22 Sep 1943
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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1943
Page
1
Soviet and German fronts reported heavy combat along the Dnieper with the Red Army pushing to breach German lines. Chernigov fell, Kiev and Gomel were threatened, and German losses mounted as 7,000 troops were killed and 80 tanks destroyed in the latest clashes.
Comptroller John C. Penne reports three former state workers kept poultry at the State Fair Grounds without fair board authorization. Embezzlement charges involve building materials and livestock, with a large feed cost gap. The report urges restricting privately owned livestock at the fair and tighter voucher practices.
Bernard M. Baruch told Senate and House committees that the armed forces must receive complete support to prosecute the war. He quoted Gen. George C. Marshall demanding a specified force and urged immediate action to back the Army chief of staff with no retrenchment.
A Senate group led by Senator Pepper urged action to raise milk price ceilings to aid distressed producers and avert shortages. Fred Vinson was invited to discuss revisions, while proposals from War Food Administrator Marvin Jones faced skepticism. Some support a targeted subsidy to producers in high price areas.
Italy expands Salerno bridgehead to over twenty miles deep and seizes three mountain towns. Corsica bombed to thwart German retreat. Bastia harbored burning ships. Greece attacked near Athens. Crete bombed. Russia reports 3000 towns captured and 7000 Germans killed as Dnieper front nears Smolensk. Churchill hints at Balkans invasion. Western Europe invasion forecast for spring. Allied daylight raids attack Germany. Axis bombers hit the British coast. Japanese territory attacked by air from Shanghai to Lac, with reported advances.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Boston smiling and waving to a large crowd. They came to visit Duchess aunt Bessie and Mrs. D. Buchanan, amid a chaotic accident scene briefly noted in dispatches.
Stockholder members of the Huron and Hllat National Farm Loan Associations will gather Thursday to review the board of directors approval of consolidation. A. M. Haskell secretary treasurer will announce the plan and discuss restoration of stock, the four-state service by the Omaha Land Bank, and other matters.
Treasury reveals a plan to increase individual income taxes to raise at least 8 billion dollars of the 12 billion dollar postwar revenue target. It would hike the withholding from 20 to about 30 percent, apply a 50 percent postwar refund, and integrate the three percent net victory tax with a 13 percent first bracket surtax within a 32 percent total. An alternative option would boost social security taxes if Roosevelt rejects the plan.
A naval intelligence officer joins a county inquiry into the death of a man who fell from a high flying airplane near Selinsgrove Pennsylvania. The plane fled westward, leaving no clues about the identity or origin. Two service tags were found on the body, one for a naval officer and one for a coast guardsman, but officials offered few details.
Two large formations of Allied planes ropted out over the Strait of Dover to attack objectives on the continent in a continuation of offensive operations. Enemy bombers dropped a few bombs over East Anglia and southeast England last night causing damage and casualties, but not on a large scale. Two enemy planes were destroyed over Britain during the night, the Ministry of Home Security announced.
Stockholm reports from Denmark state two German soldiers were killed last weekend in a clash with Danish forces. The dispatch notes German casualties as part of ongoing tensions and Nazi conduct in the region.
Allied dispatches report huge fires and demolitions in Naples as German forces rush to form a defense ring around the city. Fifth Army advances bring American troops to Campagna and Montecorvina-Roveia while British forces push Germans from San Cipriano. Montgomery's Eighth Army seizes Potenza, strengthening inland control south of Salerno in a major Adriatic-Southern Italy operation.
Don Whiteread aboard a United States ship reports German use of a radio controlled aerial torpedo against Allied forces in the Gulf of Salerno. Churchill disclosed the development of a rocket assisted glider that drops bombs from altitude and is guided by a parent aircraft. Observers saw a winged object resemble a plane approaching a boat and then releasing a guided projectile.
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports American commandos aiding French forces as they push Germans toward Corsica's northeast corner. The communiqué claims over 1,000 German dead and hundreds captured, with Germans withdrawing from Bonifacio Porto Vecchio as other fronts stiffen around Naples.
Bergen County grand jury ruled the drowning of 10 month old Robert R. Holman III accidental and freed his 16 year old mother Arlene Halman of manslaughter. Prosecutor John Breslin Sr had charged Mrs. Holman, wife of an army lieutenant, after the infant drowned in a bathtub on August 31.
British Prime Minister Churchill stressed the significance of a Stalin Churchill parley. He warned that without a close lasting alliance among the Soviet Union and the Allies, the war could end with deeper coldness and distrust between the powers.
The Associated Press reports that Gen George C Marshall was named as supreme Allied commander and would lead a world wide force. Expected soon by Roosevelt and Churchill, the move signals an imminent Western Europe invasion and a swift destruction of Nazi Germany.
London reports a Japanese government plan to relocate government departments industrial plants and civilians from Tokyo and other cities to bolster defense. Measures include oral mobilization of civilians and abolishing age limits to compel national service, announced by Premier Hideki Tojo and the government information office as the war enters a decisive phase.
Geddes South Dakota seeks WPB help to restore water pumping station and fire department after a Monday night fire disrupted the town’s water system. Regional WPB official T L Lambert received notices that health was threatened by lack of water as priorities focus on three motors three pumps and seven hundred feet of hose.
Secretary of state discloses in Commons that 789 enemy planes were shot down over Britain by anti aircraft batteries between Sept 3, 1939, and July 31, 1940. London reports the total as part of wartime air defense data.
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