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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1942
Page
1
The Ada scrap drive reports 1 121 930 pounds of metal collected since the start a week ago Monday with half the total of 2 000 000 pounds expected. Rural schools lag while larger campuses push forward. Officials urge residents to gather remaining metal including from abandoned wildcat oil wells to aid war industries.
The Oklahoma Daily urged OU students not to attend the Dallas Texas game, calling it unpatriotic as troops and supplies fill trains. It argued that giving up one weekend frees space for men and material, noting 200 students are already planning to go.
The weekly Iron Age review reports continued gains in national scrap recovery drives for home and industrial scrap. Despite poor quality scrap, mills hope to use it during winter mixed with heavier metal, with labor shortages possibly requiring government aid and volunteers to sort scrap. several blast furnace projects run behind schedule.
The UMW committee on the officers' report recommended that the union withdraw from the CIO. It urged subordinate units and members to sever affiliation with CIO unions until the CIO corrects its errors and ends its denunciation of the United Mine Workers and recognizes its financial obligations.
A novel anti-freeze has been developed that contains no priority materials, aiming to reduce reliance on restricted substances. Researchers highlight potential environmental and regulatory benefits as testing continues.
President Roosevelt said the United States would cooperate with Britain and other nations to form a United Nations commission after the war to investigate axis war crimes. He stressed respect for due process and predicted only a small number of individuals would be found guilty.
Washington announces steps to clear up misunderstandings in the British American program aiding embattled Russia. Ambassador Standley to return with military and naval attaches while other diplomats head home to report. A British American Soviet protocol on supplies to Russia is signed, pledging uninterrupted aid per Moscow conference terms.
Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers urges strict compliance with the gasoline rationing program as the only hope to bridge the gap until rubber substitutes arrive. In his first radio address since Sept. 15 he says rationing and conservation will gain voluntary citizen support, and warns a minority attempting to beat the rules to beware.
Washington, Oct 7. The agriculture department proposes higher acreages and greater output for the 1943 crop season to meet wartime demand, aiming to surpass the record 1942 production levels across most farm products.
The Senate voted 75 to 9 to set a 40 percent combined normal and surtax rate for corporations with net income over 50 000 after rejecting La Follette's 50 percent plan. A finance committee amendment lowering dependent credits to 300 was also adopted, pending House approval.
Henry Zart of Topeka left for Freeport Texas for a job two months ago. His collie Tippy mourned, then recovered with help from Zart's daughter Maye Scott. Money was sent to transport Tippy south but he was poisoned the night before departure and died.
Admiral Hart argues in the Saturday Evening Post that RAF fighters were within range but did not aid the British battleships Repulse and Prince of Wales during the December Japanese air attack. He questions allied coordination and U.S. air force separation.
Mrs. George Shoop, with six children, seeks a home as a landlord plans to move in. After a 30 day notice expired, she appeals at war commission headquarters. Mrs. Izza Martin overheard and proposes to buy the house to rent it to Mrs. Shoop. Insects never grow after reaching adult stage.
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes told a senate subcommittee that heavy wartime withdrawals drained stocks and urged considering price advances to encourage new oil fields. He praised industry wartime work and noted record railroad car deliveries as a sign of substitution for ocean tankers.
Dispatches report Marshal Semeon Timoshenko’s advance between the Don and the Volga deepening the northern flank of the German wedge at Stalingrad. Germans retreat to trenches as Red Army gains ground with fresh divisions and night reinforcements. Civilians suffer damage from bombs and fire.
Washington reports 103 candidates for the U S Senate to be voted on November 3, including four current governors and four former governors, two former senators, two women, two radio announcers, and a singer of cowboy songs. Twenty eight are incumbents.
Lieut Col T N Perkins arrives to command the Altus air force training school under construction near Altus Oklahoma. He replaces Col Robert W Warren who returns to Perrin Field Sherman Texas. Major Branson A Davis of Shawnee named assistant commanding officer. The piece recalls early World War I views on aircraft speed.
Alaska Defense Command reports pilots who had no combat before Sept 1 downed 22 enemy planes per American loss in the first month. Leaders include DeBerry and Rice with two Jap planes each. Bowmen Eagle Leven and others credited, as raids from Kiska to Andreanof Islands show heavy Japanese losses.
Wendell Willkie urged the United Nations to wage an all-out armed offensive everywhere and vowed to dedicate his life to a postwar world of freedom and self governed nations. He spoke in Chungking after meeting General Chiang Kai-shek and stressed his personal statements versus official positions. The piece notes his assertion of speaking for himself and his role as Roosevelt’s representative in certain matters. Government approved diverting New York air conditioning systems for the war effort as a minor note.
U S marines clash with fresh Japanese forces ashore on Guadalcanal as Australian troops push their 16 day pursuit toward Kokoda in New Guinea. MacArthur appears in the New Guinea sector as Allied losses mount in the Solomons.
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