Enriched bread debate stirs public health row downtown
A letter to readers questions government and medical industry push for enriched bread. It cites Journal of the American Medical Association editor Morris Fishbein, argues plain whole wheat is more nutritious and economical, and warns against widespread doctored bread. The piece notes local addresses and theater listings in brief, era context.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Morris Fishbein
U. S Food Administration
Fishbein
Journal of the A.M.A
Council On Foods and Nutrition
American Medical Association
British RAF Drives In Libya Heavy Bombing And Attacks
Cairo dispatch reports a Royal Air Force communique listing forty seven enemy planes destroyed on Friday. RAF aircraft conducted intensive operations in Libya including heavy bombing of a fortress and Gazala landing grounds and supporting the land force by breaking up enemy tank concentrations.
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Cairo
Royal Air Force
Libya
Gazala
Fire destroys Third Presbyterian Sunday School building
Captain Wes Pohorsky Wes Vrba Joe Trusty and George Powers of the city fire department escaped serious injury after an explosion hurled them 15 feet against a high board fence in a fire that leveled the Third Presbyterian church Sunday school building. Pupils from Tyler school lost their lessons and records as the low structure burned. A separate runaway accident injured Ed Bressler driving a wagon with timbers.
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Wes Pohorsky
Wes Vrba
Joe Trusty
George Powers
City Fire Department
Third Presbyterian Church
Pohorsky
Tyler School
T. M. Sinclair
Unified civilian pilot fitness exams to start December
Wing Tips reports a new policy in civilian pilot training requiring a single fitness examination for all four courses. The test, costing 12 dollars, replaces separate primary and secondary checks and remains valid if later courses are completed before the private license is issued.
New Books At Public Library Highlight Parsonage Life
A review notes Ethel Hueston's Preachers Wife portrays Iowa parsonage life as experienced by Julia Buell Powelson and her large family across Appanoose Mt Pleasant and Burlington. The piece also cites Krishnalad Shridharani s My India My America a personal India to America narrative learned at Gandhi Tagore and Columbia University and mentions Nehru s Towards Freedom stirring debate.
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Iowa
Heaven
Ethel Hueston
Public
Julia Buell Powelson
Little Powelsons
Cincinnati
Appanoose County
Mt. Pleasant
Burlington
Hueston
Prudence
India
America
Krishnalad Shridharani
Shridharani
Gandhi
Tagore
Columbia University
Nehru
Rubinoff to perform benefit concert in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids on Dec 3 the noted air artist Rubinoff will give matinee and night concerts at Memorial Coliseum. Lions club sponsors the event to benefit the Well Children’s Clinic of the Community Nutrition Service, a Junior League project. Tickets available at local shops and reserved seats at Jack Young’s tobacco shop.
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Cedar Rapids
Rubinoff
Lions Club
Memorial Coliseum
Well Children
Community Nutrition Service
Prastha Jewelers
Kitterman's Dry Cleaners
Toman
Jack Young
Living Under Tension and Living Up to Life Books
Review notes describe Fosdick collection Living Under Tension and Newton works Living Up to Life with emphasis on sermons and daily chats amid tumultuous events. Mention also Sonderholm indictment for perjury and an attempted grand juror corruption with treasurer vacancy suggestion.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Joseph Fort Newton
E. H
Three Nebraska County Officers Are Indicted
Omaha AP Douglas county grand jury indicts Treasurer Otto J Bauman Deputy Treasurer Fred J Armbrust and Commissioner Frank O Sonderholm for investing personal funds in county warrants and earning interest on warrants according to the jury statement.
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Sonderholm
Omaha
Douglas County Grand Jury
Otto J. Bauman
Fred J. Armbrust
Frank O. Sonderholm
Bauman
Armbrust
Ata
Japs Reported Massing Troops To Stab Russia
Chungking dispatches claim 450000 Japanese soldiers are in winter barracks in Manchukuo awaiting attack on Siberia. Reports say Japan could muster between 3.5 and 4 million men. Indo China forces number about 50000 and show no plan to attack the southern Pacific. Connecticut tuberculosis death rate given as 334 per 100000 in 1939.
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Chungking
INS
Manchukuo
Siberia
Japan
French
Indo- China
Pacific
Detours on 17 Iowa Highways For Week of Nov 28
The Iowa State Highway Commission bulletin lists detours on 17 highways for the week starting Nov 28 with traffic maintained on 11 other routes. Key detours include Iowa 1 near Jefferson County, Iowa 2 near Brighton, Iowa 3 near Decatur City, and multiple town segments with miles closed and detour lengths ranging from 2 to 19.5 miles. Construction projects include bridge work on U.S. 6, U.S. 34 grade work near Glenwood, U.S. 52 near Bellevue, and other shoulder and bituminous tasks across the state.
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Iowa State Highway Commission
Iowa
Iowa 177
Jefferson County
Brighton
Decatur City
Earth
Mt. Ayr
Lester
Larchwood
Laurens
Havelock
Ottumwa
Eddyville
New Hampton
Lawlor
Turin
Soldier
Yowa
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Junction Town
Dyerse Ite
Luxemburg
Clermont
Greenfield
Orient
U. S
Bes Sinning
Glenwood
U. S. 52
Bellevue
Harlan
U.S. 67
Independence
Mt. Vernon
Cedar River
Insane Patient Slays Guard at North Dakota Hospital
Edwin Steen, a patient eight years at the Jamestown state hospital for the insane, killed guard Adolph Martel and seriously wounded inmate J. J. Murphy with a butcher knife after running amok Friday. Steen was recaptured two hours later by attendants, deputies, police, and a posse four miles south of the hospital.
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Jamestown
N. D
Edwin Steen
State Hospital For the Insane
A M Fisher
Steen
Adolph Martel
J. J. Murphy
Murphy
Fisher
Crosby
Citizens
Northern Pacific
Hospital
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General Committee
William C. Nel
William Breed
William Quarton
Harry Boyd
Marvin Cobb
Harry Nehls
John Hecker
E. J. Clapp
Les Edmonds
R. H. Redus
Byron Anderson
Lowell Taylor
Russell Knapp
Keith Dunn
Crandic
Iowa City
WMT
Crandie Coeds
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railway
RAF
Libyan
James J. Hruska
Ed Bressler
A. P Bressler
Third Street
Bressler
First Baptist Church
Third Avenue
Douglas
Evelyn Turner
Saxon Flying Service
Stork
Kent Peterson
Galyn Peterson
Aeronca
Peoria
Virginia Peck
Coe College
Minneapolis
Bob Straight
Public Library
Nash
Adi
Schamberger Motor CO
First Avenue E
Nash Dealer
Violin
Nebraska
Russia
Connecticut
Ruth Ayres
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