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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1942
Page
4
The piece criticizes a proposed government stockpile of excess private tires concentrated in 160 cities including Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. It questions storage, return logistics, and back-and-forth shipping while urging clearer policy amid wartime draft debates and manpower uncertainty.
Soviet and German forces battled for Stalingrad as Germans reportedly breached to the Volga and occupied parts of the city including the Dzerzhinsky tractor factory. Red Army fighters fought back in dawn retreats and renewed counterattacks amid heavy losses on both sides.
President Roosevelt refused to say if Wendell Willkie's wartime tour would alter U S military strategy. He called Willkie's report exceedingly successful and interesting but declined to disclose military secrets, saying a controversy could not be developed for anyone.
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr arrived in Britain, first US cabinet member here since the war began. He conferred with Ambassador John Winant at a London hotel and was expected to discuss reciprocal aid under lend-lease with British officials as part of Washington’s push for Allied war effort liaison.
The final precinct 13 in Cedar Rapids will receive scrap metal collection trucks on Saturday. The Harper McIntire plant area from Fifth to Eleventh avenues SE and river to Mt. Vernon Avenue is covered. Call civilian defense at 3 2601 if missed.
German authorities reportedly shot 25 Luxembourg protesters who opposed the Nazi annexation, with details reaching London on Friday. The incident underscores the crackdown on resistance as the occupation unfolds.
Flight Lieutenant A J Andrews of the RAF directed a damaged Flying Fortress toward a safe landing in England after German fighters crippled two engines and damaged radio gear. The crew, including nine Americans, escaped with Schmeyer injured from a heat mishap. the mission targeted Lille last Friday.
Word from New Delhi says General Archibald Wavell, the British commander in chief in India, returned from the northwest frontier with indications of a possible Allied plan to retake Burma from Japan. The communique notes Wavell crossed the Burma frontier during the visit, while forces reportedly withdrew into India after the spring campaign.
U S bomber and fighter planes attacked Lashio in Japanese occupied Burma and hit an air drome in northern Burma. Fires spreading from Lashio’s warehouse area were visible for miles. Seven hits damaged the airdrome intersections. No American planes were lost. A separate Sept 27 raid on Mengshih in Yunnan China destroyed 30 Japanese trucks and killed 400 Japanese troops.
In Greene Square the old cannon was hauled away after 36 hours of salvage efforts. Six workers and three trucks coordinated a crane aided move to the junkyard where the 15.63 ton relic was weighed at 30 660 pounds for break up into war materials.
Alaska defense command reports American troops have taken over another island in the Andreanof group amid a routine operation. A Japanese plane dropped two bombs but they fell wide, causing no casualties or resistance during the landing.
Army long range bombers pounded Kiska in two raids dropping six tons of demolition bombs on the camp and incendiaries to start fires. One aircraft was lost. Liberators escorted by Lightning fighters attacked the camp area and waterfront, destroying three enemy seaplanes.
Washington reports expanding the Office of Price Administration to 90 district offices in cities of 100000 population and 25 more in 75000 or more. Officials say the expansion will tighten supervision of 2,000,000 business establishments under price control as part of wartime anti inflation efforts.
London AP reports the admiralty says two British submarines sank three Axis supply ships and damaged four others in Qaetais supply attacks.
Senate military committee recommended drafting 18 and 19 year olds and set a Monday floor vote while a $6 billion naval bill takes priority. House committee approved similar draft provisions with student deferments and broad enlistment rules, plus amendments on combat service timing and criteria for felony disqualification.
Six Allied governments in exile in London announced they have indicted thousands of Axis and Axis-associated men as world enemies. They plan to try them for their lives before an international court as soon as the war ends. Norway Yugoslavia Holland Belgium Czechoslovakia Poland are the six powers involved.
President Roosevelt told Congress actual war expenditures for the 1943 fiscal year would total 74 billion dollars in cash outlays for munitions and war costs. The total for all purposes including nonwar needs would reach about 80.04 billion, with 4.19 billion for normal government activities.
A joint senate house conference committee approved retaining the 5 percent Victory tax on individual income over 624 dollars per year in the new revenue bill. They also removed the 4 percent withholding tax and set dependent credits at 350 dollars, while excluding certain public official fees from withholding.
Kansas City AP reports Dr. Andrew R. M. Gordon of Los Angeles was elected president of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons at today’s meeting.
London reports hundreds of British bombers struck the Rhineland on Thursday night with in Cologne and other targets receiving heavy blasts. Losses totaled 18 RAF planes. Germany claims 21 downed. Early dispatches note intensified damage to key factories amid ongoing air war.
The Japanese have landed large troops with artillery on Guadalcanal and shell American positions. A near Shortland Island concentration of enemy ships was spotted, with Japanese warships shelling on Guadalcanal. Allied air and naval strikes damaged enemy planes and ships while U.S. dive bombers attacked transports approaching the island.
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