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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1942
Page
7
The column notes a tough Labor Day speech ahead as the President may issue drastic wage and price controls to shore up the war effort. It argues such moves require safeguards for workers and business and warns tax and property changes affect Cedar Rapids residents.
Sen Clyde L Herring said the war department appears set to place the next army air base in Cedar Rapids Iowa with plans announced to take over Des Moines airport as a base and ongoing consideration by the inter department board continues. Congressional aide W S Jacobsen noted Cedar Rapids efforts to secure the base and denied shifts to Beloit or Rockford.
Cuban police announced the arrest of a German spy described as one of the most important captured in America. Maj. Gen. Manuel Benitez said the youth confessed to extensive espionage, including radio and coded ship movement information. Five Honduran crewmen detained for inquiry after their food cargo was seized by a German submarine.
A Chicago draft board classified Alexander A. Schude, 43, as 1 A after a clerical error. Schude has been blind for 13 years and the board allowed the reclassification to stand on Saturday night.
War Production Board urges no coal restrictions and calls for stocking coal now. Railroads expected busier by October with war materials. Wise homeowners urged to check fuel and heating needs and read the Want Ads Fuel and Heating Buyer's Guide for buying locations.
Allied bombers destroyed multiple landing barges and boats at Buna in three raids. The communique notes ongoing cleanup of Japanese remnants in Milne Bay and continued air attacks on Buna air field and nearby targets.
A Mexican military source said a steady stream of American war materials is flowing into Mexico City, strengthening the army and air force as the nation readies for large scale induction of civilians into the armed forces.
Grinnell College will host an Army officer candidate school unit starting Oct 1 with 750 students and 100 instructors. Major W D DeHaven will be acting commandant as 250 men report Oct 1 and opening exercises occur Oct 6.
The Cedar Rapids thermometer held at 74 degrees from 1:30 PM to 7:00 PM. Humidity stood at 60 percent in the evening as recorded by the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
A Baruch Committee report to President Roosevelt calls for a 35 mph national speed limit five tires per car one car per family and government purchase of excess tires and autos. It also pushes ramped synthetic rubber production from farm forest sources and conversion of oil refineries to produce butadiene to boost supply without gasoline rationing.
Eugene Kovarik 23 of Cedar Rapids was part of the crew of the auxiliary transport Calhoun reported sunk by enemy action in the South Pacific. He enlisted in October 1940 and has not been home for a year. His family awaits full reports and next of kin notification.
The U S destroyer Blue and the auxiliary transport Calhoun were sunk in the South Pacific by enemy action within the past two weeks, Navy announces. Casualties were few and next of kin will be notified as reports arrive. Blue named for Rear Admiral Victor Blue and Calhoun for Rear Admiral Edmund R Calhoun.
Soviet high command reported defenders held Stalingrad against fierce German assaults northwest and southwest as 600 000 enemy troops and 1 000 dive bombers pressed. Front lines also said Germans were driven back toward Novorossisk and Mozdok with heavy losses.
Cedar Rapids reports strong progress in bond sales for the Wake Island premiere with $140000 raised so far, toward a $150000 goal. Bonds range from 25 to 1000 dollars, with 1000 dollar seats nearly sold out and a bottleneck on 500 dollar tickets to be resolved before next week. Screen stars Edward Arnold and Frances Dee will attend as part of the Stars Over America program.
President Roosevelt signaled a sweeping anti inflation plan to be announced Monday, possibly creating an economic administration and executive power to limit wages and farm prices. Brown says Congress may need to act by Oct 1 or use second war powers authority. The Labor Day statement urges support despite sacrifices for freedom.
Federal agents led by J Edgar Hoover seized William Bernard Wernecke a famed German American band leader during a raid on a Lake county farm. He faced charges under the selective service law for drills and rifle group links on his property and for possessing a large arsenal of firearms explosives and dynamite. Chicago attorney Newell McCartney was also arrested in a separate action on conspiracy to interfere with military and naval operations.
Juneau Alaska AP Gov Ernest Gruening urged relaxing news dispatch censorship to Alaska saying the current policy harms morale and should be eased to improve information flow to the territory.
The Gazette surveyed 11 Cedar Rapids residents to gauge holiday plans during wartime. Most stay home, some skip trips for rest or war-bond purchases, while a few pursue local activities like gun clubs or frog hunting across Curtis bridge.
Chief Clerk F A Summers of draft board No 4 asked Carnegie Illinois Steel to provide the names of about 100 workers on strike at the South Charleston plant. Navy department and United Steel Workers have sought to halt the spreading walkout as 100+ workers left the de seaming department to press for higher wages at the plant employing about 2,600 in war production.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette launches Out on the Acres a farm page feature by Ray Anderson. Eastern Iowa farmers share thoughts on war elections and the corn crop in a series of personal interviews designed to inform and engage readers.
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