Icecapades of 1941 a Cedar Rapids smash repeat today
The Icecapades of 1941 staged at Manhattan Lake by the Cedar Rapids Winter Sports club drew crowds despite wet snow and will be repeated at 2 30 and 7 30 pm today. Under Gust Grayston’s direction a varied program featured seven year olds to adults with notable performances by Mary Carole Rankinen Dorothy Keppler Ray Consamus and Mary Virginia Glenn crowned queen by Mayor Hahn.
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Manhattan Lake
Cedar Rapids
Haven Simmons
Gust Grayston
Vienna
Iowa
Tommy Mahan
Iowa City
Louis
Joseph Becicka
Larry Wilbus
Howard Fiefield
Frank Hlavacek
Paul Consamus
Bull Simmons
Betty Hearn
Alice Mary Chadima
Miss Grayston
Mary Carole Rankinen
Tyrus Rankinen
Ray Consamus
Janet Dennis
Bill Simmons
Dorothy Keppler
Town City
Dean Terwilliger
Alice Mary Chadimas
Dorothy Nienders
Margaret Weingart
Des Moines
Vernetta Haine
Hollywood
Calf
Mary Ann Grayston
Eunice McLaughlin
Jim McGreevey
Mary Virginia Glenn
Miss Glenn
F. K. Hahn
Gusti Grayston
Mildred Krough
Shirley Nichols
Sally Sweet
Doris Wage
Carol
Axis claims big sea victories and British losses
Axis forces report several sea successes including German dive bombers hitting two British battleships and a heavy cruiser off Crete, and Italian submarines sinking a British troopship and a Greek merchant vessel. A German long-range bomber is said to have sunk a British merchant ship west of Ireland.
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Mediterranean
Crete
Atlantic
North
Ireland
Berlin
English
Britain
British
Air Ministry
Lorient
French
West England
Great Britain
Cash And Carry Journey By U S Warship Revealed
The United States sent a warship to belligerent waters to bring a cash and carry shipment of British gold to the country. The navy and treasury disclosed that gold was purchased in the Union of South Africa and transported by the U S S Louisville. Officials did not reveal the amount or the South African port. It recalled the U S S Vincennes bringing a gold shipment previously.
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Washington
United States
Navy
Treasury Department
Union of South Africa
U.S
Lousville
South Atlantic
Treasury
U.S.S. Vincennes
Sunday Arms Work Program In Britain
Britain launches a near nation wide Sunday work program in war factories with workers receiving double pay.
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Britain
London
INL
Farinacci Taken Up Front Line Duties
An official Italian wireless service announced that Roberto Farinacci, high ranking fascist party leader and editor, has taken up duties in the front line.
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Rome
INS
Roberto Farxinacci
Slick Sleuthing Leads to Grand Larceny Arrest
Searles 44 of 213 Eleventh Street NE was booked on grand larceny after detectives arrested him at 3 p.m. in a local tavern. He allegedly stole a billfold with 75 to 80 dollars from roommate Ed Drummond, Chief of Detectives Earl Stanley, who with Patrolman Merle Burton recovered the billfold and a $150 receipt. Stanley found the receipt in Drummond's billfold, later located in a hotel janitor's quarters. Faced with evidence, Searles reportedly altered his story claiming a out-of-town relative sent money.
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Coy Searles
Eleventh Street
Searles
Ed Drummond
Earl Stanley
Merle Burton
Stanley
Drummond
La Plant Choate Plans Two New Factory Buildings
La Plant Choate Manufacturing will build two 80 by 220 foot structures adding a 10 ton traveling crane. The expansion will add about 50 jobs for machinists and steel fabricators as turret lathes a milling machine and several drilling and boring machines are ordered. Office space moves to Collins Radio building with Collins retaining one first floor room until April 1, 1941.
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la Plant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Choate
Collins Radio Company
Collins
Collins Company
Maine Brotherhood To Entertain At Lodge Program
Members of Maine lodge No. 643 will be entertained by Maine Brotherhood after the regular meeting Tuesday evening in Maine hall. The annual Brotherhood meeting will be held, followed by a program and refreshments. David and Dean Ring will perform cello, violin, piano, and vocal pieces, with selections including Berceuse, Romany, Londonderry Air, On the Trail, Deep Purple, Blueberry Hill, God Bless America, and In the Hall of the Mountain King, with David Ring accompanied by Dean and vice versa.
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Maine Lodge
Harriman Says She Quit Norwegian Post
Mrs J Borden Harriman announced Saturday she tendered her resignation as minister to Norway about six weeks ago. She said she had not received official word but felt sure it was accepted January 21.
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Washington
J. Borden Harriman
Norway
Britain must win air war. Bullitt warns of encirclement
The hearing features remarks by Mrs. Daisy Harriman and Dorothy Thompson fearing a Nazi victory and U.S. subjugation. Bullitt argues Britain needs American planes to break German morale while cautioning on limits of presidential power and Japan’s Pacific moves.
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Daisy Harriman
Norway
Miss Thompson
Maxime Weygand
United States
Great Britain
Fish
America
Thompson
England
U S Pilot Seeks Safer Duty Flying Bombers to Britain
Paul T Miller, a 21 year Chicago flyer, hopes to switch from England ferrying to a simpler task ferrying American bombers across the Atlantic from Canada to Britain. He notes dangers are weather, balloon barrages, and hazy anti aircraft fire rather than German raids. Having spent six months with the Air Transport Auxiliary, he has made two trans Atlantic trips and seeks a quiet routine over the ocean.
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Chicago
Paul T. Miller
Chicago Flyer
England
Atlantic
Canada
Britain
Miller
Air Transport Auxiliary
Royal Air Force
Oklahoma Governor Loses Dam Battle
Governor Leon C. Phillips failed to stop the Denison dam after a federal court dismissed the governor’s injunction suit. A three judge panel sustained the government motion, allowing construction of the $54,000,000 project to continue in Muskogee Oklahoma.
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Muskogee, Okla
INS
Leon C. Phillips
Denison
Lend Act sparks critique of US aid to Britain
Sen. Robert A. Taft condemned the pending lease lend bill as granting vast presidential power to spend American funds and potentially enter the U.S. into war. He argued it would make the United States a major Santa Claus to Britain and risk neutrality at sea.
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New York
Congress
Britain
Robert A. Taft
Taft
New York Bar Association
Congress of the
United States
Supreme Court
Ohio
England
Heavy Snow Delays Traffic Across State Regions
Motor traffic remains light as heavy snow blankets the city and surrounding areas. The commission reports six inches in the southwest, four inches in the south central and central regions, one inch in the southeast, and two inches in the northwest.
Storm Toll Mounts as East Sees Snow and Cold
Associated Press report recounts seven deaths in New England from a Friday snowstorm that crossed the nation east of the Rockies, with Pennsylvan ia and Iowa fatalities. Nebraska and Kansas felt snow while California faced rain in a cold spell, Warroad Minnesota sank to 36 below, Florida stayed mild.
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Rockies
New England
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
California
Wisconsin
Warroad
Minn
Florida
Police nab reckless driver by tracing tracks in snow
Robert A. Burke aged 34 of 827% B avenue NE was charged with reckless driving after Traffic Patrolmen Stodola and Remington traced his car’s snow tracks from a hit and run at A avenue and Fifth street NE about 11 p.m. Saturday. Burke was with two women, one 17, in a car that lacked brakes and had prior traffic arrests. Mrs. Lewis Jackson of 511 A avenue NE was taken home from a tavern. Jackson was later arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct at her residence.
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Robert A. Burke
Avenue
John Stodola
Bill Remington
Burke
A Avenue
Fifth Street
Lewis Jackson
Avenue NE
Jackson
Cain
Red Cross Annual Meeting Thursday in Linn County
Prof. George D. Haskell of the University of Iowa economics department will address Linn county Red Cross members at the annual dinner meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Peoples church. Election of directors, annual reports, and a junior Red Cross skit will also be presented.
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George D. Haskell
University of Iowa Department of Economics
Linn County
Red Cross
Peoples Church
Haskell
Amherst College
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Ohio State
Iowa
State Board of Social Welfare
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Missouri recount halted by court action
Missouri Supreme Court issued a preliminary writ of prohibition to stop a Democratic led legislative committee from starting its gubernatorial ballot inquiry. Republican Forrest Donnell leads by about 3,000 votes but his election lacks certification. Governor Stark remains in office. inauguration set for January 13.
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Jefferson City
State Supreme Court
Legislative Committee
Forrest C. Donnell
Lawrence McDaniel
House
Donnell
Lloyd C. Stark
Roy McKittrick
Stark
Dictatorship Seen Behind Lend Lease Push
Verne Marshall, head of the No Foreign War Committee, denounced the minority war party for trying to railroad the lend lease bill. He warned the bill would abdicate congressional power and create a virtual dictatorship for America while appealing to sympathy for Britain.
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New York
Verne Marshall
No Foreign War Committee
War Party
Congress
Marshall
Britain
America
Arrest 2 Drivers Of Same Machine Within 5 Minutes
Two men were arrested within five minutes after a car they were in was stopped near Second Avenue and Third Street by Patrolman Fuzzy Ahring. Sullivan refused a chemical intoxication test claiming he was drunk, while Cahalan admitted drinking since 6 30 p m and said Sullivan drove the car owned by a local dealer for whom Sullivan sold cars.
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Second Avenue
Third Street
Fuzzy Ahring
Sullivan
Steve Stolba
Cahalan
Arrest Report: Earl Daywitt Booked for Drunk Driving
Patrolmen Ray Ales and Howard Prasil arrested 41 year old Earl Daywitt of 1506 Sixth Street SW at 12 45 am Sunday after tracking his car from Third Street SE to the Sixteenth Avenue bridge. He was booked for drunk driving after appearing intoxicated and submitted to a chemical test.
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Earl Daywitt
Sixth Street
Ray Ales
Howard Prasil
Daywitt
Third Street SE
Sixteenth Avenue Bridge
May Put Italians On English Farms
The British government plans to move thousands of Italians captured in Libya to Britain to fill farming jobs now filled by conscripted British workers.
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London
Libya
Great Britain
Greeks Smash Heavy Fascist Counter Drive in Albania
Greek forces repelled a large Italian counter-offensive in Tepeleni Albania as Italian troops were driven from forward positions. Greek artillery and machine gun fire halted assaults on the Klisura-Ber at corridor and Valona supply lines. Civilians evacuated Valona and Italian planes dropped aid to frontline units.
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A. E. Angelopoulos
Athens
INS
Tepeleni
Ugo Cavallero
Klisura
Valona
Albania
Weather data war shadows skies as code and balloons aid Britain
The United States Weather Bureau coordinates global observations to aid Britain in wartime. Data from upper air sounding stations and weather balloons, coded in Morse, is broadcast from Arlington four times daily. Balloons return transmitters for a dollar each, with 12,000 devices planned this year at 270000 dollars.
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United States Weather Bureau
Great Britain
Eastport
Greenland
United States
Neutrality Patrol
United States Naval Radio Station
Arlington
Bureau
Middle West
Lighthouse Service Maintains 27500 Aids to Shipping
The United States lighthouse service reports maintaining 27500 aids to navigation including 31 lightships 527 attended lights and 15000 buoys across coastal and inland waters.
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United States Lighthouse Service
Plans for President's Birthday Ball Funds Infantile Paralysis Relief
Advance ticket sales for the President's Birthday ball at Danceland report strong attendance. Mayor Hahn will open the event at 9 p.m. with a grand march. Proceeds fund infantile paralysis relief, split between local needs and the National Foundation.
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Danceland
Frank K. Hahn
Adelen Hutchinson School of Danceing
Roosevelt Hotel
Jack Young
Second Avenue SE
Curry
Second Avenue
C. L. Beeson
Joe Burke
First Street
Fisher Drug Company
Third Avenue
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, Inc
Children's Hospital
Iowa City
Linn
Anna E. Lamey
Park Terrace
Paul Huston
Guy McKibben
Ray Hyland
Collins Radio Seeks Tax Amortization Of Plant Costs
R S Gates treasurer of Collins Radio confirms an application to amortize over five years for income tax purposes the cost of a new plant now under construction. The War Department notes two other Iowa firms Clinton Company of Clinton and Globe Hoist Company of Des Moines have sought the same approval for defense related plant expansions.
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R. S. Gates
Collins Radio Company
Iowa
National Defense
War Department
Clinton Company
Clinton
Globe Hoist Company
Des Moines
Murray Plea Calls Labor Backing for Defense Councils
CI President Philip Murray urged industry and government to draw from the well springs of labor and accept his proposal for national industry councils aligned with the national defense program. Oxford obituary notes Mrs Walter Palmer 54 died after year long illness in Oxford. born Homestead, daughter of Carl and Sophia Buhr. widow of Zupf died 1930 and then married Walter Palmer, survived by husband two brothers Charles Buhr Oxford and Herman Buhr Grindingdale? One son died in infancy.
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INS
Philip Murray Saturda
Oxford
Walter Paper
Homestead
Carl
Sophia Buhr
Fr Zupf
Walter Palmer
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