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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
3
United States reports progress in South Pacific operations with naval advances against Japanese bases and continued air strikes on Port Darwin. Allied forces also push counterattacks in New Guinea as momentum shifts in the region.
A Navy task force launched two attacks on Wake and Marcus islands, part of a broader Pacific campaign. Marcus island, dubbed Japanese Hawaii, faced heavy strikes that disrupted air and sea bases and marked a significant setback for Japan. The Wake action, carried out in daylight, destroyed shore defenses and a gunboat warning of American approach. Blackouts in Tokyo followed the Marcus assault, reflecting heightened wartime censorship and strategic surprise. Senators McKean and Byrd, alongside press voices, debated NYA and CCC roles, while Roosevelt defended their continued use for youth employment during wartime needs.
The AFL and CIO unions helped push a wartime pay compromise by agreeing to waive extra overtime pay for Saturdays Sundays and holidays within the 40 hour week. William Green said the AFL would waive double time for Sunday and holiday work for the war period, while Philip Murray kept the line on overtime for the sixth or seventh days. Roosevelt and Donald Nelson had urged such a plan as a wartime economy move alongside broader labor cooperation. The AVG Tigers pursued air superiority with a Thailand strike that destroyed 40 enemy aircraft on the ground but cost squadron leader Jack Newkirk of Scarsdale NY his life.
A congressional inquiry reports the SCRM company organized in 1940 with $500 capital paid $850,600 in Christmas bonuses to workers. Jack’s secretary earned 39,356 last year and 18,295 for ten weeks this year. Bonuses and raises followed, employees cheered, profits cut to 6 percent, and partners took $15,000 salaries.
Chungking and British forces struggle to keep a united front near Toungpoo as a Japanese spearhead thrust tests their lines. In New York, a radio report relayed by a Japanese spokesman claims Japan may now be considered on the defensive.
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