15 Jan 1942
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1942
Page
1
Western Newspaper Union report says American forces will join British led high command in the British Isles as overall war strategy plans are prepared. British veteran Wavell heads Pacific theater strategy. Editorial note cautions text reflects the wire service.
In Britain as the new Congress session opened President Roosevelt outlined wartime plans for land air and sea forces to take up battle stations in the British Isles. He described a 56 billion dollar coming fiscal year and pledged a robust Allied leadership group and high command for the Southwest Pacific including Wavell Hart Brett Pownall Chiang Kai-shek. The article notes Manila’s fall and the cautiously pessimistic outlook for American Filipino forces while hinting at secret relief efforts and ongoing naval activity constrained by wartime secrecy.
The Ihitsa forces in Malaya slow the Japanese advance while delaying actions intensify near Singapore. British air strikes and artillery pressure increase as hopes rise for a fleet and troops to turn the tide. Russians claim fresh objectives after victories and forecast a spring German battlefield, while Britain studies guerrilla tactics and Libya remains in contact with Auchinleck’s forces.
A nostalgic 1941 sports roundup highlights top figures and teams across baseball boxing football and golf. It praises Joe McCarthy era Yankees Joe Louis Ben Hogan Joe DiMaggio Notre Dame and the Bears while noting notable feats and near-misses in a wartime sports era and adds a bowling tips column and short notes on recent betting and a Notre Dame baseball downturn.
National Farm and Home Hour commentator BAUKHAGE notes last year set a record crop and predicts next year will be larger. He cites farm labor, machinery, nitrates, and packaging needs as critical to meeting war-time food demands and stresses the role of processors and engineers in expanding canning and packaging capacity.
Wartime Washington paints a crowded scene of security at the White House and broad concerns about rationing and the possible return of horses to farms. It notes shrinking horse supplies, long lead times to train work animals, and a shift toward mechanization while warning horses may be saved only as needed for limited agricultural work. It also references broad wartime measures and the surge in civilian pilots and defense bonds.
The brief notes extra police at White House grounds and entrances while Japanese pin oaks line the approach. It recalls President Roosevelt as the first commander in chief to hold divine services on shipboard. Japan accelerates war material gathering, focusing on metals by repurposing old railway cars and other metal supplies amid shortages.
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