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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1942
Page
17
Senate debate on a rubber bill questions a Phillips Borger synthetic plant halted by material shortages. Senator Thomas cites cost and material use, noting 13 million dollars spent and that grain alcohol could supply butadiene cheaper and faster for synthetic rubber production.
The Senate passed a measure to create an independent agency to produce synthetic rubber from grain alcohol despite White House objections over objection to War Production Board control of the rubber program and administration concerns about interference.
In Congress and among industry, efforts aimed at expanding rubber from alcohol while reducing petroleum based output. Phillips Company already supplied about 8000 tons yearly for air craft gas tanks, but War Production Board halted the project due to scarce critical materials. A new plant would use about 79 percent of those materials to produce rubber from alcohol, Thomas testified. Sun Rise reports a Sioux tribe member joined the army, revealing a village enlistment.
Washington July 22 Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov meets President Roosevelt to press for an immediate second front against Germany. In Switzerland Axis authorities order intensified Jewish labor. Salonika police register 6,600 Jews for compulsory work and Warsaw assigns 80,000 skilled workers to German tasks.
The eight alleged Nazi saboteurs trial extended into its 13th day as cross-examination resumed and the sole defendant to testify in his own defense began his case.
A Amarillo committee urged quick action to convert existing homes into living units for war workers under the Victory Housing Plan. The move, backed by Certain feed Products Corporation and FHA representatives, promises no down payment loans and rapid conversion within a week.
British bombers attacked the Ruhr Valley last night targeting Duisburg with a heavy raid. About 300 planes involved. thirteen bombers missing. one enemy bomber shot down. RAF fighters protected the mission. no RAF casualties reported.
London reports that more than 50 bombs each weighing 4,000 pounds were dropped on Duisburg in raids on German industry. The Air Ministry announced details at noon today.
The joint air ministry and home security ministry communique says constant patrols kept enemy interceptors from interfering with the Ruhr mission. Last night some bombs were dropped on scattered points in east England causing damage.
Allied bombers and fighters hit Axis supply depots in Crete while desert fighting near El Alamein shifted to artillery duels. Suda Bay and the island were attacked in force with direct hits on two vessels and a pier fire. US airmen likely participated. Liberator bombers have been common in the Mediterranean.
The Royal Air Force gained complete air freedom over the desert battlefield yesterday and bombed a concentration of about 1,000 enemy vehicles. Reports say the RAF then resumed bombing runs over the area with a clear field.
Allied heavy bombers attacked a 40 mile desert front west of El Alamein and targeted about 1000 Axis vehicles. RAF coastal road strikes and air actions against vehicles and positions were reported as Rommel reinforced Crete and German paratroops concentrated. Two Axis planes were shot down in daytime air battles.
In Chicago a tavern argument in sign language ended with Joe Guepfer 45 stabbed in the abdomen. He fled to a nearby police station and named his assailant in writing. the suspect was seized. Guepfer, hospitalized, was described as serious. A deaf woman witness said he struck with a cane before the stabbing.
Chungking reports the Chinese have retaken Kienteh 65 miles southwest of Hangchow after a five day battle that ended Sunday. Fighting also continues around Wenchow as Chinese forces push to drive Japanese from the Chekiang coast port and sever Japanese communications.
Senator James E. Murray a Roosevelt supporter gains a growing lead in the Montana Democratic primary amid a radio dispute with rival Burton Wheeler over war fever and political influence. Murray reports 573 of 1,185 precincts counted with 27,078 votes to Monaghan 16,704 as Rankin’s political ally Rankin Camp notes Wheeler’s isolationist stance and Monaghan’s rise.
Two highway patrolmen halted a truck in Birmingham Alabama and asked the driver why the tail light was missing. At the rear one officer quipped you don’t even have a Place for a light. The driver replied I had a trailer once but asked what happened to it.
President Roosevelt and leaders Sam Rayburn and Alben Barkley met to review the administration powers to fight inflation. A message to Congress on new legislation remains uncertain as Barkley notes possible executive action and wage control options while Roosevelt plans a future briefing and a meeting with his war labor cabinet.
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for warmer conditions this afternoon and tonight with scattered thunder showers in West Texas. Cooler in Del Rio Eagle Pass area and New Mexico sees scattered thunder except lower elevations in southeast. Temperature extremes in 24 hours ended 6 30 A M show max 80 and min 55 with noon at 78.
British and German sources describe a German push toward Rostov from Taganrog Voroshilovgrad and Millerovo with fears of a Rostov danger. Russians report grim defensive withdrawals in the Don Basin while noting fresh Soviet counterattacks around Voronezh.
The Navy reports two more sinkings in the western Atlantic with 35 lives lost and 50 saved. A 2 year old seaman aboard a U S cargo ship died heroically releasing rafts saving 18 men from a 37 man crew.
Ralph Reed of Houston telegraphed Phil Reed of Tulsa that a baby girl was born at 5 A.M. Phil replied twelve hours later that they would trade cigars and that the daughter was born at 5 P.M. today.
RAF bombers carried out successful attacks on Japanese coastal craft along the Kaleindin River and in the Akyab area on Burma's west coast, according to an air headquarters communique issued in New Delhi on July 22.
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