29 Jul 1943
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
1
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Churchill seeks Italy’s surrender amid Allied pressure in Sicily. MacArthur’s forces press gains in New Guinea as operations expand. Farmers receive initial access to gas stocks as wartime controls and economic measures influence supply.
Allied forces press toward Catania as Montgomery's 8th Army advances to the plains surrounding the city while Patton's 7th Army drives toward Vizzini. Paratroopers drop behind Axis lines near the port as the West braces for fuel shortages and a massive crude pipeline opens from Norris Indiana.
Allied forces encircle and overrun Mubo as Australian and American troops converge from Nassau Bay and inland. Simultaneously, MacArthur’s offensive nears Munda on New Georgia, with doughboys advancing through jungle while repelling a counterattack. In Washington, War Food Administration says civilian canned goods will fall 15 percent for 12 months with specific share quotas for vegetables soups fruits and juices.
Mexico resumes payments on 15 issues of debt excluding rail bonds and certain per cents with annual distributions around 2.05 million dollars. total Mexican debt about 1.3 billion dollars including back interest. Canada shows improved finances with redemptions and prior payments on 106 million dollars of bonds.
Highlights of the week cover a Navy serum to prevent influenza, tested on white mice with about 90 percent success. The Journal of the American Medical Association notes germ warfare as impractical offense. The first of 100 tugboats sets sail from Boston to pick up loads. Feeders and grain merchants bid for 218 million bushels of Anel wheat allotment.
President Roosevelt demanded quiet resolution of policy conflicts and dissolved the Board of Economic Warfare after Henry Wallace accused Jesse Jones of interference. The BEW was abolished and the Office of Economic Warfare created with Leo T. Crowley named director. Wallace and Jones were relieved of supervision in foreign materials purchases. Reconstruction Finance corporation funds the program.
OPA deputy administrator Lou R. Maxon resigns amid criticism of food policy and grade labeling plans. Brown defends policy of roll backs to 1942 levels while Maxon condemns alleged academics behind the labeling scheme. Cattle, hog futures rise as proposed livestock ceilings draw opposition from farm spokesmen and packers.
A Londoner in New York describes wartime visa forms and FBI scrutiny as symbols of a divided era. He notes New York’s politeness, high prices, and peacetime charm, contrasts with London and Paris, and laments separation of peoples while pondering postwar citizenship and shared futures. He spots celebrities, reflects on uniforms, and muses on war’s emotional toll and loneliness for soldiers.
A sketched revue of radio jingles and musical bits proposes replacing plain news with catchy tunes. It cites Gabriel Heatter Edwin Hill and others, riffs on Roosevelt and F D R, and references wartime info ads and a playful push for more musical information segments.
Twenty leading banks announced they held about 18 billion dollars in government securities on June 30, up 7 billion from last year. Their total deposits reached 31 billion, up six billion from 1942, with overall resources totaling 93.7 billion dollars.
In Great Britain a lengthy discussion centered on postwar seapower and neutral colonies. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell warned that the United States would likely command a merchant fleet of about 50 million tons after the war, influencing Britain's shipping regulations in the postwar era.
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