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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1942
Page
1
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Eight months after Pearl Harbor Allied forces push into the Solomon Islands, with U S Navy task forces at the Coral Sea boundary inflicting a major defeat on Japan. Admiral Nimitz cites strong enemy resistance while preparations for an intensified combined air and naval assault proceed. Meanwhile labor leaders CIO President Murray and AFL Chief Green sketch paths toward labor peace amid past factional tensions and calls for unity in a broader wartime coalition.
Britain arrests Mohandas Gandhi and nearly 200 All India Congress leaders as they prepare a nation wide nonviolent civil disobedience movement protesting Britain's refusal of immediate independence. Riots erupt in Bombay and Ahmedabad amid grain looting and a tense wartime climate.
Guglielmo Ferrero, renowned Italian historian and critic of Fascism, died in Geneva aged 71. Exiled seven years earlier after Mussolini authorities seized his books, he had taught at the University of Geneva since. His celebrated work includes The Grandeur and Decadence of Rome.
In Washington the War Production Board announced an order ending most typewriter manufacture by October 31 with only a small quantity for government use. The order also caps production from July 1 to October 1 at 12 percent of each company's machines sold last year.
Price Administrator Leon Henderson launches an inquiry after Frank Higgins of a New Orleans shipyard accuses his firm of buying steel from illicit markets at high premiums. A second probe by Rep Carl Peterson targets the navy defense panel over Higgins ship cancellations and steel shortages. Senate chairman Harry S Truman also accuses the Navy Bureau of Ships of negligence in tank landing boat construction, citing Navy model substitutions for Higgins designs.
Spokesmen for the manpower commission say one in four American housewives aged 18 to 44 may be needed in munitions work to reach full wartime production. A nationwide registration of women might catalog the country’s female adult resources. manpower chief Paul V. McNutt estimates about 5,000,000 more women must be placed in war jobs by year end 1943.
Army Chief Henry H. Arnold told a Senate committee that 21 percent of remaining 1942 bomber output will be cargo planes, with 380 percent of total output for cargo when including long-range aircraft. He said cargo planes move paratroops, tow gliders, and haul supplies to combat zones, about 2.5 million tons weekly. Navy Rear Admiral John H. Towers said the Bureau of Aeronautics is speeding a large cargo plane program.
British officials say U boat threat to American coastal waters has lessened due to convoy systems in Panama and Caribbean areas and stronger air defenses. U S authorities caution Nazis may shift to heavily convoyed North Atlantic supply routes as Allied anti submarine measures improve.
A wartime labor squeeze hits farming as McNutt moves toward drafting manpower. Despite 12,009,000 in farm work, 50 percent of required labor remains unfilled as war industries draw workers. Wages rise to 22 year highs. parity prices debated. Local labor mobility and migrant workers add complexity while plans to mobilize 60 million workers face farm-specific hurdles.
A 1930s plan proposed by Undersecretary Wayne C. Taylor to shift to wooden sailing ships using minimal critical materials to move cargo between the Americas. After initial government skepticism, a trade weekly article spurred RFC to fund a $10 million program to build 300-ton wood sailing vessels with shallow and deep draft designs, plus Latin American yards and contracts.
The Library of Congress has assembled an exhibit of materials published in 64 of the 111 printed languages of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. More than 39,000 women are now employed in productive capacities in the aircraft manufacturing industry, up from 1,900 nine months ago.
The extension service conducted Americanization meetings for Japanese descent residents in Hawaii drawing 307 attendees. A bomber at 200 MPH at 10,000 feet would drop a 500 pound bomb that would land more than a mile and a quarter ahead of its release point.
Pattern transfer for a chair back measuring 12 by 24 inches and two armrests of 5 by 10 inches. Includes illustrations of stitches and required materials. Send your order form to the provided address.
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