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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1943
Page
6
OWI forecasts a 6 percent cut in food supply while bomber raids strike Italian ports. Allies close the Tunisia trap as U S promises MacArthur more planes to support Pacific and China campaigns.
Allied fighter planes downed 30 enemy raiders during a 100-ship raid on Milne Bay New Guinea as Allied air forces attacked a Japanese convoy near Wewak. MacArthur warned of rising Japanese strength while Stimson pledged more planes to counter it.
Allied air forces execute intensified raids from Sardinia to East Prussia with major strikes on Stuttgart and Koenigsburg as Red air forces strike Cagliari. Commerce secretary Jesse Jones urges business to plan postwar economy and fund war costs.
Landlords and tenants were informed that present rent regulations will continue. The OPA rejected proposals from the National Association of Real Estate Boards, saying changes would conflict with the President’s orders to hold the line against inflation. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown noted the proposals, while not requesting a broad rent increase, would effectively amount to one. He added the OPA may make minor rule tweaks but will not alter the basic program or its administration.
The column surveys European war rumors and Soviet hate, German and Soviet prisoner handling, and rising underground resistance in occupied Europe. It notes hints of Allied agents with saboteurs, reports of secret devices, and plans for future air mail helicopter service in New England as part of wartime outlook.
Seven Graf Spee sailors escaped during a leave at Martin Garcia Island in Buenos Aires with authorities searching for them. More than 300 Nazis had been interned in Argentina for three years. In Bern Germany admits war has shifted and air raids cannot be prevented, per Strasbourg Nachrichten.
Rome broadcasts report Hitler summoned Balkan leaders including Ion Antonescu to discuss continued fight against Europe’s enemies. Simultaneously Truman committee testimony notes improved army food conservation cutting wastage from 20–25 percent to about 11 percent, enough to feed a million civilians for a year. Maj. Gen. E B Gregory outlined 1943 food needs and army size estimates.
The Dies committee delayed its special report to Congress on prewar Nazi espionage due to intra committee split but aimed to convince Americans of Axis plans for world domination. The report, issued over five years ago, described a diabolical scheme by Hitler and the Nazi party to spread Naziism in the United States.
Emperor Hirohito rewarded Tojo with cigarettes and scents after the diet adjourned. The Axis powers label their propaganda thought warfare. Elmer Davis sided with the press in the UN Food conference housing dispute. Some U S soldiers in camps adapted to meat shortages by eating goat.
Long ago in England families spoke of a man by a single name such as John and later called relatives by the father’s name as the Johnses or Richards. Surnames like Jones arose from first names and the term Smith reflected many involved trades from blacksmiths to locksmiths and metal workers.
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