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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
1
U S forces rout Japanese Pacific defenses and complete the organization of a new agency to supervise surplus war goods sales. Heaviest aerial attacks blast Nazi positions as Western allies press advance.
Congress shifts after a Democratic revolt led by Alben Barkley reclaiming the reins in the Senate. Barkley, in rebuking President Roosevelt over the 2.2 billion tax bill, signals greater congressional independence while not abandoning Democratic principles. In the House, Rep. Robert Coughton also parts ways with FDR over the tax veto as efforts to override the veto gain momentum.
The U S treasury plans selling 20000 horses 10000 motor trucks and 4600 motorcycles released by the army. William L Clayton leads a new Surplus War Property Administration to supervise disposal, set policies, and insist on minimum prices while departments handle actual sales. The unit follows Baruch postwar planning and aims to prevent market glut and disruption.
Congress moved a bill to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation to June 1945 and authorize 750 to 800 million dollars to hold down retail food costs. It backs continued price support programs while opponents criticize consumer subsidies to processors. CCC reports only one billion of three billion funds obligated. rest available. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones’s request for a new postwar fund of 500 million was rejected.
Allied and German air forces clash as Luftwaffe bombs London while RAF and USAAF press attacks on German fighter plants. From Jan 1943 to Jan 1944 RAF losses total 3835 bombers, with 2698 British and 1147 American. In Italy bitter Cassino fighting near Anzio under heavy artillery and air fire as Allied advances slow. A Doughboy reports capturing a parlor, bedroom and kitchen.
U S carrier forces pushed within 1,400 miles of Tokyo blasting Marianas defenses while supporting air and naval units hammer enemy positions in New Britain. As forces struck Marshalls Carolines and Marianas, Tokyo vowed to fight only after drawing the U S from bases.
The War Food Administration plans to order 3,000 small packing and slaughter plants and local butchers to set aside 50 percent of their army style beef from April 1. Cheese makers must reserve 45 percent of March and 56 percent of April production. Small packers, selling mainly to civilians, will reduce domestic supplies. The move taps 425 federally inspected plants plus smaller centers amid higher cattle marketing.
The week’s notes report a plastic bugle solving brass scarcity for the army. The plastic horn sounds as sweet as metal, weighs half as much, requires no warming up, and costs less to manufacture.
The Red Army, celebrating its 26th anniversary, pressed German lines on both ends of the front with Molotov cocktails. Negotiations with Finland progressed while Russians advanced toward Pskov and Krivol Rog in Poland. Nazi withdrawal moves were noted on the Estonian border as 175,000 German troops remained in Finland.
U N Airships Inc applies for five long haul routes from Washington DC to major cities worldwide using noninflammable helium. The 41 639 mile system would link Calcutta via Dakar Buenos Aires via Rio de Janeiro Capetown via Zanzibar Brisbane via Los Angeles Honolulu Chungking Darwin and Moscow via Glasgow. Blimps offer luxury quarters though speeds run 75 to 100 mph versus airplanes 150 to 200 mph.
AFL electrical workers strike disrupts repair of power lines feeding war plants and homes. Army takes over city water and power department after severe storms flood neighborhoods and port towns. Beery quips about the South Pacific as the army moves in and workers return after a one day layoff.
Argentina’s General Pedro Ramirez yields the presidency to General Edelmiro J. Farrell after the Colonel’s Club, the dominant political force, pressures the cabinet over war stance with the Axis. The minister’s firing and shifting support reflect a crisis in Argentine politics and Farrell’s army backing.
Army dental technicians report a new technique for drilling pain relief, pouring eight ounces of cold water into the patient’s mouth while drilling and draining the same amount out. The circulating water lowers temperature, reduces pain, speeds progress, and reportedly increases work by about 40 percent. Separately, about 8.5 million of 20 million wartime workers are eating in factories, with facilities expanding to serve 5.5 million more, while others rely on cafeterias or mobile snack wagons at the plant.
Backstage fights between the WPA and WPB over shoe leather roils Washington. Tests show oil wax treatments extend wear. industry leaders resist a government order. Kilgore hearings push for mandatory adoption as leather conservation weighs in. Also, navy desk admirals under scrutiny, steel wage panel struggles, and Korean bases push in Washington with the Shortest Route to Japan agenda.
University of Illinois researchers note boron is essential though needed in tiny amounts. Legumes like alfalfa show rosette shoots and terminal bud death when boron short. symptoms vary with yellowing or reddening. Small trials with borax at 25 pounds per acre can test responses, but higher rates risk damage or plant loss.
A sprawling reminiscence traces a comic strip’s path from rejection to success, detailing early editorials, syndicate refusals, and eventual earnings of about five thousand dollars weekly from newspapers, radio, and gadget makers. The piece links the creator’s personality, wartime service, and later fame as a renowned character.
Mr David Lowe near Edinburgh runs an 11 acre steam heated garden system under glass. He soils with steam annually to kill weeds and applies 100 tons of fertilizer and straw per acre each year. Six to eight crops yearly include lettuce turnips carrots cauliflower leeks onions beans and more.
Rural notes advise washing udders with warm water containing 200 to 400 parts per million chlorine before milking and to treat and dry off any mastitis infected quarter. Separately, one acre of the 2923 wheat crop yielded flour for 4,054 loaves of white bread.
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