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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes intensified Chinese offensives against Japan as anti Japanese campaigns accelerate. Victory at Pantelleria seen as paving the way for a broader Allied sweep across the Mediterranean. Farm implement output projected to double under wartime measures.
The Allies captured Pantelleria, a key island fortress, signaling a milestone since the African victory. The campaign boosted Allied control of east-west shipping and cleared the way for Sicily and Sardinia operations, as bombers and naval forces relentlessly reduced defenses. Rommel was said to be accelerating fortifications along the French Mediterranean coast and named to command the Mittelmeer wall.
WPB Chair man Donald M. Nelson announced that farm implement production for the year starting July 1 will be doubled and the prior industry concentration program will be scrapped. Steel and material allotments will lift output to 80 percent of 1940 levels from a 40 percent rate, with a 20 percent early year quota. Equipment makers may place orders for materials under the new program. Argentina cancels radio facilities enabling Axis messages, a move seen as easing relations with neighbors and the United States, aligning with Rio de Janeiro pledges against Axis espionage.
The Agriculture Department projected 730 524 million bushels of U S wheat for the 1943 season, with winter wheat at 501 702 million and spring wheat at 228 822 million. Drought hits the Great Plains and wet eastern weather hampers winter crop, while spring wheat benefits from moisture.
Secretary Ickes, as federal fuel director, imposed a $1 daily fine on 530,000 miners who walked out of government pits on June 15. He said he warned miners they would be fined if they left again. John L. Lewis called the move a brutal economic sanction, contending the contract had expired and fines were not lawful under expired terms.
Chinese forces pushed forward on the Yangtze front with strong American air support. A major air raid on Hongay in Indo China damaged docks warehouses and power facilities. Ground reports claim continued Japanese casualties from Itu to Ichang and a break of the defense line near Hwajung as China presses toward Lake Tunjing.
Hawa leads national per capita war bond purchases per Morgenthau figures. President Roosevelt names Rear Adm Thomas C Kinkaid for promotion to vice admiral. Curtin declares Southwest Pacific fight won and Australia safe from invasion. Jan Valtin goes I A in the draft after publishers announce.
The House naval committee will determine whether a year old law recapturing excess war profits remains in force. Industry witnesses discuss effects on production while officials claim the statute has saved over three billion dollars. Proposals include repeal or raising the contract threshold from $100,000 to $500,000.
Air forays marked the prelude to a planned 1943 land offensive on the Russian front with spring thaws ending a lull. From the Don valley to near Leningrad, fierce air combat persisted as Nazi and Soviet planes vied for air superiority. Rostov region losses and a Volkhov raid near Leningrad highlighted heavy fighting, with Soviet reports claiming 160 German planes destroyed against 26 Soviet planes.
The bill aims to keep war plants and coal mines running with no walkouts by seizing strike-bound facilities and outlawing strikes in these sites. It imposes a 30-day cooling off period for privately operated war industries and sets penalties from civil damages to up to one year in jail and a $5000 fine for violations or for instigating strikes in government-operated plants.
Washington cheered as James F. Byrnes drafted Bernard L. Baruch to serve in an advisory capacity with a closer government connection. Baruch, former War Industries Board chair and Roosevelt confidant, cited for mobilizing national resources in World War I and respected in Congress, signals stronger executive legislative cooperation on the home front. Roy Hendrickson said at the War Council that at least 25 percent of American food production will go abroad this year, possibly more as U.S. forces move into Europe. He noted military rations average 5.5 pounds daily versus civilians three to four pounds.
The War Food Administration announced loans on 1943 grown wheat to eligible farmers at average farm rates of 122 per bushel. In 1942 loans averaged 114 per bushel. Eligibility depends on compliance with the 1943 AAA wheat and war crop program, with rates varying by grade quality and storage location.
In a wartime Washington diary the Lewis Roosevelt split is explored with vivid scenes from the White House, Capitol, and Pentagon. The writer links labor’s rise, the CIO, and the Wagner act of 1935 to a growing rift between John Lewis and Franklin D Roosevelt amid a tense coal strike and calls the Nazi Slave Labor Society a fear that echoes through policy debates.
Briefs note Bangkok radio guidance for Thai private business people on appearance and conduct. It urges neat dress cleanliness politeness honesty and customer friendliness as a model for behavior. Also mentions US production of fighting equipment in spring 1943 and a Holland bicycle shortage joke about ladies’ bicycles kept for Scotch Highlanders.
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