Telling blow at Axis struck by Wilhelmina
Partnership offer to her empire gives life to Atlantic Charter
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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McNutt broadens manpower survey to list 270 cities
Indicating labor surplus or shortage helps direct war contracts to factories where they can be handled best, director says
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‘Tell it to the Marines’ via EFM service at 60¢
Washington –
The Navy announced today hat relatives and correspondents of Marine Corps personnel on duty ashore overseas may now make use of an inexpensive, rapid means of communication known as the EFM (Expeditionary Force Message) service.
Through this service, messages are accepted at any public telegraph, cable or radio office and are transmitted as cablegrams or radiograms to overseas bases. Cost of an EFM message is 60¢ plus tax.
Cardinal sees sure victory in new faith
American people are meeting emergency miraculously, O’Connell says
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Background of news –
A year of war on the domestic front
By Editorial Research Reports
You can’t unscramble eggs, and years after the hostilities of the present war have ceased, the domestic readjustments caused by the war still will be making their influence felt. The highlights at home of the war in the 12 months since Pearl Harbor are as follows:
First Quarter, December 7, 1941-March 6, 1942
Service in the armed forces is extended for the duration; the ban on foreign service of selectees is rescinded. Censorship Office is created. Draft for military service is extended to cover ages 20-44. Production of new autos is stopped, sales are rationed, rubber stocks are frozen. ODT is created.
War Production Board replaces OPM. War Labor Board replaces Defense Mediation Board. Price Control Act is adopted. “War Saving Time” is put into effect. Office of Civilian Defense is reorganized. War Shipping Administration is created. Nine million men of 20 and 21 and between 36 and 45 register for the draft.
Second Quarter, March 7-June 6, 1942
The third draft drawing is held. AFL and CIO leaders agree not to support strikes during the war and to forego double-time for Sundays and holidays as such. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) is authorized; later the enlistment of women is authorized in other belligerent services. The national debt limit is raised to $125 billion. The Second War Powers Act widely extends the powers of the President. Men between 45 and 65 register under the amended draft act. The War Manpower Commission is set up.
Various publications are banned from the mails as seditious, and convictions for wartime offenses reach 1,200. Production of synthetic rubber under government auspices begins. War plants are ordered to end racial discrimination. President Roosevelt presents a seven-point program against inflation. Sugar rationing begins. Prices, service charges and rents are frozen. Gasoline rationing begins in the East.
Third Quarter, June 7-September 6, 1942
Office of War Information is created. Congress passes a bill for automatic deductions from soldiers’ pay for dependents, with matching payments by the government. Indictments for outright treason begin. Youths of 18 and 19, not subject to military service, register under the draft. The WPB is reorganized. WLB in the Little Steel case authorizes a 15 percent wage increase to meet living cost rises between January 1941 and May 1942.
Six of eight Nazi saboteurs are executed, after Supreme Court rejected application for habeas corpus.
Fourth Quarter, September 7-December 6, 1942
War production is up 350 percent since Pearl Harbor. Cost of living is 17½ percent above 1935-39 level. Fuel oil rationing begins. WLB lays down general rule of equal pay for women for equal work, Congress, under ultimatum from President, passes an anti-inflation bill, lowering ceilings but raising floors for farm prices.
President Roosevelt orders wages and salaries stabilized, bans salaries above $25,000, net, appoints James F. Byrnes national economic stabilizer. It is announced that the armed forces will comprise 9,700,000 men by the end of 1943. The 1942 revenue act is enacted, sharply increasing taxes. The Senate rejects Prohibition in vicinity of Army camps. The November elections reduce the Democratic majority in the Senate, almost wipe it out in the House.
The draft age for military service is lowered to 18. Tires above five are turned in; tire registration is held. Gasoline rationing becomes nationwide; coffee rationing begins. Public debt goes over $100 billion, national income of $125 billion is predicted for 1943.
Willkie asks U.S., Britain to agree now
Flaying censorship, he prods both nations for post-war aims
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12 die in bomber crash; victims’ name withheld
Maxton Field, North Carolina (UP) –
The Maxton Field Public Relations Office announced today that 12 persons were killed when an Army airplane crashed near Montgomery, Alabama, on a “routing flight” from Maxton Field to Maxwell Field, Alabama.
The crash occurred at 10 p.m. Saturday.
The Public Relations Office said that, contrary to usual procedure:
Names of the victims of this crash will not be disclosed.
Six Army fliers killed
Hamilton Field, California –
An Army bomber crashed yesterday near Plantation, California, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, killing the crew of six.