Weekly News Analysis on War Fronts and Allied Aid
A retrospective column notes U S plans for a second European front in 1942, U S lend lease to the Soviet Union, and a 20 year mutual assistance pact with Britain while detailing Pacific theater carrier losses and Aleutian Island activity. It cites Molotov Roosevelt talks and London signaling improved war aid amid Sevastopol and Kharkov fighting.
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Russia
Citizens Army
Sevastopol
Washington
Moscow
London
Soviet Union
United States
Molotov
Roosevelt
U. S
State Department of the
Britain
China
Kharkov
Office of War Information Created to Coordinate Government News
Washington consolidates information functions into a single Office of War Information led by Elmer Davis. The move directs all agencies to align their information services, with Davis empowered to cut overlap and discontinue useless activities. The plan requires coordination with Byron Price and aims to disseminate nonharmful information quickly. Also announced is a seven year war conversion loan up to 5000 dollars to convert existing structures for war workers, amid a drop in new war housing starts in early 1942.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Office of Facts and Figures
Office of Government Reports
Office of Emergency Management
Foreign Information Service
Information
White House
Davis
Byron Price
Ferguson
Treasure Hunt This Time Rubber
Ameri cans rushed to strip idle rubber from homes garages and factories after Roosevelts order. Rubber salvage collected at gas stations moved to central points by oil trucks and sold to Rubber Recovery. War officials note 800000 tons needed 21 months after April 1 1942 with 600000 tons on hand. Synthetic program aims 300000 tons in 1943 and 30000 tons in rest of 1942.
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Roosevelt
Rubber Recovery Corporation
Patterson
Army
Navy
U. S
WPB
Newhall
Tax Hike Set On All Telephone Charges
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a minimum 50 percent increase in taxes on all telephone and telegraph charges. Sir Harry Luke resigns as Fiji governor and Western Pacific high commissioner to allow a younger successor. Fifteen American and British war heroes visit Washington to meet President Roosevelt and Congress, with Mrs. Roosevelt and Lord Halifax also in attendance.
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House
Ways and Means
Harry Luke
Fiji Islands
Western Pacific
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Lord Halifax
Capitol Hill
Senate
Vengeance Promised by Czech Leader After War
In a London broadcast Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes vowed after victory to impose military law including the death penalty on Nazis responsible for Czech destruction. He named Neurath and Gestapo leaders for punishment and urged personal responsibility against Nazi officials in Bohemia and Moravia. In Washington, Jan Masaryk urged retaliation for Lidice, proposing severe measures and tenfold punishment for each act of terror.
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London
Eduard Benes
Czech
Benes
Nazi Party
Reich
Baron von Neurath
Gestapo
Bohemia and Moravia
Washington
Jan Masaryk
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
Bohemia and
Moravia
Masaryk
Nanchang Front Amid Japanese Advances In China
Japanese forces drive toward Nanchang in Klangsi province with Nan cheng evacuated and 125 miles to close the eastern western gap. Chinese recapture Tsung ten, near Nanchang Kiang base, while reports say Kwangfeng and Anyi areas near the base face intense pressure.
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Klangsi
Nancheng
Tsungten
Nanchang
Jap Kiangs
Domei
Kwangfeng
Yushan
Wuning
Anyi
Selge
Cracking Process Aims Boost Rubber and Gas Production
U S chemists report a new petroleum cracking method to produce high grade aviation gasoline and butadiene for synthetic rubber from the same plant. The breakthrough could unite aviation fuel and rubber feed stocks, easing supply bottlenecks before 1943. Rommel’s Tobruk assault features American made General Grants facing heavy German armor in a frontal battle.
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U. S
War Production Board
Bir Hacheim
Libya
Tobruk
Cal
Erwin Rommel
Mediterranean Sea
Rommel
Grant
Realizing Value of the Blimp Armada in War
A 1943 profile notes Captain C. E. Rosendahl won support for a fleet of 48 blimps for anti submarine warfare and potential expansion to 72 more. It explains why lighter than air craft, using non explosive helium, could serve as aircraft carriers, observers, and strike platforms while avoiding surface gunfire vulnerability.
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WNU
H Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Navy
C. E. Rosendah
Rosendahl
Congress
Germany
America
Japan
Midway
Manpower shifts as Hershey calls for broader draft reach
Selective Service Director Hershey says industry and the armed forces must drop the ideal man myth and that soon all men and women will be needed with the draft touching the fringe of those deferred due to dependency. Congress raises base army pay to 50 a month and advances a plan to assist dependents of service members.
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Selective Service
Hershey
Congress
Paraphrased War Briefs and Funeral Price Caps
A 35000 ton battleship needs 42000 acres to feed its workers. The Marine Corps Paramarines are parachutists armed with knives pistols and sacks of grenades. WWI engine overhaul intervals were 60 hours. modern engines now last 600 hours with precise machining. Funeral charges must meet General Maximum Price Regulation ceilings.
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United States Marine Corps
Navy and gas chief reforms amid wartime policy shifts
A behind the scenes view compares Admiral King's push to cut Washington bureaus with Japan's lean navy, noting U S personnel far exceed Japan's. The piece profiles gasoline czar Joe Dean, his Drive In Club, and his late hours. it also covers Army Hour jamming, tax advice changes, OPA airport checks, Russian guerrilla gains, women doctors in the Army, and the new M 1 helmet.
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Washington
D. C
King
Japan
Tokyo
Cone Trast
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Bone
U. S. Navy
Admiral Leary
New Zealand
Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Ingidera
Admiral King
Joe
Dean
Vermont
California
Harvard
International Business Machine
Leon Henderson
OPA
Arlington
Brickbats
South Sea
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury
Russia
War Department
Army Medical Corps
WAAC
Army
Man of the Hour tea towel and panholder set
A patriotic kitten named Tom is featured for a six timely captions from Monday through Saturday and a V for victory cap on Sunday. He poses for a trio of panholders Hip Hip Hooray. Order pattern 26476, 15 cents, for tea towel and panholder sets as gifts.
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Tom
Kina
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Nancheng Falls
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