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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
1
Editor notes from Western Newspaper Union analysts forecast Mediterranean victories paving a broader Allied drive against the Axis. Calls for increased essential production through simplification of consumer items to support war effort.
Allied shipping massed in the Sicilian straits as invasion preparations loom on the axis held underbelly of Europe. Luftwaffe fighters clash with Allied air units over Sardinia and Sicily while Catania and Gerbini report air attacks. Axis reports clash near North Africa with convoys under fire and invasion barges at Bizerta. Strong air forces target Aegean shipping as Nazis fortify routes to Greece.
The government orders simplification of over 1000 manufactured items to conserve materials. Restrictions affect babies cribs coffins and kitchen utensils while reducing wood furniture styles tool types and electric bulb varieties. Clothing for women and children's sportswear also simplified.
Allied air raids battered Bremen Atlas shipyards and other German targets. U S raids on Kiel observed as Nazi fighters defended. British four engine bombers hit Duesseldorf and Bochum causing mass destruction and fires. German claims cited 46 planes down, while a London suburb was lightly bombed.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously recommended a 35 word resolution endorsing U S participation in postwar peace efforts. It called for appropriate international machinery with power to establish and maintain a just lasting peace. The measure, introduced by Rep J W Fulbright, Ark, passed after removing a call for an international police force.
A bipartisan group urged a single nationwide food czar to coordinate production distribution preservation rationing and pricing. President Roosevelt reportedly considered a subsidy of 134 to 2 billion dollars to roll back food prices amid flood and drought damage. The War Food Administration warned meat slaughter and dairy output lagged behind expectations.
War Manpower Commission led by Paul V. McNutt announced a new draft policy to place fathers into uniform by year end. Employers with replacement lists were told to prepare for replacing married men with children after October 1 and to release childless married men within six months after July 1. Draft Director Hershey projected 10,800,000 in uniform by year end and 115,000 inductions per month in early 1944.
Softwood: half a billion board feet to aid farm repairs via War Production Board. Tobacco: export demand could limit domestic sales prompting a government industry discussion. Shipping: June losses down from May, the smallest since Pearl Harbor. Army: about 21 million soldiers to be maintained for some time after the war, per House subcommittee statements.
Conflicting reports from the Russian front show no major advances in the Orel center while German sources note continued Russian offensives in the Caucasus. American planes aid Russian raids on German rear areas as oil supply concerns grow and Ickes warns of rising crude shortages due to labor and transport limits, predicting stricter fuel oil rationing next winter.
A wartime analysis argues Japan has already won the war in the Pacific aside from Midway, and seeks time to consolidate its empire. It warns America to mobilize all forces, keep China in the fight, and target Japan’s coastal industrial hubs vulnerable to air attack. The piece details Japan’s dispersal of industry, seized territories, and resource extraction across Asia, including chrome, tin, rubber, oil, coal, and iron ore from the Philippines, Malaya, Sumatra, and Shansi among others.
The Commodity Credit Corporation plans to call loans on 57 million bushels of 1942 corn, allowing farmers 30 days to liquidate. The move aligns with a War Food Administration decision not to requisition the corn, while also maintaining existing redeeming of 1938 to 1941 crops. Meat price rollbacks under Roosevelt’s hold-the-line order, subsidies to slaughterers, and OPA ceilings target store classes to curb costs. federally inspected slaughterers ordered to reserve 45 percent of steer and beef production for the Army.
In 1941 Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn offered to spy for the Japanese at Honolulu. He confessed to aiding intelligence on U S defense and devised signals to transmit fleet positions via a dormer window near Pearl Harbor. FBI testimony highlights Kuehn’s central role as the probe unfolds. a 1939 beauty parlor venture and 1940 Japan trip are noted. He was sentenced to death, then commuted to fifty years hard labor.
The U S Supreme Court reverses a prior ruling by a 6 to 3 vote and holds that public schools may not require students to salute the flag. The majority says compulsory conformity forces adherence to an orthodoxy in opinion and violates individual freedom.
Churchill told a closed session that a U S delegation to the peace conference should be strictly bi partisan with half Democrats and half Republicans to improve chances for congressional approval. He suggested the idea while noting his reluctance to interfere but offered the strategic plan.
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