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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1942
Page
3
The piece critiques war publicity from North Africa and the Mediterranean theater, notes the rise of clear evidence for free enterprise in wartime production, laments propaganda on collectivism, and highlights Iowa primary fiscal overstatements and a bizarre power of God mailing from Idaho.
Soviet Red Star reports a 22 hour clash near Sevastopol as German forces mount seven storm attacks with tanks and artillery. Russians counter with bayonet charges and a counter offensive on the Kharkov front, while Kharkov civilians are reportedly evacuated amid German pressure. Red Star notes gains for Soviets in several sectors and claims German casualties and losses in Bryansk.
New York by NNS reports the unemployment pool fell to 1 750 000 in April from depression highs. The board says April unemployment is 34 000 000 lower than a year ago and over 7 000 000 lower than the same month last year.
London reports over 300 RAF long range bombers attacked German war industry in the Ruhr and Rhineland Tuesday night after an eight day weather lull. Eight bombers were lost. Mines were laid in enemy waters. A new raid pace of up to 1000 planes a night was anticipated if weather holds. German raids over southern England caused minor damage and two injuries.
In Linn County the Rubber for War committee launches a countywide salvage program promising to buy at least 600 tons of used rubber by June end. About 110 filling stations operate 250 sales units offering a penny per pound, while scrap heaps from attics gardens and farms yield tires mats toys and baby buggy bumpers.
Cedar Rapids police pursued two youths about 20 years old who robbed the Charles Zastera drug store on Ellis boulevard NW taking 60 dollars after a fake exchange and then hit the Pusateri grocery on Tenth street SE taking 40 dollars. They fled east on K avenue and north on Tenth street, triggering a city-wide dragnet and a description shared with nearby towns.
Reports from the Yugoslav refugee government say Mihailovich forces captured 14500 Axis troops including one enemy battery in Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro with heavy casualties on both sides. Italic divisions and Bulgarian and Hungarian troops were said engaged.
Cedar Rapids area expects more rainfall with a cloudy sky and light showers possible in the afternoon. Chambers Inskeep equipment recorded 0.20 inch of precipitation early morning, with humidity at 73 percent. Temperatures hovered in the 60s most of Tuesday, reaching 70 at 5 pm, then dipping to 53 by midnight and 59 overnight, back to 70 by 2:30 pm Wednesday.
The Associated Press reports two American merchant ships were torpedoed near a Virginia beach resort with thousands of tourists watching. One ship sank. the other was towed in. Navy bombing planes and a blimp hunted the sub as surface ships joined the attack. 62 crew members survived the sinking vessel.
Forty-one seamen died as Axis submarines sank two American merchantmen flying Central American flags in the Caribbean. Seven more missing after raft drift south of Cuba. survivors reported. Seventeen lost from the first ship, 19 survivors picked up after 12 days. A second Honduran registry vessel sank with 24 Americans aboard. thirty-five rescued after six days on rafts.
Allied troops reinforced by sea supply and U S air support repulsed Axis thrusts on both flanks of Tobruk and at Sidi Rezegh Acroma and El Adem while Axis claims of prisoner captures and advance were contradicted by British reports The battle centers on armored strength and reinforcements as Rommel confronts British positions guarding the Tobruk line in Libya.
The navy announced a new Lexington will be launched soon to replace the carrier sunk at the Coral Sea. Construction is at Bethlehem Steel Fore River, Quincy Mass, initially slated as U S S Cabot. A spokesman said 23,000 workers asked that she be named Lexington to strike fear into enemies.
Stanley Johnston reports the Coral Sea battle as American forces engage Japanese carriers and fleets. The narrative describes dawn readiness, scout searches, and the moments before the carrier Lexington faces the main Japanese attack, with observers detailing early contacts and aerial strikes.
The article reports warnings that three Axis thrusts threaten Australia and the North American coast, with speculation on potential Japanese attacks and a variant of Allied strategic concerns. It notes anxieties over a possible global scale and mentions the date context and wartime climate.
Allied Liberator bombers led by Major Alfred Kalberer attacked two Italian battleships in the central Mediterranean with RAF support. Kalberer praised the crew and noted the mission’s success, including disabling the ships enough to require four to five months of repairs.
President Roosevelt signed a bill boosting military pay, retroactive to June 1, increasing base pay from private to second lieutenant and ensign. Second lieutenants and ensigns gain an extra 300 dollars yearly to reach a 1000 dollar annual total. officers above second lieutenant or ensign receive no pay rise but subsistence and housing allowances rise, with ceilings removed on officer allowances.
ANKARA Turkey UP Four U S B 24 bombers carrying 12000 dollars forced to land in Turkey last week after reportedly bombing Black Sea area The money was placed in the Turkish Central Bank The planes also carried canned food chocolate and cigarettes to last the airmen many days The flyers were technically interned and have assisted Turkish authorities in inventorying their planes and supplies.
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