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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
2
French unity accelerates plans for victory as Allied naval and air concentrations attack the Mediterranean. Chinese forces repulse the Japanese Yangtze offensive in renewed wartime activity.
Allied leaders back a French national liberation committee led by Generals De Gaulle and Giraud to direct France’s war effort with the Allies until victory. The seven to nine member panel includes Monnet Massigli Philip Catroux and others to move toward postwar government. Roosevelt’s mine strike order backs the War Labor Board after a 30 day truce ends.
The report discusses uncertainty over Argentina's stance toward the Axis amid censorship of early military moves. Observers weigh whether the government will maintain benevolent neutrality or shift South American policy, as the Conservative convention nears and endorses Senate President Robustiano Patron Costas tied to neutrality.
General Chiang Kai shek reports that in two weeks of fighting in the Yangtze valley Chinese forces halted the Japanese advance toward Chungking, inflicting more than 30,000 casualties and recapturing strategic positions around Ichang and Changyang. Allied raids against Pantelleria and Axis vessels show growing Mediterranean pressure.
The Senate approved a two year extension of Roosevelt’s reciprocal trade agreements program after defeating five amendments. The House had already voted yes. The extension runs until June 12, 1945, ensuring policy into the next administration.
After five months of wrangling the pay-as-you-go income tax bill sped through the senate following House passage. The plan creates a 20 percent payroll tax at source starting July 1 affecting about 40 million workers and projects about 16 billion dollars in revenue for the new fiscal year. The bill forgives 1942 taxes of 50 dollars and cuts the remainder by 75 percent over that amount. Meanwhile Allied air forces strike Japan’s Aleutians and Burma front including Attu and WeWak raids, with 44 nations backing a postwar world agricultural authority to be run by a permanent international body. Paul H. Appleby calls the conference highly successful.
Highlights report Treasury Secretary Morgenthau urged Americans to invest 25 cents of every income dollar in war bonds. Canada freezes all anthracite coal stocks per an order from coal controller J McG Stewart. Sherman Jenkins Jr and 11 other sons, ages 19 to 39, are drafted one by one from a Mississippi farm. Seventy two oil executives wore fatigues at Fort Belvoir to experience life with soldiers fighting a war powered by oil.
Soviet communique says about 500 German planes raided Kursk 120 miles north of Kharkov with 123 shot down to 30 Red losses. Germans cite Russian offensives in Kuban near Novorossiysk as part of a broader Caucasus to Arctic campaign shaping summer war outcomes.
The Office of Price Administration cites dwindling beef supplies as the reason for higher ration point values. Porterhouse sirloin and T bone cuts gain three points, roasts up two, and dried beef leads with a four point jump from 12 to 16. Shoppers are assured that declines in veal lamb mutton pork and variety meats will allow substitutions.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau announced the merger of the victory fund committee into a single war finance body. The new committee will coordinate all future war financing drives and operate on state lines with statesmen reporting directly to the Treasury.
Washington digest on the looming war horizon assesses the rival powers and their weapons. It cites 17 million enemy troops on both sides, the Japanese and German navies, and the continued threat from air and submarine forces while urging patient long term planning and postwar education reform for veterans.
Rag slippers made from scraps with color variety and complete with soles. Includes sizes small to large and illustration of stitches plus material list. Due to high demand and wartime conditions, order fulfillment may take longer for popular patterns.
Bankhage Foods are home canned if done in a kitchen used for meals or in a separate building with permission from the local ration board. Swedish Foreign Minister Christian Guenther said no neutral can balance camps and Sweden is making concessions to Germany more than to the western powers, per Hoerby radio via OWI.
A simple muffin recipe uses 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 1 2 teaspoons baking powder 0.44 cup milk and All-Bran to create sugar free muffins.
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