Cedar Rapids drives fund total and civic projects
The first USO campaign reached 12,702.29 dollars with 12,877 donors in Cedar Rapids surpassing its 10,000 quota. The piece credits rank and file citizens for broad support and notes city efforts to build an 18 hole Ellis Park golf layout amid debates over public funding. It also profiles Representative Thomas E. Martin urging cautious wartime policy and warns against emotional overshoot. West side complaints describe a polluted pool by Third Avenue Bridge needing action.
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Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue
Island Civic Center
Churchill Urges Full U S Aid For Britain In War
London report notes Prime Minister Churchill urging full American cooperation in every field to help Britain, with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King proposing a formal U S pledge to side with Britain. The two leaders stress interdependence of the free world and a new world order based on cooperation and Atlantic Charter ideals.
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Churchill
Britain
United States
King of
Canada
London
Winston Churchill
Germany
Far East
William Mackenzie King
America
King
Mansion House
Mackenzie King
British Empire
British Commonwealth
Europe
British Commonwealth of Nations
Free World
Great Britain
First U S Oil Vessel Arrives At Vladivostok
The L. P. St. Clair of Union Oil arrived safely at Vladivostok from Los Angeles on August 15 after sailing through the northern Japanese straits. Japan had opposed shipments to Russia but gave no interference indications. Three other American tankers with similar cargoes were due to reach Vladivostok soon.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
Vladivostok
L. P. St. Clair
Union Oil Company
Los Angeles
Japan
Pacific
Soviet Union
United States
Approves Car Price Boosts For 1942 Models
Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson gave silent approval for auto makers to raise prices on new 1942 models by up to 16 percent. Average boosts are expected around 10 to 15 percent due to higher plant overhead from reduced production. Automakers are issuing scattered notices as they unveil new models after consulting Henderson’s office.
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Washington
INS
Leon Henderson
Defense
Henderson
18 Hole Golf Course At Ellis Assured In Council Bond Action
Cedar Rapids moves to build an 18 hole municipal course at Ellis Park with a $40,000 bond issue. Land expansion to 87.5 acres will extend the existing nine holes and a WPA labor program is expected. Work begins after Sept 18 bond sale and may open in 1942 or 1943. Langford and Moreau design the layout.
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Ellis
Council
Ellis Park
Mississippi River
WPA
Langford and Moreau
Chicago
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Britain calls up more men as war plans widen
London reports Britain will continue winter manning to maximum strength amid talks of possible continental invasion. The Daily Herald claims decisions on Russia front and German withdrawals prompt expanded army and shift of labor to war industries with women filling vacancies in factories.
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London
Britain
Daily Herald
Labor Party
France
Holland
Belgium
Russia
Germany
The
Medal For Billy Mitchell vetoed by War Dept
Washington based senator Bridges disclosed the War Department vetoed plans to posthumously award the congressional Medal of Honor to Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell. The department said Mitchell did not qualify, noting the award is for valor in war. Bridges will seek hearings on his resolution for the posthumous honor citing his criticism helped advance the air force.
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Washington
INS
War Department
William Mitchell
Bridges
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Mitchell
Department
Woman Nabbed At Marion On Drunk Driving Charge
Mrs. Winifred Campbell of San Diego California was arrested in Marion for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Police say Chief Gene Miller spotted her erratic driving and patrolmen transported her to the city jail with beer containers found in the vehicle. Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon and Mrs. Miller later accompanied her to the county jail.
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Winifred Cambell
San Diego
Calif
Gene Miller
Marion
Cambell
F. M. Jacobs
W. J. Goodyear
Three Troy Mills Youths Hurt in Crash With Truck
At 8 15 p m Wednesday three Troy Mills youths suffered injuries in a collision with a truck on Highway 11 one mile south of Walker. Norman Baty and Kirk Fisher, both 17, sustained serious injuries and Orville Andrews had minor cuts and bruises. Baty had a fractured leg and Fisher internal injuries. Andrews received minor injuries. Andrews was driving the car and Ralph Malneaux of Walker drove the truck that broke down on the highway, causing the crash.
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Norman Baty
Kirk Fisher
Orville Andrews
Walker
Troy Mills
Baty
Fisher
Mercy Hospital
Andrews
Ralph Malneaux
Nazi Sergeant Shot in Paris
A German army sergeant was shot on a Paris street near the East station. He was taken to La Riboisiere hospital with a non fatal wound under the left shoulder. The attack happened as he returned to his quarters with his German fiancée near the Terminus hotel on Rue de Strasbourg.
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Vichy
France
Paris
East Station
la Riboisiere
Rue de Strassbourg
Berlin Death Toll In R. A. F. Raid Thirty
Berlin reported thirty killed and seventy two wounded after a heavy British air raid on Tuesday night. The figures were released on Thursday by authorities.
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Berlin
INS
Labor union leader foresees power after war ends
Edinburgh report quotes Jack Tanner president of the Amalgamated Engineering union urging workers to be ready for a postwar government. He says labor should prepare for the possibility we will be in power at war’s end and that the war may end sooner than many expect.
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Edinburgh
Jack Tanner
Amalgamated Engineering Union
Slow Nazi advances in Soviet front held near Leningrad
Soviet spokesman Lozovsky says German reinforcements were repulsed and heavy losses inflicted while counter attacks along the Dnieper Ukraine and central front show slow Nazi gains. British sources hint at a bid for a prestige Leningrad victory before winter. Berlin offered no hope of early success as both sides keep tight on front news.
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Bulletin
Moscow
Leningrad
S. A. Lozovsky
Dnieper
Ukraine
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Hitler
Red Army
Lend-Lease Aid to Poles Approved by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt authorized the first lend-lease aid to the exile Polish government in London, sending machine guns rifles artillery equipment trucks and other supplies to Polish troops training in Canada for overseas action. The move signals U S support for Poland's resistance and a broader aid policy to those resisting aggression. A second quarterly lend-lease report to Congress is planned along with a new funding request estimated around 4 to 6 billion dollars.
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Roosevelt
Poland
London
Canada
White House
United States
Congress
Great Britain
China
Greece
British Invite U S Congress to Probe Lend Lease Use
London broadcasted Bracken minister of information invited American congress to visit Britain to examine use of lend lease materials and seek independent witnesses. He suggested such a visit could evolve into a U S peace mission but asserted no intermediary for peace would be used and declared no peace while Hitler remains. In Washington, administration and opposition senators rejected a congressional probe of lend lease expenditures in Britain.
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London
Brendan Bracken
United States Congress
Britain
Bracken
Germany
United States
Hitler
Washington
INS
Weather Heat and Humidity Grip Cedar Rapids Area
Muggy conditions spread across the city with high humidity and rising temperatures. The afternoon peaked near 90 degrees before cooling slightly, with intermittent sun blocked by clouds. Thursday forecasts call for thundershowers and squalls followed by partly cloudy and cooler weather into Friday.
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Cedar Rapids
300000 Trimmed Off Jobless Rolls
Washington reports more than 300000 were removed from the unemployed rolls in July and August, lowering total unemployment to 5300000. Since August 1940 the unemployed figure has fallen by 3600000.
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Washington
INS
WPA
Carrington Gill
Senate backs broader base tax plan with lower exemptions
The Senate approved a plan to broaden the tax base and raise about 303 million dollars by lowering exemptions from 2000 to 1500 for married filers and 800 to 750 for singles. The measure would bring about 4.9 million more people under income tax rules, though deductions limit paid taxes to about 2.26 million. The House kept exemptions, conference committee to reconcile bills. The chamber also removed a 10 percent profits tax on small corporations and rejected raising amusement venue taxes. Gift tax rates were approved, with tiered rates up to 7.34 percent on gifts over 10 million after a 40,000 exemption.
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Washington
Senate
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Joint Conference
House
la Follette
Wis
Roosevelt
Finance Committee
Community Chest Campaign Dates Set for Oct 14 to 22
The annual Community Chest drive of the public welfare bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will run October 14 through 22. Dr J Max Widmer chaired the luncheon that set the dates. Ten welfare agencies will participate and James L Cooper will serve as general chairman with an executive committee to be announced next week.
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Public Welfare Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
J. Max Widmer
Bureau
Montrose Hotel
James L. Cooper
Forest Nash Killed in Machine Accident at Fort Leonard Wood
Forest Nash, 37, a master mechanic for Burch Construction of Cedar Rapids, was killed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri when the bucket of a dirt removing machine fell crushing him. He had worked for two years with Burch and is survived by brother Ralph Nash. Funeral services planned for Polk City. The machine was used on an airplane landing field at the fort.
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Forest Nash
Burch Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
Fort Leonard Wood
Conern
Nash
Ralph Nash
Mr. Nash
Polk City
Army Fort
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Iowa City
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Cedar Rapids News
Abe Ately
Farm News
Poth
Radio
Baeee
Walter Winchell
Billy Mitchell
Dept. of War
Red Air Force
Luftwaffe
Tass
NEA
Smolensk- Moscow
Clyde L. Werring
Guy M. Gillette
Community Chest
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