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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1942
Page
6
Edward C Wayne analyzes global war plans while Australia faces Japanese advances. Nelson accelerates U.S. war production, signaling intensified efforts on the home front. Editorial note clarifies opinion as the columnist's.
The president outlined a global battle blueprint after Churchill talks, detailing joint allied production, transport, and manning of forces. He noted progress in the Pacific and described coordinated actions across Singapore, East Indies, the Philippines, and other fronts. Reports also cited Japan's advances in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Burma, with Tavoy and Rangoon targets.
The OPM ends as Donald Nelson forms the new War Production Board. Nelson heads five divisions. Leon Henderson leads civilian supply, Sidney Hillman the labor role, and Ernest Kartzler becomes automotive production czar overseeing auto factory output. Knudsen shifts to direct Army procurement for factory output.
General MacArthur reports continuing American Filipino resistance near Davao Mindanao as Japan renews effort to crush Luzon. Washington had written Mindanao off as lost while Japan deploys up to 300000 troops in the Luzon and Bataan front. Congress hears dual profiteering reports from Truman and Vinson amid war production and price concerns.
Amid intensified submarine activity along the U S East Coast the Navy reports strong counter measures while keeping the top command’s exact location secret. A Japanese cruiser was sunk by bombing planes and PT boat commander Bulkeley notably struck a 5 000 ton vessel in the Bay of Olongapo and escaped unharmed.
The War Department announced a flood of contracts for 700 million feet of lumber and 2400000 nails for new and expanded army cantonments. Inductions will rise with a February 16 draft, broadening 1-A standards and pulling 2-A and 2-B deferments into service. Sugar shortages and price-control battles add to wartime strain as officials weigh farm relief plans and public hoarding. William Van Antwerp Kemp, an audacious Ordnance engineer, emerges as a standout reformer breaking red tape.
A digest of wartime items notes German rationing in Bern restricting tobacco for men and none for women, a Paris street shooting and witness pullout, Dutch losses in Celebes, Soviet advances, and a London report on Kemp securing a rapid return of an ammunition expert from England via the State Department. It also mentions Rep. Dies probing Japanese language schools on the West Coast for militarist indoctrination.
A wartime column recalls a factory owner who pledges no price hikes as the nation mobilizes for total war. It contrasts profiteers with workers and notes a government debt report while recounting a California blackout scene after the Hawaii attack, highlighting civilian obedience and collective sacrifice.
The text estimates wartime spending at 56 billion dollars for 1942. It breaks down the figure to about 183,068,000 dollars per day and 6,350,000 dollars per hour, suggesting much of the budget may remain unused.
A noisy excerpt discusses race and identity using fractured speech and quoted phrases. The piece centers on how language marks difference, with a Black speaker contrasting terms for black and white and debating the meaning of oratory.
An article explains American thoroughbred rules on horse relationships. It states that horses with the same sire but different dams are not considered half brothers or half sisters. Only horses sharing the same dam are considered related.
The ad touts Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin to wake lazy bowels and calm stomach upset. It claims relief from constipation, acid digestion, bloating, and bad taste, noting children enjoy the flavor and urging readers to ask their pharmacist today.
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