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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
3
Weekly news analysis notes terrific British bombing strikes and Nazi efforts in the Rhineland. The column presents opinion as the analyst’s view, framed by Western Newspaper. The piece discusses the Midway naval losses, British air campaigns, and German war pressure.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz declared a decisive victory at Midway as American forces repelled a Japanese invasion fleet. Early reports indicate 14 to 17 ships sunk or damaged including carriers, battleships, cruisers, transports, and a destroyer. King suggested the battle could decide the war in the Pacific and Hawaii must be held at all costs. Midway lies 1,812 miles from Pearl Harbor as a key defense outpost.
Axis submarines along the Eastern seaboard have largely withdrawn and now operate farther at sea, as Chairmen Carl Vinson notes. U S and army units in England use V mail for fast, compact communication, while Roosevelt warns Japan that gas warfare will be met with full retaliation.
Japanese forces shelled Sydney and Newcastle on Australias southeast coast in the first mainland raid of the war. Submarines attacked as residents hurried to air raid shelters and cities went black. Major subs were destroyed in the week, with raids seen as a diversion of Allied naval forces.
The RAF bombing raid on Cologne shocked neutral observers as reports from Cologne and Stockholm described extensive destruction. The central district was ruined with widespread property loss affecting tens of thousands while residents mourned the city’s apparent loss of identity. An Essen raid followed with about 400 bombers in a subsequent mopping up operation.
Secretaries urge rural families to keep daughters on the farm to aid war food production as labor shortages loom. Hitler visits Finland but vows an independent course. U S air forces report first heavy bomber loss in Burma after two months of operations while continuing strikes on Japanese plans. About 1,300 factories employing 20,000 workers will be closed by Vichy orders diverting labor to farms and German war factories.
The desert clash at Knightsbridge sees thousands of tanks in action as Rommel directs a renewed Axis attack south and west of Harmat. British forces repulse two German tank assaults while Axis lines bend in the Tobruk area, with Harmat viewed as a critical escape point from the mine field.
Congressional dispute erupts as Rep Jed Johnson of Oklahoma offers a concurrent resolution opposing nationwide gasoline rationing until proof of need is shown. He cites oil surpluses in Texas Kansas Oklahoma and other producing states and warns rationing would hurt the war effort. The War Production Board backs rationing to conserve rubber not gasoline. Johnson’s measure follows a raucous caucus of about 100 House members directing Rep Richard Kleberg of Texas to name a five member panel to meet with a Senate committee to pursue action.
The House voted 118 to 62 to retain the National Youth Administration while voting to cut 48.7 million dollars from NYA funds. Rep Dirksen proposed limiting NYA to a 5 million dollar student aid training program for the next year amid wartime food supply actions led by a new nine member Food Requirements Committee. The War Production Board oversees food production and distribution, with the agriculture department cautioning against assumed shortages.
Undersecretary of War Patterson says the army now has all weapons it can send abroad under current shipping conditions and enough to arm every soldier in the United States. He notes demand for light arms has nearly doubled with parachute troops development.
Brig. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, veteran of Cantigny, and Brig. Gen. William C. Lee, an early parachute pioneer, command the new airborne units. Ely, 75, reflects on lessons from World War I while Lee, a bookish innovator, develops training doctrine and physical conditioning for air borne troops poised for leaps to the mainland.
A satirical collage on wartime attitudes and Hollywood lore. It recalls John Barrymore lamenting a Japanese interned valet and Chaplin era servants turned spies, Roosevelt gags, Mussolini troops, Swope clock jibes, and modern stars taxing finances while craving simple meals.
The text asserts that modern Americana myths about Hollywood outpace ancient Greek legends, noting there is a Hollywood Chamber of Commerce but no Hollywood City Hall or city officials. It locates Hollywood as the northwest part of Los Angeles.
Thousands of women push to join the WAAC as officers limited to about 500 candidates with training around mid September. The war bond lottery idea is debated with Sabath proposing monthly lotteries, while the president warns against widespread lotteries for religious reasons. Chinese morale shifts as air power and munitions to Russia are urged to sustain resistance against Japan. Navy brief notes include a sailor’s retirement fortune and a defense plant film, The Army Behind the Army, to be shown nationwide.
The text describes seam welting for a 26 inch spread, cover cord with bias strips, and stitching with a cording foot. It notes bedspread instructions from Book 1 of Mrs. Spears series, offering slip covers, dressing table skirts, and 12 curtain styles with draw curtain rigging. Orders for Book 1 are invited.
Field surveys of soldiers sailors marines and Coast Guardsmen show tobacco tops gift list. Local dealers feature Prince Albert in a pound can as the preferred choice for servicemen. Prince Albert is promoted as the world’s largest selling smoking tobacco and a strong favorite among many in the service.
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