Gewerkschaften drohen Roosevelt und dem Kongreß –
Zwischen den Mühlsteinen der USA.-Verwaltung
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Gewerkschaften drohen Roosevelt und dem Kongreß –
Johnston frech wie Knox –
Amerika wird nicht abrüsten
dnb. Stockholm, 14. August –
Der Präsident der USA.-Handelskammer, Alex Johnston, der sich zur Zeit in London aufhält, erklärte in einer Rede:
Die Nordamerikaner Werden nicht die ersten sein, die nach dem Kriege abrüsten. Im Gegenteil, die USA. werden eine große Flotte, eine große Luftwaffe und eine vergrößerte Armee aufrechterhalten.
Mr. Johnston unterstrich damit nur, was Marineminister Knox in seinem frechen Programm über den nordamerikanischen „Beitrag zur Weltsicherheit“ ausgeführt hatte. Die angehenden jüdisch-amerikanischen Weltpolizisten und Schacherer haben ihre Rechnung allerdings gemacht, ohne dabei den Widerstandswillen der Völker Europas und Großostasiens zu berücksichtigen.
Einer Meldung aus Washington zufolge gab Roosevelts Sekretär bekannt, daß Paul Porter, der von seinem Posten als Stellvertretender Leiter des Amtes für die Lebensmittelverwaltung zurückgetreten ist, vom Präsidenten zum Stellvertretenden Leiter des Büros für wirtschaftliche Stabilisierung ernannt wurde.
Neger werden Städter
Das Negerproblem in den Vereinigten Staaten hat sich durch die Nachfrage nach Industriearbeitern weiter verschärft.
Nach neuen statistischen Berichten sind von 1930 bis 1940 rund eine Million Neger vom Lande in die Stadt gezogen. 1940 wohnten bereits 40 Prozent der 12,3 Millionen Neger der USA. in 315 Städten. In zwei Dritteln dieser Städte machten sie mindestens 10 Prozent der Gesamtbevölkerung aus. Durch die Hochkonjunktur in der Rüstungsindustrie hat sich diese Bewegung noch verstärkt. Wie die blutigen Vorgänge in Detroit und anderen Industriestädten gezeigt haben, ist das Negerproblem der USA. damit in ein neues ernstes Stadium getreten.
U.S. Navy Department (August 15, 1943)
Communiqué No. 458
The U.S. submarine PICKEREL (SS-177) has failed to return from patrol operations and must be presumed to be lost. The next of kin of personnel in the PICKEREL have been so informed.
Mediterranean.
The following U.S. naval vessels have been lost in action against the enemy in operations in this area:
- USS PG 496 (submarine chaser) sunk June 4, 1943, as result of underwater explosion.
- USS REDWING (AM-48) sunk June 29, 1943, as result of underwater explosion.
- USS SENTINEL (AM-113) sunk July 11, 1943, in landing operation off Sicily.
- USS MADDOX (DD-622) sunk July 10, 1943, by aircraft off Sicily.
Atlantic.
The USS PLYMOUTH (PG-57) was sunk a short distance off the North Carolina coast on August 5, 1943, as result of underwater explosion.
The next of kin of all casualties aboard the above-named vessels have been notified.
The Pittsburgh Press (August 15, 1943)
GERMANS CRUSHED, FIGHT TO FLEE SICILY
Planes blast Axis attempt at ‘Dunkirk’
Allied forces racing to cut off enemy troops at Messina
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
Beginning of the end in Sicily was marked by collapse of Axis defense lines in the northeastern corner of the island, with German and Italian forces streaming for the mainland from Messina and other points under a rain of Allied bombs. British and U.S. forces were driving to a junction around Mt. Etna and along the coastal roads, indicated by the arrows.
Allied HQ, North Africa – (Aug. 14)
Allied troops crashed through broken Nazi defenses on the entire Sicilian front tonight, capturing six more towns in a race for Messina while allied planes bombed and strafed scores of boats loaded with fleeing troops.
As the campaign reached a virtual mop-up stage, it was officially announced that the Germans are trying to carry out a major evacuation of their Sicilian bases.
Ring Mt. Etna
Streaming east from the fallen citadel of Randazzo, the Americans drove on Castiglione, almost completing an Allied ring around Mt. Etna while farther north other Yankees captured Floresta on the Randazzo-Capo d’Orlando road, and Piraino on the coast.
The British 8th Army took Fiumefreddo and Riposto on the east coast, Giarre just inland and Milo, nine miles from the summit of Mt. Etna.
By advancing five miles to Fiumefreddo, the 8th Army sealed off the road from Randazzo to the east coast, trapping any Germans in transit although it was believed most of the enemy had withdrawn except for suicide machine-gunners emplaced on the heights.
Many of foe captured
After reaching Giarre, an 8th Army column swung off to the left across the rolling northeast slope of Mt. Etna to meet the Americans beating over from Randazzo and at last reports, the two armies were only 12 miles apart.
Allied advances in the last 48 hours had resulted in automatic collapse of entire sectors and large numbers of Axis troops were captured.
It was unofficially estimated that enemy prisoners now totaled between 140,000 and 150,000 for the campaign.
Leave boobytraps
Nowhere was the enemy’s resistance more than a brisk rearguard action, but in the wake of their withdrawal the Germans left countless mines, boobytraps and demolitions. Some roads were impassable for miles, especially in the 8th Army sector where the enemy could blow down overhanging ledges on the coastal road.
The Germans left Randazzo in flames and infested with mines and boobytraps which the Americans had difficulty in detecting because there was so much shrapnel and other metal debris in the streets that the warning bells on mine locating devices kept ringing constantly.
Attack in waves
In a full day of continued advances on their front, the Americans reported not a single major contact with the enemy.
As the campaign surged toward a victorious climax at Messina that bomb-blackened port was a fantastic jumble of Axis evacuation traffic while in the harbor and from surrounding beaches every imaginable type of craft put out with Nazi troops.
Overhead, Allied planes screamed down in waves to turn this little “Dunkirk” into death for hundreds of Germans who were mowed down in the beaches or spilled from blasted small craft into the three-mile strait.
Use luxury yachts
Reconnaissance photographs showed scores of launches, barges, landing craft and even commandeered luxury yachts plowing over to Italy loaded with troops and hurrying back empty, taking zigzag evasive tactics to escape the planes.
The regular strait ferry to San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria in Italy was now completely out, official reports stated, and with few heavy ships available the Germans were leaving nearly all their equipment on the Messina beaches.
In addition to evacuating across the Strait of Messina, the Germans were pulling out from the north coast port of Milazzo toward ports on the northwest side of the toe of Italy.
In a day of furious new blows on the retreating and evacuating enemy, Allied planes shot down 10 enemy aircraft in addition to sinking, driving on the beaches or damaging scores of escape boats. Only four planes were lost by the Northwest African Air Force in all operations which included Friday’s big Rome raid and swings over targets in Sardinia and southern Italy.
An Italian communiqué broadcast from Berlin said that Axis torpedo planes hit and probably destroyed a medium-sized Allied steamer and a destroyer in the Mediterranean and bombed ships in the Syracuse road-stand “with good success.”
90 U-BOATS SUNK BY ALLIES IN 3 MONTHS
Ship losses to subs cut by one-half
Joint Roosevelt-Churchill statement indicates they have met
By H. O. Thompson, United Press staff writer
Washington – (Aug. 14)
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, in a joint statement suggesting that they may have met already, revealed tonight that the Allies sank more than 90 Axis submarines in May, June and July.
The statement – signed simply “Roosevelt, Churchill” – was issued by the White House as the two leaders were preparing for momentous conferences in Québec. It was released shortly after the President, observing the second anniversary of the signing of the Atlantic Charter, declared that the United Nations, “stand upon the threshold of major developments in this war.”
One a day sunk
The joint statement showed that:
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The Axis lost an average of one U-boat a day during the last three months.
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Recent sinkings by U-boats have had “but an insignificant effect on the conflict of the war by the Allies.”
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Although more than 2,500 vessels were used in the Sicilian campaign, Allied losses were only about 80,000 tons.
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During the first six months of 1943, the number of ships sunk per U-boat operating was only half that in the last six months of 1942 and only one-quarter that in the first half of 1942.
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United Nations shipping continues to show a considerable net increase with new ships completed in 1943 exceeding all sinkings from all causes by upwards of 3 million tons.
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Continued success against the U-boats will come only with unrelaxed efforts.
May have met
The White House announcement said Mr. Roosevelt and the Prime Minister issued the statement after consultation with the British Admiralty, the U.S. Navy Department, and the Canadian Department of National Defense for Naval Services.
The joint nature of the statement started immediate speculation that the two leaders had been in consultation preliminary to the formal conferences on war strategy to be held in Québec. Mr. Churchill visited Niagara Falls, New York, earlier this week, and it was believed that any meeting must have been held in this country.
July results hailed
The statement said:
Our offensive operations against Axis submarines continue to progress most favorably in all areas, and during May, June and July we have sunk at sea a total of over 90 U-boats, which represents an average loss of nearly one U-boat a day over the period.
Describing July as “probably our most successful month because the imports have been high, shipping losses moderate and U-boat sinkings heavy,” the statement said a steady flow of transatlantic supplies has continued unmolested on the greatest scale ever attempted.
Has large reserves
The few sinkings which have occurred were in distant areas and had little effect on Allied conduct of the war, the two men said. Their statement added that a tremendous armada of warships, trop transports, supply ships, and landing craft proceeded through Atlantic and Mediterranean waters in preparation for the Sicilian campaign “with scarcely any interference from U-boats.” Submarines attempting to interfere with the Sicilian operations “suffered severe losses,” it said.
The statement said:
In spite of this very favorable progress in the battle against the U-boat, it must be remembered that the enemy still has large U-boat reserves, completed and under construction.
See bigger battle
It is necessary, therefore, to prepare for intensification of the battle both at sea and in the shipyards and to use our shipping with utmost economy to strengthen and speed the general offensive of the United Nations.
But we can expect continued success only if we do not relax our efforts in any way.
In his statement commemorating the birth of the Atlantic Charter at a meeting between himself and Mr. Churchill on a British warship off the Newfoundland coast. President Roosevelt asserted that the “forces of liberation” are already making “a living reality” of the Charter’s principle of self-determination of peoples.
All subscribe
The President emphasized that all the United Nations have subscribed to the charter. He stressed two of its eight objectives:
First – respect for the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.
When the Atlantic Charter was first signed, there were those who said that this was impossible of achievement.
And yet, today, as the forces of liberation march on, the right of self-determination is becoming once more a living reality.
Collaboration needed
Second – worldwide collaboration with the object of security, for all; of improved labor standards, economic adjustment, and social security.
Mr. Roosevelt said the United Nations were determined to win total victory not only over Germany, Japan and Italy, but also over:
…all the forces of oppression, intolerance, insecurity, and injustice which have impeded the forward march of civilization.
Badoglio declares Rome an ‘open city’
Bombings will continue so long as Rome aids war, Allies say
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Move hinted a ‘peace bid’
Way may be smoothed for Vatican negotiations
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Control of jobs tightened by U.S. in draft changes
Manpower Commission establishes list of 149 critical occupations; non-deferrable work listed
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New gas order brings growls from everyone
Easterners are warned to obey or driving ban will continue
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Husband of 12-year-old fifth grader seeking job
4-F youth and bride residing with her parents in converted trolley car
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Fight brewing in Congress –
Unions, New Deal urge extension of Social Security
Bill providing greater benefits is meeting opposition from medical association and unemployment compensation heads
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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U.S. operates world’s biggest adults’ school
Army and Navy prepare men for skilled jobs after the war
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Crushing of Axis viewed as hinging on Allies’ unity
Germany is believed trying to play one foe against another in effort to save something for ‘next war’
By Carroll Binder, foreign editor of The Chicago Daily News
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Cunningham: All Randazzo found in ruins as Yanks enter
Allied artillery, German demolition squads wreck city
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
Randazzo, Sicily, Italy – (Aug. 13, delayed)
Randazzo looks like Mt. Etna had toppled over on it.
U.S. bombers hit the town first on July 13, and the bombers and artillery have been pounding it constantly ever since.
What they missed the German demolition crews completed before they left, for hardly a building is standing, and the streets are piles of lava rock of which the structures were built.
The entire population fled a month ago, but today they began coming back by twos and threes. Like shy youngsters, they poked their heads around the rockpiles, staring at the Americans before venturing forth to greet them.
Monk greets Yanks
At the edge of the town, a bearded monk, disregarding the mines with which the wreckage is filled, greeted the Americans as they arrived, giving each a holy medal and his blessing.
Through an interpreter, Sgt. Henry Ingargiola of New Orleans, I asked the monk about the 20 churches in the town. He replied:
Some are wrecked, but it was the Lord’s will.
Picking a way through the streets, I met Minio Luigi, an old man who gave me a hesitant “hello.”
He said:
I come from the farm to see my houses. They no here. They all wrecked. No, I gotta start all over again.
Luigi made his “fortune” working on a subway, “one that ran to Coney Island.” He returned to Randazzo to run a real estate business. Now he has no business.
The Germans burned everything they hadn’t wrecked before they pulled out about 7 o’clock this morning (2 a.m. ET).
A second lieutenant, poking through Fascist papers in the home of the escaped mayor, said:
This bird had a lock on this town. He was one of the Squadrista 23 years ago. Those were the boys who used to punish the people with doses of castor oil. The mayor’s cousin was secretary of the party here. Another cousin was postmaster, and his brother-in-law ran the bank. The mayor skipped town a month ago.
Yanks, Tommies meet
The Yanks and Tommies met at 8:55 a.m. today (3:55 a.m. ET) at a big road crater a mile and a quarter from the town, where the road from Bronte joins that from Cesarò.
It wasn’t an “historic” meeting. Since the start of the battle of Randazzo four days ago, Allied troops had been watching each other fight their way across the mountains.
The meeting occurred a few minutes after two U.S. jeeps struck mines. There was a mixture of Irish brogue and Bronx swearing as the Yanks and Tommies piled up the wounded men.
Cpl. Jack Miller of the Bronx, New York, said:
Dese guys is all Irish.