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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1942
Page
5
The Iowa attorney general will issue a written opinion on the legality of distributing surplus medical relief funds to 93 doctors who served the poor in Linn County. Editors urge a fair contract path and caution against letting a technicality derail a sound relief system.
General MacArthur disclosed that President Roosevelt ordered him to organize an American offensive against Japan to relieve the Philippines. Australian forces reported sniping Japanese columns toward Port Moresby as Port Darwin endured a Japanese air raid with casualties.
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt arrived in Los Angeles opposing conscription of women for war work but supporting the women's army auxiliary corps. She urged registration to gauge women’s power and skills for the nation. She travels to San Diego to visit sons Major James Roosevelt and Ensign John Roosevelt.
In Weehawken New Jersey Friday a stevedore's shouted remark halted a longshoremen strike after AFL International Longshoremen's Association and contractor John W. McGrath Co. employees agreed to shake hands and return 258 workers to duty. The dispute over a union member's discharge paused three merchant ships as state mediators assess the status.
Washington AP The government ordered men aged 45 to 64 to register on April 27 under the selective service law for possible non combatant war work. Roosevelt announced the date as the second registration since U S entry into the war. About 15 million men are expected to register in this age bracket. The 18 and 19 year olds remain unregistered.
A snow storm moved into Iowa from the Dakotas with light snow in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas and a forecast of rain changing to snow. Forecaster Charles D. Reed warned snowfall would be light and not serious though winds would strengthen late tonight as temperatures fall to about 34.
Cedar Rapids saw overcast skies with .24 inch rainfall by 12:30 p.m. Friday. Temperatures rose to 46 degrees at 7 a.m., then dipped four degrees in the morning. By afternoon the reading reached 48 degrees, then fell to 45 by 7 p.m. Overnight low was 42 degrees.
SAN FRANCISCO UP The Wartime Civil Control administration announced Santa Anita racetrack in Los Angeles would serve as an induction center for Japanese and Japanese Americans being evacuated from vital western defense areas.
Gen Stilwell announced he is now in command of U S forces in China, India and Burma and vowed that American and Chinese troops will reach Tokio together. He said the A V G may shift, noted Burma front activity, and promised ample aid for China while outlining new supply routes via India.
The War Department said two American bombers scored a direct hit on a large Japanese cruiser during a raid on the harbor at Rabaul New Britain. Also disclosed nearly 20 officers and men joined Gen Douglas MacArthur in his move from the Philippines to Australia led by Major General Richard K Sutherland with five brigadier generals. No combat reports came from the Philippine front.
Berlin ambassador Huester Gerede is set to return to Ankara amid German proposals for Turkey to enter the war. Reports claim Turkey would gain Syria and a protectorate over Iraq and Mosul as the reward.
New Delhi India observers and Indians from all classes say India can withstand Japanese invasion better than China. They expect Cripps to decide if Britain grants independence or risks losing India to Japan. Military leaders doubt prevent invasion but foresee bogged down campaign, while political talks lean toward Canada Australia style status within the British Commonwealth.
The Japanese navy charged the United States and Britain use extreme warfare and announced a revised warfare ordinance based on the London Declaration of 1909. It said Japan will retaliate and not be bound by enemy breaches of international law, with Professor Enomoto explaining the move as a reciprocal stance.
Cedar Rapids police search for a hit and run driver who struck flagman E. O. Ballou crossing at Fourth Street and First Avenue E early Friday. Ballou, with bruises, was taken to St Luke's Hospital and expected to be released later Friday. witnesses described a 1936 Ford sedan that fled east on First Avenue.
Reports from Stockholm and London indicate Nazi forces prepare to retreat from Kharkov with fires and destruction, while Soviet dispatches claim German casualties and renewed Russian advances in the Donets basin. Movements near Staraya Russa and Kalinin front also noted with heavy German losses. Turkey talks surface as Papen heads to Ankara.
In Hollywood Rita Hayworth and Charles Boyer shared a kiss lasting eight seconds too long in a current film. The Hays office ordered the scene trimmed after a projection room viewing to enforce moral guidelines.
President William Green of the AFL testified to the Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee, accusing a well financed Oklahoma driven campaign of confusion over suspending the 40 hour week and anti strike laws. He cited identical messages and press appeals from Oklahoma City Times and Daily Oklahoma. Green and CIO President Philip Murray warned against restrictive legislation harming wartime voluntary cooperation.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, forecast that future deferment from military service would hinge on the importance of the job a person holds rather than the number of dependents. He warned that men, women, and time are scarce and that many must perform wartime work without full training.
The Yugoslav government in exile says German forces executed more than 4,000 people in Kragujevac Serbia in reprisal for the killing of 10 German soldiers and 26 wounded by guerrillas.
Capt Frank Kurtz Olympic diver and U S air force aide describes a three month solo style air war against Japan in the Southwest Pacific. He recounts sinking at least six ships during a Davao Bay raid and surviving the Clark Field attacks that killed crew and nearly erased his flying fortress.
President Roosevelt said shortages of labor could develop in American war industries by next fall while current manpower appears sufficient. He noted long hours in many plants, cited safety losses in 1941, and urged caution to reduce industrial accidents and disability, as selective service registration looms.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called for improved protection of the Norfolk Portmouth harbor during a press conference in Norfolk Virginia. He labeled the harbor the second worst protected in the nation and urged the city to provide a fireboat and police boat to bolster security.
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