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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1940
Page
16
The piece notes rising alertness to fifth column threats in the United States led officials to caution against unjust suspicions. It cites overactive accusations, urges personal verification, and lists small sabotage cases in aluminum and torpedo plants. It also questions Britain’s air defenses and reliance on AA guns against bombers.
The piece notes France struggles with air defense and morale, hampered by Maginot era thinking, while the U S faces export licensing aims to unclog machine tool shortages amid defense expansion and wartime production pressures. It cites La Follette opposition and political maneuvering shaping policy.
An experimental cook offers a daily menu plan for a family of five aiming at a balanced diet with about 12 dollars weekly. The suggested dinner features spaghetti and liver with tomatoes onions parsley and grated cheese baked as a layered dish. Serves five with cost about 36 cents per serving.
The provided text is a culinary instruction fragment describing cooking a dish for 20 minutes and optional paprika garnish. It lacks identifiable people, places, organizations, or events to form a news-style summary.
The day’s meals include stewed prunes, graham muffins, orange marmalade, coffee for adults, milk for children, bacon, creamed potatoes, celery curls, bread and butter, cookies, tea for adults, spaghetti with liver, buttered carrots, blackberry sauce, and a total cost near 1.59. Meta Given promotes a cake leaflet, and a cooking query from Mrs. Fed discusses celery scar and menu phrasing.
Easy to prepare celery curls by cutting stalks into thirds then slicing lengthwise and soaking in ice water with a splash of lemon juice to whiten. Muffins recover texture when batter is lightly mixed, yielding even crumb and no peaks. over beating creates tall tunnels.
Damaged Higley building suite and seven nearby offices after a mysterious blast in Fred M Higley’s office. Katherine Jacobson, Coe College piano instructor and daughter of Cedar Rapids residents, signs a three year contract to teach at True Light Middle School in Canton China. Theodore Ford arrives in Cedar Rapids to lead religious education at First Presbyterian in Streator, Illinois. Ray Anderson Jr. suffers a head wound from a YMCA pool dive. Paul and Marvin Gard head on Chautauqua tours. Mrs. Rudolph Pohl and family sail to France after New York departure, then Europe for three months. Charles J Bagby and daughter Dorothy relocate to California. Charles Smith promoted to assistant in the Chamber of Commerce traffic department.
The 5-year-old son of J F Sage suffered severe arm burns yesterday after lighting a match on paper and his sleeve caught fire. C G Watkins departed last night for a business trip to Denver Colorado. Mrs J M St John was elected president of the Tourist club at its annual meeting at Mrs E J Carey home. Mrs Frank E Austin regent of Ashley chapter was called to Des Moines to attend a state board meeting of the chapter regents DAR.
The American Hotel Association reports furniture as the biggest upkeep item in U S and Canadian hotels. Annual spending reaches 24 million dollars for furniture 19 million for decorations and 9 million for kitchen equipment.
Five orphans were rescued and a manslaughter case was found by the George J Kunzmann family at 3009 J Street SW, northwest of Swisher, Sunday. They found a dead mother cat suspended by wire and a kitten running from the woods, the couple kept the kittens until homes could be found.
Ten Chicago communists attacked by a hostile crowd in Pekin were held overnight in protective custody and placed on a train to Chicago for safety.
A Monday column explains how life insurance reserves fund a nationwide investment system. Premiums support bonds in utilities schools and mortgages, aiding public and private projects from water to roads while offering policy security.
Dr Harry M Gage president of Coe college spoke at the Iowa Volunteers post 1 Memorial Day service at First Baptist church. He listed four points for genuine Americanism including brotherhood of man, freedom of opinion, responsibility to self and world, and goals of opportunity for all, noting education has been used to preserve the status quo.
Dr. Gage advocates genuine Americanism as service and sacrifice with broad personal liberty. He calls for a parliament of man and a world federation including England France Germany China and Uncle Sam to harmonize races for societal benefit. Veterans and clergy attend a Memorial to church service parade and color presentation led by Maj J Currell with invocations and benediction.
Robert Montgomery, 36, an American motion picture actor, disclosed Sunday night to have joined the American field service as an ambulance driver. He is to leave Wednesday for France.
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