Manpower Commission Draft Rules Halt Enlistments U S Food Program Headed
Western Newspaper Union analyzes government actions with the Manpower Commission setting draft rules and President Roosevelt halting all military enlistments. Wickard to direct the US food program signals shifts in wartime policy. A new front threatens Axis forces in Libya, with editors noting opinions reflect WNU analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manpower Commission
FDR
Wickard
U. S
New Front
Libya
U S Food Administration Chief Wickard Seeks Unified Control
President Roosevelt appoints Claude Wickard national food administrator with authority over production processing and distribution for civilians and military. He will coordinate with WPB and OPA on prices and use of foodstuffs, streamline agencies, and direct rationing and allocation to meet 1944 agricultural goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Claude R. Wickard
United Nations
Wickard
U. S
Donald Nelson
WPB
Leon Henderson
OPA
U.S
Herbert Hoover
Department of Agriculture
War Production Board
NO HIBERNATION: RUSSIAN WINTER OFFENSIVE ACTS BACK
Russians press the winter campaign as German counterattacks surge on all fronts. In one week Moscow reports 192 German planes destroyed and thousands of prisoners taken as fighting spreads to the Caucasus and Stalingrad area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russian
Russia
Moscow
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Enlistments Halted by FDR Move Tightens Manpower
President Roosevelt suspended army and navy enlistments, shifted selective service to the War Manpower Commission, and authorized civilian job priorities. Physically qualified men may not enlist, navy and Marines can accept nonvolunteers, and inductments are halted for men over 38. McNutt gains broad authority over armed service entry and civilian work, Hershey remains director under McNutt, with local draft boards continuing under new orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
War Manpower Commission
Marine Corps
Paul V. McNutt
Armed Services
Director of Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
MacNutt
Northern Tunisia stingy hold by Allied forces faces German air and tank attacks
Allied and Axis forces clash as the British First Army and American units fight in rugged Tunisian mountains while awaiting reinforcements. A new axis threat forms toward the Sahara as French forces advance near the Algeria Tripolitania border. Naples harbor endures massive bombing by American bombers, causing extensive fires and severe damage to Italian warships and supply depots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunisia
First Army
Libya
Sahara Desert
Tunis
Morocco
Henri Giraud
Algeria- Tripolitania
Djanet
Algeria
Fort Lamy
French Equatorial Africa
Bizerte
Naples
Tripoli
North Africa
Ice cream curbed 20 percent to boost butter supply
December and January production cuts across Way Production board plans reduced ice cream output by about twenty percent to free butter. In London, Allied position gains boosted betting that the war may end by June 1943. German orders shift all Norwegian freight cars to Germany amid rolling stock shortages. Germany reportedly developed a submarine with surface speed able to overtake most fast merchant ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Way Production Board
London
Norway
Germany
Reich
Sea Battles for Land Goals Around Guadalcanal and New Guinea
The article describes a double-barreled sea and land conflict strategy in the southwest Pacific. U S forces interrupt Japanese reinforcements at Guadalcanal and New Guinea while a large Allied force lands in New Zealand. MacArthur’s campaign advances are slow and costly, with the fleet debating deployment to disrupt Japanese withdrawal to the sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guadalcanal
Salomone
Island
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
U. S
New Zealand
MacArthur
NIMITZ Forecasts Final Victory in Pacific War
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the U S Pacific Fleet, reviews the year’s actions and foresees the complete destruction of Japanese power. He asserts many Pearl Harbor ships are returning stronger, and vows to drive the Japanese from the Aleutians and toward Japanese home waters with massed forces and materiel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S. Pacific
Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Aleutians
Western Pacific
New wartime cabinet reshapes U S administration in 1942
As 1942 drew to a close the nation saw a sweeping reorganization. Byrnes becomes director of economic stabilization while Nelson streamlines the War Production Board. Wickard runs food with Henderson on rationing. McNutt gains manpower control. Ickes becomes petroleum administrator. Jeffers controls rubber. The new executive war cabinet assigns wartime duties across the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Claude Wickard
Leon Henderson
Paul McNutt
Harald Ickes
William Jeffers
White House
New York Scene and Novelette in Distracted War Year
A collection of light verse and vignettes from New York, mixing theater gossip and street sketches with literary notes. Highlights include Milton Berle’s army camp reception, a street corner cab scene, a draft story about a newlywed couple, and a profile of press figures like Matthew Gordon and James Bennett Sr, plus a note on Kehard Tregaskis’s wartime assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sallies
Milton Berle
Milton Herle
James Gordon Bennett Sr
Bennett
Washington
N.Y. Herald
Porter
Oliver Carlson
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc
Horace Greeley
WPA Ends Nationwide, Roosevelt Orders 1943 Wind-Down
The WPA, the nation’s largest relief agency, will end activities in many states by February 1943 and be out of the national picture by June 30 1943. Wartime private employment growth prompted the decision to halt spending through work-relief programs.
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WPA
Roosevelt
Rubber Czar Jeffers backs nationwide gas rationing stance
In a closed House Interstate Commerce subcommittee meeting, Rubber Administrator Bill Jeffers defended the Baruch report goals and said he would carry out rationing to keep transportation for war industries. He avoided direct praise for Henderson while noting conflicts between price control and rationing. The panel pressed on Henderson’s role as price chief and rationing director. The piece also covers Admiral Darlan’s controversial collaboration with the United States, Washington Merry-Go-Round notes on Milltown New Jersey’s can exchange plan, and a quip about Maury Maverick and Sumner Welles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Jeffers
House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Jeffers
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Leon Henderson
Henderson
OPA
Rubber Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
Hatton Sumners
Texas
Mr. Sumners
L. D. Tompkins
Washington
Milltown
N. J
New York City
LaGuardia
New Brunswick
Millville
South Jersey
Halsey
South Pacific
Berlin
Lyndon Johnson
FDR
Maury Maverick
Sumner Welles
State Department
Maverick
Maury
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Rhenian
Europe
Japan
Teddy
Mary
Martha
58Th
Sth
42Nd Street
Will
CBS News
Matthew Gordon
Knopf
Harold Denny
N. Y. Times
New York Times
Times
Kehard Tregaskis
INS
News Service
Cable Department
Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
Tregaskis
Solomon Islands
Washington, D.C
Admiral Darlan
War Chiefs
Darlan
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
South America
Pampa
Marguerite de Valois
The
Sammugae
Icipered
Bfgoodrich
Aals
Smith Brothers
Smith Bros. Cough Drops
Alack O& Menthol—Sf
Eraon
Bomber Command
Roger
Camel
Marines
Coast Guard
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