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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1941
Page
32
More than 2500 residents crowded the streets of Olin on Thursday for the second annual Pancake Day featuring the original Aunt Jemima. The event served 126 pounds of flour and eight gallons of syrup with coffee and street fair foods. A community dance and vaudeville acts capped a day of games and athletic contests.
Two major events wrap the season including a pushmobile derby at 2 pm on a Lincoln highway strip and a joint closing community night at Ellis park Friday Aug 15. Sixteen playgrounds perform three minute stunts followed by a city title play day and inter city softball games.
Picnickers from 23 city industrial firms converge on Ellis park for the fifth Allied Industrial league picnic. Events include golf, tennis, softball, horseshoes, a tramPolin exhibition, a riverfront show We Are All Americans and a community sing. Prizes awarded for age and gender specific contests.
Defense Minister Per Edwin Skold warned Sweden will fight with nails and teeth if Swedes lose control of their nation. He spoke last Sunday in Gotland, saying Sweden will stay out of war but defend its independence with elasticity in foreign policy.
Union Local 275 of the International Union of Operating Engineers plans to present a contract offer to Iowa Electric Light and Power after a regional NLRB examiners report upheld the IUOE as the exclusive representative for about 250 Cedar Rapids plant workers. The examiner recommended bargaining, posting notices, and holds 20 days for the company to respond before the NLRB steps in.
In Zanesville Ohio a 73 year old farmer Charles S Shipman married 16 year old Emma Sue Schultz on Friday night. The marriage was performed by a Negro pastor after two justices of the peace and the Roseville mayor declined to wed them. An attorney Thomas Joseph filed for guardianship of the girl claiming incompetence and alleging her mother is unfit.
In Marysville California Fred C Tatton tried biting a donkey’s ears to calm it during a local game. The donkey bucked once more, knocked him to the ground and bit him on the forehead. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The twelfth annual Gladiolus Society show at Memorial Coliseum runs Saturday noon to Sunday. Entries due by Saturday noon for single and three spike classes. judging starts at 1 p.m. Banquet at noon Sunday features J. Elton Carter and John Reding as guests. Awards, experiments, and demonstrations planned with garden and school flower displays. New gladiolus varieties including American Commander and Rosa Van Lima will be shown. Minuet leads light lavender class.
A cross section of common trees shows a central wood cylinder with a thin bark mantle. The inner bark transfers sugars, while the cambium layer drives new bark and sapwood growth. Damage to cambium impairs healing, risking decay and tree death if injuries are large or repeated.
Buffalo New York reports that paid up UAW membership, CIO affiliated, rose 93 percent over the previous year, according to International President R J Thomas on the eve of the union’s sixth annual convention.
The army high command ordered 25 officers to the Philippines to reinforce the newly created United States Army Forces in the Far East.
Washington sources say Alex Taub, noted designer and engineer for Vauxhall in England, arrived in the United States and will be loaned to the Office of Production Management automotive branch to convert idle car plants to defense work after a bombing incident that destroyed his office during an air raid.
Licking Missouri farmer Ray Reed drove a burning hay truck 15 miles through town toward Piney River to extinguish exhaust flames. He smothered a leaking gasoline tank with his hat as wind carried fire away from the cab. After reaching the river he jumped out to find the blaze died, most hay lost and the truck slightly damaged.
Moscow radio reported an imminent Nazi coup in Iran citing informed sources in Ankara. The broadcast claimed German agents are gun running and Iranian officials face blackmail, with more than 5 000 German tourists in the country.
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