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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1942
Page
6
Time and weather shift shape reports as German tactics push for a strong winter line. The Senate approves a 26 billion tax bill. The OPA targets tires for all in a push for consumer readiness. Editor notes political opinions.
Reports describe the fighting as an in-between phase as Hitler’s forces strain against time and weather. Stalingrad endures heavy street combat while the Volga port suffers severe losses. Axis advances push toward the Caucasus, with Soviet counteractions southeast of Novorossisk and at Grozny oil fields.
A national stockpile of idle passenger car tires may be created if the OPA plan succeeds. Leon Henderson announced the stockpile to support five steps including rationing tires and gasoline and compulsory inspections. replacement tires will be minimum grade. The same report notes Britain and the United States moving to abolish extraterritorial rights in China, as Wei Tao-Ming is informed.
General Douglas MacArthur and Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey tour Owen Stanley terrain and Port Moresby docks, praising American engineers while noting favorable progress. Guadalcanal air battles report heavy Japanese losses versus U S planes with multiple bombers and Zeros downed in three days.
At a Toronto press conference William Green president of the American Federation of Labor urged that John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers be kept from negotiations with the CIO. He warned a general labor peace conference called by Roosevelt would worsen the breach between AFL and CIO. Green said Lewis is a creator with a talent for destroying his own works.
Washington digest argues that farmers need coordinated help to save crops this year and supply food for freedom next year. It outlines voluntary measures, then government laws based on British priorities, to decide essential farming roles and mobilize labor, with cautions about political timing and complexity.
The senate backed a historic 26 billion dollar tax package for 1942 incomes by 77 to 26. The Treasury estimate adds about 6.29 billion to current revenues of 17 billion, with sources claiming up to 9 billion. Major provisions include a 5 percent Victory levy, higher normal tax from 4 to 6 percent, and surtaxes rising to 82 percent.
Roane Waring, newly elected American Legion commander, declared in a speech before the AFL convention in Toronto that any person or entity expelled from the Pacific coast military zone faces action. The report notes orders for three SF Italian community leaders and two others to leave the zone, and mentions long distance call priority for war effort messages taking effect November 1.
A registrant in Birmingham Alabama bears the name Mathematics Enthusiasm Smith. The note appears in the BRIEFS column and is part of a list of items recorded from the city.
A New York newspaper reporter told to limit his article to one column protests the space is too small. His chief says to read Genesis chapter one and that the creation story can be told in six hundred words.
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