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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1943
Page
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Ernie Pyle notes Tunisian front reporters once wrote from cars and bleak hotels. The army Public Relations Office now runs a courier service, provides jeeps and a small setup for meals and rest, aiming to move with advancing troops like a circus as coverage improves.
Vast flood rushes through broken dikes around Omaha forcing evacuations near Carter Lake. US Army engineers say stopping the Omaha dike failure is not feasible while radar shows crest at 22.5 feet and rising fears of 25 feet later today. Red Cross aids evacuations as hundreds flee and airport staff report several feet of water covering two thirds of the field.
War Manpower Chair Paul V. McNutt signals end of 1943 bringing most able bodied fathers under 38 into the armed forces. Rep May of Kentucky urges quick Senate action on limits and reviews manpower plans if the draft continues as before. New regulations abolish class 3B for fathers in essential work and create a hardship 3D group while ending dependency deferments for childless married men.
London reports Churchill defending Britain's holding action against U-boats in the Atlantic amid rising ships losses cited by Knox. Soviet aviation pounds German supply lines in Kuban and Volkhov fronts as heavy shelling and air battles continue near Rostov, Kursk, and Smolensk.
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on April 13 the trial date for five Mississippi citizens charged in a federal case connected to the lynching of Howard Wash at Laurel was set for April 19. Defendants Luther Holder Nathaniel Shotts Allen oe M Barney Jones and William Oscar Johnson appeared arraigned with a possible constitutional issue raised over counts in the indictment.
The liberated city of Sfax greeted the British Eighth Army with a triumphant parade on April 10. Crowds strewn with flowers cheered armored units while French Greeks Maltese and Jews embraced the troops. Flags fluttered along the route as air raids had driven 50 000 residents to suburbia.
Baton Rouge April 13. Martin Close head of the state finance department hailed the supreme court ruling upholding the 1942 act recreating the department as good news. He said most of his work is finished and the decision may allow him to go home soon. Other officials were jubilant at the decision.
Washington marked the 200th birthday of Thomas Jefferson with a white marble memorial in the tidal basin area. President Roosevelt planned a brief address. officials and 150 descendants attended a noon ceremony at the shrine. A 19 foot statue was unveiled by Jefferson’s youngest living descendant. The memorial, a $3 million circular structure with a grand dome and Ionic columns, echoes architecture Jefferson admired in Monticello and Charlottesville’s university rotunda.
Allied and Japanese forces traded air and sea blows around the Solomon Islands and Kiska in April, with raids on Munda and Kiska showing direct hits and fires. Navy Secretary Knox questioned Blamey’s 200,000-troop north Australia buildup and said Japan’s exact strength and intentions were unclear.
Federal district court closed after Judge Dawkins sentenced Frank Kent McLeland to three years in federal penitentiary for making false statements on his selective service questionnaire. Evidence showed he not living with family or contributing to support. Mrs McLeland received welfare aid.
Officials at the Roosevelt base announced the dead from the Navy plane crash near Plain Dealing Louisiana. The pilots were Lieutenant Jones Seaborn Tinsley of Wharton Texas and Willian Alex Shannon first class aviation radioman of Victoria Texas. Tinsley, 37, survived by widow Grayce Marie and daughter Dixie Lee Shannon, while Shannon left a widow Mrs. W. A. Shannon.
Washington reports say Congress pressed for dollars and cents data on U S world trade as hearings on tariff agreements resumed. A compromise to win Republican minority support circulated, with talk of renewing presidential authority for three years while Congress retains power to veto objectionable pacts by majority vote.
New York police identified the woman who died after plunging from her hotel suite as Nancy Traynor Sowder 29 daughter of the late Melvin Traylor Chicago banker and wife of Robert Sowder of Madison Kansas. The body was found on a three story extension roof housing the hotel ballroom after her husband claimed he left the living room while she slept. Her marriages included Nathan B Swift and Marcy T Weeks. Invest igation continues.
Allied forces close in on Rommel and Von Arnim as Axis troops retreat to a mountain siege line guarding Tunis and Bizerte. Eisenhower and Montgomery vow to annihilate the last Axis garrison, while Allied air supremacy hinders Axis supply runs across the Sicilian Channel.
The House Appropriations Committee proposed abolishing the Farm Security Administration and ending crop insurance and parity payments for 1943 and 1944 as part of a $707,040,844 Agriculture Department bill. It calls for transferring FSA functions to the Farm Credit Administration, which would receive about $12,000,000 for rural rehabilitation and related duties.
Washington April 13 Republicans pressed blockbusting moves to force a new House vote on the pay as you go tax bill and the Rumpian plan to skip a year’s income tax. GOP Leader Martin of Massachusetts urged discharging the bill to the floor after rebuffing Speaker Rayburn’s proposal for bipartisan support of a 2 percent withholding levy. Democrats and Republicans would need 218 signatures to force a floor vote. the skip a year plan failed 215 to 198 two weeks earlier amid solid Democratic opposition.
Allied forces tightened the Tunisian front April 13 advancing north of Sousse and Kairouan and along the Medjez El Bab sector. The Eighth Army entered Enfidaville, near 50 miles from Tunis, while Rommel withdrew toward Tunis Bizerte defenses with about 210,000 men remaining.
Japanese forces boost island airfields on Kiska and Attu amid heavy bombings and naval action. A half mile runway on Kiska may be ready for fighter planes before Easter, while Attu develops a long bomber field with hundreds of fox holes and clustered buildings nearby.
A terse wartime plea urges turning a vacant room into bandages through War Stamps. The note, signed by a News-Star reader, asks readers to contact at 4800 to enlist and support medical supplies for troops.
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