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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1942
Page
8
Teens years have done wonders for the American soldier. This year finds him in a snappier, more comfortable uniform, head better protected, and rifle more deadly. The army pack remains heavy and standard, while meals include beef pork eggs vegetables and milk. Government spending for a soldier’s first year totals 404.65 dollars with allocations for food clothing equipment and barracks gear.
Historical critique argues Red Cross life saving guidance from 1928 to 1940 misleads on water drainage from airways during resuscitation. Advocates Schafer prone-pressure method as better for expelling water and assisting breathing, calling for official corrections.
A physician recounts using the unmodified Schafer artificial respiration method on a seven year old drowning boy. He notes rapid drainage of fluids from the airways and a full recovery, arguing the Schafer technique may be superior to the Red Cross method and criticizing bystanders who do nothing.
Alman favors tree planting as a public good and Baxter imagines a life honoring trees. The text advises that home fruit growing is labor intensive and costly, with sprays and annual care needed to compete with market prices. It notes amateurs may be discouraged by the true effort required and offers to provide detailed spray info.
Walter Winchell reports on Broadway gossip including Maynus Chaney replacing Florence in Florence and Alvarez. Ruth Reynolds faces scrutiny over a Lew Ayres plan. Zero Mostel debuts at Cafe Society and Gene Tunney is profiled by The New Yorker. Wayne Sabin plans marriage after release. An air raid claims Harry McElhone. March of Time sells a script to film.
Charles Porter 56 travels in a wheelchair to visit Leon Taylor 42 bedridden in Lowville Pa. Both men suffer from limestone formations or related calcified growths and exchange case histories during Porter's theatre exhibition visit. Porter has endured the ailment 29 years, Taylor 24 years.
Members of the Four B grade at Polk school saved all month to aid the Red Cross and collected 4.74 dollars. A principal contributed one dollar for her birthday anniversary and then gave it to the charity. The class began February with a savings box containing 128 dollars and had 146 by March 31 and two dollars for the first half of April.
The South Side area reports a lively opening drill of the new Czech home guards at the C S P S hall with 61 members under Rudolph Novak. A first aid course led by Joe Carberry begins Wednesday, and a range of events from dramatic productions to softball and lodge meetings fill the schedule through May with many named participants and venues.
Regents of the University of Wisconsin voted to award Gen. Douglas MacArthur an honorary Doctor of Laws, to be conferred by radio after a rule against absentee awards. MacArthur, a Milwaukee High School graduate and West Point appointee, has Wisconsin ties.
Town events include the Townsend club meeting in the superior court room at 7 45 p m. News notes list E W LaPlant on a two week business trip through southern Illinois Indiana and Kentucky and Asa E Sell departing for a Chandler Arizona army flying school after a furlough. Also noted are Private Gale Reeder’s transfer to Chanute field and National Want Ad Week promotions. Ray F Anderson to discuss meat distribution and federal agencies at a Gazette luncheon.
The Cedar Rapids Rotary Club will meet Monday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel. The Cedar Rapids Stamp Club convenes Monday at 8 p.m. at the Montrose hotel for all local collectors. Also noted are a War Savings Stamps loss for Leo Engler and aviation cadets at Ellington Field, Texas. A Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association dinner Monday at 6 p.m. at the Roosevelt hotel will feature Charles J. Lynch Jr discussing the Soldiers and Sailors relief act and its effects on service members' accounts.
William M. Meyers 62 a Hollywood night club special officer and former Kansas City police captain faces a murder charge for the death of Willard F. Field 31 an aircraft worker and former Des Moines Iowa resident. Mrs Lenore Enrique a nightclub singer testified Meyers shot Field after Field said So you think you can beat me.
Berniece Jayne Reinecke of Elkader born September 24 1923 died at 4 50 p m Saturday in an Iowa City hospital at age 18 She was a Elkader high school graduate and attended Elkader junior college one year Her parents two sisters Maxine and Judith survive funeral arrangements have not been made.
The three First Evangelical church boys clubs plan a Thursday evening carnival in the church basement at 7 30 featuring a melodrama comedy Little Nell with George Craig as the title character. The cast includes Arthur Smith Chester Smith Bill Vail and more in a carnival of sideshows acts and skits.
In Des Moines AP reports inform that Gov. Wilson will issue an order lifting truck axle limits to 18,000 pounds and increasing maximum height from 12 feet to 12 feet 6 inches. The move aims to speed defense material transport. officials note 26 states already permit 18,000-pound axle limits.
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