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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1940
Page
6
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists current price figures and rates: 7.50, 4.30, 2.25, and 90. The context indicates a pricing table or rate schedule, with distinct values likely tied to different services or time periods.
Secretary Jones and Secretary Morgenthau say Britain is a good loan risk amid war strains. They argue extending credit for war supplies could avoid broader risk, but critics expect skepticism over repayment and potential U.S. involvement in Europe.
Statistics from Fort Lewis Washington show 85 percent of draftees in the first call have specialized qualifications. If this holds, few will serve in trenches while most join specialized tasks such as typing reports or band duty. The piece notes a playful self awareness of possessing such specialized traits and reflects on uncertain demand in defense jobs.
The narrator notes a series of odd misdirections and coincidences in daily life. They describe choosing the wrong lane, road, or parking spot repeatedly, believing a larger pattern or talent governs these mistimed events, and suggest it could be useful to a general staff.
The Detroit News apologized for a typographical error that misstated the U S treasury debt limit as 45 trillion instead of 45 billion. The paper said the mistake was grave yet unintentional as a compositor misread figures.
The piece argues the church must ally with the poor or risk losing influence for generations. It warns of rising global demands for bread, education, shelter, and freedom, urging unity against tyranny and hypocrisy while contrasting Christ’s message with fascist and nationalist forces.
Paul Winkler, long time Western Europe correspondent, recounts how Paris papers were reorganized by German occupiers after the fall of France. He notes editorials and staff changes at Le Matin and Paris Soir, German influence on journalism, and various figures in Paris culture and politics under occupation.
Director Louis Jouvet travels through unoccupied France facing visa issues while Antoine de Saint Exupéry heads toward Lisbon. Ambassador poet Paul Claudel sits in Pelevoisia as his ally Weiller is jailed. Weiller's wife awaits in New York. Maurice Chevalier, favored by the Nazis, sings in unoccupied towns and is slated to return to Paris for Casino de Paris.
Elmer B. Fenton received a patent for a curtain stretcher after applying in February 1929. The notice also mentions Marie Voss Mabel Voss and their mother Mrs. Joseph Voss in connection with the filing.
Suffered cuts and bruises yesterday when the car they rode in collided with another on Highway 30 west of Cedar Rapids. Local markets list wheat 75, corn 60, oats 30, rye 43, barley 50, hay 12, straw 7, hens 15, eggs 30, hogs 7.50, calves 9.
On December 6 1920 Elizabeth Peddycourdt was elected president at the annual meeting of the T Z Cook Woman's Relief Corps Other officers named include Catherine Craemer senior vice president Verna Young junior vice president Hazel Kasner treasurer Mary A Conn chaplain Laura Currier conductor Lottie Hager and Dora Cain guards. Mrs John Nye and Mrs Charles Luberger plan to spend the winter in California. Thomas F Suchomel son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Suchomel of Cedar Rapids was honored by election to the honorary senior medical student society at Iowa University.
The Forty fourth Canadian infantry commander won the Hanford post American Legion top post. Crescent Masonic lodge elected A H Sargent as master at the annual meeting. Town Odd Fellows grand master H C Ring travels to Mason City for the home board meeting. New Orleans bound F A Lyman and W H Stark head to New York City after boat trip. Local grain and livestock markets show wheat as high as 1.65 and lambs at 10.
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