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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
2
Cedar Rapids plans a mid month intensification of the United States war savings bond program. Citizens are urged to buy bonds to fuel the war effort and form the basis of a continuing bond buying program. The drive will be the largest money raising effort yet, aiming to meet the community share of national needs and lift local salaries amid rising living costs.
In New Delhi Cripps and Congress leaders signaled willingness to negotiate a settlement on Indian independence. The Congress reportedly rejected Britain's postwar dominion status offer tied to wartime obedience and sketched counter proposals. Cripps kept the door open, meeting with Maulana Azad and Nehru as Wavell was rumored to be tied to defense talks.
The Office of Price Administration announced a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted tire dealer Guy O. Bryan and five associates for conspiracy to violate OPA rationing regulations and a restraining order issued by Judge Ben Harrison. The injunction sought to stop Bryan from continuing OPA fire rationing violations.
In Colombo Ceylon Thursday air raid alarms rang but there were no reports of any incidents or damage as the city endured the alert.
A Gazette help wanted ad attracted fourteen responses from Eastern Iowans seeking better opportunities. The notice urged readers to use the newspaper want ads to reach interested workers and highlighted that replies should come through the ads, not other channels.
Help wanted ad seeks sauce makers machinists and screw machine setup maintenance men at a Cedar Rapids defense plant. Steady work top scale pay furnish all details in first letter with reference Box D-304 Gazette. Dial 2-1121 for want ad taker to place the ad.
Linn county township leaders report heavy participation in the United States savings bond campaign with pledges and bond sales strong across multiple townships. Cedar Rapids and Marion prepare citywide drives as pledges reach tens of thousands with substantial regional support noted by county chairman B D Silliman.
Navy says three submarines were sunk on Wednesday two in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific bringing total Axis U boat sinkings to 28. Donald Francis Mason 28 of Rochester Minnesota earns a second Distinguished Flying Cross and an officer's commission for his part in the Atlantic against U boats. Ensign William Tepuni 26 of San Francisco also credited with a key submarine sinking. Vice Admiral M H Simons notes the Atlantic blow hits a vital spot and the Axis has paid a terrible price in submarines and men.
Cedar Rapids sees another spring day with 65 degrees by 5:30 p.m. and 68 degrees by 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Thursday afternoon remains somewhat cooler with 36 to 50 degree wind and chilly forenoon while 74 degrees is the spring record set on March 24.
City council appoints Richard H. Buresh to the civil service commission, succeeding Chester B. Myers who declines reappointment due to duties as purchasing agent for the Iowa Electric Light and Power company. Myers helped lead police department reorganization last summer and remains a vocal figure in municipal affairs.
The White House noted an FCC monitoring report showing Axis stations in Germany and Vichy and a U.S. broadcast repeating Rep. Dies charges that 35 Board of Economic Warfare employees were tied to Communist fronts. Wallace called Dies statements akin to Goebbels and harmful to morale. Hassett read excerpts as the president’s office reviewed the material.
DETROIT AP Genevieve Lamp a 25 year old defense worker denied Wednesday that she was suspended for working too hard She also denied she had claimed fellow workers objected to increased production and admitted responsibility for disturbances in the plant Her union local 270 of the United Automobile Workers CIO reinstated her immediately after suspension on charges of conduct unbecoming a union member
The Truman committee reports union jurisdiction fights and poor planning by the War Production Board and predecessor OPM slowed shipbuilding and aircraft output. It urges a dedicated aircraft production executive and criticizes unions for delaying ship fitting and bottlenecks. It notes light metals failures and Guayule rubber limits, with West Coast defenses praised.
London dispatch reports the German general staff says an Anglo-American invasion of continental Europe this spring is bound to come, as broadcast by the Nazi controlled Paris radio.
Washington reports Filipino raiders demolishing Japanese installations in Zamboanga and destroying 22 war stock warehouses near another stronghold. Raiders burned warehouses and seized gasoline and ammunition with no Allied losses. A separate Sulu unit penetrated Zamboanga center, destroying machine gun nests and inflicting heavy Japanese casualties.
The War Department ruled that national guard reserve officers and selectees may run for office or hold public posts under certain conditions. Regular army members remain barred from political activities. Each case requires approval with detailed wartime considerations.
The census bureau estimates more than 13.5 million men aged 45 to 65 must register April 27. The group includes 12,516,400 white and 1,073,400 non white men born April 28, 1877 to February 16, 1897. Those already in the armed forces are exempt.
Japanese sea-borne troops reportedly landed at Akyab 100 miles from the Burma India frontier. A fleet of 16 ships landed at least 5,000 troops and completed occupation of Burmese ports. Allied defenses along the Irrawaddy show little change, while fighting in the Sittang valley and near Toungoo continues as Stilwell’s Chinese forces withdraw to a new line near Yedash.
Linn County Attorney William W. Crissman, completing his first term, announces candidacy for renomination in the Republican primary on June 1. Elected November 1940, he took office January 2, 1941.
C H Duke Wellington died Wednesday at age 58 in Los Angeles. He created the newspaper cartoon Pa's Son in-law, a popular feature for decades.
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