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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1943
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes a push to defer farm workers amid a Tunisia campaign climax as Allied forces tighten their grip on Rommel. The column highlights manpower shortages becoming more critical and frames the strategic impact.
Congress put forth farm labor policy to defer essential food and fiber production workers from military service. The Senate backed the measure after House support, while War Secretary Stimson opposed blanket deferments. The House also moved to fund a land army plan with $261 million to recruit 3.5 million workers.
The War Manpower Commission labels steel districts in South Chicago and Northern Indiana as 48 hour week areas and marks 36 U S regions as likely to face severe labor shortages. It notes 2 8 million essential war jobs must be filled from less essential classes including bartenders and attendants. Patterson urges wartime draft authority for workers in factories and farms.
Henry J. Kaiser announces rapid production plans for 500-foot aircraft carriers with 487 foot waterline, flight decks of 514 feet, and potential carrier or transport use. Vancouver Washington hosts twelve shipways for medium carriers, targeting six ships monthly by end of 1943. DDT Director Eastman freezes nearly 200,000 buses and street cars to curb interarea migration. OPA says additional pre Pearl Harbor Victory tires will aid lower mileage rationed owners.
Three months of secret prep culminate in a meeting between Gen. Henri Giraud and Gen. Charles De Gaulle to seal French unity. Giraud’s decrees nullify Vichy laws against Jews and labor unions and ban Freemasonry. OWI chief Elmer Davis defends nonpartisan war work amid accusations of pro Roosevelt propaganda. Navy Secretary Knox reports Japan lost 1,857,000 tons of shipping as Allied air forces pound Rabaul and western approaches while MacArthur’s air units target Japanese base at Rabaul and Kai islands.
Rubber Director William M. Jefferson tours a Detroit tire plant as Dr. Sidney M. Caldwell explains that steel cord tires may save about 15 percent in rubber and require only two plies of steel versus ten of cotton or nylon. Axis and Allied losses are cited from El Alamein with 75 000 total casualties and British losses at 13 600.
The war's see-saw continues with Soviet offensives pressing toward Smolensk and Staraya Russa while German counteroffensives gain strength from Kharkov to Kursk. Reports say Reds captured many settlements south of Bely and battles rage near the Dnieper headwaters and Donets basin with German reserves focused on narrow sectors.
Elmer Davis leads a Washington briefing on the Office of War Information budget and propaganda effort. He notes costs, compares with Britain and Germany, and discusses how leaflets radio and clandestine papers shape public opinion abroad and at home. The piece weighs the program’s aims effectiveness and political implications.
BRIEFS report China receiving 157 million dollars in American aid. A Lis bon Lis bon clippers sinking sends 70000 letters to London, 95 percent delivered to U S soldiers. The tax department processes income returns at 2.50 dollars each and foresees 8.5 million new returns. Foz De Courg to carry over 200000 Red Cross food parcels for U S prisoners of war.
A London era sentiment asserts that eradicating crime relies on formidable punishment rather than familiarity. The remark stresses deterrence through severe measures over mere routine penalties.
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