Admin aides seek revision of neutrality act not repeal
AP dispatch reports administration aides in Congress rejected outright repeal and favor revising the neutrality act. Senator McKellar proposed repeal. White House leaders reportedly prefer amendatory legislation aligning with Connally’s plan to allow arming ships and access to belligerent zones while retaining export controls.
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Washington
Congress
McKellar
Tenn
Senate
Roosevelt
Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Texas
Bridges
N.H
Fronts and Home Front Strains Across War and Policy
Gloom on the Russian front contrasts with doubts over Axis manpower and the push for material allocation. Nelson calls for government control of scarce materials while Ickes faces oil supply criticism. City police overhaul wins praise as officials show determination to reform the department.
WPA Worker Wage Rise Planned By Commissioner
Washington AP Howard O. Hunter works projects commissioner announced plans to raise wages for more than a million WPA workers to reflect higher living costs. He offered no exact figures but said a ten percent increase would be a good guess.
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Washington (Ap
Howard O. Hunter
Works Projects Commissioner
Hunter
Fire destroys No 6 warehouse at Ankeny arms plant
Ankeny Iowa AP Fire destroyed the No 6 warehouse in the northeast armaments plant area during construction. A bucket brigade stopped the blaze from reaching seven neighboring structures. The 75 by 100 foot warehouse held valve gear for the water system and plumbing fixtures. Des Moines fire crews aided as the fire burned about an hour, with eight completed warehouses standing along the North Western railroad line.
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Ankeny
No. 6
Des Moines
North Western Railroad
Priorities Shift To Aid Small Business Vital
Director Donald M. Nelson told the house banking committee that to avoid destroying small business the government must shift from issuing priority certificates to direct allocation of scarce materials to manufacturers. He warned the system is breaking down as many priorities fail to guarantee materials and said top-down allocation is needed.
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Riorities
Donald Nelson
Nelson
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
House Banking Committee
Canadians Raid French Coast In Boats
New York report says a Canadian small boat raid on Nazi occupied France yielded 28 German army officers taken prisoner. The raid near Brittany captured most of a division staff while German villas were seized for military documents. Evacuation orders followed to hinder further raids.
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New York
France
Brittany
Normandy
Frosty Start Dips Cedar Rapids Temperatures
The Cedar Rapids area records a Friday low of 38 degrees early morning with frost on roofs and cars. By afternoon the temperature rose to 64 degrees with 25 percent humidity as a breezy day gave way to fair weekend weather.
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Cedar Rapids
Jack Frost
Mercury
Chambers
Decorah Morning Records Thirty Degrees at Station
Forty eight hours into Decorah Friday the government station logged a temperature of thirty degrees. The report notes a calm morning with no significant weather events reported in the area.
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Decorah
Windsor Pays Calls on Knox Ride Stimson
The Duke of Windsor greeted crowds during official calls on Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal in Washington. His American-born duchess did not accompany him as he journeyed toward the Bahamas governor role and then toward Calgary, Alberta.
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Duke of Windsor
Henry L. Stimson
James V. Forrestal
Edward VIII
Navy
Bahamas
Lincoln
Duke
Duchess
Calgary
Alberta
Duke of Windsor pledges British support for U S defense
In Washington the Duke of Windsor told the National Press Club that Britain would assist the United States in securing its eastern coast line. He noted the strategic importance of the West Indies as air bases and discussed unemployment in the Bahamas. The couple left the embassy amid crowds as workers were released.
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Washington
Duke of Windsor
America
Bahamas
National Press Club
Duke
Press Club
United States
West Indies
Senator McFarland challenges Senate on film probe
Senator McFarland of Arizona openly challenges Chairman Clark to take the question of continuing the senate interstate commerce subcommittee inquiry into alleged war propaganda in films to the full Senate. He predicts only 18 votes to extend, while Twentieth Century Fox vice president Zanuck denies propaganda charges as Willkie offers a counterstatement from producers.
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McFarland
Ariz
Clark
Idaho
Senate
Senate Interstate Commerce
House Committee
Arizona
Tobey
N. H
Senate of the United
Darryl F. Zanuck
Twentieth Century Fox
Wendell L. Willkie
Cedar Rapids men injured in side-road crash near Ankeny
Howard R. Green and Norman Hatton were hurt when Hatton’s car was struck broadside by a vehicle exiting a side road between Ankeny and Highway 64. Both were treated at Town Lutheran hospital. Hatton’s injuries were not serious but shock likely requires several days.
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Des Moines
Howard R. Green
Norman Hatton
Cedar Rapids
Hatton
Ankeny
Highway 64
Town
Lutheran Hospital
Green
U. S. Ordnance Plant
Green Company
Polk County
Five Year-Old Faces Warrant Over Poll Tax Demand
Alphonse LaPlante aged two in Salem Massachusetts could not understand a poll tax bill and the arrest warrant issued this Friday targets him. Authorities say the child’s case arose from a misapplied tax demand and warrants were issued in error.
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Salem
Mass
Alphonse LaPlante
Alphonse
Taxes Hit Oct 1 as New Revenue Act Takes Effect
Cedar Rapids braces for a weekend buying wave as the 1941 revenue act taxes begin October 1. The act broadens income, excess profits, estate and gift, and excise taxes. Household items carry new levies. phones, lights, telegrams, movies, sporting goods, refrigerators, ranges, and miscellaneous goods taxed.
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Cedar Rapids
Calls Wheeler And Lindbergh Sixth Columnists
Mrs John L Whitehurst of Baltimore, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, told Iowa leaders that Charles A Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler are members of a sixth column of apathists. She warned apathy could isolate the nation from Britain and its own government.
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John L. Whitehurst
Baltimore
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Charles A Lindbergh
Senator Wheeler
Mont
Whitehurst
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
Britain
Hitler
Mrs. Whitehurst
Arrest of Woman in Wilson Produce Riot Brings Count to Six
Georgie Morena 18 of 888 Twelfth Street NE was jailed Friday noon on riotous conduct charges tied to the September 15 violence at the Wilson Produce plant. Deputy Harlan Snyder and clerk Maxine Paeper made the arrest as she alighted from a bus on Third Avenue. Morena, a strike group member, is the first woman arrested and the sixth charged in the incident. release bond set at 2500 dollars.
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Georgie Morena
Twelfth Street
W. W. Crissman
Wilson
Harlan Snyder
Maxine Paeper
Third Avenue
Miss Morena
Knot in brother’s shoelace nearly drowns Mary Lou
In Ellensburg Washington four year old Wayne Edwards avoided the water after a knot caught his shoelace. His 14 month old sister Mary Lou fell into Cooke Creek and was retrieved by their mother Mrs Eugene Edwards who revived her with artificial respiration.
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Ellensburg
Wash
Wayne Edwards
Mary Lou
Cooke Creek
Mary Louw
Wayne
Eugene Edwards
Farm workers group seeks U.S. intervention in IH talks
The Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee CIO asked the U S Labor Department to intervene in negotiations with International Harvester, seeking to mediate a labor dispute and improve bargaining terms for workers.
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Chicago
Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
United States Labor Department
International Harvester
Soviets claim victory in grim struggle with Nazi forces
Soviet dispatches say German elite panzer units were crushed on a Bryansk to Moscow thrust as Hitler ordered. More than 30,000 casualties were inflicted on Heinz Guderian’s mobile corps. Russians report heavy German losses in Crimea and annihilation of parachute troops, while siege pressure around Leningrad grows and Novgorod battles continue near Volkhov.
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Bryansk
Adolf Hitler
Colt
Heinz Guderian
Associated Press
Crimea
London
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Berlin
Norway
Leningrad
Novgorod
Volkhov
Red Star
Police To Get Raise As Firemen
City council plans a retroactive raise of 750 dollars a month for police, effective September 1, with firemen receiving a similar increase on October 4. Mayor Hahn informed officers this week, as the Citizens committee had pressured for department reform. The measure, tabled last Monday, aims to show support for the police.
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Citizens Committee
Frank Hahn
Roosevelt Lands Stand Of Legion
President Roosevelt told Lynn A. Stambaugh that he is heartened by the American Legion’s action in backing his foreign policy. Stambaugh, elected national commander, received a promise of Roosevelt’s speech at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11 and at the Legion’s 1942 convention in New Orleans, if world events permit.
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INL
Roosevelt
Lynn A. Stambaugh
The
American Legion
Legion
Stambaugh
Arlington National Cemetery
New Orleans
Germany plans to raise million-strong Italian Balkan army
United Press dispatches report Germany seeks to form an army of more than 1,000,000 with Italian and Balkan troops to reinforce eastern front fighting against Russia. Turkey sources say Italy may send about 500,000, with Romania Hungary Bulgaria Slovakia also contributing troops. Bulgaria rejects troops for Russia and favors occupation duties elsewhere. Mussolini’s fascist council meets Saturday amid debates over Africa, Balkans, or Russia deployments.
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America
Hitler
Italy
Balkan
Russia
Fridday
Germany
Turkey
Donets
Crimea
Leningrad
Rumania
Reich
Hungary
Bulgaria
Slovakia
Bessarabia
Odessa
Red Army
Council of Ministers
Benito Mussolini
Africa
Balkans
Death of Cedar Rapids Native Charles Luberger in Cincinnati
Charles Frederick Luberger Jr., 56, professor of law at the University of Cincinnati and former Cedar Rapids resident, died at his Cincinnati home at 6 p.m. Thursday after a year of ill health. Born April 9, 1885, he studied at Coe College, Dartmouth, Iowa, Harvard, and earned an S J D from Iowa before joining Cincinnati’s law faculty. He is survived by his wife Ruth Pinney, two daughters Jean and Ellen, a son Charles, two brothers Henry S. and Balcom, and a sister Mrs. M. O. Reiff. Burial plans include Cedar Rapids, with services in Cincinnati likely Saturday.
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Charles Frederick Luberger, Jr
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Washington High School
Coe College
Dartmouth College
University of Iowa
Iowa
James J. Lenihan
Harvard University
Ruth Pinney
Jean Luberger
New York
Ellen
Charles
Western Reserve Academy
Hudson, C
Henry S. Luberger
Omaha
Balcom Luberger
Luberger Furniture Company
M. O. Reiff
Charles F. Luberger
Pan American to Inaugurate Americas Air Freight Service
Pan American Airways will inaugurate air freight service connecting the Americas from Miami serving the West Indies and Caribbean ports of South America. The new service expands Pan American's cargo network across the region.
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Miami
Fla
Pan American Airways
Americas
West Indies
Caribbean
South America
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