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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1941
Page
1
German sources claim success near the Russian front with promised full reports to follow. Budapest notes Hungary’s entry tightens fronts and anchors Russian withdrawals.
The Navy Department announced a small detachment of Marines was sent to London to facilitate communications between U S offices there. The group will assist as fire watchers and relieve the embassy staff due to expanded work and separate offices established in the British capital.
London reports heavy Dover coast bombardment as British bombers extend a 17 day offensive into northern France. Air ministry tallies 10 British fighters lost, seven German fighters destroyed, targets including Lille steel works, airfields, gun posts, and a 3000 ton ship off Dunkerque left in a sinking condition.
Berlin reports 36 British planes shot down in 24 hours and six heavily loaded enemy merchant ships sunk off the British coast. It says RAF bombers suffered a severe defeat in raids on Nazi targets with 19 planes lost during a daylight raid on the French coast, including 14 shot down by German fighters. No German losses reported.
The British admiralty announced the interception of the 3 063 ton Alstertor hamb urg as a prison and supply ship. A number of British merchant seamen held aboard a German raider were killed when Cornwall sank the raider in the Indian Ocean last month. Sixty six survivors were rescued including 46 from the Rabaul and 32 from the Trafalgar with nine and twelve killed respectively.
The Senate approved 40 to 20 a two year extension of President Roosevelt powers to revalue the dollar and operate a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund. An amendment to end the revaluation power failed 40 to 22. The body also rejected a Taft proposal to terminate the President’s authority to issue 3 billion in paper currency.
Senator Clyde L. Herring supported the bill to extend Roosevelt’s power to devalue the dollar and preserve the 2 billion stabilization fund for two more years. Senator Guy M. Gillette was away from the Capitol at the time.
Major Stanley H. Umstead lands the 82 ton B-19 bomber at March Field after a 65 mile test flight from Clover Field. The massive ship left Clover at 12 01 p m and touched down 57 minutes later amid cheering crowds and a 2000 foot takeoff run.
Berlin dispatch says General Maurice Gamelin former French army chief escaped from Bourraso prison where he was held for court martial. Two suspects arrested at Clermont Ferrand on alleged conspiracy. Gamelin led French forces and Allied commands in France before his capture in 1940. He was 66 at the time of escape and had a 45 year military career.
Cedar Rapids area tops reach 93 degrees amid a heat wave. A late Friday storm brought 0.45 inch rainfall and cooled temps to around 68 to 69 degrees overnight. Skies remain cloudy with isolated thundershowers forecast tonight and Sunday.
Cedar Rapids volunteers and captains urged to complete the U S O drive by Wednesday to meet a $7,000 goal before the July 4 national close. Local collections were near the target with $3,000 still needed, and new contributors included Montrose hotel staff, John B Turner and Son, Money Corporation, Lovely Lady beauty shop, and Sebetka Brothers Grocery.
Peter Hach Jr seeks a mandamus to compel the city council to issue a beer permit to one of 46 holders accused by police of selling to minors. A hearing set for 10 a.m. Monday in city hall will determine cause. Mayor Hahn, council members, and clerk were served notices. City Attorney Hines to present the case.
Official denial came Saturday night to rumors that General Maurice Gamelin had escaped confinement in unoccupied France. No details were provided about the source or location of his confinement.
The Office of Production Management urged eight new aluminum plants in six states to add 600 million pounds of annual output for defense, lifting U.S. capacity to 1.4 billion pounds and sourcing 200 million pounds from Canada. Plant locations to be chosen by Secretary Stimson. RFC defense plant financing. States include Arkansas, Washington, California and North Carolina with specified production totals.
South Side Civic Club contributes 25 to the Camp Good Health Fund, raising the fund total to 2,658.93 with other donations noted. Saron Lutheran church also gave a picnic offering of 10, and the group urged continued voluntary contributions for the camp’s services for physi cally handicapped low income individuals.
The war department asked Congress to authorize removals of unfit officers to revitalize the army. A proposed five officer board would make final decisions, affecting about 89 000 officers across regular, national guard, and reserve components, with retirement pay for seven-year veterans.
Moscow reports fierce Soviet strikes on the German spearheads from Lwow to Minsk. The communique says counterattacks routed the 39th tank corps, repelled front-line incursions, and pounded enemy units along the Baltic and Przemysl sectors.
War bulletins report German forces seize Minsk capital of White Russia. Reports say Norwegian troops move toward Murmansk, Finnish artillery bombardments of Hangoe Fort, and Italian artillery hits on a British column at Tobruk front amid fighting in Galla Sidamo in Ethiopia.
Kenneth Gordon Bond, 28, a University of Iowa student from New Haven Connecticut, died when his light coupe swerved through a barricade on highway 11 between Independence and Walker and vanished into a Bear creek tributary. Witness Jack Meggers said the car sped 70 to 80 mph, struck a concrete abutment, and was recovered hours later after divers pulled it from the water. Bond’s death was ruled drowning with a fatal head injury. papers identified him as Frank Bond of Pittsburgh, possibly traveling with others.
Reporter Robert St John details Romanian agents active in Bessarabia Bukovina and Ukraine over six months. The espionage network aimed to spark anti communist chaos as German and Romanian forces advanced into Russia. Agents reportedly believed they aided a Romanian territorial reclamation before learning they served Nazi aims.
Grant Wood has been appointed to a professorship in the University of Iowa school of fine arts after a year’s leave of absence. President Virgil M. Hancher announced the appointment, with Wood to continue integrating the creative arts into the university curriculum, while working with the school director.
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