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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1942
Page
2
Scabbard and Blade pledges at Coe College experience a rough mock camp week in pup tents in Voorhees quad in front of the women's dormitory. Reveille to taps simulate days in camp as Bob Christensen guards while Bob Nicholson and DeWayne Van Deelen peek from the damp weather.
Iowa board of control institutions faced a coffee shortage due to war rationing but David McCreery said the matter was ironed out. Tone Brothers could supply 75 percent of the 1941 quota, with deliveries to 15 institutions restored after consultation with the attorney general.
North Carolina operates four cigarette plants that manufacture more cigarettes than the combined output of the remaining 23 establishments, located across nine other states.
Legion Auxiliary No 5 holds a Monday school of instruction at the Memorial building for members who will help distribute 15,500 poppies in Cedar Rapids on May 23. Funds aid living veterans and families, with poppies made at Des Moines VA hospital.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King introduced in the House a bill to end the overseas compulsory service ban and announced the resignation of Transport Minister Cardin who could not back the policy. Cardin, a leading Quebec figure, leaves amid Quebec plebiscite opposition to freeing government pledges on conscription.
The Red Cross invites more members to join upcoming first aid classes before summer. Two new sessions began last week with 30 to 35 volunteers aimed for full enrollment. Day and night options include a Wednesday 7 pm night class in the civil service room of the Federal Building, and a Thursday 1 to 3 pm afternoon class at Grace Episcopal Church led by Mrs. Carl Helming with Miss Dorothy Stofler as assistant.
President Manuel Prado, delivering the first speech by a foreign leader in Peru’s congress, pledged Monday to work for a United Nations victory and predicted Peru would be a factor of real importance in defending the Western Hemisphere.
Thirty five teachers prepared for a Monday night first aid examination at McKinley senior high. W L Paxson presented a fountain pen desk set to Paul L Kindler. Mrs Herbert Hazelwood an experienced nurse's aide has logged 73 hours in hospitals and each aide commits to 150 hours yearly. The YWCA staff meeting Tuesday night will be led by Mrs Ethel Pinney Ristedt on parliamentary procedure with Mrs C S Krause speaking on nurse's aide duties.
Governor George A. Wilson told a patriotic rally in Lake View Iowa that the world conflict has become a fight demanding faith. He said there is a fourth F, faith, and asserted Americans trust in themselves, their state, their nation, and humanity to prevail and truth to triumph.
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