Navy shipbuilding figures show strong progress in 1941
The Navy reports real results in its ship program. In eight months to Jan 1 1941 213 ships completed or placed in service. Keels laid for 436 vessels and between Jan 1 and Sept 1 249 more launched awaiting finishing. The breakdown lists battleships cruisers submarines carriers destroyers patrol craft district craft and auxiliaries among others, with total figures excluding small boats lend-lease and merchant marine work.
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Washington
INS
Navy
Community notices list church and club events in city
Local briefs show chicken supper at St James church and meetings at Trinity Lutheran K of C Hotel Roosevelt and Masonic hall. Alumnae benefit at Knights of Columbus Continental Buffet, Des Moines trip plans, Ahepa meeting changes, ship leave news, and district A Z A convention gold medal recipients.
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Clarke College
Knights of Columbus
Dad Cannot Take It Any More Ad Lams Tablets Ad
Ad copy notes dad unable to digest meals with fullness and heartburn. Suggests taking ADLA Tablets from the druggist as a remedy. promotional tone throughout.
U S Sues Capone Aides For 250 000 Beer Taxes
The United States filed suit in Chicago against Al Capone and 14 associates for about 250000 in taxes and penalties on beer seized 1921 to 1932. The action targets 19984 barrels taxed at 119367 with interest penalties and costs. Capone, ailing, is linked to the Cicero area rackets. Guzik and Ralph Capone are named.
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U.S
Capone
Chicago
Wednesday
al Capone
Uncle Sam
United States
J. Albert Woll
Capone Syndicate
Palm Island
Fla
Wisconsin
Jack Guzik
Ralph Capone
Cicero
Cedar Rapids delegate Kozberg noted for chapter role
A Cedar Rapids chapter delegate Kozberg is named as official. At Arthur Mickelson’s home 1326 Lavenu e NE a sunflower stalk blooms abundantly with 94 full grown blossoms counted by Mrs Mickelson. Navy enlistments add Gaylord R Collins 24 of Iowa City and Robert D Gourley 17 of 1022 Nineteenth St SE, joining the regular and naval reserve.
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Arthur Mickelson
Lavenue
Mickelson
Navy
Gaylord R. Collins
Iowa City
Naval Reserve
Robert D. Gourley
Earl Gourley
Nineteenth Street
Guest Day Program Opens Anna Armstrong Guild Year
The St Pauls Methodist Church guild will start its year with a Friday 2 p.m. guest day and tea in the church parlors. Guest speaker Miss Ortha Lane on furlough from China will talk. she is a Cornell graduate and earned a University of Iowa degree. Lane served as secretary of women’s and children’s work for the Methodist Church in the North China conference.
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Anna Armstrong Guild
St Paul's Methodist Church
Two Fort Des Moines Escapees Nabbed in Keokuk
Des Moines AP Chief of Detectives Paul Casteline says two of five soldiers who escaped from the guardhouse at Fort Des Moines were arrested in Keokuk by police. Walter D. Fish of Fayette and A. E. Stennett of Creston were found driving a stolen car. Clyde Nasland of Clay Center, Kansas remains at large.
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Des Moines
Paul Casteline
Fort Des Moines
Keokuk
Army Post
Walter D. Fish
Fayette
A. E. Stennett
Creston
Ohio May Withdraw Iowa Truck Tax Reciprocity
Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Karl Fischer said Ohio threatens to withdraw truck tax reciprocity for Iowa operators over compensation tax demands. Iowa mulls $250 annual per truck charges on Motor Cargo Inc. and Freight Inc. Akron operators with Cedar Rapids Waterloo Davenport and Des Moines routes could face Iowa’s public utility tax of 36 to 72 dollars per truck annually if Ohio stays firm.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Karl Fischer
Ohio
Ilowa
Fischer
Council of State
State Commerce Commission
Motor Cargo, Inc
Freight, Inc
Akron
Iowa Dairy Promotion Tax Yield Rises This Year
DES MOINES AP The Iowa dairy industry commission reported receipts from the special promotion tax totaling 102 901 57 this year. Last year 92 889 followed by 94 418 in 1939. A one cent per pound tax on butterfat during the first two weeks of June funds national and state advertising campaigns with the American Dairy association.
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Des Moines
Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
American Dairy Association
Dickstein Seeks Dies Probe of America First Committee
Rep. Samuel Dickstein of New York charged that the America First Committee seeks to organize the American people for fascistic aims and urged the Dies committee on un American activities to investigate it.
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New York
Samuel Dickstein
N. Y
America First Committee, Inc
Dies Committee On un-American Activities
Indian army units reinforce Singapore Malaya front
Singapore dispatch reports that Britain’s Imperial army in Malaya received new reinforcements on Wednesday. Indian army units arrived fully motorized and bringing all their fighting equipment, strengthening the defense and signaling a broad mobilization effort in the region.
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Singapore
Britain
Malaya
Dairies Pass City Standard Milk Tests In Cedar Rapids
Random tests of milk shipments to Cedar Rapids show all dairies meet the city ordinance requiring butterfat 3 percent or more and cream 16 percent or more. A table labels plates under 50 000 bacteria per cc as low and under 25 000 as very low.
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America
Cedar Rapids
Bindler Roy
Guernsey
Brookside
Cedar Heights Farm
Cedar Valley Dairy
Davis Dairy
Jersey
Dows Mantil
Fast Lawn Dairy
Edrewood
Pry
Forest Grove
Forest Lane
Hichland Dairy
Imperial Dairy
Krebs
Holstein
Leacox Dairy
MrCoy
McNulty
McRalth
Milky Way
Northswood
Northwood
Penningroth
Mello
Searles Dairy
Starks Dairy
Sunny Dale
Asher Otto
Vondracek Dairy
Vondracek
Whiting
Yell
Clinton Township Road District Petition and Gas Main Work
A petition to form a secondary road district in Clinton township was submitted to the Linn county board of supervisors and referred to the county engineer for a report and plat under the three year road plan. The board also authorized Cedar Rapids Gas Co to lay 5,211 feet of steel gas main along Lincoln Heights east on primary road No 6 from the end of the present main.
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Clinton Township
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Lincoln Heights
Japanese Ex-Minnesota Congressman Says Fleet Intact Impresses Japan
Rep Maas, a Marine Reserve air officer, says Japan is deathly afraid of the U S fleet in the Pacific. He notes some ships moved to the Atlantic but asserts Pacific forces can defend the nation and keep rubber and tin routes open. He adds Hawaii’s defense makes Panama access unlikely and cites Tokyo’s disclosure of fleet movements.
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Washington
Minnesota
Marine Corps
Japan
United States
Pacific
Rep
Maas
Minn
Atlantic
Hawaiian Islands
Gibraltar
Panama
Hawaii
Indo-China
Tokio
Canal
Shock Absorber Fluid Burns Faster in Hot Weather
The statement notes that shock absorber fluid, similar to engine oil, oxidizes and burns more rapidly in high temperatures, affecting performance and reliability of suspensions exposed to heat.
Corporal Engaged to Heiress Says He Was Wrong
Corporal Palmer Beaudette, 27, claims he planned to wed Cobina Wright Jr. in New York on November 14 after chartering a plane for 1300 dollars. Cobina Wright Sr. denies any engagement, stating Cobina has no fiancé and pursues her career. Beaudette comes from a wealthy Pontiac family and met Cobina in Los Angeles.
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Seattle
Palmer T. Beaudette
Cobina Wright, Jr
Beaudette
Oakland
Calif
Miss Wright
New York
Reno
Nev
Cobina
Pontiac, Mich
O. J. Beaudette
Henry Ford
Fisher Body Corporation
Los Angeles
Drafted Last January at Carmel California
A note indicates he was drafted last January at Carmel California and has lived in California for several years.
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Carmel
Calif
California
Illusion Dresses Highlight Day and Night Fashion
New York AP reports on the first day of the American fall fashion openings showing dresses with long back hems for evening wear and long fronts for daytime use. Most gowns are black or wartime colors such as British or American khaki, all featuring illusion designs that imply nudity while staying modest.
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New York
British Torpedo Planes Hit German Pocket Battleship Luetzow
London AP reports a British torpedo plane struck the 10 000 ton German pocket battleship Luetzow a few weeks ago. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair said on Wednesday that no details of the engagement could be released.
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London
Archibald Lin
Chalk
Wednesay
French Corn Crop Expected to Grow 20 Percent
Berlin radio reported Tuesday night that France's corn crop this year will exceed previous years by about twenty percent. The rise is attributed largely to tilling of Maginot line soil areas.
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New York
Berlin
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Jan Hus
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Ladies Aid
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Kate Cutter
Wells Peck
Betty Jane Peck
First Avenue E
Lake Huron
Herman Lodge
Masonic Hall
Order of Ahepa
St. John's Church
A Avenue
Fifth Street
Frank Stegegall
Alma Steggal
D Avenue NW
U. S. S. Nevada
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Orient
U. C
Auxiliary
K. P. Hall
Woman's Association of
First Congregational Church
Mary Owen Tufts
W. L. Paxson
Bernard Kosberg
Second Avenue
Jerome Greenberg
Third Avenue
Z.A
Camp Indianola
Wis
Kozberg
Clyde Nasland
Clay Center
Kan
WPA
Flrat Ave
Roosevelt
America First” Unit
Tan
By James G. Chesnutt
Powa Tergeneys Ssase
TITAN
Willie Willis
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INTER
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
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