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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
1
Peny tightens Tunisia trap on Axis while Soviet offensives threaten in the Caucasus. Reports menacing a German bridgehead at Novorossisk as Allied strategies unfold. President Roosevelt envisions a postwar youth service program.
Allied North Africa operations press forward toward Tunis and Bizerte with coordinated moves. British First Army pushes at the last mountain barrier near Medjez el Bab while Patton's troops target three enemy positions on the road to Bizerte. French forces cut the Pont du Fahs Enfidaville road, exposing Axis flanks as Montgomery's Eighth Army advances. German commanders seek delay tactics amid mounting pressure.
Berlin reports a large scale Russian offensive against the Kuban bridgehead while Moscow says aerial fighting predominates along the front. In the Caucasus Russia aims to wear down Nazi air power to aid the Red Army’s push at Novo Rossisk, and in East Prussia air bombing targets German troop and supply concentrations for spring invasion.
Observers report Bermuda conference delegates endorsed plans to assist war refugees outside occupier Europe. Recommendations call for temporarily relocating about 50,000 refugees from neutral countries to Africa until war’s end and providing feeding and care for those unable to depart neutral zones.
President Roosevelt urged postwar service by American youth in war plants and military camps. He noted improved physical condition and mental alertness among service and war workers and suggested extending training to all young people after victory, though he offered no specific program.
President Roosevelt warned John L. Lewis to end the tie up in soft coal while 75,000 miners were on strike and a general walkout of 450,000 bituminous workers was threatened. He labeled the strike a violation of labor's no strike pledge and threatened swift action as commander in chief.
The War Manpower Commission extended its employment stabilization program to the entire nation allowing workers to transfer from one essential job to a higher paying one in another essential industry if such a move benefits the war effort. Transfers were previously limited to 70 regional areas and protests from organized labor prompted the change. A worker must obtain a statement of availability from his employer the local U S employment service office or a local WMC office confirming the transfer aids the war effort.
In a bid to cut college costs, Smith College students will work one hour daily without pay. President Herbert Davis announced the plan to reduce rising expenses and avoid extra student fees. Ontario liquor board sets beer rationing to 36 pints over four months. Paul Reynaud, former French prime minister, writes memoirs from a Pyrenees prison cell. Allied medium bombers hit a 2,000 ton Japanese vessel in the Arafoora sea north of Australia.
Chairman Doughter of the house ways and means committee described the 20 percent withholding provision of the pay-as-you-go tax bills as not taking any additional money from taxpayers. He noted withholding may differ from actual taxes owed, refunds to follow for overwithholding, and that all salary earners must file an income tax return on March 15 with withholding credited against the tax due.
Territorial differences emerged as the central issue in the Poles Soviet dispute. Poland demands the return of the eastern territory it controlled before 1939, while the Soviets claim historical rights. Premier Sikorski seeks friendly ties but questions Soviet claims to western Ukraine and western Belarus, leaving reconciliation open but distant for UN chancelleries.
American airmen continuing marathon bombing in the Aleutians were joined by Canadian pilots flying U S Warhawk fighters in raids on Jop-held positions on Kiska. Observers doubted whether the raids were prelude or diversion as a wider assault on Kiska loomed. naval communique reported damage to the main camp and runway on Kiska.
Secretary Morgenthau cited a brutal Japanese massacre in Chinese coastal areas where U S airmen from the Tokyo raid had landed. Chiang Kai-shek reported that the Japs replicated Nazi horrors in Lidice on a wholesale scale, sparking alarm over wartime atrocities.
The commerce department warned of unparalleled prosperity once the war ends. It cited high employment, record productive capacity, and a peak national income, with large savings and unmet postwar demand. The department urged private enterprise, with government aid, to translate these potentials into realities.
More than 3,000,600 boys and girls ages 14 to 18 will hold full or part time jobs this summer. Katherine Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bureau, urged communities to protect the health of high school age youths combining school with work or entering full time employment during vacation.
Washington Digest details Brig. Gen. Alden H. Waitt and Ames Fries discussing chemical warfare, its history from ancient sieges to World War I, and the newest nerve gas and spray methods. The piece cites US preparedness, nitrogen mustard progress, and calls for discipline and education as key defenses.
The German military magazine Militaerwochenblatt is reported as suspended after 127 years, per a London radio broadcast cited by U.S. government monitors. The brief also notes Polish saboteurs killing or wounding 424 Nazis, and seven wells destroyed within a month. A butter and fats seller must record ration points, with Fed Cross chapters offering help on point rationing.
A U S bomber command officer explains that airmen who bail out over France Belgium or occupied Europe have good odds of returning to base via prisoner exchanges. Those who land over Germany face slim chances. The article recalls Paddy Finucane being shot as he fell, adding a grim twist to his famed line This is it chaps. It also comments on Elmer Davis OWI and a White House discussion with congressmen about rationing and postwar planning.
A slate of vivid vignettes recalls editors at a crowded convention. Tales include Heywood Broun early morning jitters, newsroom pranks amid Christmas chatter, and a veteran telegraph boy's wise counsel that a child is born. Also recounted are a brutal editor’s nickname and a newsroom revenge gift, wartime memories from Sgt. Al Schmid, and a joke about a spy who died crossing Times Square.
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