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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1943
Page
2
War report highlights Allied efforts in Tunisia pinning Axis forces and Soviet actions in the Caucasus threaten German bridgehead at Novorossiysk. President Roosevelt envisions postwar youth service as a national program.
North Africa news outlines a coordinated Allied advance toward Tunis and Bizerte with British First Army pressing the last Axis barrier at Medjez el Bab and Patton's American troops seizing three hill positions toward Bizerte. French forces cut the Pont du Fahs Enfidaville road exposing Axis flanks as Montgomery's Eighth Army confronts delays. Bombing and aerial activity feature in Caucasus and East Prussia as part of wider fronts.
Observers say the Anglo American refugee conference in Hamilton Bermuda agreed on recommendations to aid war refugees outside occupied Europe. The plan calls for temporarily relocating 80 000 refugees in Africa until war’s end and provisions for feeding and caring for those unable to leave neutral countries.
President Roosevelt orders blunt action to end the coal mine walkout as 75 000 miners strike and a broader 450 000 miner shutdown looms. The War Manpower Commission expands the stabilization program allowing cross sector job transfers to higher pay if they aid the war effort.
President Roosevelt floated using industrial plants and military camps for a year of national service after victory. He cited gains in fitness and alertness from service and war work and suggested extending training to all young Americans. He offered no specific plan, noting any program would be partly military.
Territorial differences dominate Polish Soviet exchanges after a Polish exile government demand for an inquiry into a mass atrocity. Premier Sikorski backs friendly ties but denies Soviet claim to western Ukraine and western Belarus while Poles seek return of eastern prewar territory. The conflict tests UN chancelleries' ability to bridge gaps.
American airmen and Canadian pilots in U S Warhawk fighters raid Jop-held positions on Kiska. Observers see the attacks as hardening the path to possible future land and naval action, with raids scoring damaging results on the main camp area and runway.
Washington journalist recaps Brig. Gen. Alden H. Waitt of the Chemical Warfare Service detailing gas warfare history from ancient to modern times. He notes nitrogen mustard, low flying plane spray, and U S preparedness while arguing gas should be used only to save lives and policy aims, with defense anchored in education and discipline.
President Herbert Davis announced that Smith College students must provide one hour of unpaid service each day to help offset rising costs and avoid an extra matriculation fee. Ontario liquor board approves a 36 pints per month beer ration. Paul Reynaud, ex French premier, writes memoirs from a Pyrenean prison cell. Allied medium bombers hit a 2,000 ton Japanese vessel in the Arufura Sea north of Australia per UN.
Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee described the 20 percent withholding as a method to collect taxes under the pay as you go plan. He said it will not take extra money from taxpayers and refunds will be issued if too much is withheld. All wage earners must file an income tax return by March 15 and the withheld amount will be credited against the tax owed.
More than 3,000,000 boys and girls ages 14 to 18 will hold full or part time jobs this summer. Katherine Lenroot, head of the Children's Bureau, urged communities to protect the health of high school age youth combining school with work during vacation or entering full time positions.
Brief notes report Polish saboteurs killed or wounded 424 Nazis and damaged trains and oil wells in a month. Militaerwochenblatt is suspended after 127 years per a London broadcast. A farmer selling rationed foods must collect ration points and can seek guidance from a Red Cross nutrition expert on point rationing.
In Newark a woman who found Mrs Belle Bearison’s handbag says she would have been glad to return only the bag not the $8 inside. She took $8 from the $25 and gave back the rest. Mrs Bearison approved of the gesture. In Guthrie Oklahoma a long distance fire call led firemen to find Langston bus station destroyed.
In Chanute Kansas the Tribune announces it has a female sports columnist. The columnist ends her piece urging men to apply lipstick as the best remedy for chapped lips despite pomades advertised for that purpose.
Mrs. Adaline E. Stephenson bequeathed her automobile tires to a son in her will filed for probate in Salem New Jersey.
Jack I. Nelson a Marine Corps gunner paid his debt to the Red Cross by donating a pint of blood at a Washington center. He said he owed the Red Cross after receiving a blood transfusion during the Solomon Islands campaign last August.
In Pueblo Colorado Zelma Fox four years old repeatedly phoned police to report a neighbor who struck her with a rock. On the last call Sergt Roy Harper asked what she wanted. She replied at least electrocute him.
London’s transport system trimmed ticket sizes in 1942 saving 600 tons of paper. The London Passenger Transport board also salvaged 600 tons of old tickets and 300 tons of old records for pulping as part of conservation efforts.
Mrs Virginia Critchfield seeks divorce from Thomas L Critchfield over 11 community property items. The disputed assets are 11 white leghorn hens.
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