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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1943
Page
2
NADINE SUBOTNIK notes ARY MARTIN and William Gargan star in The Playhouse adaptation of Jerome Kern musical Roberta for Friday 8 p.m. over CBS and WMT with Ray Bloch and his orchestra. Roberta features tunes Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and The Touch of Your Hand.
Hour by hour listings show WGN KXEL WMT and WHO programs from 6 pm to 10:30 pm including Between Lines Easy Aces Mr Keen News Navy Meet Parkers and World War II era broadcasts. Morning Saturday May 15 1943 schedule continues with News Kiddies Revue Hollywood Star and Baseball coverage.
Police Sergt James McGuire lunged on a two foot ledge thirteen floors above Fifth Avenue to halt Bernard Smith a 19 year old Navy fireman third class of Belmar New Jersey who threatened to jump onlookers cheered as McGuire dragged him to safety on the roof at Bellevue Hospital the sailor said a four month sea duty left him unnerved after arriving in New York last weekend and taking 24 hour leave.
Washington AP reports Secretary of War Stimson announced a new joint army navy staff institution to train senior officers from the army navy and marine corps in coordinated land sea and air operations. The program begins June 1 with one third air officers and Stimson urged recruiting 500000 more workers.
Washington report says the House Naval Affairs Committee criticized the Office of Secretary of the Navy for failing to implement a stronger deferment policy for civilian personnel. The subcommittee led by Rep. Johnson found abundance of abuses and many unwarranted deferments used for technical staff in clerical roles. Knox expressed surprise as investigators noted at least 207 deferments of three months or more subject to criticism. Bard later said the department adopted the committee's recommendations.
Rep. Harry Lane Englebright of California's Second District and Republican whip, in Congress since 1926, died Thursday of heart disease at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
Reuters dispatch from Stockholm reports a Wednesday Berlin riot outside the army information office as thousands of women and elderly men sought details on relatives in the Africa corps. SS troops intervened and halted the disturbance without gunfire.
The Navy Department released the names of 1,044 U S Navy personnel held as prisoners of war by Japan. Eastern Iowans listed include LaVerne A. Buchenau Grinnell Edwin H Jahn Clinton Max M McCoy Wadena William L Ritter Davenport Keith C Turner Waterloo Bruce E Watson Muscatine.
Washington reports price ceilings established on canned peaches pears pineapples fruit cocktail corn beans peas tomatoes will apply in 130 Day centers starting next week by Monday. A similar ceiling will come a week later for coffee milk bread butter eggs poultry flour and other staples.
DETROIT AP reports evidence presented to the American Psychiatric Association suggesting Adolf Hitler endured hysterical blindness for six months after the war. The condition involves real blindness caused by nervous strain rather than eye impairment. A theft was committed by Victor A. of Loyola University School of Medicine in Chicago.
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr said he will ask Congress to raise 16 billion dollars in new taxes once the pay as you go issue is settled. He added treasury recommendations for new taxes will be laid before Congress soon, regardless of the revenue yield.
The president's revised budget calls for higher taxes to fund wartime needs. Estimates show the Ruml plan could add about 2 billion dollars to 1944 revenue versus current tax law. The secretary advocates raising taxes by 16 billion dollars to ease the burden on future generations and finance half the war now.
President Roosevelt asked Congress for 400 million dollars to fund war housing. He told Vice President Wallace and Secretary Burn, stating housing for 1,100,000 workers moving to war centers is essential for the fiscal year starting July 1.
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