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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1943
Page
2
Ottawa reports Mal MacDonald stating British high command believes at least 14 enemy submarines have been sunk in the past two weeks. He predicts the Allied assault on Europe will begin very soon and notes a captured submarine was served up as breakfast recently.
Friends and relatives meet at Jones Funeral Home at 2 PM for the funeral of Mrs Mary Cather ine Richards longtime Frederick county resident. The service at the Methodist church near Mountain Falls will be led by Rev C H Anderson and Rev Carlyle McDonald, with interment in the adjoining cemetery.
Groton Conn June 29 The Electric Boat Company will launch its tenth submarine in 19 weeks the Angler to celebrate Independence Day. The craft will be sponsored by Mrs Patrick H Drewry of Petersburg Virginia wife of a House Naval Affairs Committee member.
The Senate approved a 1.238 billion Labor-Federal Security Appropriations bill with funds for the No Youth Administration. Senator Clark withdrew plans for another NYA vote as the measure passed 41 to 37. The bill returns to a joint conference committee to reconcile differences before tomorrow midnight fiscal year end.
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Wallace details friction with Jesse Jones over RFC stockpiling for quinine and strategic materials from 1939 to 1943. He cites delays, funding gaps, and opposition within BEW and War Production directives, calling for stronger action to secure imports during total war.
A Brazilian artillery captain Tulio Regis Nascimento and two others were sentenced to 30 years for espionage in Rio de Janeiro. Ten defendants including the former German ambassador and the German naval attache got 20 to 25 years in absentia for transmitting information to Germany before Brazil entered the war.
The Belgian government in exile, quoting Linsoumis, says more than 7,500 Belgian patriots have been shot by the Germans since occupation. The government also reports Henry Labre, a Flemish National Socialist leader at Schaerbeek Brussels, was killed by patriots.
Miners in western Pennsylvania and Ohio voted to end stoppages, boosting production as back-to-work sentiment spreads. National idle figures show 139,000 still idle while over 400,000 work. Wilkes-Barre leaders discuss accelerating mine reopens.
Richmond reports the twenty year anniversary of Virginia’s motor fuel tax with C. F. Joyner Jr noting that about 258.9 million dollars have been collected since 1923 to fund highway building and maintenance. The tax began at two cents and rose to five cents by 1925 with major road expansion shown in 1925 to 1942. Gasoline tax receipts from June 1 to June 28 totaled 1.547 million, near six months of 1923 output.
Norton Virginia June 29 A Virginia Coal Operators Association spokesman said absenteeism among Southwest Virginia miners was not much above normal for Monday as most of the 10,000 United Mine Workers in the field returned to work. All high volatile field mines were operating with five previously idle mines now short staffed. Buchanan field mines ran except Panther Coal at Roseann where about 400 miners were out though they had worked Friday and Saturday.
Virginia motorists were warned by N B Early Jr collector of internal revenue that the new $5 auto use stamp must be on all automobiles by Thursday. Owners should obtain the stamp at the post office or revenue office and affix it by July 1 or face severe penalties once detected on highways.
Alabama coal output fell as major mines in the Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co and Woodward Iron Co fields closed due to no shows for the morning shift. Only Docena shaft and Lewisboroe remained active with small crews, supplying coke ovens for regional steel plants. No reason given for the cut.
Tooele Utah June 29 Trouble is stored up for the axis in the army ordnance depot in Tooele Valley. Officers say the facility is one of the nation’s largest ordnance depots with 77 miles of railroad and 150 miles of roads inside its boundaries. About 4 000 civilians may be employed when fully staffed and 1 000 igloos hold hundreds of 1 000 pound bombs arranged to prevent chain explosions.
From Bern on June 29 a Lausanne newspaper reports tense Italian preparations for a possible battle with an Allied landing in Sicily or southern Italy. It cites fears of a large Allied armada and air cover, with Italy focusing on southern defense and the Balkans as secondary.
London dispatch reports Paris radio dismissing German invasion timing as nonexistent for July 3 a Saturday. The report notes Iceland’s geysers and hot springs were also mentioned in the same broadcast.
Berlin radio claimed a 9,000 ton British cruiser was sunk and another torpedoed during attacks on a Royal Naval squadron in the Mediterranean. Reuters notes no Allied confirmation. Lisbon dispatches quote Portuguese sources saying German planes hit a southbound British convoy off Portugal and sunk two vessels, also unconfirmed.
The War Production Board took control of woodpulp use and barred deliveries to paper and paperboard makers without WPB authorization. The move aims to ensure pulp for war needs amid rising demand from the Army Navy lend-lease and other claimants.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the treason convictions of six Chicagoans and remanded for a new trial. Defendants Hans Haupt Otto Wergin Walter Froehling and their wives Erna Haupt Kate Wergin and Lucille Froehling were sentenced to death and 25 years each. They were linked to harboring and aiding Herbert Haupt son of the Haupts, one of eight Nazi saboteurs brought here by German submarines. The reversal was unanimous.
The article notes German innovations in attack tactics reducing Uboat activity. It quotes a newspaper saying big power superiority wanes in long wars and that German U boat pack tactics surprised the Allies before aircraft carrier use. U S Navy Secretary Knox had said a dozen new auxiliary carriers were in action with dozens more slated by year end.
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