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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1942
Page
2
Anecdotes and sly tales mix with nostalgia and gossip about wartime intrigues. The column recalls internment and replacements in households, fiscal pressures on stars, and quips about Roosevelt and Swope. It also mocks Hollywood myths and notes a local Los Angeles quirk about a nonexistent Hollywood City Hall.
Editorial notes the U S Soviet pact as a second front for lasting peace. It reports U S warships joining British blockade and a new pipeline planned to supply oil to the East amid wartime cooperation and strategic aims.
The a three way understanding includes a U S Soviet deal to push a second front in Europe in 1962 and a 20 year British Soviet military alliance pledging peace and renouncing territorial greed. Molotov led negotiations as a key figure with secret London Washington visits. Pipeline plan aims to avert East fuel oil famine. it will not end East gas rationing. Nazi offensives hit Kharkov Sevastopol and Murman coast as Sevastopol defenses hold firm.
A mighty U S task force under Rear Admiral Hubert C. Giffen has joined the British home fleet to help blockade German forces, guard Allied convoys, and hunt submarines in the Atlantic. King George VI visited an English port and boarded a U S battleship during the three day tour, signaling closer Allied naval collaboration and shifted focus to Norwegian Nazi warships.
Reports say Nazi executioners in Liditz near Prague slaughtered most men, banished or sent women and children to camps, and burned the village after the Heydrich assassination. The 483 residents faced mass killings estimated at around 150 men.
Navy officials refuted Axis claims that Japanese forces had established footholds in the Aleutian island chain. Admiral Nimitz indicated a large invasion fleet at Midway suffered heavy losses, with thousands of Japanese casualties likely. Tokyo prepared the public for possible favorable naval news broadcasts.
Omaha report cites National Live Stock Advisory Council secretary Guy Scudder warning that rich high quality beet steaks may vanish from American tables this fall due to price ceiling regulations. He notes unregulated feed prices prevent feeding to market quality and force rapid disposal of animals.
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announce two combined boards for Anglo American arms production and food distribution. The move speeds war material output and optimizes shipping while planning post war resource use. Nelson and Lyttleton lead production, Witkard on food board with Brand. surplus food to be allocated fairly among the United Nations.
The agriculture department predicted record breaking farm production may be exceeded as conditions look favorable. Winter wheat output seen at 648,931,000 bushels and spring wheat at 221,128,000 bushels, figures that would surpass domestic needs of 700,000,000 bushels and bolster wartime and postwar stockpiles.
Donald M. Nelson, head of the War Production Board, told a University of Missouri graduating class that America is doing the impossible in war production. He forecast 60,000 airplanes this year and faster output as the year ends, noting wartime gains in data production and new industrial capabilities will outlast the war. He argued poverty is no longer inevitable and highlighted postwar opportunities and advances.
The Vichy regime draws mixed U.S. opinion with Ambassador William D. Leahy arguing for maintained diplomatic relations under Laval while most Americans see Laval as a traitorous puppet and view Vichy as primarily a Nazi tool.
A veteran narrator recalls a long registration line of Americans aged 48 to 85 awaiting conscription, spanning races and regions in a shared readiness to serve. The piece contrasts hope for survival with past war glamour, emphasizing collective duty over division. It also meanders through a garden pest tale, a farmer profile, and a political forecast about Britain and Germany, all underscored by a wartime American spirit.
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