Boy 13 Fires at Father Misses Shoots Mother Wounding Her
Special to The Gazette Sigourney Iowa a 13 year old adopted boy Allen McConnell says he acted because he was neglected and treated mean He shot his mother inflicting a severe abdominal wound and fired at his father missing him The mother is hospitalized in Iowa City The boy confessed and was arrested the next morning No charges filed yet
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Allen McConnell
Harold McConnell
Richland
McConnell
Siggurney
Allen
McConnells
Tremmel
Carder story links heart to the third commodity
A tale about the fourth commodity in life and business, heart. Walter Disney is shown as a young artist who initially resists his best work until he unites effort with passion. The piece ends with the idea that where your heart is, your best work follows, echoing a timeless Bible insight.
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L Carder
Carder
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Crash Victims in Fair Condition Near Mt Vernon
Mrs. B Brooks 29 of Davenport injured in an auto crash that killed her husband three miles west of Mt Vernon on Highway 30. She suffers facial cuts and bruises and was listed in fair condition at St Luke's hospital after a relatively calm night. Mr Brooks formerly worked as an adjuster for Travelers Insurance in Cedar Rapids then as an independent adjuster and lawyer before moving from the city six years ago.
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Cedar Rounds
B. Brooks
Davenport
Mt. Vernon
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Travelers Insurance Company
City
Romania Continues Oil Deliveries to Germany Under Deal
Bucharest reports Germany and Romania signed a commercial agreement to ship 130000 tons of oil monthly from Romania to Germany. The pact includes believed relaxed payment terms and aims to secure ongoing oil supplies for the Reich.
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Bucharest
Germany
Rumania
Norway Like Flea Circus Viewer Learns He Has It
The piece humorously compares Norway to a spectator in a flea circus who discovers he has the flea. It notes after the show Germany and England will thank Norway for use of the hall and mocks the food neighbor policy and neutrality as abstract ideas.
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Norway
Germany
England
Europe
Sudenly
Admiral Taussig predicts inevitable war with Japan
Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testified to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that a war between the United States and Japan is inevitable. He cited Japan's Far Eastern plans and a 1927 Tanaka memorial, urging a huge navy, strengthened bases including the Philippines and Guam, and cooperation with Britain and France to maintain the status quo amid naval expansion.
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Joseph K Taussig
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Japan
United States
Taussig
Fifth Naval District
Norfolk
Philippines
Indo-China
Netherlands Indies
Far East
Tanaka
Guam
Great Britain
France
U.S
12th Ave Flagman In Shanty As Train Near Misses Car
Patrolmen Prasil and Hasley nearly collided with North Western mail train No 5 at the Twelfth avenue and Fifth street crossing at 1 10 am Sunday. Hibben, 24, flagman, said he did not flag due to lantern repair. Roadmaster’s clerk Simmons said no report had been filed and a full investigation is promised.
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Hasley
North Western
Twelfth Avenue
Fifth Street
Jesse Clift
Gerald Hibben
Sixth Street NW
Hibben
Cliff Simmons
James Watt
Simmons
Woman Run Over By Car Backed By Daughter in Iowa City
Mrs I H Hospers 62 of Olin suffered a broken left wrist and a scraped cheek after being backed over by her daughter Muriel Hospers in the Higley building area. Witness Thomas Ozburn reported the rear wheels ran over her legs and neck as Muriel backed to take a space. She was taken to St Luke's hospital with injuries described as not life threatening.
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Olin
Muriel Hospers
Higley
George Connell
Miss Hospers
Third Avenue
Second Street
Auto Crash Fatal To Youth Exposes Speeding Dangers
Eleven youths die in a head on collision on a gravel road near Slayton Minnesota as both cars burst apart and occupants are hurled from the wreck. Officials call it a tragic example of youth speeding and unsafe driving prompting safety leaders to urge strict driving discipline nationwide.
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Slayton Mini
Minnesota
National Safety Council
Chicago
Slaston
John Stilwell
National Safety Convcnt
Runaway Street Car Dashes 24 Blocks In City
A derailed 18 ton street car sped 24 blocks through Omaha streets at 50 to 70 mph before leaping the tracks at Sixteenth and Cuming and crashing into a brick warehouse. No injuries were reported though a trailer and trolley pole were crushed. damage was estimated at 52000.
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Omaha
Neb
Louis Nessenman
Fortie
Sixteenth
Cumings
W. Renstrom
Seek Two Women For Turning In False Fire Alarm
Cedar Rapids police report a false fire alarm at 939 pm on Sunday from the box at First Avenue and Fifteenth Street. A witness said she saw two young women leave the box and run down an alley toward the west before fire trucks arrived, and traffic police began a search for them.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Supreme Court Refuses Rehear FCC Radio Case
The Supreme Court declined to reconsider its March 25 ruling that the FCC may grant a new station permit without separately weighing impact on an existing station. Sanders Brothers of Dubuque sought the rehearing after the Telegraph Herald received a license for a competing station.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Federal Communications Commission
Sanders Brothers Radio
Dubuque, Sa
FCC
Telegraph Herald of
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids census push counts 75 percent
Residents in the Cedar Rapids area cooperate with enumerators as 75 percent of Cedar Rapids residents are counted with April 17 figures for the 24th area. Officials report 53 eastern Iowa counties and 993 workers tallying 694452 people and a 60 percent housing tally with district percentages ranging from 39 to 66.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mount Pleasant
Dubuque
Waterloo
Mason City
Ottumwa
Admit Mrs Emery To Practice Before U S Supreme Court
Cedar Rapids attorney Mrs Tmogen B Emery was admitted to the U S Supreme Court bar on motion of Elizabeth M Cox. Present were her sister Mrs H E Webb, Cedar Rapids. Miss Frances Sebern, Cedar Rapids. and Mrs Bessie C Higgins, Spencer, attending after the D A R national congress.
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Washington
Lenin Birthday Marked in Soviet Press
Moscow reports celebrate the seven tieth anniversary of Lenin's birth with widespread press tributes but no official holiday or major public ceremonies.
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Moscow
Lenin
Anti-Picketing Acts Voided by High Tribunal Ruling
Washington reports a Supreme Court decision voiding two anti-picketing laws Alabama state statute and Shasta county California ordinance as unconstitutional On Alabama Esren Thornhill president of Local No 19974 Creosoters union was fined 100 for urging a Brownville worker to strike In California John Carlson fined 24 for picketing at the Delta tunnel project with a banner saying This job unfair to CIO Forty two CIO tunnel workers voted to join the CIO and the project shut down but later reopened with arrests on 29 counts
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INS
Alabama
Shasta
California
Supreme Court
Frank Murphs
High Tribunal
McReynolds
Esren Thornhill
Creosoters Union
American Federation of Labor
Brown Wood
Brownville
Ala
John Carlson
Delta
Shasta County
Carlson
CIO
Jon
On Wrong Side Of Street Fined $300 For Drunk Driving
P Ho Clay 49, Iowa City Negro, was fined $300 and costs after pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge. He was arrested at 8 40 pm Sunday after driving on the left side of First avenue between Twenty first and Twenty third streets, weaving near oncoming traffic. A M day county jail term was specified if the fine remains unpaid.
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Cedar Rapids
Ho Clay
Iowa City
Clay
Burke
Hinesst
al Mikota
Allies Press Northward Fronts in Norway Faces
Allied expeditionary forces clash with Germans on three fronts in Norway and neighboring regions. British and Norwegian troops tighten positions from Oslo to Trondheim while aerial and naval actions disrupt German supply lines and reinforce Norwegian defense efforts.
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Oslo
Hamar-Elverum
Hamar
Plame
Elverum
Berlin
Sax
Telammer
Stockholm
Trondheimm—Britich
Andalsnes
Hamar-Elverun Trent
Northend
Trondheim
Levanger
Kearn
Teenrdhemm
Namsos
Captain Losey Killed in German Bombing in Scandinavia
Washington AP Captain Robert Losey United States air attaché is killed by a German bomb near Dombas Norway while escorting Americans to safety. Survived by widow Mrs May Banta Losey of Hollywood. The State Department coordinates with Stockholm to confirm details.
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Tote Department
Robert WooLoses
United States
Stockholm
Anato
Andres
Germren Bembing
Reid
Linses
State Department
Stockreln Mio
Andrew
Robert Ve Losey
Norway
Leon Losey
Andrew Presbyterian Church
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Terry, Viant
Leses
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Brooksfield
Kelly Field
Texas
California Institute of Technology
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Clais
Air Corps
Washington
Helsinki
Finland
Air
Sweden
May Banta Losey
Hollywood
Calif
Dutch East Indies policy resists Allied war pressure
Amsterdam dispatch quotes a Dutch official denying any Japanese invasion plan and rebuking Allied entanglement. He critiques American alarmism, says Britain would push the US into war, and asserts Dutch resolve to control its own actions including denying British influence and delaying any invasion by destroying oil wells in Borneo.
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Amsterdam
INS
Dutch East Indies
England
America
Far East
Japan
China
Germany
East Indies
Borneo
Cedar Rapids Weather Shows Warm Start With Rain Likely
Monday's Cedar Rapids forecast notes clouds dominating with a warming trend. Temperature rose from 47 as a morning low to 56 by midmorning, then fluctuated around the mid 60s before dipping to 63 and rising again to 65 in the afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Boy Killed by Horse Jumping Trailer Backboard
In Phoenix a horse jumped over a trailer backboard and struck 10 year old Daniel W. Musgrave as he rode a bicycle the boy died from fatal injuries according to AP reporting
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Phoenix, Ariz
Daniel W. Musgrave
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