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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1943
Page
1
A columnist discusses Spain’s Franco offering peace talks and the UN’s likely weariness, then shifts to warnings of a serious food shortfall this summer, weather risks, and isolated wartime plant and labor abuses. The piece closes with a reader letter praising French fighters and a Midwest college publicity survey, ending with the author’s small victory garden effort.
Allied air forces blasted a nine ship Japanese convoy off northern New Guinea after crippling three vessels in the opening attack. Fortresses sank one cargo ship and left another floating, while a 5,000 tonner was beached as Allied planes pressed the campaign along the South Seas arc.
Washington officials said they cannot explain Gen Gen MacArthur’s pleas for aircraft while Australia warns of a Japanese push toward the continent. Casablanca decisions guide next months’ Pacific operations with planes and war materiel. no signs of imminent invasion of Australia.
Allied headquarters in North Africa said two Italian destroyers were sunk by two British destroyers off Sicily on Thursday night. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham announced the action Friday night.
In a California shipyard a man and his wife sold their Oklahoma home to aid the war effort. He earned wages from 95 cents to over a dollar an hour, but believed he was working for the country with no pay. The foreman guided his cashing of checks into war bonds, aiding his wife who could then buy clothes.
Cedar Rapids and Linn county progress in the second war loan drive lagged, with four days totaling 2,740,852.25 in sales toward a 4,730,000 goal. Cedar Rapids contributed 2,631,753.50 and Linn county outside the city 109,098.75. War finance officials urged mass buying, warning that delay could cost victory.
Dr. M Willard Lampe of the University of Iowa delivered the sermon in Turner chapel at the funeral for Frank J Bab Cuhel 38 a former Mutual Broadcasting System war correspondent and Hawkeye athlete. He praised Cuhel s courage and energy noting his last mission and urged mourners to face tragedy as Cuhel would have done. Cuhel died in a Clipper plane crash in Portugal on February 22 after visiting Cedar Rapids in January.
The Office of War Information warned civilians to expect more or less severe shortages of certain items in 1943. It said the home front supply would approximate prewar levels, but many will feel shortages more acutely. A down to earth diet and fair sharing are urged, with no risk to life or health barring a crop disaster.
Foreign Minister Francisco Jordana said Spain is ready to offer its good offices to help restore world peace immediately. He urged collaboration by the Holy See and neutral countries, noting recent dispatches hinted at a possible Avis backed peace move but British circles doubted any success now.
Washington Secretary of State Hull on Friday dismissed a proposal that Spain could aid in immediate world peace talks. He stated the U S objective is unconditional surrender of the Axis and its satellites.
Boston. Republican National Committee Chairman Harrison E. Spangler charged the New Deal seeks to stifle the free press. He cited food conferences at Hot Springs Virginia and claimed the administration tries to regulate every citizen and censor movies, radio, and newspapers.
Hollywood gossip item reports blonde actress Janet Blair plans marriage to pianist soldier Lew Bush in the near future, disclosed Friday.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce state convention in Des Moines drew about 175 delegates as war shortages shrink membership to under 35s and attendance. Speakers noted 40 to 50 percent of peacetime members are in the armed services while no city bid for the 1944 gathering. Julius Jensen and Fred Schwengel were candidates for state president.
British port dispatch narrates Atlantic convoy peril and U boat warfare. Veterans describe near misses, depth charges, and torpedo exchanges as convoys endured multiple attacks but overall delivered most freight. A corvette sank a crippled submarine while passengers endured continuous watch shifts.
FBI announced the arrests of eight men formerly employed as welders at two Baltimore shipyards on charges of sabotaging ships by faulty welding. Two were arrested outside Baltimore. six faced arraignment with bonds set at 5000 each. The men admitted rushing welds to earn more money, but Hoover said there was no Axis connection.
Allied forces recaptured the key Djebel Ang mountain eight miles northwest of Medjez el Bab after a brutal night counter attack. British and Allied air power struck targets in Sicily Italy and coastal Tunisia as Rommel’s forces faced intensified pressure toward Tunis and Bizerte.
A humorous weather note references Havelock Ellis the carrier pigeon as he tracks last night's temps. The Chambers Inskeep mercury rose to 62 degrees at 1:30 a.m. then fell nearly 20 degrees in five hours. Morning low 46 degrees with cooler readings promised, temps staying above freezing.
SAN FRANCISCO UP Floyd G. Hamilton 36 Texas outlaw surrendered Friday after hiding in an Alcatraz island cave for three days and crawling back through the same window he used to escape. He told Warden James A Johnston he was near fellow escapee Fred Hunter 43 who was found hours later. Hamilton once belonged to Bonnie Parker gang and was emaciated and badly injured from the ordeal.
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