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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1942
Page
5
Walter Winchell notes intrigue around Chiang Kai-shek intimates may align with Willkie. Combines theater chatter with legal threats, military misreads, and star glitz from Desperate Journey ads to Libby Holman blues and Roy Rogers muddle.
The Gazette lists showtimes for Paramount State Palace Rialto Times Marion and Iowa venues. Titles include Iceland My Sister Eileen Miss Annie Rooney Kings Row I Was Framed Fighting Bill Fargo Captains of the Clouds Unfinished Business The Talk of the Town Lure of the Islands and short subjects with various daily times.
Metropolitan Opera soprano Helen Traubel turned in Brunnehilde’s spear and shield as scrap metal. The items weigh 17 pounds and were described as unwanted strategic materials. Traubel noted her wardrobe needed less strategic pieces while Brunnehilde remains linked to Hitler in cultural lore.
Pattern 472 offers sister and brother dolls with matching outfits to suit a small child. Includes transfer pattern and directions for the dolls and clothes and requires 11 cents, send to Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department in New York. Basket making is noted as an early human industry.
Major Alex Evanoff of Belle Plaine and a U S bomber crew joined a Saturday raid on Rabaul and Kokoda in New Guinea. The joint attacks dumped more than 100 tons of bombs on Rabaul, igniting docks and a Japanese ship, and set fires across the harbor.
Eddy Howard and his orchestra will perform at Danceland on Wednesday evening. Roy Bast, Howie Kern, and the Two Piano Team plus the Four Swing-Sirs will appear. Howard, a leading composer, wrote and popularized tunes like Careless and Now I Lay Me Down to Dream. The group comes to Cedar Rapids after a successful summer engagement at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago.
A question and answer guide explains the Victory tax, its 5 percent rate on earnings over a $624 exemption, and that refunds up to 40 percent plus dependents may apply. It notes wage earners have tax withheld by employers, others pay by March 15 or quarterly, and that no extra exemption exists for dependents except for married couples.
If you had $100 withheld from wages and were entitled to an immediate $42 refund, the government would apply the $42 against your 1942 income tax. You would pay $42 less in income taxes.
The Olympia, Dewey's flagship from the Manila battle, is spared from scrap as President Roosevelt approves preservation. The Oregon, once a Portland museum ship, will be scrapped for metal, yielding iron steel and other metals. Commanded by Capt. G W Gridley, the Olympia led the attack with the famous order You may fire when you are ready Gridley.
Washington AP reports Americans who pampered hogs for better pork now face a paint brush shortage. The National Geographic Society notes hog bristles imported from Asia, especially China, have driven demand while imports stop and domestic bristles lack quality. Cold weather and hog labor affect bristle quality for brushes.
Simple to sew dress pattern Pattern 4239 by Anne Adams designed for sizes 36 through 52. Features front and back panelling and bias-cut side sections for smooth fit and bust give. Includes fabric yardage note and order details from The Cedar Rapids Gazette pattern department New York.
In Pawtucket Rhode Island two factory buildings used for war production burned Sunday night. FBI agents began an investigation immediately at the scene.
RKO signs artist George Petty and gives him an advisory role for the Petty Girl film project. Talent scout Arthur Wills searches for the ideal Petty girl amid Hollywood chatter, with plans to avoid celebrity fracas as producers seek a glamorous screen debut.ENCES
A public advice column discusses Mr KK's gloomy behavior at home and his impact on his children. Mary Manners weighs in on parental effort to engage the family and restore affection. Dear Miss Manners advises escorts for dancing, noting well behaved girls need not fear. Snowball’s question about going to dances with multiple girls is answered with cautious endorsement of escorts and gentlemanly conduct.
A colleague notes that gradual praise and sober recognition can bolster a leader's confidence. The observer suggests that, with time, others may come to value the individual's positive traits as highly as the speaker does.
Tommy Manville 48, asbestos heir, wed Wilhelmina Boze in New Rochelle New York. Mayor Stanley W Church conducted two ceremonies to ensure it sticks and the couple had vows transcribed from start to finish with his father in law Walliam Ernest Boze present.
Washington wartime News Bureau says War Information Director Elmer Davis named a five man inter agency committee to review government periodicals. They are to report by November 1 on further discontinuances and curtailments of government publications.
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