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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1941
Page
2
National and international rumors swirl as Japan may strike in support of the axis while its cabinet resigns. Officials probe German files amid fears of leaks. Inflation and wartime policy loom as the U S faces economic strain and camp life scrutiny rises among soldiers families. A Bever Park bear risk prompts safety warnings.
The civil aeronautics authority approved a 640 acre Konigsmark site five miles southwest of Cedar Rapids for a municipal airport budgeted at about 1.5 million dollars. The Chamber of Commerce aviation committee, led by John Drabelle, will seek federal funds for runways hangars and utilities. The approval moves Cedar Rapids closer to scheduled east west and north south service and national defense participation. Cedar Rapids is located near Rock Island arsenal and other defense infrastructure. Eight defense contracts are now active with local firms. The present city airport lease runs to January 1 1942.
United States naval authorities announced that the entrances to Manila bay and Subic bay would be dangerous after daybreak Thursday as contact mines would have been sown. After the time, entrance to and departure from Manila bay would be permissible only during daylight hours.
Tokyo reports say the Yomiuri accuses U S warships of encircling dated islands in the South Pacific and that the Japanese navy watches the American fleet. Tokyo dispatch notes Japan protests to Washington over seizures of Japanese ships and other vessels on the Atlantic coast amid U S actions against German and Italian ships. A government spokesman could not immediately comment on the partial reports.
Acting Secretary Sumner Welles said three Japanese ships are delayed from Panama while canal repair work is underway. The Japanese embassy asked the State Department for reasons for the delay.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports a new one day sales record with 806 Cookbooklets sold. Most sales were at the Gazette office with carriers and mail orders contributing. buyers rushed to complete the 20 piece set and binders were in brisk demand. Back issues and the final cookbooklet remain available.
The three Linn county draft boards received calls for a total of eight men Wednesday. The Marion board is asked for three men to report July 31 and already has Rex W. Drakos Iris M. Kelsey and Elson R. Needles named. East side board appeals for three men while the west side board will send two on August 1.
Soviet dispatches report fierce counter offensives on the central front west of the Dnieper and near Pskov. Soviet high command claims to have surrounded and destroyed enemy motorized units in the Pskov-Porkhov area and driven attackers back toward the west, while Berlin admits only limited gains near Kiev and says major fighting continues elsewhere.
The naval transport West Point sails for Lisbon with nearly 500 expelled axis consular agents and propagandists aboard, after late passenger arrivals and a major baggage check of Fritz Wiedemann. The group includes German consul generals from nine cities and Italian consular staff, plus other foreign agents and four Americans released in a prisoner exchange.
The county board of supervisors refused a WPA claim of 3363 for labor on a county road job last winter. WPA deputy administrator A E Michel said the work included tearing out a bridge and building a ford near Prairie Chapel between December 1940 and February 1941. Beeson noted the county would have paid private contractors more than 500 and that materials and labor totaled 184.22, marking the first time such labor charges were assessed against the county.
President Roosevelt sends Harry L. Hopkins lend lease chief to London for a new survey of British needs. Hopkins sails on a second trip within a year as Washington prepares Congress for another major lend lease funding request potentially equal to or larger than seven billion dollars.
The Cedar Rapids area sees a 78 degree high mid afternoon under overcast skies. Tuesday's 87 degrees gave way to cooler relief with a low around 61 and a late evening fall to 69 at Chambers Inskeep by midnight.
Berlin sources called reports from London and New York about Germany ending diplomatic ties with the United States within 48 hours as nonsense. The story originated from Stockholm and was not supported by German officials.
A national IN S poll shows 27 senators oppose extending the one year term for 600000 selectees and oppose creating a new American expeditionary force. Supporters of extending service and authorizing troops abroad are rejected by a wide margin.
In a plain spoken address President Roosevelt warned that extending draftee training affects the army’s integrity. He noted discharging one year draftees would leave two thirds of troops, to be replaced by untrained men, unless Congress declares a national emergency or amends the law. The Senate affairs committee plans hearings with Gen. George C. Marshall as first witness.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ordered 37,647 enlisted naval reservists on active duty held for the duration of the national emergency. The order bars resignations for the duration even if enlistments expire, with exclusions for fleet reserve members transferred after 16 or 20 years of service.
The Moscow government ordered rationing of bread sugar vegetable oils meat and fish with ration cards required for purchases. Textiles ready made clothes shoes stockings and soap also fall under the rationing system aimed at firm order and steady supplies for the population. scope for the rest of the country remains unclear.
Linn county supervisors back a county wide aluminum drive linked to the Civilian Defense program led by Mayor LaGuardia. Mayors of county towns will run collections with county trucks and bins, while Cedar Rapids pursues its own drive. The board also approved a 14% poor fund mill levy and a 90 125 emergency levy for deficits. County roads survey urged to speed up grading contracts starting Aug 5.
Tokio AP reports Premier Konoye's cabinet resigned suddenly to bolster government policies amid domestic turmoil and international tensions. Konoye presented the resignation to the emperor at Hayama and was told to remain in office until a new government is formed. the emperor and empress planned to return to Tokyo promptly.
Cable Dispatches say Matsuoka faces pressure over Berlin Moscow pacts and may be replaced by Mamoru Shigemitsu. Potential paths include expanding in the South Pacific with French Indo China or striking at Russia's Siberian front, or pressing China war aims amid cabinet realignment concerns.
Police filed charges after an accident at Oakland Road and Thirty second Street NE around 10 55 p m Don Gerber 15 of 1138 First Avenue W was fined five dollars for lacking a driver s license and for driving a car owned by Robert Gensicke route 1 Jones 17 of 369 Twentieth Street SE was treated for hip and left ear injuries Gensicke was charged with permitting Gerber to drive after allegedly acknowledging no operator s permit and was fined five dollars.
Katharine Brush Winans, noted novelist, filed for divorce in Reno alleging cruelty. The couple, married nine years, lived in separate apartments in the same building.
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