The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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TH*! J4CKSBORO fJAZETTR
They Came, They Saw, Tljey Conquered
RUSSIA:
Nazis Claim Strength
Claiming (hat waves of dive-bomb-
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Hardest Fighting Still to Come: Byrnes;
Chinese Forces Rout Foe Along Yangtze
As Japs Drive Toward Wartime Capital;
Allied Airmen Pound Objectives in Italy
ers and fighter planes had leveled
the Russian base of Krimskaya and
extended operations beyond in the
Caucasus, the Nazis boasted of re-
establishing their air superiority
over their embattled bridgehead at
Novorossisk.
Even so, Russian pressure contin-
ued against the Nazis’ only foothold
in the Caucasus, with the Reds de-
veloping another threat to Novoros-
sisk by landing troops on the shores
of the Taman peninsula to the Ger
mans’ rear.
Minor action flared on other sec-,
tions of the Russian front. South of
Leningrad, the Reds reported de-
stroying a network of pill-boxes and
dugouts, while shooting up a freight
train. Before Smolensk, artillery fire
was said to have wiped out two
enemy companies.
GOAL STRIKE:
Labor Crisis
America’s wartime labor situation
moved toward a crisis with the
walkout of approximately 450,000
miners after a 30-day truce had
failed to end in a new contract. Sec-
retary of the Interior Harold Ickes,
nominally the operator of the mines
after the government had taken
them over during the first strike
threat, flayed both sides for the dis-
ruption of work.
As a basis for compromise, the
UMW had suggested a settlement of
the entire wage question by pay-
ment of $1.50 per day as a solution
of the portal-to-portal question, or
compensation for the time miners
spend traveling to and from their
coal faces above and underground.
The $1.50 payment would be tem-
porary until a mixed committee had
worked out a final settlement of the
issue.
The operators proposed portal-to-
portal pay of 80 cents a day as a
basis for discussion. The bone of
contention entered into the issue of
payment of overtime for 35 hours,
which was a condition of the miners’
last contract.
PAY-AS-YOU-GO:
At Long Last
The house took the first step i" 3
passage of its conference corn .4-
tee’s pay-as-you-go legislation.
One hundred and sixty-seven Re-
publicans joined with 89 Democrats
in approving the bill, which for-
gives all of one year's taxes of $50
and allows for a reduction of 75 per
cent on the remainder over $50.
The legislation also provides for a
20 per cent tax, after exemptions on
all salaries or wages. Persons ob-
taining incomes from other sources,
like farmers, must estimate their
yearly earnings and then pay off
the liability on a quarterly basis.
Persons who are left with a 25
per cent tax after the 75 per cent
forgiveness must pay off the re-
mainder in two annual installments,
due in 1944 and 1945. In all, the
government hopes to recapture three
billion dollars under the proposed
bill.
CANNED MILK:
One Red Point
With canned milk production off
25 per cent from last year’s output
of 75 million cans, and with the gov-
ernment purchasing half of the sup-
ply, the Office of Price Administra-
tion placed condensed and evaporat-
ed milk on the rationed list.
Under the regulations, 14% ounce
cans, or several cans totaling 14
ounces or less, now are worth one
ns, they are those of
JT this newspaper.)
When opinions are expressed in these colum
Union's news analysis and not necessarily
Released by Western Newspaper Union. *.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: V
Western Newspaper 1
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BBBiSHHKrl
On a banjo made from the metal
of a wrecked Japanese Zero fighter
plane, Lieut. Walter E. Moore
strums out American favorites at a
U. S. base in Buna, New Guinea,
Tuning screws are 25 caliber car*
tridges.
Bringing back first-hand knowledge of Axis military technique gained
from his observations on the North African front, Lieut. Gen. Lesley
McNair (left), commander of ground forces, is greeted on his arrival at
third army headquarters by Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges (center) and
Maj. Gen. Wade H. Haislip. Lieutenant General McNair was wounded
while on his inspection trip through the battle area.
Scores of American soldiers carrying their equipment pour out of
landing barges onto the black volcanic sand of Massacre Bay, on the
Aleutian island of Attu which had been held by the Japanese. Fighting
in conjunction with army air forces these men forced the enemy to
retreat to the sea.
Adrift 131 Days
CHINA:
Rout Japs
Five Japanese divisions of 75,000
men were routed as Chinese troops
counterattacked along the Yangtze
river. Even as the enemy was thrown
back, American bombers and Chi-
nese fighters swooped on the Jap
air base of Ichang, and 10 tons of
explosives were dropped.
The Jap rout came after they had
thrust south toward the Yangtze in
their drive to the Chinese provision-
al capital of Chungking, 295 miles
to the east. According to the Allied
communique, the Chinese armies de-
veloped an encircling movement, cut
off the Japanese line of retreat, and
then chopped up the entrapped units.
Besides raiding Ichang, Allied air-
men were active over other sectors
of China. Jap warehouses and rail-
road yards were blasted at Foochow.
Even Mules Fight Axis
BYRNES:
Reports to Nation
The 100,000th war plane rolled off
the assembly line as the newly ap-
pointed War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes spoke to the na-
tion.
“We have at length caught up with
the Axis in our preparations and
are forging rapidly ahead,” he said.
“We have a long, hard road ahead.
The hardest fighting is yet to come.
Now we must not only keep up our
production but we must assume a
major part in the all-out military op-
erations of the enemy.”
Recounting America’s tremendous
production achievements, Byrnes re-
galed that the U. S. turned out 100
fighting ships in the first five months
this year; more than 1,000 cargo ves-
sels were built during the 12 months
ending May 31; 100,000 pieces of anti-
aircraft cannon have been produced
and 1,500,000 machine guns and sub-
machine guns manufactured.
By April 1, Byrnes said, the U. S.
will have spent 10 billion dollars in
buying land and building camps and
kai* fields in this country. Referring
wj^g^ew^position, he declared that
woulcT seek~to bring unity among
the government agencies entrusted
with carrying out the war programs,
saying their teamwork was as nec-
essary as that of the soldiers.
■LNPOWER:
’’ WCut Deferments
^rvHily 1% million men will be dc-
Hh! in industry by the end of this
• Paul V. McNutt, chairman of
War Manpower commission, de-
^bred.
:|vMuring the year, McNutt said,
■■o.OOO physically fit men, includ-
ing fathers, will form the pool from
Which 2,700,000 must be inducted to
round out the goal of 11,000,000 for
k the- armed services.
K-Cfthe number, McNutt continued,
■00,000 will be deferred for farm
"work, 900,000 will be exempted for
dependency, and 1,500,000 will be de-
ferred for industrial work.
McNutt urged employers to pre-
pare for replacement of the 3 million
men now deferred in industry, in-
cluding fathers, whose general in-
duction around August 1 recently
was predicted by Selective Service
Director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her-
shey.
FARM SUPPLY:
Siinple Priority Needed
[ 3y merely filling out a form drawn
Fish and rainwater was the com-
plete diet of Poon Lim, this 25-ycar-
old Chinese sailor, while he drifted
on the Atlantic for 131 days with
only a raft between him and Davy
Jones’ locker. His ship had been
torpedoed.
Despite mechanization, the army needs the lowly mule. These three
have been picked from a mule market in St. Louis, Mo., to be transported
to a branch of the armed service. The demands of military forces have
caused prices on mules to soar and there is a brisk rush of trading each
day for this cross between a jackass and a mare.
Post-War Committee
So that the next Republican na-
tional convention might have the
basis for drawing up an appropriate
platform dealing with the part
America should play in the post-war
world’s reconstruction, 49 prominent
members of the GOP were named
to serve on a special committee to
study the question.
Announced by National Chairman
Harrison Spangler, the committee j
consists of 5 senators, 12 congress- I
men, 24 governors and 8 party offi-
cials.
According to Spangler, it will be
the duty of the committee to chart I
a program embracing the extent to I
which this country should commit
itself toward co-operating in main-
taining world peace. Of equal im-
portance, Spangler said, will be the [
committee’s task of mapping a j
course for our own domestic re-
construction. :
“We must plan for a free and
prosperous agriculture; labor con-
ditions which will insure labor its
just share; and conditions which will
permit industry to expand, grow, de-
velop and produce the things which
will add 'to our standard of living,”
Spangler declared.
ITALY:
Softened Up
Harbors, shipping and airdromes
were left in flames as Allied airmen
flew in from the east and west and
pounded both ends of Italy.
Heavily hit were the port facili-
ties of Naples, on Italy’s western
shoreline. To the east, the air base
at Foggia was raided, with ground-
ed planes, a gasoline dump and bar-
racks offering the target.
In all, 150 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators participated in the as-
saults. Despite the fact that fierce
fighter opposition was encountered
over Naples, the Allies reported no
losses.
Meanwhile, other units of the
North African air force continued to
pound Sardinia, which sprawls in the
Tyrrhenian sea west of Italy, and
Pantelleria, the tiny island south of
Sicily, where the Axis has devel-
oped underground hangars.
The Allies announced the loss of
but one Lightning in these raids. Al-
though admitting heavy damage
from Allied raids, the Italians
claimed to have shot down 57 British
and American bombers over Pan-
tclleria since May 1.
Jaws of Death
On the Road
MM
“Excessive speed” was named as
the cause of a wreck of a Pennsyl-
vania train, New York bound from.
Atlantic City, killing 14 persons and
injuring 89 others at Delair, N. J,
The wrecked vestibule looks like a.
grim jaw ready to devour the in*
specting officials.
British engineers in Burma are hacking highways through jungles,
mountains, to create a system of roads and supply lines over which they
plan to force the Japanese from their positions in that sector. At top:
British troops are working on a new stretch of road. Below: A convoy of
jeeps carry supplies around a loop on a new road in Burma._
British Strategists at Allied War Talks
Here's Mud in His Eye
HIGHLIGHTS
in the week'* newt
STOCKS: Trading on the Chicago
Stock Exchange dipped to its lowest
volume in 22 years during the fiscal
There were
,CH: Wendell Willkie called
^jehes to measure the pub-
Bkof politicians according
■kfk of their own tcach-
year ended April 30,
295 memberships outstanding.
Three of Britain’s war leaders take their places across the table from
the United States war chiefs at a meeting of American and British war
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FIGHTER: Survivor of one jungle
trices gained 2
crasn, 2nct-i_,ieut. Tommy Harmon,
7,249-ton cruiser Trouin, with eight
6.1-inch guns; three destroyers with
four 4.1-inch guns, and the 1,384-ton
submarine, Protee.
entire issue to the mud and water
L. Ismay. chief staff officer to the minister of defense; Admiral Sir
Dudley Pound, first sea lord and chief of naval staff; and Gen. Sir Alan
Brooke, chief of the imperial staff.
ex All-American from Michigan, re-
cently arrived in North Africa for
fruits, po-
hdrops in
in Russia shows a German trooper
taking a drink of muddy water. J
duty as a fighter-plane pilot.
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