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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union reports a weekly analysis urging Congress to act on cost of living measures with a deadline ultimatum. It notes labor markets frozen on jobs across 12 states and highlights a new Pacific action that increases Japanese toll estimates, as editorials frame policy debates.
In a nationwide address President Roosevelt urged immediate anti inflation measures to Congress by October 1 and pledged to act if Congress fails. He linked wage and farm price stabilization to total inflation control, warning that inaction could hinder the war effort. A separate war update notes Rommel’s limited gains near El Alamein and the death of Maj. Gen. George von Bismarck. Labor in 12 western states was barred from switching jobs in essential war industries under a War Manpower Commission order.
The narrative details Japanese forces reviving raids in the Solomons after base losses to U S Marines and Allied detachments. It notes Japanese landings on Guadalcanal and offensives toward Port Moresby, plus heavy combat around Stalingrad and the Black Sea where German and Soviet forces clash.
The Chinese high command reports recapture of 25 Anhwei villages in 20 days and several southern positions near Samshui on the Canton Samshui railway. They reclaim air bases at Chuhsien Lishui and Yushan and regain about 350 miles of Chekiang Kiangsi railway plus over 10 000 square miles. Withdrawals by Japan aided the advances, seen as preludes to a larger strike toward India or Siberia. The push largely neutralizes the Japanese drive described as the greatest since the China incident.
Sen. A B Chandler chaired a senate armed services panel tour warning that the Japanese must be thrown off Kiska and removed quickly. He called for Alaska defenses to be strengthened and for new air routes to Asia, noting a possible A f the Aleutians to the American mainland.
Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production board, told publishers in Washington that scrap iron is critically needed to keep steel mills running. He urged swift action to address the serious scrap shortage nationwide.
A women in a North Bergen defense plant earns an industry award for producing 50 flying suits in a day while Dora Salvina, 22, combines chorus stage skills with machine operation at I. Spiewak & Sons. Henry J Kaiser and Howard Hughes are highlighted as dynamic war era moviemaker men driving aircraft production and innovation.
The piece alleges a hidden Nazi sabotage plan against U S industry exposed by informants and intelligence work. It credits Adolf Schibelgruber and connects events to the Ribbentrop Molotov shift, detailing training and theft of blueprints, and notes allied cooperation with Communists to thwart plots. It ends urging war bond purchases.
In Old Ripley Illinois six tons of jail scrap metal were sold to support the scrap-metal drive. Air mail limits outside the continental U S set weight at two ounces per piece due to distribution constraints.
Ottawa announces 170 Canadian soldiers died in the Dieppe raid. The item notes the wartime pull on manpower and a separate proposal in the United States for universal fingerprinting as a wartime security measure.
The WPA completed a War Production Board survey of automobile graveyards. The piece notes workers rushing to Washington misperceive the war front and warns of labor as the top wartime farming challenge. It also mentions Buy War Bonds and USO activities at Phoebus Virginia offering hostesses and a Charm School for social grace and game skills.
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