplies lagged government goals.
Report shows U S casualties in the Germany campaign since D Day reaching 514 534 with 89 477 killed 367 180 wounded and 57 877 missing. Allied losses include 184 512 for 60 U S divisions plus 14 British and Canadian divisions 11 080 French and 5 593 Polish divisions.
A senate committee hearing on extending the reciprocal trade act for three years drew a pledge from prominent U S businessmen to pass the measure and cancel all World War I and II debts if needed to speed postwar recovery. The recommendations came from the Committee for Economic Development led by Paul G Hoffman of Studebaker.
Congress approved a three year extension of the reciprocal trade treaty act and empowered the President to cut tariffs. It also endorsed the Bretton Woods monetary agreements creating an 8.8 billion dollar currency fund and a 9.1 billion dollar World Bank for reconstruction and development. Opponents fear the currency fund will misallocate stable currencies and leave unstable ones exposed.
U S correspondents describe Berlin a month after bombardment as a city of death. Ruined streets pile with brick and steel while walls jut like jagged teeth amid the stench of decay. Russians push for street clearance and water lines. About 2,000,000 inhabitants shelter in cellars or lower floors, living on meager rations with little fuel.
State governments cut travel by 430 254 000 miles in 1944 versus 1941 prewar figures. The mileage savings translate to 28 683 000 gallons of gasoline 78 228 tires and 7 171 new passenger vehicles, all resources essential for armed forces in global warfare.
A new incendiary bomb called the M74 figures prominently in U S air raids on Japanese industrial centers. The 10 pound tubular device releases pyrotechnic gel and a lava like spill of inflammable chemicals including goop magnesium powder coated with asphalt mass.
Analysis outlines the Moscow declaration's call for trials of major Nazi criminals by an international military tribunal. Justice Jackson leads the U S prosecution with a staff including Donavan Dean and Donovan. Policy aims rapid, dignified trials for leaders of Nazi criminality while smaller offenses fall to other authorities.
Do it yourself projects guide readers to craft a compact shoe shine kit with internal compartments and a ventilated laundry hamper from scraps of wood. The notes include pattern 280 with actual-size cutting guides and a full materials list, sent for 15 cents with name and address.
The government sells the Ger man American Bund camp in New Jersey and plans to repurpose it as a boys camp. German business leaders asked the American military governor how to apply for loans to rebuild their town. Field Marshal Mannerheim congratulated Stalin on his war victory over Germany. Stalin’s reply followed. The British Broadcasting Company asserts truthfulness can outperform propaganda.
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