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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1943
Page
1
The piece argues price and wage controls have failed and subsidies and roll-backs are needed to prevent collapse. It cites Bernard Baruch and wartime planners, critiques administration policy, and warns against alien philosophies and intellectuals who would dictate to working Americans, as mirrored by comments from Jim Farley and Mrs. Roosevelt.
A guest dispatch describes over 400 Flying Fortresses and bombers hitting Palermo on Sunday, leaving vast industrial and harbor districts in ruins. The raid, supported by Lightning fighters, involved Fortress crews including Major Robert Kimmel and the "Yankee Queen" crew, with claims of multiple enemy fighters downed and a foretold push into North African bases.
The piece argues Radical youth should be encouraged when it questions past orthodoxy, warns against shooing youth into radical groups, cites President Conant on distinguishing American radicals, and notes a German officer praising American sportsmanship in North Tunisia amid Nazi ideology. It highlights tension between ideals of self-governance and wartime conduct.
A capital commentator laments wartime shortages and rationing reducing the public dining scene in Washington. Social rituals fade as governance decisions seem driven by fewer cocktail party gatherings.
American heavy bombers attacked Messina harbor in Sicily scoring direct hits on ferry slips and a locomotive roundhouse and damaging railway yards. Africa-based planes hit seven Axis ships in the Mediterranean and set fire to a small enemy merchantman in the Aegean. two others likely sunk. No Allied aircraft reported missing.
Washington AP report says Donald M. Nelson told a congressional committee that no further restrictions on newsprint use are expected before October 1. He did not specify changes to print stock limits or procurement rules.
A tornado ripped through the Hilo area on the island, destroying or badly damaging numerous homes and other buildings. Casualties were reported as the extent of injuries and deaths remained to be clarified on Monday.
The Office of Price Administration sets home canning sugar at 25 pounds per person with one pound for each four quarts not to be exceeded. Jam and jelly use rises to five pounds from one. Households may apply to local ration boards in writing for extra sugar, with details on narrations, total produce, and jam jelly sugar.
Washington AP reports the Senate and House passed legislation to create an independent civilian supply administration with claims equal to the armed services on goods for the home front. The vote was 44 to 29.
Cedar Rapids News reports Paul J. Stewart son of William Stewart was listed as missing in action in North Africa since February 17. He has been identified as a German prisoner. the reward was received by his father through the International Red Cross. Stewart has brothers William J. in Minneapolis and Charles G. in Chicago.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports full production returning in soft coal fields after more than 3,000 miners in two states ended a stoppage protesting company fines of one dollar per day for unauthorized work stoppages.
Notes of thanks arrived Monday to Mayor Frank K. Hahn from Secretary Morgenthau thanking Cedar Rapids residents for a cordial visit. Police Chief Tom Condon also reported a similar note praising the police force for its helpfulness and the city's cooperative spirit.
The Senate Finance Committee approved a modified skip-a-year tax bill by 13 to 8 and sent it as a substitute for the Robertson-Forand bill. Chairman George said formal debate will open Wednesday with a rapid vote aimed at sending the measure to conference to reconcile Senate and House versions.
The Tokio radio said a submarine shelled a village on Hokkaido just after midnight Sunday, with shells likely from an American submarine. In Burma Japanese troops entered Buthedaung, while New Delhi noted British withdrawals. Allied air power pressed Japan with raids in Canton and Hainan, and the Solomons saw surface ship action near Gizo. Bobdubi near Salamaua fell to Allied forces.
Series on U S flyers stranded in Greenland after a Flying Fortress crash. Chapter details a harsh Arctic night when snow piled against a tent, forcing O Hara and Tetley into a buried burrow while Spencer and Tetley ration scarce food and struggle to keep warm. Pappy Turner’s B 17 supplied them, then relief arrived days later.
Freddie Feet five year old son of Mr and Mrs Fred Feet of Atkins suffered a perforated left eyeball when a fish hook snagged him during fishing near his home. Dr J K von Lackum Cedar Rapids removed the hook and operated at St Luke s hospital where the patient recovered well and showed good progress.
The agriculture department says crop prospects fell in most regions during April and are now much less promising than a year ago. The decline is largely blamed on unusually dry weather in the southern Great Plains and April rainfall averaging 30 percent below normal between the Mississippi and the Rockies.
Thunderbolt fighters were disclosed Monday to have gone into action in the theater of operations in Europe.
London AP reports Axis plans intensifying to deter Allied invasion along Europe from France to the Black Sea. Holland under martial law, Himmler heads Balkans actions, Rommel pushes Greek labor builds, and French port Le A evacuated as Germany strengthens southern front.
Allied naval and air forces enclose Cap Bon peninsula in Tunisia and sink small boats carrying Axis troops fleeing to sea. The American Second Corps accepts unconditional surrender of about 25,000 German soldiers in southeast of Bizerte, with further surrenders totaling 25,600 by British forces. German commanders including Krause and five generals surrender as forces in Tunisia collapse.
The OPA lowered profit margins Monday on cabbage and poultry sales in grocery stores and adjusted onion markups. Cabbage margins dropped to 40 percent for small stores and 40 percent for chains. onion markups fell for small shops, rose for intermediate stores, and stayed at 35 percent for largest outlets. Poultry margins reduced from 25 to 21 percent for small stores and to 20 percent for others.
A Dutch submarine operating with the British navy sunk a 7,500 ton Japanese supply ship in the Malacca straits between the Malay peninsula and Sumatra, according to a Monday communique.
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