National Defense Reorganization and War Efforts
The new defense administration under President Roosevelt tightens control with Knudsen and Hillman sharing authority. It aims to prevent delays from opinion clashes and prioritizes production for U S armed forces and allies, signaling a wartime footing even without formal war. The piece notes military successes in Africa and Greece offsetting Axis bravado and discusses Minton’s Senate ouster and new White House role.
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Defense Council
U. S
Roosevelt seeks unprecedented peacetime budget for defense
President Roosevelt asks Congress for a record 1942 peacetime budget of 17.49 billion dollars with 10.81 billion earmarked for national defense. He projects a 9.21 billion deficit and a public debt rising to 58.37 billion by June 1942, noting no aid for Britain, Greece or China in this request.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Britain
Greece
China
Treasury
Senate
House
Roosevelt budget message foreshadows total defense plan
President Roosevelt outlines the 1942 budget to Congress as a total defense program. He warns of a world at war and calls for rapid build up of land sea and air forces plus sustained industrial capacity and social programs to support democracy.
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Congress of the United States
United States
Next Step in a Foul Storm
A French plane with Chiappe the detective and pilot Henri Guillaumet crashes amid a British Italian naval battle. The piece contrasts Guillaumet’s brave survival in the Andes with a lesson that saving grace is taking the next step, a mantra for peril and uncertainty.
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Syria
Chiappe
Henri Guillaumet
Guillaumet
Andes
St. Exupery
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
No War Campaign Receives Draft Aid in Cedar Rapids
A $2 donation from a Brooklyn naturalized citizen facing the draft was part of $593.15 received by the No Foreign War Committee in Cedar Rapids. He says patriotism justifies avoiding involvement in a European quarrel and is willing to defend America if necessary. Telegrams of support came from Hannah M. Connors of East Milton Massachusetts and Edith M. Scott of Philadelphia. Scott’s group plans a mass meeting February 22 opposing U.S. involvement, with another Springfield Massachusetts donor noted in the report.
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Brooklyn
Cedar Rapids
No Foreign War Committee
Europe
America
Iowa
Hannah M. Connors
American Mothers Neutrality League
East Milton
Mass
Edith M. Scott
Philadelphia
National Legion of Mothers and Women of America, Inc
Springfield
Driving Danger on Glassed Cedar Rapids Streets
A thin ice sheen from freezing mist coated Cedar Rapids streets and highways with hazardous conditions. The Cedar Rapids Automobile Club warned the effect was statewide and advised speeds of 25 to 30 mph. Landing and cindering crews worked as temperatures rose from 27 to 33 degrees through Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Reform School Duped By Fake Recruiting Agent
Thirty five reform school boys at Eldora were released after a man posing as a U S army recruiter swore them in and shuttled them to Des Moines. Army posts denied orders or knowledge of the fake officer, exposing a booby-trapped release scheme and prompting investigation.
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Reform School
Des Moines
U. S Army
Eldora
C. S. von Krog
Richard O'Leary
Waterloo
Army
O'Leary
Louis Fenton
von Krog
Army Band School
Washington, DC
Fort Knox
Tobruk siege advances as British cut Libyan port off
British mechanized units push west of Tobruk isolating the Libyan port. Italian command structure suffers captures near the town while Berganzoli may have escaped from Bardia. Analysts weigh whether Tobruk becomes the decisive siege of the African war.
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London
Tobruk
Twenty-third Corps
Antonelli
Middle East
Annibale Berganzoli
Bardia
Berganzoli
High Command
Verne Marshall Steps Down As Gazette Editor
Verne Marshall, chair of the No Foreign War Committee, is relieved of duties as editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette to devote full time to antiwar campaign work. Clare Marshall, his brother and longtime promotion manager, assumes control. The change was announced by John L. Miller, Gazette president and general manager, and took effect Wednesday.
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No Foreign War Committee
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Clare Marshall
Gazette
New York
John L. Miller
The
Fight at Busy Bee cafe linked to Alfred Thomas death
Police connect an early New Year fight at 117 F ave NW to Alfred Thomas 37 who later died of blood poisoning from a blow under the left collarbone. Coroner Dr. R E Munden ordered an autopsy and police under Chief Earl Stanley questioned a man who admitted striking Thomas during the all night carousal. The assailant said the blow was to the chin and was released.
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Cedar Rapids
Busy Bee
F Avenue NW
Ralph Edward Kohlicek
Alfred Thomas
Thomas
R. E. Munden
Earl Stanley
Mud Hurtles Into Car and Kills Youth in Nebraska
A lump of mud hurled through a windshield struck Samuel Sackschewsky, 20, of Thayer, Nebraska, as he rode with Mary Jane Reger. The mud, kicked up by a passing truck, caused a fractured skull and he died en route to a hospital in York.
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York
Neb
Ins
Samuel Sackschewsky
Thayer
Mary Jane Reger
Wednesday Declares No Bulgarian Invasion By Germans
Sofia reports that by midday no German invasion occurred despite a wartime deadline. The public treated the forecast as another Balkan rumor that failed to materialize.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Bullitt urges support for Britain Greece and China to defeat Axis
Former U S ambassador to France William C Bullitt told UNC students the surest way to defeat the Axis is for the United States to go to war in support of Britain Greece and China He warned the nation now prefers the risk of totalitarian victory to war but urged supplying the allies with ships planes guns and wheat He noted that even with defense production the US cannot field a two ocean navy before 1945 and warned the British navy must remain intact to prevent a total Axis victory.
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Chapel Hill
N. Cc
William C Bullitt
France
Great Britain
Greece
China
Bullitt
International Relations Club
The
University of North Carolina
United States
Britain
Red Cross Plans Food Aid Flows To France And Spain
The American Red Cross will dispatch ships loaded with condensed milk and relief supplies to unoccupied France and to Spain, with a separate potential cargo of wheat or flour under conditions. The plan follows an agreement with Britain relaxing the blockade and aims to aid civilians under supervision of the Red Cross.
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Red Cross
France
Spain
United States
Europe
England
Mat Rially
H.B
Britain
Washington
American Red Cross
Norman H. Davis
Davis
Roosevelt
Lord Baden-Powell Dies Founder of Boy Scouts
Lord Baden-Powell 83 longtime military leader creator of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides died at his Nyeri Kenya home after weeks of illness. Imperial Scout HQ announced a worldwide remembrance service to honor their Chief Scout on dates in January. He founded the Boy Scouts in 1908 on Brownsea Island and the Girl Guides in 1910 and shared credit with peers like Ernest Thompson-Seton and Dan Beard.
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Lord Baden-Powell
Boy Scouts and
Girl Guides
Nyeri
Kenya
Africa
Imperial Scout
London
Mafeking
Baden- Powell
Baden-Powell
Boy Scouts
Brownsea Island
Poole Harbor
England
Woodlore
Ernest Thompson-Seton
Dan Beard
New Cold Wave Threatens Iowa Roads Amid Freezing Rain
A new cold wave forecast for Iowa brings freezing rain and mist across the state. Temperatures may drop to zero in the northwest and rise to five in the northeast, with ice covering roads in much of the northern and eastern areas. Reports noted icy conditions in Sioux City Des Moines Dubuque and other cities while Des Moines logged a high of 35 and Iowa Falls a low of 23.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Omaha
Iowa Falls
Dubuque
Burlington
Mt. A
Lee Proposes Probe Into Groups Swaying War Opinion
Senator Lee Oklahoma proposed a Senate Foreign Relations Committee inquiry into organizations trying to influence public opinion on government war policy. He introduced a resolution seeking investigation of organizers origin funds foreign connections motives purposes and activities.
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Washington (Ap
Lee
Okla
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Navy shakes up to three fleets and full war strength
President Roosevelt ordered the navy to full war strength and reorganize into Atlantic Pacific and Asiatic fleets. Rear Admiral WHushand E Kimmel to command the Pacific fleet, while active strength rises from 192000 to 232000. Congress to be asked to authorize 280 auxiliary vessels.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Atlantic
Pacific
Asiatic
United States Fleet
Whushand E. Kimmel
Cruiser Battle Force
James O. Richardson
Kimmel
Congress
Knox
Atelantic
Hawaii
Ernest J. King
Glass-Smashing Thief Strikes Uptown Drug Store
A persistent burglar smashed a door glass to gain entry at the Uptown Drug store on Third avenue SE. He stole $30 from the register, $5 in stamps, and unspecified money from a pinball machine. The breakin was found by a citizen who alerted a Yellow Cab driver at 5 a.m.
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Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue SE
Ben Coombs
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