National defense orders curb new construction amid war needs
In Washington a sweeping order blocks building that uses critical defense materials, allowing only war related facilities and housing for workers and soldiers. The move threatens contractors and suppliers but boosts domestic production like magnesium at Los Altos California. Also notes housewives organizing to resist rising milk prices and British pressure on Germany during the war.
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Los Altos
Calif
United States
Los Altos Agnesium
SPAB bans nonessential building using critical defense materials
Washington AP The supply priorities and allocations board SPAB issued a policy decree delaying any public or private construction that would use critical materials such as steel copper brass aluminum or bronze unless essential to defense or health and safety. The two tests determine if a project uses these materials and if it is needed for defense or civilian safety. If started projects may still receive materials to finish.
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Washington
National Capital
Supply Priorities and Allocations Board
SPAB
Donald M. Nelson
Conress
Man Brandishing Gun Says He Was Out To Get Hitler
Police stopped a one man blitz at Third Avenue and Tenth Street SW at 9 50 pm Wednesday arresting Guy Davis 567 Tenth Street SW He was armed with a .32 revolver four rounds and a bayonet war souvenir Davis said he would hunt Hitler after a struggle with officers he bore a forehead cut and claimed to be storm troopers fear among pedestrians grew as he chased strangers for Hitler.
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Third Avenue
Tenth Street
Guy Davis
Davis
Hitler
Senator Reynolds and Evalyn McLean Wed at Noon
Washington reports that Sen Robert R Reynolds of North Carolina and Evalyn McLean daughter of Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean owner of the Hope diamond were married at noon Thursday Reynolds aged 57 and his bride 19 years old
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Washington
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Evalyn McLean
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Reynolds
Nazis Claim Destruction Faces Reds' Last Units on Front
Berlin reports claim the central front faces destruction of the last effective Russian forces. Dietrich says Russia’s military power is finished and that 60 to 70 divisions are encircled from the Volga to the Black Sea. London notes limited frontline options and that the battle is now for the Red Army. Red Star confirms a battle at Orel and German advances toward Moscow are halted.
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Berlin
Otto Dietrich
Russia
Britain
Dietrich
Adolf Hitler
London
Reds
Red Army
Volga
Valdai Hills
Black Sea
Hitler
Voroshilov
Leningrad
Budyonny
Kiev
Sea of Azov
Moscow
Vyazma
Orel
Kharkov-Moscow
Red Star
Oka
Melitopol
35 Linn Men Named For Induction In Army This Month
Thirty five men including one married man and fourteen youths who registered July 1 were named by Linn county draft boards for induction into the army in late October. Two volunteers registered July 1 are part of the west side quota of 15. Names and addresses of the inductees and registrants from both west and east side boards are listed, with several already living out of state.
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Linn County
West Side
Kenneth Merrifield
Fourth Street
Henry Urban, Jr
Fourteenth Avenue
George F Miller
Eighteenth Avenue
James L. Buckingham
Second Avenue
Ivan D. Hunter
First Avenue
West Side Board
Raymond G. Lawrence
Oakland Road
Allen F. Hill
Sylacaugh
Ala
John Ryan
Burch Avenue
Sheldon Fye
Seymour
Joseph R. Visek
First Street
Andrew Flender
Helen Morgan Dies After Illness and Operation
Helen Morgan a famed torch singer once of Flo Ziegfeld’s Show Boat died in Chicago at 41 after an illness and spleen surgery. She had been unconscious for days following Sept 25 operation and received 13 blood transfusions. Her husband Lloyd Johnson and her mother Mrs. Lulu Morgan were at her bedside.
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Chicago
Helen Morgan
Flo Ziegfield
Torch Singer
Lloyd Johnson
Los Angeles
Foot Smashed Man Drives Long Distance To Be With Wife
Walter Reichel, 32, injured when his shotgun discharged during a hunt near Marshal Minnesota. He applied a rope tourniquet to his mangled left foot and drove 150 miles to be treated at the same hospital where his wife was a patient. Doctors later amputated the foot due to severe damage.
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ST. Paul (Ap
Walter Reichel
Marshal, Minn
Cedar Rapids Dollar Day Nets Big Gains Across Merchand ise
Cedar Rapids merchants report strong Dollar Day results with 20 to 25 percent gains over last year and several stores noting their best ever days. Clothing, shoes, hosiery, sportswear, and living room furniture sold well as buyers from eastern Iowa and out of town shopped early and steadily, with refrigerators in high demand but limited supply.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Rain Ends Cedar Rapids Mild Spell After .76 Inch Fall
Cedar Rapids sees .76 inches of rain ending a stretch of good weather. The storm brings the month total to 1.70 inches with temperatures ranging from mid 50s to low 60s. Cedar River level stands at 5.6 feet per Iowa Windmill and Pump Co.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Cedar River
Iowa Windmill and Pump Company
City Maintains River Stage and Flow Station
Cedar Rapids city council voted to spend 200 dollars annually from river front funds to maintain a river stage and stream flow measurement station at the Town Windmill and Pump Company. The move follows a letter from the Geological Survey urging municipal cooperation for the work, which is crucial for construction, flood protection, navigation, and pollution control.
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River Front Improvement Fund
Cedar Rapids
Geological Survey of
Department of Interior
Auto overturns in water-filled ditch injures 87-year-old
Mrs. Kate Keith, 87, of Keokuk escaped serious injury when the car she rode in overturned in a water-filled ditch on the west edge of town. Dragged from the wreck by Mr. and Mrs. William Hadden, she was taken to Mercy hospital in fair condition with cuts and shock. The Hadden vehicle remained undamaged as the driver said a windshield defroster sidetrack caused loss of control.
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Kate Keith
Keokuk
William Hadden
Avenue NW
Mercy Hospital
Hadden
Mrs. Hadden
8.5 Per Cent WPA Pay Boost Announced
Washington AP Howard Q C Hunter WPA commissioner announced an 8.4 percent wage increase for nearly one million WPA workers effective Nov 1 A flat 5 20 monthly increase goes to 834 000 workers earning under 90 a month while those over 90 await adjustments No raise will push any wage above 100 a month Funds for defense project workers already raised the income for 106 000 employed 40 to 48 hours weekly.
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Washington
Howard QC
Hunter
Warns of Army Epidemics
Harvard pediatrician Dr. R Cannon Eley warned that rapid mingling of rural farm boys and urban recruits in the armed forces could trigger small epidemics of contagious diseases, urging caution to curb spread.
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Boston
R Cannon Eley
Harvard
Panama Crisis as Arias Flees and Barletta Is Arrested
In Panama City, President Arnulfo Arias flees the country while Mayor Nicholas Ardito Barletta, seen as a strong ally of the United States, is arrested in a power shift. Second Vice President Ernesto Jaen Guardia is sworn in as successor amid a tense, quiet capital with police confined to barracks.
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Panama
Arnulfo Arias
Nicholas Ardito Barletta
United States
Ernesto Jaen Guardia
Mexico
Arias
Explosion at Penick and Ford plant quashed by short circuit
Cedar Rapids fire crews responded to a reported explosion at the Penick and Ford plant at 230 am. Chief Kohout said a puff from an expansion tank was caused by a short circuit in an extension cord. A door blew off the tank but no fire occurred as crews stayed about 20 minutes checking for hidden flames.
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Penick and
Ford
E. P. Kohout
Nazi Drive In Center Report Declares Moscow Offensive Effective
German forces press toward Moscow claim central front drive has nearly wiped out Russian resistance. Reds report repulse at Vyazma with fresh clashes in the south as Berlin boasted of capturing Mariupol and Ossipenko.
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Germany
Moscow
Reds
Vyazma
Berlin
Mariupol
Ossipenko
Roosevelt calls for arming merchant ships amid war crisis
President Roosevelt urged Congress to authorize arming American merchant vessels and to repeal section 2 of the neutrality act. He said the United States must deliver goods under the American flag to belligerent ports and deny Hitler control of sea lanes. Senate and House committees moved to fast track a repeal and arming resolution with hearings set for early next week.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Hitler
Tom Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sol Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cordell Hull
Bloom
Not Neutral In Thought We Aid Hitler Victims
The president asserts that the United States cannot remain neutral as Nazi aggression expands. He notes the 1935 and 1939 neutrality acts and describes widespread destruction and the threat to democracy, urging support for victims and vigilance at home and in the hemisphere.
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Congress of the
United States
Hitler
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