11 Jun 1942
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
1
The weekly analysis notes Japanese air thrusts against Alaska and Midway as reprisals for the Doolittle Raid. It reports U S declaration of war on Balkan nations and highlights RAF strikes against German war industries. Editor's note appears in the piece.
Japan attacked the American base at Dutch Harbor Alaska with two raids within six hours using carrier aircraft. The strike targets Alaska to pressure the northern flank and disrupt US bases and supply lines to Russia. The events followed a broader wartime shift including Congress declaring war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania and tightening measures against those nations' nationals.
British air raids hit Cologne Essen and Bremen crippling German industry and railways as RAF intensified attacks on Germany while US war bonds urged as crucial to financing the war. In Washington Congress approves a $10.452 billion naval expansion focusing on aircraft carriers and anti submarine ships to join 500 new vessels within 24 months.
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said the army already has all the weapons it can send overseas under current shipping limits and enough to arm every U S soldier at home. He noted demand now requires twice as many light arms per 1000 men as prior to parachute troop expansion.
William L. Batt, chair man of the requirement committee of the War Production board, warned that industry must ready to patch and pray to speed up salvage of metals and rubber. He said essential war materials are in short supply and that the civilian economy is headed toward a minimum subsistence standard.
Secretary Wickard secures War Production Board approval to build lumber and dirt bins on thousands of farms to store up to 218 million bushels of surplus wheat. With an 811 million bushel new crop and 630 million carryover, total supply reaches 1.441 billion. Domestic use and exports take 29 million. space for 500 million remains, leaving 218 million to be stored on farms.
The Office of Price Administration posted a permanent rationing system for the East coast granting motorists about 2,880 miles per year or 35 miles weekly. Effective July 15, the plan would remove the prior unlimited “X” card scheme and may serve as a nationwide model when rubber tire conservation becomes essential.
Phillip Murray CIO president introduced a resolution denouncing John L. Lewis head of the mine workers as hell bent on creating national confusion and disunity. Murray charged Lewis proposed to rally at the CIC convention in Detroit last fall to oppose Roosevelt's war policies, calling it treasonable. The CIC pledge followed a day later with a strong rejection of defeatism and a vow to back victory.
Reprisals followed the wounding of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague as Nazis widened executions and shootings of hundreds of Czechs suspected in the plot. Heydrich, known as Der Henker, met his end in a similar manner to many hostages he ordered shot across occupied Europe. The assault underscores rising resistance in German-occupied territories as Reich reverses fuel uprisings.
Pearson and Allen recount humorous vignettes about PF. D. Ross Roosevelt Mencken Lunt Beethoven Paderewski Henry Clay Voltaire Foch Einstein Coolidge Marie Dressler and Louis B Mayer. The piece catalogs light biographical jests, career quirks and lasting legacies through witty, era specific anecdotes.
German beer will be less potable as malt, the key food tablet ingredient, must not be used in beer. The restriction comes after a directive banning malt production and following a decision to halt dining car operations.
Henderson warned the nation faces a widening gap between purchasing power and scarce consumer goods. He predicted 1942 national income near 17 billion above 1941, with only 69 billion in consumer goods for 86 billion spendable money, risking a price runaway without stringent controls.
The famed editor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune was noted for distraction. While at his desk a leak could drip for hours without his awareness and on a cold Sunday a janitor warned him about boiler work, prompting an irritated rebuke from Greeley.
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