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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1942
Page
5
The Linn committee for the Junior Red Cross is named and will meet October 12 to plan the enrollment campaign across the Linn chapter. The national drive runs November 1 to 15 with zone leaders and teacher sponsors to recruit pupils. American Junior Red Cross enrollment will run during that period, though the next adult roll call is not until March 1943.
10 20 30 Years Ago Mr and Mrs H E Spangler travel to Washington DC to be weekend guests of President and Mrs Hoover at their Rapidan summer home. Mayor Stepanek and council consider a new city police station and jail as a cost saving measure for the coming year.
Dr. Joseph Fort Newton of Cedar Rapids named one of twelve greatest living Iowans by local residents. Frank Machovsyk arrives to teach at the Sokols society after serving as a culture instructor in Czechoslovakia. First Reformed church on Eighth avenue and L street west is dedicated with Rev. S E Bremer delivering the sermon. Congressman James W. Good and Major Frank G. Clarke speak at a flag raising ceremony at Central Park church.
In Cleveland authorities chase a bold thief who broke into the central police station locker and stole a patrolman's trousers. The caper drew headlines as investigators review security lapses and pursue leads.
Powerful machinery turns four million tons of scrap monthly into weapons and equipment. Citizens are urged to ensure the mills keep producing guns tanks and other war materiel to win the war.
George Grimes surveys Nebraska’s wartime scrap drive as farmers hauled old steam engines and farm junk to mills. The 68 000 tons collected over three weeks fueled open hearth furnaces, with WPB guidance and broad civic support from men’s luncheons to women’s patriotic groups.
Allied air and sea forces report a Japanese raid in New Guinea failed to damage or injure targets as 27 medium bombers escorted by fighters attacked near Port Moresby and Owen Stanley range. MacArthur confirms ongoing U N offensive toward Solomon Islands while battles along the northern New Guinea line continue with bridge and installation damage.
London AP reports an unidentified American officer says women play a major role in a fifth column aiding the IRA to disrupt American troops in Northern Ireland. The group is funded by Germany and operates largely via crossborder activists from Ireland. The lecturer asserts English Irish politics are exploited by IRA agents to sow British American tensions.
The piece urges Nebraskans to salvage metal and scrap from homes and basements to support the national salvage program. It stresses that junk items like bedsprings and old machinery become weapons and munitions, and that every citizen behind the front can aid the war by contributing scrap.
In Aurora Illinois real estate man Brackett and two youths Dubay and Smith foiled a kidnaping attempt at the O'Connell farm. The assailants seized firearms tied the wife and threatened the family while planning to kidnap Mary Catherine. A gun went off and a youth fled. Smith was wounded and hospitalized. Dubay, a Maine fugitive, was later questioned.
Washington AP Leon Henderson announces a 35 retailer committee to meet Sept 28 29 to study eliminating surplus retail services curtailing others during the war. The group will consider reducing deliveries and limiting lay away plans held goods on small deposits for future delivery.
The Japanese garrison in western Yunnan has expanded to a full division and opened a minor offensive operation, as reported from Chungking. The move signals intensified Japanese military activity in western China during the campaign.
A military spokesman announced an attack on the Chinese-held town of Chenkang on Tuesday. The report notes the area lies south of Paoshan and near the Seeeee point where the Salween River enters China from Burma, along the proposed Yunnan Burma railway route.
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