Red army drives drive Germans back on multiple fronts
In dispatches from the war front, Soviet counter offensives along Leningrad Kiev and the Dnieper are said to push back German forces. Air power claimed 74 planes destroyed and a squadron claimed major losses including 42 planes 110 tanks 600 cars and 3 000 troops.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Kiev
Lower Dnieper
Black Sea
Peoples’ Guard
Red Air Force
Richthofen
Red Star
Helsinki
Dnieper
Ukraine
Odessa
German Forces Close On Leningrad As Luftwaffe Attacks
German troops press toward Leningrad with heavy artillery pounding fortifications while the Luftwaffe damages the Odessa harbor badly and sinks a 3,000 ton merchant ship on the Scottish coast. High command reports eastern offensive progressing favorably amid silence on front details.
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Berlin
INS
Leningrad
Odessa
Hitler
England
Judge warns driver as drunkenness charge fines $100
Judge Harry Johnson told Glenn Ilgenfritz 32 of 524 Fifth Avenue SE that drunk driving carries a $300 fine but he faced a $100 maximum plus costs. Ilgenfritz pled guilty after a citizen called police reporting his car struck a damaged vehicle. he was arrested about 11 05 p m in a bus zone at Third Street and Second Avenue SE.
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Cedar Rapids
Harry Johnson
Glenn Igenfritz
Fifth Avenue SE
Ilgenfritz
Third Street
Second Avenue SE
Four U S Pilots Killed in Ship Sinking Off Northwest Port
Four American aviators died and seven were rescued when the ship carrying them to Britain was torpedoed in mid Atlantic. Eleven Americans aboard were en route to join the RAF. seven survived with injuries. The Polish warship picked up survivors twelve hours later. 20 British sailors were also rescued.
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INS
Britain
Atlantic
R.A.F
United States
Canada
Free Polish Navy
London
Tom Griffin
Jackson
Jack Gilliland
Pittsburg
Kansas
River S
Grove
Macon
Norman Echard
Kansas City
James Jordan
San Francisco
B. F. Mays
Wharton
Tex
Three Youths Suffer Head Bumps in Friday Accident
Three youths were injured when two cars collided at First Avenue and Thirty-second Street E around 10 p.m. Gerald Castonguay 18 driving east made a left turn into the street, struck by Warren Hootman 16 driving west. Police report both cars stopped for the red light.
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Cedar Rapids
Gerald Castonguay
Allison
Castonguay
Warren Hootman
First Avenue SE
British Sea Drive Sinks Italian Liner Esperia and Ramb Craft
British admiralty reports two major Italian ships sunk in the Mediterranean campaign. The 11,398-ton liner Esperia, used as a troop transport, was torpedoed and sunk off Tripoli by a submarine. Ramb-class craft, a fast 4,000-ton vessel, was also reported sunk in a southbound convoy attack between Taranto and Bengazi.
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Africa
Duilio
Admiralty
Tripoli
Taranto
Bengazi
Leander
Indian Ocean
Esperia
Britain
Italy
Straits of
Messina
LaPlant Choate Co and Union Agree On Five Cent Hour Boost
A three week wage dispute at LaPlant Choate Manufacturing ended with the United Farm Equipment Workers of America accepting a five cent per hour raise from the company. The union had sought ten cents and waived union shop and checkoff issues. The increase takes effect September. The ten day strike notice issued August 25 was withdrawn and management agreed to future wage adjustments as needed by living costs.
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Cedar Rapids
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
United Farm Equipment Workers of America
CIO
Roy Choate
E. V. Roose
Equipment Workers Organizing Committee
Roosevelt Hotel
C. W. Hobbie
Nam
John Kohl
Keith Churchill
Tery
Nazis Execute Hostages in Paris Reprisal
In Paris three French hostages were executed by a German firing squad in reprisal for an attack that wounded a German NCO. A German proclamation cited a prior warning after the Aug 22 assassination and the Sept 3 attack. The victims, possibly Jews, communists or agitators, were among many detainees in Paris. Cabinet talks at Vichy with Marshal Petain proposed terrorists courts reforms and urged careful judicial review.
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Vichy
Paris
Schaumburg
Marshal Philippe Petain
Pierre Pucheu
Robber Steals Jewels From St. Louis Salesman
Nelson Hagnauer a St. Louis jewelry salesman for Tisenstadt Manufacturing said he was held up by three men east of Red Oak at about 8 45 a m on Saturday They demanded guns and forced him to drive while one man steered and another covered him They forced him to open two cases containing diamonds and rings among 14 cases and to point out the items They dropped the car keys about 100 yards away and the trio fled with an estimated 10 000 to 15 000 in gems and jewelry The men used a Michigan registered car and fled along a rural road leading eastward Continued on Page 2 Column 2.
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RED Oak
Nelson Hagnauer
St. Louis
Hagnauer
Tisenstadt Manufacturing Company
Michigan
Midwest Manufacturers Propose Plan to Help Small Plants
The Midwest Manufacturers Association, with members from 10 states led by Chicago, released a five point program to aid small firms during rearmament. They faulted priorities administration as chaotic and warned many plants face shutdown without materials. The plan calls for reasoned priorities, cutting defense needs to match capacity, congressional support, extending the production office’s bureau, and pooling tools and labor to win contracts. Representatives from Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin Ohio Indiana Iowa Missouri Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Illinois attended.
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Midwest Manufacturers’ Association
Congress
Midwest
Office of Production Management
Minnesota Employers Association
Manufacturers’ Associations
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Flying Fortresses Hit Oslo Shipping
American built fortress bombers of the British bomber command attacked enemy shipping in the Oslo harbor during high altitude operations. A brief air ministry communique said the action targeted the German occupied port and an initial report noted activity over Ong harbor.
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London
British
Bomber Command
Oslo
Norway
Air Ministry
Ong Harbor
New Cruiser Atlanta Yet Speed Record Ahead for Navy
KEARNY N J AP the navy launched the light cruiser Atlanta with a projected speed of at least 43 knots equal to the fastest U S destroyers. The ship features streamlined design and innovations from destroyers while remaining under tight secrecy. Margaret Mitchell christened the vessel Mrs John Marsh author of Gone with the Wind.
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Kearny
N. J
Atlanta
United States
John Marsh
Margaret Mitchell
Weekend Cedar Rapids Weather Forecast
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Sunday with a few widely scattered thundershowers Sunday afternoon. Temperatures ranged from the fifties to 82 degrees by 2 p.m. Saturday, humidity 15 percent, low 57 degrees early Friday, high 86 degrees, then a steady fall to the 69 degree mark by midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Senate Passes Tax Bill By Big Majority
Washington report says the Senate approved a record revenue measure 67 to 5 after three days of debate. The bill totals 3.58 billion dollars and will go to informal conferences with the House Ways and Means Committee to resolve differences before final passage.
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Senate
Washington
House Ways and Means
House
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Robert M. la Follette
Wis
William Langer
N. D
Pat McCarran
Nev
Gerald Page
Chamber
Senate tax bill advances with broad surtaxes and reforms
Iowa senators Gillette and Herring voted for the bill in conference to align House and Senate changes. The plan cuts personal exemptions to 750 and 1500 for singles and married couples, credits dependents at 400, keeps 4 percent rate but adds surtaxes starting at 6 percent. It imposes a 55 use tax on autos, doubles the auto excise tax, taxes bulbs and many goods, raises liquor and admissions levies, boosts estate and gift taxes, and levies 6 percent on the first 25,000 of corporate income with 7 percent above.
Leningrad Faces Fires and Confusion, Finnish Reports Say
Finnish dispatches from the front claim Leningrad is a scene of great confusion with smoke from big fires visible over the city. They report shells destroying buildings in Leningrad or the surrounding area and Russian refugees fleeing under German and Finnish pressure from the south and north. The Helsinki radio says Leningrad is encircled as air bombardment destroys the northern road, while Gen. Karl Lennard Oesch states isolated Russian resistance on the Karelian isthmus has been eliminated.
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Helsinki
Leningrad
Russia
Berlin
Moscow
Karelian
London
Karl Lennard Oesch
Babe Falls From Window But Escapes Serious Harm
Nine month old Jerry Lynn Millburn, son of Mr and Mrs Lynn Millburn of 402 Third avenue SW, rolled from a second story bed to a bushy clump below Friday morning. Neighbor Gretchen Horak heard the cries and acted quickly. The baby sustained only cuts and bruises.
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Jerry Lynn Millburn
Mrs. Lynn Millburn
Third Avenue
Gretchen Horak
White House rejects German charges on Greer encounter
At Hyde Park Acting Secretary Hassett dismissed Germany's claim that the Greer sparked the clash with a Nazi U boat. He called the German report a typical statement. Roosevelt, visiting his mother for a checkup, did not reply.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
INS
White House
Roosevelt
Sara Delano Roosevelt
German charges on destroyer attack prompt no comment
Washington officials declined to comment on German claims that an American destroyer first attacked a U boat that fired torpedoes. Navy and state departments offered no reply beyond noting the news was interesting and leaving any response to the Navy if needed.
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Washington
INS
State
Navy Departments
Navy Department
Secretary of State
Hull
Department
State Department
Congressional Reaction To Greer Clash Across Parties
Washington weekend reaction centered on a German claim that the U S S Greer attacked a nazi submarine. Senator Connally warned Nazis to learn we will defend ships and citizens while Senator Capper said there were misstatements and would trust the President over Hitler any day. Representative Manasco backed the admin's stance amid bipartisan concern.
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Washington
U.S.S. Greer
Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Capper
Kan
Hitler
Manasco
Ala
Yugoslav exile outlines plan for United States of Europe
Gen Dusan Simovitch premier of the Yugoslav government in exile in London proposes a postwar Europe divided into Balkan Latin Germanic and Polish Czechoslovak blocs. Backed by Britain the United States and Russia the plan seeks peace based on mutual European solidarity rather than fortifications.
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London
United States of Europe
Great Britain
United States
Russia
Dusan Simovitch
Peter
Simovitch
British Harbor Hit by German Long Range Guns
Berlin announces German long range guns on the French coast shelled British warships in the English Channel Saturday. Two ships were reported sunk after serious damage in the action.
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Berlin
INL
English Channel
Record Orders Placed For Flying Fortresses
The war department placed record orders totaling $347,156,874 with Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle and Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica for a fleet of about flying fortresses, signaling a major expansion of US military aircraft production.
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Washington
War Department
Boeing Airplane Company
Seattle
Douglas Aircraft company,Inc
Santa Monica
Calif
Berlin asserts Greer attack on German U boat in self defense
German officials charged that the United States destroyer Greer attacked a German submarine 125 miles southwest of Reykjavik in a bid to force America toward war. They said the encounter began at 12:30 p.m. and that the U boat fired two torpedoes which missed, with the Greer pursuing the submarine and dropping depth charges.
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United States
Greer
Iceland
Roosevelt
America
Germany
Reykjavik
American Navy Department
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