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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1941
Page
4
The piece questions a Roosevelt claim on Greenland and urges caution before alarm. It also discusses U.S. aid to Britain and fears of entanglement, plus political maneuvering to veto a bill restricting double deck trucks in Iowa.
Cairo based Middle East command reports British lines holding against a German drive toward Athens. Berlin claims encirclement victory at Thermopylae, while Allied rearguard casualties are heavy. Greek ports and islands suffer air raids as ships are sunk and wounded evacuated.
Washington reports three cabinet voices urging swift aid to Britain and firm resistance to the Axis. Hull Knox and Wickard pressed timely action to keep ships moving, defend freedom of the seas, and bolster U.S. resolve as war stretches on domestically and abroad.
At 5 45 a m a hotel fire at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in Des Moines interrupted sleep of Drake athletes and guests. Ernest W Curtin secretary treasurer of Cedar Rapids Rapids Gas was temporarily overcome by smoke and carried out. The blaze started likely from a cigarette and caused about 500 dollars in damage on the fifth floor where Coe college track team members were quartered.
Forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity calls for fair and cool conditions Friday night with lows near 35 in the city and 32 in open country. A bright sun boosted the day to 70 at 2 30, with morning low at 38 and highs around 58 earlier in the day.
Wendell Willkie told Pittsburgh reporters that the administration must detail the British situation to the public. He supported protecting armament shipments to Britain and endorsed convoys with U.S. destroyers as the most effective method per military experts.
In Heron Bay Ontario the hunt for 28 German war prisoners who tunneled from a camp a week earlier ended with the capture of the last four fugitives aboard a freight train in the Lake Superior village.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will broadcast a speech at 9 pm London time Sunday. The address is expected to cover the war in Greece and the Mediterranean and to respond to critics of the British campaign there. All BBC outlets at home and overseas will carry the broadcast.
In a wartime like procedure 114 Cedar Rapids men underwent exhaustive medical exams by 25 physicians and three dentists. The aim was to meet a May 7 quota for the Cedar Rapids east and west side boards though results depend on state laboratory blood tests from Iowa City and may take at least five days.
London reports General Viscount Gort, famed for Dunkirk, appointed governor and commander in chief of Gibraltar. He previously led the British Expeditionary Force during the Flanders campaign and has since overseen home defense training after France's collapse.
Assistant Fire Chief Ben Benish says a chimney spark started the Thursday blaze at the O W Lawrence residence on Vinton road NW. The attic stored law books and antique furniture. damage estimated at 3500 dollars, largely insured. Firemen fought the flames with water from a well and a cistern, aided by chemicals on trucks. two trucks and chief's car responded. The caretaker T J Vincent and his wife were upstairs when the trunk near the chimney caught fire.
Glenn Cassel a 17 year old escapee from a Lincoln Nebraska boys school was arraigned in Cedar Rapids on larceny of a motor vehicle. He claimed confinement since 13 and said he hitchhiked to Cedar Rapids and stole a car from Mrs Edna Odgers of Fairfax. He was returned to Cedar Rapids after an earlier hold in Clinton.
A writer notes a character’s voice seeming to change as if unsettled. The passage riffs on change and cites a 20 percent discount on paid in advance want ads for four days or more ending today and tomorrow.
Last minute efforts to avert a General Motors strike affecting 135000 workers reached deadlock Friday. A 25 day soft coal stoppage by 400000 miners threatens steel and defense output. CIO and UAW actions loom at GM plants and Baltimore aircraft plant with implied widespread disruption and potential economic impact.
Il Popolo di Roma warned that Italian and German submarines would strike U S convoys to Britain if Washington extends air and naval patrols to mid Atlantic The newspaper mocked Roosevelt as an astute fox and said he convoked his war cabinet to pressure expansion of patrols to mid ocean to shield his war policy from protests
An AP report from New York notes a German radio broadcast Friday stating that Hitler’s vow to destroy ships entering the British war zone with aid for Britain relieves Germany of liability for any unforeseen events. The statement follows Britain’s blockade pressures and raises questions about maritime safety and wartime conduct.
Atlanta police held C A Higby 56 who was sentenced in 1913 for killing his wife in Cedar Rapids and who escaped from Anamosa in 1914. Detective work by Earl Stanley, hospitalised after a heart attack, led to Higby's arrest as he conducted evangelistic meetings in the deep south. Stanley alerted Southern police to Higby. Continued on Page 2.
Harley Clymer, 26, of 1513 Twelfth Avenue SE, was fined 300 dollars plus costs by Judge H C Ring after pleading guilty to drunk driving. He rammed Stanley E Rayman’s car at Third Street and ee Avenue while Rayman stopped for a stop sign. Clymer paid part of the fine and costs and agreed to monthly 25 dollar installments. a 90 day jail term awaits if he misses a payment. He refused a chemical test when taken to the police station by Traffic Patrolman John Stodola.
Unofficial Friday report says Ankara will inspect German ships moving from the Black Sea to deter war material or troop cargo. A Cairo dispatch says Yugoslav troops and planes have reached the Middle East to join British forces against the Axis.
FBI agents questioned 37 Germans aboard the Japanese steamship Buenos Aires Maru delaying departure for over three hours. Four men were jailed and to be arraigned, while 33 were allowed to sail. The group, described as merchants, hailed from New York Chicago Detroit San Francisco and Denver with varied ages and occupations.
President Roosevelt pressed at a press conference that US neutrality patrols will extend into seven seas for Western Hemisphere defense but deny any plan to convoy. He warned of possible Axis activity near Greenland and criticized Lindbergh while praising the democratic process and readiness to fight for it.
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