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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1940
Page
1
A Newton reader blasts a columnist for urging neutrality as Britain and the United States lean toward military aid. The piece discusses Roosevelt’s third term talk, a looming war, and calls for possible American involvement while noting public mood and political pressures.
The U S army transport American Legion carrying 897 refugees from northern Europe has passed the most dangerous waters west of the British Isles. Officials say its position at noon Greenwich time was about 400 miles west of the British Isles and on the edge of the neutrality act combat zone south of Iceland. Secretary Sumner Welles noted no official German mine warning has been received regarding waters off the British Isles.
DNB reports Berlin handed a note to the U.S. embassy asserting Germany’s clear stance on the American Legion affair. It says the ship followed a longer course than to Petsamo and denies withdrawing any statements as claimed by the U.S. State Department and press.
Arthur Bug Baer reports a trip to the New Mexican mountains and a letter from the acting Mexican consul in Los Angeles objecting to a line about jumping the Santa Fe. Baer notes cowboys in New Mexico are American and calls for an apology.
The piece accuses the administration of stifling public discussion and pursuing dictatorial power under a third term draft. It denounces the White House for seven years of deception while accusing the New Deal Chicago convention of hypocrisy and patriotism pretenses.
The article recalls Maude Royden, prominent English preacher at City Temple from 1917 to 1919, praising her wartime pacifism and later noting her strong stance against Nazism. It contrasts her advocacy for women and children with her view that passive resistance is insufficient against the menace threatening civilization.
A Cedar Rapids effort to start a public cancer control clinic was announced Tuesday by state health commissioner Dr. Walter L. Bierring and Linn County Medical Society committee members. They asked Linn County supervisors to provide quarters to operate with the county relief clinic. The group hopes to begin the clinic by mid September or early October, with federal support through the State health department, and stresses early diagnosis and control of cancer cases.
London based Reuters reports Romania has definitively agreed to cede southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, restoring the frontier to its 1912 line. The accord comes after negotiations in Bucharest, with Romania yielding the disputed region to Bulgaria.
Washington dispatch says Mrs John N Garner wife of the vice president's secretary is prepared to return to Washington at a moment's notice when the boss gives the word she has advised friends here.
Wendell Willkie criticized the Roosevelt defense program as hopelessly inadequate and proposed a public debate during one of the President’s visits to preparedness projects. He urged Roosevelt to discuss armed forces on hand and on order and suggested inviting experts to inspect defense works. The call followed Roosevelt’s earlier refusal to a direct debate.
About 100 women who are mothers of veterans staged an effigy hang at the U S Capitol lawn targeting Senator Claude Pepper. Pepper, a prominent advocate for sending arms and ships to Britain, saw the dummy bearing the label Benedict Arnold Pepper. Police intervened as the demonstrators pushed toward an unidentified man who denounced the display.
The Cedar Rapids chart shows a morning low of 50 degrees from 4:30 to 6 a.m. rising to 77 by midafternoon. Tuesday’s high reached 175 with readings at 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. before easing to 67 at 7 p.m. and 54 at midnight.
The senate refused to consider an amendment to the conscription bill that would draft wealth as well as men. Senator Lee proposed the plan to require citizens to lend money to the government in wartime, with bonds at 1 percent interest. The measure was blocked by Senator Ellender, who said it should originate in the house as a revenue measure.
German air force pivots to small scale raids to dodge RAF defenses. lone raiders strike England and Wales with bombs then retreat across the Channel. British experts say the tactic aims to avoid heavy losses from mass attacks.
In Los Angeles, 7-year-old Vincent Monzano leaped into Echo Park lake to rescue his brother Richard five, though both nearly drowned. An inhalator crew treated them for over 15 minutes. hospital attendants praised Vincent after he said Richard is his brother and didn't want to see him die.
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson said he and top officials from the war navy and state departments discussed legal questions about acquiring naval and air bases in the Atlantic. The talks also touched on the legality of transferring over-age US destroyers to Great Britain, signaling a link between destroyer transfers and base acquisition matters.
Police plan a new phase against double parking starting Thursday morning. Cars parked illegally will be tagged and cited with a $2.50 total fine. Captain Gordon Hughes urges truck drivers to use 15 minute zones in downtown and warns against blocking bus zones.
G men probed a Wednesday dynamite blast at the E I du Pont de Nemours plant in Gibbstown New Jersey. Four people were killed. Officials said no sabotage evidence found and the explosion occurred in a building where commercial explosives were manufactured.
Exiled Bolshevik leader Trotzky, 60, lies in a Mexico City hospital with only a 10 percent chance of surviving an assassination attempt by a trusted associate suspected of links to Russian secret police. Police guard the wounded assailant, Frank Jackson, an American, as Trotzky's bodyguard team maintains tight security.
Unofficial sources in London say Britain aims a military pact with the United States built on Canadian American defense talks. A joint defense board with Canada may precede broader ties, enabling Pacific and Atlantic defense and diplomacy in the Far East after Europe. Public opinion favors a non belligerent US, complicating approval.
Five investigators from the state bureau of investigation raided four Oxford taverns late Tuesday, confiscating 11 slot machines, a dice machine, and a punch board. Prohibited devices were seized from James Hradek Ivan Schmidt Fred Schmidt and Charles Gillam with further court action expected. Vestermark said the raid was the largest since 1939 and that evidence would be presented to the district court or September grand jury.
British foreign office sources cite the 1938 joint control accord over Canton and Eastbury islands to illustrate Churchill's claim that shared interests predate the war. Officials say no new defense lease is involved despite rumors of Pacific bases, with the arrangement extended for 50 years and possibly indefinitely. The islands lie midway between Hawaii and Australia.
Naval experts examined a fragment of the torpedo that sank the Greek warship Helle. The fragment bore the imprint Turin 1930, linking the weapon to Turin, Italy, a naval base and arsenal.
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