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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1941
Page
6
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo enjoy a rapid construction surge with new apartments and offices rising amid crowded harbors. European refugees bring capital, fueling real estate and industry, while prices and demand climb across Brazil.
London reports the admiralty raised Italian naval losses to three destroyers sunk and two damaged in a Sunday operation against two convoys. Initial figures had one sunk and one damaged. Italy admitted two sunk and one damaged. The action also claimed heavy Axis casualties and material losses as transports were destroyed.
W. W. Chaplin reports on Red Cross support for service families during mass maneuvers and the practice of compassionate leave. The article notes quick investigations and aid for soldiers without funds, and describes improvements in camp quilts and blankets for southern and northern stations.
Blanding Florida has received about 55 000 comforts for the region’s training center. Florida boys lacked these quilts last winter and needed them. At Camp Davis North Carolina selectees over 28 are being discharged, with private Lonas L. Spitzer of Knoxville Tennessee discharged after revealing his true age of 14 years. He is expected to rejoin in four years.
Fort Bliss Army officers review a telegram from a rookie requesting an extension of his AWOL status. The terse message says Request extension of my A W O L. Authorities assess his whereabouts and next steps in the chain of command.
In the District Court of Iowa Linn County the plaintiff Fred Harvey seeks an absolute divorce from Pauline Frances Harvey on desertion. The petitioner requests default judgment if Pauline Harvey does not appear by noon on the second day of the January 1942 term starting January 6 at Cedar Rapids Court House. Attorney Philip C. Yothers represents the plaintiff.
Linn county relief rose slightly in October with 881 aid cases and 264 WPA workers, against 899 and 278 in September. The department closed 318 cases, with 411 general relief family, 145 general relief single, four hospital, and 321 medical cases. Eight thousand nine hundred sixty four dollars in blue stamps were issued for public assistance.
In October 624 children from 20 schools participated in the hot lunch program. Schools and the surplus marketing administration shared the food costs. Linn County poor total expenditures for October reached 19554.81 dollars.
Edgar A. Guest reflects on his youth as a hunter guiding decoys in a bitter November gale. He recalls gathering wooden fowl, nearly freezing through, and learning the hard edge of the word easy while the season tested his resolve and kept him from hunting with the boys thereafter.
About 5 600 people filled the Memorial Coliseum Monday evening for the annual Policemen's ball. Dick Jurgens and band led a lively show with Elroy Pease. Al and Aline Marcox dazzled with space limited dancing. Rex Regan impressed with tricks and impressions. Roosevelt trumpet trio and Lorraine Jones drew applause. Leonard Bruce hailed the event as a financial success.
An advertisement promotes Lurin as a new milk mixture for stomach ulcers and related pains. It claims rapid relief from ulcers gas indigestion and heartburn due to hyperacidity. The home remedy is sold by drug stores with a money back guarantee and a low price.
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