22 May 1940
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1940
Page
1
In a vivid account a fire engine passes and the author notes trucks clearing the road. The piece then shifts to a critique of democracy and government overreach, urging workers and industry to resist bureaucratic control while questioning postwar prosperity and labor policies.
Senate approves a $132 million blank check to speed army prep with little opposition. Roosevelt requests moving immigration and naturalization from labor to justice to counter espionage while pledging civil liberties protection. Senate adds $478 million to navy supply to boost enlistments. House panel favors abolishing ceiling on air corps strength. Foreign relations panel kills Pepper plan to empower sale of aircraft to Allies.
Arthur Bugs Baer mocks the Kellogg pact era noting peace promises failed to prevent trouble. He recalls the pact’s tenth anniversary dated May 22 1930 and warns against swallowing enemy propaganda and sliding into naïve optimism.
The passage contemplates whether in May 1940 the American public recovered from a ten year stupor and entered a phase of emotionalism that spurred constructive action or deepened submission. It warns readers to weigh words of despair advocates against independence of thought resisting federalized influence.
Enid, 11, eldest in a needy Cedar Rapids home, bears housework for an ill mother and five siblings. A stay at Camp Good Health would provide rest and nutrition, though not cure, with funds raised by The Gazette Camp Good Health Fund supporting physically handicapped children in the area. Contributions may be sent to The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa.
A reflective essay on memory and autobiography explores how the mind colors childhood, noting Hudson and other writers recall with an altered past. It argues genius blends memory with imagination and that truth in self-history is elusive, guiding a writer to seek meaning rather than exact facts.
Chicago protests over the milk strike escalated with police reporting smashing of windows at 37 stores. Officers responded to repeated flare ups as unrest spread through the city.
Optimism rises in France as shock troops retake shell torn Arras and push back German advance guards from Abbeville. German commander von Reichenau hints a possible halt, while Weygand orders ground vows amid weather hampering blitzkrieg. Allied aid aided by heavy rains as Germans widen push toward Channel ports and beyond Soissons, 56 miles from Paris.
Hanford MacNider, former minister to Canada and ex-American Legion head, says the United States cannot have a defense policy without an understandable foreign policy. Speaking en route to Tacoma for the Washington state GOP convention keynote, he criticizes Lend Lease, China, Japan, and Russia, and references the Dies committee investigation.
Cedar Rapids officials record a warm spell with a 52 degree early morning low rising to 68 by late morning and 75 by afternoon despite intermittent clouds. Tuesday's high reached 74 before dropping to 69 in the evening.
Carl Baumgartner, 6, son of Mr and Mrs William Baumgartner, was injured when struck by a bicycle while catching fireflies near Ninth street and D avenue NW. He suffered a fractured left leg and was taken to Mercy hospital. George Willits, 15, said to have ridden with another on handlebars, was ordered to report to Captain Gordon Hughes after school.
Berlin reports quote German officials condemning Allied retreat tactics while avoiding comment on Roosevelt claims of German air attacks on refugees. London dispatch notes Allied counter blows delaying a Nazi push to the English Channel. Paris broadcast urges French and British women to join services and replace men.
Parliament and the king approved Churchill's government sweeping wartime powers to mobilize wealth, labor, and resources. Production councils will speed munitions and minerals, with 100 percent excess profits tax and possible firm closures or asset seizures. Attlee argued the crisis requires extraordinary measures to deploy national resources for any task.
German military quarters said their forces held a 31 mile foothold on the English Channel and pressed toward the Channel neck as Allied troops remained trapped in northern France. A second German push expanded into northern France near Pars, with a southwest drive and air attacks on ports. Berlin said Hitler ordered preparations for a decisive showdown and predicted a breakthrough to the Channel soon, while stating French claims Arras was retaken were denied.
Police, sheriff and highway patrol plan joint action to curb drunk driving after ten arrests in 28 days. Chief Jim Bailey orders night shift to check outlying taverns, while Sheriff Jim Smith’s dawn patrol targets suburban night spots. Earl Stanley to form a tavern squad to patrol post midnight venues as county attorney weighs options.
The House Judiciary Committee defeated an amendment to the Hatch anti politics bill. It would force newspapers using special postal rates to drop political activities or lose the reduced postage. Congressman Hobbs criticized the proposal as interfering with press expression.
Paris reports a French counteroffensive with Arras retaken and a German advance halted at Abbeville. Weygand, 73, toured the front by air and ordered renewed sorties as British forces push along the Somme. The ministry cites bridges destroyed and a strong defense prepared to blunt any southern German push toward Paris.
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