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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1944
Page
5
From Chicago on April 25 the UP grain table shows futures for oats rye and wheat with varied open high low and close values across months including Sep Dec May July and Sept. Wheat shows quotes around 166 to 178 with several fractions and December around 124 to 125.
The Senate unanimously approved a historic 32.6 billion navy appropriations bill to keep the fleet strong in the postwar era. Jugoslav partisan troops supported by Allied naval and air forces land on Mljet Island near Dubrovnik in the Adriatic, according to a partisan communique.
Chicago market notes show hogs at 16 000 head slow with 270 lb cattle steady to 15 cent lower on heavier weights. Sows off 15 to 26 cents. calves strong on strictly good and choice steers up to 115 higher. Sheep at 5 000 with slaughter lambs steady to 15 cents higher and wooled Colorado lots topping 16 75. Estate estimates list hogs 14 000 cattle 11 000 sheep 6 000.
Grain table from Chicago on April 25 shows receipts of 30 525 cases with 31 percent firsts and 29 percent current. dirties 28 with unsettled market. Poultry receipts include 1 car and 12 trucks. market firm and unchanged.
A 16 state study from several years ago shows average costs to produce 100 pounds of digestible nutrients. Pasture 64 cents alfalfa hay 83 cents corn grain 1.38 corn silage 1.54 oats 2.02
The Ottoman Empire's dissolution after World War I gave way to a Turkish republic led by Kemal Ataturk. Ankara became the capital, the Grand National Assembly gained sovereignty, and reforms separated church and state while instituting universal suffrage, a Latin alphabet, metric measures, and compulsory education from ages 7 to 16.
Wartime photography uses the same exposure meter as civilian gear. Military tasks include microfilm for records, aerial survey accuracy, and camouflage detection. Proper exposure and film filter choices help reveal camouflaged positions.
Nature showcases a lively Liberia sideshow with exotic animals such as a zebra antelope in prison stripes, a pygmy hippopotamus, the Diana monkey with orange red thighs, a white shouldered duiker, two Liberian shrews, a native dormouse, seven poisonous snakes, three crocodile varieties, the giant scorpion, and the large West African python.
The article explains how chemists turn ordinary vegetable and animal oils into fatty alcohols and then into fatty alcohol sulfates with sulfuric acid. These compounds act as detergents, cleansing well in hard water and even saltwater, producing foaming suds.
Turkey presents a high dry tableland with a fertile coastal belt. Eastern Armenia mountains give way to prairie like lands with wind swept ridges. Rivers vanish in summer while uplands support grain and goats. Aegean coast favors large scale farming. East of the Straits a grain bearing plain feeds the nation.
Immediate post run heat expansion can raise tire pressure by several pounds.
Liberia co-signer with the United States of a lend lease agreement is the only republic on the African continent. Bordered by Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast, Liberia has a population of about one to one and a half million. The climate is hot and humid with heavy rainfall May to September. Rich soils support coconuts coffee cocoa cotton and rice while export goods include rubber and forest products.
Food appearance enhances appetite through color contrast texture and flavor balance. Use reds greens yellows and whites to plan menus with creamed meats or light salads. Include crisp mixed vegetable salads with peas broccoli carrots beets cabbage or corn for color variety and budget-friendly options.
Over the last decade science has mined sea water for bromine and magnesium. Bromine extraction began in 1934 at a North Carolina plant, yielding thousands of tons used mainly for anti knock gasoline. A key operation near Freeport Texas converts sea water to magnesium metal, producing about a pound per 300 gallons and tens of millions of pounds mined to date.
Gibbons are anthropoid apes, less closely related to humans than gorillas orangutans or chimpanzees yet strikingly human in facial appearance and upright walk. They live freely with powerful arms suited to swinging in trees and rest on limb beds along aerial trails. Family groups are cohesive through loud vocal signals understood within each group.
Civilian dry cleaning in the Reich has fallen to under ten percent of prewar activity. Berlin’s Schindler’s, once the largest plant, closed over two years ago. Hamburg plants that supply chlorine solvents to dry cleaners now redirect materials for war industry or army use. Remaining cleaning is likely done with bootleg kerosene.
Investigators caution that female donors are more likely to develop anemia following a donation than male donors.
The Iowa State College Agricultural Extension Service urges gardeners to plant a 1944 Victory Garden despite wet weather delaying prep. Choose certified seeds, dust seed to prevent damping off, and plan crops by season. Warns about seed corn maggots, cutworms, and white grubs. outlines control methods, soil preparation, and timing for strawberries, grapes, and stone fruits.
The Moscow radio reported that since last July the Red Army killed or captured about 500,000 German troops, advanced 500 to 715 miles on fronts, and liberated roughly 3,068,880 square miles of Soviet soil. It said 370 towns and more than 65,000 inhabited localities were freed, with German losses listed as about 5,000 tanks, 10,000 field guns, and 136,000 trucks.
American forces captured Ujelang, the westernmost Marshall atoll, after a quick assault on a small Japanese garrison. The seizure expands U.S. positions near Caro and gives a base 264 statute miles northeast of Ponape and 644 miles northeast of Truk, with Ujelang now the 21st Marshall atoll held. A separate small island was also taken.
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