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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
2
Allied and German armored forces fought on even ground near Anzio as heavy combat surged south of Rome. U S and French troops pressed through fortified German positions in seacoast and mountain sectors, while air power targeted concentrations and supply lines in a widening campaign.
Record January slaughter totals mark all time highs with 1,141,081 cattle 7,899,952 hogs and 1,932,987 sheep butchered. Government forecasts for 1944 project a 5 to 6 percent rise to about 25 billion pounds, while civilian allocations stay at 131 pounds per person for the year unless lend-lease and services' needs are reduced.
The Senate Economic Policy and Planning Committee urged adequate financing and orderly disposal of war material to prevent market disruption. A bill by Senators George and Murray calls for government purchase of materials or extended contract credits, with sale of $15 billion war plants to private interests if it avoids overexpansion. Plans include a demobilization board and consideration of selling assets abroad to avoid price drops.
Senate moves to join the house in outlawing subsidy payments to lower retail food costs. Bankhead backs anti-subsidy bill after Malooney amendment seeks 1.5 billion in subsidies this year, Taft proposes a 950 million cap. Administration warns abolition could threaten anti inflation aims and provoke wage demands. Bankhead says subsidies save about 11 cents per family daily amid high incomes.
A Senate labor committee considers white collar pay amid calls for raises. U.S. Department of Labor official A F Hinrichs cites surveys showing clerks and bank staff gaining modest boosts since 1941, yet many non manufacturing workers still earn under 50 cents an hour, averaging under 24 dollars weekly for a 48 hour week.
Allied forces push north from Saidor after over a month of jungle fighting toward remaining Japanese positions on New Guinea s eastern coast. The first objective is Madang as a feeder to inland targets, then Wewak a key air base used to harass Allied units. Air forces also target Rabaul Kavieng and Kavieng on New Ireland, centers for enemy supply and feeder operations.
The week reports show the Russian army using an improved sledge propelled by a 6H airplane propeller for a mobile machine gun corps with armor protection. American League teams plan 74 exhibition games in spring schedules amid travel issues. Tokens demand rises with OPA indicating about 2 billion ready by February 27 and another 200 million in production. possible increase to 900 million. consideration of a larger quarter sized token worth five points.
Rubber Director Bradley Dewey said civilian, bus, and truck tire requirements will ease later this year. He forecast 18 to 24 million tires for 1944 to cover essential needs, with total production 6 million below prior estimates. Synthetic rubber aims for 1,000,000 tons annually by August, but equipment and cord shortages slow the program. Through July 1, monthly output reaches 1,000,000 tires with 750,000 rationed and 250,000 in reserve.
Russian forces reduced the German foothold in the lower Ukraine and pressed to avert an encirclement in the long eastern front. They pushed into the Baltic states slowing the German advance into Estonia Latvia and Lithuania while forcing withdrawals to avoid rear entrapment. In the south they beat back Germans from the lower Ukraine tightening the Red grip on territory behind Vatutin's armies.
Dr. Wilson Compton of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association told the fifty-fourth annual convention of the Wilneis Lumber and Material Dealers association that Britain seeks 5 billion board feet in the first postwar year for rebuilding damaged towns. Britain normally buys 250 million feet yearly, with 7 billion feet allocated for civilian use in 1944. He warned that demand could rise for boxing, crating, and dunage, and noted each soldier requires 800 feet for overseas shipments plus 50 feet monthly for supplies.
The 1943 strike activity involved 1,000,000 workers across 3,750 stoppages, averaging 7.1 days off per striker, with overall work time loss of 0.07 percent. Coal strikes affected 400,000 miners, while 20,000 industrial disputes settled without stoppages. A new oil-treating process could extend leather soles by 25 to 50 percent, potentially easing the wartime shoe shortage and enabling 180 million pairs to last longer.
The piece surveys fathers draft effects and idle manpower at U S naval bases, noting long stand by duties, excess civilian staffing at Lakehurst, and slow boot camps. it cites overstaffed commissaries and guard routines, and shows contradictory draft quota trends from spring to autumn 1943. It also jests with political names and cartoonish military satire.
A column reviews The Lifeboat by Steinbeck and Hitchcock as a seaworthy Nazi tale with Tallulah Bankhead and strong supporting turns, plus Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman with Basil Rathbone. It also segments vaudeville nostalgia, theater gossip, and humorous mail from readers, noting industry figures, skits, and anecdotes from early Hollywood.
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