Hopkins Resigns as Commerce Head. Jones and Johnson Consider Posts
President Roosevelt offered Jesse Jones the secretary of commerce job and Louis Johnson the undersecretary post as Harry Hopkins resigns for health reasons. Both Jones and Johnson indicated willingness to accept. Hopkins cites need for stronger cabinet leadership amid looming global crisis.
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Washington
INS
Harry Hopkins
Commerce
Roosevelt
Jesse Jones
White House
Edward J. Noble
Louis Johnson
Jones
Johnson
Hopkins
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
RFC
Woman in Black Keeps Tryst at Valentino Grave
Hollywood note recalls the death of Rudolph Valentino on its fourteenth anniversary as a mysterious woman in black visits his crypt at Hollywood Forever Cemetery leaving roses beside the tomb. She arrives by taxi, brushes aside reporters, then departs quietly.
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Woman In Black
Valentino
Hollywood
INS
Rodolfo Guglielm
Rudolph Valentino
Reflections on Napoleon Waterloo and moral fate
Victor Hugo questions Napoleons victory at Waterloo and argues the fall of a grand figure tests divine order. The piece contrasts glamour with grim truth, warning that later monsters will vanish like shadows while the gentle truth endures. Distrk by United Feature Syndicate Inc.
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Victor Hugo
Wellington
Blucher
Bonaparte
Waterloo
God
Distr
United Feature Syndicate. Inc
Former resident of Washington Iowa slain in San Diego
A complaint charges Harry J Clark, 62, with slaying Maude Raymond 52, formerly of Washington Iowa. Raymond's body was found in an apartment where she worked as housekeeper for Clark. Her throat was slit. Police search for Clark who was seen in Solana Beach. He is described as extremely jealous. the two argued often.
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Calif
Harry J Clark
Maude Raymond
Washington
James B. Abbey
Here
Deickmann
Clark
Raymond
C. S. Vines
Mrs. Maude Raymond Dies in California Slaying
Mrs. Maude Raymond, slain in San Diego Wednesday, was born near Washington Iowa and lived there until a year ago. She left for California to visit her mother four brothers and three sisters in Winters. She is survived by three sons Roy Lester and Mac of Washington and a sister Mrs Irvin Williams of Moline Illinois. Mrs Raymond was divorced from her husband.
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Maude Raymond
San Diego
Calif
Washington
California
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Roy
Lester
Mac
Irvin Williams
Moline
Raymond
Fragments of New Nazi Bomb Found in England
British experts examined fragments of a new type of German bomb found in a large crater in a southeastern town. The device reportedly aimed to explode with relative silence, and no explosion was heard when it struck.
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London
INS
Jap Bombs Destroy Baptist Mission in Kweilin China
Japanese air raid on Saturday leveled the Southern Baptist mission at Kweilin in Kwangsi province. Forty bombs from 50 Japanese planes killed 30 Chinese, flattening the mission complex.
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Kweilin
Kwangsin Province
China
Southern Baptist Convention
Senate Moves Toward Burke-Wadsworth Draft Bill Passage
Unanimous Senate agreement to limit debate on the Lodge amendment to 15 minutes per speaker sets stage for final passage of the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military training bill. Admin strategists forecast a final vote margin of at least 10, with immediate conscription and a 800000 draftee cap.
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Senate
Roosevelt
Maloney
Conn
Barkley
Kentucky
Wheeler
Mont
Congress
David I. Walsh
Mass
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Edward R. Burke
George W. Norris
Ind
White House
Best Opportunity of the Year to Rent Your Vacancy
Desirable renters will move into suitable locations next week as ads in The Gazette attract attention. The cost of a For Rent ad is small compared with potential rental income. To start your Want Ad dial 2-1121 before 8 tonight and say Charge It.
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The
Sunday Gazette
Master Mind at Work On Secret German Weapons
Adolf Hitler oversees Erich Mueller a Krupp production chief at Essen as three engineers work in the secret TST-15 workshop guarded by Gestapo. Mueller rumored to have devised a caliberless cannon and to direct weapons for Poland and France campaigns. He is a 50 year old bachelor supervising Krupp industry including Wiel shipyard.
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Angel of Death
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Mercedes
French Channel
France
Scandinavia
Canada Seen As Loophole For Ship Sale
Washington reports indicate Canada may be used to facilitate the sale of 50 or more obsolete U S destroyers to Britain. Authorities cite a legal loophole and say the Justice Department has prepared no ruling. President Roosevelt meets with U S and Canadian defense officials before potential sale talks.
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Johnson
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Robert P. Patterson
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Justice Department
Robert H. Jackson
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Government requisitions 2500 tons of gasoline for military use
Athens reports the government has requisitioned 2500 tons of gasoline for military purposes. Some supplies have been sent to the Albanian frontier amid reports of Italian troop massing.
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Athens
Fish Life Would Be Ruined By Dam Hearing
At a Des Moines hearing on the Cedar river dam near Moscow opponents argued the $3.5 million project harms fish life. A. B. Howland urged dismissal of permit procedures. Witnesses included Fred Payne er and De. T. Carney with T. O. Jennings backing coal interests as supporters continued testimony.
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Chicago and Rock Island Railroad
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Fred Payneer
Cedar Rapids
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National Coal Association
T. O. Jennings
Chicago
Western Railroad Trunk Lines
M L. Hutton
Willkie calls for a special cabinet post for air defense
In New York AP dispatch, Wendell L Willkie urged creating a cabinet position to coordinate air defense, proposing a single lead for the U S air service and coordination with War and Navy. He argued the nation is unprepared and must strengthen military and naval aeronautical forces immediately.
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Wendell L Willkie
United States
Willkie
France
England
Secretary of War
Secretary of Navy
Congress
America
Germany
WPA
Roosevelt
French Art and Cathedrals Escape Major War Damage
Inspectors report that France's Renaissance and medieval treasures largely survived the war with only minor losses. Notre Dame de Paris, Rheims, Amiens, Chartres and Tours remained intact, while sites like Amboise, Fe camp, Blois and Gisors sustained hits and several Normandy churches suffered damage.
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Tours
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Rouen
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Loire
Amboise
Leonardo da Vinci
Fecamp
Francois I
Blois
Duc de Guise
Les Andely
Normandy
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Loire Banks
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Orleans
Jeanne d'’Arc
Vendome
St. Comille Abbey
St. Jacques
Compiegne
Paris
Versailles
Melun
Fontainebleau
German pilots report no British resistance at home bases
Berlin dispatch says Portsmouth harbor and areas around it burned after a German air raid. DNB reports British fighters withdrawn when German planes appeared, suggesting inexperienced British pilots. German high command claims sinking the armed British merchant ship Tarakina in Australian waters.
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Portsmouth Harbor
London
DNB
England
High Command
Spectators Trapped After German Bomb Hits British Theater
A German bomb hit a Southwest Coast town theater Saturday afternoon, collapsing galleries and trapping spectators in the ruins. Anti aircraft fire challenged the raid as the attack marked the town's worst since the air war began, with 30 German planes penetrating defenses and dropping 20 to 39 bombs.
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Tondon
Youth Held For Driving Vehicle Without Consent
Cedar Raulds Neal was nabbed after entering another person's car and driving off. Don Dollarhide, 22, pled guilty in district court to operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent and was remanded to jail on a $500 bond. Sentence set for Tuesday at 10 am. Ben Hermsen and Leo Curran witnessed the incident at Curry's cigar store. Dollarhide admitted the act, later saying the mistake was intentional after questioning.
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Don Dollarhide
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Dollarhide
Ben Hermsen
D Avenue
Leo Curran
D Avenue NE
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Curran
C. A Morningstar
Earl Stanley
Actress Edna Waldron Dies in Burn Death Rescue
Hollywood AP reports actress Edna Waldron aged 26 died Saturday from burns while trying to save Catherine Bowman a 3 year old girl whose clothes caught fire from a cleaning fluid Waldron used.
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Edna Waldron
Burns
Catherine Bowman
Miss Waldron
London Bombarded as 1000 German Planes Strive for Break
British anti-aircraft units and fighter planes repelled a massive Luftwaffe assault as about a thousand German warplanes attacked southeast England and London. Dover and Ramsgate endured heavy bombardments while Londoners faced a tense air raid siren day with substantial explosions and scattered anti aircraft fire.
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Thames Estuary
Dover
Britain
English Channel
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Rams
Ramsgate
Thames
Coorman
South Endend
Rainfall Totals Third Of An Inch in Cedar Rapids
A dull Cedar Rapids sky held Saturday as rainfall totaled .35 of an inch. Temperatures dipped from Friday's peak of 71 to 58 by 1:30 PM and to 52 by 9 AM Saturday.
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