Senate clash over neutrality law and inflation fears
Senator Taft warns repeal of neutrality rules will spark a fierce Senate fight and notes such battles mask bigger foreign policy issues. Morgenthau’s 6 percent profit cap faces scrutiny as inflation threatens defense costs and the public. Eagle Scout awards given to three Gazette carriers. Local traffic hazards urged near bus stops and four lane street driving dangers prompt calls for lane discipline and courtesy.
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Taft
Ohio
Senate
Treasury to draft 6 percent cap on corporate profits
Secretary Morgenthau announced treasury experts began drafting a bill to limit corporate profits to 6 percent. He said the proposal could be presented as a tax bill to the Ways and Means Committee rather than a rider to price control.
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Beate
Roosevelt
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
House Banking Committee
Morgenthau
Congress
Duke and Wallis Visit F D R at White House in Washington
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor met with President Roosevelt at the White House in a 27 minute call after greeting crowds at Union Station and attending a lunch canceled due to G Hall Roosevelt's illness. Windsor expressed confidence England would win the war.
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Duke
Wallis
F.D.R
White House
Washington
Duchess of Windsor
Wally
Eddie
Roosevelt
Union Station
Bahamas
United States
Windsor
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Cordell Hull
State Department
Hull
England
Wallis Warfield
Baltimore
G. Hall Roosevelt
Prince of Wales
Ernest Simpson
London
Congress weighs Morgenthau plan amid mixed review
Washington lawmakers scrutinize Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau's plan with cautious signals of approval and concern. The briefing notes reveal varied reactions among Congress members as the proposal moves through preliminary discussion.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Council Orders Police Rules and a New Detective Bureau Chief
City council directs a new set of police rules and renames chief of detectives to inspector of detectives. Chief Tom Condon to draft rules with Civil Service Commission input and to seek efficiency experts from New York and St. Louis. Safety Commissioner Wes Benesh pushes overhaul as officials plan improved public courtesy and appearance standards.
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Civil Service Commission
Wes Benesh
New York City
Benesh
St. Louis
Tom Condon
Condon
Autumn Arrives With Cool Cedar Rapids Spells
Cedar Rapids reports a sharp cool spell as temperatures drop from 78 to 51 degrees with a cold north wind and 40 percent humidity. The day began at 53 at 7 am and fell through the night, signaling the start of autumn.
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Chambers
Author of Hitler's Party Program Dies
Berlin AP report Gotfried Feder, 59, author of Hitler s 25 point Nazi party program, died Wednesday in Murnau Upper Bavaria after a long illness.
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Berlin
Gotfried Feder
Hitler
Murnau
Upper Bavaria
Reich Troops Sent to Quell Serb Uprising
Berlin reports two German battalions about 2,000 men dispatched to aid Serb forces fighting Chetnik uprisings near Sarajevo. Nazi sources say claims of Italy sending a division about 15,000 troops are exaggerated.
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Berlin
Sarajevo
Italy
Serbian rebels challenge axis in Balkan uprising near Sava river
Budapest reports a major Serb uprising against German forces with about 12,000 rebels attacking Srpska Mitrovita near the Sava. German troops bombarded fighters as the revolt spreads to another large town. The German garrison appealed for Luftwaffe support.
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Budapest
INS
Yugoslavia
Srpska Mitrovitza
Sava
Adolf Hitler
French protest over Moncelet cargo ship destruction
The Vichy news agency said Thursday the French government protested to Britain regarding the destruction of the French cargo vessel Moncelet.
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VICHY
INS
Britain
Battle in Leningrad Suburbs Reported by AP
German troops battle through Lenin grad suburbs threatening the siege of the czar capital as Soviet defenders counter with renewed counter attacks. Moscow reports claim Germans penetrate toward a factory district while denying full suburb entry.
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Associated Press
Leningrad
Red Army
Klementi Voroshilov
Moscow
London
Moscow Radio
Peterhof
Gulf of Finland
Kiev
AFL Butchers Win $5 Weekly Wage Increase in Cedar Rapids
Eighty seven union employees of Cedar Rapids meat shops gain a five dollar weekly raise under an agreement reached Wednesday night at the Roosevelt hotel with proprietors and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers of North America. About 80 percent of local meat markets are covered. no accord on reducing hours from 55 to 48.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Meat Cutters and Butchers of North America
AFL
Marty Catanzaro
Cedar Rapids hosts Oct 2 meeting on industrial material aid
A statewide Cedar Rapids gathering on Thursday October 2 at 10 a.m. in the Chamber of Commerce aims to collect municipal data on industrial material needs and worker impact and to establish a permanent Iowa organization to balance distribution. Mayor David F. Loepp presides. invitations extend to mayors and chambers statewide.
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Iowa
Towa
Frank Hahn
Cedar Rapids
A. L. Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
Taylor
Germany Responsible for Feeding Occupied Europe Says Hull
Secretary of State Cordell Hull told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Germany must feed the people in occupied European countries. He cited German manipulation of food and urged the German government to restore stocks and assume its duties to civilians. Hull expressed sympathy for distress worldwide from China to Finland.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Congress
Germany
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Hull
China
Finland
Three Officers Face Battle Over Drunkenness Charge
Cedar Rapids Ness fined $100 and costs in police court on being drunk and disturbing the peace. Louis Kalinsky faces later justice court for resisting an officer after allegedly striking Patrolman Louie Louvar and fighting officers and a bystander during and after arrest on First Street SE.
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Louis Kalinsky
C Avenue NE
Justice Court
Louie Louvar
Louvar
Kalinsky
First Street
First
Second Avenues
AL Kalinsky
Louis
Lous
Harley Simon
Jake Stusak
Harry S. Johnson
Louvat
Nazis Claim Secret U-Boat Technique To Nip Convoys
Berlin reports that Britain has lost nearly 1,000,000 tons of shipping since June 22 as a German high command spokesman cites a new secret U-boat technique weakening convoy protection. He says WWI tactics of attacking lone ships no longer apply and that convoys now face greater danger, with fewer vessels escaping attacks.
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Berlin
Britain
Willkie and MacPhail Sons to Enlist in Naval Reserve
The Navy said Philip H. Willkie and William MacPhail will be sworn in Monday as apprentice seamen in the U S naval reserve. They will train aboard the Prairie State for a month and may qualify as naval reserve midshipmen eligible for commissions as ensigns.
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Willkie. MacPhail Sons
Naval Reserve
New York
Navy
Philip H. Willkie
Wendell L. Willkie
William MacPhail
Larry MacPhail
United States Naval Reserve
Willkie
MacPhail
Brooklyn Dodgers
U.S. S. Prairie State
Editor of Woman's Magazine Is Dead
New York tribute reports Gertrude Battles Lane longtime editor in chief of the Woman's Home Companion died Thursday at her New York home after a long illness.
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Woman’s Magazine Is
New York
Gertrude Battles Lane
The
Woman's Home Companion
Isolation Group Defends Lindbergh Against Anti Semite Charges
The America First committee said Lindbergh is not anti Semitic and accused interventionists of introducing race into foreign policy debate after his Des Moines address. The group approved a statement by a majority of its national executive committee and hinted at a chapter poll.
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Chicago
America First Committee
Charles A. Lindbergh
Des Moines
Lindbergh
America First Group
National Executive Committee
United States
America First
Drastic Tank Car Shortage Reported
New York oil executives received a confidential industry report showing tank car demand rising 1500 cars above national availability as gasoline stations in the east faced curfews and shortages. The note linked greater rail transport use to reduced tanker capacity for Britain, signaling a deepening eastern gas shortage.
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New York
Rp) — Oil Company
J. J. Pelley
American Association of Railroads
Washington
Texas
Great Britain
Warn Frenchwomen Not To Aid British
In Vichy France occupation authorities warned that French women aiding fallen R A F crews will be deported to German concentration camps. Men caught helping the British already face the death penalty and the warning was renewed in Paris on Thursday.
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Vichy
France
Senator McKellar Seeks Repeal of Neutrality Act
Washington AP Senator McKellar Tennessee introduced a resolution in the Senate to repeal the neutrality act which bars arming American merchant ships and entry to combat. Taft warned repeal could mean undeclared war while Wadsworth urged repeal or modification. Roosevelt signaled possible action next week amid a broader study of the act.
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Washington
McKellar
Tenn
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Rep
Wadsworth
Seven Seas
Schwartz
Wyo
Collleagues
Roosevelt
House
Tueseday
Congress
State Department
Legion Convention Under F R s Thumb Charged by Heil
Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil accused the American Legion national convention of being controlled by President Roosevelt. He said resolutions reflected the president’s influence and noted presence of party operatives. Legion commander Lynn U Stambaugh denied the charge, asserting delegates represented the entire membership.
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Julius P. Heil
Milwaukee Junior Chamber of Commerce
American Legion
Roosevelt
Heil
American Legion Convention
Fargo
N. D
Legion
Stambaugh
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