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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1940
Page
10
Berlin reports reveal a secret underground complex large enough for 2.5 million people with operating rooms police stations food warehouses and hospital clinics. The network links to the subway and runs under canals and a river with elevators power plant water pumps gas mask storage and radio sets.
Thousands of women find a fast way to tempt family appetites with Quaker Spaghetti. The product, enriched by milk, becomes creamier and more flavorful, tender yet firm, and economical. Look for the big blue and yellow package at your grocer.
Paris reports thirty truckloads of paintings including Rubens Rembrandt and Van Dyck missing after being moved from Brussels during the German invasion. The Royal Gallery of Painting and Sculpture housed about 700 works, mainly Flemish and Dutch from the early Netherlands school.
Berlin reports Hitler shields Narvik forces due to their weather observers aiding air warfare over the western front. Forecasts from Narvik influence mass bombing strategies and operations.
Military weather men in Berlin compile reconnaissance flight data daily from observers at Narvik. Meteorologists say western Europe’s weather is prepared over the ocean off the Lofoten islands where the Gulf Stream meets Arctic currents. The Lofoten islands lie just south of Narvik.
Lloyd L. Delehoy of Hill side trailer camp NW paid a $5 fine and $2.40 costs after his car crashed into Patrolman John Stodola's motorcycle at First Avenue and Twenty ninth Street East. He said his brakes were bad and he didn't know to stop at the sign.
D. W. Bates as Receiver of The American Trust and Savings Bank files for authority to sell Lots 28 and 29 in Block 8 Mound Farm Add to Cedar Rapids to E. H. Owen for 350 dollars. Court sets May 29, 1940 at 9:00 AM for hearing at Cedar Rapids Courthouse.
German meteorologists developed a long range weather forecast system cited as aiding Hitler in timing blitzkriegs. American officials plan a similar program with MIT and Dr. H. C. Willette to issue twice weekly seven day forecasts. Researchers note Bauer in Frankfurt influenced Hitler’s campaigns and discuss weather’s wartime impact in Poland Norway and the Low Countries.
A Bengali girl achieved matriculation from the University of Calcutta at age 10 years and seven months, notable for her early academic milestone.
In the Revolutionary War era Tory sympathizers allegedly used bells to lure revolutionaries into ambushes, a tactic described by Dr. Woodford A. Heflin of the University of Chicago. He says these betrayers were called cowboys for their cowbell trick.
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