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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1943
Page
2
Russ traps German army in Caucasus as March 15 remains tax deadline. Congress plans pay as you go later while labor demands higher wage scales. Editorial note flags opinions of Western Newspaper Union analysts.
Organized labor leaders from AFL CIO and United Mine Workers meet with President Roosevelt at the White House to press for relief from rising living costs. Lewis calls for a $2 a day coal wage hike effective April 1, while the War Labor Board weighs revising the little steel formula amid mounting pay demands and broader tax and wage stabilization debates.
The article analyzes German setbacks on the Eastern Front with a Russian counteroffensive shrinking the Nazi hold around Rostov and cutting northern supply lines. It notes the loss of Kuschevskaya and Kupyansk, threatening Novorossiysk, plus hints at Hitler possibly evacuating Caucasus forces. It also mentions Allied and Japanese wartime reporting tactics in the Solomons.
Allied air raids pounded Lorient and other U-boat hubs across Europe. Existing Lorient pens held 20 subs, with 10 more under construction. Bombers also struck Essen, Duesseldorf, Cologne, Copenhagen, Turin and other industrial cities. OPA defends farm price savings of 7.4 billion dollars by end 1943. Eden says North Africa crisis easing as French reform efforts begin. Eisenhower warns officers against criticizing allies.
The Washington Digest examines McNutt’s manpower efforts and the push for consolidated leadership. It notes delays, the push for presidential authority, and clashes with Labor and Agriculture over deferments. Goering and Hitler nostalgia scenarios are briefly discussed alongside other wartime reflections.
Americans faced tighter food limits as the OPA and Food Distribution administration announced new rationing. Coffee allowances dropped from one pound per five weeks to one per six weeks, about 8.7 pounds yearly per civilian, while butter allotments averaged 13 pounds per person.
Washington weighs using furloughed soldiers with farm experience to harvest and fill seasonal farm jobs. War Department, War Manpower Commission and Agriculture Department would jointly create a farm army, possibly detailing 500000 troops. An alternative plan would use battalions still on military duties for farm work.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land reports merchant sailors suffered 3,200 losses in the first year of war, 3.8 percent of personnel, three times the 1 percent loss rate of U S armed forces, underscoring their frontline casualties against Axis U boats and bombers.
In Chicago Belden Manufacturing pays quarterly dividends in war bonds stamps or cash. Since August Whipple Jacobs, president, started the plan stockholders have invested 9 percent of dividends in war bonds, ahead of the national average. In Washington allied reports say 12th U S air force planes sank or damaged 54 Axis ships in North African waters between November 8 and February 1, with 13 sunk seven severely damaged and 34 damaged.
Reports from Stockholm indicate Finland fears further Russian offensives and endures food shortages as Nazi aid falters. Romania faces mounting losses in the Russian front with Antonescu described as despairing. up to 350000 killed and 650000 wounded or prisoners attributed to the war.
Americans on the Pacific coast express disappointment over the lack of a Far East offensive in 1943. Discussion returns on an overarching civilian war agency, with James Byrnes as potential head. The war also reduces comic sections as syndicates seek four column formats.
Practical tips cover hat care with a hair brush, rust prevention by oil dip, decorating waste baskets with wallpaper motifs sealed by shellac, meat tenderness if thawed slowly, repairing leaks with iron, glass brightening with hot water and baking soda, saving rice water for starching, passing small items through it, and keeping jar caps airtight by soap on threads to prevent sticking.
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