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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1941
Page
22
A reader asks about dating different boys while under her mother’s control. Miss Manners urges appealing to the mother’s fairness and security concerns rather than defying her. She advises against visiting without parental approval and suggests graceful acceptance of others to improve the situation.
Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Hitler extending compulsory labor service for women by six months and raising total female workers to 150000. About 130000 women already enrolled will continue in government and defense related duties including offices hospitals and social institutions aiding destitute families with many children.
Helsinki reports that Russia's northern forces were especially active in the last 24 hours but that all attacks were repelled. Finnish operations are said to be developing according to plan.
Solemn memorial services were held Saturday for J W T Mason, United Press war analyst, with colleagues and mourners paying tribute to his reporting career and service.
To wed today in London England Irma Bertram youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Bertram will marry Rev E Laabs of Kayville Saskatchewan Canada son of Rev and Mrs H Laabs of Mayville Wisconsin The service at Trinity Lutheran church London will be officiated by the bridegrooms father Rev E Laabs The Rev Oswald Bertram of Danbury Connecticut will deliver the sermon The couple will reside in Kayville after the wedding
Uvalde Texas former vice president John Nance Garner says American common horse sense will lift the nation from wartime threats with Japan and Germany, labor and economic troubles. He stresses public opinion will steer the U S toward eventual recovery as the future counts.
Senator George of Georgia proposed a barter system with Japan if aggression ends. He noted U.S. moves toward severing trade relations and said a return to trade might be possible despite halted silk processing and aviation fuel shipments.
London AP reports De Gaullist HQ says Syria reports show the German armistice commission barred Vichy from sending reinforcements planes or materials to defend French Indo China. Free French communique calls this proof of German collusion with Japan over Tokyo’s demands in Indo China.
Helsinki claims Britain began a blockade of Finland as early as June 14 before the Russo-Finnish conflict. The Finnish government cites a Daily Herald dispatch saying Britain used its Helsinki legation as an observation post in the aggression.
A first folio of Audubon’s Birds of America fetched $11,700 at an American book auction in 1939, signaling strong demand for rare natural history volumes.
The Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply ordered rayon yarn producers to set aside one tenth of production and stocks for hosiery and silk manufacturers to prevent unemployment and dislocation. The deadline aligns with a midnight order placing silk under government control. Federal agencies seek to reemploy silk workers as demand shifts to defense industries.
Miss Margaret Yavorsky and Charles Huston Kingsolver announce their engagement with an August 9 wedding planned in Belle Plaine. Miss Yavorsky’s parents Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Yavorsky of Belle Plaine and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Kingsolver of Peru Nebraska make the announcement.
Sir Ronald Campbell, newly appointed British minister, reached New York on Saturday on his way to Washington to relieve Ambassador Lord Halifax who is taking a leave of absence.
Miss Velma Hill of Mount Vernon and Wendell T Creath will wed at 8 p m in the home of her parents on August 9 announcement from Mr and Mrs J W Hill Mount Vernon states Creath is the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Creath of Baltimore Md Hill holds a bachelor of school music from Cornell College and has taught in Jefferson schools Creath is Iowa Wesleyan College graduate with a theology degree from Boston University He was ordained in May and serves as boys and young men secretary in the Hyde Park YMCA Massachusetts where the couple will reside
An expected 2 cent per gallon increase in gasoline prices and government control of oil deliveries are forecast for the Atlantic states from Florida to Maine. Officials and oil industry leaders agree on these measures, aiming to keep defense industries running and homes heated before cold weather arrives this winter.
A new chemical from sweet clover delays human blood clotting and may aid treatment of thrombosis. The Mayo Clinic proceedings report the discovery holds promise for heart and lung clot-related diseases.
Features two summer outfit patterns from The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Service. P115 offers a dirndl style frock with a blouse and full broomstick skirt, sizes 12 to 20. P114 provides crocheted pot holder mitts with a neck cord, in two colors for picnic or home use.
The east coast will see a gasoline blackout from 7 p m to an unspecified time Sunday night under a government oil company agreement. Stations from West Virginia to the Atlantic will close to conserve fuel, risking job losses for night attendants and possible bootlegging despite warnings from Harold L Ickes. In New York stations were told to serve only taxis and trucks as heat relief drives fuel demand and weekend travelers may face shortages.
City briefs report Townsend Club No 1 meeting at 730 pm in the superior court room Memorial building. Notices cover deaths of Mrs L A Barlow in Dixon Ill and funeral details, church services by Rev Warren Martin in Wellsburg W Va, and various local visits recoveries and travels.
Pvt. Robert E. Ward son of Mr and Mrs M C Ward of 224 Sixth Avenue SW has been selected to attend the radio operators school at Fort Knox Kentucky Camp Polk La announces Ward is stationed with the 46th signal company part of the 3rd armored division Bayou Blitz at Camp Polk La.
The national emergency has created extra Marine Corps vacancies and local recruitment accepts applicants at Room 6 Severn building 10642 Second Ave SE. Eligible locals aged 17 to 30 with no criminal record and two character references may enlist and be sent to San Diego for training.
Bernard Wendt, 56, of Detroit Lakes, drove a new 1941 model 100 feet and crashed into a tree. He and five others including the car salesman were injured. Wendt sobered at the hospital recalling how things happened awfully fast.
Mr and Mrs C W Martin announce the marriage of their niece Margaret Hughes to Jerry A Whitmore son of Mr and Mrs C A Whitmore of Independence The ceremony was held last evening in the Jefferson Barracks chapel Missouri with Lieut and Mrs B C Swanson in attendance The couple will reside at 308 Twenty first Street NE Cedar Rapids after August 8
In Berlin a German agency said several Bolivian citizens in occupied Europe were arrested on suspicion of intrigues hostile to the state. The move followed protests over Bolivia expelling its minister Ernst Wendler, a response Bolivia said was required after a Nazi plot against President Enrique Penaranda's administration was revealed.
Medical examiners for local draft boards were warned that mental cases in the armed forces may cost more than in World War I. Dr. Douglas G. Campbell of the University of California said at least one sixth of draftees are exempted for mal adjustment and the number may be higher.
In MIDDLEBOURNE West Virginia AP a 6 year old boy Sammy used life saving lessons to revive two dogs found in a rain barrel and pool. Barbara Jo Swann 3 reported Rowdy missing after a swim with Ranger. Twenty minutes of first aid restored Rowdy and Ranger to play.
Richard Martin Weseick, 16, confessed slayer of Margaret Jung, 57, a farm wife, was arraigned on a murder indictment in Woodstock Illinois. Judge Ralph J. Cady ordered a psychiatric examination by Dr. Egbert Fall and continued the arraignment pending the report.
Aboard the loxery ereleer Chief Mack Mawk cruises operate between Davenport Iowa and LaCrosse Wisconsin with stopovers at Clisten Savanna and Dubuque. The 3 day trips cover about 125 miles with prices around 5 to 10 dollars and include meals and hotel transfers. Reservations through Straka Travel Bureau Cedar Rapids or Elk Beat Line Prairie du Chien Wisconsin.
Senators from farm states pressed for a floor under farm prices if a ceiling is set by the price control bill. The agriculture committee favored a balanced approach with both floor and ceiling. Some lawmakers argued the measure fixes minimum ceilings at 110 percent of parity rather than 100 percent, reshaping the postwar pricing reference.
In Cremona the prefect ordered confiscation of Regime Fascista issue dated July 31. The paper edited by Roberto Farinacci faced seizure for an article urging General Ugo Cavallero to reorganize the Italian army, citing damaging and inexact statements about army organization.
Harriet Elliott, head of the consumer division, urged households to keep radios off when not listening, turn off basement lights, and run refrigerators efficiently. She said economies are vital where future power demand may exceed supply amid the defense program.
Mrs. Alice Duckworth, daughter of John Hays Hammond, admits she and Benny Goodman plan to marry once her divorce from George A. Duckworth becomes final. She considers Reno to speed the British divorce, which will not be final until next March.
The University of Iowa starts a three week independent study term for graduate students on Monday. This unit precedes the fall term opening on September 25. Summer convocation recognized 518 graduates, and freshman week activities run from September 22 as the 1941-42 program begins.
The Italian high command announced a German bombing raid on Tobruk harbor in Libya and an R A F assault on Benghazi as of Saturday.
The Iowa City council appointed 26 year old William J. Smith to succeed Glenn R. Bowen as police judge. Smith is a University of Iowa law school graduate and has worked in the legal department of the AAA in Davenport. The appointment takes effect immediately. Bowen has a second lieutenant's commission and training began July 18.
In Hardin Illinois Prince airedale saved Marian Angel ten by pulling her from swift current as her father Arthur W Angel forty drowned after reaching her. The rescue followed a drowning and officials ruled heart failure in Angel. Marian lived on a houseboat with seven siblings on the Illinois river.
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