America at war! (1941--) -- Part 2

Critics scored by OWI’s chief

‘Small-time Fascist’ start trouble, he says

‘Lean’ import year in 1944 is predicted

WPB official sees countries building up post-war stocks


U.S. still has $15 billion to refund by end of 1943

Völkischer Beobachter (October 29, 1943)

Tojo unterstreicht Japans starke militärische Stellung

Rasche Steigerung der japanischen Flugzeugproduktion

Im besetzten Süditalien regieren die Plutokraten –
Militärmission für ‚innerpolitische‘ Entwicklung

Drahtmeldung unseres Berner Berichterstatters

Al Capone und Dillinger nur ‚Anfänger‘ –
Gangstervolk im eigenen Spiegel

dnb. Stockholm, 28. Oktober –
Auf Grund seiner Erfahrungen als Direktor des Departements für die öffentliche Sicherheit in Texas malte Oberst Homer Garrison in schwärzesten Farben ein Zukunftsbild seines eigenen Volkes, der amerikanischen Nation.

In einer Rede vor dem internationalen Verband der Polizeichefs erklärte er, Fachleute glaubten, daß die USA einer weit schlimmeren und blutigeren Welle von Verbrechen entgegengehen als zur Zeit der Gangster Al Capone und Dillinger. Man müsse allerorten Aufstände und Streiks erwarten.

So sagte er:

Die ungezügelte Jugend von heute wird nur zu schnell zum Verbrecher von morgen. Wenn der Druck des Krieges einmal gewichen ist, werden wir eine wild gewordene Nation sein, die in ein tolles Wettrennen nach neuen Vergnügungen und neuen Freiheiten hineingerissen wird.

PROCLAMATION 2598
Armistice Day, 1943

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 29, 1943

Whereas November 11, 1943, is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice with Germany which terminated hostilities at the close of the First World War; and

Whereas Senate Concurrent Resolution 18 of the Sixty-ninth Congress, passed June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of November 11 as Armistice Day; and

Whereas we can best observe that day by rededicating ourselves, with the faith and loyalty of the men who fought and died for our cause during the First World War, to those tasks which are directed toward achieving victory in the present struggle:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe November 11, 1943, by devoting themselves wholeheartedly and with renewed fervor to every task that will contribute to the winning of the war; and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on that day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

E. R. STETTINIUS JR.
Acting Secretary of State


U.S. Navy Department (October 29, 1943)

Communiqué No. 478

Pacific and Far East.
U.S. submarines have reported the sinking of ten enemy vessels and the damaging of four others in operations against the enemy in waters of these areas, as follows:

SUNK:

  • 1 large freighter
  • 1 large tanker
  • 1 large transport
  • 5 medium freighters
  • 2 small freighters

DAMAGED:

  • 1 large freighter
  • 2 medium freighters
  • 1 small freighter

These actions have not been announced in any previous Navy Department Communiqué.

The Pittsburgh Press (October 29, 1943)

U.S. WARSHIPS BOMBED NAZIS
Yanks drive 2 more miles toward Rome

Coastal positions behind new German defense line shelled
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer

18 district mines closed; 70,000 on strike in U.S.

Government seizure of pits nears; present stocks at diggings frozen

Roosevelt: Russia, Allies in agreement

Documents to be signed soon in Moscow

Mass for knockout –
Allies seize 2 new isles in Solomons

Landings on Stirling and Mono announced by MacArthur
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer

New ration list –
Canned fruit points raised, meats lower

Point values set for jams and jellies; butter value unchanged


$208 billion on hand in Treasury

Argued about baby –
Lonergan ‘sorry’ he killed heiress

RCAF cadet upsets own alibi and then confesses

I DARE SAY —
‘Exceedingly well’

By Florence Fisher Parry

His Fortress shot down by Nazis, Pittsburgher lives to tell story

Crash in Mediterranean highlight of duty in Africa

Brothers home –
Marine Corps brothers meet in the Pacific


Yanks down under observe Christmas

U.S. accuses Army colonel in bribe case

Officer seized as he accepts envelope containing $17,500


Esquire’s okay, is testimony of Shaughnessy

Yanks blast railway in southern Austria


Crashes twice fights natives, but Yank lives

He returns after a month in jungle, finds mates divvied his gear

Another atrocity –
Old, hallowed Naples school fired by Nazis

University wantonly gutted after ‘interferer’ is executed
By John Lardner, North American Newspaper Alliance

Simms: Allied policy toward Italy needed for all of Europe

All anti-Axis factions on continent must be urged to bury differences until after war
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard staff writer

Medal of Honor awarded to 2 in death stand


Shermans save the day as Tigers counterattack

Two Yank tanks knock out three German panzers, enabling artillery to get into action