U. S. Leaders in Capital Ship Power in wartime assessment
The Royal Oak sinking shifts U S balance to lead in capital ships by tonnage and count, with Britain still ahead of Germany. Jones registry shows Britain at 15 ships 473 700 tons total. U S at 15 ships 466 890 tons. Germany seven or five ships 82 000 tons. Allies 21 ships 606 495 tons. Britain builds seven capital ships. U S six 5 000 ton battleships due 1941. Germany France start new ships.
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Royal Oak
United States
Britain
Germany
Jones Fighting Ships Registry
France
Jones
Clinton Church Congress Set for October 21 22
The eastern Iowa congress of the Iowa Synod United Lutheran Church will meet in Clinton October 21 and 22 with Miss Sylvia Heidt Des Moines as chair and Miss Meta Frerichs Clinton in charge of arrangements The Sunday program will feature Dr Arline Beal missionary from India A note recalls 1907 Austrian emigration to the United States at a record 338452 people in one year.
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Clinton
Eastern
Iowa
Iowa Synod of the United Lutheran Church
Fort Madison
Guttenberg
Cedar Rapids
Sylvia Heidt
Des Moines
Meta Frerichs
Arline Beal
India
Chicago Artist To Exhibit At Killian's Better Homes Show
Chicago artist Miss Dorothy A. Keyes will exhibit oil flower paintings at Killian's Better Homes Show in the fourth floor picture and lamp department. Works include Burmese Spring Life and studies of lilacs, chrysanthemums, delphiniums, and calendulas. Fay Huttenlocker of Des Moines will speak on Tuesday at 2 30 p.m. A cooking school runs Tuesday through Friday at 10 a.m. led by Bernice Lowen from Chicago.
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Dorothy A. Keyes
Chicago
Killian’s
Drake Hotel
All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Inc
Keyes
Edgewater Beach
Stevens Hotel
Lake Shore Athletic Club
Jerome P. Uhl
Paris
London
New York
Fay Huttenlocker
Des Moines
Better Homes and
Quaker Oats Workers Name Coronation Pageant Representatives
Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids names its workers chosen for the Allied Industrial League Queen's ball coronation pageant on Nov 3 at Memorial auditorium. Duchess Agnes Konecny and knight Robert Hastings head a group of attendants and workers selected from local industries for the royal circle.
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Quaker Oats Company
Cedar Rapids
Allied Industrial League
Memorial Auditorium
Agnes Konecny
Avenue NW
Robert Hastings
Highland Drive
Agnes Hasik
Seventh Avenue
Dorothy Kazimour
Memorial Drive
Eugene Brown
Eleventh Street
Joseph Dugan
First Avenue
Queen’s Ball Court
Penick and Ford, Wilson and Company
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Speeder Machinery Corporation
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Universal Crusher Company
la Plant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Secret committee to crown king and queen at midnight ball
In each plant a secret committee will pick the new king and queen and keep the decision hidden until the ball night when the crowning occurs in front of thousands of celebrants.
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Studebaker
San Francisco Exposition
New York World’s Fair
San Francisco
C.I.T
Maine Lodge I O O F Dinner Program Tonight
Maine lodge No. 643 I O O F will host a fellowship dinner and gathering Tuesday evening at Maine lodge hall 838 First avenue East. The program starts with a brief business session at 7 then a talk on Odd Fellowship by James E Patterson followed by dinner. C P Spencer will show moving pictures from the American Legion convention in Chicago. Cards and games conclude the entertainment. members may bring a guest.
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Maine Lodge
First Avenue
Odd Fellowship
James E. Patterson
C. P. Spencer
American Legion
Chicago
Roosevelt to propose war profits tax in January session
Representative John M. Coffee of Washington, a leader of the house progressive bloc, predicted Saturday that the Roosevelt administration will propose a war profits tax measure to Congress in the regular session in January.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
Rep
John M. Coffee
House
Auto Club Distributes Foreign Safety Posters
Four hundred round-the-world safety posters, the first in a colorful educational series, were distributed last week by the Cedar Rapids Auto Club to rural and town schools. The posters show children in authentic native costumes from ten nations, with translations in English and the local language.
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American Automobile Association
Cedar Rapids Auto Club
Washington
Cross Only at Corners In Mexican Fiesta Scene
An image shows Mexican girls in fiesta costumes and a man in a serape with embroidered suit crossing near a grand Ciudad de Mexico building. A bold Spanish warning "Crucese Solo En Las Esquinas" sits above the ad. The scene includes an educational oil fields strip along the coast and Teotihuacan ruins with Mayan ruins in view.
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Mexico City
Crucese
Mexico Coast
Teotihuacan
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