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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1941
Page
21
The Linn county Red Cross chapter released year end figures ahead of the Armistice Day membership drive starting Nov 11. Highlights include 2295 sweaters 658 layettes 1687 dresses 336 other garments 1010 skirts 404 socks 155 binders 17000 surgical dressings and 9419 Junior Red Cross members.
Local notices list the Three Link circle luncheon with Mrs H B Klersey on Wednesday at 1 PM in 1110 I Avenue NW. Townsend club No 1 meets Monday at 745 PM in Memorial building. Corporal William H Huston leaves for Camp Claiborne after a 10 day furlough with his parents at 1115 We Are Avenue NE. Cedar Rapids Stamp club gathers Monday at 8 PM in Montrose Hotel. first and third Mondays. Y's Men’s Club plans a social evening after buffet dinner at 615 PM Monday in YMCA club room. A fire at 309 Eighth Street SE started by a rag dropped from a hot air opening, caused a general alarm. Weekend guests include Mr and Mrs James E Grady of Dunlap visiting Mr Jump and family at 396 Twenty-fifth Street SE. Lieut H L Moore Jr, promoted to first lieutenant and serving as personnel adjutant in the 3rd Infantry at Fort Snelling. Party of the Month club meets Monday at Grace Episcopal Church at 8 PM with a committee in charge. Cub Pack 13 wiener roast moved indoors to Leonard Traxel home. Halloween games supervised by Cubmaster Leonard Johnson. Rev H E Trimble of Centerville continues as guest preacher at Second Christian Church with morning sermon The Church and evening on The Way of Reconciliation. Marion Night planned Monday with a large delegation.
From Marion Christian church Rev Trimble former pastor will attend. Mr L J Dennis of Center Point will lead singing each evening. Rev and Mrs R Coolidge of the Church of God returned from Kansas City where they attended the annual Midwest ministerial assembly. Oct 27 to 30 Coolidge elected chairman of the 1942 Assembly and will fill his pulpit today.
Madison Auction House at 708 3rd Street SE holds a Monday sale at 7 p m with a complete line of fine furniture. The event is a consignment sale open all day Monday to receive goods hosted by auctioneer Chas E Madison.
Des Moines truck driver L W Herbst reported 31 wooden whisky barrels missing from a warehouse loading platform at 318 First street SE. He said the barrels were placed on the dock at noon but were gone when he returned at 4 pm.
Wilbert B. Smith of Cairo Egypt Y M C A official and vice chairman of the Egypt inter mission council will address the Rotary club at noon Monday at the Roosevelt hotel. He serves on the Near East Christian Council and the coordination council for welfare work of British troops in Egypt.
Patrolmen reported Schatz driving at 42 mph then weaving through Second and Third streets before stopping at a signal on First avenue. C. J Connor, 44, was booked for reckless driving after nearly hitting a parked car and swerving toward a police car. Joe Kelty and Keith Engle faced speeding and yield-right-of-way charges after a collision at Fifth avenue and Seventh street SE.
The Cedar Rapids thermometer hovered near freezing for most of Saturday. The low reached 32 degrees close to 11:39 p.m. while the high hit 45 degrees between midnight and 2 a.m. at Chambers Inskeep. By noon readings rose to 40 then fell to 38 by 2 p.m. with 36 degrees noted later.
Albert A. Slater, 35, owner of a Chicago parking lot, was arrested Saturday night on a Mason City Iowa warrant charging embezzlement of 72000. Assistant State's Attorney M L Mason, from Mason City, said the offense grew from operations of a bottling firm where Slater was nominal head. The warrant was issued on a complaint by Bradford F Daggett, retired plumbing supply merchant of Mason City.
The Rev. R. N. Coolidge, pastor of the local Church of God on L Avenue at Eighth Street NW since 1934, resigns to take the pastorate in Owatonna Minnesota. A farewell is set for November 4. the couple will move with children Robert David and Barbara Ruth to begin duties there.
Former Wisconsin Governor Philip La Follette urged Americans to flood Congress with letters and telegrams to oppose repealing the neutrality act. Speaking in a radio address for the America First committee he warned repeal could plunge the U S toward war and urged citizens to write or telephone their senators and representatives tonight.
War brief notes that Nazi and Soviet forces clash with naval gunfire support and heavy ground fighting. The Perekop isthmus defense weakens as German and Romanian troops push 25 miles toward Sevastopol. Leningrad front reports a German breakthrough near Volkhovo and 533 pillboxes captured. German northern armies aim to link with Finnish forces to seal Leningrad.
Arne Nissen, a Cedar Rapids resident born in Denmark, becomes the first to subscribe in the annual Red Cross roll call. He learns via Red Cross that his parents in Denmark are alive, sending a message after years of fear, thanks to international communication. The new link assures safe contact and his continued support.
Berlin officials frame Roosevelt as aggressor in a broad campaign to justify Nazi actions news of torpedoing and sinking ships. They say the Kearny was defending an allied convoy before it was attacked by German U boats. They also cite the Greer pursuit and warn U.S. policy risks deepening world conflict.
Joseph Olisevsky, 32, of 2006 Fifteenth Avenue SE, suffered severe abrasions after a near the Fourth street and Twelfth avenue SE crossing. Found by W J McGuire, it is unclear if a switch engine struck him or if he was hit earlier. He was taken to St Luke's hospital in fair condition.
Floodwaters inundated over 16000 acres of fertile farmland near Fort Smith Arkansas as the Arkansas river spilled a muddy torrent. Officials reported no loss of life though 1000 flood refugees from Kansas and Oklahoma gathered in the city with more on the way.
Orville Anderson of 701 Fifth Avenue SE narrowly avoided serious injury when his bed caught fire around midnight Saturday. Firemen said the blaze started from a match used for ashes while he smoked in bed. They removed the mattress, noting damage confined to the mattress and bedding. a general alarm was sounded.
Unknown culprits dislodged and broke the Edward VII statue erected in 1912 in Cannes to mark the entente cordiale among France, England, and Italy. Police probe ongoing.
The 10,000-ton cruiser Cleveland slid from the ways at Camden New Jersey aboard the Delaware River launch. Christened by Mrs. Harold H. Burton the ship tests new navy design with 603 foot length 63 foot beam 12 six inch guns 12 five inch guns and anti aircraft batteries. She will exceed 30 knots and carry aircraft.
The No. 1 American Eagle squadron shot down more German planes in October than any other RAF fighter unit. American volunteers destroyed nine of the 81 German planes credited to the fighter command for the month, the air ministry said.
The 1942 St Louis social register lists Mrs Ernest Hemingway missing from the society roll. Former war journalist Martha Gellhorn had appeared in 1941 with her mother Mrs George Gellhorn of St Louis. The couple wed last November after a romance that grew on Spanish Civil War assignments.
Fifteen officers and crew of the Italian motorship Lome were found guilty of damaging their vessel at a Portland dock seven months earlier. They received federal prison terms from two to five years after a jury convicted them of attempting to disable engines and navigation instruments. The ship was seized by the coast guard in a nationwide action against Axis vessels, renamed the Lowlander, and turned over to the British.
The measure would set ceilings on commodities via a new Office of Price Administration. The chief would be appointed by President Roosevelt with senate confirmation and authority to impose ceilings as needed. Penalties include a $5000 fine or two years in prison. Parity and 1919 29 prices for farm items are listed, including chickens eggs beef cattle wheat cotton and corn.
Washington reports continued growth in wartime output with engines capable of powering 775 bombers or 3,000 pursuit planes monthly. September production nearly doubles January levels as light and medium tanks rise sharply and 28 plants run while 63 more are planned. By end of 1943, 1,153 ships totaling 12.41 million tons expected in operation.
In a wartime interview a veteran fireman discusses fire prevention, Red Cross work, and accident prevention. He cites high home accident deaths, peacetime Red Cross activities, and the need for better enforcement and moral guidance amid global conflict.
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