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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1943
Page
1
The Truman investigation committee examined the war program and identified three core failures: weak initial planning across agencies, conflicting authority over program phases, and government hesitancy to adopt unpopular policies. It urged centralized authority in a few officials and warned the coming year would be the toughest in U.S. history.
Americans brace for tighter limits on meat fish butter cheese and fats under new rationing rules effective March 29. The shift lowers weekly meat to about two pounds per person while poultry fresh ash and game stay unc capped. Coffee becomes more available at one pound every five weeks and bean and pea point values drop. Overall consumption of covered foods drops 12 to 15 percent with Wickard citing a healthy diet. Per capita civilian supplies in 1943 should match the 1935-39 average.
Rommel and Von Arnim face a tightening Allied ring along the Mareth line as Montgomery's British Eighth Army and Ike's seasoned Americans press a potential repeat of a Stalingrad style setback. The Axis leaders confront a serious, possibly disastrous, situation as Allied pressure grows.
Military historians compare the latest German push near Kharkov to the 1918 Ludendorff Hindenburg offensive. After weeks of costly defeats, a major victory is sought to hold gains, with Nazis throwing in superior forces to avert losing conquests. Northward, Vyazma’s fall shows Russian advances toward Smolensk despite pressure on Kharkov.
A department of agriculture report shows more than 100,000 farmer borrowers from 12 Federal Land Banks repaid loans in full in 1942. Total repayments reached 303 million dollars, with an additional 21.2 million deposited to fund future installments. New farm mortgage demand fell about 22 percent in late 1942 versus 1941.
A postwar U S security plan by the National Resources Planning Board, presented to Congress by President Roosevelt, seeks full employment, guaranteed jobs for veterans, fair pay, government underwriting of employment, joint public private ventures, unemployment compensation, higher old age benefits, and expanded public works as a policy to end want and sustain production.
In Canberra Governor General Lord Gowrie received Soviet Minister M Vlasov and voiced shared hope that Australians and Russians fight to preserve their way of life. In Ankara Col Gen Rudolph Haarde is named commander in chief of German forces in Greece Thrace and the Aegean, succeeding Gen Stuntz said to have died in a Bulgarian railway sabotage incident.
The Rumi plan to skip tax year and shift to a pay-as-you-go system faces resistance. House Ways and Means approved a 20 percent withholding on pay, effective July 1, with pay-as-you-go optional, as proponents back the Rumi principles. The levy targets after deductions for dependents, not total wages, serving as a method to collect actual taxes through payroll deductions.
Washington observers predicted lend-lease shipments would dwarf prior records as the House and Senate approved another year of extension. The program aimed to stabilize postwar world economics and secure additional US bases to deter Axis threat while awaiting payment terms. Stettinius reported $9.632 billion lent in two years, with Russia allotted 20 percent of shipments, including half of tanks and 40 percent of planes.
Madame Chiang Kai shek's visit yields a new U S air force command in China. The 14th U. S. air force under Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault replaces the China Air Task Force. Chennault’s Flying Tigers legacy primes expanded operations against Japan.
Nazi attempts to crush underground French resistance failed as De Gaulle’s Fighting French leadership mobilized a vast anti occupation network. Youth flee conscription, sabotage escalates, wrecking German trains and targeting Axis collaborators.
In Chungking the Chinese report a victory driving Japanese forces toward the Burma front above Tung-yueh along the Salween river. In the Solomon Islands American dive bombers pound Jap held Munda, a key sea and air base amid broader Pacific fighting.
The piece surveys Congress battles over Secretary Wickard, pitting Farm Bureau and extension service forces against Farm Security and administration policies amid wartime price controls. It traces roots from 1920s Farm Bureau roots to 1930s AAA and FSA friction, noting Wickard’s staffing moves provoked strong opposition while stressing politics and war implications.
Bankhage briefs report Tokyo plans six more training centers to supply 80,000 brides for Jap colonists in occupied Manchuria as part of a broader plan for 250,000 colonists. Treasury gold reserves total 22.749 billion dollars. German rations shift from butter to margarine since March 8, per Berlin broadcasts.
The Civil Air Patrol, 68 000 volunteers flying single engine planes along US coasts, wins a wartime honor as the Flying Minute Men. They fought submarines, pressed for bombing gear, and faced equipment shortages as the Army refused weapons and relief until bombs and rafts were allowed. Submarines spotted by CAP crews have reportedly been sunk. Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley notes CAP supplied planes and gear and conducted patrols that reduced German submarine activity off the Atlantic coast.
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