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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
6
Readers urged to observe White Friday and drive cautiously to avoid a record-breaking day. Officials note 25 accidents this week in Linn County with 35 related charges, urging obedience to traffic laws.
Stalin on Moscow radio declared German losses since June 22 total 4.5 million with 350000 killed 378000 missing and 1020000 wounded. He praised Allied aid and urged a second European front while pledging to free Soviet territory and enslaved Europeans. He noted Hitler’s collapse and warned Hitlerite policy would end in ruins.
Massive Russian reserves broke German siege lines near Moscow while Soviet dispatches report Nazi forces withdrawing from the Donets river basin area. Berlin claimed pursuit along the Crimean front. Soviet resistance reportedly kept Moscow defenses very strong as reserves entered combat.
Fire Chief James Barrett said no one at the three story gas distillation plant of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals could have survived a blast and ensuing blaze. Officials could only estimate 18 workers were in the plant at the time.
Constance Darby finds herself torn between two men and must choose a suitor. Her sister Rosalind becomes involved in a modern romance as the tale unfolds. The Cedar Rapids Gazette teases the first segment beginning today on page 12.
An exam to create an eligibility list for inspector of detectives will be held at Cedar Rapids city hall on November 19, ending a prolonged dispute between the civil service commission and Safety Commissioner Wes Benesh. Chairman Chester Myers announced after a City Hall meeting with E. E. Lowe and Barney McPartland.
Premier Stalin designated Maxim Litvinov as Russia's ambassador to the United States succeeding Constantin Dumansky. Litvinov, a pro democracy advocate, helped push Western-Russian cooperation and served as interpreter in Moscow Anglo American talks. His posting aims to ease suspicion and secure American war materials.
Police reported 14 accidents in Linn county with no serious injuries though one man suffered an arm injury from a car door during a stop on Center Point road. William Coghlan and B A Ruhling were involved as storms worsened hazardous driving conditions.
Denver AP. At Lowry field and the army air corps technical school 10 000 soldiers are barred from America First committee headquarters. Col Early E W Duncan says churches preaching against Americanism and any America First literature on the reservation are out of bounds. He cites morale concerns while noting soldiers may attend church services of their faith. Colorado America First chairman Arthur Brooks says soldiers visited the offices but the group did not propagate to the forces.
Gen. Thomas S. Hammond of the national committee argues the America First committee is non-partisan and not a political organization. He urges critics to read its principles and notes it supports the republican form of government.
In Washington Rep Hamilton Fish introduces a resolution declaring a state of war with Germany while Sen Wheeler accuses navy yard delays of sending men to sea aboard ships needing repairs. Wheeler cites clippings and a convoy disaster as proof of neutrality law violations. Taft predicts an army buildup if the act is revised.
The Treasury calls for immediate action on a broad tax program to raise about 4.8 billion dollars through higher social security taxes and a new at the source income tax for 1942. It includes a 15 percent withholding tax and a 1 percent payroll levy, with exemptions deducted first and amounts remitted by employers.
Arthur Deamer, Cedar Rapids public schools boss for 20 years, will be president of the Iowa State Teachers Association after the formal election Saturday in Des Moines. He was the sole candidate and will succeed Gerald W Kirn of Abraham Lincoln High School Council Bluffs. Deamer was nominated by Supt. 4. B. Grimes with support from Supt. Ho Schmitt and Clara Luther.
North Iowa awoke to a thick snow cover yet travel and communications were returning to normal as work crews labored to restore lines. Northwestern Bell reported 34 communities isolated with 187 long distance lines still out. 230 were silenced earlier. Fifty four crews totaling 625 workers from Iowa Nebraska and Minnesota were in the storm area. The system described the roads as rough with sideroads bad.
Five railway brotherhoods reject Roosevelt fact finding wage proposal and threaten renewed strikes. Welders accept mediation at Tacoma and Los Angeles shipyards while others demand written assurances if they resume work. The war department expands aircraft parts production seizure to Bendix and eight plants across New Jersey, Illinois, Texas, Missouri, and California.
President Roosevelt told the International Labor Office in the White House East Room that Americans must work three shifts a day and endure labor industry adjustments to defeat Hitler. He said the western hemisphere’s place in Nazi plans is clear and that the United States has an unlimited commitment to a free world. Delegates from 33 nations heard the speech, which was broadcast widely.
Station WMT rebroadcast President Roosevelt's speech urging American workers to choose real sacrifice through three shifts and full production to support allies, warning that delaying defense output recalls France's fate. He cautions about industrial disputes and praises using established bargaining for national welfare.
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