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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1943
Page
3
Ruth Cowan reports from Africa that soldiers increasingly drink native wine as a substitute for imported spirits. Accounts describe pilots officers and MPs hiding or rationing alcohol while thirst remains, and medical staff noting stomach upsets from limited safety measures. A hardboiled MP quips that enforcement will prevent excess.
A fragmented vintage ad touts St Joseph Aspirin as the world’s largest seller at 10c. It promotes the medicine as genuine and pure, urging readers to demand the trusted brand for fevers pains aches and headaches.
A collage of brisk, wry observations from Washington. Musings touch on cabinet shakes, directives, war work fashion, and energy woes. Anecdotes include a Des Moines congressman, tomatoes at 30 cents per two pounds, and a dramatic sea voyage from a British sailor recounting Crete and Libya combat.
In a senate speech Senator Brooks accuses administration forces of attempting to replace the free press with government dominated news. He cites higher wartime paper use by the government and urges full disclosure to expose a plan to supplant newspapers with official handouts.
Navy Radioman Second Class Russell O. McQueen son of Mr and Mrs Dow A McQueen of 298 Forty first street is listed as a prisoner of the Japanese by the War Department. The 25 year old was reported missing May 13 after the Manila Bay area surrender. He enlisted in the Navy five years ago. His parents requested aid of authorities.
The Red Cross traced his whereabouts last September and the international office notified on Jan 5 1943 that Mc Queen was a prisoner. His family was informed they may write but have received no reply. He has brothers Morris and Darrell and sister Wanda June McQueen.
Official probate notice records the appointment of an administrator in case number 16888. The document cites the County District Clerk and the attorney P. Buresh as authenticated participants in the appointment proceedings.
B C Woodson Linn county Red Cross first aid chairman appeals to industrial plants to urge employees with standard first aid certificates to enroll in advanced first aid classes. The effort aims to aid manpower conservation and invites interested persons to contact the Red Cross office in the federal building. A lay instructors’ training course may be offered this spring for those wishing to teach first aid and eligibility requires completing the advanced course.
The Red Cross rapidly aided refugees and injured civilians after Pearl Harbor with field directors landing with marines on Guadalcanal and accompanying forces to North Africa. It expanded its disaster relief manpower to meet wartime demands while remaining always ready, with a million more volunteers and hundreds of additional field workers in this war.
Washington AP American soldiers taken prisoner must not send messages or other material over enemy broadcasting facilities. The army said in an order Monday that such broadcasts are used by the enemy for purposes.
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