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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1940
Page
22
Cedar Rapids implements a three year old program teaching first to third graders to speak clearly with direct contact drills. Led by Supt. Arthur Deamer and teacher coordinators, the method uses daily exercises, posters, and a teacher authored manual, claiming 33 to 70 percent clarity gains and widespread national attention.
Jackson. Mississippi Secretary of State Walker Wood ordered a picture of Charles A. Lindbergh and his plane The Spirit of St. Louis removed and destroyed. Wood said he opposed anyone with Hitler leanings, supported a third Roosevelt term, and claimed to be 100 percent American.
Berlin dispatch analyzes German blitzkrieg that toppled Holland Belgium and France in 46 days. It explains German view of Maginot Siegfried lines and how winter training, reconnaissance air power, and new weapons enabled a rapid victory. The piece notes German planners aimed to collapse Dutch Belgian defenses and trap Allied forces before turning on France.
The German army breached the Longwy Sedan zone and advanced to Abbeville, Meuse, St Quentin, and Abbeville by May 21, demonstrating superior strategy and modern weaponry including Stukas. French forces fought alone, with heavy tanks overwhelmed and roads left intact for retreat, signaling a rapid collapse and the Maginot line’s failure.
Advertisement offers flight instruction at Parks run by Mr Cor Tese, claiming the school is among the world’s best. Mentions a three week familiarization course, free of tulfion chalke, and vacancies for an assistant a post card ching sour age flient experience. Details to be sent to applicants promptly.
President Roosevelt reportedly plans two cabinet appointments from Indiana allies of Wendell Willkie. Claude Wickard of Camden is favored as Secretary of Agriculture successor to Henry A Wallace, with McNutt proposed for Postmaster General as Farley’s replacement.
Robert and Quayle are called hang overs from the Farley regime as New Dealers press to replace them with new men who backed the third term bid for Mr Roosevelt.
A man posing as Dr Robert L Johnson nephew of attorney Elmer A Johnson passed faulty checks at Newmans Armstrongs and Kallin’s in Cedar Rapids Saturday afternoon totaling about 45 dollars in losses. He bought goods worth 310 then 286 and 408 with 15 25 and 15 checks, left when store employees attempted to verify, and could not be reached by police. He wore a gray herringbone suit, 28, 5 ft 7 in, 130 to 140 pounds, had a student health card, and claimed to be a University of Iowa student.
At 3 30 pm Saturday three people including an 8 year old boy were injured when two cars collided at Oakland avenue and Thirty second street NE. A large truck blocked views blamed by both drivers. Mrs George Strappel, 45, and Mrs J A Hoyt, 32, sustained minor injuries. LeRox Hoyt, 8, had a head bump. Mrs Strappel was a passenger in Mrs Mable Borschel’s auto.
Mrs Wallam Corwith of Recks, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, spoke in Omaha on Saturday urging stronger defense. She warned that lasting peace for America requires invulnerability to attack and called for united, proactive national security measures.
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