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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
6
Editorial notes shift to Syria and Iraqi oil fields as strategic prize in ongoing conflict. Government authorizes broad measures, including draft expansion to break strikes in defense plants. Analysis warns of wide implications for wartime economy and labor.
Foreign correspondents report Connecticut motor plants racing to 1.4 million horsepower monthly with 70,000 to 100,000 airplane engines expected in 1941 42. Axis output is guessed at 3 to 5 million monthly. Automobiles may soon join motor production as the Liberty engine past recalls WWI, while Roosevelt’s draft plan triggers sharp fights over strikes and emergency powers amid defense industry harmonization questions.
The article outlines British concern over a potential Syrian strike after Crete. It details mobilization toward Syria, air attacks on Syrian targets, and French propaganda about German aid. It cites claims of German troops and planes ready in Syria, plans to seize Mosul oil, and Turkish routes for a nighttime invasion.
The death of Kaiser Wilhelm at Doorn at 82 ends his long exile after 22 years away from Berlin. Hitler grants him full military honors in a dramatic farewell as the war swirls around Europe. Contemporaries question oil policy, sales to Japan, and wartime supply amid defense probes and ship losses.
A Philadelphia area tour finds several 100 percent mechanical farms. The 6,500 acre King farm at Morrisville, Pennsylvania displays typical mechanized implements in action while the 100-acre Frank Baughman farm in Ohio relies on horse labor for potato planting.
An alumnus of soda jerking, Jack Frye rises to head Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. His new 40 plane fleet aims 4000 mile range and 30000 foot ceiling, capable of moving 16000 troops to Alaska in 36 hours. Frye, born in Sweetwater Oklahoma, started with flying lessons and a Curtiss Jenny, later forming Standard Air Lines with Paul Richter and Walter Hamilton. The piece also notes Edward Elisberg’s new Captain Paul and profiles other aviation and literary figures including Hap Arnold and Walter Tower, highlighting crossovers of writing and public service.
Stacy May, research chief of the Office of Production Management, testified before the senate defense committee that the United States should double its arms program to aid Great Britain and others against Germany. He proposed raising next year’s arms spending from twenty billion to forty billion dollars.
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