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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
6
May schedules list various fuel and food stamps with validity dates including red meat stamps E F G H and blue processed foods stamps G H J, coffee stamp 23 expiring May 31, and June through dates for stamps 24 and 17. Inspections for gasoline book holders and registration deadlines are extended, with remarks on home canning and shoe stamp transfers amid wartime rationing.
British ships and planes comb the Bay of Biscay and Atlantic for survivors from a British air liner shot down by German aircraft near two hours from Britain. Leslie Howard among 17 aboard. crew of four and 13 passengers, including three women and two children. Rough weather hinders search as lifeboats remain in the wreck area.
The navy announced 1791 Japanese dead in Attu mop up operations with buried or cremated remains excluded. Allied forces overran entrenched positions, Kiska installations were bombed again, Canadian fighters aided actions at Tulip and Numa Numa harbors near Henderson Field. May 31 US heavy bombers attacked two small Japanese vessels and targets at Guadalcanal.
Amid the Yangtze front Chinese forces recaptured Changyang and Chikiang, cutting off a threatened Japanese advance. The push, aided by two Chiang Kai-shek commanders and the 14th U.S. Air Force, marks a turning point after a three week offensive near Ichang. In Washington, labor leaders urged Roosevelt to intervene in price and coal policy while denouncing wartime strike harms and supporting wartime control. The piece notes U.S. labor leaders commenting on coal and living costs and references the Wagner act debate. The article closes with a historical note on the first Negro church in the United States, founded in Philadelphia in 1787 by Richard Allen.
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