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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1943
Page
2
The piece questions how many fathers will be drafted, noting McNutt and Hershey warn of lingering calls while war prospects shift. It condemns laundry and essential status policies, critiques academic approaches to price and production, and urges relief and fair tax treatment amid weather and farming worries.
Washington report shows the House Appropriations Committee expects army inductions to drop about 60 percent after December with most 1944 inductees coming from the teenage group. McNutt and Hershey testified the plan calls for 700 000 inductions in the first half of 1944 and that many fathers may be drafted to maintain strength.
United States fighters in two Solomons air battles destroyed at least 26 Japanese planes. In the Russell Islands clash 25 Zeros were shot down and eight more possibly, six American planes were lost with four pilots saved. A separate Buka Island engagement saw one Japanese bomber down.
Washington AP. Chester C. Davis, war food administrator, said Monday that floods and a tough spring do not derail the year’s crop outlook. He predicted higher farm production this year than any year except last year.
The Cedar Rapids area saw a near record 88 degrees at 2:30 p.m. Monday, one degree short of the 89-degree mark set recently. Humidity climbed to 80 earlier, easing heat later as scattered thunder showers were forecast for late tonight and Tuesday. Early Monday temps ranged from 75 to 80 after sunrise.
OWI reports German espionage aided Japan in planning the Pearl Harbor strike. Nazi agent Bernard Kuehn was tried in Honolulu, convicted, and sentenced to death, later commuted to 50 years hard labor. FBI and Navy intelligence linked Kuehn to signaling systems and signals at Kalama and Lanikai.
United Nations and United States banners were displayed together in a joint Flag Day observance. President Roosevelt proclaimed June 14 as a tribute to the emblems of 32 nations and introduced the four freedoms flag representing speech worship fear and want.
Brig Gen Joseph E Barzynski and Lieut Comdr Everett E Pettee will represent the armed services at the Army Navy E award ceremony for the Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats plant at 730 p m Friday. A 30 minute Col College band concert directed by Capt Stanley Vesely precedes the event in the plant park facing Second Street. Owen N Elliott Cedar Rapids attorney acts as master of ceremonies and Dr David I Berger of Coe College gives the invocation.
American heavy bombers raid Bremen Kiel and other targets in a 48 hour offensive. Two formations lost 26 bombers in an unescorted daylight attack as Eighth Air Force hit submarine bases and enemy air forces while RAF and RAAF fleets launched careering operations across the Ruhr and Rhineland.
The U S Supreme Court reversed its 1940 ruling and held that schoolchildren cannot be forced to salute the flag if they have religious scruples. Justice Jackson wrote for a majority including Rutledge, while Justices Roberts Frankfurter and Reed dissented. The decision also voided a wartime anti sedition statute as applied to Jehovahs Witnesses who spoke against government policies. Doctrines about patriotic duties and religious freedom were weighed with broader First Amendment protections.
Allied reports describe continued Allied air pressure on Sicily with attacks on Pantelleria Linosa and Catania Gerebini airfields. Linosa surrendered with 140 defenders evacuated. Pantelleria and Lampedusa also pummeled as Mussolini ordered surrender of Pantelleria.
In the Aleutians, a lone American destroyer and three supporting vessels attacked four Japanese cruisers near Attu and Kiska. Despite heavy fire and long odds, the torpedo assault damaged the heavy cruisers, prompting their retreat as the American force endured casualties and endured harsh conditions returning to base.
President Roosevelt pressed congressional leaders at the White House for 1.9 to 2.0 billion dollars in subsidies to lower agricultural commodity prices for consumers. Democrats reportedly supported, while Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader McNary opposed. Byrnes noted that subsidies would be harder to apply in the United States than in Britain.
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