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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
6
Ferre notes that this Western Newspaper Union analysis summarizes global war fronts. It highlights Soviet Caucasus pressure, a dual threat Allied bombing campaign against Nazi war plants, and attacks on Italian ports.
Allied bombers target Axis industry as factories move to safer locations in Hungary Czechslovakia and Austria. Wulf Brem a Renault Paris Essen Jena Zeiss targets face intensified strikes while US UK raids hit Italian ports prep for invasion. Chinese observers warn of Japan’s looming breakthrough as Yangtze fronts tighten near Chungking. In Akron Ohio 51500 rubber workers walk out after a wartime ultimatum from President Roosevelt ends a five day strike.
President Roosevelt names James F Byrnes director of the Office of War Mobilization to marshal home front production and supplies. The move coordinates wartime logistics with War Secretary Stimson Navy Secretary Knox Hopkins Nelson Vinson and others as Allied victory plans advance.
The president signed legislation authorizing the production or procurement of boats at a total expenditure of 1,700,000 dollars. This action allocates funding and outlines the program scope and timeline for deliveries and oversight.
Secretary of War Stimson reported U S losses in Tunisia were light at 18 558 including 2 184 killed 9 437 wounded and 6 937 missing or captured while Axis casualties reached 323 000 with 30 000 killed and 266 000 imprisoned. Allied losses overall under 70 000, and vast materiel was captured as American manpower forecasts remained unchanged.
An emergent National Railway Labor Board panel recommended an eight cent an hour wage increase for over 900,000 nonoperating railroad workers. The boost, retroactive to February 1, would raise the industry’s annual wage bill by about 204 million dollars. Unions had sought 20 cents and 70 cent minimums. the board declined. Approval rests with Stabilization Director James F Byrnes. The report says the adjustment is a necessary noninflationary correction to inequities and wartime needs.
From retirement, Leon Henderson former OPA director challenged the nation to build new dikes against rising inflation. In a National Association of Purchasing Agents speech he urged new controls over production distribution and credit and warned that if Congress or private action fail a credit control agency will be needed.
Each month more than two million charts roll off the presses of the United States Hydrographic Office. These charts provide vital data of harbors and expanses of the seven seas for the fleet and friendly mariners. Navy ships chart new segments, reefs, channels, and ports of call as old charts are updated. Data gathered aboard ships are sent to the Hydrographic Office and processed under Rear Admiral G. S. Bryan for distribution.
In New York a profile of Rear Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl highlights his push for blimp plane-carriers after the Shenandoah mishap and his return to Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The piece also notes his Annapolis background, service, and advocacy for lighter‑than‑air craft amid wartime needs. The story shifts to public notices of wartime staffing, featuring E Lee Marshall and his career path from baker to senior Food Administration roles, then to Bellamy era utopian ideas and Metropolitan Life's East Side project led by Frederick H. Ecker.
CAMP EDWARDS MASS Soldiers of the Thirty-ninth General hospital lined up for breakfast when top kick cried forward march. Pvt. Thomas F Hessian of New Haven Conn dashed for the barracks then explained he forgot his teeth, leaving a fuming sergeant puzzled.
In Orlando Florida two bandits struck a liquor store operated by Gerald Van Scoy. After returning twelve days later they robbed the store again, taking 205 dollars on the first raid and 75 dollars on the second.
Samuel Biddinger, stockroom foreman at the Ohio Machine Tool company in Kenton, was 65 minutes late for work. It was his first tardiness in 20 years after he forgot to wind his watch upon retirement.
A sailor recounts a moonless bombardment mission north of Guadalcanal. For ten minutes the crew battled their own shadow amid a Japanese-guarded archipelago, as heat lightning flashed and ships etched silhouettes against the night sky. The phantom warship felt as real as the firing run itself.
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