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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1943
Page
4
Whitewright Sun announces poste restante second class mail status at Whitewright Texas. Notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials and resolutions will also be charged.
The column argues Congress is likely to adopt a pay as you go income tax system in 1943 to speed wartime revenue. It notes the 1942 tax issue and possible postponement, compares shifting tax bases to gain yearly revenue, and mentions farmers and a soldier’s letter from Palestine linking Wilmot, South Dakota to the topic.
Washington psychiatrists caution home letters can worsen war stress. They outline battles, fatigue, fear, family separation, and lack of food as triggers. Emphasizing morale, they advise rest, good meals, and sympathetic listening to aid recovery and reduce neurosis among troops.
Montreal report quotes Vice Admiral Percy W. Nelles stating Hitler uses milk cow submarines to feed U Boat fleets and that German submarine numbers are rising about ten per month. He warned of intensified undersea warfare and possible spring resumption of St Lawrence shipping attacks.
The speaker notes that oil torpedoes and other supplies are carried by submarine freighters or milk cows, used by the Germans to intimidate. He asserts they do not frighten Allied forces and that careful notes of these developments will guide future actions.
Moscow reports the Red Army has killed or captured all but about 12,000 of the 220,000 German troops trapped at Stalingrad. The communique says two to three days remain in the last phase of the battle, with 40,000 Germans killed and 28,000 captured since January 10.
Office of War Information experts cataloged 4500 rumors into five types including hate rhetoric about military leaders and groups, worry and weakness fears, wishful escape stories, supernatural prophecies, and harmless looking but poisonous curiosities. In handling rumor peddlers, listen through to the end, then press for source, and reveal they often rely on others, not firsthand accounts.
The Chester Illinois Herald-Tribune urges residents not to complain about ration allocations. It explains ration boards are overwhelmed processing gasoline fuel oil and tires requests. It marks a call for businesslike, specific complaints and notes boards are unpaid, doing their best.
Dialogue notes a crew member questioning an insignia on a bomber while the commanding officer peers from a port hole, capturing wartime curiosity and tension aboard.
The Army may discharge inductees over 38 by written request to their commanding officer. The policy targets nonvolunteers and requires proof of employment in war industry or agriculture. Discharges depend on age handicaps, usefulness, and availability of a suitable replacement.
The text states that availability does not guarantee release and that discharge of the inductee under these terms lies entirely with the War Department for the war effort, not the inductee. It emphasizes that an application is not a promise to release and the war office retains control.
Humorous paragraphs by Homer M. Price recount a Kansas City preacher’s 57 substitute words for damn and a farmer startled by a backfire. A town employer laments unemployed workers, and a soldier writes home about a party versus barracks life to boost civilian morale.
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