Daily Post - 05.11.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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News From America
DAILY POSI
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Editor: S. Benediktsson.
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Friday Nov. 5th,1943
Facts Oddities . . .
Qnotatioas
FIGHTING SHIPS
The U.S. aircraft carrier
Enterprise has taken part in
every major naval engagement
in the Pacific except the Battle
of Midway, has sunk or dama-
ged a total af 35 Japanese ves-
sels and shot down 185 Japan-
ese aircraft. In cooperation
with another carrier, the Enter-
prise sank four enemy aircraft
carriers, three destroyers, and
damaged a battleship and two
light cruisers.
* * * *
Pacific Northwest buisness-
men in Canada and the United
States plan to finance a feeder
road to connect with the Alaska
Military Highway at Dawson
Creek, British Columbia, Ca-
nada, to accommodate traffic
from the Portland-Seattle-Van-
couver area. British Columbia
already has pledged $6,000,000
topay for one-third of the road,
which is expected to play a big
part in the post-war develop-
ment of the region.
* * *
“Equal right for all, special
privileges for none.” — Thomas
Jefferson, President of the Uni-
ted States from 1801 to 1809.
* * *
“There can be no compromise
with the evil forces of domina-
tion. The world cannot endure
half slave and half free.“ —
W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime
Minister of Canada, at Toronto,
October 9, 1942.
RESOURCEFUL FARMER
RAISES OWN FISH SUPPLY
Edward L. Quinn decided
that he could raise fish as well
as peas, potatoes, and other
garden crops on his farm near
Chicago, in the midwestern
United States. Iie dug a small
pond and stocked it in May
1942. Since then he has taken
200 pounds of fish from the'
pond wúthout depleting the
Washington. — President
Roosevelt announced that his
pending message to Congress
will advance strong arguments
for retention of federal food
subsidy payments as a means
of controlling prices. Mr. Roose-
velt said that the subsidy pro-
gram has cost little in actual
cash and has worked well. Food
prices have varied little since
July lst, he stated. The Presi-
dent, speaking of the two-way
operations of lend-lease, said
Australia has provided our
troops there with virtually all
the beff and veal they have
consumed. Australia alone has
contributed as much beef to
the United States as we are
sending to others of our allies,
he announced.
* * *
Washington. — The War De-
' partment announced that Itali-
an prisoners ofwar who have
established their trustworthi-
ness will soon be allowed to
go from prison camps to their
place of work and do their tasks
without guárds. Prisoners will
be eligible for this relaxation
rule when they have been in
custody for 6 months. They
must sign a statement that they
will obey the rules, wear identi •
fying clothing, carry a prisoner
of war card, and will not at-
tempt to escape. There are
about 40-thousand Italian pri-
soners in the United States.
* * *
New York. — America's vic-
tory gardeners have cut at least
a billion 2-hundred and 50
million dollars from the na-
tion’s food bill this year. The
American Institute of Food Dis
tribution, a research agency, an-
nounced the saving represents
stock. The fish have cost noth-
ing except the initial small in-
vestment in the pond and a
little fertilizer to stimulate the
growth of plants on which the
fish feed.
* * *
“The objective of today is
clear and realistic. It is to de-
story completely the military
power of Germany, Italy and
Japan to such good purpose
that their threat against us and
all the other United Nations
cannot be revived a generation
hence.” — Franklin D Roose-
velt, President of the United
States, October 12, 1942.
about 30-dollars for each fami-
ly in the United States. Agency
figures show there were 20-
million wictory gardens this
year compared with 8-thousand
home gardens annually in peace
time.
* * *
Washington. — The Navy
disclosed that United States
submarines have sunk an addi-
tional ten Japanese ships and
damaged another four. This
new Nippon loss runs the total
of enemy vessels sunk since
Pearl Habour to 4-hundred
and 74. The new sinkings are
all Japanese merchant ships or
fleet auxiliaries.
* - *
Washington. — Federal Re-
serve Board Charman MAR-
RINER SECCLES told the
House Ways' and Means Com-
mittee that a 12-billion dollar
program of stiffer income and
excise taxes is the only method
of avoiding inflation.
* * *
New York. — Regulations
issued by the War Production
Board and Mayor LaGuardia
following the relaxation of the
blackout in coastal cities will
allow New York’s great White
Way to come to life 2-hours
nightly. Theater marquees and
signs may blaze until 10 p.m.
Beginning today, only shore
roads and bridges at home will
be fully blacked-out.
* * *
Jackson, Miss. — Jackson
played host to the first royalty
in the history of the city when
Princeáfe Juliana of the Nether-
lands arrived for a visit in a
transport plane. She was escort-
ed by an air fleet from the
Royal Netherlands Military
Flying School which she came
to inspect.
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Washington. — The House
military aviation sub-commit-
tee will leave Wednesday for a
2-week flying inspection tour
of United States air bases in
central and South America.
* *
Washington. — President
Roosevelt cited xeturning pros-
perity in North Africa as an ex-
ample of what may be expected
in ,aR Nazi-occupied lands when
the Allies have driven out the
oppressors. North Africa was
pretty well bled white when
he was there at the Casablanca
conference, the President said..
He announced it was now pro—
ducing nearly all its own food.
needs, supplying some of the-
British and American forcesr.
and accumulating supplies for
use during and after the libera-
tion of France.
* * *
Washington. — The Federal
Reserve Board reported that 67
percent of United States indus-
trial production was devoted
to war purposes and only 30
percent to civilian production..
* * *
Washington. — The Senate
Naval committee announced
that the United States is shipp-
ing food and equipment to 32
fronts, some of them 17-thous-
and miles away.
Philadelphia: — A new nav-
al battle dress giving a man
four kinds of protection was
exhibited at the opening sess-
ion of the annual meeting of
the Assaciation of Military
Surgeons. The suit protects the
wearer against shell and bomb
splinters, flash burns from ex-
plosions which cause 30 per-
cent of navy casualties, and
blast injuries. The battle dress
weighs about 6 pounds. It is
made from a gray-green poplin
covering and encloses the man
from head to foot except for-
his face and hands.
* * *
Washington. — In the longest
special message he has ever
sent to Congress, President
Roosevelt yesterday urged it to
continue and increase the 8-
hundred million dollar food
subsidy program to assure an
adequate supply of food and
prevent inflation. The Presi-
dent called the program the
best means of assuring the
farmer of fair returns and hold-
ing down the cost of food for
the American dinner table. Mr.
Roosevelt advanced the subsidy
program as the most economi-
cal, and scotched widespread
rumors of a general meat fam-
ine this winter.
* * *
Washington. — The Office
of Price Administration has set
a ceiling price on soft wheat
which is prodced in 34 states
east of the Rockies. This marks
the first time that a wheat of
this type has been brought:
under OPA controls.