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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1942
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes Soviet resistance slipping in the Caucasus as German forces advance. Government wheat prices reach 83 cents and steel wage patterns are shaped by new rulings. Editor remarks on opinion columns.
In a wartime report the Axis push across the Don basin is described with three spearheads aimed at splitting the Soviet forces. Advances threaten Voronezh Kuibyshev and Stalingrad, potentially opening a route to the Caspian oil fields and links to Japan and Rommel. At El Alamein Rommel reinforces as dusk tactics test Allied defenses in Egypt.
The War Labor Board approved a 44 cent daily wage increase for workers at the Little Steel companies Bethlehem Republic Inland and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. The decision amounts to about a 15 percent raise based on cost of living from January 1941 to May 1942, affecting 157000 direct employees and potentially over a million in related sectors. The CIO United Steel Workers had sought a higher raise, and eight to four vote included dissent from labor members.
After a six month log jam the House concurred with a Senate plan to sell 125 million bushels of government wheat to feed cattle hogs and for other uses at about 83 cents a bushel or 85 percent of parity. The move supports anti inflation goals and allows below parity sales for alcohol rubber or munitions production.
Navy communique details the Battle of Midway with Japan fielding 80 ships in a prelude to Hawaii conquest. Final tally: 20 Japanese ships sunk or damaged, four carriers sunk, three battleships hit, 275 planes destroyed, 4,300 dead or drowned. U S losses include the destroyer Hammann and Yorktown, with 307 officers and men lost. Secretary Knox says convoys will be used in Caribbean and Gulf, coastwise convoys lacking destroyer aid.
As Bastille Day marked, the Fighting France rename signals closer co operation with the United Nations. Admiral Stark and Brig. Gen. Bolte are named military representatives to De Gaulle in London, while Vichy relations remain strained over naval vessels interned at Alexandria.
London reports indicate steady forward motion on the long heralded European second front with a major raid and invasion maneuvers by American Canadian forces and Royal Navy units. Eisenhower reorganizes command for ground air and supply, while Leon Henderson warns OPA staff that political activity will trigger instant dismissal under the Hatch Act.
A Western newspaper reintroduces Molly Pitcher as a voluntary fundraiser for war bonds and stamps. It recounts her Revolutionary War heroism at Monmouth and notes the nationwide effort by 5,000,000 workers in grocery stores to sell $1,000,000,000 monthly for the treasury. The piece outlines her life from Mary Ludwig to her commemoration by Gen. Washington and postwar honors, including a pension.
A columnist argues for voluntary U S bond buying to fund the war, criticizing tax-based funding and urging Americans to shift wealth into government bonds. He reflects on discussions with Senator Z and P P about inflation, wages, and transport needs, noting public resistance to compulsory savings but support for emergency measures.
The United States air threat to Tokyo spurred Japan to widen air and ground efforts in China. Chiang Kai-shek’s forces report losses at Wenchow and Julan while vowing bigger counterattacks with growing U.S. air support to immobilize more Japanese troops, as Germany and Japan seek late summer successes to sustain the war.
American aircraft makers push annual warplane production toward unprecedented gains in 26 months, with 1942 output surpassing all planes built from 1909 to 1941. Farmers may market 5 to 6 million more hogs between October and next April as war needs grow. At Orlando Air Base a new medical department mascot, Leukocyte Lymph Haemophylia III, nicknamed Here Pussy, appears.
Yale University Medical School researchers Dr John L Paul and Dr James D Trask report common house flies may carry poliomyelitis virus from sewage. They note polio cripples thousands, kills hundreds yearly, and disease involves the intestinal tract and spinal cord, highlighting flies as a health threat to children.
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