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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1943
Page
1
Continued warm weather dominates the day with the Tennessee River at 20.55 feet and a high of 73. Cotton prices posted at the local market: strict middling 21.40, middling 21.20, strict low 20.00, low 16.70. Local social updates include travels to Birmingham, vacation plans, and military postings.
China announced a major victory in six years of war with Japan as about 75 000 Chinese troops were pushed into retreat and encirclement. Allied air support aided advances toward Ichang and Changyang while Japanese losses mounted and airfields suffered mass bombing with returns of 31 enemy planes downed.
The Russo German line remains explosive as both sides prepare for a large offensive. Hitler weighs Mediterranean options and Allied landings while assessing risk of a Western Europe invasion and the impact on his 3,000,000 manpower on the Russian front.
Navy reports over 400 Japanese troops killed on Attu island during night operations as three U S Army columns join near Chichagof harbor. Officers say organized resistance broken with pockets cleared in barren hills. Air strikes on Kiska followed, starting fires at Gertrude Cove and runway area.
Unified American air strikes hit Pantelleria and Sardinia with heavy losses on the enemy side. Flying Fortresses damaged Foggia airfield and rail facilities while the May destruction tally reached 337 enemy aircraft in combat with Allied losses at 108. Maj. Gordon Sarre noted Foggia’s WWI training link to notable figures including Fiorello La Guardia and Walter Wanger.
Ernest Clemons aged 36 pleaded guilty to manufacture of whiskey and received a two year sentence. Probation was denied by Judge Harris.
Soviet midday communique reports German forces launched two counter attacks in the Lishchansk area of the Donets river front last night but were driven back to their initial positions with heavy losses. The report also notes artillery actions near Smolensk Rostov Sevsk and Kharkov with several dozen Germans killed and a battalion wiped out west of Dostov.
The Riverside auditorium hosted the closing exercises for the class of 1943. Diplomas were awarded to numerous graduates including Mary Blankenship Brad Bailey Louise Britton and many others. Honors included D A R Good Citizenship and American Legion distinctions with a $50 war bond Civitan Loving Cup awarded to Henry Goidel.
The House passed a pay as you go tax measure dissolving party lines in a four month fight. It would abate 75 to 100 percent of one year’s income taxes and route payments through the Senate to the White House. Installments on 1942 income due June 15, with credits to 1943, and quarterly payments for non wage income.
RAF fighter squadrons resumed attacks on the Nazi held channel coast as German fighters bombed southeast England killing four and injuring three. British medium bombers and Spitfires hit Zeebrugge Nieuport Abrugge Vlissingen Caen and Cherbourg in two sweeps over Northern France and the Low Countries.
National and regional price indexes show food costs rising 40 to 50 percent above 1935 39 levels. Atlanta Charleston Jacksonville Savannah Birmingham Knoxville and Mobile register increases with the South East index at 140.3 to 156.7 while the general cost of living sits at 124.1.
The Berlin radio reports Gen. Exio Rosi, chief of staff of the Italian Army, was relieved of his post and named commander of an army group in a Rome dispatch recorded by the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court today upheld the convictions of Louis Lepke Buchalter Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone for murder in the Rosen slaying and their death sentences at Sing Sing.
A Montreat New Jersey vote plans a vigorous protest with the Department, calling for an end to what is described as a hindrance to the good neighbor policy.
West Point General Henry Arnold told 514 cadets that Nazi morale is cracking under air bombardment as Allied air transport logs over 1 800 planes in May. He warned Axis forces remain dangerous while pledging relentless bombing to end the war and save lives. He criticized Japanese conduct as savage and uncivilized.
At the 42nd Alabama State Federation of Labor convention in Montgomery a floor fight emerged as supporters of the current administration clashed with those seeking new officers. Leo Carter of Mobile demanded an audit of funds used for legislative work, alleging questions about payrolls for organizers. Opponents of President Sam E Rover of Sheffield and Secretary W O Hare of Birmingham have held private sessions without naming candidates.
The United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis kept striking action and stayed away from government run pits amid ongoing contract talks. About 500,000 UMW members across 3,150 soft coal and 450 hard coal mines under federal control halted fuel flow to war plants, with some mines still producing under non union or independent operators.
Washington June 11. An extra coal mine walkout spreads across hard and soft coal fields. Roosevelt orders Ickes to operate the mines after failed talks between operators and John L. Lewis. A 500000 strong coal workforce is tied to the action. Parleys planned as government weighs next move.
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