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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1943
Page
1
Wartime belt tightening reaches households as meat and allied product rationing begins. Red A stamp points limit pork beef lamb and mutton to 16 points per week, with meal planning strained by changes to processed food coupon values. Some dry fruits and juices see reduced costs, while beans and canned goods rise.
Allied forces under Montgomery shattered Rommel defenses along a 25 mile front in southern Tunisia. American, British, and French spearheads pushed toward Gabes as Mareth, Matmata, and Toujane fell after an aerial assault and ground assault. Rommel withdrew with thousands of prisoners as desert flanking columns reached El Hamma behind the front.
In Columbus Ohio March 29 public debate centers on repealing the $5 a day drainage inspection fees paid to county commissioners. The measure would also remove sewer and water project fees. Burge and Backus Republicans lead the bill backed by The American Majority. The issue comes as Senate leaders consider war plant and farm worker work release subsidies and a 48 hour work week cap remains stalled in Senate talks.
James A Farrell, 80, who rose from a $2.50 weekly steel wire mill job to lead United States Steel for 21 years, died at his Fifth Avenue home after two months of illness. A mass will be held at St Ignatius Loyola, with private interment.
Senator McKellar stated the executive payroll lists 27,684 employees earning 4500 or more yearly, with an estimated annual cost of 154,900,400 dollars. The entire executive branch employed 2,687,093 workers paid 5,341,630,224 dollars, meaning 1.03 percent earned over 4500 and received 2.096 percent of total salaries.
Canton Ohio March 29 Officials of the CIO United Steelworkers local at Timken Roller Bearing Gambrinus plant were suspended as I W Abel district director took charge. He said the move, ordered by international secretary treasurer David McDonald, follows a plant work stoppage over promotion of Black workers to machine jobs and that no member will be expelled. Union officials called the strike unauthorized and tied the promotions to a company union agreement.
Chicago officials announced the war bond drive to replace the sunken cruiser Chicago had likely surpassed the 40 million dollar target. Citizens contributed in a whirlwind effort, with daily million-dollar pushes signaling strong public support and confidence in meeting the goal.
New York March 29 Anchor Hocking Glass Corp reported today a 1942 profit of 1,672,820 dollars, equal to 1.96 dollars a share on common stock, compared with 1941 net of 1,144,374 dollars or 1.36 dollars a share.
AP reports March 29 that wartime rationing expands to meat and butter, with coupons required alongside money for purchases. Stores face shortages, while Chester C. Davis, new food administrator, meets Roosevelt and farm leaders amid labor, machinery constraints. Tax debate on Capitol Hill features Rumship and forand plans, with Senate recess noted.
Oakland dealer Jim Augistine asserts horse meat is here to stay selling about 500 pounds of horse hamburger daily with T bone steaks roasts and hamburger among top sellers. He notes Nevada paid a bounty on surplus range horses, and insists the animals were nuisances not pets.
Cleveland in late March reports an almost bare meat supply as rationing took effect today. The city faces shortages as government controls begin to limit meat availability. Local stores expect distribution changes and shoppers rush to stock up.
Sparring between U S and Japanese surface ships occurred in the north Pacific near the Aleutians. Tokyo claimed damage to two enemy cruisers and a destroyer from six days earlier, while a U S communiqué described a long range engagement six days ago where four Japanese heavy cruisers and four destroyers attacked two cargo ships but were repelled. In New Guinea, Japan also launched a 40 bomber raid on Oro Bay as UN forces reported.
The tally shows 639 Allied and neutral merchant ships announced sunk in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. Five cargo ships were lost last week, tallying March losses to twenty two, a figure four below the weekly average for 67 weeks of war.
General Montgomerys Eighth Army cracked the Mareth Line and trapped Rommel in Tunisia. American and British forces closed from the northwest while Patton seized Fondouk and helped push toward the coast. Montgomerys fast advance from the southern Mareth end aimed at Gabes, threatening Rommels coastal base and potentially sealing the trap.
A group of 15 high ranking Army and Navy officers from the Pacific war theaters met in Washington to review strategy approved at Casablanca. Officials said no decisions were disclosed and the officers will return to overseas stations soon. Representatives included Emmons, Spruance, Harmon, Kennedy, Kenney, Sutherland, Chamberlain, Ray, and others serving under Nimitz, MacArthur, and Halsey.
OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown praised most restaurants and public eating places for voluntarily trimming menus to fit wartime rationing. He noted the agency does not dictate allotments but warned large portions and steaks will be curtailed as OPA cuts meat purchases by 25 percent or more.
Walter S. Hallanan president of Plymouth Oil Company warned in his annual stockholders report that the nation would confront a serious oil shortage within two years unless national reserves are discovered and developed.
Rabbi Maurice L. Perlsweig, president of the British section of the World Jewish Congress, told a Baltimore meeting that Warsaw now lacks its Jewish population of about 500000, murdered on Hitler’s orders.
Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff aged 69 has died at his Beverly Hills home from pneumonia pleurisy and complications. A requiem mass was held at a Los Angeles Russian Orthodox church with another service planned. The Russian-born pianist became an American citizen on February 1 and was famed as a concert pianist and conductor, regarded second only to Paderewski.
Oakland radio station KLX says it was denied the right to broadcast Madame Chiang Kai shek's San Francisco speech on Saturday night and will seek FCC action and Congress review. Owner J P Knowland calls the issue a matter of free speech. NBC carried the address nationally.
Joseph Shannon a former Missouri political figure and ally of Tom Pendergast died yesterday in Kansas City at age 76. He suffered a heart ailment and pneumonia as the cause of death with the obituary noting his colorful career in state politics.
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