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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
2
Allied leaders assess post Tunisia campaign and define renewed grand strategy as Casablanca promises reassert, winter wheat and rye prices dip to 1936 levels, signaling wartime economic shifts. News notes continue on Western Front developments and related supply concerns.
Allied forces crash through Tunisian defenses as German generals led by Willard Baro and Omar Bradley accept terms of surrender. American Second Army drives through rugged lines to Bizerte while remnants in the Cape Yon peninsula retreat. Red group holds and British Eighth Army press southern pockets as Axis forces collapse across Tunisia.
The agriculture department forecasts the smallest Winter wheat and rye crops since 1938 with Winter wheat production near 15 million bushels and rye around 20 million. Yields average about 1.55 bushels per acre and over 20 million bushels to be harvested. Pastures expected to be at 70 percent of normal and hay stocks over 18 million tons. In Asia Pacific theater Allied air forces report destroying or damaging multiple Japanese aircraft and targets, with fighter and bomber activity across Canton and surrounding fields.
American soldiers serving overseas may now receive packages without prior permission from commanding officers. The system requires the parcel to meet current size and weight limits and the soldier to present their envelope when mailing the package, per instruction from St Johnny Doughdoy.
Wartime talks between Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt focus on future Allied strategy. They discuss plans for a possible invasion of French North Africa, wartime developments in the Pacific, and the fight against Nazi Germany. Previous conferences in Casablanca and Washington set the tone for coordinating operations in Europe and Africa.
The article notes about 900000 unemployed in the United States with many cycling between jobs. Agricultural payrolls fell by 40090019 while overall employment rose slightly, driven by seasonal farm work and students entering work. The data imply a general job market uptick despite a wobbling economic tone.
A new independent Civilian Supply Administration was approved by the Senate 44 to 29. James P. Dyrres Stabilization Director will oversee essential consumer needs and place orders for materials and manpower, taking over the War Department fabrications role and replacing the War Production Board with a reorganized agency headed by Arthur White.
The Office of Price Administration expands authority of local rationing boards to revoke gas ration books for mismatched applications or misuse. Under the new order, certification holders on commercial vehicles could lose books for speeding or failing to comply with wartime transport provisions.
The latest Rum plan would forgive income taxes for one year excluding high earners profiting from the war, impose a 20 percent withholding tax on weekly wages, and wipe the remaining years. It links to exemptions and farm payments, with March 15, 1944 as a key settlement date. Franco appeals for peace while Allied and Axis forces, defenses, and diplomacy shape a volatile wartime panorama.
Fragmentary report suggests communications were cut between Axis Bulgaria and neutral Turkey as Allied Envanion lines approach. Fort Knox resident MMe Ger C L Scott reported from Kentucky noting Army complacency and war anxieties in the South Eastern Europe theater.
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