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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
2
The report notes a surge in tin scrap collections during the first month of the 1942 campaign. Army operations gathered 400 pounds, while civilians contributed about 30,000,000 pounds monthly, reflecting per capita rates and the impact of salvage efforts by both civilians and the armed forces.
Washington March 30 Secretary Stimson said it is essential to draw 4-F men into the war effort but would accept induction into a labor corps only as a last resort. He agreed that national service legislation is the best solution, and urged Congress to handle the matter with new law, not inducting unqualified men into the Army.
Secretary of War Stimson said the Allied assault on Cassino has subsided without achieving the hoped for results. He praised German defenders as obstinate and effective, noting their use of steep hills, rubble, tunnels, and rain to hinder Allied tanks and advance.
Senator Byrd of Virginia hosted a Capitol luncheon honoring Washington Star cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman on his seventy fifth birthday. Berryman drew daily political cartoons and gained fame for his work during U S history.
Red Army forces storm across the Prut and drive into Czernowitz as Konev’s Second Ukrainian Army advances toward Balta and Odessa. German fronts crumble with 150 places seized while Stalin urges Romania and Bulgaria to resist Germany and join the Allies.
Churchill faces renewed support pressure as Conservative leaders debate a confidence vote amid wartime unity. The Tory War Committee warned against a showdown before the second front, while London papers criticized the Premier's edict and called Parliament a rubber stamp.
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Baltimore market report for March 30 shows produce stable with apples unchanged and eggs at 3,851 cases and a steady market. Poultry receipts moderate for young chickens and light for fowl with quotations unchanged. butter totals 100,267 pounds.
British troops pierced jungle lines and seized tunnel positions as tanks entered an underground fortress and fired. Infantry found the fortification dead with 2,500 Japanese troops believed killed since the Burma offensive began. Mountbatten’s HQ cited stronger Allied air power aiding bombing and strafing on the Indian border while Gen Jos Steel’s Chinese troops moved south in the Mo-gaung Valley.
At 11 a.m. cattle run shows 450 head with 200 holdovers. slaughter steers steady to 16.50 top, cows and bulls active, heifers steady, stockers slow. Calves 325 steady. hogs 2,400 active and steady with Wednesday. sheep 25 offerings with undertone steady and lambs 16.50 to 17.50 for good and choice wooled. Top prices noted: steers to 16.50, hogs up to 14.50, bulls to 11.75, dairy cows 9.25–11.00.
Salable bags 13 000, cattle 5 500, calves 1 00. eastern demand for steers and yearlings weak to lower. Beef cows up to 15 higher. most fed steers 14.00-16.00 with top 16.40 and some loads at 16.75. Sheep 7 000 salable, lambs sold steady around 16.25 to 16.50, woolly lambs scarce and demand weak to steady.
New York March 30 Stocks led by liquor and rail firms and several specialties rose modestly as dividends and earnings optimism supported a mild comeback. Prominent gainers included Schenley Hiram Walker Park & Tilford Distillers Corp Canta Fe Kansas City Southern Southern Delaware & Hudson Skelly Oil Barber Asphalt United Electric Coal Chrysler U S Steel Loew's American Can Sears Roebuck American Sugar Douglas Aircraft and Consolidated Natural Gas. Bonds and commodities held steady with Brown-Forman Distillers American Cyanamid Pontepec Cities Service and Electric Bond & Share advancing curb quotations.
Allied dispatches note limited fighting in Italy with no Cassino front brief. Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, was bombed by heavy and medium bombers last night. Allied air forces flew about 1800 sorties, destroying twenty two enemy aircraft while suffering eleven losses.
British forces reported the capture of a western tunnel on the Maungdaw Buthedaung Road in Arakan, clearing the path for a southern offensive toward Akyab. The move marks a key advancement in the campaign.
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