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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1939
Page
3
The article reports on rival claims of Japanese and Russian air losses in Outer Mongolia and the broader war talk. It notes about 40,000 troops on both sides, limited reinforcements, and contested casualty figures. It also satirizes U S political cloakroom tactics surrounding the Hatch bill and Garner faction dynamics ahead of conventions.
ODAY offers Household loans at reduced rates with no co makers or endorsers. A $50 loan repaid in 10 months costs $8.74 while a $100 loan repaid in 12 months costs $20.86, with options for smaller or larger monthly payments and quicker repayment lowering total costs.
In the Senate and House a small, unified Republican faction led by Taft Townsend Johnson and Borah trims spending and defeats arms embargo repeal while Democrats push New Deal bills with less success. Dies committee plots new anti-Semitic exposure lists and notes donor deception by patriotic names. A New Jersey band camp once drawing 10,000 Sundays now draws about 1,000 attendees.
The United States Conference of Mayors warns that the relief program under the 1939-40 WPA could collapse unless Congress revises key clauses. Mayors LaGuardia Burton Reading Tobin and Jackson helped draft the report urging a minimum decently adequate care for the unemployed until private jobs rebound.
Washington NAM surveyed the nation on government policy. It found 58 percent favor less spending, 36 percent want government to let business alone, and 48 percent seek tax cuts while 36 percent oppose tax increases. Farmers favor less spending. lower income groups oppose higher spending.
Report notes a split stance with a majority choosing to let them alone while 9 percent backed two conditions on rise or fall and 5 percent had no opinion.
United States navy pay clerk R A Baker of Anderson Indiana was beaten by a Japanese sentry in Hankow after a car struck him and he gripped a rifle. He was taken to Japanese headquarters and released four hours later following American naval protests. The incident occurred as Baker walked near the French concession, with Japan restricting pedestrians on certain sidewalks.
In Chicago spectators watched as two Ringling Brothers acrobats fell 40 feet to the center ring. Ida Walkmir, 32, from Trieste, Italy, suffered a fractured left arm and Katherine Strehl, 22, from Berlin, broke several ribs. They were on a cross bar atop a 35-foot pole balanced on the head of Walkmir’s husband Gaultiero when the accident occurred.
A pedestrian slipped on a pebble and fell, tumbling several women to the ground in an unintended cascade. No serious injuries reported.
A Victorian era style column outlines a daily menu plan to feed a family of five with three children on twelve dollars weekly. It promises balanced calories, heat, protein, and vitamins to support growth and energy.
A detailed daily menu lists sliced bananas cereal toast jam coffee and milk for children, club sandwiches with bacon lettuce tomato and mayonnaise, fresh apricots and blueberries, eggs with liver, potatoes, stewed tomatoes, croutons, doughnuts and coffee. Total cost about 1.60 with a daily milk allowance of 3 quarts and cups for coffee and dessert.
A Cedar Rapids Gazette notice invites readers to request Meta Given booklets in care of the newspaper. It also promotes the Community Nutrition Service dial 5515 for marketing, budgeting, diet guidance, and low cost recipes.
Dr. Edward Dodge Curran, president of the International Catholic Truth Society, denounces President Roosevelt’s radio appeal to halt Father Charles E. Coughlin broadcasts. He defends Coughlin, rejects anti Semitism charges as communist smears, and questions Roosevelt’s political influence in radio.
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