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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
1
Weekly News Analysis reports U S forces pushing in the South Pacific with new air sea and land attacks on Japanese positions. Meanwhile farm machinery output doubles in 1944 and Berlin is stunned by a bombing raid. Western News analysis notes opinions from editorials and analyst teams.
U S forces under Maj Gen Holland Smith landed on Gilbert islands Makin Tara wa and Apamama, with heavy Japanese losses and the flag raised. American airmen scored another hit on Japanese naval forces aiding Bougainville. two destroyers sunk by torpedoes and two by gunfire as U S troops expand Bougainville operations under heavy artillery and air bombardment.
Rationing of farm machinery will drop to 31 types next year as expanded raw material allotments enable nearly double the 1942 output and about 80 percent of the 1940 total. Repair parts production will be unrestricted though supply uncertainties persist for anti friction bearings malleable castings and forgings. Bearing shortages remain the chief bottleneck amid possible truck and tire supply constraints.
The War Labor Board limited wage increases to 15 percent over January 1941 levels, but living costs have risen 224 percent since then per the Labor Department. WLB awards counted 15 percent from 1941 to 1942, with a further 6.4 percent rise since September 1942. Labor seeks cost relief or higher wages to balance conditions. The government faces charges of inaccurate cost figures, prompting a presidential committee to review.
With 1644 million women already at work, wartime demands require about a million more workers. By October unemployment dipped to 700,000, prompting calls for women to fill numerous jobs in busy war production centers. Since the program began, female participation grew from 10,800,000 in October 1940.
A House bill aims to end retail subsidies that lower or stabilize meat dairy and other consumer prices. It would permit subsidies only for domestic vegetable oils fats and oil seeds and extend the Commodity Credit Corporation’s life and borrowing power to 1945.
The house bill proposes 2 percent of billion dollars in new taxes, far short of Morgenstern’s 10 percent request, with revenue from goods like beer liquor jewelry luggage bulbs cosmetics and from services such as telephones and telegraphs amusements transportation and club dues. Income taxes would add about 600 million from business levies. Local postal rates rise to three cents and money order and special delivery charges climb. Berlin’s devastation by 1,000 RAF bombers reverberates as Germany maneuvers toward Turkey with troops through Sofia to the Greco Turkish frontier after recapturing Kos Leros and Samos. Britain’s 8th army holds Adriatic lowlands as U S casualties in Italy reach 1,613 killed 2,685 missing and 6,361 wounded since September 1939.
The U S treasury proposed a world bank to back reconstruction and rehabilitation after the war, with private lenders guaranteed in some cases. Initial U S funding would total 700 million dollars, possibly reaching 34 percent of the needed amount, with Britain and the Soviet Union contributing smaller shares.
A new wireless electric light drawn from a high frequency radio beam was demonstrated in New York and labeled the lighting of the future. Radiant leaf lamps could generate enough heat to cook, and a mercury vapor lamp rated at 10,000 watts was described as producing sun-bright light.
Washington column notes a White House lead in solving a wartime newsprint shortage driven by cardboard and packing material needs for war supplies. It calls for quicker government action, stricter usage controls, and expanded waste paper salvage, with proposals including prisoner labor in forests and better distribution among publishers. The piece also covers good neighbor peace between Bolivia and Paraguay, the Hornet carrier’s role in WWII, and political chatter on prices, loitering at a Virginia torpedo plant, and punishment plans for Germans.
The New York Express notes Nancy de Marigny will receive $4,000,000 from the Oakes estate after probate in Canada and $1,400,000 from Nassau assets once she reaches 30, though she is currently 19 and has faced financial strain. The piece weaves in other social gossip about postwar figures, diaries, and a mix of retrospective wartime notes.
Anxious to end the war, Elmer Twitchell proposes a Disarmament Conference for kids under eight. The piece satirically exaggerates child play with toy weapons, depicting infants as armed and dangerous, amid other wartime verse and a note on inflated war contract bills.
Henry J. Kaiser reports to the New York Economic Club that his shipyards have launched 3,087 vessels since January 1, 1941. Of these 963 are Liberty ships, 40 or more troop-landing ships, 40 fast tankers, and 12 aircraft carriers. He notes two to three troop transports with seven decks carrying 4,000 passengers. The Navy will allow naval personnel to receive cablegrams at most shore installations outside the continental U.S. and the Army bans fixed text holiday greetings to overseas soldiers December 8 to 25 to ease facilities load.
The United States Britain China and Russia plan joint UN relief work to obtain supplies for postwar needy nations. They will assess European needs and allocate raw materials to prewar industrial nations with machinery. The United Nations will contribute 1 percent of income to relief funds. Wickard warns rationing may intensify due to postwar food needs and policy will hinge on on-hand supplies. All government land to be returned to farming after the war.
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