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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1945
Page
3
Reporters note stalled German advance in Belgium with Allied combat units slowing the threat. The analysis cites price trends and economic pressures, suggesting a modest rise in living costs amid ongoing military activity and strategic withdrawals.
News from the front describes Patton and Hodges pushing from the Saar and north to blunt Von Rundstedt’s offensive amid Ardennes terrain while Budapest endures intense house to house fighting. Hitler’s New Year address vows a Nazi victory before 1946 and defends Germany’s aims. Italy remains a stubborn but overlooked theater with hard-won Allied gains amid difficult terrain.
The USDA reports that food stocks through the first quarter of 1945 should provide vilions with supplies at prewar levels. Potatoes and butter will be below prewar figures while meat lard and fresh vegetables run about average. Fluid milk non fat dairy eggs fish margarine cereals dry peas and citrus should support high consumption. Meat stocks will be well below wartime levels due to low inventories production declines and military needs.
Perkins notes 1944 national income reached 155 billion dollars while consumer goods stocks fell and prices rose only 2 percent. She cites earlier boosts in 1941 and 1942 as lifting prices 28 percent since the war began and warns a nearly 30 percent rise harms low income families.
The industry pays an average hourly wage of about 1.83 dollars and an average weekly earning of 63.68 dollars for a 47.6 hour work week. Private shipyards payroll for the year is about 4 billion dollars, shared by workers in nearly every state.
Preliminary 1944 figures show total U S expenditures at 97 billion dollars, with 89 billion for the war and 45 billion in receipts. The government borrowed 62 billion, ran a 52 billion deficit, and raised the national debt to 232 billion, slightly below 1943’s deficit. Three war loan drives occurred that year.
A freight train stalled by mechanical trouble blocked the Salt Lake marshes as the Southern Pacific Pacific Limited carrying 300 passengers was hit from behind by a 20 car mail and express train. Rescue teams cut through wreckage to reach victims, many returning from furloughs.
John Quincy Bass of Cincinnati Symphony appears at Milford Progress Club recital at Mrs. Harry C. Miller’s home. Local real estate sale, improved heating planned for Main and Elm building. Williams buys brick structure. California guest Miss M A Scott, former YWCA worker in Japan. Milford P T A program by fifth graders. Miss Jean Johnson returns from holidays. Easley ill at home. Mayor Barrere presided at a Milford Town Hall wedding. Water main protection cost 21 chickens their lives after a flooded cellar. Woman’s Society groups named six circle presidents. Tea guests and a Christmas Eve wedding noted at Hornsby’s Tavern.
Mrs Nettie Shaw thanks friends and neighbors for kindness this Christmas season. The piece lists visits and hospitality across Glen Este and neighboring towns, mentioning several families such as the Hoderleins Fitzgerralds Urbans Whitts and Huheeys, plus weekend gatherings with the Kurtinins Isaacks and Wortmans during New Year festivities.
FBI captured two Nazi saboteurs in New York after submarine landings off Maine with 60000 dollars in currency forged documents and secret inks. One man was William Curtis Cole paugh alias William Caldwell, a former US Navy seaman discharged in 1943. Ten saboteurs captured overall, six previously caught in Florida with six executed.
War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes told a New Year press conference that work orders employment ceilings and civilian output limits may not meet all labor needs for 1945. He urged drafting 4 000 000 4 F workers for industry or non combat duty to sustain production and free servicemen while calling for stronger War Labor Board enforcement to prevent production losses from work disruptions.
Tiny Elizabeth Ann Reyman weighed 1 percent pounds at birth in San Diego and has reached 3 pounds 6 ounces at 65 days. Doctors plan to keep her in an incubator until she reaches 5 pounds as one of the rare cases in medical annals. She has remained relatively strong and active since birth, with a limited survival rate among babies of similar weight.
Owensville Misses Jean Whitworth and Mary Chatham entertained the Bridge Club at Mrs. Ed Evans home with 24 members attending a 6 o clock dinner and bridge thereafter. Mr Charles Felts is a patient at Bethesda Hospital and friends wish him a speedy recovery.
Ice and snow cover the country around Williamsburg but no serious injuries are reported. A son was born Wednesday January 3 to Mr and Mrs Fred Sills. Florence Frazier returned home after a visit in Eaton Ohio. John Freeman is patient at The Christ Hospital Cincinnati with an infected finger. Rev R L McKibben attended a ministerial meeting in Cincinnati last Monday.
Edton Meyers nurses a badly injured foot while Olimer Bragdon of Cincinnati spent New Year with his parents here. Miss Mabel Bunyan returns to her school. Mrs Lee Wallace fell on icy pavement injuring her arm and hip but recovers nicely.
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