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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1940
Page
12
The Gazette prints reader letters criticizing the My Day feature and the Roosevelt third term discussion. A chorus argues democracy hinges on informed voting and the truth in public discourse ahead of the November election.
In Bucharest an official communique announced arrests of several prominent Rumanians tied to the 1938 disappearance of Ion Zelea Codreanu, the Iron Guard leader, as authorities intensified the case.
Thirty six year old John K Valentine Democratic nominee for governor spoke at the Iowa State Building Trades council banquet pledging an honest administration and action over inaction. He attacked Governor Wilson’s economy program and touted merit appointments, labor cooperation with federal programs, and expanded federal benefits for dependent children housing aged persons. He promised bills reach floor and a retirement plan for teachers, and noted he has visited 78 of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Patrolman Earl Davis arrested Bert Jackson twenty of 929 Eighth Street SE at 7 p m Saturday for reckless driving and failure to stop for a traffic signal after he ran a red light on Third Street East and struck a car driven by George H Paulsen Onslow at First Avenue. No injuries were reported.
A general alarm Saturday afternoon at 2:32 PM drew firemen to a garage where hot ashes dumped by an unknown person burned a wall. William Powers of 604 Tenth Street SE reported the call. Later, Mrs Dan Blake of 913 Sixth Avenue SE said her home was entered between 1:50 and 4:10 PM with small change taken from clothing pockets as the front door was left unlocked.
Joe Matousek 54 of 946 L street SW was arrested at 745 p.m. Saturday after his wife reported a domestic dispute. Police found him drunk and quiet on arrival. an hour earlier the complainant said a roomer was causing trouble but the roomer was in bed.
Calmar high school falls 19 to 13 at home as Arlington edges ahead. Schissel scores all Calmar points in a hard fought Friday contest.
Four people died in blizzard like snow on the eastern seaboard with Fort Dix deaths from a head on car crash and an army vehicle crash. Lemuel Scho field injured in Philadelphia snowstorm. Washington issues northeast storm warnings and gales shift eastward from Appalachia. New York reports light flurries while New Jersey and Pennsylvania see storm conditions.
J Vesely will perform in the plaza and a pipe organ concert will be held in the coliseum. The Linn County Willkie club opens at 8:15 with a community sing and pledge, then Kathleen Norris introduces Governor Stassen for the main address at 9 p.m. Broadcast from 9 to 9:45 p.m. on multiple stations across Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The Democratic National Committee announces President Roosevelt will not appear in the Midwest. Senator Lucas said the President cannot travel from Washington due to rapid developments in the international field.
The Dies address drew high demand for tickets with many sold out and seats filling in the coliseum. Notables present included Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M Molloy Coe college president H M Gage Arthur Deamer and G K Strausser. Proceeds benefit Camp Good Health and the Dies Foundation for Americanism. Tickets available at multiple local shops.
The candidate argues prosperity comes from work not restraint on crops and criticizes crop control and centralization. He urges retaining capable defense workers and enlisting top agricultural and industrial leaders, praising McNary's farm record and predicting strong advisory support.
A cold blast hit the eastern seaboard, driving temperatures to a record 32 in New York. The report notes extreme cold and mentions a separate note on a six-person telephone link via special appliances in various locations.
London bomb raids reach new ferocity over invasion ports in German hands. Bombs aimed at targets across the Channel cause tremors on the Kent coast over 20 miles away while explosions dim the moonlight and Nazi flak lights flare.
Berlin reports a mass submarine raid sinking merchant ships in a single British convoy. The DNB agency says the attack involved 26 ships totaling about 150000 tons and is the largest U boat mass assault since the convoy system began.
British sources on Saturday rebutted German reports that 26 ships from a British convoy were sunk, calling the claim a dramatic fabrication. British bombers then attacked Hamburg's Blohm and Voss shipyards for over three hours, targeting warship construction.
Alfred M. Landon, speaking at a Willkie rally in Quincy Indiana, warned that a Roosevelt third term would let the president interpret a mandate to herd youth into labor camps. He likened this to rising European dictatorship and warned of domestic government dictatorship at Washington.
The President proposed organizing labor concentrate camps for girls and boys and claimed to have never altered a suggestion from organized labor battalions. Critics say the proposal echoes authoritarian practice and raises civil liberty concerns.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Henry Wallace said McNary’s farm program would reduce farm income by about 1 billion dollars a year. He called it a streamlined version of the McNary Haugen plan and said it is unsuitable for modern times. Wallace urged production controls with commodity loans as essential to stabilizing corn wheat cotton and hog prices.
John Lindsay, 35, of Omaha, told authorities he failed to register for the draft because he believed he was 36. A letter from his mother revealed he was born in 1905, not 1904.
New York. Edward J Flynn, Democratic national chairman, accuses the Republican National Committee of maintaining a fictitious pretense that it has no knowledge of or control over Wendell Willkie clubs. He cites a Hatch Act letter and says Democrats seek to intimidate government employees into contributing to the campaign.
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