Pacific and Soviet Fronts in Wartime Analysis
A wartime digest contrasts American and British reactions to Pearl Harbor and military reshuffles in Hawaii led by Nimitz with Emmons and Tinker. It notes Roosevelts censorship move under Byron Price, hints at Pacific submarine activity, and reports Soviet advances against Germany including Kali nin and encirclement threats around Moscow and Leningrad. The piece also covers Malaya, Hong Kong siege prospects, and looming broad conscription and naval expansion plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Knox
Roosevelt
England
Supreme Court
Owen Roberts
Husband Kimmel
Chester W. Nimitz
Delos C. Emmons
Walter C. Short
Hawaiian Department
F. L. Martin
Hawaiian Army Air Command
C. L. Tinker
Arizona
Great Ocean
Navy
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Russia
Napoleon
Kalinin
Moscow
Leningrad
London
Germany
Philippines
MacArthur
Guam
Midway
Wake
Luzon
Malaya
China
Thailand
Singapore
Felda
Hongkong
British Assault in North Africa Advances Toward Derna
British forces push west of Tobruk and beyond Derna in mobile attacks aimed at breaking German lines. They report destroying a 300 ton ammunition depot, capturing 1,100 prisoners, and seizing fuel as Rommel’s center sits 15 miles west of Gazala. The communiqué says a decisive victory may be near.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
Tobruk
Derna
Rommel
Gazala
Cyrenaica
German War Plans and Soviet Front Rumors Emerge
Fragmentary dispatches from Stockholm and Bern describe unrest reports and capture of Berlin correspondents. They suggest Germany prepares for a prolonged war, with officials hiding Russian setbacks and explaining Hitler’s Moscow goal as unattainable while bluffing of a quick victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ostland
Stockholm
Bern
Germany
Berlin
Hitler
Moscow
Ingrad
Santa Claus Belief Persists Across Cities and Radio
The column praises belief in Santa Claus, noting many readers and cities from Chicago to Los Angeles echo the joy. It cites radio broadcasts and newspapers as festive forces, mentions critics like Westbrook Pegler, and lampoons public debates on holiday magic versus skepticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City
Dubuque
Poughkeepsie
Nyack
Los Angeles
Houston
New York
Haverstraw
Chicopee Falls
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Golden Beach
Santa Claus
Santa
Westbrook Pegler
Washington in War Town Mood and Japanese Spy Fear
Washington shifts from boom to war mood as Civilian Defense crowds, patrols, searches and guard changes surge. FBI raids German correspondent Kurt Sell after Japanese spy concerns grow. Dies report reveals 150000 Japanese in the U S and maps detailing Pearl Harbor, Panama Canal and U S naval layouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
State Department
Capito Dome
Civilian Defense
LaGuardia
Falla
Scottie
Diet of legume crops signals from nutrient deficiency
The text explains how legume crops show distress signals when lacking nitrogen phosphorus or potash. It details nitrogen deficiency causing slow growth and pale leaves, phosphorus delaying flowering and stunting, and potash deficiency producing yellow edge mottling and leaf curling with eventual tissue death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walesadiy Ve
All-out dairy production urged with careful feeding
University of Illinois extension dairy specialist C. S. Rhode warns the dairy production program for defense needs and higher returns to dairymen must avoid overfeeding on high protein rations, short dry periods, and mineral neglect. He recommends balancing grain to forage, using bone meal when needed, and a dry period of one to six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Rhode
Extension
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Good Care of Soil Aids Defense Plans
Lindsey G Cook of Rutgers University urges contour farming strip cropping and terracing to boost yields for national food defense. He stresses this is the time to plan for 1942 and that conservation practices will raise production while avoiding past wartime waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Food For Defense
Lindsey G. Cook
Rutgers University
Cook
Farma
Contour Plowing Gains Ground in Corn Belt States
Dr H H Bennett of the U S Department of Agriculture reports contour plowing shows soil conservation progress while straight line plowing remains common in parts of the Corn Belt. In Montgomery County Iowa more land was planted on contour this year, with none continued in 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Bennett
U. S. Department ‘of Agriculture
Montgomery
Iowa
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Edward C. Wayne
U. S
U.S
Byron Price
Associated Press
United States
Army
War Department
Newnpaper
Canvor
Pacific
Thomas C. Hart
Cloge
Japan
Peeseinai
Far East
Birdseye View
Mikado, Mich
Mikado
House
Senate
South Trimble
House of Representatives
Libya
Westbrook
Kris Kringle
Donder
Prancer
Cupid
Relneer
Carson City
Oil City
Women's Federation
Society of Restaurateurs
Tim
RiPhi One
Sal
Martin Dies
Norway
France
Low Countries
Dies
Central Japanese Association
California
Los Angeles Harbor
Reeves Field
U. 5
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Manila
Vladivostok
Alec
Constantine Brown
Washington Star
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