Price control patchwork shows leaks and war limits
The piece argues price controls are patchy and cannot cover all cost factors, risk of favoritism in subsidies through the RFC, and the burden of war planning on a postwar economy. It notes a boosting of armed forces base pay to 50 dollars a month and questions the value of further increases given national finances. It also highlights a naturalization denaturalization debate and a veteran bond drive official's service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Banking Committee
RFC
Explosion in Eastern Coal Mine Kills 54
Morgantown West Virginia official reports say the Christopher Coal company mine No 3 explosion late Tuesday killed 54 men. Rescue crews reached 33 bodies Wednesday raising the death toll. 21 others were found earlier. The blast ripped through two sections, trapping survivors behind a debris barricade. Gas as the suspected cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
Christopher Coal Company
Aleck Brice
War Production Board Caravan Stops in Cedar Rapids
The War Production Board caravan arrives Thursday to Cedar Rapids offering a display of 700 bottleneck parts needed for bombers ships submarines tanks guns and tools. It will be parked from 9 am to 5 pm in front of the Chamber of Commerce building to show local manufacturers what prime contractors have secured in war orders and the qualification requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
War Production Board
America
Chamber of Commerce
Mayor Signals Start of City Scrap Drive in Cedar Rapids
Mayor Frank K Hahn authorized 15 city trucks to scour Cedar Rapids for scrap to aid the war effort. The caravan left City Hall at 1 p m Wednesday with trucks and drivers provided by the city and helpers from the Teamsters union. City crews worked Wednesday afternoon with a private fleet slated to collect remaining scrap Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank K Hahn
Teamsters Union
Farm Stock and Used Equipment Demand Highlighted
A seven day want ad in the Farmer's Market Place is printed and delivered over 315000 times for as little as $1.96. The ad claims a cow sold immediately for a vill e Hauskins of 1249 30th t.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aville Hauskins
Jersey Cow Freshening Ad Repeats in Gazette
Freshening Jersey cow offered for sale in a Cedar Rapids area ad. Contact 1249 30th Street SE or call 7820 to place a want ad through The Gazette Want Ad department, or dial 2-1121 to charge from a Cedar Rapids phone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
the Gazette
Ad Department
Cedar Rapids
Sinking of Second Ship by U-Boat in St Lawrence River
The Canadian government reports the loss of a second freighter to a submarine attack in the St Lawrence River. Navy Minister Angus MacDonald says the Monday sinking marks the first reported submarine strike in the river, with 87 or 88 survivors found. Long prepared naval plans are in operation to protect the vital waterway.
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Bulletin— Ottawa
St. Lawrence River
Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Navy
Angus MacDonald
Royal Canadian Navy
MacDonald
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Dominion
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Gulf
Labrador
Mississippi
Quebeec
Quebec
Montreal
Kingston
Ont
Point Des Monts
Government sets up 150 million tire purchase fund
Washington AP reports the government created a 150 million tire purchase fund to buy new and used tires from motorists. Details will be released after coordination by the Office of Price Administration and RFC. Some tires may be auctioned to aid essential transport, with fears of shortages if rubber runs out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Office of Price Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jones
Defense Supplies Corporation
RFC
Office For Emergency Management
OEM
Paul Hadlick
Senate Agricultural Subcommittee
Japs Push Burma Road Move Amid Frontline Pettiness
Chinese forces in central Burma cut Japanese supply lines to Lashio and Myitkyina. Japanese reinforcements of 5 000 troops pressed toward Paoshan while British units cover retreat in Yeu. Japanese aim to seize Chungking and press Stilwell’s forces, with American volunteers strafing targets and destroying trucks without losses.
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Chungking
Burma
Lashio
Myitkyina
Yunnan
China
Paoshan
Nippon
India
Yeu
London
Burma Road
Chiang Kai-shek
Harold Alexanders
Joseph W. Stilwell
Lashin
AVG
Air Raid Alarm Reported Over Hanoi in Indo China
London dispatch says Hanoi under an 80 minute air raid alarm Tuesday afternoon. Paris radio via Exchange Telegraph quotes a French Indo-Chinese air defense engagement with six Chinese bombers escorted by fighters shot down two planes. No further details were provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
INL
United Nations
Hanoi
Exchange Telegraph
Paris
House Votes $50 Army Pay Boost Amid War Budget Clash
The House approved a $50 base monthly pay for privates and apprentice seamen, plus $54 for first class privates and second class seamen, amid an emergency measure expiring 12 months after the war. The plan, backed 331 to 28 and 356 to 1 on final passage, awaits Senate action in a fight over wartime pay costs and postwar bonuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
House Military Committee
Jone
Rep
Disney
D-Okla
Vinson
D-Ga
Congress
Rankin
Dmiss
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Public Health Service
Nursing Service
U S Moves to Revoke Citizenship of Bund Members
Federal denaturalization actions filed in Trenton target seven native Germans linked to the German American Bund including August Klapprott of Camp Nordland Andover and Alfredo Borlosa of Paterson Others named are Walt Ham Dreyer Matthias Kohler Friedrich Savile Arno Friedrich Richard Schiele and Rudolph Dawith The government cites loyalty to the Reich and disrespect for U S institutions with defendants given 60 days to answer and potential federal trials without juries
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Bund
August Klapprott
Camp Nordland
Andover
United States
Charles M. Phillips
Klapprott
Trenton
Alfredo Nunzio Borlosa
Paterson
Paterson State Teachers College
United States of America
Walt Ham Dreyer
Matthias Kohler
Irvington
Friedrich Savile Maplewood
Arno Friedrich
West Orange
Richard Schiele
Union
Rudolph Dawith
Paterson E. E Conroy
Newsork
New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Roosevelt Seeks Extra Sugar for Canning Season
Mrs Roosevelt pressed price administrator Leon Henderson in Boston for more sugar to aid fruit and vegetable canning as rhubarb and strawberries come in. She plans to shuttle between Hyde Park and Poughkeepsie to obtain supplies and drive guests to a road raid station, noting her tea uses no sugar but guests drink three to four lumps.
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Boston
INS
Leon Henderson
Franklin D Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
White House
New York City
N. Y
Poughkeepsie
Roadraid Station
General Committee Named for Airport Bond Issue Drive
Karl Blaise, chairman, named a general committee to direct the campaign for a favorable vote on the $325,000 airport bond issue due June 1. The group includes civic leaders from business and patriotic groups and aims for a 60 percent yes vote to authorize land purchase for the airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Blaise
Blaise
Business Men and Citizens
John Beck
Young Men's Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Bjelland
Inter-service Club Council
Robert Graves
Allied Industrial League
Henry Haegg
Merle Harris
Fuel Oil Restrictions Lifted in New Homes Policy
The War Production Board approved excluding 93 counties from the eastern seaboard rationing area and ordered gasoline and fuel oil deliveries cut 50 percent below last year in Oregon and Washington. It also restricted fuel oil deliveries in 15 midwestern states including Iowa and banned deliveries for equipment installed after June 15, while exempting homes already heated by oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
Seaboard
Oregon
Iowa
UN vows quick retaliation to German gas offensive
Major General William N. Porter, head of the U S chemical warfare service, warned Wednesday that any poison gas attack by Germany would prompt swift and devastating retaliation by the United Nations forces in World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
INL
Germany
United Nations
William N. Porter
United States Chemical Warfare Service
Police seize two dice games at Cedar Rounds cigar store
Jack Young operator of a Cedar Rounds cigar store at Second avenue and Third street SE faced charges of keeping a gambling house after detectives raided Tuesday evening. They seized two devices a Seven Grand slot and a California layout trade stimulator offering double or nothing with dice and a felt table. Young was charged in district court Wednesday afternoon by County Attorney William W Crissman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Young
Cimar
Second Avenue
Third Street SE
Palice
Young
California
Younge1 District Court
William W. Crissman
Dirty Weather Forecast for Cedar Rapids and Vicinity
A cold front brings showers and thunder squalls this afternoon and tonight with rain Thursday morning. Much colder tonight and Thursday forenoon with strong winds. Cedar Rapids recorded 79 degrees around 2:30 pm Tuesday, 76 at 5:30 pm, while Wednesday’s high reached 65 by dawn after a 67 reading at midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Tornadoes Kill Five in Norfolk Nebraska
Tornadoes ripped through northeast Nebraska Tuesday night killing five people and injuring several. Farm property suffered thousands of dollars in damage as the region faced extensive destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Neb
Nebraska
RFC Power to Help Out Businesses Approved in Senate
Senate committee approved a measure to boost the Reconstruction Finance Corporation borrowing power by 5 billion dollars and empower subsidy payments to support production and price stabilization. The plan allows purchasing and selling to offset higher costs, enabling losses to be taken to spread relief nationwide and prevent price spikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
Senate
Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Agence
Wagner D-N Yoo
Law
Al-Er
Wagner
REC
Laval and Petain Spark Grave War Question
An official communique in Washington reports Laval and Petain raising a grave wartime question. The United States demands clarify implications of France shifting positions in the Caribbean crisis as Petro n bip remains absent in a hurried return from vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prerre Latal
Washington
Wedne Das
Mart Nique
Frances Pis Esstane
Sherouah
Mishal Petain
Pope calls rulers to seek peace based on justice
Vatican broadcast reports Pope Tous urged leaders of nations to pursue a just peace for the world’s future. He said no specific offer, noting it may not be accepted under current circumstances, but stressed peace grounded in justice is essential despite unmet ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San
B. D. Silliman
Linn County
Silliman
Department of Justice
Vatican City
Vatican
New York
Tous Wednesdas
Army sergeant rescues nine from crashing airliner
Miles City Montana AP reports sergeant Carl Dinius smashed through a cabin window and opened a jammed door to release nine passengers and a stewardess from a Northwest Airlines transport that overshot Miles City Airport. Three pilots died. Lieut Alfred Allen helped from inside. Captain Eugene Shank Capt Karl Martin and Officer Donald Nyvgren among the deceased.
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Miles City
Mont
Carl Dinius
Northwest Airlines
Dinius
Alfred Allen
Cottage Grove
Ore
Savannah
S. A. Dinius
Milesity
Express
Eugene Shank
Minneapolis
Donald H Nyvgren
Karl R. Martin
Seattle
Northwest
Patrick J. Goggin, Jr
Martin
St. Paul
B. B. Brown
Sequim
Wash
Rosecrans
Germans claim breakthrough at Kerch in Crimea battle
Adolf Hitler's forces say the Kerch front near the Isthmus of Kerch is decided with Russians overrun and 40,000 prisoners taken. Dispatches counter that no substantial gains occurred overnight, while Axis reports paint a widening battle with heavy air and ground combat across the Kerch peninsula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Hitler
Kerch
Crimea
Caucasus
DNB
Berhn Iadin
Hotaf
Naz Vwieters
Germain O
Kosepe
Balkans
Ryone
Seaeech Sc
Rumanan
Gulf of Feodosiya
Ojuspete
Gulf of Arabat
Sea of Azov
ACTA
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Harry Boyd
House of Representatives
Cedar Rapids News
AP Dispatches
U.S
Henderson
Eleanor
U. N
Cedar Rounds News
By Jonn W Henderson
Laval
Pope
Reds
Associated Press
Red Army
Sereneas
Neei
Paul Mallon Teneas
Marion Aeenree
Serene
Henry McLemore
Walter Winchell
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