France Launches Intensive Anti Sub Drive
Paris reports a coordinated French naval and seaplane anti submarine campaign launched Saturday night. A U boat was reportedly sunk off the French coast by depth charges. The war office noted German officers and sailors were recovered from the submarine. The high command described renewed close quarter fighting on the western front as reconnaissance detachments clash along death studded no man’s land. France aims to curb U boat activity near Gibraltar and the Spanish coast. The government also released older and certain veteran men from service to boost production.
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Expansion of surplus food lunches for needy Iowa children
Washington AP reports a plan by the Surplus Commodities Corporation and WPA to expand a lunch program in Iowa. Local sponsors would cooperate to feed many more children than last year as 14,000 WPA workers served 500,000 children nationwide. WPA aims to triple this figure by year end with Iowa receiving its share. In Iowa last year twenty women were employed and hot lunches reached 30 schools.
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Protest Lecture By Stanley High Sparks Local Tension
Sioux City AP editors report Bill Sun day Memorial tabernacle members adopt a resolution opposing Stanley High lecture set for October 31. High, a national traveler writer and speaker, is criticized for alleged communist sympathies and anti religious statements by Rev. Harry D. Clarke.
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Executives Club To Hear Stanley High Wednesday
Stanley High, noted lecturer and political writer, speaks at Cedar Rapids Executives Club dinner at the Roosevelt hotel on 1940 the Candidates and Policies. He warns that alien ideas threaten democracy and praises the Dies committee for its stance while recounting his recent forum remarks on fascism and communism.
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Connie Boswell Walks Alone For First Time Since Illness
Blues singer Connie Boswell has won a long battle against infantile paralysis and was shown walking alone for the first time since she was stricken at age three, a development disclosed Saturday in Los Angeles.
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