Local Notice of Deaths and Court Case Details
Agnes Ware 9 died at 513 Sixteenth Avenue SE at 10 pm Thursday. Lydia Ann Springer 65 died at her home and at daughter’s home 1411 N Street SWest Friday morning. Marin Edward Perew 56 died at 302 Third Street NW early Friday. Bernice Marie Vicko 25 died at a local hospital at 11:15 am Friday. Constance David versus Mageed A. David cross-claim awarded custody of five minor children with support and fees. judge Charles J. Haas. Birth notices list several births. a truck without a license fined and a car fire due to wiring at 500 B Avenue NE.
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Sixteenth Avenue SE
Lydia Ann Springer
James Berry
Mairin Edward Perew
Nis Tome
Third Street
Bernice Marie Vicko
Eighth Street
Constance David
Mageed
A. David
Cedar Rapids
Charles J. Haas
Ringling Circus followers fined for vagrancy in raid
Roy Carlson of 3216 H Avenue NW fined 50 dollars plus costs for drunkenness. Fourteen Negroes and one white man, described as followers but not employees of the Ringling circus, fined 25 dollars plus costs each for vagrancy.
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Roy Carlson
H Avenue NW
Ringling Circus
Marriage Licenses Recorded for McCorkle and Ratcliff
Walter E. McCorkle and Myrtle M. Ratcliff, both of Oakdale, obtained marriage licenses. Their union is listed in the county records with both parties named and their hometowns.
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Walter E. McCorkle
Myrtle M. Ratcliff
Oakdale
National Soybean Acreage Tops 39 Fourteen Per Cent
Crop experts Cromwell and Murray projected 1940 soybean yield around 175 bushels per acre under current conditions with US acreage at 10,286,000, the highest on record and 14 percent above last year. State conditions ranged from Ohio 83 percent to Missouri 74 percent, with Illinois 81 and Iowa 86. Trade analysts foresee a possible harvest near 83,000,000 bushels if harvest percentage and yields align.
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Chicago
R. O. Cromwell
Cromwell
U S
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
Nat C. Murray
Illinois
Wisconsin
British Exaggerate on Hamburg Bombing Claims
German authorities dismissed British reports that Hamburg lay in ruins after RAF raids as vastly exaggerated. Arrivals from Hamburg said the city showed no extraordinary damage and docks remained functioning as usual.
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Berlin
INS
Hamburg
Germany reports heavy WWII raids and naval actions in Europe
Berlin claimed a German U boat sank a British destroyer Whirlwind and damaged two merchant ships after sinking 12 armed ships totaling 74 000 tons on two trips. Luftwaffe bombed convoys near Humber Yarmouth St Georges Channel Norwich air plant raid caused large fires. British losses included bombers shot down near Cherbourg and Dutch raids.
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Whirlwind
High Command
Wilhelm Rollmann
The
Humber
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St George's Channel
Yarmouth
St. George's Channel
Wales
Ireland
Norwich
England
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F D R Considers Women's Share In Defense Program
President Roosevelt disclosed at a press conference that women will play a role in total preparedness. He noted the need for early self-organization and, with Mrs Roosevelt, mentioned Dutchess County New York supplying trained nurses in a future defensive war.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Dutchess County
N Y
Slayer Executed in Sing Sing Chair
Norman Wheelock, 27, who killed 11 year old Evelyn Reed, was executed in Sing Sing prison on Thursday night by electric chair.
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Ossining
WN. Y
Norman Wheelock
Evelyn Reed
Sing Sing
Aliens Held In Panama Canal Zone Cast Into Question
War time report says 81 foreigners detained at an immigration station await deportation or other disposition. Stimson notes no details on their pick up, while Panama says most are European refugees with papers not in order. U S authorities seek full origin and disposition data.
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War Department
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Pacific
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U. S
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Roosevelt
Justice Department
Leopoldo Arosemena
Washington
Man Electrocuted In Gladbrook Cafe
Tama Ray C Allard 49 of Gladbrook was electrocuted Thursday afternoon while repairing an electrically operated bottle cooling machine in Schryver s cafe Gladbrook He worked for Iowa Electric Light and Power Co A coroner said contact with 110 volts caused fatal burns and he died about 430 pm He lay under the cooler for some time before being noticed leaving a wife and three children
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Gazette
TAMA
Ray C. Allard
Gladbrook
Schryver
Iowa Electric Light and Power
Allard
Wentzien
Harold Beddow
Helen
Dan
Former Cedar Rapids Man Named Press Officer for CAA
Roscoe Wright, formerly of Cedar Rapids, is named press relations officer for the Civil Aeronautics Authority. He has served in public information roles with the Works Progress Administration and the Census Bureau under Harry Hopkins, and will continue under the Commerce Department after the CAA transfer. A Grinnell College alumnus and former sports editor of The Cedar Rapids Republican, he has worked in several major papers across the country and previously edited a Texas magazine.
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Gazette
Washington, DC
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Cedar Rapids
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Minneapolis Tribune
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Houston
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Texas
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Cottage Grove Avenue
Assault reports stir at Iowa City campus
University investigators say six suspects have been questioned after two July incidents near the campus. A 21 year old summer student was approached in a car and an attempted rape charge may be filed after a man was arrested on July 24. An assault behind the Memorial Union was reported with a woman declining to file. Barnes, a commerce student, urged a plainclothes unit.
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Iowa
Vestermark
Memorial Union
UAW Denounces Compulsory Military Training at Convention
In St Louis the CIO United Automobile Workers convention passed a resolution opposing congressional plans for mandatory military training. The report also notes a Norwegian whaler recently harpooned a whale bearing an old harpoon.
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ST. Louis
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Congress
Roosevelt presses selective service for total defense
President Roosevelt argues for a selective conscription system to build a well trained workforce for defense. He cites past mobilization lessons, notes millions in production plans, and urges registration of ages 31 to 65. He backs excess profits tax and warns against delays in defense material.
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Congress
Roosevelt
State Building And Loan Supervisor Is Fired By Auditor
Auditor approves transaction but Fischer delays until formal company application arrives. Akers says he did not approve the transfer yet sent a letter to Fischer to seek action. Virden, a Republican appointee, attending a savings and loan school in Chicago, is reported. Akers terminates Virden’s services as of August 1.
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State Building and Loan
Fischer
Akers
Virden
G. W. Storms
Chicago
Savings and Loan
Hugh McCoy Oskaloosa Man Killed In Crash
Hugh McCoy 61 former acting federal district attorney in Oskaloosa died in an automobile crash near the city. He struck a culvert and died an hour later while alone in the car. He was a son of the late Judge Ben McCoy. Survivors include his widow a son and a daughter.
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Oskaloosa
Hugh McCoy
John Valentine
Here
McCoy
Ben McCoy
Tokio Press Attacks Jap Foreign Minister Matsuoka
The Tokio press, including pro army Hochi, editorials harshly criticise Foreign Minister Matsuoka for not clarifying Japan's diplomatic course after Premier Konoye declared Japan would rule East Asia.
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INS
Matsuoka
Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
East Asia
Hochi
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