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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Allied drive in Sicily with Churchill pressing Italy toward surrender. MacArthur’s forces advance in New Guinea as the war unfolds and farmers win priority access to gas stocks. Editorial opinion reflects WNU analysts.
Allied forces press the Sicily campaign with Montgomery's 8th Army advancing on Catania and Patton's 7th Army near Vizzini as paratroopers drop behind lines. In Washington the Petroleum Administration for War orders priority fuel for farmers and opens a 300000 barrel daily West-to-East pipeline, while oil reserves worry persist.
The War Food Administration announced a 15 percent cut in civilian rations for canned vegetables soups fruits and juices for the coming year. Civilians will receive about 180 million of 262 million cases of vegetables and soups and 31 million of 61 million cases of fruits and juices. The rest goes to War Services, Allies, and exports.
Marketings of cattle ticked up despite Washington discussions on establishing ceilings to curb speculation and spur herd liquidation. Plans to adjust the hog support price to curb heavy feeders faced opposition from farm spokesmen and meat packers. Calves remain scarce while hog and sheep shipments bolster total meat availability.
Allied forces trap Japanese in Mubo New Guinea as Nassau Bay landings cut rear routes. MacArthur's offensive pushes from north and east enveloping Mubo while Americans near Munda on New Georgia. Japanese counterattack halted by US and Australian units in dense jungle operations.
Mexico resumes payments on 15 debt issues excluding railway bonds, with annual distributions of 2.05 million against a 1.2 billion dollar debt. Canada shows improved finances through redemption and prepayment on 106 million dollars of bonds. Last December Mexico's congress approved paying 40 million to settle U.S. claims except for expropriated oil property.
Highlights report that Navy doctors have created a serum aimed at preventing influenza with tests on white mice showing about nine tenths success.
President Roosevelt ordered Washington administrators to settle policy disputes privately or resign. He abolished the Board of Economic Warfare after Henry Wallace and Jesse Jones clashed, creating the Office of Economic Warfare directed by Leo T. Crowley. The move ends overlap in foreign material purchases by BEW and other agencies.
Deputy administrator Lou R. Maxon resigns from the Office of Price Administration as criticism erupts over policy. He warns a 50 percent staff cut could help, while Chester Bowles is named as future general manager. Brown defends OPA roll backs and policy amid calls for a fixed food program. Maxon also attacks proposed grade labeling that could erase brands.
Twenty of the nation’s largest banks held about 18 billion dollars in government securities on June 30, up 7 billion from the prior year. Their total deposits reached 31 billion, up six billion, with total resources at 33.7 billion dollars.
In Britain a lengthy postwar debate focused on American sea power and neutral colonies. Emanuel Shinwell warned the United States would have a merchant fleet of 30 million tons versus Britain's 9 million tons and urged an Anglo American board to regulate shipping after the war.
Hollywood gossip notes Sergeant Elmer Taylor sends Jesse Powell stripes and a Purple Heart replica. Joan Crawford’s career is surveyed with Bette Davis as rival. Danny Kaye to tour British Isles and Africa. Susan Hayward lined up for roles with Loretta Young and Jack London biopic. George Reeves famed nose linked to So Proudly We Hail and boxing past. Ralph Willever cast as sailor post rescues from torpedoed ship.
Lionel Barrymore marks 18th year at MGM and will star in Three Men in White his 63rd Metro film. The piece recalls Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Miller era notes as Seymour Felix mentored dancers in Cover Girl and earlier.
Phil Baker returns to New York from California asking about the war status with the Nazis while joking about the war with the Japs. Donald Woods gains favorable notices for new work and fan letters flood Alan Ladd after his service. Ginny Simms tours desert army camps amid a flood of fan mail from soldiers.
Washington columnist argues food production and price rolls back will shape the 1944 election. He cites Governor Black of the Farm Credit Administration on credit programs, regional financing, and shared risk to boost crops like flax and dry beans, noting political pressures on agriculture and the need for unified effort.
Briefs note that monthly fire destruction totals exceed one million dollars in schools. The 1942 medical school admissions show a peak for women, rising 25 percent from 1941 with 810 applicants. Hog numbers threaten feed supply, while a six-member dermatology chemist team reports success tracing and preventing skin disease outbreaks in over 50 arsenals and war plants, per U S Public Health Service officials.
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