Congress Hears Top Military Leaders Behind Closed Doors
Pyeestone members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee vote to hear the army chief of staff, naval operations chief, and assistant army air corps chief in executive session on the lease lend bill. Republicans oppose secrecy demanding open testimony. The piece also notes Iowa’s swift property tax reform and debt limit measures, plus Dr. Robert M. Hutchins’ wartime cautions.
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Army Chief of Staff
Naval Operations
Army Air Corps
Congress
Open Hearing Sought On British Aid Bill By House Panel
Former Undersecretary William R Castle says the lease lend bill would give President Roosevelt power to control all supplies and dictate global military actions. The House Foreign Affairs Committee votes to hear three top military officials in private session, despite Republican efforts for an open hearing.
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William R Castle
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Castle
Willkie Arrives in Lisbon on Transatlantic Clipper
The Clipper carrying Wendell Willkie reached Lisbon at 11 52 a m Friday on its final transatlantic leg. Bad weather had delayed the Pan American flying boat 24 hours in the Azores before the last stretch to England.
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Wendell Willkie
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Today Is Yours starts in The Cedar Rapids Gazette
A new serial by Emilie Loring appears today in the Cedar Rapids Gazette starting on page 8. Read the first installment and follow the story daily as it unfolds.
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Emilie Loring
America
Cedar Rapids
Fear of God in childhood and a shift to a gentler faith
The writer recalls an upbringing that framed God as an ogre to fear, teaching children to confess sin and dread punishment. He reflects on early fear as emotionally damaging, notes a later return to a sunny, sensible faith, and credits maternal love for keeping faith alive. The piece criticizes harsh religious teaching and advocates a compassionate view of God.
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DR. Newton
Jesus
United Feature Syndicate. Inc
Car Hits Signal and Crashes Into House Nighttime Accident
J H Mahoney 42 of the Roosevelt hotel drove a car that skidded on snow and ice, struck a railroad signal, jumped the curb, and crashed into a house porch on F avenue NW near North Western tracks. Passenger Frances Rompol 29 suffered facial cuts and a bruised knee and was taken to St Luke’s hospital. The other couple fled before police arrived. Police report the incident occurred about 12 10 a.m. Information was handed to Traffic Captain Gordon Hughes.
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J. H. Mahoney
Roosevelt Hotel
Frances Rompotl
St. Luke's Hospital
Mahoney
F Avenue NW
North Western Tracks
Thomas Watt
Gordon Hughes
Lawmaker Seeks Debt Limit Increase and Tax Exemption End
Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill to raise the national debt limit from 49 billion to 65 billion dollars and to end tax exemptions for future federal securities. He said hearings may begin next Wednesday with Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. as the first witness and hopes to bring the bill to the House floor the following week.
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Washington
LLP
Robert L. Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Ways and Means
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Nebraska swindler sentenced after guilty plea
Eugene Earnest Friday received a five year term in the Nebraska penitentiary after pleading guilty to grand larceny in connection with a swindle involving Mrs. Nancy Kilumalee.
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Omaha
INS
Eugene Earnest Friday
Nebraska Penitentiary
Nancy Kilumalee
Hutchins Warns United States Faces Death by Action
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago warned that the nation risks death by its own actions by drifting toward war. He said the President may be forced to intervene militarily to defeat the axis, while criticizing excessive obligations abroad and urging domestic aim achievement.
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Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
United States
Chicago
Hutchins
Student leaders press petitions for lease lend bill on campus
Leaders of Youth for Democracy announced after addressing Dr. Robert M Hutchins that they will campaign for petitions endorsing Roosevelt's lease lend bill. Four campus booths gathered signatures Friday and Hutchins is invited to a mass meeting Tuesday with three speakers pledging the bill's cause.
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Youth For Democracy
Robert M Hutchins
Roosevelt
Hutchins
Educator Hutchins Opposes U S Involvement In European War
Dr. Hutchins, 42, on an unsponsored NBC Red radio program, urged staying out of European and Asian wars. He praised Roosevelt’s four freedoms but criticized aid short of war and called lend lease provisions acts of war, disassociating from nazis facists and appeasers.
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Roosevelt
United States
Europe
Asia
Dr. Hutchins
Realtors To Hold Convention Here Oppose USHA Act
The 1941 Iowa Association of Real Estate Boards convention will be in Cedar Rapids likely in October. The legislative committee was instructed to oppose passage of the US housing authority enabling act by the Iowa legislature. Allen F. Beck said USHA in states where legalized has largely failed to clear slums and has competed with private real estate and paid little tax.
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Cedar Rapids
Directory Board
Des Moines
Association
Iowa
Associated Press
Allen F. Beck
Sioux City
State Association
USHA
Snow Restores Open Roads as Cedar Rapids Feels Light Flurry
Light snowfall left Cedar Rapids streets largely clear with main highways near normal. The storm dumped another inch, temperatures in the twenties hovered around 22 to 26 degrees, and 12 sand and cinders trucks patrolled side streets while crews worked to keep roads passable for motorists.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Automobile Club
Marshalltown
Pistol and Cash Taken From House
Cedar Randals News reports Ben McDonough of 713 Third Avenue SW said an automatic revolver valued at 12 dollars and cash between 28 and 30 dollars were stolen from his home on Wednesday. He left a billfold on the radio and returned at 4 p.m. to find the money missing while the billfold remained.
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Ben McDonough
Third Avenue
McDonough
Severe penalties announced for Rumania vice premier and rebels
Bucharest reports list Horia Sima and other alleged leaders of the rebellion against the Antonescu government. The army hunts the rebels as military courts order swift trials and possible execution within 30 hours of sentencing. Citizens are urged to report snipers and nests.
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Rumania
Council of Ministers
Horia Sima
Blande
Antonescu
Sima
Turmoil in Romania as clashes persist amid mediation talks
Conflicting reports describe continued unrest after claims of restored order. About 30 000 guardists reportedly march toward Bucharest with peasants and army elements joining. local soviets appear in some towns. Baron Manfred von Klinger arrives as Germany may mediate while Ion Antonescu tightens control and troops begin mop up of dissident elements.
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London
Bucharest
Iocal
Manfred von Klinger
Germany
Ion Antonescu
Romanian Insurrection In Bucharest Reported Mass Murders Of Jews
In Bucharest three days of unrest resulted in heavy casualties among Jews with 89 killed in a single block on Wednesday. Premier Ion Antonescu claimed control and announced a reorganization of the Iron Guard after dissident factions sparked the revolt.
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Nazi Persecution in Czechoslovakia Highlights Hurban Claims
Czechoslovakian minister to the United States Colonel Hurban described a new reign of terror in occupied Czechoslovakia. He said Hitler ordered a campaign to liquidate leaders and crush civil life, with schools and libraries closed and teachers sent to camps. He warned Britain’s fate and stressed reliance on U.S. aid as crucial to Britain’s survival.
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United States
Adolf Hitler
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C.S.P.S. Hall
Great Britain
Price Rise Urgents From Investment Bankers Meet
Town investment bankers at their sixth annual conven tion at the Roosevelt hotel urged measures to curb rising prices to guard the government’s fiscal operations and the defense program. Speakers included Dean Chester A Phillips Vladimir Horban and John W Newey.
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Washington
PD Co
Tohn W Newey
Chicago
Education Comminttes Investment Bankers Association of America
Americas
Cedar Rapids records 1288 births in 1949 high total
Births in Cedar Rapids reached a new yearly high of 1288 at hospitals and homes, with males leading 683 to 605. There were 23 sets of twins and 27 male, 39 female, across 1193 hospital births and 95 in residences, totaling 911 local and 377 non resident parents. June was the peak birth month for girls.
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Cedar Rapids
Cats Hall
Selassie Returns to Ethiopia to Lead Allied War Effort
Haile Selassie reentered Ethiopia on January 15 and raised a flag near the frontier as he forms an army to fight fascists. British forces push west in Libya as they prepare assaults on Derna and Benghazi while pursuing gains across East Africa.
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Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Libya
Eritrea
Cairo
Selassie
Sudan
Italian East Africa
Libyan
Derna
Benghazi
Germany Threatens Death To War Profiteers
Berlin authorities issued a decree threatening capital punishment for individuals found guilty of war profiteering through price gouging amid rising wartime pressures and public anger.
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Berlin
INS
Ministry of Justice
Roosevelt Welcomes Lord Halifax Arrives in Annapolis Visit
President Roosevelt broke tradition by greeting British ambassador Lord Halifax during a visit connected to the battleship King George V. The King George V was en route to Annapolis while Roosevelt rode in a White House car with a police escort. Naval officials said the British ship would anchor near Annapolis Roads, with Halifax boarding the Potomac briefly before sailing again.
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British Battleship King George V Steams Toward Annapolis
Comnited from cable dispatches the King George V sailed up Chesapeake Bay toward Annapolis with Lord Halifax aboard to shore up British naval prestige. The voyage was kept secret even after passing the Virginia Capes, and the embassy and navy department maintained secrecy about the warship’s movements as it neared American waters.
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Washington
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George V
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Viscount Halifax Lands in U.S. as New Ambassador
London reports Viscount Halifax arriving in the United States to assume the ambassadorial post after presenting credentials to succeed the late Marquess of Lothian. He traveled with his wife and press adviser aboard the battleship King George V, a wartime fast cruiser. Prime Minister Churchill and Lady Churchill accompanied the departure.
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Lord Halifax
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Marquess of Lothian
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Britain
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