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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1944
Page
6
Weekly analysis notes OPA plans to ease rationing restrictions while Nazi forces retreat toward the Carpathians. High Court approves price fixing amid wartime measures. Japanese forces strike from four points in India as the war expands.
The OPA announces higher gas rations for B card holders by 100 miles monthly and uncapped fuel oil coupons next fall. Time limits on red and blue food stamps are removed to curb coupon cashing. butter and cheese supplies to rise in spring and early summer, meat stocks down. Allied advances press in the east as Axis lines falter near the Carpathians and Cassino. The London Sunday Observer reports plans for postwar occupation with Britain in northern central Germany, Russia east, the U S southwest and central Germany, plus Austria under Allied control.
In the Southwest Pacific U S bombers hit shipping to hinder Japanese resistance in New Guinea and the Solomons while in Burma Japanese forces struck four points toward Imphal as Allied forces led by Lord Mountbatten rush to defend the Ledo route. Oklahoma voters chose a Democratic winner in a low turnout special election with Alben Barkley and E H Moore campaigning.
The court upheld wartime economic stabilization as constitutional with broad standards set by Congress and details delegated to an agency. It also affirmed rent control by a delegated administrator on the same basis, stating Congress outlines scope and base period without abdication. It ruled against licensing religious literature distributors and favored miners' underground travel time pay under wage laws.
Representative Cannon introduces a bill to return the United States to standard time after decades on daylight saving time. He notes hundreds of protests from nearly every state and cites multiple states enacting changes. The Ameri can Association of University Women endorses a women draft if needed with solid support for service in WACs WAVES and SPARS.
War Food Administration raises April feed wheat allocations to 25 to 30 million bushels to relieve tight feed supplies and offset set asides for corn. CCC feed wheat stocks stood at 113.1 million bushels as of March 18, with purchases totaling 249.6 million since July. By March 18 redemptions and deliveries on 1942 wheat loans reached 160.6 million bushels from an original loan pool of 184.15 million.
The Civil Aeronautics Board faces a flood of postwar route applications. Pending plans seek to connect 3 631 towns over 500 000 miles of routes, while current service spans 365 points over 50 643 miles. Experts warn against disorderly expansion but support linking small lines to major routes to extend air travel benefits.
Five thousand surplus war items valued at fifty million dollars were offered for civilian use in New York. Bell Aircraft Eclipse Pioneer Bendix Eclipse General Motors Glenn L. Martin and Republic Aviation handled the sale. Items quickly bought included tool boxes stainless tubing mirrors shop supplies galley stoves and built in sinks with two electric burners.
In a tight vote the House of Commons approved equal pay for women teachers, 117 to 116, overriding church pleas and then reconsidering under Prime Minister Churchill. Education Secretary Richard A. Butler warned the decision could set a broad civil service precedent. Churchill's party split on the issue but did not question cabinet capability. the measure was framed as an educational bill adjustment.
Army Air Surgeon Maj. Gen. David Grant says air evacuation ranked with sulfa drugs and blood plasma as a top life saving measure. He reports 173000 patients evacuated in 1943 with only 11 deaths and notes dramatic time cuts in Africa and the Pacific, including long flights over sea and jungle without escort.
Officials of the War Food Administration say tractor tires cannot be substituted for steel tread tractors except in extreme hardship. Tire shortages delay new tractor production, so priority is given to replacing worn tires or equipping new tractors with tires.
A wartime column reports Germany may mount a limited air offensive against London with 50 to 100 planes several nights weekly, while Germany lacks the capacity for a sustained campaign. It also cites shocking US school standards with 68 percent of 4,200 freshmen failing arithmetic and broad literacy concerns in Tennessee and among high school graduates.
Washington Digest analyzes the clash on price premiums and subsidies in the Commodity Credit Corporation and OPA bills. It reports Farm Bloc doubts, House leader Joe Martin’s push for price control, and War Food administration fears of cattle glut, hogs, and potential banker risks amid floor and ceiling price clashes.
Six hundred former seamen and officers of the American merchant marine who were drafted into the U S army from shoreside work in the last eight months have been released to go back to sea. The American Red Cross bought over 2 760 000 pocket sized books for servicemen and coin production at U S mints reached nearly one tenth of the total from the past 152 years. Nazi Minister Himmler orders registration of 17 year old girls for labor service with all deferment applications useless.
The U S navy has salvaged naval and merchant ships and cargoes totaling 500 million dollars since 1941 excluding the Normandy effort, representing 125 times the cost of saving them.
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