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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1941
Page
3
A columnist muses on returning from vacation to headlines and war news. The piece notes delayed enthusiasm for resuming work, ongoing global conflict, and a cautious optimism as Canada and the United States share wartime sentiments. The author praises Iowa while contrasting with Michigan and Ontario scenery.
Associate OPM Director Sidney Hillman and AFL President William Green urged workers to boost armament production and defend democracy. CIO leader Philip Murray promised continued labor resolve despite wage and living-cost pressures. They warned against totalitarian threats, urged cooperation with defense programs, and noted gains under the wage Hour law.
Paris stock broker Adolphe Rosenthal was found slain Monday in what authorities attributed to a fresh outbreak of anti Jewish terror. The death marks a continuation of increasing sectarian violence in the capital.
Helsinki bulletin cites claims Russia sought separate peace with Finland and withdrawal to the Karelian isthmus. John G. Winant denies intermediary role, Schoenfeld active but reports treated with caution. London sources say move could shorten Russian lines. Berlin and Moscow offer conflicting signals amid peace-feelers chatter.
Cable Dispatches report the 11th week of the war with the Red Army claiming continued counter attacks on the central front and holds on Leningrad and Ukraine flanks. Russians say they destroyed a half completed pontoon bridge on the Dnieper while Germans claim to have repelled small boat crossings south of Kiev. The Baltic front sees heavy casualties with 1400 Finnish dead near the Karelian Isthmus and claims of German captures including Tallinn and the port of Hapsal. Hitler's HQ notes German forces in the Dnieper bank area destroy 37 Soviet monitors and gunboats since August 26.
New York dispatch reports the Vichy radio broadcast via NBC that General Maxime Weygand renewed his pledge of loyalty to Marshal Philippe Petain. Weygand praised Petain as forthright and patriotic in the broadcast.
In Cedar Rapids Sunday four accidents occurred including a four-car pileup. Charles J. Rudzinski 51 was charged with reckless driving after colliding with Karl Kohl 51 at First avenue and Thirty-second street E. Kohl said he had a green light as Rudzinski eastbound swung around a line of waiting cars. Arthur Miner Jr 19 was charged with failure to yield after his eastbound car was struck at Sixth street and O avenue NW by Jack Cohn 26 and Miner’s car pushed into a westbound vehicle driven by R Henecke 63. One person was injured and police filed two charges.
Britain's Royal Air Force and Soviet planes co orchestrated night attacks across Germany marking two years of war. Berlin endured sirens and shelter as raids hit Krupp and Goering plants while Bomber Command struck Cologne and western targets. Eight British planes were reported missing amid heavy aerial action connected to Churchill's warned invasion defenses.
Forty seven Russian flyers with diplomatic passports landed at Nome Alaska on Sunday night from two flying boats. They said they left Moscow Thursday and planned to travel to Wahington D C via Anchorage Sitka and San Francisco. They refused to answer key questions about their route and purpose.
G. D. Dris kill, 75, enraged by relatives visiting his paralyzed wife, killed his wife and two relatives then wounded a police officer. Officers used tear gas to corner him. he was killed. Witness Mrs. Bessie McComas, nurse to Mrs. Driskill, described the night attack.
Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat, wounded last week by a French anti collaborationist, showed improvement at Versailles hospital. Doctors said they hoped to declare them out of danger within 48 hours.
The Cedar Rapids area expects clear to partly cloudy skies with moderate temperatures and high humidity. Labor Day saw near ideal conditions with 74 degrees at 10 am and 45 percent humidity, while Sunday brought heat up to 92 degrees between 3:30 and 4 pm followed by a cool down to 70 by midnight.
Des Moines reports pleasant holiday weather as federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed notes partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the 80s, and no rain expected. Durables show 92 at Davenport and 56 at Charles City with 0.02 inches of rain in Dubuque.
The Associated Press reports that in 1941 the German army, advancing across lands home to 160 million people, faced the Red Army in a brutal campaign. Dispatches from Berlin say most Germans doubt an end to fighting this year despite axis promises of victory.
Exiled leaders of occupied European nations will speak at 2 p.m. today (Iowa time) on CBS marking the second anniversary of Poland’s invasion. Speakers include King Haakon of Norway King Peter of Yugoslavia Gen Charles de Gaulle Hubert Pierlot Pieter Gerbrand y Jan Masaryk C H Simopoulos and J Bech representing Greece Luxembourg Netherlands and Czechoslovakia.
London Daily Herald reports a weeklong Chinese offensive in Kiangsi province area north of Shanghai with ongoing heavy fighting and entrenched positions.
President Roosevelt declares in a Labor Day address that the nation will do everything in its power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces. He warns of greater threats to American rights and calls on workers to subordinate private interests to the defense effort, stressing the stakes for trade unions, living standards, and national security.
President emphasizes the rights of free labor and the industrial mobilization for World War II. He frames democratic defense as necessity, cites interdependence of rights, and notes the nation’s nonaggressive stance while arming weapons for battlefronts and sustaining democracy.
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