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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1942
Page
2
An Iowa editorial warns gas rationing will hit Cedar Rapids and surrounding trade areas hard. It urges local merchants to pool transportation, adjust hours and offer group incentives to keep shoppers coming and sustain wartime commerce.
Major Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told the House Military Affairs Committee that lowering the draft age to 18 could create a 7.5 million man army in 1943 without inducting married men with children. He outlined monthly calls and noted current deferments, warning of hard choices after February if 18 and 19 year olds aren’t drafted.
Announcing an earlier want ad deadline effective immediately for same day papers. The change moves closing time from noon to an afternoon slot to allow Gazette trucks traveling to out of town subscribers to meet the national speed limit and conserve rubber. Call an ad-taker to place ads for the next day.
United Press reports indications of an impending Axis move on the West African coast with Erwin Rommel back at his desert headquarters. Luftwaffe reinforcements, renewed air battles over Malta, and intensified Axis raids against Britain are noted as Rommel studies enemy positions and Berlin coordinates winter desert plans.
Cedar Rapids will launch a citywide Community War Chest in mid November by combining the 1943 Community Chest and War Fund drives. A joint committee of labor, Red Cross, Public Welfare bureau, War Appeals Coordinating committee and the Chamber of Commerce frames the plan to fund local agencies and war relief groups. The Red Cross drive will remain a separate project, with the 1942 pattern of United War Fund aid guiding allocations.
Mrs J C Warner daughter of Mr and Mrs E J Buser of 1242 Fourth Ave SE has been a Mercy hospital patient since last Saturday after a mild pneumonia attack linked to hardships endured in recent months She recently returned from Thailand where she and her husband were interned by the Japanese Visitors are not allowed but she may be able to go home early next week
In Cedar Rapids the 76-year-old cannon named the old girl faced a torch and blower in a public display. City officials and about 200 spectators watched as the weapon resisted, sparking and belching iron during an attempted demolition, marking a dramatic start to the Battle of Greene Square.
A posthumous Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williams for Private First Class Greeley Bernard Williams who died December 8 at Clark Field in the Philippines. Col. Homer H. Slaughter presented the award as Brig. Gen. E. L. Eubank was delayed in Washington. The ceremony featured a Johnson County honor roll and a large open book bearing local names.
Washington report says the House passed by an oral vote a new anti inflation measure directing the President to stabilize rents nationwide for residential and commercial property and to regulate charges by hotels and rooming houses before sending the bill to the Senate.
The eighteenth and twenty third precincts join the Scrap metal collection campaign on Friday. Householders are urged to place contributions along the curb for pickup. Precinct 18 residents vote at the city barn Seventh avenue at H street SW while Precinct 23 residents vote at Cleveland school.
Willkie after a 31,000 mile UN war fronts tour met with President Roosevelt for 90 minutes and urged that Germany cannot conquer Russia while renewing the call for a feasible second front based on allied military recommendations. He stressed unity in the United States and said his ideas on where to open the front are his own. He aims to show allies and neutrals that the nation is united in winning the war and to return to his former job.
The Gazette reports 10 heirs from five eastern Iowa farms share a $100000 estate of Henry Wefer a 76 year old St Joseph native who died October 6 in apparent poverty. Hefer family names include Alfred H Schwarzing John F Baack Emma Sandersfield Henry D Baack Hilda Hagen Conroy Dick D Baack Anna Heitschusen Shophis Folkman Ella Heitschusen and Adrina Maas. The Iowa County treasurer says Wefer owned no land at death.
In Santa Barbara California residents express anti Hitler sentiment with improvised protest items including a bucket to knock a portable oven for hotfoot roller skates for the skids and a made in Germany meat grinder.
Washington reports a major Sino Pacific clash as Japan deploys heavy ships and airpower against Guadalcanal. American forces including newly arrived army troops and planes bolster the garrison while bomber and aircraft actions claim several enemy vessels and planes in a four day prelude to a decisive Solomon Islands battle.
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