[Homer_J_Simpson]

Fleets Are Poised (Hurd) – 2
War News Summarized – 2
Japan is Punishing Seized U.S. Fliers (Anderson) – 3
Roll-Call and Free Smokes for Japanese Prisoners (photos) – 3-4
Red Army Yields Block, Then Holds (Parker) – 4
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 6-7

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/oct42/f20oct42.htm

Americans getting a tax hike
Tuesday, October 20, 1942 www.onwar.com

From Washington... The United States Congress passes the largest tax bill in the country’s history. It will raise $6,881,000,000 in tax revenue.

[Seizethecarp]

Carlos P. Romulo (one of last people to escape Bataan in a makeshift airplane) who received Pulitzer in today’s paper:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_P._Romulo

President of the UN General Assembly

He served as the President of the Fourth Session of United Nations General Assembly from 1949–1950, and chairman of the United Nations Security Council. He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first non-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. The Pulitzer Prize website says Carlos P. Romulo of Philippine Herald was awarded “For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.” He was a candidate for the position of United Nations Secretary-General in 1953, but did not win.