13 Aug 1942
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
1
In a weekly news analysis, red communiques acknowledge grave peril as new attacks hit against Nazi targets. The CIO president proposes a peace plan amid escalating tensions. Cargo planes receive qualified approval signaling shifts in logistical strategy.
Reports detail Soviet defense along the Caucasus front near Rostov and Voronezh with heavy German pressure. Allied strategists warn of massive Nazi forces and a potential Russian rout while spies are executed and Allied efforts discuss a second front. In the Aleutians, Japan claims 10 000 troops, and James Petrillo rejects a request to lift recording bans for wartime purposes.
Philip Murray CIO president wrote to William Green AFL proposing a joint committee with an impartial arbitrator to settle jurisdictional disputes and move toward organic unity. He named a three member panel including himself and two other union leaders to discuss the issue.
Industrial figures Kaiser Nelson and others push a plan to convert three shipyards on each coast to produce 5900 aircraft yearly using 160 ton designs inspired by existing bottling ships. The War Production Board may release engines and parts, with WPA backing to improve air cargo and troop transport capacity. Kaiser seeks support from Mechin and Girdler as plans are presented to a Senate subcommittee.
Washington hearings disclose giant plywood carrier aircraft with 69 000 horsepower and 3000 men capacity plus torpedoes while a second amphibious cargo plane uses helium air tunnels for lift. Navy WAVES to enlist 10 000 women led by Mildred McAfee with training rules on marriage and duties.
Genealogist Conklin Mann says Roosevelt and Churchill are eighth cousins once removed and claims Roosevelt is a sixth cousin once removed to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. U S farmers marketing value rises to 5.77 billion in first half 1942 from 4.01 billion in 1941. OPA caps waste kitchen fats at four cents a pound. In Britain, gasless driving limits gasoline to business use as of August 1. German Maj Gen Julius von Permauth reportedly killed in action on the Russian front.
Bauer Baukhage analyzes how the largest wartime tax measure falls short of funding needs. He discusses shortfalls, economic strain, and the challenge of financing defense through these revenues.
A speaker critiques Washington's wartime fiscal policy focusing on the tax bill and inflation. He cites Leon Henderson and Henry Morgenthau, discusses compulsory savings, price controls, and the need to fund war expenditures through borrowing and savings while noting the political resistance and the stakes for civilians.
The 1912 American Education week adopts Education for Free Men as its general theme. A bombardier spends about 36 seconds over a target directing the bombsight at 260 miles per hour to actuate the bombs. A Victory Boy education initiative notes schools directly influence one third of the population.
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