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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1943
Page
1
Russ Trap German Army in Caucasus reports on March 15. Remains tax deadline as Congress plans pay as you go later. Labor demands higher wage scale. Editor's note marks Western Newspaper Union as the source and not the paper.
Organized labor led by AFL CIO and United Mine Workers pressed Roosevelt at the White House over rising living costs and wage caps. John L. Lewis demanded a $2 a day coal wage rise effective April 1, while the War Labor Board sought Byrnes' guidance on revising the Little Steel formula as price and cost pressures mount.
The House Ways and Means Committee indicates March 15 remains the income tax filing deadline for about 44 million Americans based on 1942 income. A pay as you go withholding system is expected later, with July 1 as a likely compromise date between the Rum proposal and Treasury recommendations.
Washington officials weigh a Civil War style farm army to tackle a labor shortage. War Department and War Manpower Commission would organize soldiers with farm experience to harvest crops. A 500,000 soldiers figure is discussed, with an alternate plan to use battalions of troops still on military duty for farm tasks.
Soviet offensives tightened around Rostov and Kursk while Red troops recaptured Zolotukhino and Kupyansk. Kuschevskaya fell, severing rail links to the Caucasus and threatening Novorossiysk. German retreat shifted from withdrawal to rout as Moscow reported fresh reverses.
Solomon Islands action shows official secrecy in the latest air sea clash. Japanese reports use reverse English to claim overwhelming American naval strength in Guadalcanal, hinting at large forces and carriers to shape home front expectations.
Rear Admiral Emory presents War Shipping Administration findings showing 70,000 merchant seamen facing front line danger. Losses among merchant sailors in the first year totaled 8,200 dead or missing, 2.8 percent of crews, compared with 1 percent for U S armed forces.
Belden Manufacturing in Chicago pays quarterly dividends via war bonds stamps or cash to aid the treasury drive. Since August, president Whipple Jacobs reports stockholders invested 9 percent of their dividends in war bonds, well above the national average. In Washington, the 12th U. S. Air Force said 54 Axis ships were sunk or damaged in North African waters between November 8 and February 1, including 13 sunk, seven severely damaged, and 34 damaged.
Reports from neutral sources indicate rising unrest at Germany's European front edges with Finland and Romania deteriorating. Finland fears further Russian offensives amid food shortages and lacking Nazi aid. Goering’s remark that Russia’s war on Finland was a blur fuels public anger. Romania suffers heavy losses in Russia and Antonescu grows despair over Romania’s position.
British night raids target Lorient in France and other submarine hubs. Concrete pens at Lorient hold 20 submarines, with 10 more under construction. Attacks extend to Essen, Duesseldorf, Cologne, Copenhagen, and Turin where engines and subs parts are produced.
The Office of Price Administration says it will have saved American farmers seven point four billion dollars by end of 1943, about twelve hundred thirteen dollars per farm, by preventing compulsory spending on essentials and operating costs if price controls had not existed.
The North Africa crisis shows signs of easing as Eden seeks reconciliation and French reforms. France forms a five man commission in Algiers to internalize changes, restoring ousted officials and freeing 27 Communist deputies. Eisenhower warns American officers against criticizing any ally.
Americans faced tighter rationing as OPA and the Food Distribution administration announced new limits. Coffee rations dropped from one pound per five weeks to one per six weeks, equating to about 8.7 pounds per civilian annually. Butter allowances were set at roughly 13 pounds per civilian.
Washington report traces clashes over the manpower agency led by Paul McNutt, detailing demands for cabinet‑level leadership and a single administrator with authority from the labor, agriculture, and interior departments. It notes delays, staff gaps, and a push for a British‑style system amid the work‑or‑fight order era.
Bankage notes need 19 eggs for each laid last year to feed selves and allies. Americans on the Pacific coast express disappointment over stalled Far East offensive prospects in 1943. Talk resurfaces of a single wartime civilian agency with James Byrnes to head it. War has shrunk the comics as syndicates seek to compress humor and drama into four columns.
A collage of names and plans shows Casey guiding backroom moves for FDR, wiring Davis and Ilmer Davis Office of War Information while considering Byrnes Office of Economic Stabilization and potential White House visits. Stalin’s boundary stance sparks Casablanca worry alongside Red Army reforms and Russian front notes.
The article promotes a modern low coffee table built from a simple three by four foot plywood sheet with straight cuts. It describes forming three sections that slot together for a compact, space saving design and notes no hardware is required. It also mentions a new home booklet with 32 thrifty projects.
Colliers notes Norwegians retain a right-handed ring tradition where both spouses wear rings on the third finger. When a spouse dies the survivor moves the ring to the left hand’s third finger, so two rings on the left and one on the right indicate a widow who has remarried.
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