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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1941
Page
10
Pope Pius XII urged belligerents to avoid more homicidal warfare and Catholics to pray for universal peace. He stressed just treatment of prisoners and civilians in occupied areas as proof of civilization and warned that how captives are handled could bless or curse their fatherland.
A Oslo radio report heard in Stockholm claims a British destroyer struck a small Nazi occupied port in northern Norway. A landing party, aided by Norwegian guides, reportedly destroyed a fish oil plant and a localQuisling leader’s home.
At the venues listed, Worthy releases include Nowa with Jean Arthur and Robert Cummings in The Devil and Miss Jones and Melody for Three with Jean Hersholt. Paramount presents Men of Boys Town starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. State features Deanna Durbin and Franchot Tone in Nice Girl plus Sleepers West with Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari. Palace offers Third Finger Left Hand with Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas plus Three Men From Texas with Bill Boyd. Marion shows Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X alongside Hit Parade of 1941 with Frances Langford. Rialto pairs Randolph Scott in When the Daltons Rode with Tug Boat Annie Sails Again starring Marjorie Rambeau. Strand presents James Stewart in No Time For Comedy and Lew Ayres in Dr Kildare Goes Home.
Census data show New England now accounts for about 50 percent of the nation’s chicken production, reflecting a major regional shift in poultry farming over the last decade.
Gerry Lane and Walter Gress aide Lance Grese pursue dangers at Durfee residence amid eerie dog yips and dark rooms. They find a locked laboratory, dinner ready for one, and shattered fence with Worth Durfee’s wrecked car plunged down a canyon, prompting a call for aid as fog shrouds the night.
In a fogbound canyon the rescue unfolds after a wrecking crew, a motor's dying whine, and tense dialogs reveal Durfee as a prime suspect. Lance admits fear and affection as the bulk of the night tests loyalty and truth. The scene ends with the cliffside rescue and a promise of continuation.
Mrs. Myrtle Rogers of Iowa City was hospitalized after a car she drove collided with a truck on an Iowa City road. A. H. Niles and Ralph Blaylock led a meeting in Concannon with Willard Hayes serving as executive secretary.
Harry Campbell a Coe College graduate from Cedar Rapids will graduate from McCormick Theological Seminary and proceed to Western India to take up duties as a foreign missionary pastor.
An ordinance introduced today would cap ambulance charges within city limits at 3 per day call and 4 per night call. Joseph Sinco suffered fractured ribs and bruises after a fall between two trucks at the Douglas starch works where he is employed.
Over the weekend Darryl Zanuck set Jean Gabin's first Hollywood movie as Moon Tide, a whimsical romance by William Robertson, with Linda Darnell eyed for the femme lead and John O'Hara tapped to adapt. Gabin met with 20th Century Fox and producer Mark Hellinger, while Garbo and Swanson swirl in social theatrics amid Paramount talks.
Two year old Sherril Carter of Peoria Illinois calmly wandered Cedar Rapids Saturday night crowds until Patrolman F C Parrish found her on a street corner. Taken to the police station she asked Where have you been? and was reunited with her mother Mrs Theodore Carter who had called for help. The Carters live in Peoria and are visiting relatives on 1912 Third Street SW and 438 Eighth Avenue SW.
Insect like animal hints form a crossword style row with numbered clues. It includes terms for mouth roof, measure of length, and a solar disc along with references to eggs, grief, web, small cyst and railroad abbreviation.
Women of the Moose hold bingo at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Mrs. H. O. Center home. City council to take bids May 1 on two paving projects and a curb and gutter job. Royal Arch Masons meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. degree work in Mark and past master levels. J. D. White, Cedar Rapids truckers union agent, injured in a tire blowout crash. discharged to home. wife Mrs. White remains in Mercy hospital.
The United Commercial Travelers will meet for a 1 p.m. picnic Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Clarence W. Miller, 1423 Wildwood Drive NE.
Cedar Rapids council No. 909 of the Knights of Columbus will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. at the clubrooms. At 8 30 p.m. the council will sponsor a spelling bee for children of local parochial schools.
Mr and Mrs George Griner 1724 First Avenue East returned Sunday from Oswego New York where they attended the funeral of Mrs Griner s father Ward Battles who died April 6.
In celebration of Holy week in the Syrian Orthodox church an evening service and gospel reading will be held Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m. in St. John.
All Master Masons are asked to attend the simultaneous meeting tonight at 7 30 in Masonic hall. A program of music will precede refreshments.
Bobby Bethel, four years old, son of Mr and Mrs A R Bethel of 1549 Sixth Street, marked his family’s celebration with relatives and friends.
Bobby, 14, escaped serious injury when he fell from a moving car on Mt Vernon avenue at Seventeenth street SE around 4 15 p m Sunday. He suffered a head laceration and body bruises but was released from St Lux hospital after treatment.
A Bus Drivers local No. 638 delegation traveled to Elgin Illinois on Thursday for the funeral of Edward S Ackerman superintendent of Cedar Rapids City Lines Inc who died Tuesday after a two week heart ailment Participants included Arthur Klopp Virgil Andrew Warren Trimble Tom Calhoun Joe Stane Albert Smith Frank Hembern Darwin McGraw Mrs Leo Walrath Mrs Joe Bonner and Mr and Mrs Herman Wertz.
The Christian Endeavor of the Buffalo Evangelical church sponsored an Easter sunrise service with John Luce leading. Eldon Schrimper played trumpet with his mother, Myrtle Blair read scripture, LeEtta Schrimper sang with Constance Krapf, Arline Quass read, and Carl Koehn spoke. Benediction by Rev E E Pen cock. Breakfast for 35 at O F Quass home followed. At 10:30 Rev Mr Peacock spoke on The Power of Resurrection with special music by the pastor and LeEtta Schrimper.
J. W. Tubbs, operator of a service station at First avenue and First street W, was fined $100 and costs in Judge Churchill's court for failing to post the price of gasoline. An agent for the state treasurer testified Tubbs and his employer had been warned about displaying price, taxes, and gallon total.
A garbled excerpt discusses liver bile production and its role in digestion. The text mentions a daily bile volume and the importance of bile flow for proper digestion, but the sentence remains incomplete and unclear.
An advertisement promotes unsecured personal loans up to $300 with no guarantors or endorsed signatures. It explains sample terms such as $100 repaid with twelve monthly payments of $9.77 or twenty months at $6.43, notes rates of 234 percent per month on balances under $150 and higher on excess balances, and invites visits or calls for full information.
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