Social Security Payroll Taxes and Political Theatre
The column weighs inflation fight via higher payroll taxes against wartime business needs and questions federal grants based on state wealth. It mocks Atlanta officials for blocking a Wheeler speech, and critiques Altmeyer's push for broader health and unemployment coverage amid war. It notes Dewey as GOP prospect but cautions the 1944 race hinges on policy actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sam
Altmeyer
Pare Mallon
Tom Dewey
GOP
Dewey
Mr. Dewey
Price controls slash auto output by half in wartime curbs
Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson announced a 50 percent cut in automobile, refrigerator and laundry equipment production due to acute defense material shortages. The plan expands to other consumer goods soon, targets 200,000 autos per month, and introduces simpler models to conserve steel nickel copper rubber and other basics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Leon Henderson
Defense
Henderson
Office of Production Management
Priorities Division
Yoo-Hoo Brigade: Officer Targeted by Golf Course Chortle
In Portland Oregon a group of women greeted Lieut Col A E Lawkins with a chorus of yoo-hoos as he toured the Broadmoor golf course in shorts. The incident ends with the officer taking the playful heckling in good humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
INS
Fair Sex
Uncle Sam
Broadmoor
A E. Lawkins
Oregon Military District
Labor and AFL Demand Share in Defense Administration
Labor and the CIO AFL press for greater participation in running the defense program. Sidney Hillman creates a labor supply branch and defense labor advisory committees to give unions a voice equal to industry. Labor seeks administration rights, not mere advisory roles, amid a broad mobilization effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
AFL
Defense Administration
Pvaseington
The
Gazette Special News Service
United Kingdom
Labor
England
Hillman
Defense Labor Advisory Committees
Office of Production Management
OPM
Defense
Commodity Section
Defense Industry Advisory Committee
Russia Claims Sea Victory In Baltic Sinking Eleven Transports
Russia announced a sea victory claiming Soviet naval and air units sank eleven German troop transports and one oil tanker in the Baltic. The communique noted the loss of one Russian motor torpedo boat and a plane while a German fighter was shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Baltic
U.s.s.r’s
Moscow
Leningrad
Kiev
Soviet
Gulf of Finland
New Front Line Generals Serve Varied Posts And Traits
The six top army posts in the new defense setup go to officers from diverse duties. Maj. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews becomes Caribbean defense commander while Maj. Gen. Jacob L. DeVers leads the armored force. Patterson signals more army changes as Caribbean, armored force and four army corps shift under new command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Gazette Special Service
America
Robert P. Patterson
Army
High Command
Caribbean Defense Command
Armored Force
Army Corps
Frank Maxwell Andrews
Caribbean
Andrews
War Department
Jacob L. DeVers
Capital Has New Assault and Violence Case
A 18 year old girl and a 32 year old soldier were attacked by a Black assailant in Patterson Hill woods. The assailant posed as a watchman, robbed them, and slashed the soldier’s throat with a razor before fleeing. The injuries are severe and the victims were hospitalized. A second rape and strangling case from June remains unsolved, and a 19 year old man faces an open charge in a separate killing of a 15 year old girl, with the suspect quoted admitting motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Capital
Edward L. McCullough
Fort Meade
Joyce Smith
Patterson Hill Woods
Federal Park
McCullough
Jessie Elizabeth Strieff
War Department
Ellen Cannon
Guy Edward Oden
Ira Keck
Cedar Rapids man charged with drunk driving after crash
Fred W. Main, 58, of 1826 First avenue E, charged with drunk driving after his car struck an ambulance at First avenue and Thirteenth street E. The ambulance, eastbound, stopped for a stop sign and was pushed into a car driven by Stanley Novotny, 2533 B avenue NE. Only the ambulance driver, Bernard Rezalek, was inside the vehicle at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred W. Main
First Avenue E
First Avenue
Thirteenth Street E
Bernard Rezalek
Stanley Novotny
Avenue NE
Stalin assumes supreme command of Soviet armed forces
Moscow reports Stalin has taken personal supreme command of the Soviet Union's army and becomes national defense commissar. He replaces Marshal Timoshenko in Moscow's defense efforts as German forces advance. A radio broadcast cites a decree by Kalinin and Gorkin declaring Stalin commander in chief of all Russian troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
INS
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Russia
Semyon Timoshenko
Timoshenko
Supreme Presidium
U.S.S.R
Stalin
Mikhailo Kalinin
Gorkine
Communist Party
Council of People’s Commissars
Vyacheslav Molotov
Cedar Rapids Heat Reaches 82 Degrees Saturday
The Cedar Rapids temperature peaked at 82 degrees between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. under sunny skies. Readings fell to 76 by 6:30 p.m. and 41 at 11:15 p.m. The warm day followed a 57 degree low between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m.. by 7 a.m. it was 62 and by 9:30 a.m. 69.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Ickes calls one third voluntary oil cut for East
Interior Secretary Ickes urged a one third voluntary reduction in gasoline use by Atlantic coast states to avoid rationing. He outlined conservation steps such as fixing faulty motors, sensible speeds, and limiting multiperson commutes. He warned stocks for winter would be inadequate without immediate cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Defense Petroleum Coordinator
Atlantic Seaboard
District of Columbia
East
Gulf
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Reinforcements Arrive for R A F in Singapore
An official announcement from Singapore said large reinforcements of R A F personnel arrived after a safe voyage from the United Kingdom. The exact number of men was not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
United Kingdom
Penick Ford Plant Shuts After Union Shop Demand
The Penick and Ford plant will remain closed until further notice after a four hour meeting over a union shop demand from AFL affiliated Federal Labor Union No 18619. About 700 workers are affected and negotiations will continue with no meetings scheduled for the next two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penick and Ford
AFL
Two Women Injured In Iowan Car Crash West Of Cedar Rapids
Four Chicago travelers on a vacation trip to Colorado were involved when their car ran off highway 30 about six miles west of Cedar Rapids. Margaret Moles and Anita Patti were injured with chest and neck or back injuries while the others escaped serious harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Margaret Moles
Chicago
Anita Patti
Mercy Hospital
Joseph Moles
Miss Moles
Highway Patrol
Moles
Vincent Patti
Miss Patti
Ralph W. Jenser
Latimer
Colorado
Eleventh Street
Log of Wing On tragedy used to restore memory
In Los Angeles a doctor works to restore memory of Lily Fern Thompson, sole survivor of the Wing On cruise. The shipwreck victims include her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Conly. Chester Thompson was buried at sea. The log, deemed too horrible for publication, is used under note of consent after state department and Fiji authorities intervened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Wing On
Lily Fern Thompson
Thompson
Dalton
Hawaii
Samoa
Fiji
Chester Thompson
Mrs. Conly
Jacqueline
Tommy
State Department
Fiji Islands
Robert Neeb
Siege Ordered After Threat of Revolution in Bolivia
Bolivian government declares a nationwide siege and orders German minister Ernest Wendler to leave within 48 hours amid arrests of politicians and editors. La Paz radio broadcasts the decree while officials claim order is tranquil as authorities crush a conspiratorial move toward a totalitarian state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Paz
Bolvia
Ernest Wendler
Bolivia
National Revoolutionary Party
Saporiti
la Calle
South America
German Busch
Busch
Man Charged After Street Crossing Crash
Donald Lloyd 23 of 825 Sixth Street SE faces reckless driving and operating without a license after his car collided with Charles J. Benda 39 in Ely. Three people were injured, two others escaped with minor injuries, all treated at St Luke's Hospital. Lloyd claimed he braked but could not avoid the collision at Sixth Street SE and Sixth Avenue.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Lloyd
Sixth Street
Sixth Avenue SE
Charles J. Benda
Ely
Lottie Benda
J Street
Lloyd
Thee
Sixth Avenue
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Clarke Beach
Sidney Hillman
National Mediation Board
Defense Industries
Red Army
Air Corps
West Point
Air Force
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Jakie” DeVers
Cedar Rapids News
Mercury
Sunday Index
Frederick Palmer
Senee
Carl Sandbure
Secial
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Walter Winekeil
Cheam Eer
Seenseesels Farm
Ecseess Marien
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Cedar Rounds
Penick and
Ford
J. Max Widmer
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