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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union reports Prime Minister Truman urges Japan to surrender as U.S. plans broader pacific operations and increases civilian goods supplies amid wartime shift in strategy.
After Germany’s surrender, the United States plans a rapid shift to the Pacific, retaining 6,968,000 Army and 3,389,000 Navy personnel, transferring air wings east, and moving nearly 3 million troops from Europe within a year. Vast mobilization aims to finish Japan with a large occupation, while Europe winds down and rearmament shifts to reconversion and civilian production.
South American nations urged regional defense pacts at the San Francisco conference to repel aggression without waiting for the international security organization. The plan extends the Monroe Doctrine with major members potentially vetoing action, preserving immediate regional security duties. Senate debate on postwar bases and trusteeships in the Pacific highlighted U S and Britain disagreements over bases and security supervision. Senator Byrd called for unfettered U S control of postwar Pacific bases.
The 1945 Cuban sugar harvest is projected to fall short of 1944 by about 790000 tons, signaling a tight supply through the year. A House food committee inquiry notes manning shortages and bootlegging hurt stocks, with overall wartime food needs rising across Europe and liberated nations.
United States stocks of corn oats and barley on farms at markets and in government hands on April 1 totaled 47.7 million tons up about 19 percent from a year earlier and near five year average. The next October carryover for corn is seen at 450 to 600 million bushels as new workers push civilian jobs to 50.8 million in March up from 50.5 million.
After lengthy talks between companies and union reps, a Supreme Court decision finds miners are entitled to pay for full underground travel time under the wages and hours law. The ruling overturns a contract provision using an average travel time and permits reexamination of the pact. The decision mirrors a prior iron ore miners case as coal negotiations stalled over underground travel pay.
With the war half won the United States records more than 950000 casualties and military outlays of 275 billion dollars. European theater tallies include 139498 dead 467408 wounded 72374 missing and 52990 prisoners for the army. navy dead 6415 wounded 3612 missing 29 prisoners. marine corps 34 dead 1 missing 1 wounded 3 prisoners. Government spending will stay high to fund veterans care pensions benefits and interest on a 236 billion dollar public debt.
More than a dozen states boosted old age assistance and aid to dependent children this year. Delaware now offers $30 monthly, up from $25, while Wyoming raises to $50 and Utah increases to $40. Washington adopts need-based old age assistance with a $50 minimum for those over 66.
WNU Service dispatch from San Francisco discusses the United Nations aim to prevent aggression, lessons from the League of Nations, and how myths about Germany’s defeat could empower nazism. It urges public support and notes USDA kits to aid veterans in agricultural careers with available information and order forms.
The piece notes scarce orange juice in the sunlit state, with juice shipped abroad for dehydration. It contrasts a 20 year San Francisco returnee view of a city that changed beyond the prior two decades, including post fire reconstruction. Accredited reporters outnumber delegates, many delegates unable to speak English, with English and French official but Spanish widely understood.
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