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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1946
Page
3
The Titonka Topic outlines annual subscription prices and delivery areas. Rates are 2.00 for service members, 2.80 outside Kossuth and Titonka territory, 3.00 to Canada and foreign countries, with in-county renewals continuing unless canceled by subscribers or at the publisher's discretion.
The ongoing school page notes Betty Hatten’s top score with 14 perfect pages and a March weather recap of 20 sunny, 8 rainy, and 2 cloudy days. Fifth through eighth grades list perfect spelling achievers, geography lessons on Ceylon, Daniel Boone, Tom Sawyer, and work on English letters, science topics, and math. Authors report frequent tests, outdoor play, and a field trip-style day.
New York report quotes Vice Admiral Emory Land saying 4,000,000 troops overseas to return by May 1946. He notes heavy European returns by January, Pacific deployment thereafter, and 87.4 percent of 981,000 homeward soldiers carried on American ships. The WSA fleet includes 470 vessels with capacity for 500,000 men, plus 260 combat-type ships used mainly in the Pacific.
CHICAGO army officials halted plans to supply Japan invasion troops with a new assault packet of caramels chocolate bars fruit bars peanuts candy gum cigarettes and matches after WWII ended. Col Rohland A Isker said the water sealed bag was for nervous landings and quick energy but Hirohito's surrender halted use.
Sgt. Gaylord R. Shores a 29 year old Bataan death march survivor died in a Kansas City hospital from a gunshot in his apartment. His wife Mrs Winifred Shores 21 said the revolver went off during a playful scuffle. Shores told police the shot was accidental and he asked that his wife be absolved of blame.
India army headquarters disclosed that a 43 year old Keren tribesman identified as San Po Thin, a graduate in music from Redlands University in California and later at the London School of Arts and Crafts, led a guerrilla band in Burma for three years and mobilized resistance among about half a million countrymen.
Paris officials report rats have chewed 10,000 miles of cable and damaged 10,000 tons of rubber in the telephone system over five years. One major exchange no longer answers calls due to chew damage.
A U S soldier suffered the first occupation era injury in southern Korea when a booby trapped fountain pen exploded as he opened it at the governor general’s palace. The device blew off four fingers after the cap was unscrewed in Lt. Gen. A. V. Arnold’s offices.
Washington reports the No. 1401 mobile communications coach used by Roosevelt and now by Truman. The converted passenger and baggage car contains radio telegraph and telephone gear, enabling on the move contact with houses and ships, world teletype at 100 words a minute, and automatic tunnel pause while in motion.
Two Swiss scientists Dr Paul Lauger and Dr Paul Muller forecast a future where houseflies and mosquitoes are extinct and malaria typhus vanish as human scourges. They say elimination of pests in the United States is possible with careful insect control over several years, stressing protection of beneficial insects birds and fish and that entomologists should lead the work.
Sydney reports that the American Liberty ship James K. Paulding has sailed since last April with over 2 million dollars of cargo unwanted by anyone. It carries 6,000 tons of bombs deemed saleable yet undesired, prompting Captain H. E. Ericson to call the voyage a plague ship after trips to Europe and several Pacific ports.
Louisville report notes Ernest Denks, a mountaineer, registered for the draft after the war ended. He had been farming in the hills and was unaware the United States was at war until arriving in town.
New York reports that vitamin A and B1 plus cobra venom injections show potential to reduce color blindness, according to Dr. Knight Dunlap of UCLA. Research with Dr. Robert J. Loken details diet changes, early-life diseases as possible causes, and notes better prognosis for youths under 21 than men nearing middle age.
OPA officials admit the 6 to 7 percent clothing price cut this year is unlikely. Additional concessions to garment makers mean fewer low priced garments and potential price rises for towels, flannel diapers, shirts, and nightwear under the price control act. The agency hopes some price relief may arrive by year end, but retail ceilings for garments are not expected to rise.
Damei agency reports war cut Japan total shipping to 1.5 million gross tons from 6.3 million with about 300 vessels totaling 580000 gross tons serviceable. Most are small wartime ships built quickly, few large vessels remain. Asahi notes 81000 merchant seamen killed wounded or missing in action.
One hundred fifteen civilian workers captured by the Japs on Wake Island nearly four years ago received $1,083 checks from the federal government upon returning to Seattle aboard an army transport. They will also receive back pay from the Pacific Naval Air Bases, the employer, with total earnings likely surpassing $8,000 per man.
London Express reports United States and British scientists have developed counter weapons to the atomic bomb. Radar, German sockets and American fuses are fused to create projectiles that could destroy planes carrying atom bombs.
St John s Lutheran held Sunday School and Bible Class at 9 30 with Divine Worship at 10 30 A Lenten service was planned for Wednesday at 8 Fraternally the Junior Mission Band meets Friday at 8 and Ladies and meeting was set for Wednesday afternoon April 10 with Mrs J Monson as hostess Numerous local visits and hospital stays are noted including Janice Dirksen returning home after gallbladder surgery at Mason City hospital Mrs Howard Mitchell of Brooklyn Town visiting Ray Mitchell and family Several family visits to and from Corwith Des Moines Des Moines and other nearby towns among church events and social gatherings during the week
Hano Thieven of Ackley visited the Wm Wood home Saturday evening. Church services will be held at the Methodist church on the two Friday evenings preceding Palm Sunday, April 5 and 12, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mitchell and
Donna Rae spent several days visiting relatives in Brooklyn last week. The trip appeared informal with no planned events or notable incidents recorded.
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