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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1942
Page
2
A set of editorials argues the war financing plan will swell monthly outlays to five billion dollars and double the national debt, urging careful spending and cuts to non-defense programs while emphasizing the need to win the war. It also backs a nationwide speed limit to conserve rubber, praises higher teacher pay, and contemplates a bakery sign about pies from mother.
U S army bombers reportedly sank more than one Japanese destroyer in a surprise raid off Davao. The war department noted long range Japanese planning for the invasion of the Philippines and detailed heavy combat on the Manila front including Corregidor and Batan peninsula with Fortifications bombed.
Tokyo reports a Nipponese submarine sunk in the Pacific and a cruiser damaged but still in active service. It says an enemy seaplane tender was damaged and five enemy planes shot down. Imperial HQ claims US air force in the Philippines is meaningless and British air power in Malaya is destroyed or fled to Singapore. Japanese forces expand from Brunei to Labuan and have shot down or destroyed 569 enemy planes while losing 81 of their own.
The House on Wednesday passed a bill to raise the navy enlisted strength from 300000 to 500000 and the marine corps from 60000 to 104000, sending the measure to the White House for action.
British Admiral Layton left Singapore to organize the Eastern fleet and seek sea supremacy in the Far East. U S war department says Japanese invasion forces massed near Davao bay, close to Dutch Borneo and Celebes. Batavia reports eight flying boats attacked Ambon with bombs. three civilians killed and four wounded.
A biting wind sent Cedar Rapids temperatures plummeting to 22 below as roads iced and snow drifts closed many secondary county roads. Officials said main routes remained open while plows operated. county engineer Behrens noted numerous farm calls as conditions worsened through Wednesday.
Buenos Aires reports Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-G ransom says Argentina will maintain its independent policy at the Pan American conference in Rio de Janeiro despite pledges of friendship with the United States.
British Far Eastern headquarters reported Japanese land and air assaults in northwestern Malaya’s Perak and on the east coast near Kuantan. Despite withdrawals, London said counterattacks were under way around Kuala Selangor as Singapore’s defense centers faced intensified pressure.
Cedar Rapids police under Chief Tom Condon cleared up a murder and about 20 holdups tied to a Kansas City Omaha Independence St. Joseph Missouri and Nebraska City ring. Taylor Smith and Lus ter confessed to aiding in the holdup killing of Frank Chenowith at a Kansas City service station on December 15, Harris was arrested after a tip from Dave Siegel.
The navy department in Washington flatly denied reports of a naval engagement with Japan in the Pacific and the loss of a U S battleship. A Dutch radio station claimed U S S New Mexico and U S S Mississippi were involved and sunk, which the navy called completely untrue.
The War Department sent Walter P. Reuther CIO automobile union leader and an Army officer on a tour of armaments plants to locate idle automobile machine tools for possible best use.
A Japanese broadcast, recorded by CBS, announced drastic food rationing in six heavily populated provinces starting February 1. Each person will receive 35 handfuls of rice per month and about four kilograms of mismo daily, reflecting a major shift in Japan's wartime diet.
Members of Congress urged a single director for the war industries program. Senators Connally of Texas and Byrd of Virginia said the expanded arms program requires one man to coordinate these activities.
President Roosevelt named Laurence A. Steinhardt ambassador to Turkey, moving from Moscow, as Major Gen. James H Burns is slated for Moscow. Burns, a key adviser, has been connected to lend lease work and Army-War Office liaison. Steinhardt, a former New York lawyer, has previously held posts in Sweden, Peru, and Moscow.
The admiralty announced that British naval and air forces raided the Norwegian coast on January 6. An enemy supply ship was sunk and a trawler and a canning factory were damaged near Hellefjord between Bergen and Trondheim. No British losses or casualties were reported.
A qualified analyst from the Office of Production Management will assist Cedar Rapids merchants with priorities work. The analyst will be based at the Chamber of Commerce and hold interviews every other Tuesday beginning Jan. 13 with dates Jan. 27 Feb. 10 Feb. 24 March 10 and March 24. The exact appointee will be announced after selection.
President Roosevelt, in a wartime budget message, seeks a $56 billion war budget for the coming fiscal year with $9 billion in new taxes and heavy borrowing, aiming to outpace Germany's expenditures. He warns of sacrifices and predicts a massive peacetime shift to war production and higher public debt.
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