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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1942
Page
3
The attention centers on federal plans for nationwide gasoline rationing and its local impact. Officials like Jeffers Henderson and OPA discuss the pace, while Cedar Rapids and the Midwest weigh longer driving norms and the need to tailor rules locally. Oil and fuel strategies remain unsettled as weather approaches.
Soviet forces push into German positions northwest of Stalingrad amid fierce street fighting as Red Star reports heavy German losses. Timoshenko’s tank forces flank attackers from north and west while artillery gains play a larger role in defense.
Advertisement notes urge selling used shotguns via Gazette Want Ads. Fifteen responses came in and Mr. E. Eggers sold his gun the first night. Includes a 12 gauge hammerless pump example and a dial number for ad placement.
The Cedar Rapids plan to open the dump at Twenty-first Street SE Monday morning draws many requests from junk dealers and collectors. Parks Commissioner Charles Kosek will fire the opening gun at 8 a.m. No removal before 8. The dump holds about 200 tons of scrap from cars and other wreckage.
The Office of Price Administration moved the fuel oil inventory date for rationing from mid October to October 1. Consumers should fill tanks to 275 gallons, note stocks on Oct 1, and obtain last year’s purchases. Coupons will cover stored and recent fuel up to 250 gallons. Midwest supply urged conversion to coal or alternative fuels.
Sen George Norris accuses the Baruch rubber committee of an inexcusable act in naming Er nest A Hauser a prejudiced chemist on the rubber study panel He warns of biased reporting and demands scrutiny as Hauser testifies next Friday Meanwhile Rep Willis moves to constrain rubber czar Jeffers with monthly progress reports and reserve disclosures
The Gazette notes scrap collection across precincts 9 12 and 15 with door knocking Monday or Tuesday. Residents should have scrap ready by 8:30 a.m. and await pickup if not contacted Monday, as some areas will be visited Tuesday.
President Roosevelt will inaugurate the nation’s war chest and community chest drives in a four network broadcast on October 5 from 9 30 to 10 pm. NBC announced. The event marks a coordinated national appeal to support war needs and domestic relief.
Lynn R. Forschee of Britt In, a radioman in the U. S. Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Saturday at Pearl Harbor Hawaii AP reports the honor to Forschee for exceptional heroism during flight missions amid wartime service.
Cedar Rapids workers will soon receive swap rides cards under a joint effort by the office of price administration the office of defense transportation the Iowa state highway traffic committee and local war transportation committee. The plan divides the city into 33 districts with maps in progress as officials study inter city and local transport needs amid fuel rationing and bus crowding.
Freshman registration at Coe college shows a slight increase over last year with 240 freshmen registered by Saturday noon. Dr. Charlies A. Anderson, college president, said a few more new students are expected. Upperclass registration is incomplete and may drop due to war conditions. about 30 transfer students have registered. Classes begin Monday morning.
Allied heavy and medium bombers attacked Tobruk in force Friday night dropping high explosives on port facilities.
Strong shocks rattled San Salvador with two tremors timed at 10 03 p m and 4 37 a m Friday night and Saturday morning shaking buildings and raising alarms across the city.
The Gazette begins daily serialization of The Raft on Page 7 Section 3 as part of a war era epic and current Book of the Month club selection.
Administration supporters push for the Barkley parity proposal in the anti inflation bill as the Senate weighs farm price relief. An AP poll shows 40 senators backing the Barkley amendment, with 34 undecided or opposed and 7 not reached.
Washington dispatch reports a British writer predicts the success of American four engine bombers in European daylight raids will reshape air warfare concepts. Colin Bednall of the London Daily Mail notes these bombers’ heavy armament and ability to bomb accurately from high altitude, with over 100 daylight sorties and substantial German losses cited.
An Associated Press dispatch from Washington reports Col Arthur Penrose among 6,000 American prisoners allegedly held by Japan in a camp at Tarlac north of Manila. It notes Penrose, later a major and former military professor at Coe College, left Cedar Rapids for active duty. Also mentioned is Lieut Gen Jonathan Wainwright among the captives.
Ernest R. Moore of Cedar Rapids, former lieutenant governor of Town, meets two sailors in Des Moines while viewing a war exhibit. He notes his son Major Robert B. Moore, missing in action since the fall of Corregidor, is in the Philippines. The sailors’ conversation reveals shared wartime ties and gives Moore renewed hope for contact.
The United States chamber of commerce estimated from a national survey that if peace arrived tomorrow Americans would immediately demand about 5 billion dollars worth of automobiles washing machines radios refrigerators home improvements and new homes and would have the money to buy them. The forecast aims to guide an up to date postwar market outlook.
London critics denounce Dr. C. F. Strong’s American History Yesterday and Today for errors. The book, praised for sales, misstates secession, Patrick Henry, Lincoln era events, and the Boston Massacre, prompting debate on how U.S. history is taught abroad.
The Mexican government seized 40 German coffee plantations in Chiapas state on Saturday. The move followed wartime measures and targets properties owned by German nationals.
Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced that gasoline rationing will begin about Nov 22 and that 27 million motorists must submit tires for federal inspection every 60 days. Defense Transportation Chief Joseph Eastman ordered a 35 mph speed limit for rubber-tired vehicles nationwide.
Washington banned speeds above 35 miles per hour starting Oct 1 under defense transportation director Joseph B. Eastman acting on Roosevelt wartime powers. He ordered state and local officials to enforce the limit immediately, warning violators will not be excused. The action follows the Baruch rubber conservation report and precedes gasoline rationing for 27 million cars in early November.
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