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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysts say Allied generalship, air superiority, and artillery momentum decided the Tunisia windup. The column notes farm conditions improving under the war effort and warns of risks in the Red Drive while Davis comments on supply and risk factors in the Caucasus.
Allied forces push toward Tunis as American artillery pounds Bizerte docks and hill forts near lakes Achkel and Bizerte. British First Army advances on Tunis while Elmer Davis notes imminent continental invasion this summer. Lt. Gen. Devers becomes U. S. European commander after Lt. Gen. Andrews dies.
Congress moved quickly to empower the government to seize plants in war industries if labor disputes halt production. The Senate passed an amended bill to authorize seizure of struck plants and mines and to criminalize strike incitement in government controlled facilities. The measure, backed by Connally, includes WLB authority to settle disputes and penalties up to one year imprisonment or a $5,000 fine.
Chester C. Davis reports improved farm labor and supply outlooks for 1943. Labor is sufficient to reach goals, machinery and repair parts supplies rise to substantial levels, and gasoline is assured for food production. Ickes outlines a take and give coal policy to protect war plants and civilians during potential shortages.
The Soviet foreign office accuses the Polish government-in-exile of espionage against Russia and of blocking use of Russian trained Polish troops on the Soviet front. It notes Moscow seeks good neighborly ties or a postwar alliance with a strong independent Poland as wartime tensions persist.
Major General Hershey signaled a nationwide move to draft fathers by August or sooner with deferments for those in 35 essential industries. Draft boards must verify employers with homes and children under 18 born before September 14, 1942. Air power advances and Allied bombings expand across the Pacific, including targets in Hainan, Toungoo, and Kolombancara as U S forces press operations.
The OWI reports that 7 billion dollars of enemy and enemy-occupied assets are under the alien property custodian. More than 2000 firms operate under treasury licenses, aiding wartime production. Some 41 thousand patents and applications owned by enemy nationals are controlled.
The House completed action on a bill already passed by the Senate to raise federal employees earning under ten thousand dollars a year. It provides a flat three hundred dollar annual increase for workers in lower salary brackets of executive departments, after a previous twenty one point six percent rise tied to extending the work week from forty to forty eight hours.
Washington writer notes reduced red tape as Civil Air Patrol joins Air Corps and Civilian Pilot Training absorbs trainees. Air warning service volunteers, many women, map skies from coast to coast and report aircraft in real time to maintain defense readiness.
Russian forces seized Krymskaya and other towns in the Kuban delta as they push toward Novorossisk. They say 10 000 German troops died in the advance while cutting the Novorossisk Protoka rail link. Soviet reports also note strong Black Sea naval forces led by Paris Commune awaiting a possible evacuation clash.
Government orders push lemon byproducts from south California plants to operate 24 hours a day. The Fruit Growers Exchange says lemon byproducts can replace plasma in treating shock and spare transfusable plasma. In Chicago, pasture improvement urged for cattle with phosphorous and potash to boost forage and replace gymnasium-like feeding.
War Ration Book No. 3 will be distributed by mail to over 120 million people from late June to July 21. A Berliner asks what is the shortest joke and a waitress delivers a legal trick with a cup of coffee. The man later uses a cigarette case envelope as a sugar packet in a humorous exchange.
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