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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
2
Allied generalship planes and guns cited as decisive in the Tunisia windup while the Nazi hold in the Caucasus persists. The survey notes farm prospects improve and Davis comments on the Red Drive perils.
Allied forces close in on Tunis as American artillery bombards Bizerte while the British First Army advances toward the capital. capture of lake defenses and hill forts disrupts Axis positions. Elmer Davis predicts allied operations on continental Europe this summer as Devers succeeds Andrews as U S European commander.
Congress moves to strengthen government control over strikes in war plants and mines. The Senate passes an amended bill giving the government power to seize struck facilities and criminalizing strike inducement in war industries. The War Labor Board gains authority to settle disputes, with penalties up to a year in jail or a $5,000 fine.
Russian troops seized Krymskaya and other towns northeast of Novorossisk cutting the key railroad to Protoka and threatening the port. The advance killed about 10 000 German troops as Axis reserves regrouped. Soviet naval presence in the Black Sea, led by the Paris Commune, looms for potential action against evacuees.
Chester C. Davis reports improved farm labor and supply prospects for 1943. He notes labor available to harvest the crop and says machinery and parts production will rise from 23 percent to 40 percent of 1940 levels and 160 percent of 1940-41 averages.
The Soviet foreign office leveled charges that Polish government-in-exile officers spied on Russia and barred use of Russian trained Polish troops on the Soviet front. It notes Moscow’s push for a strong independent Poland and possible postwar alliance against Germany.
Maj. Gen. Hershey said nationwide induction of fathers into the armed forces could start by August or sooner. New instructions allow deferments for fathers in 35 essential industries to keep homes with children under 18 intact while less essential workers are drafted. In Pacific actions American bombers hit Kiska, Hainan, Toungoo, and other targets as heavy bombers pound Japanese positions.
The United States reports that 7 billion dollars of enemy assets are under control of the alien property custodian. Over 2000 companies with Nazi influence are Americanized and aiding war production. The treasury licenses many firms and 41 thousand patents owned by enemy nationals are controlled.
The House completed action on a bill raising pay for federal employees earning under 10,000 dollars a year. It provides a flat 300 dollar yearly increase for workers in lower salary brackets in executive departments, following a previous 21.6 percent raise tied to a longer 48 hour work week.
The Air Corps absorbs Civil Air Patrol units and Civilian Pilot Training trainees to cut red tape and boost war readiness. Volunteers in the Civil Defense air warning network, mainly women, coordinate plane spotter reports, track activity, and issue alerts along the coast.
In Los Angeles lemon product plants run around the clock as government orders for lemon pectin, a byproduct, are approved for use as a blood plasma replacement to treat shock and conserve plasma for transfusion. Chicago reports urge turning farm pastures into fueling forage stations to improve cattle feeding and reduce gymnasium use.
A Berliner asks for the shortest joke and the reply is We will win. War Ration Book No 3 will replace pro stamps in existing books and be mailed to over 120 million people by late June. A diner asks for another coffee the waitress says not here. He uses a cigarette case envelope to add sugar and coffee legally, a lot of trouble but deemed permissible.
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