Higher Farm Prices Debate Shapes Postwar Policy
Washington Digest argues for higher farm prices to spur production with a guarantee against profiteering. It cites parity formulas, Wickard’s control over processing and distribution, and possible use of price administration to fund incentives. The column notes political resistance and calls for careful, balanced postwar plans.
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Wickard
Department of Agriculture
Mr. Wickard
Mx. Wickard
Price Administration
Varius
Liberty ships named by children approved by maritime commission
The maritime commission approved 24 Liberty ship names submitted by U.S. schoolchildren from 24 states including Presidents, a vice president, senators, Indians, surgeons, Colin P. Kelly Jr., an archbishop and Amelia Earhart. In England, Cadet Derek M. Sharp fell from a training plane but clung to its tail and survived a 9000 foot drop.
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Maritime Commission
Colin P. Kelly Jr
Amelia Earhart
Yorkshire
England
Derek M. Sharp
Sharp
Allied Victories in New Guinea Weaken Jap Power in Pacific
Rail unions press for a 30 percent wage increase as McNutt outlines new manpower rules. The weekly analysis notes Allied successes in New Guinea diminishing Japan's grip in the Pacific theater.
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New Guinea
Pacific
McNutt
Allies Take Gona in New Guinea Campaign
Allied forces under General MacArthur captured the entire Gona area in New Guinea, narrowing the Japanese beachhead to a Buna-centered coast. Japanese resistance and war crimes claims were noted, while MacArthur’s air force destroyed nearly 300 Japanese planes in a month. The piece also covers War Manpower plans, promising workers choices under new mobilization rules, and Franco’s praise of the Axis.
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New Guinea
MacArthur
Gona
Japan
Gana
Buna
Allies Pound Tunisian Front as Air Supremacy Grows
Allied air activity surges as American and British planes cover land operations in Tunisia and Bizerte. Eisenhower appears to have found a way to field forward airfields in rugged coastal terrain. Tebourba remains a key junction as the battle shifts toward dislodging Axis forces. Across Tripolitania, the British Eighth Army intensifies strikes on El Agheila defenses holding Rommel’s retreat survivors.
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Tunis
Bizerte
Algeria
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisia
Tebourba
Tite
Tripolitania
Eighth Army
el Agheila
Rommel
Block Busters Hit Turin Industrial Center In Heavy RAF Attacks
Bombs weighing 8000 pounds struck major airplane and motor plant sites in Turin as the RAF pursued a relentless campaign. British authorities reported Turin suffered extraordinary damage comparable to Genoa Lubeck Cologne Rostock and Hamburg in Axis city bombing.
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Turin
North Haly
R.A.F
Genoa
Luebeck
Cologne
Rostock
Hamburg
Bremen
Rail Unions Press For 30 Percent Pay Increase
About 350000 operating rail unions demand a 30 percent wage raise or at least $3 per day after a three day Chicago meeting of 750 union chairs. spokesman Alvaney Johnston cites hazards, shortages and living costs as reasons. Non operating unions seek 20 cent per hour raise for 900000 members.
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Chicago
Alvaney Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Oregon Battleship to Be Scrapped for Warship Material
In Portland Oregon the rusted and long used battleship Oregon from the Spanish American era is sent to the scrapheap. Its metal will be converted into material for warships to fight the Axis. The vessel once served as flagship to Admiral Robe Evans. In Bern the report says Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped capture by Russians near Stalingrad while visiting an advanced position. he left hurriedly as Reds attacked.
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Japan
Nathaniel Pelfer
Belfer
Elony Bak Im
Mast
West
Far East
Harper & Bros
Portland
Obe
Oregon
Robbe
Bob
Evans
Bern
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Hitler
Harper’s
Jacqueline Clarke
England
Herbert Hoover
Collier’s
Europe
War Costs Rise as 1943 Expenditures Hit 78 Billion
Loadgd experts estimate 1943 war costs at 78 billion dollars, with annual outlays running six billion monthly. The first year of the war against the Axis exceeds 46 billion, surpassing the entire cost of World War I. Treasury notes compare wartime debt growth from 55.231 billion in 1941 to 103.577 billion by end of 1942.
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Loadgd
Treasury Department
United States
Toulon Toulon Affair Triggers US Skepticism On French Fleet
Washington questioned early reports that the entire French fleet at Toulon had been scuttled after the Nazis seized the port. A navy memorandum says 20 ships remained, 15 warships and five tankers, with 3 battleships damaged and possibly reclaimable. Eisenhower noted Dakar units and assets to the Allies, while Spangler won the Republican national chairmanship after interparty tensions.
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Toulon
Washington
Navy Department
Navy
Frank Knox
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dakar
United Nations
War book styles show shifts from front reports to Axis prison tales
A newspaper piece surveys postwar war literature, noting foreign correspondents evolving from Old Country views to battlefield dispatches and now Axis imprisonment accounts by Denny Oechsner Lochner and others. It cites reactions to early victories, rumors, and public distrust of official reports while highlighting viewpoints on Laval Benito Rommel and Mussolini.
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Colyuming
America
Norway
England
Russia
Harold Denny
Frederick Oechsner
Louis Lochner
Cong
Record
Benito
Berlin
Rommel
Rome
Albania
Greece
Brenner Pass
Musso
Russ Offensive Keeps Up Steam
Russian forces push the offensive along the Volga Don corridor and gain control of both banks of the Don in the great bend near Stalingrad. German efforts to reinforce with mail planes and ships show desperation as they defend the siege. Near Voronezh the central front resists, while Hitler seeks to slow Soviet motion from Leningrad to Stalingrad ahead of winter.
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Volga
Don
Stalingrad
Voronezh
Leningrad
Hitler
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Western Newspaper Union
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War Manpower Commissia
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War Manpower Commission
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New Order
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National Council of the Falange
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Robert Taft
Ohio
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Iowa
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