Women do their part to avert another war appeal
The piece notes transatlantic cables boosting morale with British successes in Africa and Europe while urging women to organize and pressure lawmakers to prevent another war. It cites Senator Wheeler urging women to write Congress and emphasizes mothers and wives shaping national policy, plus Iowa's new airport planning course as a civic issue.
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Kerr Eby
Europe
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Wheeler
New Agency May Handle British Aid
Reports in legislative circles said a large new federal corporation could be formed to manage the lease and lend program for Britain. President Roosevelt prepared a state of the Union message to be delivered in person Monday, with plans to push wartime production and expanded social benefits while debating the aid scheme. Senator Barkley called the corporate plan feasible but not essential, noting it would require changes to the neutrality law and a broad enabling act.
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State of the Union
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Howard Confers With Roosevelt On Various Subjects
Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers met President Roosevelt at the White House for about an hour on Saturday. He described the session as a general discussion covering a variety of subjects.
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Fear Reds To Smooth Nazis Path In S E
United Press reports Balkan fears of a German push through Bulgaria toward Salonika and the Aegean. Soviet non intervention pledges and territorial concessions are speculated as a possible pretext. King Boris travels to Germany with Bulgarian Premier Filoff and talks with Nazi officials loom. Turkey mobilizes forces on a war footing.
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Navy Checks Crash Reports Of Plane Overdue On Coast
Navy officers were reviewing reports of a possible plane crash in the Barrett Junction mountains about 50 miles southeast of San Diego. A Texas transport with the crew and four parachuted men from a bomber crash near Edinburg was expected at San Diego base by 7:30 p.m. but had not been reported two hours later.
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Chaplin Rejects Film Critics Award in Telegram Withdrawn Honor
New York AP Charles Chaplin refused the New York Film Critics Award for 1940 stating accepting would imply actors compete against each other. He sent the telegram to Bosley Crowther, criticizing the approach as uninspiring. The Great Dictator had not sparked the expected critical enthusiasm in New York.
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Dies committee urges halt on foreign propaganda at taxpayer cost
In Washington the Dies committee urged Congress to stop distribution of totalitarian propaganda in the United States funded by American taxpayers. It urged restricting foreign literature under the Universal Postal Union and excluding propaganda aimed at the United States. The report ends the committee's activity but its chairman asked for reconstitution and $1 million for further inquiries into un-American activities.
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Dilemma Of His Native Emerald Isle Discussed By George Bernard Shaw
Editor notes George Bernard Shaw discusses the dilemma of Ireland torn between neutrality in the European war and Britain's desire to use Irish ports to break the German blockade. The piece notes Irish bombings and strategic port value, with Shaw’s critique framed by 1939 to 1941 war shifts and Allied port occupations.
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Hey There Skinney Maybe You Can Use Those New Skates
Cedar Rapids residents rummaged for skates as a new cold snap hit with no forecast of relief. The Saturday night low was projected near minus 2, threatening to topple 1941’s cold record, while Saturday’s high reached around minus 7 with a brief thaw from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Bugs Will Settle For A Deep Cave Till War Is Over
ARTHUR BAER recalls wartime travels and warns that Europe has been transformed into a web of cities. He envisions a cave life, mushroom diet, and a kitchen stove as weaponized war. He urges America to ready for a long, teeth-baring conflict and to choose a strong future.
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Bugs
Japan To Protest Seizure By Britain
Tokyo will protest to London over Britain's seizure of documents, letters, and currency from nine Japanese citizens aboard the American liner Excalibur when it stopped at Bermuda on December 21. The government announced Saturday night.
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Bermuda
Keep America Out of War Petition Draws 18000 Signatures
Eighteen thousand signatures are affixed to a petition by Citizens Keep America Out of War urging President Roosevelt and Congress to maintain peace. Gen. Robert E. Wood says the drive shows patriotic cooperation of American women. The Roll Call of American Women includes 500 chapters in 42 states with Harriet E. Vittum as president. An anti-war mass meeting with Sen Gerald Page of North Dakota is planned in Chicago January 20.
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Gerald Page
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Irish Deny They'll Break With Reich Over Bombing Raids
Dublin newspapers on Saturday condemned the Wednesday bombing raids on Eire as German aircraft attacked. The government disclosed new evidence that the aggressors were German planes. A spokesman denied reports that Ireland would sever relations with Germany.
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Eire
Germany
Berlin Waits for Irish Protest Note on Dublin Bombing
Berlin reports the German foreign office was awaiting a protest note from Ireland concerning alleged German bombing of Dublin and other Irish areas, as of Saturday night.
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Sunday Index and Section Listings Echo Page Layout
A brief rundown of the Sunday edition sections including index pages for news and features, editorial and opinion notes, sports, want ads, social news, entertainment such as movies and radio, state and farm news, business reviews, and financial items. It outlines page numbers and section designations for quick navigation.
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Beck
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Business Review
Income tax to bear brunt of new revenues expected
Washington reports fiscal experts, led by Senators George and La Follette, agree that raising at least one billion dollars in new revenue will mainly fall on income taxpayers. They discuss widening excess profits taxes, higher surtaxes, and taxation of bonds to fund defense costs.
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Barklees
18 To 21 Permanent Draft Program Gets Support In Congress
Washington reports the American Legion urged a permanent draft program for youths aged 18 to 21. Congressional leaders May and Sheppard promised immediate consideration and to introduce legislation in both houses. The current Selective Service Act remains in effect for five years, with men 21 to 35 subject to training.
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Morris Sheppard
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Fugitives Led by Harris Escape from Texas Prison Farm
Virgil Harris 34 of Cedar Rapids and four fellow Texas convicts escaped Saturday from Wynne state prison farm near Huntsville after overpowering a guard and seizing a Houston couple’s automobile. Harris, jailed for robbery and assault with intent to murder, was committed in 1940 following a Fort Worth jewelry store holdup and gun battle with state highway patrolmen. The group, linked to a larger 19-member rock road crew, fled toward Dallas, with one member identified as Hooker a longtime escape risk. Authorities described Harris as a persistent but lucky offender with a lengthy local police record.
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Music War Triggers Leaders to Boycott Radio Broadcasts
Major conductors Glenn Miller Artie Shaw Eddy Duchin Sammy Kaye Shep Fields Frankie Masters and Richard Himber pull from ASCAP music airings after broadcasters demand indemnity against $21000 penalties for playing songs governed by ASCAP. Many leaders are ASCAP members and refuse on noncommercial programs.
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ASCAP
Alice White Weds Jack Roberts in Hollywood
AP reports the August 24 marriage of silent film star Alice White to Columbia writer Jack Roberts, announced by the studio on Saturday.
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Alice White
Jack Roberts
Columbia
Novel Endurance Flight Tests Crew's Reactions
DAYTON O AP Far above the clouds in sub zero temperatures the army air corps aimed to learn Saturday night how a four engine bomber and its six man crew perform on a 15 hour 3000 mile non stop endurance flight from Patterson field to England and back over Memphis Shreveport Dallas and Abilene. The 3 000 mile schedule may be exceeded. The test sought data on long range high altitude operations and flight performance while the crew wore high altitude suits and cabins stayed about 60 degrees. Exterior temperatures were expected to be 25 to 30 degrees below zero.
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Shock Troops Press Inner Defenses at Bardia
British and Australian units launched a fierce assault on Bardia, breaking into inner defenses and taking thousands of Italian prisoners. Royal Air Force and naval bombardment supported land forces as Italian resistance weakened, with reports of heavy casualties and Italians retreating toward Tobruk.
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Percy C Spender
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Japs Refuse U S Demand for Apology in Cabaret Incident
Peiping reports say Japanese military authorities rejected a U S demand for an apology over the arrest of five Marines in a cabaret New Year’s Eve incident. The Japanese blamed the Americans and demanded a formal apology, a stance Col. Allen H. Turnage, the U S Marine commander, refused.
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Greek Chief Seeks Swift Aid From U S Warplanes
General Alexander Papagos, chief of the Greek army, urged the United States to provide 300 good airplanes, saying with such air support the war could have been won already. He spoke to troops on the southern Albanian battlefront, voicing frustration at current aid levels.
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