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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1942
Page
6
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In a reflective discussion the author examines Joe Louis facing a $117,000 tax debt and the question of repayment by fighting again. The piece argues public opinion resents bending army ethics, notes Louis’s past ring commitments and gifts to agencies, and warns against setting wartime favors as precedent while urging a return to service solely for duty.
President Roosevelt announced a national scrap rubber campaign to start June 19 and run until June 8. Forty thousand filling stations will collect discarded oil stems for rubber, with the government reimbursing processing costs and urging reduced driving and mileage until new tires are available. The drive begins June 15 in Washington and lasts 16 days, with a radio kickoff tonight.
The $2,000,000 air force war show opens tonight in Baltimore before high officials including Vice President Wallace and Mrs. Roosevelt. A 1,200 member provisional task force will perform with modern weapons and a sham battle, plus a static exhibit of war gear and field hospital displays.
Nazi and Soviet dispatches report heavy fighting around Kharkov as German forces push forward amid stiff Red Army resistance. Sevastopol defenders counter attack on the Crimean front as Axis operations expand and casualties mount on multiple fronts.
A record breaking 62.9 million dollar tax program wins tentative House approval. The committee outlines increases on transportation user taxes, cigarette and cigar taxes, smoking tobacco, and cigarette paper levies as it nears final passage.
Washington reports a two week delay in the gasoline rationing plan for the East Coast with non essential drivers allowed six gallons per ration unit starting Monday. The change defers the scheduled June 3 switch to a coupon book system to June 15 to train registrars and ration boards under the new rules. Unit values for A and B cars will be doubled to extend supplies through the extension period.
San Francisco reports eight of the 88 United States Army nurses who served in the Bataan defense have arrived in San Francisco and are under treatment at Letterman hospital. Twenty two nurses who served on Bataan were reported safe. others are missing or believed captured. The account details months of hardship, exposure, and a bombing of a hospital at Bagio shared by Second Lieutenant Juanita Redmond.
Washington reports from June 12 indicate President Roosevelt may veto the annual farm appropriation bill if conference negotiators fail to resolve key issues. House opposition centers on surplus wheat sales to livestock at about 83 cents per bushel and soil conservation payments before parity payments. Senate actions push for full parity price loans on 1942 crops for farmers in the administration program.
The War Department reports Major-General Clarence L. Tinker missing after the Midway battle. He commanded the Hawaiian air force and led bombers from Midway on June 7. his plane last seen by accompanying crews and searches failed to locate it. Two generals died in separate incidents.
Baton Rouge June 12 The Louisiana House approved emergency legislation to set a statewide 40 mile per hour speed limit for passenger cars. Representatives Henry Sevier and C R Brownell sponsored the bill citing President Roosevelt's call to limit speeds to 49 mph. A prior senate version failed after an amendment restricting the rule to wartime use.
Pearl Harbor dispatch details American air and naval assault at Tulagi Harbor Solomon Islands on May 4. Officers report sinking heavy Japanese ships including cruisers, destroyers and transports with seaplane tender losses possible, as carrier squadrons delivered a swift, unscathed strike.
Louis P. Lochner reports that Hitler maintains a relentless campaign against both Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches though a facade of truce persists. Nazi ideology deems Christianity Jewish and aims to bar church members from government roles, with indirect attacks during wartime and church attendance targeted to alienate believers.
Baton Rouge June 12 The Louisiana legislature convened as Governor Sam Jones said he would ask lawmakers to fund schools at a level covering 20 dollars per educable pupil plus the equalization fund and retirement system costs. He spoke after meetings with teachers and officials and ahead of a 2 percent retail sales tax proposal heat.
Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale were electrocuted at Sing Sing for the April 14 1941 prison break that killed Keeper John Hartye and two police officers. Riordan claimed Waters fired fatal shots during the escape and protested his fate as the chamber doors closed.
In a British prison camp in Libya the German and Italian prisoners of war keep separate ends of the enclosure. Food favors the Germans while Italians receive more cigarettes, prompting exchanges that end with Italians captured with food after failing to find their group.
The Navy reports the aircraft carrier Lexington was lost after the Coral Sea battle ending May 8. Of 2,400 crew, 92 percent were rescued. The review covers March 10 to May 8 and notes Japanese losses of more than 15 ships.
Washington June 12 14 The Senate and House conferees push to agree on a companion measure for financial aid to dependents of service members while a draft deferment clause remains contested. The pay bill sets a base minimum monthly pay at 50 or 42 dollars, ending the 30 dollar standard after four months of service. Authority to withhold portions of pay for dependents faces study before final action.
Allied capitals weigh three major moves that could end the war. A European second front in 1942, a potential Soviet attack on Japan, and the opening of Soviet air bases for U S bombers. U S leaders, Molotov talks, and Asian theater tensions frame the debate as Britain, Washington, and Moscow signal urgency.
Washington June 12 A 336 million relief appropriation to continue the WPA on a reduced war basis was sent to the Senate after House allies defeated attempts to abolish the agency. The bill would fund about 400000 workers per month starting July 1, with votes overturning moves to cut tripled supervision to the states and to block new WPA projects. A bid to abolish the WPA failed 108 to 60 in a teller vote.
Beatrice Schepps 34 confessed to prosecutors that she drowned eight year old Beverly, her husband's stepdaughter, to punish him for alleged mental cruelty. Beverly's body was found in a half filled bathtub at the Schepps home in Fair Lawn. Psychiatrists were ordered to examine Schepps after the admission.
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