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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1943
Page
3
The piece contrasts warnings about a Japanese naval threat with responses from MacArthur and officials. It explains McNutt’s new wage order to limit job shifts, notes enforcement concerns, and acknowledges patriotism and rambling dogs as domestic wartime topics.
In a nationwide move to hold the line on essential jobs, War Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt ordered restric tions on hiring across 27 million core workers. The plan aims to curb wage motivated transfers by limiting new hires in essential industries and bars penalties of up to $1,000 fine and one year in jail for violations.
The House voted 131 to 72 to bar use of funds for incentive payments to farmers in the agriculture department appropriation bill. Chairman Clarence Cannon described such subsidies as uneconomic and un-American, urging Congress to set policy against subsidies while protecting soil conservation payments.
Premier Mussolini reshuffles the Fascist party naming Carlo Scorza as secretary and elevating him above Aldo de Vidassoni who becomes president of a council aiding the armed forces. The changes follow a four day Mussolini Hitler conference with party leaders meeting in Rome. A Berlin radio report adds a police shakeup with Renzo Chierici named chief succeeding Sarmine Senise.
London based AP report says Hitler summoned Germany duties from the Balkans for a conference ahead of an Allied invasion via Greece. Envoys told to monitor potential troublemakers. a Balkan purge was rumored. He reportedly pressured Romania’s Ion Antonescu to oust his nephew Mihail Antonescu as vice premier for lukewarm Axis support.
Cedar Rapids report shows Linn county welfare department handled 467 relief cases last month versus 962 in March 1942. Expenditures were $14,404.61 this month and $27,110.92 a year earlier. Sixty six cases approved for relief, eighty two for service, one of 160 applications rejected. Eleven applications were still pending.
Captain Clark Gable, former film star, has arrived in England and is attached to a United States bomber squadron gunnery group. This British posting places the actor in a combat support role with the bomber force.
Washington dispatch reports Captain Joseph J. Foss USMCR of Renner South Dakota marked a war record by shooting down 26 Japanese planes. The 28 year old pilot hoped to be home for his birthday as telegrams traced his deed from Pensacola to San Diego. Foss, a Marine Corps flyer, is married to June Shakstad Foss and met her in California after college.
LAS VEGAS NM soldiers arrested for drunkenness were found under the influence of marijuana. Army officials at Camp Luna and local authorities announced five alleged ringleaders who sold the loco weed narcotic to soldiers.
Linn County has raised 2 890 850 dollars toward a 4 730 000 quota in the second war loan drive during the first five days Cedar Rapids and Linn County report strong bond sales with Cedar Rapids contributing 130 355 in bonds. Officials caution that early totals may not predict future progress as larger buyers have filled their quotas and smaller purchasers remain to contribute.
Fred Schwengel of Davenport won the Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce presidency by two votes on the third ballot at Des Moines during a two day war conference. Delegates named national directors and vice presidents and adopted resolutions on pay as you go tax legislation and diploma standards for seniors in college. Harold Herman, secretary of the national organization, urged intensified service and noted many Jaycees are in the armed forces as the war continues.
Allied forces in Tunisia pushed new wedges into Axis lines north of Tunis and Bizerte as British and French troops seized fjebel angles and engaged strongpoint canyons. Eisenhower warned of costly future fights while Patton’s U S corps suffered heavy losses and Palermo sustained Allied air strikes.
Senior members of the house ways and means committee report real progress toward a compromise pay as you earn tax plan. Aimed at 1942 taxes, forgiveness may reach 40 to 50 percent with some Republicans seeking a higher rate. A discharge petition could move the bill to the house if no agreement by next Wednesday.
Cedar Rapids stages a war period parade led by 800 Coe college cadets and 600 naval cadets from Cornell Mt. Vernon and Lisbon. The procession forms at Coe College at 6 30 p m and follows First Avenue to Second Street and Third Avenue S E for a war bond rally with speakers from the war finance committee.
Allied bombers sparked fires at Ambon in a dusk raid on Saturday and attacked two Japanese ships off New Guinea. The operation involved heavy bombers and fighters, with aerial battles over Ambon and Hollandia fronts.
Police Judge John P. McMahon in Washington ordered a grocer to pay a house wife $50 for charging one cent above the OPA ceiling price for a can of soup. It is believed to be the first case of its kind under maximum price regulations.
Washington reports Egypt El Salvador and Venezuela have accepted invitations to an international food conference, signaling early support for coordinated global efforts. The AP notes the three nations joining the event amid broader talks on food security and aid.
A large force of American four engined bombers attacked the Focke Wulf plant near Bremen with heavy losses on both sides. The raid followed earlier RAF and Soviet strikes on Pilsen Mannheim Ludwigshafen Danzig Koenigsberg and Tilsit as part of a wide Allied air offensive with substantial bomb tonnage and fighter opposition.
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