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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1941
Page
4
The Finnish government sends a note to Secretary Hull refusing to stop fighting the Russians until ready. The piece notes the complex U S postwar role, inflation concerns, Syracuse college faculty war petitions, Iowa gambling raids, and village blacksmiths turning to trailer making as old trades fade.
Churchill in the House of Commons states Hitler relied on starvation rather than invasion to defeat Britain. He notes Britain's food stocks, improved shipping and U.S. aid while warning against lowering efforts as war continues. Hess quotes suggest Nazi hopes for starvations failed. invasion remains possible.
Mrs. Lillian Flack of 1625 J Avenue NE reports a purse containing about 100 dollars in bills and some change disappeared from an unoccupied seat in the Iowa theater Tuesday afternoon. A man sitting behind her said another man left earlier and asked him to hold the seat, but the man did not return.
Gen Charles Huntziger, Vichy minister of war, perished in a southern France airplane crash during a storm en route to report to Marshal Petain. The crash near Le Vigan claimed eight lives including staff members. Huntziger, famed for courage and diplomacy, had signed armistice accords with Germany and Italy in 1940.
Federal Judge John C Knox sentenced William Bioff to 10 years and 20 000 dollars fine and George E Browne to eight years and 20 000 dollars for violations of the anti racketeering law Their conviction tied to extortion from the motion picture industry by labor leaders Bioff and Browne faced threats of strikes to compel payments totaling about 550 000 dollars by producers and studios
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect fair Wednesday night and Thursday with moderate temperatures. The day warms from a 28 degree low at 7 am to 60 degrees by 2 30 pm, higher than Tuesday’s 38 degree peak. a clear fall day with low humidity around 20 percent at noon.
Helsinki indicated it would not halt fighting against Russia until all dangers are removed and its security guaranteed. The note denied US mediation or awareness of any Russian peace offer, arguing Finland must defend itself and continue operations to neutralize Russian positions near its borders.
The commerce department warned price rises are outrunning higher income, leaving many workers no better off. It cited September national income at a record rate of 92 billion dollars, 10 billion more than 1940, but rising prices offset income gains and the real non agricultural income declined. A man earning 40 dollars a week could buy less goods now than months earlier despite higher pay.
In Ankara the Prime Minister Refik Saydam received a month's leave of absence due to ill health. An official statement said he informed quarters and it was considered almost certain he would resign.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull states the core issue in U S policy toward Finland is whether Finland will keep military actions aligned with German aims and become an Axis partner in the wider war, with Ber dispatches continuing on page 3.
Army officials in the armored divisions report the war department is surveying enlisted men and officers at the Carolina maneuvers to gauge willingness to serve overseas. The only required reply is yes or no. Division officers declined to be named and said they had no further details.
President Roosevelt developed a head cold after removing coat and hat during the Armistice day address at Arlington. The illness confined him to the Oval Room study in the White House on Wednesday, though he had no fever and engagements were canceled as a precaution.
British reports on Wednesday say Adolf Hitler's military machine has bogged down in the vast Russian theater. Dispatches note progress has ceased from the Arctic around Murmansk to Crimea and the approaches to the Caucasus.
Berlin reports infantry and armored units have smashed a Soviet cavalry division in sharp fighting south of Tula on the Moscow front. Nazi sources say little movement on the Moscow sector for three weeks while German Romanian troops push to the coast south of Kerch across from the Caucasian mainland in renewed battles.
Radio Moscow and United Press describe heavy German pressure near Tula and ongoing attacks south of Moscow while winter weather slows Nazi operations. British experts see Crimea’s Perekop as a danger point and predict German strain as lines flex between Leningrad and Donets. Rostov front quiet with consolidation. Donets attacks repelled.
The veteran destroyer Cossack went down in the Mediterranean in a half gale with her flag still flying. Loss announced by the admiralty. No details of the action were given.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told a Providence audience that the time has come to act in the Pacific after long-suffering toward Japan. He warned of grave dangers, urged self-defense and outlined a four-point peace program to shape a just postwar order.
Police arrested three teenagers after a store break in and multiple car thefts. Two 16 year olds admitted involvement with a gang at a used car lot on Third Avenue SE and implicated three others. The group allegedly targeted Lindgren grocery at 2324 J Street SW and took cash, candy, gum, soda, cigars, and cars for joy rides. George Sheriff, 19, of 607 Twenty first Avenue SW, named as a participant in the store break in.
London reports three dead after a mobile gunman with a sub machine gun roams West London. Leslie Ludford, a 28 year old solicitor, was the first killed as Philip Ward, 31, a Royal Artillery gunner, faced murder charges. Four others wounded in the attack.
Berlin AP reports Major Gen. Felix Vara, head of fortification construction in the German navy, was killed November 3 by an enemy air attack during official travel. He had led coastal defense development since 1933 and appeared to be on an inspection trip.
Washington AP reports President Roosevelt invited three CIO leaders and three UMW officials plus three steel executives to the White House Friday to discuss a union shop in captive mines, while Chicago rail unions set a three date strike plan starting December 7 in three groups.
John Owens, chief CIO labor relations consultant, resigned from the OPM in protest of the mediation board's refusal to back a union shop contract for John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers in captive coal mines. Owens, a CIO leader in Ohio, offered no comment.
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