25 Feb 1943
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1943
Page
1
The essay compares rationing of canned foods to frontier self reliance, noting how canning reshaped daily life and housing. It critiques advertising, mass buying, and price pressures, arguing canned goods became a convenience that altered habit and economy while acknowledging limits of living wholly on canned foods. The piece reflects on culture, industry, and consumer choices in a changing era.
Soviet forces press along the front as clear skies allow increased air activity. Fierce counterattacks flare in the Donets basin near Rostov while the Red Army gains ground west of Kharkov and takes additional towns in the Dnieper corridor.
Washington on February 25 The manpower chief Paul V Y McNutt faces a congressional clash over funding for his job placement program as lawmakers refuse to authorize the full 2 454 000 proposed budget to expand the United States Employment Service. The issue centers on reshaping and extending authority for wartime labor mobilization within a ten week deadline.
Three Republican senators assailed the nomination of former Senator Schwartz of Wyoming to the national mediation board as a bid for New Deal loyalty. Robertson of Wyoming said he would oppose the appointment on the Senate floor calling Schwartz a self confessed rubber stamp for President Roosevelt. Wheeler of Montana defended the nomination as a payoff for six years of service on the Senate interstate commerce committee.
Allied forces under Field Marshal Wavell attacked a Japanese occupied village below Akyab in Burma. Troops landed from Royal Indian Navy vessels, stayed about five hours, burned buildings and destroyed a 100-foot river steamer with slight enemy opposition and no British casualties.
Joseph Stalin replied to Wladyslaw Sikorski congratulating him on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army's founding. He said the peoples of the Soviet Union and Poland would soon drive the Hitlerites from their territories, signaling a coming expulsion.
Washington reports a captured Japanese Zero fighter salvaged from the Aleutians is under detailed tests at Annowetia naval air station. The light, agile craft carries two machine guns and a 22 mm cannon, with a pilot facing a no-win battle and a crew killed in action.
Moscow reports a Soviet information bureau statement denounces German figures claiming 18200,000 Russian losses in 20 months of war as brazen fabrications. It cites Stalin’s February 23 order and asserts Soviet victories since Stalingrad contradict such claims.
Washington reports say Finland again appears close to ending its war with Russia as rumors spread of peace terms and Finnish withdrawal from Germany. Eyeing Stockholm dispatches in 1939 and 1940, observers note renewed talk of settlements and Finland’s claimed withdrawal from active hostilities.
In Guadalcanal on February 19 a report by Colonel George F. Ferry states three Japanese women, likely nurses, were found dead in the jungle. The find marks the first direct proof of Japanese women on the island during six months of fighting, with deaths due to malaria rather than bullets.
In Parliament Sir James Grigg, wartime secretary, hinted a mass Allied attack is near as he unveiled a new army appropriation bill. He praised Canadian troops for readiness and noted lessons from Middle East air support will be applied to future offensives.
Colonel C L Caphton led a formal inspection of the ROTC battalion at Northeast Junior College in Monroe. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick L Pond received praise for training as Major General C B Hodges of Louisiana State University canceled attendance due to family illness. A buffet luncheon hosted by Dean and Mrs. Calvert followed near the football stadium.
At Bay Meadows race track in San Mateo California a training plane spiraled over the facility then dived and crashed outside the track enclosure. About 3 500 spectators watched as the plane burned two bodies were recovered from the wreckage and were to be identified after notification of the next of kin.
Washington officials weigh how to handle meat shortages and waste as rationing nears. The Office of Price Administration faces black market pressure and argues over shrinkage and bone weighing. Proposals include price based rationing akin to England, regional coupon variations, change coupons, and a sliding scale to reward precise cuts.
Secretary of War Stimson said American troops in Tunisia are well trained and fought Rommel’s forces, dismissing the idea of green troops. He noted no quick victory and cited heavy materiel losses despite lighter infantry casualties. The remarks accompanied a House naval committee approval of a $1 billion shipping expansion and efforts to speed tire and gasoline rationing requests.
New York Feb 25 Julius Klorfein cigar maker and Garcia Grande Cigars Inc president won Comedian Jack Benny’s Love in Bloom violin at a war bond rally in Gimbel Brothers department store pledging 1,000,000 dollars in bonds Reporters note his remark about not being a violinist if he could not buy such bonds His wife added 175,000 in bonds and others like Billy Rose pledged sizable amounts for bonds and a Jefferson relic item was also mentioned.
RAF bombers attacked Wilhelmshaven and targets in western Germany last night without loss of aircraft. The raid followed several attacks this month, with the German high command reporting nuisance flights over southern Germany and bombs dropped in northwestern and western regions.
Salt Lake City Feb 25 The army postponed authorization for troops to pick Arizona long staple cotton, likely reducing about 7500 bales of war fiber. Arizona Farm Bureau officials said War Manpower sources knew nothing of the order. The War Department offered no comment beyond a terse note that the movement has been postponed. About 15000 acres of Arizona cotton fields are deteriorating for lack of pickers.
Allied forces under General Sir Harold Alexander launch a three pronged counteroffensive in central Tunisia. British, American, and French units drive into Kasserine Pass while air power targets Rommel’s lines, leaving Italian infantry as retreating rearguards and prisoners.
Federal narcotics agent testified that Ursula Parrott and Michael Neely Bryan helped obtain information leading to marijuana arrests. A. L. Raithel described Parrott's visit to the stockade on December 24 and Bryan's role as a concealed participant in the escape bid. Bryan faced desertion charges and imperial guard oversight.
Mrs Margarete Asebeck Murray a former secretary at the German embassy in New Orleans had her U S citizenship revoked by District Judge T C Trimble. The justice department said she took the oath with a mental reservation of loyalty to Germany and concealed facts in her application. Murray admitted omitting facts but claimed strong loyalty to the United States.
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