Navy patrols loom as convoy debate stirs Congress
The piece notes a Navy definition dispute over convoy and escort terms, framing patrols as a spread formation escort. It also covers a charity shampoo drive controversy, Willkie’s America Stop Being Afraid article, farm price policy doubts, Iraq’s future war arena, and a Boy Scout roundup showcasing youthful democracy and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ongressman Talle
Secretary of the Navy
Navy
Mr. Talle
United States Navy
America
Wendell Willkie
Britain
Willkie
Europe
F D R Urges 24 Hour Day and 7 Day Week for Defense
President Roosevelt calls on the Office of Production Management to run defense machines and tools around the clock and seven days a week. He urges pooling and redeploying machine tools, recruiting skilled workers, and paying bonuses to avoid vacations to maximize production in a critical national situation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Office of Production Management
William S Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
OPM
Mr. Roosevelt
Knudsen and
Hillman
United States
American Spirit in a Political Straitjacket
A columnist argues that channeling American spirit into a rigid political framework would require a major shift in leadership and policy, framing the challenge as a difficult national transformation.
Solons Oppose Roosevelt Ship Authority Move
In the senate a strong push to curb President Roosevelt power to turn over seized axis ships to Britain meets opposition. Lawmakers debate using German and Italian vessels for American coastal trade while aviation and tanker support to Britain grows.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Great Britain
United States
Senate Commerce Committee
Bailey
N. C
Coast Guard
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Spanish Foreign Minister Addresses Falangist Rally
Spain's foreign minister Ramon Serrano Sumner spoke to falangist party members denouncing "pluto democracies" and declaring Madrid will follow a foreign policy guided by Spain's own national interests at a rally in Mota del Cuervo.
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Mota del
Allow Television Use After July 1
The Federal Communications Commission announced on Friday that full commercial use of television will be permitted after July 1.
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Washington
The
Federal Communications Commission
Man Says Wife Rented Him To Another Woman For One Year
Samuel Brummel testified in Los Angeles that in 1937 his wife arranged a one year loan to be “rented” to Mrs Norma Peppin for $10,000 to finance a divorce in Mexico. Brummel claimed he later married Peppin and sought a legal divorce and his share of the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Samuel Brummel
Norma Peppin
Harry F. Sewell
Brummel
Tiajuana
Mexico
Legion Asks Perkins Quit Amid Roosevelt Talk
In Indianapolis the American Legion national executive committee adopted resolutions demanding Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins resign and urging President Roosevelt to reveal full facts about the present emergency to the nation.
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Indianapolis
Frances Perkins
Roosevelt
National Executive Committee of the
American Legion
Health Camp Name Campaign Under Scrutiny By Gazette
The Gazette investigates a money raising drive run by the local Women’s Relief Corps. Findings show the drive ended Thursday with 10 percent to the WRC, Edith Cowen misrepresented as local while claiming Massachusetts roots, and Miss Coven representing Purity Extract of Chicago selling vanilla and other items over the phone.
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The
Gazette
Public Welfare Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
T. Z. Cook
Women’s Relief Corps
WRC
Edith Cowen
the Gazette
Edward R. Kuba
Massachusetts
Coven
Miss Coven
Purity Extract Company of
Chicago
Public Health Nursing Bureau
Camp Good Health
Kuba
Balkan Battle Is History Now
The Balkans war ended with scattered guerrilla fighting remaining in mountains of Yugoslavia and Greece. Berlin claimed two thirds of BEF lost, about 40,000 men, while Greece and Allied officers still faced Crete defense after evacuation. About 3,000 BEF left behind on beaches. Casualties at sea numbered around 500.
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Balkans
Yugoslavia
Greece
Peloponnesus
Thomas Blamey
Middle East
BEF
Berlin
B.E.F
Blamey
Crete
George II
Quota Of 20 Chosen By East Side Board For Army Training
Cedar Rapids news reports 20 men were selected by the east side draft board for induction on May 7 at Fort Des Moines. Volunteers Jesse Coward and George LeClerc are named among the group, with numerous Cedar Rapids residents listed as draftees and assigned addresses across SE and NE districts.
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East Side Board For
East Side
Army
Arthur Huntington
Fort Des Moines
Jesse Coward
First Avenue
George LeClerc
Otis Road
Paul Roberts
Seventh Street
Bruce Bucknell
D Avenue
John Tellier
Forest Drive
Allen McGregor
Fifth Street
Lloyd Pritchard
Fifteenth Street
Frank Stroleny
Sixteenth Avenue
Leon Lastuvka
Nineteenth Street
Cyrus Wilson
Second Avenue
Leon Pachta
RFC
Cedar Rapids
Owen Burgess
Robert Neff
Richard Rubins
Twenty Fifth Street
Elden Haeussler
Memorial Drive
Paul Clark
Parkcourt
New Serial Starts Today in The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Frances Parkinson Keyes launches Fielding's Folly, a new best selling serial, declared her greatest love story yet. Read the first installment on page 12 today.
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Fielding's
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Cedar Rapids
Miss Keyes
Alert Citizen Helps Police Nab Hit-Run Driver Lloyd Dennis
A quick thinking citizen alerted police, leading to the arrest of Lloyd Dennis, 27, of 527 Sixth Avenue SE, for leaving the scene of an accident after his car struck DeVoe Harriott, 116 Twelfth Street SE, at C Street and Sixteenth Avenue SW around 1 30 PM. Dennis, fined $25 and costs, fled north on Sixteenth Avenue after the crash. a hubcap from his car was found at the scene, and witnesses traced him to the Pine Inn.
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Lloyd Dennis
Sixth Avenue SE
DeVoe Harriott
Twelfth Street
C Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Denmis
Justice H R Church
Dennis
Pine Inn
Clouds Slow Down Temperature Rise After 75 Reached
Clouds gathered over Cedar Rapids on Friday noon to blot out the sun and slow the day’s temperature rise. The thermometer read 75 at 2:30 pm, 60 at 7 am, 70 at 9:30 am, 78 at 3 pm, and settled to 70 by midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Counter Drive Reputlies Axis In Tobruk Duel
British forces at Tobruk repelled a penetration by Axis troops in one sector and destroyed 11 enemy tanks. The 23 day siege saw renewed Axis pressure with heavy land and air assaults as German dive bombers silenced several batteries and British fleet guns protected the harbor.
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Tobruk
Nile
Suez
Greece
Syria
Palestine
Britain
Iraq
Habanniyah
Basra
London
Archibald P. Wavell
Egypt
Berlin
Tobru
Tripol
Salam
Culate
Winning Entries In News Photo Contest Shown At The Gazette
The Gazette displays prize winning entries from the recent Iowa newspaper photo contest. Two Cedar Rapids Gazette winners are showcased in Life photographer Bernard Hoffman’s selections from 79 submissions. Carl Dueser of The Gazette earned honorable mention for a Cedar Rapids National Guard troops entraining photo, and Scotty McLeod won third prize in the feature division for a Memorial Day image of Civil War veterans at the Memorial Coliseum.
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Iowa
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Gazette
Fifth Street
Third Avenue
Bernard Hoffman
Life Magazine
Carl Ducser
The
Cedar Rapids
Dueser
Fort Lennard Wood Rolla
Scotty McLeod
Memorial Coliseum
Beaverbrook Named Virtual UK Economic Dictator and Deputy PM
Prime Minister Churchill tapped Lord Beaverbrook to head the new minister of state portfolio and act as virtual economic dictator. Beaverbrook, famed for boosting aircraft output, will oversee tanks guns and other war materiel while J T C Moore-Brabazon succeeds him in aircraft production. Some view the move as paving the way for Beaverbrook to succeed Churchill if needed.
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London
Britain
Balkan
Winston Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
United Kingdom
Beaverbrook
Churchill
Yugoslavia
Greece
North Africa
Beaverbrook joins ships and transport under wartime ministry
Lord Beaverbrook shifts to create a unified wartime communications ministry by merging the ministries of transport and shipping under Frederick James Leathers to speed dock turnaround and land supply movement.
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Churchill
Ministries of Transport and Shipping
Frederick James Leathers
Ministry
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