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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union reports a planned push to stabilize living costs with a deadline ultimatum to Congress. The piece notes labor freezes on jobs across 12 states and new Pacific actions increasing tensions with Japan, framed as editor's analysis.
President Roosevelt urges immediate anti inflation action and tells Congress to pass measures by October 1 to control farm prices and wage trends. He warns failure will hinder the war effort and vows to use constitutional powers if needed. In war news Rommel’s forces face setbacks near El Alamein while Maj. Gen. von Bismarck is killed. Labor in 12 western states is frozen by the War Manpower Commission to keep essential war industries running.
The Jap renews small landing parties on Guadalcanal despite Allied bases and forces in the Solomons. In New Guinea, Jap ground forces breach the Owen Stanley range and push toward Port Moresby, with heavy losses in frontal assaults ending a three week lull in bombings.
Russian dispatches describe a heavy Nazi push toward Grozny and a massive assault on Stalingrad where 1 500 German dive bombers attacked. Reports conflict over Novorossisk and broader naval actions as Moscow and Berlin clash on the front line.
In Old Ripley Illinois a peaceful town with 115 residents had no use for its jail. Six tons of scrap metal from the cells were sent to a scrap metal drive. Air mail outside the continental United States is limited to two ounces per piece due to distribution constraints.
In Ottawa it was announced that 170 Canadian soldiers died in the Dieppe raid. Rep. Sam Hobbs proposes universal fingerprinting of all U S residents as a wartime measure to aid law enforcement and national security.
A long account claims Adolf Hitler derailed a Nazi scheme to sabotage US munitions plants and railways after breaking with Russia. It outlines cross border spying, Gestapo taps, and Communist networks exposing planned destruction, aided by US investigators and FBI action.
Brief notes on wartime labor and morale. Bankhage reports WPA counted auto graveyards and notes workers rushing to Washington for war jobs may ignore events outside New York. USO Phoebus Virginia runs a Charm School teaching hostesses poise, style, and games.
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