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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
6
Edward C. Wayne argues for a united national push to establish a price control plan. War Office spokesmen propose measures to eliminate Class 3 draft groups, stressing comprehensive wartime mobilization.
The setting of widespread price ceilings faces business and public reaction as Leon Henderson proposes licensing retailers and wholesalers with instant license loss for violations. The White House backs wage and rent controls, notes 40 hour weeks, and argues wage increases are unnecessary while war production wages average $35 weekly.
Army leaders push a plan to grant allowances for men with dependents in the armed forces arguing it could cut Class 3 from the draft. Maj. William S. Richards and Maj. Francis V. Keesling cite that 65 percent of registrants are in Class 3 and suggest allowances might abolish that class, enabling induction by numbers alone.
Reports from Curtin indicate heavy American reinforcements in Australia and doubled air attacks on Japanese bases. Observers doubt Japan can threaten Australian soil, while Melbourne and Canberra emphasize Japanese air concentrations to the north. The Burma front looms as a potential spillover risk, and Lae Salaumau and New Britain raids continue with open supply lines and no U.S. vessel sinkings reported. Tojo warns of a long war despite Allied gains.
In Chicago the top U S industries reported progress across sectors. Airplanes ships coal petroleum power and construction were on or ahead of schedule with adequate supplies and improving distribution. Steel output was claimed to be 50 percent greater than the Axis nations combined.
The article reports rising unrest among the Axis powers led by Japan Germany and Italy. It notes Japan’s jitters after city bombings Germany’s Reichstag vote to grant Hitler power Mussolini's public admission of disorder and food shortages and possible leadership shakeups in Italy and among fascist officials. It also mentions claims of heavy German-Finnish losses on the Leningrad front and cautious neutral readings on Mussolini’s fate.
Reports say Soviet troops advance 45 miles in four days on the Leningrad front despite Nazi resistance while Berlin and Vichy radios acknowledge heavy battles near Orel. Allied air forces hit Baltic ports including Rostock with 1.6 million pounds of bombs.
Oscar Johnson, Mississippi cotton planter and former AAA official, will travel to South America to buy surplus cotton from Peru and Brazil using Commodity Credit corporation funds. The move aims to ease Latin American surpluses while avoiding direct competition with U S cotton, with broader plans to purchase beef and vegetable oils and ties to southern congressmen. Plan aligns with Roosevelt administration goals and faces mixed political and war-related pressures.
The article discusses James Hill and Wheeler McMillen promoting chemurgy to expand farm production, create new crop uses, and build markets after WWI. It cites Henry Ford as a model of opportunity, energy, and job creation, and notes rapid growth in soybeans driven by industrial demand from 1914 to 1941 and a further 50 percent increase planned by the government.
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In Tibet a European printer Walter Asbee produces 50 copies of the one newspaper. Priests read aloud to villagers, then send papers to lamas who summon people from nearby villages. News travels between groups, often months or years old by the time it reaches frontier regions.
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