Weekly News Analysis Allied Nations and War Front Battles
Allied nations stunned by stories of atrocities and prisoners as Japanese actions are reported. Reds push forward below Leningrad while the Fifth Army advances toward Rome. Western Newspaper Union release notes spinions expressed in columns.
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Leningrad
Fifth Army
Rome
Newspaper Union
Western Newspaper Union
War Department
Western Union
Army
Death March atrocity report from Bataan and POW camps
U S and Philippine troops endured a six day march from dawn to dusk to San Fernando under the sun with prisoners killed at bayonet point and death rates rising in camps. Allied bombers hit New Britain and Rabaul as Russian front fights widen near Leningrad and the Romanian border while Britain and the United States clash with Stalin over Poland and exile government issues.
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William Dyess
U. S
San Fernando
Dyess
War and Navy Department
Army
Navy
Marshalls
mid-Pacific
New Britain
Rabaul
New Guinea
Bougainville
Allies Press Inland as Fifth Army Pushes on Cassino
Allied forces led by the Fifth Army advance inland from the Rome beachheads toward Cassino, aiming to trap about 100,000 German troops. U S and French units assault Nazi fortifications while British troops strike the enemy’s southern flank, with heavy Allied bombing targeting German columns.
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Cassino
Fifth Army
Rome
U. S
Argentina breaks with Axis and U S calls for soldier voting
General Pedro Ramirez declares Argentina severs ties with Berlin and Tokyo after alleging a large Axis spy ring. Cordell Hull supports the shift, while Congress debates 1944 soldier voting with federal supervision opposed by states rights advocates who fear wartime voting logistics.
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Argentina
Germany
Japan
Pedro Ramirez
Berlin
Tokyo
U. S
Bolivia
South America
Cordell Hull
Foxhunting Menace Turns to War Feathers Market
In Kent a 600 strong force of soldiers and citizens halted foxes amid the war’s demands. Foxes were a growing menace to poultry lambs and game. The piece notes chicken feathers are entering a new market as stuffing for pillows and cushions with improved preparation making them more sanitary and softer, replacing European and Chinese down sources.
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Grive
Kent
Europe
China
Farm Price Supports Announced With Parity Basis Details
The Wet Food administration outlines farm price supports subject to congressional approval. Most commodities see parity based levels with several changes. Hogs would receive a $1 per hundredweight decrease effective Oct 1. Loans for corn and wheat set at parity less 1 percent, cotton tea and tobacco at 90 percent parity, potato supports at 90 to 92 percent, soybeans up 14 cents, flaxseed 10 cents, barley and grain sorghums 10 cents, sweet potatoes 10 to 20 cents. peanuts up $10 per ton, sugar beets $1.50 per ton, sugar cane 30 cents per ton.
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Wet Food Administration
Tax bill spares only hopeful chest in era of new levies
New commerce measures aim to raise vast revenue with a 20 percent levy on jewelry and taxes totaling about 2 billion dollars. Luxury items largely taxed, cosmetics and toilet articles hit 25 percent, amusement admissions 1 cent per 6 cents, cabaret bills 30 percent, and pool tables plus bowling alleys taxed $20 yearly. Air mail postage to 8 cents and locally delivered mail to 3 cents.
Civilian Tires Fall Short Amid Rubber Shortage
Difficulties in processing oil into synthetic rubber and increased military demand forecast a drop in civilian tire production from 90 to 20 million casings in 1944. Heavy duty tires for buses and trucks will likely underperform due to limited natural rubber, with stockpiles depleted. Recapping plans shift to reclaimed scrap for retreads as a government priority.
Petroleum waxes aid military proofing needs in 1943 1944
The petroleum industry produced 390000 tons of waxes in 1943 to meet military needs for water and proofing. In 1944 focus shifts to micro-crystalline waxes prized for food ration packaging, moisture resistance, low temperature flexibility, proofing army shoes against mustard gas, and protecting metal parts.
Whisky Production Cut to Zero in 1944
War Production Czar Donald Nelson announced no whisky will be manufactured this year as industrial requirements for alcohol near 832 million gallons while distilleries operate at 160 percent capacity. Alcohol reserves fell to 80 million gallons by December 1943 due to lend-lease demands. The War Production Board seeks molasses and corn for distilleries, aims to have Britain process Caribbean molasses, and rush new grain alcohol plants to completion.
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Donald Nelson
Nelson
War Production Board
Caribbean
Bell System to Cut Interstate Phone Rates March 1
Interstate telephone rates will be reduced March 1 by agreement between the Bell Telephone system and the Federal Communications Commission. Subscribers will save about eight million dollars per year. Night rate changes from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. account for most of the saving, about 54 percent of the total. The rest comes from a lower overtime rate on interstate teletypewriter service.
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Bell Telephone System
Federal Communications Commission
Interstate Teletypewriter
FAO Draws Up Plans for Family of Nations Buying
The article discusses U S policy ideas linked to the State of the Union, FT speaking on world welfare. It notes FAO led by Hambidge drawing up plans for a permanent feeding program and a “family of nations buying” concept as part of international economic strategy.
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FAO
Congress
Washington
Churchill
Stalin
Teheran
Hambidge
Food and Agriculture Organization aims to prevent world hunger
Hambidge explains FAO goals to expand domestic production and boost cross border trade while avoiding isolationism. The interim commission drafts a plan and budget, aiming to present to governments in March for rapid setup and action to curb famine and food shortages globally.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
May
Sis
Junior
Hambidge
FAO
Commission
Prewar baby carriages to reappear in weeks
Bankhage notes prewar models will return to market in about six weeks as war slows. WPH reports net cash farm income for 1941–43 surpassed four times the five-year prewar average. War Food administration plans to release 440000 cases of canned pork and beans to civilians. Japanese tax revision explanation, translated by U S government monitors, fills a four-foot single-spaced document.
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WPH. Com
War Food Administration
U. S
Russian diplomacy and Pravda twist on British second front
Washington observers interpret a Pravda critique as a strategic warning to Roosevelt and Hull over a potential British separate peace with Germany. Diplomats say Moscow nudges Britain to prove commitment to a Western Front while signaling suspicion of any talks with Ribbentrop. The piece also notes Teheran era tensions and Churchill’s Balkan focus, framing a Kremlin minded chess move.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
Pravda
Ribbentrop
Izvestia
Kremlin
Communist Party
Stalin
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Roosevelt
Hull
Europe
Churchill
Balkan
Teheran
Africa
Fravda
Quiz prompts on geography and language trivia
A fragment lists questions about the soybean origin, meanings behind terms, U S state divisions into parishes, the most familiar biblical cross, the color rubicund, Canada’s westernmost province, birthplace of Eamon de Valera, and the size of the largest plow.
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United States
Innstead
Rubicund
Canada
Eamon de Valera
Hire
The Answers 1 Southeast Asia 2 The art of engraving on gems
The list includes Southeast Asia and the art of engraving on gems among other items. It mentions Louisiana, the Latin cross, a tendency to redness, and notes British Columbia and New York in 1882. It describes the world's largest plow developed to rework California farmlands, cutting a furrow six feet deep, taller than a man and weighing 15,000 pounds.
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Southeastern
Asia
Louisiana
British Columbia
New York
California
Kremlin Seat of Russ Government
Moscow's Kremlin, the seat of government, spans 100 acres and is enclosed by a wall with 19 towers and five main gates.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Happiness Complete Tombstone Found in Miami
A tombstone in Miami, Florida bears the name Happiness Complete, marking a unique grave marker. The inscription suggests a hopeful or symbolic name rather than a conventional one. Local authorities note no further identifying details are available on the marker.
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Miami, Fla
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