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Newspaper
Alden Times
Location
Alden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
1
Weekly analysis notes the Attu victory bringing the United States nearer Tokyo and highlights flood damage threatening food production. It discusses labor reactions to Lewis bid to AFL and cites Churchill promising to bomb Japanese cities.
Reports from Attu describe a last stand by Japanese forces on the Aleutians while two American columns trap the defenders at the island’s northwest. Meanwhile Allied air power tightens the noose toward Tokyo and a Tokyo broadcast warns Russia about Siberian bases. John L. Lewis seeks readmission of the United Mine Workers, with AFL leaders weighing an orderly return amid peace talks. RAF raids hammer Ruhr, with Fortresses bombarding Kiel and Flensburg and setting ships and yards ablaze.
Severe floods along the Mississippi basin inundated farms and towns, destroying crops across Illinois Indiana Missouri Arkansas Kansas and Oklahoma. Emergency crews and troops struggled to contain levee breaks and rising waters as May rains jeopardized wartime food production and delayed corn and other cereal plantings.
Washington officials of the War Production Board and retail clothing dealers announced plans to expand production of essential clothing and textiles. Retailers will revise practices and develop new methods to ease industry pressure, with officials saying rationing may be avoided this winter and perhaps indefinitely if public support remains strong.
In a Congress speech Churchill rejects critics, pledging Britain to war alongside the United States against Japan while blood flows. He says air power will join American efforts to bomb Japanese cities and industry. He defends the United Nations plan, linking Germany's defeat to Japan's fate, and promises greater aid to China and Russia.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes announced that for the first time in history the giant king crab of the Bering Sea will be canned commercially by Americans. An Associated Press report notes the move as a wartime and industrial milestone.
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown ordered a total ban on pleasure driving in 12 eastern states and eight eastern West Virginia counties. The OPA had previously urged voluntary limits, while Ickes warned further cuts could push restrictions toward the Middle West to divert gasoline to the seaboard.
Delegates from the United States Great Britain China and Soviet Russia at Hot Springs Virginia outlined postwar aims including continued food rationing the creation of a global agricultural commission and a pledge to better feed the world. The conference also backed agricultural expansion tariff reductions and nutrition education while 44 governments offered cooperation as American delegate Paul H Appleby noted.
War Production Board approves 1944 farm machinery output at 80 percent of 1940 41 average and unlimited repair parts. A farm to farm check by War Food Administration will determine items needed by six million farmers. Paul Henry of WFA says previous concentration in farm equipment will end. WPB chairman Donald Nelson calls concentration a dead duck as large manufacturers over ten million dollars in sales may resume production.
Soviet forces renewed pressure on Nazi positions along a 1100 mile Eastern front stretch from Volkhov to Kuban, repelling tank advances near Novorossisk and tightening the ring on the Caucasus city. Meanwhile canned fruit and vegetable supplies to civilians are set to rise by 30 million cases due to lower military demand, with potential impacts on point values depending on sack sizes.
Rel OUNT FLEET the horse of the year may become the horse of the century. He has won the Wood the Derby and the Preakness and is compared to Man O War though time may decide. A study by Colonel Estes shows most foals fail to reach the track or win races, yet Count Fleet has earned over 200000 and fans await further major wins.
The Agricultural Adjustment agency aims to bring idle acres and idle farms into production to meet rising food and fiber needs in 1943. Secretary Claude Wickard urges county and community AAA committees to locate unused land and mobilize resources, with USDA war boards assisting in locating operators and financing where needed.
Rutgers extension agronomist C. S. Garrison urges farmers with spare fields to plant seed crops of grasses and legumes. The Agriculture Department offers price supports on 20 hay and pasture seeds including alfalfa timothy orchard grass meadow fescue and various clovers to assure minimum prices and boost wartime seed supplies.
Since meat rationing has started, raising rabbits for meat gains momentum. When planting potatoes use blocky seed pieces with one good eye to prevent drying and ease handling.
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