02 Sep 1943
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1943
Page
1
Western Union Digest notes allied representatives coordinate overall war strategy as troops close on Nazi strongholds. October draft quota to include fathers and heads of households amid mobilization.
Allied operations across the Mediterranean and into Italy faced heavy antiaircraft and naval fire as Axis defences resisted. Eisenhower announced Allied successes with 167,000 Axis casualties in the Sicily campaign while Allies planned further invasions and postwar order with Roosevelt, Churchill, and their allies. German counterattacks slowed Soviet advances near Kharkov as Red Army regrouped to seal rail hubs. a broader tax proposal eyed a 1944 spending tax and higher personal and corporate levies to raise revenue.
President Roosevelt authorized cancellation of draft deferments and suspension of a striker's privilege for noncompliance with War Labor Board orders. He urged withholding wet contracts fuel or transportation from defiant companies and allowed plant seizure or union benefit cuts in extreme cases.
Plans for temporary postwar pacts with conquered nations would require House and Senate approval. Secretary of State Hull and lawmakers discussed funding controls to safeguard national interests. Senator Arthur Vandenberg noted that while majorities could approve temp agreements, final ratification still hinges on a two thirds Senate vote. In the Pacific, American submarines and air forces attacked Weewak New Guinea, destroying 215 of 225 enemy aircraft and sinking a Japanese destroyer while targeting a convoy in the Solomons.
The army unveils the M-5 tank featuring automatic gear shift and two Cadillac engines. Its two hydra-matic transmissions route power via a transfer unit to the tracks, claimed as the first automatic shift in a military vehicle. Army officials say it enables front line service by mechanics trained in automobile engines, expanding accessibility and reducing needed instruction.
Gasoline for aircraft ships tanks and other military vehicles will take about 30.5 percent of total production east of the Rocky Mountains this year and around 40 percent by 1945. Airpower consumes vast fuel as Flying Fortresses burn more than a gallon per mile and Maj. Gen. James Doolittle's planes used 1.1 million gallons daily in Tunisia. Civilian allotment in the 17 state East coast area runs about 13.8 million gallons daily as 126 refineries gear to produce 100 octane gas for military planes.
Record lend-lease shipments in the first half of 1943 surpassed U S exports for a full year in the 1929 39 decade. In round figures the lend-lease value was just under four billion dollars with other exports paid in totaling about five and a half billion dollars.
Fragmentary note reports frequent tornadoes since 1930 with an average of one every 60 years and average property damage of 37250, noting wide impact across the country.
A brief note explains how Git or Hitler Eller is pronounced, stating it as “Gites br she Russi” due to the lack of sound in their package, reflecting a pronunciation quirk rather than a formal term.
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