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BASTROP ADVERT!SERAUGUST 5, 1943
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
MUSSOLINI:
No Caesar
Biggest news story of the war—
that was Benito Mussolini's resigna-
tion as Italy's prime minister and
strong man for 21 years. Taking
his place was Fascism's shadow,
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, avowedly
Mussolini's bitter enemy, yet the
builder of his armies and his con-
queror of Ethiopia.
Mussolini n?ft the scene with
Italy's empire lost; with Axis
armies pocketed in the northeastern
corner of Sicily by Allied forces, and
with the Italian mainland afire from
bombs. As he left, King Victor Em-
manuel called on all Italians to
stand firm in the most fateful hour
of the country's destiny. Italy again
will find the road of the future, he
said.
Twenty-one years ago, Mussolini
took over the Italian government fol-
lowing a march of 8,000 of his Black-
shirts on Rome. Italy writhed in
disorder, her industries crippled
from strikes, and her unemployed
war veterans in riot. In the crisis,
King Victor turned to Mussolini, and
thus did the strong man come to
power.
He restored order. He created
public works and set up the cor-
porate state, in which all economic
groups are represented in govern-
ment. He settled papal claims to
the amount of 92 million dollars and
recognized the Vatican's sovereign-
ty. But it was over empire that
Mussolini stumbled.
Take Up Last Line
At the beginning of the final stage
of resistance in Sicily, the Axis line
roughly ran from the east coast port
of Catania westward to the moun-
tains, and then curved northward to
the shores of the Tyrrhenian sea.
Near Catania, strong Axis forces
held firm after early tank battles
had failed to pierce their lines. To
the west, Canadian troops picked
their way through rugged terrain to
advance on the Axis outpost of Re-
galbuto, which huddles behind
mountainous mngps.
After seizing the big Sicilian port
of Palermo, Gen, George S. Pat-
ton's American Seventh army drove
westward along the Tyrrhenian
coast toward the last Axis defenses
defending Messina, which lies at
the extreme tip of the island, two
miles from the Italian mainland.
German attempts to reinforce
Axis troops in Sicily by means of
giant Junkers and Merseberg three-
and six-engined transport planes met
stiff opposition from the Allies.
RUSSIA:
Reds Press In
With three columns driving in
from the north, east and south, and
another force swinging wide to the
west to cut off the rear, Russian
armies tightened their hold on the
German held bulge of Orel.
The westwardly drive threatened
the railroad linking Orel with the
great Nazi supply base of Bryansk.
Severance of the line meant inter-
ruption in the now of supplies be-
ins shunted to German troops stub-
bornly resisting the Reds' three-cor-
nered drive on Orel.
While the Russians pressed slow- |
lv against German defenses at Orel, j
ir . ~ m-ecii'O Red of-
the Nazis told of a massive
fonsive south of Luke Ladoga on the
Finnish front and below Leningrad.
The Germans also said strong Rus-
sian attacks at Novorossisk in the
northwestern Caucasus had been re-
pelled.
HIGHLIGHTS.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Jungle Fighting
Working their way through jungle
brush, American doughboys braved
hidden Japanese machine gun out-
posts to advance within range of the
enemy's main perimeter of defenses
around the strategic airfield of Mun-
do in the Solomon islands.
As the troops crept closer to their
objective, the U. S. air force con-
tinued furnishing heavy support,
dive-bombers roaring in to pound the
Japs' nest of wooden and earthen
pill boxes.
In New Guinea, Liberator and
Mitchell bombers gave Salamaua a
going over, dropping 250 tons of ex-
plosives in two days. As the air force
softened up this important enemy
base, Allied ground troops fought off
Jap patrols to advance eastward to
the town.
MANPOWER:
'Super-CriticaV
Over and above the 3,000 Jobs
that the War Manpower commission
has designated essential, it has pre-
pared a list of "super-critical" occu-
pations for which draft boards will
be asked to give especial consider-
ation, WMC Chairman Paul V. Mc-
Nutt announced.
The new "super-critical" list will
not replace the old list, McNutt ex-
plained, but rather will be given
preferential ranking above it. Draft
boards will not be ordered to ex-
empt workers in the "super-critical"
occupations because the boards
have this power under law.
The new "super-critical" classifi-
cation followed WMC plans for al-
lowing workers to transfer to other
plants to receive higher pay for the
same jobs.
HARVEST:
Production Down
Despite unfavorable spring weath-
er, the nation's farmers have all but
completed their harvesting of spring
wheat, being but only one week be-
ie9era?rcr8{> s?Mlla?,Scor4W 1°,
of July 1, total production for 1943
was estimated at 790 million bushels
against 981 million last year.
Only in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
did harvesting fall back to any ex-
tent. Throu^i Oklahoma, Texas and
Kansas the wheat was cleaned up
according tc schedule, and work in
Nebraska aid Missouri progressed
favorably.
Estimation of the winter wheat
harvesting ihowed Kansas with a
crop of 150 million bushels, against
206 million *st year; Nebraska with
53 million gainst 68 million; Okla-
homa with 1 million against 57 mil-
lion, and Texas with 33 million
against 47 nillion. Illinois with 17
million ag?i)st 12 million was cred-
ited with tt biggest advance over
last year.
RATIOrlNG:
Mark V mutter
To keerpurchases in line with
supplies, if point value of butter
was raise |by 2 to 10 points per
pound for it period ending Septem-
ber 4, th'Oflice of Price Adminis-
tration aiOunced. The action fol-
lowed civiln purchases in excess
of allotrrits during the last few
months. I
Housev'Is switching to other
fats will stable to obtain shorten-
ing, lard id cooking and salad oils
at one !«* less. Margarine re-
mains urtftnged at four points.
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BEER: Inability of brewers to
get corn and other grains is resulting
in a shortage of beer that will be-
come increasingly acute as reserves
are used up, industry leaders say.
MILK: Rationing of fluid milk is
likely by autumn, says a statement
from the department of agriculture,
forecasting a fall slump in produc-
tion of 1 to 3 per cent.
BUY WAR BONDS
BOMBERS:
Strike Nazi Industry
Heavy round-the-clock raids on
Hitler's European fortress got under
way again with a U. S. raid on the
Nazis' Norwegian submarine port of
Trondheim and a neighboring:
aluminum plant.
No sooner had the bombers alight-
ed than fresh squadrons took off,
this time for northern Germany. The j
RAF pointed bomber noses toward |
the great North sea port of Ham-j
burg and dropped 2,300 tons of ex-
plosives. Another British force;
struck hard at the gigantic Krupp
arms works at Essen.
Following in the wake of the Brit-
ish, U. S. airmen worked over Ham-
burg in daylight. Continuing the
concentrated assault on German in-
dustry, other formations plastered
rubber factories at Hanover and the
Focke-Wulfe aircraft assembly plant
at Warnemuende. Shipyards were
hit at the German naval station of
Kiel.
Almost 60 Allied planes were lost
in the raids, the bombers encounter-
ing heavy anti-aircraft fire to a
height of from 20,000 to 35,000 feet,
and fleets of fighters.
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WHEAT:
Stocks for Feed
Feeling that the present corn
shortage is the gravest emergency
facing uie country, and that any fu-
ture civilian wheat scarcity can be
met out of Canada's record produc-
tion, the Commodity Credit corpo-
ration has determined to raise prac-
tically all limits on its sales of wheat
stocks for feeds.
Under the new regulation made
in agreement with the War Food
administration, only 30 days trade
and 90 days feeders inventories will
be held. The CCC had 215 million
bushels of grain with which to start
the program, and it was expected
that stocks would be augmented by
purchases of excess elevator sup-
plies. Since wheat generally was
selling above the CCC loan rate, it
was not thought that stocks could
be built from this source.
At the same time, CCC divulged
it was seeking to import additional
grain from Canada by rail. Ap-
yw* IRA •• • LlUo«\ KuoKol C QTP
to be shipped over the Great Lakes.
Coastal shipment from Canada to
American Pacific ports also was be-
ing sought.
TREASON:
Broadcasters Named
Eight American citizens charged
with broadcasting Axis propaganda
from Germany and Italy were in-
dicted by a federal grand jury for
treason. To secure the indictment,
the government presented phono-
graph recordings of talks, and ac-
quaintances identified their voices.
Among the eight, six of the ac-
cused are native Americans and two
are naturalized citizens of German
birth. Most prominent of those in-
CHINAlthe Japanese army au-
thorities *ve executed at least 91
Chinese allies for assisting Amer-
ican airrtfcwho participated in the
raid on ty0 in 1942, a statement
from Cluing says.
POLA*S The German army is
constru<f a fortifications
in Polaijp0 miles back from the
present'**ian battle lines.
WILD FOODS IN
JUNGLES THAT
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SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 26—
Uncle Sam's fighting men are in no
danger of starving to death in the
jungle or near seash' res, according
to Dr. tEl D. Merrill of Jamaica Plain,
Mass., administrator of the Arnold
Arboretum at Harvard University,
who addressed a General Electric
Science Forum here on the subject
of "Emergency Ftx>ds."
"If an individual were cast ashore
on some remote island, or if he were
separated from 'his command in the
jungles of the larger islands of the
Pacific, there are nearly always pre-
sent certain plant species, parts of
which may be eaten with entire safe-
ty," Dr. Merrill declared. "There is
no need of one's starving to death in
the midst of relative plenty if the
individual has ever a limited know-
ledge of what may and may not be
eaten.''
A new manual entitled "Emergen-
cy Food Plants and Poisonous Plants
of the Islands of the Pacific" has
been distributed by the War Depart-
ment to our armed forces operating
in the Old World tropics, Dr. Merrill
announced. Containing 150 pages
with 113 illustrations, the booklet
shows the tropical species that can
be eaten either raw or cooked —
parts of various palms, ferns and
herbs, such as those producing tub-
ers, edible fruits, seeds, or tender
shoots, leaves and flowers. It cov-
ers all of Polynesia, Melanesia, Mic-
ronesia and Malaya, and for all prac-
tical urposes, tropical Asia.
Picnics are more fun when you
have attractive picnic plat£ , cups,
casion. Get your supply from EL-
casion. eGt your supply from EL-
KINS 5.10-25 cent STORE
PROCLAMATION
by the
Governor of the State of Texas
NO. 8029
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRES-
ENTS SHALL COME:
WHE>R|EAS, the conservation of
deposit bottles, like the conservation
of all other materials these days, is
of vital importance to everyone; and
WHEREAS, millions of these emp-
ty deposit bottles are known to be
in homes, garages, business places
and industrial plants; and
WHEREAS, the return of these
idle bottles which can be sterilized
for civilian re-use would permit the
glass industry to use even more of it#?
facilities for the manufacture of
glass containers for food and other
items required by *he Armed Forces
at home and abroad:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Coke
Stevenson, Governor of the State of
Texas, do hereby request that every
person cooperate in this
DEPOSIT BOTTLE CONSERVA-
TION PROGRAM
which opens August first, and ask
that they search their homes, gar-
ages, business places and industrial
plants and promptly return these con-
tainers to the places from which they
were obtained.
IN WITNESS WHEJtEOF 1
have hereunto signed my name
officially and caused the Seal
of State to be affixed hereto
at Austin, this the 19th day
of July, A. D., 1943.
(Signed) Coke R. Stevenson,
Governor of Texas.
BY THE GOVERNOR:
(Signed) Sidney Latham
Secretary of State
A complete line of summer toilet-
ries, including lotions, creams, antis.
eptics, etc., at ELK INS 5.10-25 cent
STORE.
THIRD WAR LOAN
i DRIVE GOAL SET
Fifteen billion dollars is the goal
for the Third War Loan which Pre-
i sident Roosevelt has proclaimed will
be launched September 9. In his pro-
clamation the President said, "Our
need for money now is greater thaji
ever, and will ocntinue to grow until
the very day that Victory is won; so
we must ask far more sacrifice, far
more cooperation than ever before."
BLAZING TRAILS Jo VICTORY
From Africa to China and back again, American supply
forces arc blazing new traits to victory. Wherever
supplies go, the engineer must go first. His transit
must chart the way for new airfields, roads, and set
the stakes for the port facilities that will spring
up overnight. His fight, too, is a front-line fight.
We'll never know his name or the hardships endured
by him; but, because he's doing his job right, the tools
of victory are being delivered .... and on time.
STAMPS 1
indicted for broadcasting enemy propa-
ganda were (from left to right) Douglas
Chandler, Wilhelm Kaltenbach and Ezra
found.
dieted is Fzra Pound, 57-year-old
poet and writer who has lived in
England, France and Italy since
1911. He was said to be the only
one of the group broadcasting from
Italy.
Three of the group, including a
I woman, were former newspaper re-
porters. According to the indict-
ments, the broadcasts included de-
nunciation of communism and the
Jews, criticism of the American war
program, and praise of Germany
and Italy.
STRIKE:
Test New Law
First test of the new congressional
anti-strike law came with a Penn-
sylvania grand jury's indictment of
30 United Mine Workers local of-
ficials and members for conspir-
ing and acting to interrupt produc-
tion in government-held pits. Con-
viction on the charges would make
the defendants liable to fines up to
$5,000 or sentences up to a year in
jail.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1943, newspaper, August 5, 1943; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236918/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.