Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11

reported damaged have returned t
the fleet, while others critically
damaged are being repaired anC
will soon be ready for battle again
OF the 2O2 U. S. Naval aircraft bas.
ed at Pearl Harbor, $50 were per.
manently or temporarily disabled
Army planes destroyed totaled 81
AS result of the Japanese attack
2,343 officers and emitted men OF
the U. S. services were killed, 1879
wounded, and $50 are still reported
as missing.
The Navy estimates that 105 enc
my planes took part in the attack,
and that the enemy lost 2S aircraft
and 8 submarines of As tons each.
The War Front
Navy Secretary Knox told a press
conference that Japanese troops
on Guadalcanal may be running
short of supplies. The enemy's at
tempt to land supplies and rein
forcements on the night of Novem-
ber 30 was a complete failure, he
said. At that time a U. S. Naval
task force intercepted and engaged
Japanese troop transports and YES
sells and sank nine ships-two
large destroyers or cruisers, four
destroyers, two troop transports
and one cargo ship-at a loss of
only one U. S. cruiser The enemy
will try again, Mr.. Knox said, but
the November 80 attempt indicates
clearly that the condition of the
Japanese on the Island is becom-
ing acute. Navy communiques
throughout the week reported 40
Japanese killed on the Island, three
planes downed and one cargo ship
hit.
The Navy reported five U. S.
Naval transports were sunk by Axis
submarines during the occupation
of North Africa in the early part of
and during the opera
tion three other U. S. transports,
one destroyer, and one tanker were
damaged. Reports showed that 21S
Axis planes and 10 tanks were de-
stroyed and a number of prisoners
were captured, with the Allies re-
porting IA planes missing and five
lost.
In a daylight raid on Naples on
December 4, Allied heavy bombers
successfully attacked docks and
other targets, scoring hits ON one
Italian battleship and two cruis-
ers.
The nations intelligence service
has estimated Japanese casualties
from the day of Pearl Harbor to
25, 1912, at 250,000 men
killed or permanently injured, with
Naval losses representing about 10
per cent of the Japanese Navy's to-
tai personnel. U. S. Army and Navy
losses in the same period number
about $4,000 men killed or missing,
with Naval losses representing
about one per cent of total U. S.
Naval personnel.
Agriculture
The 1943 Food Freedom goals |
are expected to cause some regional
changes in agricultural production,
as changes from the 1912 produc-
ton pattern throw sharp emphasis !
on crops and livestock most es-
sential to the war effort. All poss-
ible assistance, the Department of
announced, will be
given farmers in meeting the record
goals-to ease the shortage of farm
labor, to support prices, to provide
loans and technical assistance-but
crop payments will be conditional
On the degree to which each coop
Grating farm family carries out its
Individual farm plan, with deduc-
ions for over-planting of non-es-
,ential products and for under
planting of essential crop allot-
nents and goals.
To provide labor for 194S farm
VINO Chairman McNutt
Lnnounced a comprehensive pro-
,ram which will be worked out in
letail during the winter and launch
ID as soon as spring planting be-
,ins. The plan provides for the
of mobile groups of
farm workers, the
ransfer of experienced operators |
nd workers from sub-standard ;
ands to productive areas, the ad-
ustment of farm wages in relation
0 industrial wages, and farm
abor training and management
rogram. Because of the wide dis
arity" between salaries and wages
aid agricultural labor and those ,
aid industrial labor, OES Director
iyrnes gave control over agricul-
lral wages to Secretary Wickard.
he House passed and sent to the !
enate legislation directing that
arm wages be included in calcu-
ltions of parity prices for farm ;
roducts, defining wages as those
OF only of hired hands, but of OPP
rators and owners as we'll.