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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1942
Page
2
Edward C Wayne reports the president has named a production czar to speed up the all-out war effort. The move reorders defense arrangements and aims to accelerate industrial output while submarines operate off the East Coast.
President Roosevelt named Donald M. Nelson to sole command over OPM SPAB and all key production bodies. Nelson will direct procurement and production with final decision power, overseeing industrialists labor leaders and even the army and navy. The change echoes Baruch and Beaverbrook in wartime authority.
Navy planes and ships hunted enemy submarines off the East Coast. Two ships were sunk near Long Island including the Panamanian tanker Norness after three torpedoes. A second vessel was seen sunk 23 miles from shore. U S underwater craft also engaged enemies with undisclosed locations. A 17 000 ton carrier type ship was sunk in Far Eastern waters by U S submarines.
Eyewitness dispatches describe British evacuation of Perak Selangor and Kuala Lumpur with stores opened for locals to take goods. Reports claim millions of dollars of rubber stocks, tin mines and processing plants destroyed, petroleum products burned, and bridges and roads dynamited as Japanese advance neared Singapore.
Unconfirmed reports say Hitler fled toward safety as Smolensk comes under threat from Russian armies. Red headquarters claims captures in the Smolensk area, signaling the war pressing toward Der Fuehrer on the front.
War dispatches report continued air battles across fronts with Allied planes aiding Dutch and British defenses in the Far East. Tarakan island falls to Japanese forces after heavy fighting. Dutch forces mine oil wells before surrender, leaving Tarakan’s 80 000 tons monthly oil output at stake and Dutch oil installations to remain secure.
The Pan American conference in Rio, led by Sumner Welles, weighs Argentina and Chile joining a continental boycott against the Axis. In New York, the Treasury Dept ousts seven General Aniline and Film executives tied to Nazi ownership, barring entry to company premises.
London reports continued low scale German raids targeting British towns on the northeast coast and in East Anglia. In Rio de Janeiro, Uruguay signs a lease-lead pact with the United States authorizing substantial shipments of arms and munitions.
Innocent Bystander quotes Kitty Carlisle proposing theater orchestras end of night performances adjust The Star Spangled Banner to a lower key such as G instead of E flat. She argues the anthem’s range is challenging for untrained voices and recordings are often too high for audiences to sing along.
In Cosmo politan John Kieran nominates the chatterbox as his pet peeve. Major James Roosevelt visits Hollywood dining with Freres Warner executives. Harry Warner asks about family endurance while James replies his mother is tired. Phil Baker recalls lecturing on ad lib importance and fends off a gatecrasher with ten seconds of silence.
A colorful bedspread pattern features a peacock motif for embroidery in simple stitchery. Pattern 1022 includes a transfer pattern sized 15 by 20 inches with four motifs 234 by 314 inches, stitch illustrations, materials list, and a color chart. order information follows.
The article notes a Broadway production titled In Time to Come honoring President Woodrow Wilson. It mentions films planning tributes to his memory and urges readers to visit the Public Library to see how many Americans profited from criticizing Wilson's peace efforts.
An old sheet lead roof at the Cathedral of St. Maurice in Angers France has worn from a quarter inch thick to one thirty second inch at the ridge and in ten inch folds at the eaves due to inadequate hardening and centuries of exposure.
A column mocks wartime censorship with coded tips from a Berlin correspondent visioning liberty and space, citing John Adams on publishing freely. The piece skewers Nazi talk of living space and military power, quipping about a Japanese fleet commander hoping to dictate peace in Washington after sake.
Propaganda text claims Hitler laments destroying churches as armies falter and suggests churches could have served as hiding places. It frames him as reluctantly acknowledging religious sites’ utility during difficult times.
The text notes only two Roman authored works on architecture survive, Vitruvius De Architectura Libri Decem and Fron tinius De Aquis Urbis Romae, despite extensive contemporary Roman writing.
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