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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1942
Page
2
Edward C Wayne analyzes wartime press and labor unity while noting Bataan’s fall as the heaviest reverse. He argues labor leaders present a solid front to sustain high production, reflecting editor’s notes on editorial opinion.
The article recalls the fall of Bataan with 36,583 American and Filipino defenders overwhelmed as Japanese forces advance on Luzon. It notes strategic impacts, leadership changes, and broader Allied heaviness in Burma and the Bay of Bengal, with labor figures and air battles shaping the war's narrative.
The New Deal scored a victory as Congress debated a schedule for profits on war contracts. The White House praised results that taxed excess profits returned by contract holders, affecting bonuses paid to employees and other earnings.
The article outlines Britain’s prewar dominion offer, Cripps mission delays, and India’s push for autonomy with Nehru resisting postwar freedom tied to autonomous states. It notes Jinnah’s separate freedom demand and a possible coastal trade expansion via dredged waterways and new wooden barges.
President Roosevelt rejects a seven and a half billion dollar sales tax plan while union labor nationwide backs his stance. Some congressmen report growing constituent support for the tax due to its wide potential yield and low per person impact, despite opposition from the poor.
Toto a Japanese born American farmer and his family are relocated from a California coast area to Owens Valley under wartime protection. The piece argues loyalty cannot be guaranteed for Japs, yet praises their resilience, ends with a call to defend the nation and buy defense bonds.
The War Production Board reduced gasoline deliveries to filling stations in the East and West coast curtailment areas from 80 percent to 66 percent of prior received amounts. New York reports Navy Lt Franklin Junior Roosevelt, son of the President, hospitalized with bronchitis. TOM GIRDLER WINS A SALARY OF ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR for managing a major West Coast airplane plant meeting wartime production demands. A call to sewing patterns invites readers to make play clothes for children, Pattern No 8120 for ages 2 to 6 with detailed fabric requirements and appliques.
A quotation asserts that pursuing every insinuation against a man would be a perpetual hunt, arguing that much of the chatter is inveracity and misrepresentation. The speaker invokes Henry Ward Beecher to frame the point about unfair claims.
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