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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
1
In Washington a strategy meeting forecasts decisive Allied actions against Japan while air raids in Europe intensify pressure leading to invasion plans. The War Labor Board regains wage boost authority as unions react to shifting wartime economics and policy.
The United Nations plan intensified campaigns against Europe and Japanese-held Asia with Roosevelt and Churchill coordinating future operations. Key figures at Washington included Archibald Wavell, James Somerville, Richard Peirse, and coordination between Halsey and MacArthur. A Tokyo report claimed U.S. forces invaded Attu in the Aleutians.
President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade program won a two year extension after heated debate. Speaker Sam Rayburn rallied Republican support to defeat crippling amendments opposed by Democrats. West of Texas was the sole New Deal critic in the Ways and Means Committee. The pact has covered 27 nations in nine years.
The Office of Price Administration issued a definition of home canning to ease rationing fears. It states foods processed in kitchens mainly for meat preparation or in a school or home economics center count as home canned. Farmers using separate canning buildings need ration board permission.
Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce, envisions a mighty flow of goods and materials to aid war ravaged areas after the conflict. He urged welcoming and encouraging development of other nations as the postwar era begins, with private business and government planning for lasting peace through strong economic foundations.
Soviet forces renewed their Donets river valley advance near Lisichansk, 125 miles southeast of Kharkov, repelling a wedge-shaped German assault and seizing a hill of great tactical importance as they press toward Novorossisk's last Caucasus bastion.
Allied air forces, led by the RAF, dropped an estimated 2,600 tons of bombs on Duisburg, the heaviest raid in history, as Cologne and Dortmund had earlier endured severe bombardments. Parallel actions included American bombing in northern France and Red Air Force strikes in Poland, with widening Allied pressure across Europe. The War Labor Board gained limited discretionary power to raise wages to aid war production, though not to undo all inequities, under Byrnes directive clarifying the hold line policy.
The British admiralty reports a major Allied victory over U boats in the Atlantic. Air and sea power aided by escort ships and Royal Canadian Air Force planes sunk or likely sunk ten submarines in eight days as 25 enemy subs fought the convoy, with most merchant ships reaching port safely.
The Postal Telegraph and Western Union Tele- graph companies announce a merger forecast to boost war and postwar telegraph service. The combined firms will employ many, run about 145 million dollars in annual business, with assets nearing 500 million. Western Union will acquire all Postal Telegraph assets and assume its liabilities, including debt to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, after over two decades of negotiations aided by congressional action and FCC approval.
The War Production Board announces halting new war plant construction not finishable by October 1 while converting existing machine tools and facilities to urgently needed goods. The plan redirects men and materials to the war program, cancelling $500 million to $1 billion of new plant projects and reallocating tool plants to produce weapons.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced a loan program to aid small stores, gasoline stations, and related businesses harmed by wartime restrictions. Jesse Jones said RFC Mortgage Company will handle loans secured by real estate, including stores, gas stations, and other business properties with reduced earnings. Three loan types include participation, refunding, and care and preservation loans.
The U S Senate confirmed the temporary lieutenant general appointments of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr and John Lesesne DeWitt as part of wartime promotions. The announcements come amid a record OPA paper and coffee ration news and a policy allowing teachers to take summer war work without being frozen into summer jobs.
Washington Digest reviews a draft World Council concept linking an international agricultural bank and admin bodies to lift global living standards and coordinate nutrition, processing, storage, and relief. It notes U S wartime innovations like egg dehydration and discusses lend-lease era trade shifts and Kiska’s contested status.
The OPA announced that gardeners cultivating plots away from home will qualify for more gasoline this summer if they show weed for extra mileage. In 1918 American war expenditures reached 184 billion dollars, rising to over 100 million dollars in 1943. A German seamstress was sentenced to six months for demanding payment in eggs and dairy instead of money after answering an advertisement. she left when refused.
Officials from Washington and allied commands witnessed Sikorsky tests on a tanker as a boyish colonel, H F Gregory, landed a rotorcraft in a space between the mast and deck house. He made 24 landings over two days under varied sea conditions showcasing rotary wing anti submarine potential.
A long profile surveys Admiral Richmond Turner and Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky highlighting their wartime roles. It notes Turner's Guadalcanal planning, helicopter ideas, and ties to Tokyo diplomacy, while Rokossovsky is praised for rapid rise, bold cavalry tactics, and key victories against the Germans, with context on allied leadership and broader war anxieties.
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