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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1942
Page
19
Editorial blasts Congress for inaction on price and wage controls and manpower shortages. It criticizes executive limits, cites War Manpower Commission and Somervell, McNutt delays, and urges immediate farm labor and civilian mobilization while noting shipyard idle time. Also notes Cedar Rapids scrap drive kickoff and volunteer call.
Allied forces press the attack across the Solomons, Aleutians, and New Guinea with heavy air and sea actions. Navy reports 49 Japanese planes destroyed and ships damaged while U S forces push toward Guadalcanal and Kiska as top commanders meet at sea.
Australian troops under Lieut. Gen. Sir Sidney Powell push an infiltrating flank attack on the Ioribaiwa ridge in New Guinea. Air and naval support aid the drive toward Port Moresby as Japanese defenses are felled through bombardment and ground patrols.
Three Cedar Rapids voting precincts the ninth twelfth and fifteenth had provided about 20 tons of scrap for the scrap metal drive by Tuesday noon Elmer Wickham salvage committee chairman reported The total covered scrap collected by Cedar Rapids Bottling Company trucks and drivers and scrap taken personally to the lot at Third avenue and Sixth street SE
Residents of Cedar Rapids nineteenth precinct will have scrap metal collected on Wednesday. City Lines Bus company drivers in a Hearn-Stevenson Motor company truck will pick up the scrap between Third Avenue SW and E Avenue NW from the river to the North Western railroad tracks.
Wickham noted scrap sold directly to junk dealers wasn’t included in the announced amount. He forecast afternoon yield from three precincts would exceed the morning haul. Drivers spent much of morning on callbacks with house to house canvass set after noon. two more firms joined to collect scrap.
The government ordered a sales freeze on six types of men's rubber boots and rubber work shoes effective at midnight, lasting until Oct. 5 when a certificate rationing program begins. Footwear will be sold only to workers in essential war jobs or public health and safety.
Rubber Administrator W M Jeffers says the nation may rely on synthetic rubber to meet critical needs after visits to all plants. Union Pacific President praising progress at the Dunbar plant near Charleston but not yet certain about the broader program.
The United States embassy said 1 400 additional Americans have been interned by German authorities in occupied France. The total in German hands reached 1 780, with arrests starting Thursday and continuing with scattered detentions daily.
Cedar Rapids businessman Roy Gaddis 36 president of Highway Equipment Company suffered abdominal and leg gunshot wounds in a pheasant hunting accident near Huron South Dakota He rested in a Huron hospital while doctors indicated no internal injuries and his wife accompanied him.
Excerpts from the diary of Vern Haugland detail the first 32 days of his missing ordeal in New Guinea. He and co pilot James Michael parachuted into hostile terrain and endured hunger, fever, and treacherous rivers as they fought to survive.
The European corn borer has been found in 19 eastern Iowa counties including Clinton, Scott, Johnson, Muscatine, and Des Moines. Discovery began August 10 in Clinton, with state officials planning a conference on control measures and stressing cooperation with Iowa State College to minimize losses and halt spread.
Washington reports that OPA amended fuel rules to grant preferred mileage for cars carrying students teachers and school employees to and from school. Cars must regularly convey four or more such people and alternative transport must be shown inadequate. The agency also allowed recapped tire allotments for essential labor management or government representatives in war factory disputes.
Cedar Rapids officials announce end of leniency on speed limits. Police Chief Tom Condon and Capt. Gordon Hughes said signs mean the limit. City speed limits are 20 mph in business and school zones, 25 mph in residential areas. Court support stressed. fines rise with excess: up to 30 mph $10, 40–50 mph $25, over 50 mph $100.
Soviet and German reports depict intensified fighting around Stalingrad as Marshal Timoshenko’s troops widen the counter assault along a 40 mile front between the Don and Volga. Soviet bulletins claim gains in the northwest sector and renewed pressure on German positions, while street fighting rages inside the city.
London report says the British Ministry of Information rejects German assertions that three Allied troop transports were sunk in the Atlantic. The communique calls the German claims untrue.
Wendell Willkie arrives in Chungking as Roosevelt’s special representative after a flight from Sinkiang during wartime theater tours.
Wartime scarcities have made necessary many changes in furniture design. But today's expedients may become tomorrow's accepted practices. Read about the new trends in next Sunday's Cedar Rapids Gazette which, in observance of National Furniture week, Oct. 5 through 10, will feature pictures and special stories on current interests in interior decoration.
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