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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1943
Page
3
In interviews with American servicemen in the South Pacific a camp clerk and airmen praise Eddie Rickenbacker as a motivating force. They recall his wartime leadership and his call for American resolve, urging the home front to provide planes, tanks, and support for victory. The men stress a unified effort and a better postwar life.
Notice states no rationing or price increase for Kemp's Balsam and Lane's Tablets while stock lasts, but supplies are limited and dealers have low stock. The cough and cold season arrives and druggists offer these products.
The city council approved paying 2,950.56 for a used universal crusher, a tractor, and a bucket elevator from Martin Roasa Tractor Co. They also approved transferring 5,488.29 from the waterworks fund to the sewer rental fund for sewage disposal. An ordinance allows local taxicab rates to rise to 35 cents first mile and other charges.
Louise Morley daughter of author Christopher Morley will address Cedar Rapids audiences March 27 under Linn county Office of Civilian Defense sponsorship. Her talk titled The Effect of the War on the Youth of Today will be given at the Board of Education building in the morning with two more afternoon talks planned.
Temple Judah hosts Victory Gardens events with Miss Ann Biffle and Miss Elizabeth Bender. Jackson school P T A and El Kahir Shrine in Mont rose hotel organize sessions on Wednesday and Thursday evenings chaired by Nate Worcester and Mrs. David I. Berger respectively. Community House hosts Chatter club on Saturday at 3 pm with Ashley chapter D A R and Woman's club involved.
Maxine Smith, a 12B Roosevelt high school student at 1630 Hinkley avenue NW, won an honorable mention in the Quill and Scroll magazine ad writing contest. Her entry, sponsored by Donald E. Brown, a journalism instructor at Roosevelt, was a 10 inch ad design and copy.
The Red Cross serves disaster victims beyond a family’s coping ability using cash credit and labor. Its Congressional charter designates it as the official disaster relief agency. About 150 cases are handled weekly, roughly three per day, on average.
Notes from the Capital discuss desertions being lower than in prior wars. Frank J. Lowry promoted to rear admiral recalls a violin tale from Annapolis to the Great Lakes command. Mrs. Roosevelt walks on Pennsylvania avenue as others comment on immigration, mail subsidies, and scrap drives. Vice President Wallace and Clare Boothe Luce exchange jabs amid evolving political talk.
The text explains that about 40,000 families or 200,000 persons receive aid yearly. It defines a Red Cross nurse as a graduate registered nurse meeting Red Cross standards. It notes professional nurses join to be listed as qualified and willing to serve, and that the Red Cross War Reserve serves the Army and Navy Nurse Corps.
Brig. Gen. Everett S. Hughes of South Dakota was named by Gen. Eisenhower to be deputy American theater commander in North Africa in charge of administrative work for American forces. He will oversee logistics and coordination of Allied efforts in the theater.
Eisenhower designates the 57 year old Hughes to oversee supply and training for the American army with British integration coordinated in his purview. He pins the Distinguished Service medal on Hughes for exceptionally creditable service in a position of great responsibility as chief of staff of the services of supply in the European theater of operations.
The Colorado state senate approved on second reading by 16 to 5 a bill prohibiting sale of horse meat for human consumption in the state.
London AP reports Hitler’s Gestapo arrested 34 at Charlottenburg military academy near Berlin on February 25 in a purge tied to monarchist and right wing fears. The report notes unrest among Junker generals and talk of a possible failed coup and negotiated peace.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard told a Senate committee the United States is approaching a nutrition level similar to Britain's and Canada's reduced diet. He warned of possible school closures to boost vegetable crop output and noted experts would study English food use.
The article notes a predicted rise in the use of peanuts and soybeans for human consumption, signaling an agricultural shift toward these crops.
Hinsley remains unchanged as London reports a medical condition described by Fag Tae on Monday.
Ankara reports General Ismet Inonu has been reelected to a second four year term as president of the Turkish republic on opening day of the new electoral period.
Mars is described as a farmer from the sun with a climate colder than Earth. The statement contrasts planetary environments and highlights Mars as a solar influenced, frigid world.
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