Daily Record World Sports and Local Notes August 8 1939
A compact item lists Monday’s high and last night’s lows across several cities including Cedar Rapids Mount Ayr and Des Moines. The record notes scores from multiple games and a fine for speeding for Frank Kosina at 221 Nineteenth Avenue SW. The report also reports the death of 69 year old Tsaae Lear of 1001 Ninth Street SE Iowa City at University Hospital Iowa City at 5 15 p m Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Ayr
Slony
Area Births and Marital Notices from Cedar Rapids and Surroundings
Local mentions list individuals from South Dakota and Cedar Rapids with marriages and births. Entries include Herman Teimens with Ruth Larson, Charles Barnett with Dorothy Dawson, and several newborns at St. Luke’s and Mercy hospitals, all dated August 7 or 8. Details include home addresses in Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns.
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Herman Teimens
Wakonda
S. D
Ruth Larson
Platte, S. D
Charles J. Barnett
Dorothy May Dawson
Cedar Rapids
Business Eyes Five Month Breathing Spell For Economy
Washington predicts a five month pause for business as leaders urge private capital to hire and invest. Tax changes and relief cuts mark a shift, with officials saying it is up to business to resume hiring if unemployment falls. Congress adjourned with debate on next steps as war risks abroad loom.
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Washington
INS
Congressional Administration
Congress
Sherman Minton
Indiana
Senate
United States
Europe
Budget row prompts delay after tax levy debate
Cedar Rapids school budget hearings expose miscalculated per pupil costs cited by the Taxpayers League and raise questions on salary scales and the pace of funding. Trustees discuss 100 percent pay, pensions, school limits expansion, and dividends from closed banks under state acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trewin
Fred Kubicek
Arthur Deamer
Kubicek
Paul Huston
Dairy Dale
Kenwood
July Trend Alters As Business Gains Or: Industrial Activity in July
Industrial activity in July remained at a better than seasonal pace and was one fifth higher than a year ago. Rail freight moved more than expected, up 12 percent from July 1938. Hopkins noted durable goods lag behind 1937 peak while shipbuilding aircraft and petroleum refining showed strength and construction rose.
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Hopkins
Beauty Who Fled Harem Wins Share Of Yeast Fortune
New York AP report says Lemma Izzet Pasha's daughter wins $25 000 a year from Fleischmanns in a settled court case. The former Turkish beauty fled a harem at 17 and later married Carl Fleischmann Holmes in 1933, divorced in 1935, and fought to uphold the annual settlement amid claims of prior Hindu marriage Jarmani Dass. Evidence gathered in New York France Belgium England Egypt and India supported the claim. Mrs Holmes Smith has used multiple names in her convoluted marriages.
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New York
Supreme Court
Fleischmann
Lemma Izzet Pasha
Turkey
Carl Fleischmann Holmes
Jarmani Dass
France
Belgium
England
Egypt
India
Holmes-Smith
Mazar Abed
Damascus
Syria
Stanley Smith
All-Time Peak Hit By Federal Payroll
Washington reports the federal payroll reached a new all-time high in June with 925 260 federal employees on June 30, 1939. This marks a rise of 22 148 from May and surpasses the prior peak of 917 670 on Armistice Day 1918. Civil service totals exclude military, Congress, and courts.
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Washington
United States Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
Labor Board Orders Election at Cudahy Newport Plant
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a collective bargaining election within fifteen days among employees at the Newport Minnesota plant of the Cudahy Packing Company.
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Washington
National Labor Relatioe
Newport, Minn
Cudahy Packing Company
Younger Business Men To Entertain Junior Farm Bureau
Tenting for exhibition booths along the main thoroughfare at the grounds is being prepared for the fair. Booths to showcase latest farm machinery are leased weeks ahead for industrial firms. Food concessions line the north side in permanent structures engaged for weeks. Persistent rains slowed workmen but aided track conditioning. officials expect a fast oval after sun.
Somerset youth amputates own foot after train crush near Lorain
William Capps 19 of Somerset Kentucky told a Lorain hospital how he cut off his crushed foot with a pen knife after a fall under a train. He fashioned a tourniquet from a shirt, improvised crutches from branches, and hobbled nearly a mile before reaching train crew members.
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Lorain
William Capps
Somerset
Capps
Hopkins Fails In Harmony Talks With Oil Industry
Secretary Harry Hopkins is reported to have failed to secure agreement with California oil industry representatives on their economic problems and trade practices. The talks were the first in a series aimed at building harmony between industries and the federal government and addressing cases at other agencies.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
California
Clyde Savery Stricken With Pneumonia at Spirit Lake
Clyde Savery a Cedar Rapids native later working as an attorney with the American Association of Life Insurance Presidents is critically ill with pneumonia in a Spirit Lake hospital where he and his family are vacationing.
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Clyde Savery
Cedar Rapids
American Association of Life Insurance Presidents
New York
Spirit Lake
Wallace Plans Gradual Expansion of Food Stamp Program
Secretary Wallace announced that the agriculture department’s experiment distributing surplus food to needy families via stamps warrants a gradual expansion this fiscal year. He said the food stamp plan could become an effective national program moving surplus farm products with elastic demand while improving diets for people with inadequate access to food, though he gave no specifics on expansion plans.
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Washington
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Department
Deaths Isaac Lear longtime Cedar Rapids barber dies
Isaac Lear 1001 Ninth street SE Cedar Rapids died at University hospital Iowa City at 5 15 p m Monday after a lingering illness. He was born January 28 1870 in Lee county Iowa and came to Cedar Rapids from Rock Island ill twenty five years ago. Survived by wife Kate Lear two sons Donald Lear Davenport Harold Lear Cedar Rapids a sister Mrs Ida Moore Farmington and a brother Edward Lear Quincy Illinois Funeral at Turner chapel 2 p m Wednesday conducted by Rev Melvin L Welke burial Linwood cemetery.
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Isaac Lear
Ninth Street
University Hospital
Iowa City
Lee County
Iowa
Ceodar Rapids
Rock Island
Ill
Lear
Mississippi River
Kate Lear
Donald Lear
Davenport
Harold Lear
Cedar Rapids
Ida Moore
Farmington
Edward Lear
Quincy
Turner Chapel
Melvin L. Welke
Linwood Cemetery
Charles H. Jones 77 Iowa City resident dies after illness
Charles H. Jones a tree surgeon aged 77 of Iowa City and former Cedar Rapids resident died in an Iowa City hospital at 9 am Monday after prolonged illness born May 15 1862 in Pennsylvania survived by two daughters Mrs Mary Couser and Mrs Susie Litch and four sons William Ernest George and Delbert with homes in New York Minnesota and Washington. Funeral services set for 4:30 pm Wednesday at Oathout funeral home Iowa City with burial in Iowa City.
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Charles H. Jones
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Jones
Pennsylvania
Mary Couser
Mount Vernon Avenue
Susie Litch
Seattle
Wash
William H
Silver Creek
Ernest M
Aitkin, Minn
George L
Delbert M
Oathout Funeral Home
Champions crowned at Benton County Fair 4-H events
At Benton county fair 54 fat calves entered. Grand champion 4-H baby beef went to a senior Hereford shown by Billy Burlton of Norway. Reserve grand was a senior Angus by Harold Chambers. Several purebred heifers and calves across Hereford Angus Shorthorn Jersey Guernsey Brown Swiss were awarded blue ribbons. 4-H sheep, dairy cattle, and pig winners named with top entries by Local youths. girls’ 4-H demonstration team to represent Benton at the Iowa State Fair.
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Vinton
Billy Burlton
Norway
Benton County Fair
R. S. Stephenson
Reinbeck
Angus
Harold Chambers
Mount Auburn
Gladys Scheets
Belle Plaine
Jack Parr
Blairstown
Bernard Kozik
Glen Peterson
Newhall
Jimmy Burrell
Urbana
Jim Grummer
Luzerne
Charles McLennan
John Herman
Lawrence Hilliard
Charles Lahue
Doris Pangborn
Shellsburg
Max Berger
Junior Hagen
van Horne
Poland
Lyle Olson
Leroy Young
la Porte City
Helen Kelly
Watkins
Rozella Thompson
Everett Weigle
Decorah
Benton County
Benton
Nadine Schroeder
Mildred Keep
Ruth Young
Leota Pearson
No Link Yet For Pair In Illinois Train Holdup
Chicago postal officials said on Tuesday that witnesses have not identified two captured convicts as members of the trio behind the July 31 payroll holdup of a Illinois train involving a $56000 loss.
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Chicago
A. A. Imus
Illinois
Dewey Underplays Candidacy As Field Campaigns Begin
The report notes Dewey has not announced a candidacy nor built an organization a campaign committee or raised funds. Taft and Vandenberg have active campaign staffs while Dewey promotes a research bureau and administrative experience. He rejects brain trust rumors and emphasizes purely administrative roles since taking office on April 1.
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Taft
Dewey
Vandenberg
Lowell Thomas
Notable Career Move Mentioned in Historical Record
In 1931 he left private practice to become chief assistant United States attorney for the Southern district of New York, the nation’s largest federal prosecuting office.
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United States
Southern District of
New York
America
Railroad Employe Passenger Dies On Moving North Western Train
William O Rourke a Union Pacific conductor from Salt Lake City Utah died at 3 20 p m Monday when the eastbound North Western passenger train halted in Cedar Rapids. Cause of death was a heart attack per coroner Dr B L Knight who estimated age about 55 to 60. He was en route to Cleveland for Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen headquarters. The body will be sent to Salt Lake City Tuesday from Teahen Funeral home. Attempts to locate relatives in Utah were unsuccessful.
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William O'Rourke
Salt Lake City
Utah
Union Pacific
North Western
Cedar Rapids
B. L. Knight
O'Rourke
O’rourke
Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railway
S. D Hayes
F Avenue NE
Teahen Funeral Home
Brotherhood of Railroad
Clinton official aided Furman escape, then released
Herbert Fuller of Clinton accepted 1 from Walter Furman of Williamsburg a convicted chicken thief and placed 10 saw blades in a wood pile at Clinton county jail officials said Tuesday Furman had recently escaped and was recaptured at Alliance Nebraska Fuller was released last Saturday after serving a sentence for desertion
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Clinton
INS
Herbert Fuller
Walter Furman
Williamsburg
Clinton County
Furman
Alliance
Neb
Fuller
Scant Portion of Bills Passed by Congress in 76th Session
The seventy sixth Congress passed 725 of 10 515 bills introduced in both chambers yielding a .069 rate. Most bills were minor in nature and the legislative establishment cost about 20 million dollars for the year ending June 30.
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Washington
Senate
House
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