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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1942
Page
7
QurSnave Trees and City Arborist RK Alman discuss the new shade tree ordinance and ongoing civic effort in Cedar Rapids. Alman emphasizes public education, park department leadership, and shared responsibility for planting, trimming, spraying, and removing street trees as the city plans for better future care.
Mahadev Desai, Mohandas Gandhi's private secretary, while detained in Poona, died Saturday of heart disease. The death adds another chapter to the Indian independence era as officials report no foul play.
In Portland Maine eight vessels will be launched Sunday five at the Todd Bath Shipbuilding plant marking the first time one yard has sent that many afloat in a day since a surge in merchant shipbuilding began. The five freighters are emergency craft for the British ministry of shipping and are expected to finish in about 15 minutes. Concurrently the destroyers Conway and Cony will roll out at Bath Iron Works while the cargo vessel Ethan Allen is launched at the South a Shipbuilding yard.
New York AP reports a Stockholm dispatch that German forces along the Norwegian coast are erecting numerous dummy fortifications to deter Allied invasion. The Bergen area now hosts a single infantry regiment while forces elsewhere on the coast, especially in the south, have been reduced.
Roy Drake known as the Dividend Detective retires after guiding the last Linn County bank receiverships from the 1930s. He recalls the hard task of locating former depositors while many favored cashing dividend checks and others vanished amid wartime disruption. Some cases involved international ties, including deposits sent to Syria and issues with Nazi-occupied regions, with final disposition pending court handling and potential transfers to school funds after 90 days.
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