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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1942
Page
23
Kate Smith will feature Ingrid Bergman Olivia de Havilland and Lou Holtz on Friday's variety hour with Orson Welles Ted Collins and others. Welles reads and Bergman De Havilland act in dramas while Holtz offers anecdotes. Kate sings both old and new hits on WMT and WHO networks.
Radio listings show Kate Smith Hour and Information Please on WHO and WM stations with Playhouse First Nighter Dog House Grand Central Pleasure Time across WMT WHO WM frequencies in evening slots. Program lineup includes Bob Hawk and other shows with times ranging from 7:00 to 10:00 PM.
Hour by hour listings show a dense network of programs across WGN WMT WLS and other stations. Notable entries include morning farm news devotions and music blocks and evening shows like Easy Aces Mr Keen and Star Show with frequent news breaks and special segments.
Radio listings show University of Iowa and Iowa State College programming including homemakers, Bookshelf, Farm Flashes, Agriculture Dept reports, markets, and news segments. Afternoon and evening schedules feature farm facts, PTA segments, service reports, and Photo Fans.
Beginning Thursday the work week for several hundred employees at the Rock Island arsenal was extended up to 58 hours. The plant will shift to a seven day a week basis within a short time and workers will receive time and a half for hours over 40 each week.
New York AP report cites BBC saying American volunteer group destroyed 90 to 100 Japanese planes since war began in the Western Pacific. The toll includes three airmen and three planes lost by the Americans.
Washington (UP) Chairman Martin Dies says pro Nazi organizations in the United States form a dangerous fifth column. He noted secret hearings into their activities and reported two Office of Price Administration employees, Robert A. Brady and Mildred Edie Brady, face recommended dismissal for alleged Communist views.
The army reports the hospital ship Mactan arriving safely in Darwin with soldiers and sailors wounded in action in the Philippines. The vessel left Manila just before the New Year and was converted into a hospital ship marked under the Geneva Convention. Wounded counts were not disclosed.
The Federal Works agency announced 13 sites for 17,300 demountable defense homes as part of a 42,000 unit program. It will use all 50 prefab plants and about 200 mills and wood shops. Burlington, Iowa, is named among the localities and unit counts.
The Federal Reserve Board reported eight bank failures in 1941, the lowest on record. The small banks held about 3.7 million dollars in deposits, mostly insured and paid by the FDIC. Officials attributed the decline to better business conditions from defense programs, prior bank purges, and loan mergers to avert collapse.
The Senate approved the Downey bill to authorize extensive planting of guayule rubber plants to ease shortages. It broadens to permit planting across the Western hemisphere with the Agriculture Department to administer. A Salinas County California guayule project may be government acquired, the bill's original aim. The measure moves to the House.
Francis Bernard Reuter a 26 year old defense worker from Solon Iowa was killed when his head was crushed between a traveling crane and a brick wall on Thursday in Aurora Tl AP report confirms the fatal accident at the defense project site.
Edward O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau federation asks the Iowa Farm Bureau to urge congressional members to support maintaining the Bankhead amendment and include 110 per cent parity as the price ceiling protection for farmers. Telegraph messages were sent to other state federations. The Bankhead amendment would give the Secretary of Agriculture veto power over farm price ceilings set by the price administrator.
Earl C. Smith vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation said the O Mahoney amendment to the price control bill lacked federation support. He warned it would raise parity prices on several commodities, notably cotton and wheat, and rejected the idea that organized agriculture backed its adoption.
At the National Western livestock show in Denver, fifteen thousand young range cattle entered the ring as buyers eyed a potential million-dollar day. Angus prizes were led by Otto V. Battles of Maquoketa who claimed the senior and grand champion female, with Robert Cresap of White Heath owning the junior champion female.
The Agriculture Department reported 1941 farm wages at 166 percent of the 1910 14 average, up from 124 the prior year and 1 point above the October 1 figure. Farm workers numbered 8 665 000 on January 1, 1941, 51 000 more than a year earlier but below the December 1 total of 9 349 000.
London reports warn of a major crisis for Churchill if Singapore falls as imperial forces retreat before Japanese advances in Malaya. In Britain and Australia calls demand explanations for not strengthening Malaya earlier and urgent debate on the Far East.
In Washington the United States learns Japan pledges to treat all captured Americans well under the 1929 Geneva convention. Japan had signed but not ratified the pact, and the pledge comes via the Swiss government as the first official assurance on Far East POW treatment.
FBI agents found detailed notebook drawings of highly confidential gun relays and fire controls aboard US war ships in a suitcase owned by Hilbert S. Coz a 53 year old shipyard worker now held as a spy suspect. Coz had been arrested earlier for removing confidential blueprints from an East Bay shipyard where he was employed as an electrician.
Dean emeritus George F. Kay of the University of Iowa will join Yale geologists in New Haven on Saturday to help assemble a North American glacial map under construction for three years. Kay previously led Iowa’s geology department and served as state geologist.
Chinese forces report that only about 10 000 of 70 000 Japanese troops escaped an encircling counteroffensive near Changsha. 1 300 Japanese prisoners were taken and 90 vehicles destroyed as a retreating force clings to south of the Sinsiang river.
Washington report says government inefficiency and private self interest slowed US war production and demands punishment. Truman cites 1941 Office of Production Management reform and removal of bureaucratic red tape as needed. Senators Vandenberg Norris press for criminal action for those responsible as Truman notes officials often receive promotions.
The body of John Zak about 70 who had been missing since Monday was found in a snowbank near his cabin in the Little Ozarks region six miles south of Cascade. Coroner F. T. Harrington ruled death due to heart attack and exposure after an inquest. Zak lived alone and had a sister in Oxford Junction as his only known living relative. A searching party including T. Co Burke Charles Pierce and Charles Kleister found the body.
Washington AP reports more than 8200 firms with about 9.75 million employees have adopted or planned to start voluntary payroll deductions to aid workers in buying defense bonds and stamps. Treasury released preliminary survey results Thursday.
The agriculture department boosts 1942 planting targets for hogs corn for feed oil crops rice eggs dry beans and vegetables. Soybeans rise to 9 million acres potato goal sits at 3.06 million acres with price supports to follow.
Washington AP reports the agriculture department plans to sell up to 60 million bushels of corn to processors for ethyl alcohol acetone and butyl alcohol for war industry. The move would conserve sugar and molasses used in industrial alcohol production.
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