10 Jun 1943
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Newspaper
Alden Times
Location
Alden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
1
The column outlines a national mobilization urged by a wartime board. It reports Soviet advances in the Caucasus and Allied bombing pressure targeting Nazi plants and Italian ports, framing a broad dual-threat strategy. Editorial note credits Western Newspaper Union analysts.
Allied bombers hammered German and Italian targets as Axis industry shifted eastward to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Dusseldorf Dortmund Essen Jena and Paris Renault plants were struck while U S and British raids battered Italian ports and Japanese defenses threatened Chungking. Roosevelt pressed a no strike pledge and Byrnes led the new War Mobilization Office to marshal production and supplies. De Gaulle and Giraud moved toward unity as France eyes national liberation.
In England King George honors Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and Gen Douglas MacArthur with honorary knights of the Grand Cross Order of the Bath. The announcement appears in a mid twentieth century digest of highlights.
Secretary of War Stimson reported American losses in Tunisia at 18 558 with 2 184 killed 9 437 wounded and 6 937 missing or captured. Axis losses reached 323 000 with 30 000 killed 26 400 wounded and 266 000 taken prisoner. Allied losses under 70 000 and supplies captured were large. Despite light American losses the campaign did not prompt manpower reductions below 8 200 000 total.
The article reports American forces on Attu island continuing a relentless cleanup of enemy detachments while a senatorial committee digests a forecast that Japan would launch a naval and land invasion of the continental United States this summer. Kilsoo K. Haan, representing the Korean National Front, claimed Tojo disclosed invasion plans at a Tokyo party with Korean spies present. In battle, U S infantry used bayonets and hand grenades as lone Japanese forces were pressed into a narrow, inescapable zone.
The article notes Edwin T. Barclay of Liberia as the first Negro guest to sleep in the White House, recounting Roosevelt’s meeting with foreign dignitaries and Barclay’s address to Congress. It also covers wage board recommendations raising pay for nonoperating railway employees and Leon Henderson warning of inflation, urging new dikes and controls.
The War Department price adjustment board said nearly $2 billion in excess profits were eliminated through renegotiated army contracts. Readjustments covered 1941 and 1942 contracts, with 1943 savings expected to be larger.
A speaker argues that morale is the greatest hazard soldiers face, not weapons, and promotes the book Our Armed Forces as guidance. It emphasizes morale’s roots in character, its transmission through shared service, and the need for families to understand the soldier’s climate and duty amid wartime adjustment.
The Truman committee revealed army overpurchase and hoarding of canned fruits and vegetables, including canned grapefruit fed to troops in Florida. Gen. E B Gregory admitted canned goods were used for ease, while fresh produce was available but less stocked.
In Washington a shared taxi system uses riders heading in the same direction, a former pick up method renamed but still practiced. Victory gardeners call jack rabbits jap rabbits after alleged infiltration. A black market potato truck was photographed outside a Bra chington firehouse. Spud leggers fear nothing. In DC it is illegal to drink liquor standing up, and some who sit to drink cannot stand later.
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