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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1943
Page
3
Philadelphia papers report that selective service 3-B will be eliminated and 3-A and 3-B reclassified next Monday. A new E-D category may be created for hard cases, with draft boards focusing on essential war plant workers and dependents.
The maritime commission reports a severe manpower deficit in shipyards working on commission contracts. First quarter turnover averaged 112 percent monthly, creating a 71 078 worker deficit that endangers delivery of ships including tanker and aircraft carrier classes. Pacific coast shortages topped 60 854, with national turnover averaging 11.2 percent.
London reports the British government pledges a basic pension of 37 shillings sixpence weekly for total war injury disablement to civilians and service members. Civilians unable to work receive a 35 shillings weekly war injury allowance.
President Enrique Penaranda del Castillo signed a decree mobilizing Bolivia and creating a permanent defense council as the nation joins the United Nations side in World War II. Bolivia and Brazil are the only South American states to enter the war. Peru and Chile may follow. The landlocked country with tin and tungsten resources warns influences across the region amid German and Italian populations.
Daily Allied communiques show 1,010 Nazi planes destroyed March 18 to April 5, with 200–300 ground losses in Africa. Britain and the U.S. report 237 planes lost in the same period, while Russia’s losses are estimated around 360. Despite heavy losses, front-line strength remains, and Luftwaffe reinforcements continue to Tunisia and North France.
Gaetan de Bourbon, a Austrian royal by birth and brother of ex Empress Zita, now serves in the U S Army at Fort McClellan Alabama. On his second day in K P he reflects that every army has dirty work. Escaped Europe in 1941 he later ran a New York cosmetics business before enlisting. Separately in Salt Lake City a man found a pocketbook at the depot and reported it to agents after leaving his own suitcase outside.
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