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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1940
Page
1
A columnist rails against political opportunism and the Washington elite amid looming war, arguing a morally bankrupt nation risks decay. He cites World War II anxieties, media hysteria, and calls for decisive Allied victory over Nazi aggression. Public figures and readers’ voices underscore urgent patriotism.
President Roosevelt moves to trim general government spending by 10 percent and divert the savings to the national defense fund. White House secretary Stephen T Early said some departments may not yield and could face deficiencies, with a conference set with Budget Director Harold Smith on impounding appropriations.
Washington figures show total outlay approaching 10.4 billion for the 1941 fiscal year starting July 1 with defense absorbing about 3.6 billion. Income is raised by 636 million due to higher receipts and defense tax, while defense appropriations total near five billion and the gross deficit nears 4.28 billion.
Rome Italy announces the indefinite postponement of the 1942 Rome exposition as nations request more time to prepare exhibits. Italy’s mobilization continues with mobilization pink cards reaching additonal homes.
A reflective piece explores uneven development in adults and children, noting how people can be strong in one trait yet lacking in another. It cites figures like Grant and Brooks, comments on money sense and humor, and argues for daily patience and charity toward all, including ourselves.
New York AP Joseph Schenck chairman of Twentieth Century Fox was indicted by a federal grand jury on 24 counts including income tax fraud conspiracy and making false statements to a government investigator. His bookkeeper Joseph H Moscowitz is named as co defendant. The indictments allege Schenck defrauded the government of more than 400000 in taxes for 1935 through 1937.
Balloting in Linn county primaries was light but higher than 1938 by mid afternoon. Through 2 10 p m 2487 voters used the lever machines across 29 of 48 precincts including Cedar Rapids 23 precincts Marion four wards Marion township and Mount Vernon. Heaviest voting was in Cedar Rapids outer and middle east side areas with 149 in Bever Park tenth precinct and 145 in the ninth precinct. Continued on page 2 column 5.
Mild conditions in Cedar Rapids favored turnout for the biennial primaries. Temperatures rose from 65 degrees at 5 am to 87 by 2 30 pm with a Sunday low of 63 and a 89 degree peak at 3 30 pm on the Chambers Inskeep dial.
The Supreme Court 8 to 1 upholds a regulation requiring school children to salute the American flag. Justice Frankfurter writes the decision sustaining the Minersville Pennsylvania board. Justice Stone dissents. The court also adjourns to October and agrees to review several wage hour and labor cases.
Kearney WN INS reports the three day shipyard strike of 6 700 workers ended Sunday when the union accepted a settlement offered by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company by a 5 to 4 vote after previously rejecting the offer.
Julia, a seven year old girl under care of relatives since her mother died, hopes for a three week Camp Good Health stay this summer. Nurses say the program can steady her nerves and teach health habits and nourishing foods under medical supervision. Continued on Page 2.
A 15 year old, Donald Morgan, drove a car without a license or parental consent in Cedar Rapids. He struck James Cassidy, 16, a bicyclist, injuring a knee and hip. Morgan confessed and was ordered to report to the highway patrol and Juvenile Officer for investigation of lack of a driving permit.
Ulysses S. Guyer of Kansas City speaks to 124 Coe graduates at the 59th commencement urging optimism in American business and culture and a dismantling of excessive government restraint. He invites graduates to erase impossible from their vocabularies and predicts free enterprise will hire the idle as population grows.
Berlin reports capturing 330000 British and French prisoners after the Dunkirk withdrawal. German high command says loss figures are preliminary as Allied rearguard resistance slows Nazi advances. Berlin notes heavy Allied bombing on Dunkirk while German raids extend to the Rhone Valley and Marseille.
Henry Ford asserts he can build 1000 planes daily and General Motors matches the claim. Yet the effort won’t reinstate General Billy Mitchell’s rank as the policy follows a long-ago prescription. The piece hopes the first completed aircraft bears the name The Mitchell.
Forty five killed and 149 injured in Paris and suburbs as German air raid strikes. Bombs damaged 97 buildings 61 fires started and streets torn up. U S ambassador William C Bullitt narrowly escaped a bomb six feet from him at a luncheon with the French air minister.
In open daylight a June bombing near a Paris cafe caused rubble and glass but patrons kept eating. A district post office and a bank were struck as residents watched smoke, dust and damaged streets with few seeking shelter.
NBC reports a German radio broadcast saying Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands may reside for the time being in the Netherlands East Indies. The claim cites London informed circles and was heard in New York on AP NBC.
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