2 Heppner Gazette Times, October 15,1942
Week of the War
U. S. Army headquarters in Brit
ain reported that 115 American
bombers, in their first large-scale
daylight sweep over occupied
France, shot down 48 Nazi planes,
probably destroyed 38 more and se
riously damaged at least 19. Never
before had so many German planes
been shot down in a single en
counter over western Europe as
were brounght down by the massed
fire of the American Flying Fort
resses and consolidated B-24's. Only
four American ships were lost and
the crew of one was saved. The
bombers made a destructive attack
on the Lille industrial area.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters in
Australia announced Oct. 12 that
Lockheed medium bombers scored
two direct hits on a large Japanese
seaplane tender in the Soolomon
area beween the Bismarck and Sol
omon Isles. The navy reported Oct.
10 a Japanese destroyer was sunk
and a heavy cruiser and destroyer
were damaged by American airmen
during continued enemy attempts
to land reinforcements on Guadal
canal. The enemy under cover of
darkess made several small landings
In the Solomons, but U. S. forces
shot down 21 Japanese planes, tor
pedoed a cruiser, and bombed and
strafed enemy troops and equipment
on Guadalcanal. Gen, MacArthur's
headquarters also anounced that the
biggest force of Fying Fortresses
ever sent against a target in the
Australian zone made an unusually
destructive raid on the largest Jap
anese base in this area, Rabaul. Aus
tralian troops continued to drive
the enemy back into the Owen
Stanley mountains and removed the
threat of the Allied base of Port
Moresby.
From new bases in the Andreanof
group of the Aleutians, army bomb
ers, escorted by Airacobra and
Lightning fighters, kept Japanese
held Kiska less than an hour's
flying time away under "continual
fire" during the week. The navy
reported aerial reconnaisance show
ed the Japs apparently have given
up their hold on both Attu and Ag-
attu in the western Aleutians and
concentrated on Kiska.
War Taxes
The senate passed and sent to
conference with the house the 1942
War Revenue bill which the Treas
ury estimated will yield $9,000,000,
000 in new revenue annually. Of
this total, approximately 1,706 mil
lion would be refundable because
the bill provides an extra five per
cent "Victory Tax" on all individual
incomes above $12 a week part of
which would be refunded as a cred
it on other taxes a year later or as
a post-war refund. The new bill
will make 42 to 44 million persons
subject to federal taxes, compared
with 28 million at present, and will
bring total federal revenue up to
$26,000,000,000 a year.
Rationing
Price Administrator Henderson
announced a five-step government
plan to keep every passenger car
"rolling for essential mileage" thru
out the war: (1) rationing of used
tires and recaps, and new tires now
in stock, to provide as far as possi
ble the minimum essential mileage
to each of the nation's passenger
cars. (2) Actual control of each car's
mileage through the rationing of
gasoline to prevent unnecessary
driving and to hold the national
average down to 5,000 miles per car
per year. (3) Compulsory periodic
inspection of all tires to guard
against abuse and to prevent wear
beyond the point where they can be
recapped. (4) Denial of gasoline and
of tire replacement to cars whose
drivers persistently violate the na
tional 35-mile-an-hour speed limit
(5) Capacity use, through car shar
ing, of every car on every trip so
far as possible.
Fuel oil consumers in the 30 states
affected by oil rationing will he able
to obtain their ration application
forma from their dealers soon after
Oct 13 and should fill them out as
soon as possible and mail or de
liver them to local war price and
rationing boards, OPA said. Fuel oil
ration coupons for private dwellings
will be worth 10 gallons each for
the first heating period October
and November' the OPA announc
ed. Coupon sheets for the entire ity" in fuel oil allotments,
five periods of the heating season
will be issued shortly, OPA said, Maximum Prices and Rents
will be assigned a definite gallonage The OPA reported Oct 11 that
but only those for the first period it is extending the government rent
value in order to "assure flexibil- control program to embrace prac
usinessmen-Let s
death ! Let s not dodge the issues
Jet's face facts. A lot of good
American fighting men may soon
have to die for want of scrap!
Oregon must yield 100000 tons.
We're talking facts, remember! Such as the fact that
steel for every tank, ship and gun must be made of 50
per cent scrap. And the terrible fact that America's
mills are starving for this scrap-without enough on hand
for even 30 days more production !
That was the conrition before the fall drive for
scrap iron and steel started. The crisis has" been
eased but not passed. More scrap is needed,
.and still more until every available bit has been
cleaned up.
Morrow County has come through in a creditable man
ner so far. Keep the good work going and not let it be
said that some boy died because you failed to turn in
your scrap metal!
Details of the scrap metal drive may be had from
C. D. Conrad, Morrow County Chairman, Heppner.
NEWSPAPERS'
tically the entire urban population
of the country, and orders reducing
and stabilizing rents on Nov. 1 for
all living quarters of 97 more defense-rental
areas are being issued
immediately. The orders bring un
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UNITED SCRAP METAL DRIVE
der federal control the residential
rents in every large city in the coun
try with the exception of New York.
City. Rents are being cut back to
the levels prevailing last March 1 in
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