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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
2
Analysis notes U S pledges support for a second front delighting Russians while U S information units consolidate. The weekly editor’s note clarifies opinions reflect the analyst, not the paper, and the item is distributed by the Western Newspaper Union.
Reports confirm Japanese landings on Attu and at Kiska while U S authorities monitor the Aleutians. An Office of War Information is created to consolidate government information efforts under Elmer Davis and Byron Price to coordinate and restrict war reporting. A new seven year wartime conversion loan offers up to 5000 for housing wartime workers as 70,225 dwellings are started in 1942.
Moscow and Washington sign a full understanding on opening a second European front in 1942 and speed US aid to the Soviet Union. The United States extends a lease lend agreement, while Britain and the USSR pledge a 20 year mutual assistance pact despite ongoing battles near Sevastopol and Kharkov. Japanese carrier losses are tallied after Midway and Coral Sea actions.
U S chemists report a petroleum cracking method to produce high grade aviation gasoline and butadiene in a single refining plant. The War Production Board says this could ease synthetic rubber bottlenecks and support plants capable of 120000 tons of rubber from butadiene by early 1943. Rommel’s Tobruk offensive faced by Generals Grant tanks. Tobruk’s fate centered on a frontal assault. Selective Service Director Hershey urges wider mobilization as base army pay rises and dependents' aid moves forward.
U. 5 examines how lighter-than-air ships shift anti-submarine warfare. Captain Rosendahl won support for 48 blimps and potential 72 more, with many in service and a plan for wider use as aircraft carriers. The piece contrasts past dirgibles setbacks with wartime need and amphibious capability.
The house ways and means committee approved at least a 50 percent increase in taxes on all telephone and telegraph charges. Sir Harry Luke, governor of Fiji since 1938, resigned to allow a younger successor.
Fifteen American and British war heroes toured the nation raising war bond sales. They paid respects to President Roosevelt and Congress at the White House where President and Mrs. Roosevelt and British Ambassador Lord Halifax greeted them. On Capitol Hill they were welcomed in the House chamber and by senators.
President Roosevelts order launches a rubber salvage program. Gas stations collect scrap rubber and ship it to central points for sale to Rubber Recovery. Patterson says 800,000 tons of crude rubber needed in 21 months after April 1, 1942, against 600,000-ton reserve. Synthetic plan aims 30,000 tons in rest of 1942 and 300,000 in 1943.
In a London broadcast Eduard Benes vowed postwar military law and the death penalty for Nazis tied to the Czech genocide. He named Gestapo, SS leaders, and officials in Bohemia Moravia as targets of swift reprisal. Masaryk urged bombing several German villages in retaliation for Lidice's destruction. He called for severe collective punishment as retribution for Heydrich's murder.
A columnist notes a 35000 ton battleship needed 42000 acres to feed its builders. Paramarines are the US Marine Corps parachutists armed with knives pistols and sacks of grenades. WWI airplane engines required 50 hour overhauls. modern engines last 600 hours. Funeral charges must follow general price ceilings.
Pattern 256 provides directions for making two necklaces a bracelet and an ornament with illustrations and stitches. It lists materials required and instructs readers to send their order.
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