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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1941
Page
2
Belgrade reporter recounts a 130 am upheaval with city lines cut, tanks on streets, and a cordon around government buildings. He reaches the American legation, seeks a live phone, flees across the river, is fired upon, captured outside the city, and later released after courteous detention.
Des Moines AP report says the Iowa House approved a $45,000 appropriation to enlarge facilities at the University of Iowa's children's hospital in Iowa City for infantile paralysis and orthopedic cases benefiting more child patients, with Dr Arthur Steincher noted in supportive remarks.
A reader asks Miss Manners about a breakup with a boy she loves and mourning him to the point of despair. The response urges the girl to seek other friendships, avoid fixating on the vanished romance, and consider practical reasons the relationship ended.
The note counsels turning from grief to constructive activity and urges silence in answering a message. It suggests letting the other party initiate contact if they wish to meet, and notes prior signals of affection from the writer.
Dan D Casement of Manhattan Kansas told a radio audience that the farmer faces greater risk from domestic anarchy than foreign war. He spoke on America’s Town Meeting of the Air from Des Moines with Clifford Gregory and W W Waymack weighing postwar farm readjustment and the danger of price pressures while farmers accept state handouts.
A compact puzzle grid with across and down clues includes entries like ASHLAIM LI VINGION and 5 50 Profound. The page presents a themed crossword style with numerous numbered hints for horizontal and vertical answers and a listing of italicized or OCR-read entries.
Readable listings show a dense array of radio programs across stations WMT WGN WHO KFJB WSUI WOI KWLC and more. The guide lists music news interviews dramas weather sports and talks with various hosts and orchestras throughout daytime and evening hours.
The Senate confirmed four Iowa postmasters on Thursday: Henry Gratchen of Amana, Martin O'Connell of Vail, Jeanette L. Lee of Ventura, and Mary Catherine Winnike of West Point.
Grundy Center officers say Heiko Clapp aged 21 confessed stealing 960 dollars from his father Joe at the father’s farm home eight miles northeast of Grundy Center. Clapp had been employed by farmer H. C. Primus and used a ladder to reach the upstairs billfold.
Belgrade reports place the 17 year old king at the helm six months ahead of his 18th birthday amid a youth led push against Axis demands. Students riot in schools and mock Hitler as Belgrade youths press for national independence, while Peter remains largely uninvolved in recent disruptions.
Demonstrations by students in Belgrade oppose axis affiliation and education ministry ultimatums, with schools closed and fears of arrest. Parents show support while stressing anti axis sentiment. The piece notes Serbian youths' history of mischief and mentions burnings and violent acts by Bosnian students toward teachers.
The House passed a two year extension of federal regulation of minimum prices for soft coal by voice vote. The bill moves to the Senate before the Guffey act expires April 26 and would create an independent consumer's counsel separate from the interior department.
Paul Singer, a German refugee, told members of the young men's bureau at the Chamber of Commerce there is no difference among Bolshevism Nazism and Fascism as all seek to destroy private commercial life. He said German industries would become government property and the supposed German standard of living is a fiction amid Hitler's economic methods. Dr Richard Schimetschek, former Vienna juvenile court adviser, described fleeing the German advance and arriving in the United States. Both are guests at Scattergood Refugee hostel near West Branch operated by the American Friends Service Committee.
G L Zimmerman placement director at the hostel states the refugee issue is about redistribution, not numbers. He notes in eight years only about a third of the U S quota has entered and the main difficulty is refugees clustering almost entirely in cities.
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