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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1941
Page
18
This column quotes Edith Head urging a fashion clinic for women and shares her advice on assessing wardrobe faults. It cites a personal hat misstep with Claudette Colbert’s film look, and offers tips to balance features with sleeves, hemlines, and colors to flatter the wearer.
Cedar Rapids groups announce meetings with the Stamp Club at 2 30 p m in the Montrose hotel and the Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association at 6 p m in the Roosevelt hotel. A light company cooking school is also listed. Officer furloughs are noted for Vernon Johnson and Bernard M Kehoe.
Robert Hemminger son of Mr and Mrs B D Hemminger 1406 Sixth Avenue SE will depart Tuesday for Camp Claiborne Louisiana where he serves as a sergeant in the 185th Field Artillery He has been visiting relatives and friends during a 10 day furlough.
Jerome A Owens national representative of the Townsend organization will speak Monday at 7 30 in the superior court room Memorial building. He will show a picture illustrating the Townsend principles followed by an address on the plan for national recovery. No admission charge and the public is invited to attend.
Prof George D Haskell associate professor of economics at the University of Iowa will address Cedar Rapids Rotary at the Roosevelt hotel luncheon Monday on Economic Prospects.
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago holds more than 700,000 plant specimens from around the world, enriching research and exhibitions.
Hundreds of Atlantic City spectators attend a ceremony unveiling a bronze plaque for Rags the railroad mascot. WPA brass band plays as government officials, business leaders, and railroad figures praise the 12 year watchdog who greeted trains at the terminal corner stone.
Ralph Kilb and Ronald Kilb, brothers aged 10 and 9 from Chicago, arrived in New York aboard the Yankee Clipper after traveling alone from Germany. They left Germany in 1935, spent years with a grandmother, and finally rebuilt their English by writing phrases on luggage slips. They went by train to Lincoln Nebraska, where their parents, including George Kilb a chef at the Hotel Cornhusker, now live.
The Associated Press notes scores from state marching band contests at Atlantic Osage and Storm Lake with 40 schools at Atlantic and 20 bands at Osage. Oelwein was the sole AAA entry placing second while Osage Grundy Center won in bell lyre class BCD and Waukon Monona Conrad Fairbank led in snare drum.
Soviet ambassador Ivan M. Maisky told the Sunday Express that Britain and Russia must pool forces and move troops across the front to pressure Germany. He urged a unified front and warned the war’s duration depends on Anglo Russian collaboration.
James E Watson, former Senate Republican leader, told Indiana Republican Women that President Roosevelt favored entering World War I in 1917 and in today’s crisis. Watson argued the President was “for war from the first” despite speeches showing opposition, citing Josephus Daniels and Newton D Baker comments for context.
The Rainbow bridge at Niagara Falls Ontario, replacing the Honeymoon bridge that collapsed in spring 1938, will be opened to traffic on November 1. The new span connects New Niagara and Niagara Falls, signaling a major post disaster reconstruction milestone.
Pattern 2931 offers a transfer set of 12 motifs for linen closet decor in Mr and Mrs or His and Hers themes. Includes color schemes materials stitches and illustrations. Send 10 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft dept 82 Eighth Avenue New York NY with pattern number name and address.
The Army, now over 1.5 million strong, is using field exercises to harden troops while confronting a shortage of young trained officers and scarce ammunition. McNair says complete readiness is never guaranteed, yet observers believe the force can perform if needed.
Illinois State Council of Defense opens a three day production clinic offering small manufacturers and potential subcontractors the chance to win hundreds of millions in defense work. The event runs with cooperation from the Office of Production Management and brings together prime contractors and smaller firms from Illinois and neighboring states.
The Capital Times reports creditors filed claims totaling 15556772 in Dane county court against the late University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank estate. Mrs Mary Frank widow notes principal assets are the Maple Bluff home and policy receipts. appraiser’s report expected soon may show assets insufficient to cover all claims.
Interior Secretary Ickes ordered unsightly billboards banished from public lands while allowing permissible commercial signs with a 20 cent per square foot annual fee, minimum five dollars. About 200 million acres of public lands exist mainly in the west.
Karl Connell, 62, founder of Connell Apparatus and designer of the first American gas mask, died at his Scarsdale home Saturday after leading a company that produced anesthetic equipment.
In Pittsburgh a game using rifles as bows leaves 16 year old Charles Morris injured by a chest shot. His friend Ed Bednarick also 16 took turns firing as they tried to get close to each other. Charles is expected to be discharged in a few days.
The Norwegian legation in Washington says Norway cannot feed its people and must support 300,000 occupying soldiers. It cites 1940 41 exports to Germany of coffee eggs butter meat cream milk cheese and warns Norwegians may starve and freeze this winter.
Telegrams from Sofia report German effort to pull Bulgaria into the war has subsided. Hundreds of Germans in Sofia have moved to the Russian front, and streets show no German military activity for days according to informants in Istanbul and Sofia.
The Roosevelt funding board offered to arbitrate the wage dispute between railroads and 1 260 000 organized workers if both sides request arbitration and accept the board s recommendations as a full settlement The panel also offered mediation but did not back arbitration or resolve the proposals only to pass messages between sides The five man board will hear more arguments after public testimony ends and would submit recommendations to the president if unresolved
Six men were severely injured and many more treated after a gas explosion at the Permanente magnesium plant in Los Altos California. The $10 million defense project had been ramping up operations under a new process for extracting magnesium from Western raw material. The blast was blamed on a spark from welding equipment and the plant noted all workers had a fair chance of survival.
Parachutist Arthur S Starnes, a professional chute jumper, will perform a 12 000 foot test jump on Sunday to gather data for potential use in equipping army paratroops.
Readers seek guidance on romance and manners from Miss Manners and a coed. Topics include handling a sulking boyfriend, not pressuring a couple, navigating third wheels on dates, and balancing friendships with romantic interests. A fashion note highlights mink accents on a tailored wool jacket suit.
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