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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1941
Page
5
Claudia and David, Rose Franken’s couple, move to the Kate Smith Hour Friday at 6 p.m. on WMT. Patricia Ryan is Claudia with Richard Kollmar as David. Peter Van Steeden conducts. Charles Stark announces.
A dense, fragmentary listing of radio programs across stations WMT WGN WLS WENR WHO and others for Friday July 4 1941 and Saturday July 5 1941. Contains times program names hosts and guest performers with many entries truncated or garbled.
Radio schedule from Iowa state institutions outlining WSUI Iowa City WOL Ames and University programs Saturday morning and afternoon segments. Highlights include Farm News P T A Youth Speaks and music programs with News and Photo Feature segments.
The Rev Mr and Mrs C I Hammond celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their Montour home with relatives including Anna Vreeland, Lois, Melba and Doris Hammond, James Hammond, and guests from Atlantic Vallejo and Newcastle honor the milestone. The couple wed July 2 1891 in the bride’s parents home with Henry Avery officiating. After a long pastorate in Iowa and Nebraska they retired to Montour in 1939.
J. R. Pefferle of Des Moines was elected chairman of the Iowa employment security commission, succeeding Claude M. Stanley who became vice chairman. Peter J. Kies of Dubuque serves as the general public appointee while the trio includes republican Pefferle and Stanley with Kies as democrat.
In a St Louis collision involving Melvin Green and Richard B Stockton police found all traffic lights green due to signals jammed on green. Both drivers claimed the right of way, charges of careless driving and destruction of property were not pursued.
Washington AP Robert E McConnell head of the conservation section at the OPM warned Americans to expect many ersatz products and fewer luxuries as war-time conservation and substitutions reshape daily life. He cited plowmakers cutting varieties and household items using reclaimed materials, urging slower driving, proper tire inflation, and reduced demand for luxury goods while stressing patriotism through necessity.
The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies said it would use the shorter form Committee to Defend America for general use. For formal purposes it will append by aiding the allies, defeating the axis powers, developing means of future peace.
The treasury announced that June sales of defense savings bonds totaled 268,965,000 and defense savings stamps 2,998,000. Since May 1, defense savings bonds sales reached 707,195,000 while stamps totaled 6,473,000.
Edgar A Guest exhorts on a holy day urging Old Glory to wave over land and sea. He praises liberty justice and the red white and blue as symbols of freedom defended by living and dead, calling nations to uphold humanity under tyrants.
Omaha Deputy County Attorney Thomas Quinlan told the county board that the city’s 1,071 parking meters are illegal and could be removed if it can be shown they bring in more revenue than the cost of maintenance.
Hollywood reports Jesse Lasky will produce Adventures of Mark Twain with rights bought from Twain daughter Mrs Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Twain’s famous characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn will appear. negotiations with Jack Warner to follow, while Nina Gabrilowitsch acts in the film. Merle Oberon’s driving mishap and other gossip wrap the column in a nostalgic Hollywood tone.
Barnacle Bill stars Beery as a rough fisherman whose life shifts when his long lost daughter Virginia Weidler arrives, aided by Marjorie Main. The second feature, The Black Cat, blends mystery and comedy with Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi haunting a mansion, as various deaths unfold amid spooky set pieces.
STOCKHOLM AP A Russian proclamation read on Tallinn radio ordered all cattle corn and machinery in Estonia shipped to Russia immediately with public assistance in loading. Destruction of goods was forbidden until an official order. Any immovable items would be burned. This follows Stalin's scorched earth policy in fighting the German advance.
A defense bond may be registered in a minor's name. Couples can own bonds together if requested. Series E holdings cap at $5,000 while Series F and G allow up to $50,000 at par. Full details available at post offices and banks. request information from the Treasurer of the United States, Washington, D. C.
AT THE THEATERS AT THE THEATERS PARAMOUNT Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in Caught in the Draft with Lynne Overman and Eddie Bracken. TOWA Adventure in Washington with Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce and Gene Reynolds. She Knew All the Answers with Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone and John Hubbard. STATE Wallace Beery in Barnacle Bill with Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo and Virginia Weidler The Black Cat with Hugh Herbert, Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi. PALACE Judy Garland in Little Nellie Kelly John Howard and Ellen Drew in Texas Rangers Ride Again. RIALTO Alice Faye and Don Ameche in Hollywood Cavalcade Don Barry in Texas Terrors. MARION Robert Preston and Loretta Young in Lady from Cheyenne Meet Boston Blackie with Chester Morris and Rochelle Hudson.
Berlin paper Lokalzeiger reacts to Stalin urging Russians to devastate liberated territories. It states without hesitation that Russia should not starve, while Germany will not surrender even a single ounce of food to Bolshevik forces in the struggle for existence.
New York UP reports Erich Strunck a former Siboney liner waiter arrested in Milwaukee pleaded guilty to transmitting defense secrets to a foreign power. He is the 11th of 33 arrested in a wholesale espionage ring and is held on $25,000 bail.
Hoover and the G Men receive praise for rounding up spies. Some congressmen oppose wire tapping bill to aid espionage cases. Roeder linked to Sperry Gyroscope. Ham Fish praised by Ribbentrop aide. Oil to Japan debated. Runyon and Treuben share horse racing banter in a Walter Winchell column fragment.
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