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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1942
Page
2
Weekly analysis highlights American air and submarine actions in the Pacific battles shaping wartime supremacy. It notes the rubber industry ramping up synthetic output and fuel oil rationing extending across 30 states, reflecting home front mobilization.
American air and submarine strikes on multiple Pacific fronts damaged or sank 18 Japanese ships. In Retaka Bay and Guadalcanal area two cruisers were damaged, shore installations destroyed, and six enemy planes plus about 500 troops were killed or wounded. Submarine actions elsewhere sank four ships and damaged four more, raising total sunk or damaged to 107 since the war began.
Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced a fuel oil rationing plan covering about 3,140,000 residential units in 30 eastern and midwestern states. Allocations will be tied to a 65 degree day basis under average weather, based on floor space and prior year usage. Homeowners must provide dwelling and furnace details to local rationing boards to obtain coupon sheets.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told a house committee the selective service will pick 18 or 19 year olds or 1,500,000 married men with families. He said the war department prefers youths to minimize industry disruption.
William M. Jeffers, named rubber czar by Donald M. Nelson, receives full authority to reorganize and run the rubber program. Baruch committee warned four month delays could leave next year’s rubber short, prompting a push to boost synthetic production. Jeffers urged motorists to conserve rubber as the nation treats it as a precious material.
Soviet experts in London call for an Anglo American second front in western Europe to relieve Red Army pressure at Stalingrad and avert disaster. They argue Allied invasion could pull 30 to 40 German divisions away, while RAF air raids continue to erode German industry. Brazil enacts broad mobilization under President Vargas with compulsory service and home defense measures, lining up military, economic and scientific steps. Axis-linked firms are closed and fifth columnists interned as air force patrols subdue submarines.
The piece maps White House faction views on a possible fourth term for FDR, noting Republicans seek to block it while insiders doubt his willingness or desire. It discusses patronage pressures, the November House battle, advisers like Ed Flynn, and shifts from old to dollar a year appointments amid wartime governance.
The piece cites Barron’s National Financial Weekly warning that the American system of free competition could vanish after the war. It fears government control of production, pricing, and credit, eliminating incentives for improvement and private investment, and likens this to a socialist or Nazi/Fascist/Communist shift.
London reports that home guards across England will receive live ammunition for training with rifles Sten guns Lewis and Browning machine guns and Spigot mortars. The War Office said millions of rounds will be released over the coming months for use in invasion defense training. Ottawa vows no price relief as inflation fight continues. Donald Gordon head of price control stated Canada will not relax price controls amid rumors of adjustments.
War manpower chief Paul V. McNutt told Congress that the labor shortage risks forcing compulsory home front service for men and women. He estimated 4,000,000 new workers needed by 1943, with 57,000,000 employed in 1942 and 62.5 to 65 million required by late 1943.
Secretary Wickard signed a Washington order that puts new farm machinery and equipment on the rationed list for the remainder of 1942. He said a permanent order would govern 1943 sales and production, noting military needs forced curtailment. The temporary rationing aims to control limited stock and boost food-for-freedom goals.
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard urged poultry raisers to produce 200,000,000 extra fowl this fall and winter to avert a civilian meat shortage. National poultry organizations estimated 600,000,000 additional pounds could reach consumers if these birds reach three pounds each. Wickard said producers would use existing housing and equipment not usually at capacity.
The navy disclosed that the air craft carrier Yorktown, a 19 900 ton vessel, was sunk after Midway by Japanese bombs and torpedo attacks. The loss confirmed a price America paid for victory, though the ship’s fate had been closely guarded.
Sound travels fastest through steel or water. The Declaration of Independence has 56 signatures. The hundred-eyed monster is Argus. The youngest U S president to take oath was Theodore Roosevelt. The 1905 treaty ending the Russo Japanese War was negotiated in Portsmouth New Hampshire. The planet nearest the sun is Mercury.
The list covers Glass as a name, the number fifty six, the Argus reference, Theodore Roosevelt with his age forty two, Portsmouth New Hampshire as a locale, and the fact that Mercury is the planet closest to the sun.
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