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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1942
Page
2
Governor Olesya submits figures showing a national tax and license fee increase. The report cites 200 million dollars yearly from citizens and 275 million dollars in net operator profits. The text also touches on diet myths and eye anatomy in brief, with odd unrelated notes and a garbled personals section.
In a famed case noted by Collier's the town of St Julian began a trial in 1445 to convict four insect species and banish them from the community. The proceedings dragged for 42 years until insects failed to appear in court and escalating legal costs bankrupted the town.
Fragmentary OCR note referencing a newspaper union item with illegible date and names. Information is too damaged to determine people, places, or events.
Reports from Norway indicate fresh divisions rushing to bolster defenses along the coast while Japan faces ongoing air raid alarms. In Britain and Germany anxieties over potential invasions and spring offensives shape strategic planning as leaders consider delaying offensives into summer. Back home, Republicans return from Chicago emboldened by a platform stressing international roles and limited war spending, with Wilkie as a focal point and a pledge to curb expenditures after the war.
The army outlines a new Class I A designation Suspended I A for men who are unfit due to dental, nasal, or stomach issues that can be corrected. Re exams and three day hospital observation may occur to determine fit. Once corrected, men would be re tested and moved to full I A status.
Lieut John D Bulkeley and his PT boat squadron conduct night missions in the Philippines near Subic Bay and Cebu. They strike a damaged Japanese light cruiser, sustain losses including PT 34 and PT 35, and Bulkeley, already a Navy Cross recipient, is poised for further honors while news arrives of a newborn son and a young daughter. Simultaneously Swedish reports describe RAF bombing at Lubeck and wider wartime destruction affecting ships and port facilities.
Highlights of the week note a Cinderella Fleet fraternal group being commissioned for Atlantic patrols. The vessel, 110 feet, with twin high speed diesel engines, is described as the Cinderella boat. Government steps to store weapon materials are mentioned amid postwar shortages. Sir Stafford Cripps returns from India amid debate over his mission and England’s position.
The War Labor Board chief Willam If. Davis praised a peaceful labor scene with strike disruptions at 0.08 percent of production, noting a drop in quarter two 1942 strikes versus 1941. He credited the nonstrike policy for steady war output, while AFL CIO leaders Green and Murray clashed with NAM over ads.
President Hoosevelt ordered the formal seizure of all enemy owned patents in the United States. The move follows reports of illicit patent pooling by American firms and shipments of chemicals to blacklisted arms groups. A Philadelphia firm named by officials as a German controlled concern has allegedly paid royalties to Germany and withheld future payments. Officials cite preparations for an invasion and the potential for Nazi backed resistance stemming from German and Polish agents.
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