Scrap heap sparks tales of war and small business struggle
A scrap pile on a street corner sparks reflections on wartime progress and family memories as it hints at past lifelines like wagons and tools. The piece warns that small businesses face death by policy while big firms push for a state plan, and notes Hitler’s platform show with Rommel and Himmler as the war grinds on.
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Washington
Herr Hitler
Marshal Rommel
der Fuehrer
Err Himmler
Gestapo
Russians Gain Outside Stalingrad In Major Soviet Push
Soviet headquarters reported Red armies pierced the German left flank along a 40 mile Don Volga corridor while inside Stalingrad the crisis worsened. Red Star said the enemy suffered heavy losses as they attacked a northwest factory district and attempted to widen a siege.
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Don
Volga
Stalingrad
Red Star
Red Army
Semeon Timoshenko
Comsomol Pravda
Caucasus
Terek
Grozny
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Berlin
Tuapse
Navy to Train Waves at Iowa State Teachers College
Dr. Malcolm Price, president of Iowa State Teachers College, awaits Navy reps to plan housing for 1000 Waves for instruction starting December 15. Enlisted Waves will drill five weeks, study naval matters, with tests mid training for ratings and possible sending to naval schools. They will work on shore in ordnance plants and mechanical duties, with pay equal to male counterparts.
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Cedar Falls
Malcolm Price
Iowa State Teachers College
Navy
Women's Naval Reserve
Price
Teachers College
Washington
Naval
Smith College
Northarpton
Mass
Women’s Naval Reserve
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Fort Des Moines
Hitler rallies Nazis claim victory with belief in Europe
Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally in Berlin urged continued attacks and predicted victory, saying the enemy would fall and outlining defenses for a second front. Rommel, Himmler, Keitel, and Goebbels attended as crowds saluted and noted Hitler’s apparent good health.
Final Approval Given Cedar Rapids Airport
Senator Clyde Herring announced that Cedar Rapids airport has been finally and formally approved by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Work will begin once title passes to the government, with CAA engineers drawing plans and handling bids and contracts through the Kansas City regional office. The Army Engineers may later take charge, but no details have been released.
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Washington
Clyde Herring
Cedar Rapids
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Kansas City
War Department
Army Engineers
Army
Aivard
British Bomb Plans Hit Suda Bay and Canea in Crete Raids
Italian high command said British planes bombed Suda Bay and Canea in new Crete raids reported Wednesday.
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Rome
Suda Bay
Canea
Crete
Senate Accepts Farm Compromise On Labor Cost Inclusion
The Senate approved a farm price amendment 86 to 4 allowing consideration of farm labor costs since 1941 in price ceilings. Iowa's Gillette and Herring split votes. Barkley and administration leaders brokered the compromise limiting costs and delaying parity recalculation while House action looms.
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Washington
Senate
Iowa
Gillette
Merring
Barkley
Thomas
D-Okla
Herring
Hatch
D-Nm
Clark
Langer
Johnson
38 More Linn Men Depart Next Week For Army Service
A Linn county selectee sendoff is planned at Union station for 7 05 am Tuesday with about 38 men from craft board No. 1 to depart for Camp Dodge. A second sendoff is set for Friday at 6 30 am at Union station, as previously announced.
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Linn
Linn County Craft Board No. 1
Camp Dodge
Union Station
Swap Rides Cards Distributed in Cedar Rapids
Distribution began Wednesday in downtown stores by the Cedar Rapids war transportation committee. Cards were given to employees in firms with more than 50 workers. The program aims to conserve cars and tires by arranging exchange transportation for daily commuters.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids War Transportation Committee
Last Call: Iowans Must Pay Second Half Tax
The Iowa state tax commission reminded that second half payments of state income tax are due by midnight tonight. About 20,000 taxpayers are paying the tax in installments.
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Des Moines
State Tax Commission
Towans
Australians Retake Key Ridge in New Guinea
Australian forces under General MacArthur drove Japanese defenders from the Ioribaiwa ridge in the Owen Stanley range, advancing toward Nauru Creek as Allied bombers hit Japanese rear positions. The victory reduces the danger to Port Moresby, with 16 days of air strikes continuing on Buna and surrounding targets.
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Macarthurs
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Ioribaiwa
Owen Stanley
New Guinea
Nauru Creek
Menari
Nauru
MacArthur
Buna
Toribaiwa
Port Moresby
South New Guinea
Churchill Puts Dieppe Losses At Nearly Half
London AP report says Churchill told the House of Commons that Dieppe casualties were "very nearly half" of the troops involved as German street barriers halted Allied tanks. He credited RAF air power with sweeping air defeats and noted no inconsistency with Canadian casualty statements. The session also extended Parliament for one year amid election demands.
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Churchill
Dieppe
London
House of Commons
House
Commons
James Henderson Stewart
Royal Navy
Northern Ireland
Widow's Mite Boosts Scrap Pile in Cedar Rapids
Two loads of metal were dumped on the scrap pile at Third avenue and Sixth street SE on Tuesday afternoon. One load weighed several tons while the other was only a few pounds. The larger load was dumped from a truck and the smaller one was placed at the edge of the pile from a wicker basket by a small old person.
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Third Avenue
Sixth Street SE
Thursday Scrap Collection Announced for 17th Precinct
Residents in the seventeenth precinct are told scrap will be collected Thursday by trucks and drivers from King Crown Plaster Builders Material and Economy Lumber. The area runs from Third to Ninth avenues SW and Fourth Street to the North Western tracks. Tracks and drivers will also finish scrap collection in the nineteenth precinct from Third Avenue SW to Euvenue NW, from the river to the North Western tracks.
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Seventeenth Precinct
King Crown
Third Avenue
Ninth Avenue
Fourth Street
North Western Railroad
Euvenue NW
North Western
Cedar Rapids Women Lead Scrap Drive In War Effort
Widow Emma Braddy, 74, delivers two old flatirons and two lamp shades while rallying Cedar Rapids residents to join a city scrap drive. Craile Fitzgerald drives a truck donated by Cedar Rapids Bottling Co and spends vacation days collecting scrap, with neighbors contributing from nearby homes.
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Emma Bradd
Second Avenue
Braddy
Cedar Rapids
Craile Fitzgerald
C Avenue NW
Fitzgerald
Freeze Used Tires to Ration Them Soon
The Office of Price Administration froze sale of used tires and tubes and announced soon a rationing program for essential uses per Baruch rubber committee guidance. The freeze will be lifted as needed to allow sales to certificate holders once rationing begins.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Baruch Rubber Committee
OPA
Nazis would need two years to copy Norden bombsight
Ward Marvelle of Carl L Norden company told New York reporters that the Norden bombsight, a guarded war secret, could not be reproduced by the Nazis in less than two years even if they captured a complete undamaged unit. He cited its many intricate parts and subcontractors still working on their first unit after nine months.
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Barkley
Senate
Hatch
House
Rayburn
Roosevelt
Congress
New York
Norden
Ward Marvelle
Carl L. Norden Company
Marvelle
America
Gazette Want Ad Readers See High Prices for Used Bikes
With gas rationing looming, used bicycles fetch premium prices. New bikes are also rationed, so readers are urged to sell used cycles through the Gazette want ad page, following the example of a local advertiser.
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Gazette
Gazette Sayt
For Sale Man's Bicycle in Excellent Condition
Ten Want Ad readers answered this ad. One bought the bike. Advertise your bike for sale while buyers are still in the market. Dial an ad taker at 2-1121 now.
Yankees Rally in Ninth to Spoil Cardinals Opener
In the World Series opener at St Louis, Charles Ruffing pitched seven and two thirds no hit innings before Terry Moore’s single ended the bid. The Yankees erupted for five runs in the eighth off Morton Cooper, then held on as the Cardinals rallied in the ninth, final score 7 to 4.
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ST Louis
Charles
New York Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
Herb Pennock
Yankees
Monte Pearson
Cardinals
Terry Moore
Reds
Martin Marion
Morton Cooper
Rizzuto
Marion
Rolfe
Cooper
Cullenbine
McCarthy
Magerkurth
DiMaggio
Keller
Brown
Slaughter
Musial
Cullens Bine
Ruffing
Harry Gumbert
Cardinal
M Cooper
Marion Cullendine
Hopp
M. Cooper
Moore
Kurowski
Gordon
Dickey
Hassett
W. Cooper
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