14 Feb 1946
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1946
Page
1
Radar advances by U S Army researchers at Evans Laboratory Belmar New Jersey show potential for space and atmospheric studies. They reached the moon with radio waves and echoes, enabling possible uses in long range guidance, upper atmosphere research, planetary mapping, and stratoship data collection.
Maj. Gen. Walter Short told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee that withholding of intercepted Japanese messages prevented proper preattack preparations. He blamed the war department and said timely intel from December 6-7 would have given four hours to ready Hawaii and that a Hawaii call could have arrived in minutes.
Southern lawmakers led by Mississippi's Theodore Bilbo and Eastland of Mississippi mount a lengthy filibuster to derail the fair employment practices bill. Pepper of Florida is the sole southern senator voting with the minority. Taft’s actions shift debate briefly as journal details are reviewed.
Government aims to export 200 to 225 million bushels of wheat in early 1946 while livestock producers and distillers scramble for grain to meet heavy feed and processing needs. With expected wheat stocks dipping to about 200 million bushels by July 1, mills feel the pinch and distillers use hulled oats for alcohol amid tighter supply. The Agriculture Department weighs limits on wheat for feed but hesitates due to poultry shortages in New England.
Ethyl News magazine states South America already ranks as the world’s second largest oil producer and hints that major deposits may lie along the Andes from Tierra del Fuego to Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, with wartime depletion increasing urgency for new reserves.
The War Assets Corporation forms a special division to speed surplus goods disposal. Chicago WAC sets model procedures to move government material to G I applicants, issuing purchase certificates and guiding vets to the correct department. Vets receive notifications when items arrive and shop under OPA price ceilings, addressing prior complaints about high ceilings and bid sales.
A two year old girl from Buckley Washington Judy Hackman left Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a delicate operation repaired a malformed heart. Doctors Blalack and Tarssig sewed a workable artery to a defective one, boosting oxygenated blood and restoring color as she recovered.
Rural groups led by the National Grange National Farmers Union and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives urged the FCC to require more farm focused broadcasts. They cited insufficient airtime poor quality and inconvenient scheduling that cuts off 10 million rural listeners from daytime service and 21 million from adequate night service.
The Pearl Harbor investigating committees spent months probing naval political reasons for the attack. Evidence suggests Japan would have struck anyway, and U S munitions makers may have aided Japan. Harold Ickes repeatedly blocked helium sales to Germany, citing inspection restrictions. Veterans' affairs chief Bronson recalls varied SOS requests from veterans, from traffic tickets to seeking wives, illustrating the breadth of assistance handled. Capitol chatter notes Eisenhower’s swift Library of Congress exit after demobilization speech, while Nimitz answered questions, and Clare Booth Luce’s secretary welcomes a new daughter named Clare.
A humorous roundup notes Army plans for a presidential suite at Walter Reed, contrasts with past use of Naval Hospital Bethesda, and recalls FDR era hospital choices. It mentions Berlin Nazis, Fala, 82nd Airborne reenlistment, and various odd facts from opinion columns, then moves to cultural gossip and New York social scenes.
The Alexander Hamilton Institute reports farm product prices since World War II tend to mirror the post World War I cycle. After World War I ended, prices slid from wartime peaks into a moderate recession before climbing again, a pattern now observed after World War II.
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