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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1939
Page
8
The article urges balanced holiday candy use for children and adults. Nutritionist Bernice Hopper favors wholesome sweets as desserts and promotes home made fruit and nut candies. It suggests avoiding rich egg sugar chocolate mixtures and offers simple recipes like football shaped dates and pine penguin treats, plus where to request more recipe pamphlets.
Denver city council votes to repeal three nuisance taxes aimed at the budget balance. The measures remove a one cent per pack cigarette tax, a 50 cent per wheel motor vehicle tax, and a $50 annual loan license fee. Final passage and mayoral approval anticipated. business groups credit the reversal to civic pressure.
New York The film Gone With The Wind caused upheaval at the Daily Worker as movie critic Howard Rushmore quit after refusing to lambaste the film from all angles. He also said he had not been paid his $25 weekly salary since the treasury collapsed around the Russo German pact.
DeWolf Hopper and Jane Gilbert, both noted actors, announced their engagement in Hollywood on Friday. The couple, connected to prominent show business families, plan forthcoming nuptials.
Correspondent WEBE MILLER describes multiple air raid alarms and shelter escapes around the front. He notes a large base hospital with 600 beds serving about 450 patients, a Finnish reconnaissance unit with bomb laden planes, and pilots on dry rations amid ongoing Soviet air activity. He mentions Capt. George von Hartman wounded and Finnish officials claiming Russia's expulsion from the League of Nations freed Moscow from conventions.
Finnish authorities report bombing attempts targeting Red Cross hospitals. The incidents raise concerns over hospital safety and neutrality in conflict zones, with officials urging vigilance and international monitoring.
London AP reports the air ministry said German raiders appeared over the Firth of Forth Scotland Friday morning and were driven off by British fighters after a dogfight in which one German plane disappeared. Earlier a mystery plane was fired on by coastal anti aircraft guns over the Suffolk coast with no warning.
A McHenry county circuit court jury convicted Charles Allen Dain 15 of murdering Lester Groth a farmer to whom the youth had been paroled. Punishment fixed at 28 years with at least 14 years to be served in prison. Dain admitted killing Groth in testimony.
The report notes that the accused claimed his benefactor provoked the act by slapping him for faults, presenting a defense based on the provocative action.
Washington observers say Harvard trained insiders known as the Frankfurter boys occupy key posts on the National Labor Relations Board. Edwin Smith Nathan Witt and Philip Phillips face scrutiny as congressional probes into the board intensify. All three are Harvard educated and linked to New Deal era sponsorships.
The former general counsel for the board and now a federal judge played a pivotal role in bringing the subject into the board for legal work, as stated by Phillips.
An investigation began Friday to determine the cause of a Thursday night fire that destroyed a hangar at Moline municipal airport killing four private planes. The blaze resembled a previous November 1937 hangar fire. A $100,000 administration building and hangar, dedicated last Sunday, was saved by firefighters before further damage occurred.
A strong quake struck Menado province in northern Celebes on Friday, destroying 108 houses and demolishing a bridge. No further details on casualties or magnitude were available.
Readers are urged that Quaker Macaroni and Spaghetti have been enriched with whole milk powder. The new process yields creamier richness and tender texture, producing plump, appetizing pasta that stays firm, and remains economical. Look for the big blue and yellow package at your grocer.
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