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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1942
Page
6
Edward C Wayne presents a column of opinion labeled as a weekly analysis from the Western Newspaper Union. The piece reflects the analyst’s personal views on current affairs and policy implications.
Reports from London and Oslo say Japan suffers air raid anxiety as American and British forces threaten Nippon. German morale and Libya front fears rise as invasion prospects loom. Republicans return home from Chicago with a pro internationalist platform led by Willkie. party aims to limit non war spending while pledging cooperation among nations.
The army introduces a Suspended I-A category for men previously unfit due to dental issues nasal obstructions hernias or diet responsive stomach troubles. Reexaminations after three day hospital evaluations determine if they can be reclassified as fit for duty.
Lieutenant John D Bulkeley and his PT boat squadron push through Japanese defenses in the Philippines sinking a 5,000 ton warship and damaging a light cruiser. Two boats PT 34 and PT 35 are lost, one crew captured, another scuttled. Bulkeley receives Navy Cross honors and becomes a father as his daughter Joan ages. Reports from Sweden describe heavy RAF bombardment of Lübeck with near total port destruction and torpedo bomb impacts.
New York reports the first Cinderella Fleet submarine chaser, PC 505, 110 feet long with a wooden hull and twin high speed Diesel engines. Navy crews call it Cinderella boat as such craft flood U.S. yards. In Cleveland scrap shortages drop Republic Steel output by 150000 tons in five months. steps to mobilize scrap hoped to ease strain. London notes Sir Stafford Cripps returns from India. mission deemed largely unsuccessful.
William H. Davis of the War Labor Board reports negligibly small strike rates in 1942 and a sharp drop from 1941. He credits the no strike policy and warns against NAM criticisms, while AFL CIO leaders urge unity amid transatlantic fleet discussions and ship refitting challenges for rearmament.
The president ordered the seizure of all enemy owned patents in the United States amid disclosures of foreign patent pools. A Philadelphia firm identified as German National had shipped chemicals to South American blacklists and paid Germany large royalties, with half of 1940 royalties for a key aviation product. Officials note Germany supplied more product information than the United States received.
After General Marshall's return, hints of a European invasion by Allied forces grew. Reports from Cairo claim tens of thousands of Polish troops have been sent to the Middle East to organize into a resisting army against any German push toward Syria.
The article lauds Maj. Gen. George F. Moore Brig. Gen. Charles C. Drake Brig. Gen. Albert M. Jones Gen. James R. N. Weaver and others for effective harbor defenses of Corregidor and Luzon. It notes their roles in anti aircraft defense, rationing, and beach defense withdrawals amid World War II. It also covers market information leaks from war agencies and political tidbits from Washington including the Truman committee’s probe and a 180 person Australian War Supplies mission arrival.
Pattern 7226 shows slippers in small medium and large with illustrations and stitches and list of materials. A joke about a nervous job applicant who learns the boss wanted a single man and insists he already married after a supposed error.
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