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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1943
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union analysis outlines a coordinated British American Soviet strategy as Russia presses a new Caucasus offensive. Allied bomb campaigns target Nazi war plants and Italian ports to disrupt supply lines and shorten the conflict.
Allied bombers hit German and Axis centers as factories move east to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Dusseldorf Dortmund Essen and Jena targeted while Paris Renault plant and Bremen Focke Wulf left intact or unrepaired. In Asia China resists Nippon drive near Chungking as Yangtze battles continue. Akron rubber workers back to work after Roosevelt stops five day strike. War Labor Board certified the dispute.
President Roosevelt appoints James F Byrnes to head the Office of War Mobilization creating a centralized agency for production procurement transport and distribution of military and civilian goods. The Byrnes committee includes Stimson Knox Hopkins Nelson and Vinson to support wartime economic direction.
Russian forces launch a major assault along the Kuban lines toward Novorossisk with about 150 000 infantry and tanks and air support. Berlin radio reports the attack reeling in the German defenses as Stalinist offensives push north to south across the Caucasus.
American forces on Attu Island press a relentless cleanup of Japanese detachments amid reports a Japanese invasion of the continental United States may come this summer. Kilsoo K. Haan, Washington representative of the Korean National Frontier, claims Tojo disclosed invasion plans at a Tokyo party. Bayonets and grenades replace mortars as U S infantry drive the lone enemy into a confined area with no escape.
The article notes Edwin T. Barclay of Liberia spent the night in the White House after Roosevelt's Casablanca visit. It compares Barclay to Booker T. Washington as a notable Black guest and describes the honors shown by the Roosevelt administration. It also reports wage-board recommendations raising pay for over 900,000 nonoperating railway workers by about 204 million dollars annually, with unions seeking higher terms.
A radio essay argues the greatest danger to soldiers is morale, not weapons. It promotes reading Our Armed Forces, outlining how morale is built through discipline, purpose, and shared sacrifice, and urges families to understand the soldier’s adjustment to military life.
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and Gen Douglas MacArthur were named honorary knights of the Grand Cross Order of the Bath by King George VI. The award highlights their wartime leadership and service to the Allies.
Secretary of War Stimson reports American losses in North Africa at 18 558 with 2 184 killed 9 437 wounded and 6 937 missing or taken prisoner. Axis casualties reach 323 000. German and Italian losses total 56 400 killed wounded and 266 000 prisoners. Allies suffer under 70 000 in all.
Leon Henderson former OPA director warned at the National Association of Purchasing Agents convention that a new set of dikes is needed to curb rising inflation. He urged new controls over production distribution and credit and said a credit control agency could not be avoided if congressional or private action fails.
The War Department price adjustment board said it eliminated nearly 2 billion dollars in excess profits by renegotiating army contracts from 1941 and 1942. It projected larger 1943 savings as readjustments continue.
In Washington a share the taxicab system remains common despite the old pick-up naming. Victory gardeners call jack rabbits jap rabbits after infiltration fears. A black market potato truck was photographed outside a fire house. DC law makes it illegal to drink standing. some sitters cannot stand after drinking.
At Camp Edwards Massachusetts a private from New Haven breaks ranks to dash for the barracks just before mess call. He explains to the sergeant that he forgot his towel.
Gerald Van Scoy, owner of a liquor store near Orlando, recounts a second robbery by two bandits. They returned twelve days after the first raid, took $75 this time, confirming lightning can strike twice in the same spot.
Samuel Biddinger stockroom foreman at the Ohio Machine Tool company was 65 minutes late for work the first time in 20 years after he forgot to wind his watch upon retirement causing oversleep.
A sailor recounts a moonless bombardment mission north of Guadalcanal in which his ship fought a phantom warship for ten minutes as it peeled away from Japanese shores. The eerie chase occurred amid heat lightning and black clouded skies with no real enemy sighted.
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