03 Jun 1943
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
1
Western Newspaper Union report notes Attu victory narrows gap to Tokyo while flood damage imperils food production. Labor stirred by Lewis bid to AFL and Churchill vows to bomb Jap cities. Calamities attributed to wartime strain and official statements.
Amid wartime turmoil the Japanese government urges population drills as American forces press in the Aleutians. AFL boss Green hints miners may return to work, shaping labor and peace talks. air raids on German Ruhr regions and German targets at Kiel and Flensburg are reported with bombers seen in flames and fighters shot down.
Rural communities report ruined crops and damaged homes as floods spread from western farm states into the Mississippi basin. Emergency crews and troops battle rising waters after rivers and levees fail, destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of corn wheat and oats and threatening wartime food production.
Officials announced a plan between the War Production Board and retail clothing dealers to avoid clothing and textile rationing this winter and perhaps indefinitely. Retailers pledged to revise practices and develop methods to relieve industry pressure with public support.
Churchill told Congress that Britain will fight Japan alongside the United States and repeat the war’s unity against Hitler. He argued defeating Germany first strengthens the effort against Japan and endorsed the Allied strategy with China and Russia, promising greater aid.
Secretary Harold L. Ickes announced that the giant king crab of the Bering Sea will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time. Gasoline quotas remain tight with no extra travel fuel this season for vacation trips and B and C card holders barred from holiday use. Axis losses in Tunisia are estimated at 324,000, including 267,000 prisoners, 20,000 killed, and 27,004 wounded. Henry Ford Willow Run plant production schedules are being surpassed, per War Manpower official Edward Cushman.
Price Administrator Brown orders a 3 percent ban on pleasure driving in 12 eastern states and the District of Columbia as the gasoline shortage deepens. The embargo covers Maine to Virginia plus eight eastern West Virginia counties. OPA had pressed voluntary limits, while Ickes warned of further curbs in the Middle West to divert supplies eastward.
Delegates from the United States Great Britain China and Soviet Russia at Hot Springs VA outlined postwar food aims. They backed continued rationing expansion world wide, a global agricultural commission, reduced tariffs, and nutrition education. Forty four governments offered cooperation though no binding accord was reached.
The War Production Board approved an official order to boost farm implements production to about 80 percent of the 1940-42 average, and to allow unlimited repair parts. A Farm Equipment fiber study by the War Food Administration will specify machinery needs for six million farmers. Concentration of farm equipment firms is to end, with large makers resuming production. Donald Nelson called concentration a dead duck.
The report cites German sources saying Red Army forces launched major attacks along a 1100 mile front from Voikhnev to Kuban valley. Soviet accounts claim strings of counterattacks repelled, with heavy fighting near Novorossisk as Russian troops tighten the ring around the city. Also, canned foods for civilians will rise by 30 million cases from the 1943 pack due to lower military demand, with possible impact on point values depending on the new fruit and vegetable pack size.
The article explains Sew-On chair covers in chintz and smart cottons, detailing removal for cleaning, fit with a inch tuck in around the spring seat, and 1 inch seam allowances. It outlines welted seams on inner back, seat front, outer top and bottom, and around arm fronts, using heavy thread to hide stitches. It mentions companion booklets with further upholstery guidance and ordering.
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