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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1943
Page
2
Weekly analysis notes continued Allied bombing hitting Italy’s industrial belt amid grain crop declines. It also reports U S airmen striking actions across the Pacific and weighs broader wartime impacts as editors provide columnist insights.
Allied bombers strike Italy's industrial belt as German forces retreat from Sicily. Patton's 7th Army lands behind enemy lines while Milan endures heavy raids. Selective Service outlines a new draft plan for fathers with a “super-eligibility” class and broader non essential job exemptions affecting up to 300,000 fathers this year. Russia pushes Nazi lines north and south, driving toward Smolensk Kharkov Orel as red forces exploit gaps. Western Union merges Postal Telegraph, growing into a $340 million global enterprise.
The Agriculture Department estimates total lead grain production at 5.282 billion bushels for 1943, down 700 million from 1942. Corn is seen at 2.875 billion, wheat 834.9 million, oats 1.19 billion, barley 348.8 million, rye 33.3 million. Four feed grains total remains below last year, soybeans at 200.33 million bushels. Milk stays near 1942 levels and egg output peaks except in the West.
American Liberators attacked targets on the Kuriles while suffering two losses as bombers returned from a 1000 mile mission. U S Doughboys closed in on Japanese holdouts on New Georgia. Churchill and Roosevelt met with Allied chiefs to plan further joint operations as Stalin was excluded from the talks.
A group of 54 Thoroughbred yearlings, offspring of Blenheim II and Sir Galahad II, sold in Lexington at an average price of 3507 dollars. Clark Gable's photograph flight over Europe for the aerial gunnery school was struck 15 times but returned to base.
The Office of Price Administration plans cutting A B and C gas coupons from four to three in the Midwest and Southwest with C cardholders losing up to 720 miles monthly to 480, while preferred workers retain supplies. Oil movement east via a new pipeline may throttle affected s supplies. Treasury data show New York and Illinois contribute nearly 28 percent of 1943 revenue. eight industrial states provide 59 percent. AFL blocks John L. Lewis's UMW return, calls for District 50 dissolution. seven weeks after Smith Connally bill, 30 miners sue to void anti strike law, arguing First and Thirteenth Amendment conflicts.
A U S WNU features profile of General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and a diplomatic veteran Ray Atherton, highlighting wartime leadership and multi-hatted postings. The piece critiques tax ideas for funding the war, noting proposed schemes such as compulsory savings, spending taxes, and personal excess income taxes, arguing impacts across income levels and the difficulty of fair implementation.
Wiley M. Creps of Chicago was killed in action in the North Atlantic on March 8 1942. His father revealed Creps was age 15 having altered his birth certificate to join the service. Also noted is 17 year old Richard Lajeskie from Passaic NJ who signed with the New York Giants for 10000 dollars and played in the International League. Frank A Wilhelmi Tacoma WA paper executive died of a heart attack after celebrating a golf putt.
The War Department announced that an honorable discharge during the present war will be signified by a lapel button. A British French hour broadcast urged youths to gain time to avoid going to Germany. Nazi propaganda ordered removal of Mussolini literature from German libraries for drawing parallels to Hitler, a Tass report from Berlin via Geneva noted.
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