Farm price policy splits House and Senate over parity
The House cracks back at the President over an economic stabilization bill aimed to curb farm price levels by revising the parity formula to include farm labor costs. Senate opposition grows as 13 senators reject a compromise, while War Labor Board actions and payroll deduction campaigns in Cedar Rapids draw praise from state war bond headquarters. A payroll plan debate and GOP internal doubts mix with winter clothing talks as the nation braces for inflation control and energy shortages.
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House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
White House
Thomas
Oklahoma
War Labor Board
Red Gains Biggest of Stalingrad Fight
A P report says Soviet forces under Marshal Semeon Timoshenko pushed Germans from key fortifications in Stalingrad with heavy shelling by Volga gunboats. The drive halted German advances in multiple sectors and inflicted heavy casualties as combat raged amid ruined streets and ongoing air strikes.
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Red
Stalingrad
Volga River
Semeon Timoshenko
Volga
Farflung
Sinyavino
Leningrad
Voronezh
Vnovorossisk
Black Sea
Mozdok
Central
Caucasus
Red Army
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Red Star
Cedar Rapids Bond Drive Praised As Iowa Model
Cedar Rapids is hailed as a national model for the 10 percent war bond campaign. W L Clark of the Treasury notes Cedar Rapids payroll deduction success, commend ing Linn county leaders for mobilizing all employers and signing up both large and small firms with speed.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
B. T. Perrine
Linn County
W. L. Clark
Treasury Department
War Savings
Clark
United States
Don’t Store Your Car Sell It Now With a Gazette Want Ad
A Gazette Want Ad demonstrates quick car sales with short run times. Mr. Stodola of 710 Five NW ran a six day ad, paying 2.70 and selling his car, showing longer runs yield results though shorter runs save money. He notes a three day ad would cost less but risk missing a sale.
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Gazette
Stodola
710
Mr. Stodola
1938 Chevrolet Master Deluxe Coupe for sale
Classified listing for a 1938 Chevrolet Master Deluxe coupe with good tires radio and heater. Runs perfect cash price 710 five NW. Advertisement repeats sale details and urges calling a want ad taker at 2-1121 to word and place the ad on a 7 day cancellation rate.
Navy Official Warns We Are Losing the War
Ralph A. Bard, assistant secretary of the navy, told shipyard workers that the United States is losing the war and must face the danger. He urged realism over pep talks, saying the war must be prosecuted with full effort to prevail.
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New York
Ralph A. Bard
America
Convicted in Seven Minutes in Marion Burglary Trial
George Duncan, a transient unemployed tailor, was found guilty of breaking and entering in Marion after county attorney William W. Crissman closed the state's case. He faces an indeterminate sentence up to ten years at Fort Madison. Duncan appealed in open court, sobbing at times, and was held on $3,000 bond. The trial centered on a theft of about $220 from the D. A. Stamp Insurance agency with key witness Ruth Maier corroborating the state’s case.
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Cedar Rapids
William W. Crissman
George Duncan
Fort Madison
Duncan
John T. Moffit
Moffit
D. A. Stamp Insurance Agency
Marion
Ruth Maier
Carl Hendrickson
Miss Maier
Gene Miller
RAF Hammers Flensburg Base in North Germany
London reports heavy RAF raids on Flensburg on Germanys north coast. Bombers also hit north and northwest targets including shipyards and iron and copper foundries. Coastal command planes hit an Axis convoy off the Dutch coast. Eight British bombers claimed downed. Berlin says raids caused some material damage. An unidentified plane over Vichy sparked intense anti aircraft fire.
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London
Flensburg
Germany
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
R.A.F
Munich
Saar
British Coastal Command
Berlin
DNB
England
British Isles
Britain
Vichy
Snow Falls in Iowa Reports 25 Degree Cold Night
DES MOINES AP snow flurries were reported in Estherville and Water loo with killing frost in Water loo and heavy frost at Atlantic. The low reached 25 degrees at Inwood and Cherokee, with more cold weather and heavy frost expected Thursday night under diminishing northwest winds.
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Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Estherville
Iowa Falls
Waterloo
Atlantic
Inwood
Cherokee
McGregor Sees Third Summer High Water Crest Approaching
Special to The Gazette reports McGregor's minimum temperature at 31 degrees and near freezing. Heavy rains north push Mississippi River rising with a crest of 1342 feet expected by Saturday, marking the third high water stage of the summer.
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Mcgregor
Mississippi
Cold continues with frost and warming by Friday noon
Cedar Rapids and vicinity forecast shows continued cold Thursday night with heavy frost, lows around 25 in open country and 28 in high lands and towns, diminishing winds. By Friday noon sunshine returns and temperatures rise. Readings report 33 at 7–8 am and 46 at 2:30 pm Thursday, 49 at midnight, 56 by 2:30 pm Wednesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Mercury
Senate Approves Full Petrillo Music Ban Probe
The Senate on Thursday passed by unanimous vote a resolution ordering a comprehensive investigation into the ban on recorded music led by James C. Petrillo president of the American Federation of Musicians AFL.
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Washington
Senate
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
It's Property Tax Time Again in Linn County
Linn county taxpayers have extended hours at the county treasurer's office in the courthouse until 4 p.m. Saturday. County Treasurer Frank Bates announced the change. the office normally closes at noon on Saturdays. The deadline to pay the second installment without penalty is Wednesday, Sept 30.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Frank Bates
21 Percent Cut in Meat Deliveries
The War Production Board announces an average 21 percent reduction in civilian meat deliveries for the last quarter of 1942. Civilians are urged to limit consumption to 2½ pounds per person per week until rationing begins.
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Washington
Food Requirements Committee
The
War Production Board
WPB Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Office of Price Administration
Wickard
Parity dispute splits farm bloc as veto looms
Washington AP reports Senator Brown fears a collision between Congress and the President over farm parity price provisions in the anti inflation bill. Farm bloc members back a 12 percent parity rise including all farm labor costs, while the House already approved a similar amendment.
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Washington
Brown
D-Mich
Senate
Congress
Supreme Court
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congressional
Roosevelt
House
Thomas
D-Okla
Hatch
D-N M
CzechWomen Form All Female Unit With Red Army
The exiled Czechoslovak government reports Czech women have formed an all female unit serving with the Red Army. Most are girls and women who fled their homeland after deportation orders to German labor camps.
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London
Red Army
Cedar Rapids Bottling Donates Trucks for Scrap Drive
Six 144 ton trucks and eight volunteers from the Cedar Rapids Bottling company will assist in the scrap metal collection in Cedar Rapids, aiding Henry Haegg's civilian defense council drive scheduled for late September. The firm will close two periods for paid vacations to allow employee participation.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Bottling Company
Henry Haegg
Civilian Defense Council
Haegg
Amos A. Elderkin
Bottling Company
Elderkin
Haege
Scrap metal drive details announced for Cedar Rapids
The salvage committee led by Elmer Wickham will publish routes and pickup dates for Cedar Rapids scrap metal on page one of The Gazette. Wickham urged resident cooperation and noted the scrap lot at Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE opens Monday. Volunteers may also call the civilian defense office to offer help or deliver scrap to junk dealers.
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Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
Elmer Wickham
Wickham
Third Avenue
Sixth Street
US Destroyer Jarvis Missing in Solomons Area
Navy reports the destroyer Jarvis disappeared in the southwest Pacific after air and submarine attacks near Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Estimated 250 lives lost include Jarvis crew of 172 and Little transport crew of about 100 with roughly 50 saved. both ships were damaged or sunk during recent Solomon Islands operations. Commanders William Walter Graham Jr. and Gus B. Lofberg led Jarvis and Little, respectively.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Jarvis
Pacific
Solomons
Lfe
Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Puget Sound
Wash
Navy Yard
Blue
Calhoun
Ernest J King
William Walter Graham Jr
Phoenix
Ariz
Gus B. Lofberg
Santa Cruz
Calif
Train Grash Death Toll May Reash 23
Five people and perhaps as many as 23 were believed killed near Dickeron Maryland after a rear end collision involving two Washington bound passenger trains and a fast freight. The Ambassador express from Detroit to Washington crashed into the Cleveland night express, derailing a Pullman and causing fires in a diesel engine and baggage car.
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Dickerson
Baltimore
Ohio
Reading
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Vote to Freeze Security Taxes in Revenue Bill
Washington AP report notes the Senate finance committee approved a 7 to 4 amendment by Senator Vandenberg to extend the 1 percent social security tax on employers and employees for another year as part of the new revenue bill.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
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