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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1942
Page
3
Discussions urge flexible rationing measures and speedy meat limits, noting four month prep times. readers debate public demonstrations for departing draftees, coal stockpiling, and bridge girders reassigned for war needs, with local officials clarifying policy steps.
United Press reports Japan's Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo has resigned for personal reasons, with Gen. Hideki Tojo taking over the foreign ministry. The move, the first major cabinet shift since the Pacific war began, sparks speculation over potential policy changes toward allies and Russia and whether a renewed Siberian campaign may be planned before winter.
Funeral services for William Elliott Holmes 74 a former newspaperman and Chamber of Commerce executive will be held in Evanston. Holmes died at his home Sunday and was city editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette from 1895 to 1910 later serving as secretary of chambers of commerce at Sioux City Keokuk and Wichita.
Cedar Rapids records rising humidity and heat with 70 percent humidity at 2:30 pm and a Tuesday high near 90 degrees. Forecasters expect continued warmth and moisture through Wednesday with Tuesday night and Wednesday forenoon in the hot, humid range.
United States planes attacked the Japanese airdrome at Myitkyina in northern Burma for the second day running. The bombing mission, escorted by fighters, targeted Japanese barracks a warehouse area along a railway and the railway terminal. All planes returned safely.
Major Gen. Lewis B Hershey directed state selective service directors to stagger induction calls so married men are drafted where single men are uncalled, speeding initial classifications to by Oct. 16. The aim is to balance calls across regions for 1943 amid a serious military situation and to follow dependency deferment rules for married men with families.
The government moves toward nationwide meat rationing in about four months as civilian demand outstrips supply. A food requirements committee recommendation to the War Production Board, with support from eight agencies, aims to fairly distribute meat while voluntary reductions and upcoming packers quotas shape early steps. The plan includes a voluntary campaign and a two-week WPB order limiting civilian sales of beef pork lamb veal mutton and sausage, with rationing machinery to follow.
Senate and house conferees reached a speedy accord on the absentee voting bill for armed forces. The house accepted all senate changes and dropped demands to waive poll taxes for service voters. An added point allowing service members to vote in primaries as well as general elections was accepted without change.
Miss Teddie Gerard aged 50, once a prominent American revue star whose images graced many dugouts in Flanders during World War I, died in London on Monday.
City firemen demand a group meeting to discuss the 10 percent war bond drive. Bernard Brown, Local No. 11 president, says the department needs a chance to ask questions and pledge cards were distributed, with Chief Kohout promising a later meeting.
Bombardier Sergt. Earl W. Snyder of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania died seconds after releasing bombs on a Japanese invasion fleet at Milne Bay Australia. His plane Captain John Childs led the attack. Navigator Lieut. David Hirsch survived after being wounded.
Senator Chandler disclosed after an Alaska inspection trip that the Alaska highway will be completed by December 1. He said the road is about half done and by Christmas supplies to Alaskan outposts will move over the new route.
Moscow says German forces pushed toward Stalingrad from the southwest and infiltrated its northwestern defenses while Soviet officials note German losses of at least 48 tanks and about 2,000 killed. Red Army reports cite ongoing fighting, recaptured villages south of Krasnodar, and attempts to raid the Caucasus coast as heat and supply difficulties mount.
Belfast authorities ordered U S troops off streets as tension rises over IRA plans for attacks on American and British forces. Police reported a large cache of weapons, detained 17 suspects, and said an IRA manifesto denounced U S presence. The planned execution of Thomas Williams looms Wednesday amid tightened security.
Washington AP describes increases in minimum prices for bituminous coal set to take effect October 1. The bituminous coal division, led by acting director Dan H. Wheeler, notes the hikes reflect higher industry costs and are not expected to raise retail coal prices.
A U S Army court convicted Private William E Davis of Cleburne Texas of manslaughter in the fatal knifing of a British soldier in a dance hall brawl and sentenced him to eight years imprisonment.
publicity chair Henry Plude reports the first eight thousand dollar war bond admissions sold for the September 8 Wake Island premiere in the Cedar Rapids town theater. The drive seeks 150000 in bonds with Bond denominations from 25 to 1000, and tickets available at theaters banks and local stores. Minute Man Robert Thompson markets bonds by phone and in person through September.
Nazi forces push an eight mile advance into desert minefields south of El Alamein as Rommel opens a new push toward the Nile. Allied land and air units join American crews in North Africa while British and Italian divisions form the Axis spearhead.
Seven federal agencies launched an emergency plan Tuesday to curb steep copper labor shortages that cut production by over 5,000 tons monthly. Officials cited low wages poor housing and harsh working conditions driving miners to better jobs, worsening shortages as treasury silver not yet substituted for critical war needs.
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