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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1942
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union reports changes in Rommel's command will impact the U. S.-British push in Tunisia. It notes French fleet joining Allied efforts and mentions Darlan's proclamation of a National Farm Day.
Admiral Darlan announced his aim to free France and retire to private life while urging maximum military effort to defeat Germany and Italy. He said French fleet units at Dakar, Alexandria and North African ports would join British and U S fleets, with forces including battleships cruisers subs and destroyers.
President Roosevelt proclaims Farm Day on January 12 to mobilize resources for 1943 food production. Farmers, Agriculture Department officials, extension agents, teachers and farm groups will meet nationwide to plan the year's goals. He calls food a weapon equal to tanks and planes in wartime effort.
British Eighth Army flanks Rommel near El Agheila trapping large German forces. Montgomery’s pursuit halves the Axis, with armored units mauled while retreating. In US home front news, meat rations drop to 35 ounces weekly for civilians and pork veal lamb and mutton supplies cut about 13 percent. Beef remains restricted, voluntary limits tighten early 1943. Slaughter quotas set at 70 percent for beef pork veal and 75 percent for lamb mutton for those killing over 500000 pounds per quarter.
Army and Navy unveil a joint plan to mobilize hundreds of colleges for military training of youths 17 to 22. The program blends cadet and academic instruction with paths to officer candidate school or technical roles, while Navy prepades high school graduates as apprentice seamen or Marines. The War Production Board projects 1943 weapon output at about 90 billion dollars, far surpassing Axis production.
The United Nations and United States condemn Germany’s policy of extermination of Jews as reports from Europe confirm Hitler’s aim to wipe out Jews in Europe. Robert Taft predicts a move to break up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with Congress opening January 4. Wendell Willkie is named Indiana’s most distinguished son of the year.
A Soviet communique reports five new strong points captured in the Rzhev sector on the central front and a repulse of a heavy Nazi counterattack southwest of Stalingrad. It notes Russian forces drove back German efforts near Vilikie Luki and widened a barrier north of the Don river.
The Office of War Information announces a new government produced picture magazine titled Victory. It will be published every two months in several languages for foreign countries and not distributed in the United States. Advertising revenue will cover publication costs.
A Washington hospital report says Madame Chiang Kai-shek is seriously ill but not in danger. The piece links her possible Washington house to a predicted Allied push against Japan and a Chinese army advance, while discussing wartime Russian attitudes and U.S. policy hopes. it also notes criticism of wartime questionnaires for farmers and truck operators.
The columnist vows to write and speak more like a real person, avoid street slang and misused terms, not talk down to readers, and silence snorts while signaling the engineer to cut the mic. He aims to keep prejudices out, refrain from threats, read mail, answer honestly, and value the printing press and radio for free expression.
The notice states a 50 percent cut in domestic telegraph money order rates for armed forces and donors effective December 1, 1942. It also notes eggs lose 4 to 5 percent to mishandling, and that married nurses may join active army duty. Graduates who are registered nurses aged 21 to 40 may enroll with the Red Cross now. The Metropolitan Detroit USO opens the first USO club for all servicewomen at the Downtown YMCA.
The questions cover naval timekeeping the dog watch and trivia on capitals, Nobel prizes, John Paul Jones, geography, naming of the Pacific, a pleasure seeker term, and Achilles final wound. This item presents a sequence of seven quiz prompts and one historical query.
The list cites four to six p m as a time, cites Boston Massachusetts, Marie Curie as laureate in chemistry and physics, Naval Academy Annapolis as a location, Georgia as a state, Magellan as a name, a hedonist as a descriptor, and notes the heel as the supposed only vulnerable spot.
The snippet presents aphorisms about seizing opportunity, shared beauty with a worthy friend, and Hawthornesque imagery of heaven in small things. It concludes with a proverb about brothers quarrelling inside but defending each other outside.
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