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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1943
Page
2
The column notes perils facing small business and reports Treasury approval of a pay as you go tax program. It also covers the fifth Russ offensive against Nazi forces with editor's note on opinion.
Washington debates a pay as you go income tax to raise billions for wartime expenses. Sen Bennett Clark backs a 19 percent withholding, adding to the 5 percent Victory tax for a 24 percent total. Inauguration would begin March 15 with a 1943 tax based on 1942 income. Farmers and independents would pay monthly or quarterly.
Secretary Frances Perkins releases a summary linking a 43 percent rise in the food cost index since August 1939 to skyrocket retail prices for fresh fruits and vegetables not subject to price control. She notes continued increases as wartime controls took effect and cites December indices 9 percent higher than May and 17 percent above December 1941.
North Africa forces break lull with captures of passes en route to Sousse. The move aims to cut Axis land routes in central and southern Tunisia while political talks among Giraud De Gaulle and Libs vie to shape North Africa administration amid Allied landings.
Secretary Harold L. Ickes told the Senate small business committee that the war could crush small firms. He cited contracts going to a few large corporations and warned that if small businesses fail, national freedom of enterprise could be lost and a cartel dictatorship could control jobs.
The Voronezh spring offensive marks a major new Red push along the Moscow to Black Sea line. Russian forces threaten Rostov Kursk and Kharkov while Germans face a defensive posture as Russians reclaim Caucasus areas and pressure Stalingrad.
Allied airplanes continued to bomb Axis held Europe and the Mediterranean. Hitler s Ruhr Valley armory faced repeated raids while Lille the northern French locomotive hub endured gutting attacks. Abbeville St Omar and routes near the British coast were hit, with Mediterranean strikes on Crete Sicily and Lampedusa and African raids on Homs near Tripoli and Sousee Sfax.
Allied air efforts broadened raids on four main Japanese bases in New Guinea including Madang Finschaven Lae and Salamau with Flying Fortresses supported by medium bombers and fighters. In the Solomons US and Australian air power hindered Japanese supply lines as a three day Guadalcanal offensive progressed and Munda Island raids continued.
High Nazi officials acknowledge growing home front strain as Goebbels and Dietmar call for tighter controls and greater hardships to push more troops forward. Navy mail rules tighten with caps on parcel weight and size to speed overseas delivery. advertising circulars barred.
A BAUKHAGE column surveys U S efforts to import Mexican labor for farms amid disputes over contracts and wages. Senators Downey and McFarland offer differing positions, while Agriculture reports mixed outcomes and ongoing debates over padrone practices and labor quality. The piece also weighs MacArthur’s New Guinea advances and press dynamics shaping war reporting.
London reports the proclamation reducing female national service draft age from 20 to 19. It grants single women born July 1 to December 31, 1922, a choice between war industry or uniform service, with broader implications for labor and military mobilization. Yale campus in New Haven hosts the Army Air Force Technical Command School, establishing a major cadet training center for aviation support and photo reconnaissance duties.
Five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo Iowa served in the U S Navy to avenge a friend from Pearl Harbor. They were shipmates by choice and were believed missing in action after the cruiser Juneau was sunk in the Solomon Islands campaign. The men were George T 29 Francis H 26 Joseph E 23 Madison A 22 and Albert L 30.
The Tolan committee presented a report to Congress accusing general maladministration and hap hazard handling in war production and manpower management. It contends failures to utilize small industry in the wartime effort after months of study of war output.
Bankhage notes a sign over John H. Lofland’s door urging ship repair officials to view idle inland vessels as a public harm. He cites Red River of the North as a river where ships do not sail, while new American-built ships promise faster fuel economy. The Red Cross designates the week of January 1824 as the Bowlers Victory Legion benefit period.
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