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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1941
Page
7
The column argues for seizing axis assets in the United States to curb Nazi power and discusses stopping German propaganda from Facts in Review. It notes inflation fears from defense spending, government corn reserves, and judicial streamlining while contrasting wartime prudence with public rhetoric and policy.
Allied forces push on all fronts with RAF daylight raids on German air bases in northern France and heavy bombing of the Ruhr. British submarines and surface ships claim at least nine enemy ships sunk with attacks in the Mediterranean. In Africa and the Middle East, actions include Tobruk, Sollum, and Syria, with Belgian, Free French, and British units advancing or engaging Axis targets. Venice reports Croatia joining the Tripartite pact.
Coder Rapids News reports 67 year old Frank Nosek of 1322 First Street NW charged with drunk driving after his car crashed into a parked vehicle at 1109 Ellis Boulevard NW. Nosek attempted to flee but was restrained by officers Stodola and Remington. He had prior drunkenness fines in 1937 1941 and 1838.
Iowa judge Merrill E. Otis recalls how juries upheld democracy during the Pendergast era. He warns against packed juries and praises blue ribbon panels as essential to justice in trials exposing Kansas City election corruption. He notes business and civic leaders sometimes enabled boss rule and urges integrity on juries.
Col. Hubert Stethem reports German prisoners of war in Canadian camps receive ample luxuries from U S sympathizers. Meals, barbed wire camps, and self-run barracks characterize daily life, with leaders and guards under Canadian officers and pay work options available to enlisted POWs.
The Cedar Rapids area saw persistent wet conditions with a brief afternoon shower and a heavier evening downpour. Temperature fell from 64 at six pm to 59 by eleven pm as 0.14 inches of rain accumulated and umbrellas and raincoats remained common.
The Young Men’s Bureau hosts a harness racing program at Hawkeye Downs with favorable track conditions after rain. Four Mokin horses compete across the three races led by Captain Mokin and Charley Mokin in the 2:14 pace, Jackie Davis as favorite in the 2:14 trot, and Tony the Great in the 2:24 trot, under the Eastern Iowa Racing club presidency of Lee Bebee Anamosa.
Clark Beach assesses the risk that if England is defeated by Germany, Latin American nations may fracture their unity. A diplomat predicts a southern country would bow to Hitler with major trade concessions within ninety days, while the US eyeing a $2 billion inter-American export plan faces costly obstacles to unify hemispheric resistance.
Washington officials announced a change in draft policy. New registrants turning 21 for July 1 will be integrated with already registered men rather than added at the bottom. About 750,000 men are expected to enroll, with a July lottery tentatively set for late July to determine classification order.
Washington AP reports well informed congressional circles expect arming of American merchant vessels after Sumner Welles stated the United States would uphold freedom of the seas. A navy disclosure says New York harbor waters will be mined from June 15 to September 30 as part of harbor defense exercises. The government freezes German and Italian assets. Sweden and others face scrutiny but may conduct usual transactions. Welles dismissed German threats about contraband ships as bluster.
Police report a tray of diamond rings valued at 1135 dollars disappeared from Helzberg's jewelry store on Sixth Avenue and Walnut Street. A clerk says a man claimed he was waiting for someone else and then vanished.
About 200 Triple-A committeemen and officials closed their Washington conference with recommendations to shape the 1942 farm program. They urged support for the national defense, stronger soil conservation, higher taxes on excess profits, defense stamps, and better nutrition. They favored shifting funds to soil work, extending wind erosion control, and farm payments adjusted to reduce cropland subsidies while maintaining allotments for surplus crops.
Cedar Rapids local U S O organizers announce captains for the individual drive starting Tuesday. Katherine Franken will head women workers meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at 10 am. Captains include Mesdames Cameron Gray Vesely Melberg Cornthwaite Hedges Newburger Orr Van Meter Sheehy Milner and Carl Helming's men lead with Marvin Burkholder Marr Levin Nilles McCormac Heathman Ross Havel Van Nostrand Enzler. Workers contact about 10 people each. campaign runs through July 4 with local goal of 500 and windup aimed by June 25. Posters showing a soldier and sailor, distributed by Boy Scouts, urge giving.
In Olympia Washington delegates at the CIO International Woodworkers of America convention voted unanimously to urge locals to return to work immediately in 53 northwest lumber mills and camps.
Rome reports predict immediate reprisal after Roosevelt blocks Italian assets in the United States. Fascist circles expect seizure of American property in Italy such as the Sacony Vacuum Oil refinery at Naples. Most American holdings in Italy have been liquidated in anticipation.
Washington inquiry questions the scope and extent of President Roosevelt’s executive action freezing American assets. The query seeks specifics on which assets are covered, duration, and legal authority behind the measure.
Children at Camp Good Health show notable progress after one week with some gaining up to three pounds and overall better appetite and activity. Fundraising totals reach 2 270 dollars including memorial gifts and contributions from John Wesley class of Trinity Methodist church and others.
A Hungarian broadcast picked up via CBS reports suggests Soviet troops moved from the Turkish frontier to other fronts, amid signs of a fresh European military flare up. Stockholm dispatches and a Berlin blackout add to the tension surrounding potential action in Ukraine.
Finnish diplomatic circles report a split within the Soviet leadership as Premier Joseph Stalin leans toward German appeasement on unstated demands. Defense Commissar K. Timofshenko reportedly opposes the policy, leading internal opposition within the Red Army.
London reports from Turkey say roads to Soviet-occupied Bessarabia are mined and that Germany seeks control for a long war. Goering reportedly spoke of needing Ukraine. Norwegian waters mined, Staveanger port banned, 300 farms seized for an air base near Kristiansand. Transit denial from Ankara noted amid Romanian rumors of Bessarabia recapture.
Nineteen individuals were listed by Cedar Rapids Draft Board No. 1 for induction into the army on June 25. Names include Frank Crockett Byers, Robert Darlington Vernon, Robert Fredrick Burchard, Wilbur Henkes, Evan Calvert, Chester Davis, Sabin Nase sif, Sigmund Wolf, Robert Nemec, Bruce Swalley, Francis Hurych, Joseph Kennedy, Delemar Wilson, Ben Book, Kenneth Fitzpatrick, Robert Greene, Howard McGuire, and John NoUeesey with listed addresses in Cedar Rapids neighborhoods and nearby cities.
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