Vacation Reflections and Road Maps through a Quiet Year
In a column the author embraces a brief respite from politics and outlines a playful road map to Wisconsin, noting travel hazards, the allure of maps, and the enduring lure of exploration. He reflects on vacations as a way to gain perspective, contrasts home routines with travel, and jokes about classic explorers while praising local events and civic notes.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Ontario
de Soto
Cartier
la Salle
Lewis and Clark
Reich Claims Chains Made in Moscow Area
German sources report a new central Russia offensive with advances toward Moscow and heavy fighting in Ukraine. They cite Finnish gains at Sortavala and a three-pronged push toward Odessa Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk, while Moscow and Berlin trade bombardment claims and Soviet counterattacks are described as costly.
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Russia
Moscow
Sortavala
Lake Ladoga
Kackisalmi
Ukraine
Odessa
Nikolaev
Black Sea
Dnepropetrovsk
Dniester
Krivoi Rogion
Dneproterovsk
Uman
Red Army
Berlin
Stettin
Kiev
Budyosnny
Dneiper
Stalin Canal
White Sea
Baltic
Leningrad
War Risk Bonuses For Officers On U. S. Merchantmen
An agreement for war risk bonuses to licensed officers of U S merchant ships and for $5 000 war risk insurance on such officers was reached Saturday night after talks with the labor department and maritime commission. A final decision awaits seamen and radio operators agreements. conferences are set for Tuesday and August 26 respectively.
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Washington
Labor Department
Maritime Commission
Nye says Free Seas Talk Is Fraud at Iowa rally
Senator Gerald Nye told 3,000 at Davenport stadium that Britain has many agents in the U S and interventionists push antiwar propaganda. He criticized Roosevelt Churchill talks as wind and warned of war involvement without U S aid, with his wife at his side and Judge W W Scott introducing him.
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INS
Washington
White House
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
America First Committee
Nye
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
England
Atlantic
America
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Germany
Rudolph Hess
Scotland
Rock Island, Ir
Waterloo
W. W. Scott
Britain
Axis Hand In Effort To Kill Jap Hint Axis Hand In
Reports from Shanghai say an axis newspaperman called the home ministry in Tokyo ten hours before the Thursday attempt on Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma asking if he had been shot.
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Axis
Shanghai
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Home Ministry
Tokic
Germans Put July Raid Deaths At 298
Berlin report from DNB states 298 Germans were killed in British air raids on German cities during July. The agency issued the tally Saturday night.
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Berlin
DNB
City Attorney Hines Talks Law Career and Cedar Rapids Beer Law
Personal Opinion by Bob Estabrook interviews Mr Hines city attorney since 1936 on municipal finance bond work and the harder corporate side of government. He discusses beer laws parking funds and the need to balance political and business realities.
Pepper urges Roosevelt to crack whip on defense production
Senator Pepper of Florida urged President Roosevelt to summon industrialists and labor leaders to speed up defense production. He criticized current output as too slow and said only about half of needed production is being achieved, calling for an all-out sacrifice on return to Washington.
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Washington
Pepper
Fla
Roosevelt
Barker Wins Battle Over Draft Exam Refusal
Robert Watson Barker, 28, a Cornell graduate, was arraigned for refusing to report to his draft board for a physical. Assistant DA Kiely moved to dismiss since he is above 28 and would be discharged if inducted under the amended draft extension law. The case was dismissed.
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Chicago
INS
Robert Watson Barker
United States
Edwin K Walker
John A. Kiely
Barker
Cornell University
Mahatma Gandhi
Police Nab Driver On Drunkenness Charge In Cedar Rapids
Carl Turkington 41 of 375 Fifteenth Street SE was jailed on drunkenness charges after a minor collision at Third Avenue and Fourteenth Street SE. Witness A A Sindelar declined to testify, noting the groceries in Turkington’s trunk. Police later delivered the groceries to Turkington’s home.
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Carl Turkington
Fifteenth Street SE
Turkington
Third Avenue
Fourteenth Street SE
A. A. Sindelar
Marion
Sindelar
Steve Stolba
Stolba
Bear Shot Ends Invasion In Duluth Park
Police fatally shoot a 300 pound black bear that had looted Duluth neighborhoods. The animal was treed in Chester Park by visitors before a 30 to 30 shot ended its foraging spree.
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Duluth
Minn
INS
Police
Finis
Bruin
Chester Park
Roosevelt Faces Wide Range of Washington Problems
President Roosevelt arrives in Washington to confront defense supply delays for Britain and the U.S. armed forces, possible defense organization shakeups, and ongoing domestic strikes. He meets Churchill at sea and will decide policies informed by the Roosevelt Churchill conference and Lord Beaverbrook’s presence in the capital.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
United States
Russia
Winston Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
Churchill
Far East
Rockland
Blankets In Order Again When Mercury Dips After Sundown
After an 83 degree high Saturday the temperature fell to 74 by 8 p.m. and 70 by 11:30 p.m. Those who won blankets at the All Iowa fair last week found new use as clouds brought light showers and cooler air after sunset Saturday.
Legionaires Stand Against U S Aid To Communistic Russia
ROCHESTER N Y AP The New York American Legion adopted at its annual convention a resolution opposing United States aid to communistic Russia in its war with Nazi Germany or any other country.
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Rochester, N. Y
New York American Legion
United States
Russia
Nazi Germany
Dubious U S Japan War Prospect Voiced by Hawaiian Senator
Sanji Abe, the first American of Japanese descent elected to the Hawaiian senate, said Saturday that the chance of war between the United States and Japan was remote.
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Los Angeles
INS
United States
Japan
Sanji Abe
Senate
U S Japan relations worsen over ship ban
The Tokyo government refuses to let the American liner President Coolidge call at a Japanese port to board about 100 U S citizens returning home, tightening strain with the United States as Britain and Russia aid plans move forward. Officials expect a new, larger lend-lease program and possible reciprocal repatriation talks with Japan as Russia seeks war supplies.
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Washington
Tokio
Japan
State Department
Coolidge
United States
Britain
Russia
Roosevelt
Paris Sabotage Threatens City Food Supply
Paris police warn that sabotage of railway lines serving the occupied capital endangers the food supply. A reward of one million francs is offered for information leading to the arrest of the wreckers as officials urge public cooperation amid fears echoed by Marshal Petain.
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VICHY
Paris
Petain
France
Private Walter Chrysler Jr Spotted at Ponte Vedra Golf Club
Jacksonville AP reports golfer Carling Dinkier met a uniformed private during a round at Ponte Vedra. The private earns $21 a month, and Dinkier won $1.50 from him. He invited the service member to dinner after learning the name through the club professional.
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Carling Dinkier
Ponte Verda
Dinkler
Walter Chrysler, Jr
Shortest Route Tragedy Through San Francisco Tunnel
Le roy McGinnis of Colorado aimed for the city’s shortest drive via Twin Peaks tunnel with wife and child. Pedestrians alerted police after he entered the two mile tunnel and emerged at the far end with the statement it was a bumpier route. Police noted it is a street car tunnel never paved and unlikely to be paved.
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Hawkeye Downs
Ball
Mount Vernon
Rugg-cutters
San Francisco
Leroy McGinnis
Colorado
Peaks Tunnel
McGinnis
Government to Take Over Kearny Shipyard Likely
Washington reports the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock plant at Kearny New Jersey may be seized within 48 hours as talks among navy maritime officials and defense agencies proceed. President Roosevelt expected to act soon after returning to the capital with an order not likely before Monday.
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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Kearny
N. J
Roosevelt
Navy
Maritime Commission
Office of Production Management and
Defense Mediation Board
White House
William H. Davis
Mediation Board
Frank Knox
Davis
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipware Workers of America
L. H. Korndorff
New Jersey State Cio Council
Newark
Kearny Yards
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States
Irving Abramson
Council
Albert W. Hawkes
Legion Head Asks Data On Eight Points
Milo J. Warner national commander of the American Legion urged a clear statement from the President on how the eight points by Roosevelt and Churchill could be applied. He backed the administration's foreign policy and said Congress and the President should act to defend the Americas, even if that required occupying Dakar and other Atlantic outposts.
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Idaho
Milo J. Warner
The
American Legion
Congress
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Warner
Legion
Americas
Dakar
Atlantic
Cuban officials ousted by Reich threaten German reprisals
Havana reports German government ordered all Cuban consuls and consular agents to leave Germany and German-occupied territories by September 1, a move seen as retaliation for Cuba's expulsion of German consuls.
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Havana
Berlin
Germany
Jose Manuel Cortina
Cuba
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