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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1943
Page
2
Warmer weather is expected this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms through tonight and Wednesday morning. Cedar Rapids highs reached 64 at 2:30 pm. yesterday peaked at 70 around 4:30 pm. Morning low was 41 with humidity at 10 percent.
Mrs Adolph Kohl of 920 Third Street SW Cedar Rapids died Tuesday in a local hospital after an illness. Funeral arrangements are pending with a Cedar Rapids funeral home.
D L Skally of Iowa City cited for over width on a truck with $5 fine plus costs. Gateway City Transfer of LaCrosse Wisconsin cited for operating without a truck permit number with $10 fine plus costs.
List of offenders with addresses and penalties includes John Z Lindley 952 Tenth street NE reckless driving $100 and costs $59 suspended on payment of costs and remainder of fine James W Sloan 1542 Seventh avenue SE double parking $1 and costs Roy Stull 319 Fourteenth street NE double parking $1 and costs James V Novak 1201 Second street SE failure to yield right of way $5 and costs.
Sunday and Monday fire calls list multiple incidents including a kerosene heater fire at 1654 Ellis Blvd NW and an electric heater fire at 1400 Fifth Ave SE with damage limited to the units. A motorcycle fire at Third Ave SE is noted as caused by a backfire. Local births announced include a son May 3 at St Luke's and a daughter May 3 at Mercy with parents named, plus a Denver couple’s daughter April 30.
Mrs Walter Frey of Fort Madison named secretary treasurer. Gov B B Hickenlooper canceled a Cedar Rapids appearance to address the convention Monday afternoon alongside Virgil M Hancher University of Iowa president. The governor urged maintaining public resolve amid war, stressing freedom and steady purpose.
At a convention Wilbert Gregory and Charles Gawne criticized WPB priorities A-10 and P-84 as inadequate for plumbers and heating contractors to perform even maintenance. They urged readiness for postwar markets while warning of economic constraints and new home demand. Ernest Hauser warned businesses to stay operable amid war bonds and frozen credit, predicting a strong postwar boom for home construction.
The navy appealed to residents of northern California and the Pacific Northwest for aid in finding a Dauntless dive bomber missing since March 13. Pilot Lieut. (jg) L Parker Pelzer of Iowa City Iowa vanished 15 miles southwest of Mount Shasta during a flight from Red Bluff to The Dalles. He last had fuel for five hours and a cruising radius around 500 miles.
Marine Casamento led two squads in a frontal assault on Japanese positions. Despite multiple wounds including to the throat neck ear and shoulder he emptied a belt into a machine gun nest stopping its fire. He crawled chased by grenades then collapsed but inspired others as rescuers later evacuated him and fellow crew from snowbound Fortresses.
Benjamin O Bottoms of Salem Massachusetts dies as Arctic expedition led by Monteverde struggles in severe weather. Lieut William F OHara of Scranton Pennsylvania is seriously ill with frostbite and gangrene. Crew members Spencer and Private Clarence Wedel fall into a crevasse as motor sled fails. Air drops sustain survivors amid two moored camps and worsening conditions.
Ickes outlines an order guaranteeing miners at least 45.50 a week on a six day week with portal-to-portal pay, while Lewis says miners no longer honor the no strike pledge and demand 2 a day wage increases and unionization. Public members threaten resignation if control of the case shifts.
Fuels Administrator Ickes said the six day week applies only to mines with OPA granted price ceiling increases for overtime. C. T. Carney, president of the Iowa Coal Operators Association, said no Iowa mines fall into that category.
A headquarters spokesman says the Second United States Army Corps under Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr moved quickly to capitalize on broad Axis withdrawals in the north. American artillery and air bombardment forced the retreat after a period of lull, with bold thrusts and suppression of rear nests to speed the break in the Tunisian front.
A La Linea dispatch said a strongly protected convoy left Gibraltar at dawn for the Mediterranean. It included 20 ships that had recently arrived carrying invasion barges.
London AP reports Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy urged Dutch citizens to resist German authorities seeking to intern about 400,000 former Dutch soldiers. He said not a call for general armed resistance yet and warned the government will announce when it is time.
Edward M. Siessmen 38 of Alexandria a civil air patrol captain and flight instructor at St. Cloud was killed when his plane crashed on takeoff from the Albert Lea airport. The crash occurred at 10 a.m. Monday and the aircraft burned after impact.
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