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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
2
The column reports U S forces advancing in the South Pacific with new air sea and land blows against Japanese targets. It notes 1944 farm machinery output doubling and Berlin bombing stunning Germany, with editorial context from Western Newspaper Union partners.
Less than a week after Allied landings on the Gilberts, U S troops hold Makin Tarawa and Apamama with most of 6000 Japanese dead. American airmen sink two Jap destroyers and cripple two more near Bougainville as ground offensives widen with heavy artillery and air bombardments.
Rationing will drop to 31 types next year as raw materials increase. Production of repair parts will be unrestricted and output could approach twice 1942 levels and about 80 percent of 1940. Bearinge and anti friction bearings remain the main bottleneck amid steel availability and truck shortages raise operating concerns.
The War Labor Board set wage increases at 15 percent over January 1941 levels, but living costs have risen 23.4 percent since then. WLB initially based awards on 15 percent from 1941 to 1942, with a 5.6 percent rise since September 1942. Labor calls for cost adjustments or higher wages, and accuses government figures of inaccuracy, prompting a presidential inquiry by a special committee.
The article notes 16 percent of women already at work and a need for about a million more to satisfy war production targets. As of October only 700,000 were unemployed, prompting calls for more women to fill jobs in busy war production centers. It cites 10,800,000 women employed in October 1940 as a glimpse of recruitment progress.
A House bill seeks to stop subsidies aimed at lowering or stabilizing retail food prices and limit subsidies to agricultural production. Administration argues subsidies curb living costs. opponents call them inflationary. The measure would cut funding of retail subsidies about 800 million dollars annually and extend the Commodity Credit Corporation to mid 1945 with a three billion dollar borrowing power. CCC may resale at a loss perishable fruits and vegetables to support prices.
A senate house bill seeks 2 percent revenue boosts totaling billions with major gains from taxes on beer liquor cosmetics jewelry luggage and services such as telephones and transportation. Income tax changes would add about 600 million from business levies while local postal rates rise to three cents and money order charges increase. Germany strengthens southeastern flank with troop moves through Sofia toward Turkey amid Blitz aftermath. Britain fixes Adriatic Lowlands as U S Italy casualties tolls report 1613 killed 2685 missing 6361 wounded since September 8.
Henry J. Kaiser told the New York Economic Club that his shipyards have launched 1087 vessels since January 1, 1941. Among them 985 Liberty ships, 40 troop and landing ships, 40 fast tankers, and 12 aircraft carriers, with two or three troop transports carrying 4000 passengers. Navy to allow cablegrams at most shore installations outside the United States. Army bans fixed text holiday greetings to soldiers overseas December 6 to 25 to avoid overtaxing facilities.
The United States Britain China and Russia pledge cooperation in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to secure supplies for European needy nations. They propose allocating raw materials to prewar industrial nations with production capacity. Wickard says rationing may continue and tighten after the war based on domestic supplies. all government tillable land to be returned to farming by sale or lease after the war.
The treasury led by Harry D White proposed a world bank to mobilize private capital for postwar reconstruction. It would offer long term credit and may guarantee private loans with U S initial funding of 700 million dollars and total estimates reaching 3 billion. Great Britain would fund under a billion and Soviet Russia far less.
Miss Maude Bennet of the Adler Planetarium says astronomers cannot refute the story yet have found no evidence the Star was a real celestial object. The piece surveys theories including planetary conjunctions, a nova, Halley’s comet, and Venus as a likely beacon guiding the Wise Men to Bethlehem.
The center panel design adds height and a slimmer silhouette to the wearer, contributing to the pattern's popularity among school girl outfits.
A lighthearted holiday note describes Santa Claus admiring photographs of loyal servicemen, emphasizing that these good friends are the ones he would never neglect.
The article advises placing a Christmas tree in water immediately after bringing it indoors and keeping it watered throughout the display. Replacing evaporated water is essential, and trimming the base with a sharp knife helps water travel up the stem to sustain the tree’s living cells.
Women who craft their own Christmas cards can extend the theme into home decor. A felt poinsettia features a red yellow and green design with a yellow center and one inch red petals. Green stem and two leaves accompany a colored ink greeting on the card.
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