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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1943
Page
3
Congress heard Col. Lewis Sanders say to sustain 11 million in service, up to 12 million may be drafted due to normal attrition not battlefield losses. Major Gen. Hershey noted peacetime attrition around 12 percent monthly, with 500,000 discharged beyond battle casualties.
Washington AP reports a March 15 order bringing privately owned buses under the same non essential service bans as charter operators. It outlaws all free transport by private buses, including trips to race tracks golf clubs beaches riding academies night clubs roadhouses athletic team shuttles picnics fairs and entertainment group tours.
John Eoghan Kelly of New York and San Francisco was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for acting as an unregistered propagandist for Gen Francisco Franco's regime. Attorney General Biddle said neither the Spanish government nor the Spanish library of information is implicated.
Washington AP reports the Soviet embassy bulletin quotes Alexander F. Gorkin saying the Red Army has no aims of seizing foreign lands or subjugating other peoples.
The Office of War Information reported a Tokio radio broadcast stating Japanese Finance Minister Shinobu Maya promised an appropriation for more adequate air raid protection in Tokyo as threats of further bombing prompted increased defenses.
A fragment from Edgar A. Guest venerates silent strength and love of freedom as shown by immigrants and quiet heroes. It contrasts gifted poets with those who witness liberty through daily courage at the Starry Flag. The piece then shifts to Olympia Washington where an AP dispatch relays a short, quirk-filled scene at a store counter and a brief army reference.
The Supreme Court agreed to review Whitney Bowles of Newfoundland New Jersey a 23 year old conscript who refused induction arguing the 1940 Selective Service Act did not require active religious affiliation for conscientious objection Bowles a Princeton student and Presbyterian was sentenced to three years for failure to report his appeal already upheld by the Philadelphia circuit court
London AP report states magistrate fined Ivor Khan about 180 for driving a mile to a restaurant while a trolley bus was available. The arresting officer quoted him saying he cannot waste time on trolley buses. In the same session, David Rosenberg received a 50 penalty for driving a mile for a shave.
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