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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1943
Page
1
The column denounces poll taxes as a weapon against unions and workers. It argues delinquent dues penalize ability to work and vote, pushing individuals to obscure employment and endure financial starvation as a cruel consequence of withholding ballots.
Allied forces report victory at the Volturno following a sweeping advance by the Fifth Army across the river. American troops seized five villages on the eastern sector while British units crossed all river bridges. Montgomery’s Eighth Army took Santo Stefano and Monteficone as he pressed the Adriatic flank, with air forces targeting rail yards and airfields across the front.
The article reports on Erez challenging the filings of candidates for a Louisiana primary. Governor Jones faces questions over the legality of mailing papers to Perez while armed factions and a state guard dispute the validity of the filing deadline.
In the South Pacific, a lone Marine fighter pilot, Lt. J. F. Bolt, destroyed a 50-foot barge and damaged a tug during a dawn strike by United States Liberators. Bolt, escorting the bombers under overcast, then attacked enemy craft at Tondo and Tonoi, earning high praise as a "one-man battle" defender.
A housemaid testified that she prepared Sir Harry Oakes for bed and left a spray gun with insecticide in his bedroom at Westbourne estate. The liquid was used in a failed attempt to burn the bed and body after Oakes was beaten to death. Harold G. Christie was a guest who slept at Westbourne and found the body next morning.
An unidentified floatplane, likely Japanese, approached Barbers Point on Oahu early Sunday but fled to sea when spotted by searchlights. The navy said the craft, probably launched from a submarine, turned away after diving. Last enemy sighting over Oahu was March 1942 with harmless bombs.
The U S Navy reports whittling 148 Japanese vessels in a new submarine campaign, raising total ships sunk or damaged since Pearl Harbor to 460. Navy Secretary Knox lists 98 sinkings and 45 torpedoings, with three carriers, ten cruisers and three destroyers among ships lost.
A first bomber command report recounts three air battles over the Atlantic. Navy and army air forces engaged two Nazi Focke Wulf bombers and damaged a Liberator crew, including Captain H D Maxwell of Pink Hill NC, with survivors rescued by convoy ships.
About 14 000 of Alabama's 22 800 union coal miners stayed off the job as efforts to end the six day stoppage continued. A vanguard of 3 500 miners had already returned with more pledged to follow, as furnaces and iron producers faced output losses. John L. Lewis urged a return to work.
London Oct 19 Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts foresees a grand assault on Adolf Hitler's central fortress of Europe next year. He said American troops may play the decisive part in the final moves, stressing the U S role as strategic reserve in the west and possible leadership in postwar peace and rebuilding.
Denver. Governor John C. Vivian says he will do as he pleases with a hog received from Nebraska Governor Dwight Griswold as payment for a war bond bet. He may eat it, and he noted no ration points have been set by the Office of Price Administration.
Washington October 19 Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee reject any new federal taxes on individual or corporate incomes and call for government economy. They declare the administration's 19.5 billion tax program dead and warn tax hikes could undermine the economy and the war effort.
Editors and publishers across small daily and weekly papers urge government funding for war bond advertising. Albert S Hardy of Gaiesville Ga testifies to the Senate Banking Committee in support of a bill authorizing up to 30 million dollars annually, noting a 4 percent favored result in a association survey.
Shreveport Louisiana October 19 teachers resigning due to low salaries Roscoe White superintendent notes vacancies hard to fill Catillo parish teachers among the best paid in the state
German forces funnel reinforcements toward Melitopol as Soviet offensives push from the east and north. Red Army spearheads win the maze of defenses, capture war materials, and advance toward a junction with Tolbukhin. Berlin acknowledges ground loss while Moscow reports 23 towns liberated and heavy German casualties.
A wire to the Chamber of Commerce says Louisiana parishes in summer drought areas will get a 50 cent subsidy per hundred pounds of milk delivered from October 1, with remaining parishes receiving 4 cents. Butter fat subsidies of six cents per pound for the cent subsidy group and five cents for the 40 cent classification are also noted. Parishes listed include Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, De Soto, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Red River, Richland, Sabine, Tensas, Webster, West Carroll and Iberia. Payments come via the War Food Administration through State and local AAA offices.
More than 5,000 disabled Allied servicemen, including 17 Americans, captured by Germans, are on their way home in the war's first prisoner exchange. The operation spans Goeteborg, Barcelona, and an Allied port in northwest Africa, with 3,000 German wounded to be returned from Britain and Africa.
The senate and house approved larger service family allowances. A wife 50 monthly, first child 30 and 20 for each additional child, totaling 1006 monthly for a wife and two children. The bill leaves the service member’s own payroll unchanged at 22 monthly. In Shreveport, Arthur Walter Bartlett pleaded guilty to selling gasoline ration stamps. Andrew Johnson Morgan pleaded guilty to failing to answer a draft questionnaire.
Berlin radio said Allied planes raided targets in Bulgaria yesterday for the first time in two and a half years. Bombs hit several towns and suburbs of Skopje were raked with machinegun fire. Several people were killed and wounded.
Bern dispatch to Svenska Dagbladet reports Germans plan to evacuate Rome by October 31 and cancel food requisitions for Rome for the first week in November.
Washington officials report Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden, and Vyacheslav Molotov opened the first full tri power conference in Moscow. The talks focus on wartime and postwar political and economic questions as a unified Allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany and shape postwar Europe.
American nationals freed from the Japanese Teia Maru boarded the exchange liner Gripsholm in Mormugao Portuguese India and will sail home soon after months of internment. The Gripsholm replaces Japanese nationals brought here, with no official reason given for the delay beyond fueling and paper checks.
Washington reports the third war loan drive raised 15 billion dollars and the treasury announces final tallies showing nearly 19 billion in bonds issued with 3.943 billion extra toward war needs and Axis defeat.
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