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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
1
A Western Newspaper Union release argues that Allied generalship planes and artillery determine the Tunisian windup. Davis notes farm conditions improve while Red Drive risks persist, and Nazi Caucasus holds remain.
Allied forces close in on Tunis as American artillery pounds Bizerte while British First Army advances on the capital. Captured hill forts near Lake Achkel and Lake Bizerte aid operations, with observers praising Allied leadership for outmaneuvering the Axis. Lt. Gen. Devers becomes U S European commander after Lt. Gen. Andrews dies.
Congress quickly passed a strengthened wartime measure granting the government authority to seize plants and mines disrupted by labor action. The bill, amended from Connally’s original proposal, criminalizes inducing strikes in government seized facilities and sets penalties up to one year in prison or a $5,000 fine, while authorizing the WLB to intervene in disputes.
Russian forces pushed toward Novorossisk with a string of captured towns including Krymskaya and claimed 10 000 German troops killed in the Kuban delta advance. The seizure threatens the rail link to Protoka and reshapes Black Sea naval tension with Soviet units led by the Paris Commune poised to strike any evacuation.
Chester C. Davis reports improved farm labor availability and better machinery and supply outlook for 1943. He notes labor can meet announced goals, machinery production up from 23 to 40 percent of 1940, parts up to 160 percent, and gasoline for food production assured despite civilian cuts.
Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes announced a take and give policy to safeguard coal supplies. He established machinery to seize coal from holders and redistribute to plants and essential users, ensuring wartime needs are met amid a one day miners’ truce and pending wage talks.
In Los Angeles officials announce lemon-derived pectin as a blood plasma substitute to treat shock, freeing plasma for transfusion. Chicago reports call for pasture improvements with phosphorous and potash to turn farm pastures into filling stations for cattle instead of gymnasiums for hardening.
Soviet foreign office accuses cabinet officers of the Polish government-in-exile of espionage and of barring Russian trained Polish troops from the Soviet front. The note follows Stalin's push for a strong independent Poland and hints at possible postwar alliances with Poland against Germany.
Nation wide induction of fathers into the armed forces will start by August or sooner as Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey announced. New instructions allow deferment for fathers in 35 essential industries while others are inducted, keeping essential workers with children under 12 at home.
American air forces pound Japanese targets from the Aleutians to Burma and the Solomons. Liberator bombers wipe out a southern Hainan airport. 30 tons of bombs hit Toungoo in the Mandalay area. Five fronts see ongoing raids as U.S. air power expands.
The Office of War Information reports that $7,000,000,000 in assets of enemy and enemy-occupied countries are under the alien property custodian. Over 2,000 firms operate under treasury licenses, and 41,077 patents owned by enemy nationals are controlled to aid war production.
The House completed action on legislation adopted by the Senate to raise federal employees earning under $10,000 a year. The bill gives a flat $300 yearly increase for workers in lower salary brackets in executive departments, following a prior 21.6 percent raise that raised the regular workweek from 40 to 48 hours.
Rutgers professor F G Helyar outlines a 25 by 530 foot Victory garden plan for 1943 that yields 2772 ration points per year. The layout includes two 50 foot tomato rows, two bean rows, plus seed and planting effort.
Professor Helyar estimates the yields from a garden planted with specific seed amounts. Tomatoes offer about three bushels or 64 quarts, 1 481 ration points, while snap beans, carrots, beets, and lima beans yield per bushel equivalents with quarts and points. He notes the garden can feed an average family and save ration points for city families unable to garden.
The article notes rising grapefruit production in Florida Texas Arizona and California and outlines nonfood uses for culls. It highlights orange lemon oils from California, new grapefruit oil for textile dye fixation, and pectin from peel and pulp. Citric acids, citrus powder, and citrus butter are mentioned with canning trends and wartime export prospects.
Farmers plan a storage and feed production push to stock barns by October 15. They aim to ensure full milk pails next winter and note that partly bleached cabbage endive and similar greens contain less vitamin C than fully green vegetables.
The article recounts 300000 tons of shipping tied up in the Persian Gulf to aid Russia during a critical siege. It cites poor Gulf port facilities and a weak Basra line, notes American engineers helped, and mentions improved unloading via India and other bottlenecks. It also discusses railroad congestion, centralized traffic control debates, and officials’ concerns about westward freight in wartime.
A column ribbing readers with a collage of odd wartime trivia. It notes quirks such as a law claimed in Arkansas about a husband whipping his wife monthly, plane propellers aging into metal fatigue after 5,000 flight hours, and sensory quirks from Emily Post to BBC propaganda. It also covers jokes on public figures, social norms, and quaint customs like Beefless Day in Ashland and Australian adjective rationing.
The column reflects on beliefs about money and happiness, notes how motorists overlook driving dangers, and quips about time and practice. It emphasizes that effort should align with preached advice, and a key thought is that the darkest hour is brief.
Fay Bainter notes that money cannot fully shape life as it buys only part of the clay on which we mold our existence. The quote contemplates value beyond wealth and the limits of material means.
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