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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1942
Page
1
German forces establish spearheads across the Don River after heavy losses. Nazi units dig in along the Egyptian front as British and Allied positions hold. Gandhi to Japan: you are not welcome, signaling a political rebuttal amid global war tensions.
Soviet infantry on the Don’s southern bank 129 miles east of Rostov threw explosives at German spearheads while nine pontoon bridges fell. Despite Rommel era gains near Rostov, Soviet reports claim heavy German losses and hundreds of Hitlerites killed as Red Army resists. American bombers hit Crete Tobruk and Axis ports as Matruh comes under British bombardment and Axis defenses in Africa face shifting pressure.
The piece outlines Mohandas K Gandi's open letter aimed at Japan via Hariian magazine, warning of India’s resistance to militarist aims and the Allies’ difficulties. It notes reactions to Jewish and Japanese readers and references Indian Congress aims for independence amid World War II. It also covers U S government updates on war production and a new Rubber Supply agency under a bill creating the Rubber Supply Agency to control synthetic rubber plants and material deliveries.
Premier Mitch Hepburn warned that Japan may strike at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, risking U S West Coast production and inland targets. He cited Allied hopes and warned of Russian army pressures, while noting Mediterranean domination by Nazi forces could seize France and the French fleet. The War Shipping Administration limited cargo space to essentials, as UN fleets coordinate under the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board. Wartime ship shortages rise from expanded merchant shipping, with Canada and the U S increasing munitions output fourfold and threefold respectively in early 1942. The joint production board outlines steps to raise output, cut duplications, and improve material flow across nations.
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announces that average hourly earnings in manufacturing rose 1.5 percent from April to May. The May average reached 02.1 cents per hour, up 14.5 percent from a year earlier, with overtime, expanded high wage workforces, and wage-rate increases cited as factors.
After graduation I helped a patient on an island with poison ivy using carron oil made of lime water and linseed oil, plus Epsom salts to draw out moisture. The skin improved quickly, and others report success with carron oil. tannic acid in water now stops itching in a week. A vanishing cream with 10 percent sodium pederate offers preventive protection before field exposure.
Brief notes state American planes in England will be repaired by United States air force crews to boost efficiency and speed, regardless of origin. The Australian government plans higher service pay in the new budget with a likely rise in dependent allowances. The government confiscated 29 Italian and German ships, including a German vessel caught posing as an American ship in the Caribbean last year, plus ships damaged by crews in American ports in March 1941 as part of sabotage. Diana Barrymore and Bramwell Fletcher have applied for a marriage license and plan to wed within weeks.
A long analysis discusses possible Allied raids in force as a tactic to divert German troops. It outlines how such operations could be carried out on a large scale under Lord Mountbatten, with American participation likely but not command, and compares them to earlier Commando efforts. It also touches on global strategic uncertainty about a second front and notes potential military and political implications.
Reports say a new plan would save waste fat for glycerine to make war explosives. Effective July 1 all Japanese foodstuffs will be bought and distributed by the government at fixed prices. Italy offers premiums to farmers for early wheat deliveries. The War Production Board estimates over two billion pounds of fat go to waste in American kitchens yearly.
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