Roosevelt to Draw First Draft Lottery Number
President Roosevelt will draw the first number of the draft lottery at noon on Oct. 29 in Washington. Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra announced the plan after a conference, noting the process may take about 12 hours and will use blue capsules like the last draft.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Clarence A. Dykstra
Selective Service Director
Dykstra
Labor Department
Mr. Roosevelt
God is Present Even in History This Is His Story
A reader questions comforting sermons about distant future hope while fear and despair loom. The writer argues for facing facts with faith, citing Theodore Parker’s impatience and the belief that God is present here and now, history being His story. (List'd by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Cyften
Rome
Theodore Parker
God
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Youths Indicted Over Draft Registration Pleas Guilty
A federal grand jury indicted ten youths on charges of failing to register under the selective service act. Eight Union Theological Seminary students pled guilty and await sentencing on November 6. The two self styled socialists have until Wednesday to plead. all were released on recognizance with a maximum penalty of five years or a $10,000 fine, or both.
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New York
United States
Union Theological Seminary
Pleasant October Weather Continues in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids records a sunny spell with mild temperatures. The weekend highs reached the upper 60s with a Sunday peak of 64 and a Monday high of 68. Morning lows hovered in the 40s, while timing details span 4:30 to 6:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. readings.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Political Speeches On Air Tonight Coverage For Iowa
Iowa listeners tune in to political remarks tonight with Henry Wallace from Mason City at 7:30 over MBS farm states. WMT offers a 10:15 rebroadcast. Arthur H. Vandenberg from Logansport and Scott W Lucas from Chicago speak on agriculture and foreign policy over NBC networks. Wendell L. Willkie from Milwaukee speaks at 9:30 to Young Republicans on NBC blue.
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Iowa
Henry Wallace
Mason City
MBS
WMT
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Logansport
Ind
NBC Blue
Scott W. Lucas
Lll
Chicago
Midwest
NBC
Wendell L. Willkie
Milwaukee
Wis
Potatoes to France Relief Planned by Germany
German authorities announced by radio from the occupied zone that Germany will send 100000 tons of potatoes to aid unoccupied France as relief.
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Vichy
France
Germany
RAF Bombs Berlin and Italy in Widespread Air Offensive
British air forces struck Berlin with heavy bombs causing hospital damage and civilian casualties while raids hit northern Italy from Genoa to Verona. RAF operations extended to Tromsoe in Norway and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf as war fronts widen.
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Germany
Italy
Tromsoe
Norway
Persian Gulf
RAF
Berlin
Alps
Benito Mussolini
Reich
Britain
Donald Heath
Genoa
Mediterranean
Verona
Adriatic
London
Bahrein
Saudi Arabia
Roosevelt Declines Willkie Debate Offer for Baltimore Speech
Secretary Stephen Early said President Roosevelt would not accept Wendell Willkie’s challenge to debate and is likely to speak at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with a possible stop in Cleveland. Willkie announced he would share a Baltimore platform if Roosevelt attends.
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Roosevelt
Wendell JL. Willkie
Baltimore
Stephen Early
Academy of Music Hall
Brooklyn
N. Y
Willkie
Early
Flynn
T National Committee
Brooklyn Academy of Music
New England
Cleveland
Ohio
Theodore F. Koor
Wendell L. Willkie
Churchill vows Britain will seize air command in 1941
Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed the French and British people, predicting Britain will command the air from Germany next year and that the Allied effort will destroy Hitler and his regime. He urged friendship with the French and pledged relentless resolve to cleanse Europe of Nazi rule.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Germany
France
Hitler
Churchill
Europe
Dies urges three point anti fifth column drive
Chicago report on Martin Dies proposing a three point plan to shield America from foreign agents. He calls for redefining the Bill of Rights to bar foreign powers, strict consulate staff limits, and deportation or loss of citizenship for subversive individuals.
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Dies
Chicago
INS
America
Hitler
Europe
Martin Dies
Congressional
United States
Iowa Building Trades Defeat Roosevelt Third Term Plan
At a Cedar Rapids meeting the Iowa Building and Construction Trade councils defeated a proposal to endorse President Roosevelt for a third term by a large majority. About 100 delegates from 15 crafts and 14 councils voted against the measure and called for ending WPA building projects due to wage-scale concerns.
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Roosevelt
Iowa Building and Construction Trade Councils
D. Fay Merrill
Cedar Rapids Building Trades Council
Iowa
Mr. Merrill
Building Trades Councils
Merrill
Teamsters' Union
Roosevelt Sr
Law Of Averages Catches Up With Garriott
Oklahoma City AP reports S. D. Garriott aged 63, an insurance inspector who drives about 70 000 miles yearly, finally collided after 25 years without an accident. He had a first crash, then, after taking his car to a garage for repairs, borrowed a car and six blocks later was in a second collision.
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Oklahoma City
S. D. Garriott
Garriott
Noted Coin Collector Targeted Home Burglary in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids resident reports a burglary at Robert Hunt's home on 1940 A avenue NE Sunday evening. A thief forced a basement window to gain entry and stole 280 Jefferson nickels 14 silver dollars and $28 from a metal box in a dresser.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Hunt
Avenue
Hunt
Reich Expects More Balkan Trade Pacts
Berlin reports from Nazi economic quarters say new trade pacts are imminent with several Balkans and Near East states following the Yugoslavia agreement. Officials deny that Yugoslavia signing was achieved under duress.
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Berlin
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Near East
Victor Woman Fatally Injured In Highway Intersection Crash
Edith Neuhaus a 44 year old Victor resident died after a crash at a highway 30 intersection six miles west of Cedar Rapids. Her husband Otto Neuhaus 48 of Victor was northbound and collided with Alfred Suchanek 39 of Tama and James Mohler 41 of Geneseo WI. Neuhaus died at 4 30 am Monday. others injured included daughter Marilan 8 and Anna Knock 50. The three were taken to hospital after the collision at the intersection near an arsenal sign.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Gruhn
Donovan Gruhn
Wilson Avenue SW
Beverly Barns
Gruhn
Donald
Irving Floerchinger
Wilson Avenue
B. L. Knight
Floerchinger
Arthur O'Brien
West Liberty
Edgewood No. 2
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Gus Gruhn
Malcom
Paul Wiese
Dewey Floetchinger
Joe Motley
City
Lester Gruhn
Harry Robertson
Horace Greenlee
Francis Ford
Charles Morrison
Emory Walker
Iowa City
Frederick Gruhn
Los Angeles
Evangelical Sunday School
Edith Neuhaus
Victor
Neuhaus
Otto Neuhaus
Alfred Suchanek
Tama
Suchanek
James W Mohler
Geneseo
At Mohler
Sherff
Jim Smith
Arsenal
Smith
Marilan Neuhaus
Anna Knock
Wail- Niamsburg
Community Chest Near Goal as Campaign Reaches $77 013
The Community Chest total rose to 77 013 at a Monday Chamber of Commerce luncheon as reports showed more divisions meeting their targets. The drive aims for 90 519 with a Wednesday 6 pm victory dinner looming, while the women’s division and transportation and storage group exceeded their quotas.
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Cedar Rapides
Chamber of Commerce
W J Foster
Edwin Lundquist
Raymond Klass
E F Moormans
Charles Shackell
Chester Ainsworth
Harry Sundberg
John C Reid
Wallace Says Willkie Misquoted Him In Iowa Speech
Iowa Senator Henry Wallace denounced Wen dell Willkie for misquoting him in Monona. He warned of a postwar Republican slump worse than 1931 32, said the GOP is not free enterprise but a party of monopoly, and urged debt reduction and prudent postwar spending.
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Wallace
Iowa
Monona
Wendell Willkie
Henry Wallace
Europe
Republican Party
Party of Free Enterprise
Marquette
Hancher Presidency Questioned by Iowa Board Member
Virgil M. Hancher’s election as University of Iowa president faces reconsideration by the state board of education after Thomas W. Keenan cited a Chicago suit against Hancher and others for recover of 110000. Keenan said ring of facts shows Hall knew but did not inform the full board.
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University of Iowa
State Board of Education
Thomas W. Keenan
The
Gazette
Des Moines
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Earl Hall
Mason City
Hancher
Chicago
Hall
Iowa
George T Baker
Davenport
Iowa City
Thomas Keenan
Shenandoah
Earl Wall
Ames
Baker
Shull
Henry C. Shull
Sioux City
A. L. Syverud
Tri-cities
Mr. Hancher
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