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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1943
Page
2
Secretary Morgenthau plans a two day Cedar Rapids stay with hospitality and a focus on boosting the war bond quota. Local officials hope his visit complements any national message while the city shows wartime support.
Allied air forces dropped 2,000,000 pounds of bombs on Tunisia, Sicily, and Sardinia in the week of April 10 17. In two days, 112 Axis planes were destroyed including 70 Junkers 52 transports. 58 transports and 19 fighters fell in the Sicily battle.
The navy reported a small Norwegian merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Gulf of Mexico in early April. Survivors were landed at Tampa, Florida, marking the first gulf sinking since August 26, 1942.
In Lexington Massachusetts a 1775 style ride reenactment ran late when the rider impersonating Paul Revere arrived 45 minutes after schedule after his horse threw a shoe and he had to search for a blacksmith.
Eight year old Carl Lagerquist of 1119 B avenue NW was fatally burned when trapped by a grass fire on a hill near Hill park around 2 pm Tuesday. His companion Buddy Eberle, 212 Twelfth street NW, fled for help as Lagerquist’s trouser leg ignited. leaves fed the flames and his body was later found in burning grass.
Linn county war finance committee cancels Thursday night parade and war bond rally to focus on Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr visit and Easter events. Elks Minstrels of 1943 proceed at 7 30 p.m. at Paramount for Aircrew Cadets and local service members.
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, retired US Navy, accused newspapers of exaggerating Far Eastern successes while alleging Japan won certain battles. He hailed Japan’s rapid territorial gains as an expertly executed attack and predicted Allies would retake Burma and Rangoon in the major operation.
Cedar Rapids guardsmen from the 34th division are identified as prisoners of war by the Italian government. Names include Sergt John Krejci, Harry Loseau, Pvt John Buchanan, Staff Sergt Arthur Elliott, and others with Iowa and Minnesota ties. Earlier prisoners include Cartwright Larkin Donegan Lawrence Wolfe.
Lord Beaverbrook stunned the House of Lords by abandoning his motion for an immediate second front in Europe. He said he would not pursue the motion despite Allied gains in Tunisia and ongoing offensive progress.
London reports marked Hitler 54th birthday amid gloom as Nazi propaganda framed the war’s burdens. Goebbels warned of an ongoing hard stage with no end in sight while Goering lauded Hitler as Reich’s first soldier and embodying unwavering victory. Radio Vichy noted no parades or demonstrations.
A ghost voice cut into Berlin radio’s birthday tribute to Hitler shouting that the German nation curses the hour of his birth. The voice urged Germans to finish the Nazi gang and end Hitler’s reign, vowing the war would end on Hitler’s downfall. The broadcast could not be silenced.
Swiss reports Tuesday said Otto Haefnerl editor in chief of Das Reich was killed in action on the Orel front in Russia while serving under German propaganda leadership.
STOCKHOLM reports a German merchant ship fired on the Swedish submarine Draken near Gothenburg in Sweden’s sovereign waters. The Ulla Ulven may have sunk, with rescue attempts hindered by rough seas as Sweden lodges a severe protest and seeks a speedy investigation.
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr will host the Easter Sunday We, The People broadcast from Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids. Representatives of the war savings staffs and production crew arrived to prepare the nationwide non commercial program aimed at meeting the public and discussing war-time policies.
The United States Army Eighth Air Force awarded more than 1,700 valor and meritorious service honors during seven months of operations against German-held Europe from bases in England. Silver Stars went to Sergt. Arnold L. Burton Des Moines Sergt Floyd H Zimmer Russell Ia and First Lieut James T Lundy Cedar Rapids Ia. Lundy is brother of Mrs F C Dunn of 533 Knollwood Drive SE and lived with the Dunns before joining the air corps. Captain Dunn in the army medical corps and Mrs Dunn are in Chicago where Dunn is taking a three month training course at University of Chicago Billings hospital. He was transferred to Chicago from Pocatello Idaho.
The White House says President Roosevelt will address the nation Tuesday at 10 p.m. Central War Time. All networks will carry the speech, whose nature was not disclosed, issued on Adolf Hitler’s 54th birthday.
Linn county's second war loan drive needs 328,723 50 daily to reach 4,730,000 before Secretary Morgenthau arrives this weekend. Through Tuesday the drive total reached 3,086,382 50 with Cedar Rapids accounting for 2,908,603 and the county remainder 177,779 50.
Washington officials previewed access to the United Nations food conference with plans to provide press coverage at appropriate times. Marvin Jones, head of the U S delegation, said arrangements would satisfy media needs before the conference starts. Fulmer announced the U S delegation would submit its program to Congress for review ahead of sessions and noted Acheson confirmed a definite plan to admit the press to selected sessions.
President Roosevelt conducts a second wartime tour of U S service camps traveling to Parris Island Fort Benning Maxwell Field Fort Oglethorpe Camp Forrest Camp Robinson and Warm Springs He reports troops in far better physical condition higher morale and training than in 1918 noting younger high ranking officers and a nationwide sense of proportion amid political tensions.
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