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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1941
Page
1
The article argues the lease lend bill would allow the President to set national policy during crucial months, superseding existing laws and bypassing congressional checks. It frames the debate as a decisive struggle over who controls U S policy in wartime and warns against eroding legislative oversight.
Democratic Leader Barkley opened senate debate on the administration British aid bill warning that if the United States fails to aid Britain against Adolf Hitler Europe, the nation may have to surrender to him or defeat him here. He denounced Hitler as a foul aggressor and military usurper as the debate drew strong criticism from Republicans.
A Monday protest outside the Capitol by women chanting for Pepper led to two arrests. Elizabeth Dilling claimed Mothers Crusade to Defeat the Lease Lend Bill organized 300 women, including 100 from Chicago, while Miss Jean Lundgren, her secretary, avoided charges.
Taft accuses Barkley of pressing for a declaration of war as the debate shifts from the house to the senate. Barkley insists he opposes US entry but supports defeating Hitler overseas. Barkley substitutes for Chairman George in presenting administration views while White House aides meet to plan bill implementation.
Cedar Rapids and Burlington units of the 133rd Infantry and the 136th Medical regiment received orders to depart Cedar Rapids at 7:20 p.m. on February 27 and 1:50 a.m. on February 28 respectively. The groups will join the Infantry Service Company regimental band and a medical detachment from Fairfield in Burlington for a special train to Camp Claiborne Louisiana arriving March 1 at 10:30 a.m.
Bert Humbert 65 of 237 Thirteenth Street NW died in a collision four miles west of Tama on highway 30 at 8:35 am Sunday. Gus Mineck 56 and his wife 49 were seriously injured. Mineck owned a Tama grocery and was a former president of regional grocers groups. Humbert had previously run stores in Mechanicsville and Baldwins. The car skid on a slick road and struck the Raven Creek bridge. Humbert was in the back seat. The Minecks were hospitalized with multiple injuries and the couple reported resting Monday. An inquest was not planned per coroner Dr Wentzien.
Seven automobile accidents were logged by the police Sunday. A City Lines bus was involved in two, a switch engine in one. Slippery streets blamed. Mrs Elsie Harriott and her husband were in a collision with Joe Akers who was charged with reckless driving and fined 25 dollars with 15 suspended. Akers claimed he was not driving.
The U S Supreme Court unanimously upholds Earl Browder s conviction for using a passport obtained fraudulently two other Browder cases are affirmed including Welwel Warszower for using a 1936 passport. The ruling maintains Browder s four year prison sentence and $2000 fine and notes the likelihood of petitions for rehearing is slim. Justice Reed writes for the Court with Justice Murphy not participating.
Cedar Rounds News- W ot Helmund 31 of Mason City was fined 300 dollars and costs for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated afterhis car sideswiped a culvert Sunday, ripped a wire fence and overturned several times. He received a 90 day Linn county jail term but the sentence was suspended on payment terms of 25 dollars down and 25 dollars a month. He was arrested at the scene on the Vin ton road near Cedar Rapids by Sheriff Jim Smith and Deputy P J Whittemore after admitting drunkenness and pleading guilty.
Washington AP says Congress sent to President Roosevelt a bill raising the federal debt limit to 65 billion dollars and ending tax exemptions on future government securities. The House completed final action by approving minor Senate amendments.
CHICAGO UP Forty four percent of men examined under the conscription law for the army have been rejected as physically or mentally unfit. Leonard G. Rowntree, chief of the selective service medical division, told the Illinois State Medical Society that 32 percent were rejected by local boards by Jan. 31 and an additional 12 percent were rejected by army boards for disabilities local examiners missed. Defective teeth were the principal cause, with 17 percent of local-board rejections and 22 percent of army rejections due to bad teeth. Other causes included heart and cardiovascular issues, musculoskeletal defects, eyes, genitalia, mental and nervous, nose and throat, hernia, feet, and lungs. Local-board physicians split rejections into those fit for limited service and those unfit for any military duty.
The British navy announced mining in Malayan waters to shield Singapore from ships from Thailand China French Indo China and Japan extending minefields 60 miles from Singapore and 30 miles east of the Malayan coast. Officials offered no explanation amid Pacific anxiety and a milder press tone followed a cabinet bureau warning in the United States and South America. Japan’s Ohashi urged calm while signaling hope to settle South Seas questions despite nervous powers.
A compact meditation on faith and action by Dr Newton, contrasting worry with lived belief, noting that real faith requires doing not arguing. It recalls a Chester Cathedral inscription urging a mind free from boredom and complaint, and guards against the perils of cynicism amid daily crises.
Arthur Houston Irvine a 39 year old Fort Scott Kansas newspaper man and western fiction writer died of a lung hemorrhage in a police station after requesting lodging. He had been released from a Peoria hospital and told officers he was tired and hungry. A caretaker found him dead Monday morning. Irvine had worked in Topeka and Denver and on the New York Mirror and Hearst Chicago. His body was taken to Brush chapel and his mother Mrs A M Irvine of Fort Scott arranged for burial.
The Supreme Court ruled the Iowa use tax act constitutional 5 2 reversing the Iowa Supreme Court ruling. Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward challenged the law which requires out of state sellers to collect a two percent tax on mail order sales to Iowans. Justice Roberts dissented while Chief Justice Hughes joined. The decision may affect 17 states with similar taxes and targets sales of tangible personal property used in Iowa.
Cold snap follows wet snow that glazed Cedar Rapids streets and highways. Strong northwest wind diminishes as a night forecast calls for clear skies and much colder temperatures. Seven city snow crews worked Sunday night to clear slick spots, six continued Monday, with scattered slippery patches statewide, especially near Dubuque.
RAF claims its first raid into central Poland with leaflets over Cracow and Kadowice after flying more than 1800 miles round trip. Report notes long range bombers from Britain and US as new capability. Berlin reports large daylight raid on Great Yarmouth with damage to ships and smaller attacks on other coast ports.
Moscow dispatch reports negotiations for a Russia Japan trade pact open while Germany eyes a Balkan route. Turkey could face a German push via Bulgaria and Greece, with Britain seeking to defend Turkish integrity. Berlin and Moscow show cautious moves amid shifting Balkan alignments.
Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, weighs a China trip after touring Great Britain. He told reporters no definite decision has been made. He will return to law practice and visit his Rushville, Indiana farms next weekend to reflect.
DES MOINES UP The senate military affairs committee introduced a bill to set up an Iowa home guard. The guard would be used when any part of the national guard was engaged in active federal service.
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