South to Fight Again But It Only Practice
A long simulated war game unfolds as Second Army conducts Arkansas and Louisiana maneuvers with Kotnik Alma t factions. The piece details a mock crisis across Little Rock, Memphis, and New Orleans with units from Camp Forrest Camp Robinson Fort Knox Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Riley shaping a tense staged conflict.
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Memphis, Tenn
the Gazette Special Service
Little Rock
Arkansas River
High Command
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Kentucky
Houston
Tex
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Birmingham
Ala
Almat
Mississippi River
Kotnik
Ukraine
Ouachita Valley
New Orleans
Second Army
Outachita River
Fort Riley Cavalry
Fort Knox Armored Division
Fort Leonard Wood
Walter Krueger
Lear
Imen
Krueger
Arkansas Line
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Camp Robinson
Ark
Fort McClellan
Oklahoma-Texas
1St Armored
Fort Knox, Ky
Mac
2Nd Cavalry Division
Fort Riley
Kan
Hopkins Departs From Red Capital
Harry Hopkins personal envoy of President Roosevelt leaves Moscow after a series of talks with Russian leaders. He is seen off by Deputy Foreign Commissar S. A. Lozovsky and officials, with U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt and British Ambassador Cripps present along with the British military mission. Hopkins travels to undisclosed destination following the conference in the Soviet capital.
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Moscow
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Joseph T. McNarney
United States Army
Hopkins
London
S. A. Lozovsky
Foreign Commissariat
U. S
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Sir Stafford Cripps
Russia
Headlamp Test Drive Says Lights Must Be OK or Fixed
A voluntary test in one westbound lane checks headlamp alignment every 60 seconds. Drivers receive a card indicating OK or needed repairs, with windshield stickers for those passing. The Hanford post American Legion funds the stickers. Tests run Tuesday and Wednesday nights. from Thursday on, more streets and country roads are tested and tickets issued.
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Hanford Post
American Legion
Newspapers and Radio Stations Exempt From Wires Tax
Washington AP reports that newspapers and radio stations remain exempt from excise taxes on leased wires and long distance calls when used for news collection or dissemination. The bill also imposes a 5 percent tax on local telephone bills and 5 cents per 50 cents of call charges over 24 cents for other telegraph cable or radio messages.
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Washington
Congressional
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Court laughs last as man pays fine in pennies
In Mt. Vernon Illinois a speeding defendant grinned and paid his fine with a pile of pennies. Police Magistrate A D Webb ordered him to count the coins totaling a cop pers 740.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Vernon, Ill
A. D. Webb
Center Junction Man Hay Passes at 89
Loucius Hay of Center Junction died at 7 am Saturday. He was born July 19, 1852 near Anamosa and spent his life in Jones county. His wife and two children had predeceased him.
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Center Junction
Loucius
Hay
Anamosa
Jones County
Saturday Marks High and Low Across Cities
A garbled listing of city names and scores appears to summarize Saturday and Friday night marks. The fragment references Cedar Rapids Kansas City New York New Orleans Omaha Chicago Los Angeles Memphis and Minneapolis among others with partial scores and odd annotations.
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Cedar Rapids
Meines
Opinions From Cedar Rapids Figures On Sports And City Progress
A compiled Q A reflects personal views on parking lots, reading, films, inflation and land values, foreign policy, language education, and football. The interview covers Minnesota and Michigan prospects, Iowa spring form, Hutchins theories, Big Ten toughness, and chamber of commerce expansion for Cedar Rapids community betterment.
Untitled financial note from 10.08 period
A terse ledger entry records a 5.00 transaction with Oy and a total of 2996.73 dollars noted. The fragment implies routine accounting without context to entities beyond a company or person labeled Oy.
Des Moines FBI arrests Ernest Fagan in race horse betting case
Ernest J. Fagan, 41, arrested in Des Moines on a federal charge for interstate money transport obtained by fraud. Identified as partner of Davis Pines, who received a four year sentence. Victims listed include C. E Werden of Hartley, Ole Allison of Algona, and George Rankin of Charles City, with totals near 4.5k to 5k. Fagan also linked to an $11,000 New Orleans betting case from 1939.
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DES Moines
Ernest J. Fagan
J. L. Dalton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fagan
Davis Pines
Hosiery Rush Spreads Across the Nation in Silk Stockings
Memphis voices urge wearing cotton stockings for practicality and patriotism as silk stock sales surge nationwide. In Omaha Detroit and Texas stores report brisk silk hose demand with shortages expected. Columbus Ohio sees skyrocketing sales while some markets note rising cotton usage and bare legs rejection.
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Memphis
Omaha
Detroit
Texas
Jane
Austin
Dallas
Amarillo
Columbus
Ohio State University
St. Louis
Kansas City
Des Moines
Indianapolis
Flying Fortresses Bomb Kiel Docks In Long Range Raid
An American-made flying fortress of the Royal Air Force conducted a bold long distance daylight reconnaissance and bombed Kiel docks. RAF fighters claimed two German bombers shot down off England as Luftwaffe night thrusts began. The air ministry reported a 2000-ton German tanker was torpedoed by a British Beaufort.
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London
INS
Royal Air Force
Kiel
Baltic
Kiel Canal
England
English Channel
Air Ministry
Silk Hosiery Shortage Sparks Panic and Adaptation
Cedar Rapids residents brace for wartime silk embargo affecting 90 percent of domestic hosiery. Stores report plummeting stocks and frantic buying. customers pivot to cotton hose, anklets, nylons, and rayon. Parachute demand may curb nylon supply as factories shift.
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du Pont
du Ponts
Cedar Rapids
Ernest W. Anderson
Eighteenth Street
Raymond Roth
Second Street
Heart Attack Fatal For Sam Steele 61
Sam Steele aged 61 died of a heart attack in the city jail shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday per county coroner Dr. R. E. Munden. Police said Steele wandered downtown, rode with a friend who did not know his address, then climbed from the car and lay on a parking lot. He was taken to the station at 7:15 p.m. A former railroad crossing flag man, his body was sent to Brosh funeral home. Survivors include a sister Edith Miller, brother Charles, and niece Mrs Ralph Cornthwaite.
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Sam Steele
Royal Hotel
R. E. Munden
Steele
Brosh Funeral Home
Edith Miller
Thirty-fourth Street
Charles
Mount Vernon Road
Ralph Cornthwaite
K Avenue
Deaths Zella Amanda Rude McElrath
Mrs Zella Amanda Rude McElrath widow of J J McElrath of 1745 B Avenue NE Cedar Rapids died at home after a long illness at 12 30 pm Saturday She was born December 27 1867 in Brooklyn Iowa Married to J J McElrath in 1895 at Minneapolis Surviving are two sons Clarence J McElrath of Madison Wisconsin and Harry McElrath of Sacramento California and a sister Mrs Effie
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Zella Amanda Rude McElrath
J. J. McElrath
B Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids
Brooklyn
Minneapolis
Clarence J. McElrath
Madison
Wis
Harry McElrath
Sacramento
Calif
Effie
Mrs. McElrath Rites Set in Cedar Rapids Church
Stevenson of Cedar Rapids leaves two granddaughters Mrs. Leonard Forrest of Madison and Mrs. Marvin D. Bailey of Cedar Rapids two grandsons John J and William McElrath both of Madison three great grandchildren John Suzanne Forrest and Craig Bailey and a niece Mrs Henry Bauerkemper of Rock Island. Funeral services at Turner chapel 11 a.m. Monday conducted by Rev D A Loferski burial in West Liberty cemetery friends may call at the chapel.
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D. A. Loferski
West Liberty
Edward Turner Funeral in Fairfax
Funeral services for Edward Albert Turner longtime Fairfax resident who died at his home Saturday after a brief illness will be held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Fairfax at 2 pm Monday. Interment in Fairfax Cemetery. Friends may call at the Turner chapel until noon Sunday and at the Fairfax home after 2 pm Sunday.
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Edward Albert Turner
Fairfax
Methodist Episcopal Church
Irving
Emma Arnold
Norway
Fairfax Cemetery
Turner Chapel
X-Ray Grown Tobacco Yields Two Generations in One Year
Researchers report using X rays to cultivate two generations of tobacco plants within a single year. The experiment demonstrates accelerated growth cycles and potential implications for breeding programs and crop production.
Top Salaries Across Industries Revealed In Treasury List
The treasury report lists top earners across radio film, publishing, and industry.Notable salaries include Errol Flynn 213333 and Carole Lombard 211111 for Warner and RKO, with GM executives Kettereing 250506 and Wilson 236584 among the industrial leaders.
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Errol Flynn
Warner Brothers
Carole Lombard
RKO Radio
Treasury
Columbia
Universal
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
General Motors Corp
Charles F. Kettereing
Albert Bradley
Charles E. Wilson
Marvin E. Coyle
Donaldson Brown
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
William M. Paley
Columbia Broadcasting System
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst Consolidated Publications
News Syndicate Company, Inc
Ilinois
R. C. Holliss
F. M. Flynn
M Annenberg
R T Wilken
L. H. Rose
W. E. MacFarelane
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer Publishing Company of
St. Louis
Lieut Dennis Stops Here On Army Transport Flight
Lieut Larry Dennis son of Mr and Mrs Louis Dennis of 1100 O avenue NW arrived at Cedar Rapids airport Saturday at 3 pm from Dayton Ohio. He rode a Douglas DC 3 Army transport plane and planned to travel to the west coast including San Francisco and Los Angeles before returning east in a week. He expects to bring his brother Robert Dennis back with him.
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Larry Dennis
Louis D. Dennis
Oavente NW
Cedar Rapids
Dayton
West Coast
Dennis
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Robert D. Dennis
Girl Attacked in Lock Haven Three Incidents In Dark
In Lock Haven Pennsylvania a third street assault in darkness left Emily Williams a 28 year old state teachers college summer student with a fractured skull. Police intensified the search for the assailant amid the weekend investigation.
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Emily Williams
State Teachers College
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Kodunkis
Zentire
Houson
Inland Waterways Commission
Almat Commission
National Assembly
Oosenay
Turkey
India
China
Far East
United States
Japan
Danzig
Germany
Warsaw
Finland
Poland
Hungary
Rumania
Novgorod
Zhitomir
Soviet
Red Capital
Ane Pelea
DIAL
Court
Saturday Evening Post
Miami
Red Grange
Minnesota
Michigan
Iowa
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Chamber of Commerce
J. D. Bever
Jos
Mekota
Nazi
Toman
Florist
By Nadine Subotnik
Alice B. Salter
Grande Avenue SE
Coe
Kenneth Babbitt
Center Point Road
Alvin W Allen
First Avenue E
Betty Jane Mahon
Third Avenue SE
E. W Faber
Avenue NE
Zella McElrath
Ny Et
Okinow
Edward Turner
Vincent Riggio
American Tobacco Co
Paul Hahn
American Tobacco
Charles F. Vincent
Paul Hahn, Jr
Amerian Tobacco
C. S. Woolman
Hales and Hunter Co
Illinois
W. B. Bell
American Cyanamid Co
W. S. Gifford
American Telesphone and Telegraph
H. F. Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corp
W. P. Chrysler
Chrysler Corp
R. T. Vanderbilt
R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc
Floyd B. Odium
Atlas Corp
Sir Douglas Alexander
Singer Manufacturing Co
Edward G. Seubert
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Edsel B. Ford
Ford Motor Co
P. E. Martin
Charles E. Sorensen
Ford
J. W. Andrews
Liggett
My«ers Tobacco Co
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National Bank of New York
Lieut
ASK Tour Grocer
Moen
First Avenue East
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