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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1942
Page
6
Editor notes that the Russian front gains importance as Nazi advances continue. reports of a new African victory by Axis forces, Axis submarine shelling in Oregon and Canada, and Japan securing a second Aleutian foothold. opinions attributed to the columnist.
The report notes Soviet counterattacks near Kharkov recapturing localities after a German breakthrough at Sevastopol. It also describes Libyan Tobruk fall and a Japanese submarine shelling Oregon near Seaside with no damage, while Canada reports Estevan Point shelling.
Allied war brief notes Japan landed troops on Kiska in the Western hemisphere near Dutch Harbor. The occupation followed foggy cover and was confirmed after a weather break. Reports also mention Attu’s earlier occupation and warn of potential Hawaii attack.
The treasury proposed to Congress a modified plan to withhold federal taxes at the source. Beginning January 1 1943 five percent of taxable income would be collected, rising to fifteen percent in 1944 and ten percent in 1945. The President said the anti inflation tax provisions were slightly behind schedule and favored a sectional bill to implement part of it quickly.
King Peter II of Yugoslavia, age 19, arrives in Washington with Foreign Minister M Nintchich for talks with President Roosevelt on Yugoslavia's guerrilla war against Germany and postwar lend lease arrangements. King George II of Greece had departed earlier and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was en route.
The War Manpower commission projects six to seven million men in the armed forces by 1943 end with possible gains to 10 million. By 1944 twenty million workers may be needed for war production and transport as 12 million harvest the 1543 crop. Chinese forces repulse a major Japanese push north of the Yellow River while holding a 50 mile gap along the Chekiang Jiangsi railway south of the Yangtze as Japan launches a new offensive.
Judge Siddal accuses hotel windows along the Atlantic coast of flashing signals to submarines. The Bunker Hill monument near the Boston Navy Yard remains closed to the public for the duration.
Farm, church, and labor groups join to back Roosevelt against a bloc opposing government wheat and corn sales below parity. The coalition includes the National Farmers Union AFL CIO Railway Executives Association Catholic Rural Life and the Federal Council of Churches. They oppose the Farm Bureau stance that withholds approval of the parity sale formula.
Secretary Wickard said if the rest of 1942 has normal weather farm production will break all records. He reported the 1943 national wheat acreage allotment at 55 million acres and urged growers to plant part of the allotment in other crops due to a nearly 1.4 billion bushel 1942 wheat supply including carry-over.
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