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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1943
Page
2
The column surveys wartime policy with FDR proposing a 65 induction limit to curb strikes and ease rationing. It notes Allied decisions in the Mediterranean and the uncertain balance against the Axis, labeling the situation a guessing game shaping military options.
Coal rationing loomed as Harold L. Ickes doubted recovery from three strikes in two months while he prepared to supervise mine operations. Roosevelt threatened draft authority up to age 65 for noncombatants and warned fines for future strikes. Debates over transferring food rationing and pricing to War Food Administrator Chester Davis grew despite opposition. Weather and crop improvements in the Midwest eased war-front tensions as grain, livestock, and dairy prospects improved.
Allied bombing of Salonika strikes and Italy evacuates Castelrosso as strategists eye a broader push via Egypt and the Balkans. RAF and US forces intensify raids on Italy and satellites while German authorities publicize air raid damage and mass evacuations in the Ruhr.
Liberator bombers flew 2000 miles from Australia to Celebes Macassar where Allied airmen dropped 28 tons of bombs on shipping targets and a Japanese cruiser and merchant vessel. It was the first retaliation in the Celebes since Japan seized Macassar in 1942.
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. warned that the United States will face a prolonged postwar period with pent-up consumer demand. He urged the government to publish peacetime policy to help industry plan and build profitable reserves tax free. Fred M. Vinson rejected an eight cent hourly wage rise for 1,100,000 non-operating railway workers as inflation containment. Some progress toward a compromise appeared possible, with Roosevelt showing support for time and a half overtime for those above 40 hours. Nonoperating rail workers across 15 Class I railways would be affected.
The piece analyzes Nazi propaganda shifts from Fortress Europa to mobile defense as Allied air raids intensify. It estimates German air strength at four to five thousand planes across five Luftflotte under Keller, Pessiering, Sperle, Richthofen, and Stumpf, noting thin dispersion risks for a potential invasion. It notes Luftwaffe remains potent, foresees America’s air war impact, and includes humorous Washington anecdotes.
DeWitt Emery president of the National Association of Small Businessmen urged Congress and the House Naval Committee to allow war contract plants to set aside tax free reserves to ease peacetime production return. He proposed a 3 percent reserve on sales up to 1 million dollars and a reduction to half a percent above that threshold.
The week’s news notes a compulsory labor transfer for youths aged 16 to 18. Officials report coal strikes reduced U S coal by over 20 million tons. The flood control panel approves 10 million dollars for disaster repairs. Rudy Vallee, now a coast guard band leader, is promoted to lieutenant senior grade in an official announcement.
War dispatches describe light clashes across Orel Smolensk Belgorod Staraya Russa and Leningrad sectors with Russian artillery striking an enemy battalion headquarters near Sevesk in Kursk salient. No large scale offensives are reported as German air power shifts to western Europe.
Allied air forces maintain heavy bombing of Japan despite monsoon delays in Burma. American fliers backed by Chiang Kai-shek struck two major Japanese centers near Tung Tink Lake and damaged Yangtze shipping. Liberator bombers from India hit Monywa on the Chindwin River, wrecking warehouses tracks and roads. Governors conference shifts to domestic issues urging corn and feed releases and condemning wartime strikes amid state rights concerns.
The R and S Pickle Works of Boston Mass converts to war work within 72 hours. Its vats are filled with a preservative acid for incendiary bombs under Chemical Warfare Service Army Service Forces. Production runs well ahead of schedule.
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