Attu Victory Nears Tokyo as U S Presses Advance
Weekly news analysis notes Attu victory brings U S forces closer to Tokyo, warns flood damage threatens food production, reports labor stirred by Lewis bid to AFL, and cites Churchill urging bombings of Japanese cities to ashes. Editorial notes emphasize opinions of Western Newspaper Union analysts, not the paper.
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Attu
U. S
Tokyo
Lewis
Churchill
Western Newspaper Union
Tokyo Gets Nearer. Aleutian Campaign Reported Draws Near
Allied advances near Attu trap Japanese defenders as two American columns converge on the island. Japan warns Russia of using Siberian bases for a future blitzkrieg if United Nations bases are used, signaling heightened wartime tensions.
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Nippon
Attu
Aleutian Islands
Washington
Tokyo
Germany
United Nations
Russia
Siberian
United States
AFL Welcomes John L Lewis Back to Union Door
John L Lewis carried an AFL admission bid eight years after the Mine Workers split the federation. AFL President William Green signaled an orderly, sympathetic review while noting his past calls for the miners to return home. The move raises questions about its effect on peace talks with CIO ties. Across Europe, RAF raids hit Kiel and Flensburg after Ruhr floods and German damage. American bombers set targets alight as unescorted formations faced enemy fighters.
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John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers
AFL
William Greens
Lewis
Green
CIO
Germany
Ruhr
Eder
Moehne
Kiel
Flensburg
Floods Ruin Crops and Harm Towns Across Midwest
Wartime food drive suffers as floods sweep from Midwest farm states into the Mississippi basin. Illinois reports 100000 acres of corn wheat and oats destroyed amid heavy rains and levee breaks. Indiana Missouri Arkansas Kansas and Oklahoma also report crop losses and planting delays threaten supply.
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Mississippi River
Weather Bureau
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Clothes: May Avoid Rationing
Officials of the War Production Board and retail clothing dealers announced plans to avert clothes rationing this winter. The WPB would boost production of essential clothing and textiles while retailers revise practices and develop new methods to relieve industry pressure.
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War Production Board
Washington
WPB
Churchill Promises United Effort to Defeat Japan First
Churchill told Congress that Britain will fight Japan alongside the United States while air power bombs Japanese cities and industries. He argued that defeating Germany first ensures victory over Japan and supported greater aid to China and Russia under the Allied plan.
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Japan
Hitler
United Nations
Winston Churchill
Congress
Britain
America
Churchill
United States
Roosevelt
Germany
China
Russia
Farm Implements Bigger Output Ahead
The War Production Board approved 1944 farm machinery output at about 80 percent of the 1940-41 average and unlimited repair parts. The War Food Administration will complete a farm to farm check to determine specific machinery needs for 6,000,000 farmers. Paul Henry of the WFA outlined the plan. WPB aims to end previous concentration and allow large manufacturers over $10 million in sales to resume production.
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War Production Board
War Food Administration
Paul Henry
WFA
WPB
Donald Nelson
Giant king crab canned commercially for first time
Highlights from the week’s news report that the giant king crab of the Bering Sea will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time, per Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Also notes OPA rule restricting vacation gasoline and card usage. Allied estimates place Axis casualties in Tunisia at 324,000 with 267,000 prisoners, 30,000 killed, 27,000 wounded. Ford Willow Run bomber plant production schedules reportedly being exceeded, per Edward L. Cushman.
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Bering Sea
Harold L. Ickes
OPA
Tunisia
High Command
Henry Ford
Wilow Run
Detroit
Edward L. Cushman
War Manpower Commission
Gas Crisis Spreads as Eastern States Ban Pleasure Driving
The Price Administrator banned pleasure driving in 12 eastern states and eight eastern West Virginia counties to curb fuel use as the Atlantic coast faces shortages. Harold L. Ickes warned further cuts may push new restrictions toward the Middle West to divert gasoline northward.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Prentiss M. Brown
District of Columbia
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
OPA
Harold L. Ickes
East
Middle West
Seaboard
Food Conference Outlines Postwar Goals
At Hot Springs Virginia delegates from the United States Great Britain China and Soviet Russia outlined postwar aims including continued food rationing world agricultural commission measures to feed the world and the expansion of agriculture through relief. The discussions noted cooperation from 44 governments though no binding pact was made.
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Global Agricultural Commission
United Nations
United States
Great Britain
China
Soviet Russia
Hot Springs
Paul H. Appleby
Reds Press Hard on Eastern Front as Davies Meets Stalin
Former Ambassador Joseph E Davies conducted talks with Joseph Stalin in Moscow while German forces claim major assaults along 1100 miles of the Eastern front from Volkhov to Kuban. Soviet forces report shattering two Nazi attacks in the Caucasus and repelling tank offensives near Novorossiysk as they tighten the ring around the city.
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Joseph E. Davies
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Volkhov
Kuban
Caucasus
Red Army
Novorossisk
Canned Foods Increase for Civilians by 30 Million Cases
The War Food Administration announced a civilian canning boost of about 30 million cases from the 1943 pack due to reduced military demand. It remains unclear if this will lower point values for canned goods, pending the size of the 1943 fruit and vegetable canned pack.
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War Food Administration
Propaganda Strengthened by Victory Fuels American War Effort
Washington based digest argues American propaganda gains from Tunisia victory. It credits truthful reporting, enemy underplaying Tunisian campaign, and coordinated OWI efforts for stronger morale. It notes two fronts to target occupied nations and civilian enemy, warns of precision messaging, and cites Twentieth Century Fund on postwar goals like full employment.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
America
Tunisia
Tunis
Africa
Europe
Office of War Information
Germany
Hitler
Poland
Scandinavia
Low Countries
West
Axis
Herr Goebbels
Elmer Davis
Public Opinion Quarterly
Washington
United States
Twentieth Century Fund
Nurses in 1943 to join armed forces, Bankhag note
In 1943 one in four nurses will join the armed forces. Soldiers may secure National Service Life Insurance before August 10 with a maximum $10,000 policy paid to beneficiaries in monthly installments. Civilians may earn an official service bar, per Civilian Defense. Rural eastern road traffic fell 48 percent in March vs 1941.
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National Service Life
War Department
Armed Services
Household tips and cooking notes from a vintage page
The passage offers practical guidance on cosmetic touchups with iodine and polish, meat storage cooling guidance, soil amendments for potted plants, and techniques for thickening soups using vegetables rather than flour, plus cautions on flour usage in cream soups to avoid a stodgy flavor.
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Cape Bon
Goebbel
Bankhag
Bill Sibole
Shearer Chevrolet
Manchester - ST. Louis
C.M. Coe
Pine St
St. Louis, Mo
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Thomas Addison
Lfe
Lydia E. Pinkham
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