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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1943
Page
2
Allied representatives map overall strategy to defeat the Axis as Red Army advances on Nazi strongholds. The October draft quota will include fathers, balancing manpower needs with public sentiment.
The report details Allied operations in Italy including air and naval bombardment and Eisenhower’s tally of Axis casualties, plus the Quebec conference where Roosevelt and Churchill map Invasion of Europe and postwar policies. It also notes Russian counteroffensives near Kharkov and Donetz, German divisions and front pressures, and hints at a 1944 spending tax proposal taxing higher incomes and excess profits to raise revenue.
President Roosevelt authorized penalties for WLB non compliance including cancellation of draft deferments and suspension of a striker’s privilege for other employment. He urged withholding contracts and utilizing government seizure of plants in extreme cases. Vinson to impose penalties as penalties. Of 1,000 WLB settlements only seven non compliances. Thirty miners denied dismissals and ordered to trial as Smith Connally law upheld. Draft quotaOctober set at 12 000 with induction of pre Pearl Harbor dads starting for non deferable jobs. Reynolds predicts congressional action to standardize policy. Navy met its quota while ordnance plants reduced output due to lower demand. Eight army plants placed in standby.
Plans from Cordell Hull and congressional reps aim to require majority House and Senate votes for executive temporary management pacts in conquered areas. Congress would fund and supervise expenditures to safeguard U S interests. Senator Arthur Vandenberg notes this does not alter the two thirds Senate ratification rule for final postwar treaties.
American airmen attacked Weewak New Guinea destroying 215 of 225 enemy aircraft sent to reinforce the Japanese on the Australian front after a raid that hit 120 planes on the ground. In the Solomons, warships hit a Japanese convoy, sinking one destroyer and damaging barges.
The army unveils the M-5 tank boasting two Cadillac engines and an automatic hydra-matic gear system. It claims top speed and ease of battlefield servicing, with transfer-unit driven power to tracks. Army officials note many mechanics trained on automobile engines can service it with minimal instruction.
The article notes planes and other military vehicles will consume about 90.6 percent of total gasoline production east of the Rockies for the rest of the year and around 40 percent by 1945. It cites heavy bomber fuel needs, such as Flying Fortresses using about a gallon per mile, and cites the Tunisian campaign where 1.1 million gallons daily were burned in Maj. Gen. James Doolittle's air units. Civilian allotments in the 17-state East Coast area run about 13.776 million gallons per day. It also mentions 126 refineries starting 100-octane gas for military planes to surpass the East Coast daily quota.
LEND LEASE exports in the first half of 1949 outpaced normal U S exports for an entire year in the 1929 to 1989 window. About four billion dollars in lend-lease shipments occurred, with other billings of around 1 5 billion dollars bringing total shipments to roughly 5 14 billion dollars.
Washington planners press for orderly demobilization after the Quebec conference. They outline veteran placement, unemployment safeguards, retraining centers, and continued wartime contracts to ease transition. The piece contrasts government and private industry roles and cites Walter Reed hospital, veterans, and national labor shifts.
About 150000 tons of timber salvaged from bombed buildings in Britain have been refinished and made into crates and boxes for essential war uses. Nazis pursue a politeness campaign to ease irritation as war nerves fray. The French Academy of Arts and Sciences will not nominate new members until the war ends. A private citizen was paid 400 dollars after suing a retailer for overcharging two cents on each of four dozen eggs. settlement reached out of court.
A读rmerwide tale reviews wartime shortages and illicit trade. It notes Chinese prices for a fountain pen at 10 000 Chinese dollars and lipstick at 5 000 Chinese dollars, explains why US fliers carry luxuries, and links lend lease to warlord maintenance. It then shifts to rubber supply challenges, predicting near one million tons next year, factory downgrades, and new plants. It also recounts Solomons Island naval logistics, small business loan troubles in Congress, and a Merry-Go-Round anecdote about British journalist Frank Tinsley seeking a locomotive cab ride to New York.
A veteran writes that sport began not for physical development but from religious pageants in early society, later blending with athletic contests. He cites Greek training shaping soldiers, notes Hitler’s mass athletics, and argues the United States should expand competitive sport for youth 12 to 20, plus cautions about horse racing and social costs.
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