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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1941
Page
10
In a Q and A format, Albert E Wiggam discusses tomboy girls noting they are more feminine and unlikely to be perverse. He cites Dr Knight and Prof Huntington on gender behavior and seasonal mood, urging steady effort after early success and suggesting practical inventions in spring or fall.
Dear Miss Manners counsels two reader dilemmas about trust and honesty in dating. The first urges clear boundaries for free partners during separations, while the second advises immediately confessing a love mismatch to avoid hurting the other person.
Paul Mallon reports that Morgenthau faces political limits while Henderson pushes a steep up to 100 percent rise in excise taxes on luxuries, threatening higher costs for gasoline, cigarettes, liquor, cars, and many daily goods. New Deal economists frame this as a necessary wartime price control, with only a one third corporate tax hike expected to avoid price increases.
Discussion favors source taxes or forced savings to fund the war and keep income from entering the buying market. Proposals mention payroll taxes of 10 to 20 percent or payroll seizure, with sales taxes rejected by the Roosevelt administration except on luxuries. The aim is to finance the war without boosting consumer demand.
Mrs. Gladys Faulkner learned her son was missing at sea after a German blitz bomb struck her Plymouth home. A telegram later told her husband was killed by enemy action at sea, delivered amid the wreckage on Wednesday.
Donald Switzer injured after a truck crash on Hinkley avenue near Sixteenth street. Mount Mercy College gains full accreditation status from state educators. Coe College Cosmos win in National Scholastic Press contest. Frank Hale and daughter Nina suffer injuries in a motorcycle collision at Favenue and Ellis boulevard. Grace L. Watson travels to Minneapolis for a recital at Linden Hills Church.
The clumsy OCR fragment mentions Mrs A T Shanklin injured in an unusual car incident while on a hill with her son. It also notes a speech by O R C at the Madison County Historical Society annual meeting in Winterset on April 26 and reports the death of A L Starbuck in Watseka Illinois when a train struck his automobile.
Military rule took effect today in Muscatine under an order from governing authorities. Local leadership activated martial governance and set new regulations for security, movement, and civilian compliance across the city.
Roosevelt Junior High to present its annual concert Friday evening at 7 30 in the high school auditorium Miss Margaret Porter directs vocal music and William Vesely conducts instrumental numbers Admission is 10 cents The program includes Neapolitan Boat Song The Hopak Fair Maid of Perth Mignonette and other selections by the 8A Chorus and various soloists
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