Christmas Seals Appeal and World War II Naval Note
A Christmas seals appeal urges donations to John M. Ely for tuberculosis relief in Linn County with funds used locally. The page also reports on Britain’s naval victory over Germany after the Graf Spee’s scuttling, U.S. stance in the neutral zone, Dewey’s critique of New Deal policies, Dies committee defense by the New York Times, Iowa state employment data, and Soviet blame in League of Nations exit with broader wartime commentary.
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John M
Ely
Cellar Rapids Savings Bank
Linn County
Finnish Forces Break through Taipale Bend on Mannerheim Line
Finnish troops scored a key success on the Mannerheim line by driving Russian forces back across the Taipale river. Enfilading crossfire from east and west helped relieve pressure at the Taipale mouth on Lake Ladoga as Russians fought to break out of a death trap. The battle, likened to Verdun in importance by Finns, saw heavy use of tanks with at least one assault employing 50 tanks. President Kallio urged renewed world aid, noting the League of Nations condemned Russia as the aggressor and calling for more active support from civilized nations.
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Helsinki
Mannerheim Line
Taipale River
Red Army
Taipale
Lake Ladoga
Lake Suvanto
Ladoga
Red
Verdun
Salmijarvi
Kyosti Kallio
League of Nations
Russia
League
Temperature Rises to 54 in Cedar Rapids Monday
Cedar Rapids reports a high of 54 degrees after a 30 degree low at 8:30 am. Light clouds dimmed the sun as the day progressed with a 2:40 pm peak. Sunday recorded a 55 degree high and 27 degree low, with a 41 degree midnight reading.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Kremlin fails to hide truth from vast Russian victims
The piece argues the Kremlin hides facts from 180 million oppressed Russians while acknowledging Finnish forces inflict severe losses on a poorly equipped Soviet army. It claims Stalin's claim of a world class Red Army is contradicted by the ongoing Finnish defense.
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Kremlin
Finland
Stalin
Red Army
Man Fatally Hurt On Smokestack Job At Light Co Plant
Albert C. Martens 44 superintendent for Abell-Howe Construction of Chicago died after falling 40 feet from a ledge at the Iowa Electric Light and Power plant. A five ton steel smokestack being lifted buckled a mechanical boom causing the fall as Martens directed 20 workers. He died at St Luke's hospital from a broken neck and crushed chest. He lived in Maywood Illinois and is survived by his wife and several children.
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Albert C. Martens
Abell-Howe Construction Company
Chicago
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Martens
Iedge
St. Luke's Hospital
Maywood
Heavy Christmas Freight Boosts Mail and Travel
Railway Express shipments and large mail loads rise sharply as interurban travel and bus business surge. Local agent S P Beatty predicts a 20 percent year over year December gain, with residence pickups up 40 percent and business district deliveries up 20 percent. Post Office Christmas mail shows no clear rise yet but remains heavy ahead of peak period.
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Cedar Rapids
Santa Claus
S. P. Beatty
Suspended Fine For Maupin With Church Attendance Ordered
Claude Maupin a 52 year old World War veteran admitted violating a city plumbing ordinance by working without a license. Judge Powell fined him 25 dollars plus costs but suspended the fine on good behavior and ordered regular church attendance as part of the sentence. The Rev D O Bell urged leniency and church involvement while Maupin explained his tight schedule with work and family duties.
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Claude Maupin
Thomas B. Powell
Maupin
Harry Johnson
D. O Bell
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Powell
Bell
Fight Off Uruguay Proves World Small War Scene
Wartime report notes a rare encounter off Montevideo as two groups clashed near Uruguay. The piece calls it a first war battle where women and children avoided the worst outcomes, highlighting a shared fate in the western hemisphere.
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Uruguay
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Montevideo
Gannett Urges Roosevelt to Halt FCA Takeover
In a sharp telegram, Frank Gannett urges President Roosevelt to block the plan to absorb the Farm Credit Administration into the Agriculture Department. He argues it would strip farmers of independence, convert the FCA into a political tool, and centralize economic power affecting about 1.2 million members and 1,200 cooperatives.
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Washington
Frank E
FCA
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Barty
Gand
Congress
Wallaces
Farm Credit Administration
Fall of Rome and Egypt Show Morality as Key Cause
The piece argues Rome fell not by numbers but by moral decay and loss of faith, contrasting Rome’s ruin with Egypt’s faded faith and cultural riches. It cites 20 000 invading Vandals and notes divorces rising, wealth without virtue, and the Bible’s exhortation that where there is no vision, restraint is cast off.
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Gauss
Rome
Julius Caesar
Ancient
Egypt
Pyramids
Ikhnaton
Spengler
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Six Hurt When Car Overturns After Blowout West of Cedar Rapids
Six Cedar Rapids youths, en route to Norway, were hurt when their 1936 sedan overturned on highway No 30 five and a half miles west of Cedar Rapids after a left rear tire blew out. Injuries ranged from skull fractures to head cuts. one driver suffered a vertebral fracture.
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Cedar Rapids
Norway
Highway No 30
Jimmy Wrycoff
Fifth Avenue SE
Gerald Edleman
A Avenue NW
Jean Borst
Nineteenth Avenue
Marian Schneider
Eighteenth Avenue
St. Luke's Hospital
Muriel Berggren
Avenue
Marvin Berggren
Harry G. Edleman
Avenue NW
Dim Smith
Berggren
L. J Gable
Luzerne
Edleman
Gable
Flyers stage hot fight off German coast
British and German forces claimed sweeping air and sea actions off the north German coast near Helgoland. Germany said 34 British bombers were shot down while Britain reported sinking a 6,000 ton German cruiser with the submarine Ursula. German planes lost two. crews escaped by parachute. several British raiders penetrated toward Wilhelmshaven. ships and coast watchers reported wrecks and prisoner captures.
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Great Britain
Germany
Helgoland
Ursula
Wilhelmshaven
Pearl
Serenity
Berlin
British Press Association
Inside story of U S steps as war drew near
Washington officials revealed the administration rejected using government capital to aid Britain in liquidating American securities held abroad. The April talks considered RFC loans to buy these assets, deemed legal but against public policy. Morgenthau pursued a peace-aims material withholding plan, found impracticable, leading to other wartime preparations.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Jesse HH. Jones
Cordell Hull
Wall Street
Germany Claims Uruguayan Time Limit Threatened Graf Spee
Germany protests to Uruguay saying the time allowed for repairs on the pocket battleship Graf Spee was insufficient. Berlin accuses Montevideo of bowing to British pressure and notes Hitler’s regime ordered the ship scuttled after failed attempts to start repairs.
Graf Spee crew arrested in Uruguay over sinking
Uruguayan authorities arrested four Admiral Graf Spee seamen and questioned other Germans after the German pocket battleship was scuttled off Montevideo. Capt Langsdorff and remaining crew were reported to be interned or released on pledges as tensions rose between Uruguay and Germany.
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Uruguay
Opis
America
Graf Speed
Whntevideo
Graf
Germany
Graf Spee
Witler
Erich Raeder
Montevideo
Graf Love
Mondas
Tacoma
Montes Idea
Viontevides
Hans Langgsdorff
Buenos Aires
Mon- Gay
Uruanas
Admiral Graft Spee
Otte Larem
Langsdorff
Langmann
Argentina
Heywood Broun Dies at 57 in New York Hospital
Heywood Broun, president of the American Newspaper Guild and a New York Post columnist, died of pneumonia with heart trouble in Harkness Pavilion. His wife Connie Madison and son Heywood Hale Broun were by his side. Broun had been ill Friday through Monday, with his last World-Telegram column appearing Thursday.
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NEW York
Heywood Broun
American Newspaper Guild
New York Post
Harkness Pavilion
Broun
World-Telegram
Braun
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Uncle Sam
Jin
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Ickes
Dies Committee
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the Times
White Houses
State of
Iowa
Towa
Ussia
Nho Soviet
Mannerheim
Light Co
Cedar Nanlds News
Cedar Rapids News
Gannett
Agriculture Dept
DR. Nscwton
Reich
Copenhagen
Syit
U.S
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Admiral Graf Spee
Otto Langmann
Hans Langsdorff
River Plate
Adolf Stbtler
Jeplan
Urucuays
Huracan
Marine Headquarters
Longsdorf
News Guild
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