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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1941
Page
19
Defense savings bond sales for five months in 1941 show E bonds far ahead of 1940 D bonds. Total receipts since last May reach 1.504 billion, with E bonds at 571.2 million. June to September show rising returns. city rail line data contrast with strong gains.
L Observations by Louella Parsons speculate Ginger Rogers Bette Davis and Cary Grant could headline The Hard Way at Warner Bros with two equal female leads and a top male role The plan would make the film one of the studio’s most expensive productions Also notes Gene Autry Don Red Barry and John Wayne projects and health updates on Humphrey Bogart and Harry Warren among Hollywood items
An analysis of July to September navy recruiting shows Iowa leading the nation in recruits per million male population. Cedar Rapids station, headed by M. C. Dodson and Carl Pierce, ranked second to Des Moines for the quarter with 82 of 932 men enlisted locally. Iowa averaged 221 recruits per month per million, while Missouri logged 188. Reserve enlistments rise after Knox's March 6 pledge, and about 51 percent of Cedar Rapids recruits joined the naval reserve.
The Gazette lists today’s showtimes for Paramount. Hawaiian Nights runs with 1:19, 9:28 and 4.56 blocks. Three Cockeyed Sailors at 1.50, 4.56, 7.29, 10.32. Iowa bills The Little Foxes at 2.45, 6.15, 9.45 and The Mexican Spitfire's Baby at 1.30, 5.00, 8.30. State shows Navy Blues at 12.14, 3.10, 6.06, 9.02 and Last of the Dunnes' at 11.15, 2.11, 5.07, 8.03, 10.49. Palace presents Men of Boys Town at 2.35, 6.00, 9.20 and For Beauty's Sake at 1.35, 4.55, 8.20. Alasto features In Old Cheyenne at 1.25, 5.13, 8.31 and Down Argentine Way at 2.40, 6.30, 9.45.
A reporter notes how the civilian air raid warning system in the industrial Northeast uses a filter room to weed out false reports. About 40 000 observers scan the skies from Cod to Hatteras to aid defense aviation and anti aircraft operations.
Albert Wiggam discusses whether ignorance fuels crime with data on prisoner education and juvenile cases. He notes orchids attract men more than women and advises recognizing a handicap before acting to overcome it, citing psychologist John J B Morgan on building self confidence.
At the Paramount through Thursday the stage show Hawaiian Nights brings a large American-Hawaiian chorus to the South Seas setting with Don Seat's Royal Hawaiian hotel orchestra, the South Sea Sirens, hula dancers introducing the Hula Swing, Evelyn Wilson and the Three Ryans among the cast, while the screen feature Three Cock Eyed Sailors stars Tommy Trinder and Carla Lahmann.
A plan to settle about 950000 in claims slightly over 1000000 against McKesson and Robbins Inc and its subsidiary McKesson and Robbins Ltd was recommended to stockholders. The limited company figures in the Donald Coster affair that rocked the Bridgeport drug firm.
McNutt urged employers to report layoff problems to state employment officers to ease employment shifts to defense production. The program may allocate defense contracts to save plants and move displaced workers into defense plants or training. Surveys show 200 plants with about 90,000 workers, a third facing layoffs, with Iowa and Wisconsin reporting sizable likely cuts and limited reemployment opportunities.
Attorney General Francis Biddle told the Office of Price Administration it may reduce the number of luxury item styles without violating anti trust laws. The plan aims to set minimum performance and safety standards and conserve defense materials across domestic washing machines irons refrigerators furniture electrical appliances textiles cooking stoves and automobiles.
On Broadway With Walter covers wartime anecdotes and rumors. Gossip links Hitler and FDR diplomacy, Joe DiMaggio’s infantry service, and socialites like Diana Barrymore with film magnates. References to gypsy fortunetellers, wartime shortages, and political figures frame a snapshot of New York society and national updates.
A mysterious male voice cut into a BBC broadcast in London on Monday night during a women in the armed forces program. The heckler derided milk distribution limits tied to a new food ministry registration and declared support for a national government rather than foreign or Jewish control.
The Nazi controlled Brussels Zeitung urges Belgians to cooperate loyally with Germany, drop hopes of British victory, and stop listening to British radio chatter.
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