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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
3
The article notes Rommel racing 60 miles east of the Libyan border toward Egypt and questions a drive to Alexandria. It contrasts British retreat with the Allied home front effort, cites WPB head Donald Nelson on 1942–43 production, and laments wartime morale and postwar public works.
Reports from Moscow say the 21 day Sevastopol siege slackens as German and Romanian units incur heavy casualties. Soviet briefings claim 150 Nazi tanks and hundreds of planes destroyed, while Donets and Kharkov sectors see continued fighting and Soviet defenses hold.
The navy reports two small anti-submarine vessels lost earlier this month to enemy submarines off the Atlantic coast. The USS Gannet sank with 16 dead after torpedo strike. YP-389 went down by gunfire with 4 dead. Next of kin notified. Lieuts Nuessle and Philips survived.
Cedar Rapids organizers report thirty two civic and business groups signed up to parade next Wednesday for Stamp and Bond Sale Day. The event begins at 10 30 a m as part of a day long drive to boost war stamps and bonds sales with a noon 11 minute white out in stores and a Gov Wilson radio broadcast guiding shoppers.
Alaska delegate Anthony J. Dimond urged Congress to move rapidly on a bill proposing a second Alaska highway. The route would run from Prince George in British Columbia to Whitehorse in Yukon territory, seeking faster overland access.
The war department announced a formal European theater of operations for United States forces with Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower as commanding general and headquarters in London. Eisenhower arrives to coordinate Allied invasion plans while retaining command of forces in the British Isles. he was named to lead the theater on the war department general staff.
Eyewitness evacuees from Unalaska describe dawn June 3 bombing and machine gun fire on Dutch Harbor by Japanese planes. Army anti aircraft batteries and ships defended the North Pacific outpost as families arrived in Seattle, sharing stories of bravery, injury, and evacuation.
Cedar Rapids youth Robert Cartwright 18 of 11% Sixth Street SW confessed to involvement with the Coke Bandit gang in robberies at Cedar Rapids drug stores on June 16 and a Rocksland robbery. He stated he rode in the car while others entered the stores and said he received 27 dollars. Other youths Butterfield McAdams Fitzgibbons Andrews Stapp face robbery charges. Andrews is on parole for a Dyer Act violation and will be turned to federal probation officials.
AP reports German bombers hit the U-boat base at St Nazaire, while German raiders attacked the English Midlands for the first time in six months, damaging Birmingham and two towns. A lone Nazi plane over London triggered anti-aircraft fire with no bombs dropped. Five Luftwaffe raiders were destroyed.
Reports from Prague detail Nazi forces destroying the village of Lezaky near Tatice and executing the adult male population. The Budapest broadcast cited Prague papers claiming death sentences for Czech partisans and mass actions against villagers, with women sent to camps and children subjected to education restrictions.
Weather forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity notes not much change in temperature through Friday forenoon with occasional showers and thunderstorms. Rain totals around .62 of an inch expected as conditions remain unsettled in the region.
Imperial forces claimed to have extended occupation of the Aleutians as Say Japanese communique said sea-borne troops occupied Kasha and Attu on June 7 8 and that positions remained strong. A Japanese correspondent noted supplies brought for planting and sowing, signaling broader plans amid the campaign.
Churchill told U S lawmakers optimistic notes after a White House conference with Roosevelt Rayburn and others. He cited progress on Africa and tensions with Germany, while MacKenzie King attended a wartime pact council with Roosevelt and Churchill nearby.
Axis forces drive southeast from Sidi Barani toward the Suez Canal as British troops pull back after heavy fighting. Reports say Fort Capuzzo and Salum captured, with Axis troops 50 miles inside Egypt near Halfaya Pass, while Allied defenses along the frontier withdraw to a 24 hour line.
Dispatches from Cairo indicate Britons may have fallen back to stronger positions near Matruh while Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck’s exhausted forces face a Axis pursuit. The threat to the Nile valley and Suez Canal grows as Axis columns advance toward the Libyan frontier.
Berlin reports eleven thousand American troops an entire motorized division were moved last weekend from Baghdad to Palestine and will serve in the Egyptian theater, according to Trans-ocean dispatch from Ankara.
London production minister Oliver Lyttleton, returning from Washington, predicts the United States will send more sea-going ships than Axis submarines sink. He said American builders will meet goals for this year and next, though he declined to judge whether the projected tonnage will suffice for Allied needs in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Washington AP selective service announces four categories to govern draft order. Category 1 covers registrants with no financial dependents. Category 2 includes those with dependents other than wives or children. Category 3 applies to married men with pre 1941 marriages and non imminent induction. Category 4 covers men with wives and children or children alone. Married men with dependents will not receive permanent deferment, but timing may still place them later or earlier as needed to meet calls.
AP reports the theater manager of a Buenos Aires venue canceled the premiere of the UFA Nazi propaganda film Submarines Westward citing special circumstances. The move follows mounting concerns over the film and its propagandistic content.
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