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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1941
Page
3
Churchill warns of rising wrath and verge of war as American policy debates unfold. Tax bills loom with talk of another after a $3.5 billion measure, while calls for price controls face pushback amid inflation fears. Finland cuts ties with Britain affecting US relations and war news from Russia and Germany remains uncertain. Howard Jones’s death shocks Iowa sports fans, marking the end of an era in college football.
Dispatches report Soviet counterattacks spreading across all major sectors of the 2000 mile front as Germany claims gains in Bessarabia and near Akkerman. Moscow says Hitler's 38 day drive toward Moscow and Kiev is breaking and that Soviet forces defend key regions including Smolensk, Leningrad, and Kiev.
City records a season high as the temperature hits 100 degrees at 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, breaking the daily heat mark for the third straight day. A heat wave sent humidity down and clouds gathered with forecasts calling for possible rain and a high of about 106 later Wednesday afternoon.
Safety Commissioner Wes Benesh offered a plan for police and fire salary increases to take effect next April 1 after the new council takes office. The plan starts with a $2 monthly raise from $135 to $137, followed by gradual increases reaching $162.50 by year twenty, with identical raises for all grades. Burgus notes the total first year costs and asserts the budget can cover them via delinquencies and cuts, while critics warn the move may pressure voters.
An informal poll of house leaders showed the administration plan to extend selectee service would fail if voted now. Republicans oppose extending service, favor keeping guardsmen and reservists, while Senate non interventionists mobilize against the bill.
Washington reports the house adjourned and postponed voting on the $3.5 billion tax bill amid fear of a possible gag rule. Leaders expect a floor amendment compromise within 24 hours if administration votes do not succeed.
In Central City Colorado, 55 year old recluse trapper Joe Modetz who used the alias Joe Snyder for two decades died of starvation in a mountain cabin. Officials say he starved after being chained to a bunk with the door jammed from inside. Modetz was found Sunday, at least three months after death, with neighbors noting he sometimes tied his hands with rope for no clear reason.
At the United States Gypsum company plant near Fort Dodge a clash between CIO pickets and workers left plant manager R. D. Hess with a possible brain concussion after a car overturned. Two Fort Dodge union members, Robert Schultz and James Deaton, suffered severe cuts or bruises. Police say the car struck the men. strikers claim the vehicle overturned after pinning them. The strike, part of a nationwide union action since June 26, seeks wage increases and a contract. An injunction bars interference with workers returning to work.
Iowa Electric reports 39 miles of 115000 volt transmission line from Cedar Rapids to a sub station 614 miles north of Belle Plaine will begin this week. Dowzer Construction of Hutchinson Kansas won the bid and moves ore-digging equipment to Cedar Rapids.
Berlin sources claim German submarines sank 19 British ships totaling 116,500 tons in a transatlantic convoy Monday and Monday night. They also said one destroyer and one corvette protecting the convoy were sunk.
Urgent notice announces only four days remain to obtain the Gazette cook booklets. The series remains available for purchase during the final promotional window.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned of a possible German invasion in September and said the United States is advancing to the very verge of war. He urged vigilance, praised Russia and U S aid, noted Atlantic moves, and dismissed calls for a minister of production as a farce.
Washington AP The House rejected a compromise to authorize presidential seizure of plants during defense production delays. The 235 to 114 vote sent the bill back to conference, with House rivals demanding removal of all plant seizure provisions and preserving only a 28 year old draft deferment. The AFL CIO opposed the rejected seizure provision.
Gov George A Wilson named G. K. Thompson of Cedar Rapids as judge of the Eighteenth district covering Linn Cedar and Jones counties to succeed the late H. C. Ring. Thompson, born November 24 1887 in Jamaica IA, earned a law degree from Iowa in 1914 and has led Linn County and Iowa county attorney groups.
Washington AP report quotes Doctor Alexander Loudon stating that in extreme emergency the oil wells and refineries in the Dutch East Indies would be effectively destroyed by the Dutch.
Eastern Iowa prepares for a full evening of massed bands choruses drum corps and baton twirlers at Hill Park Wednesday starting 7 30 p m. About 50 participants including Detroit’s Ford Caledonian bagpipe band highlight the festival with judging by area educators at Coe College.
Weather bureau predicts relief from a week of extreme heat as thundershowers drop temperatures. Western Iowa will see storms Tuesday night and the rest of the state Wednesday, with Fort Madison reaching 106 and Sigourney 102 on Monday. Inwood logged 0.45 inch of rain, while Iowa Falls, Clarinda and Marshalltown reported lighter amounts.
The Chicago weather bureau forecast a break in the death producing humidity Tuesday. Forecaster G L Canaday said rising barometric pressure from Canada into North Dakota and extreme northwestern Minnesota would expand and send cooling breezes into the sweltering region.
German planes conducted nighttime raids on three eastern England locations, causing minor casualties and slight damage per the air and home security ministries.
President Roosevelt will send a message to Congress Wednesday seeking enactment of a broad price control bill with rent stabilization for defense areas and parity for farm products. Barkley said final draft not complete but general agreement exists on contents. The measure aims to curb inflationary price spirals while addressing producer licensing and defense needs.
Representatives of 800000 non-operating railroad workers rejected a railway counter proposal calling for 11 work rule changes. Details of the requested changes were not disclosed but were said to concern conditions of employment and services to be rendered.
U S Steel directors report June quarter earnings of 1.12 a share versus 3.48 in March. The drop stems from higher wages and taxes including the 1941 tax bill. Total taxes for the quarter reach 52.96 million, up from 22.60 million in Q1.
Dallas AP reports Dr Robert Thomas Hill 82 a self made scientist and longtime chief geologist of the United States Geological Survey from 1886 to 1930 died Monday night in Dallas Texas.
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