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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1943
Page
1
Washington reports that U N food talks will start May 18 in Hot Springs Virginia. Delegates and technical experts will meet at the Homestead with limited press access to opening and closing sessions to follow Roosevelt aims for informality and expert-led discussions.
Three Iowa National Guard companies were ordered by Gov. J B Hickenlooper to patrol dikes in the Council Bluffs area as the Missouri River flood rose toward the 24 foot mark. Units at Atlantic Red Oak and Council Bluffs joined alert forces while Clarinda and Shenandoah teams were held ready. The $500000 Sioux City auditorium under construction was inundated and traffic on Highway 20 west of South Sioux City was disrupted. A guard medical detachment from Fairfield aided flood relief.
In Kearney Nebraska a former movie star Clark Gable is disclosed as a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces stationed at the local air base. The report notes his status and assignment details connected to the base.
The navy announced the first sinking of a merchant vessel off the U S east coast by an enemy submarine since last August. A medium sized U S merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk early in April off the Atlantic coast with survivors landing in Miami. Officials declined comment on whether this signals a new U boat campaign.
Survivors from the merchantman sunk off the U S east coast recount Captain James W Harrel of Houston ordering his crew to abandon ship and then going down with the blaze. Lieutenant John K Kerr said Harrel, who had a leg injury, limped to the lifeboat before returning to his cabin and perishing as flames engulfed the vessel. The ship’s loss claimed 43 lives with 18 survivors total.
Delayed AP report from April 8 describes two Italians attempting to surrender to a fatigued American infantryman near El Guetar east of the oasis. The doughboy slept in the foxhole while the Italians and a major argued over who would be taken prisoner, ultimately yielding as prisoners after the soldier finally woke.
British raid Duisburg and Essen as Krupp works idle from RAF strikes. Mosquito raids hit near Cologne while coastal operations hit ships off Norway. German broadcasts report Renault Paris suburb raid toll 380 dead 430 wounded. Goebbels calls Allied air offensive a psychological and material burden.
Tokyo radio quoted by UP reports Japanese forces destroyed the British Indian Sixth brigade near Endain on Bengal bay shores in a recorded imperial headquarters communique dated Saturday.
Moscow reports a fresh German push along the Donets near Balakleya and Izium as Germany massed reserves for a summer strike. Soviet counteractions rout German advances with heavy losses, while Berlin claims rearming with heavier weapons and a giant tank force under Gen. Guderian for the anticipated drive.
Washington AP Chester Davis announced a price control and production plan adding five cents per bushel to corn ceilings in surplus areas to balance livestock feed costs and meat prices. Hog ceilings remain in reserve. government support price for hogs raised to 13.75 dollars per hundredweight through Sept. 30, 1944, with breeding increases limited to 15 percent above 1942.
Montreal AP report says Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized about 40,000 stolen gasoline rationing coupons and disrupted a black market that illegally distributed 750,000 gallons since September. Three men arrested as raids targeted stations garages and taxi stands.
Frantic call leads police to three young boys playing near a spilled sack of arsenate of lead in a northeast Cedar Rapids garage. Douglas Silker five Bert Vogel five and Everett Jones four were identified. Parents contacted and no injuries reported despite traces on clothing.
War Information Director Elmer Davis denounces an authoritative source at General MacArthur's HQ for saying there are 10,000 idle combat planes in the United States. He says MacArthur will get more planes as Secretary Stimson promised, noting other fronts need planes too.
Secretary Knox told an Indianapolis rally that 1943 will see the Navy add more fighting ships than were on strength at end of 1942, with carriers and destroyer escorts expanding dramatically. He warned of German U boat peril and cited planned tonnage gains and aircraft carrier and escort production as key aims for the year.
The U S House passed the Hobbs bill 270 to 107 to extend the 1934 anti racketeering act to robbery and extortion. Republicans from Iowa backed the measure while labor allies opposed amendments that would limit or modify the act. The vote upheld a maximum penalty of 20 years and a $10 000 fine, rejecting a move to redefine robbery.
The Senate unanimously approves a Byrd sponsored resolution directing the National War Labor Board to submit monthly analyses of its decisions and orders, starting May 10, including the cost of wage increases approved.
Clarinda Iowa page county Sheriff Cecil M Crawford is shot to death at the William Huseman farm eight miles southwest of town. Deputy Ed Hipsley and Constable A G Damewood were escorting Leonard Huseman 28 a former state hospital inmate to Clarinda for an insanity board hearing when Huseman opened fire with a .22 rifle. Crawford was struck in the arm and heart as he fled the stairs and out a window, Damewood fired back but missed. Huseman fled into the woods.
Detroit AP report states Mrs. Jean Wermuth wife of Capt Arthur Wermuth famed as a one man army of Bataan applied for army nurse duties in a Detroit hospital. Wermuth is believed a prisoner of the Japanese after the fall of Bataan.
San Francisco dispatch recalls a night clash where 11 US PT boats faced 20 Japanese destroyers and forced retreat with three ships blazing. Veterans Tufts Stuffert and Legg recount six destroyers sunk, a cruiser hit, and 21 enemy hits overall, with Legg earning the Silver Star for guiding a boat back through crossfire.
Allied forces strike across central Tunisia as the British Eighth Army captures Sfax after advancing from Mahares. American and French units seize ground near Fondouk while Patton’s troops report 1 000 prisoners since April 6. Axis air losses mount as Stukas fail to bomb advancing troops.
A rare ointment called biodyne was flown to Los Angeles to save 10 month old Margaret Mertz who suffered serious burns after placing a live electrical wire in her mouth. The supply was traced to a San Francisco surgical supply house with urgent long distance calls and a special priority shipment on the first available plane.
General Montgomery urged troops to press the drive toward Tunis and to push prisoners hard to end the war quickly. He warned that if prisoners kept being gathered the enemy would have no strength left to hold positions and vowed a first class Dunkirk to be avoided with full duty.
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