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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1939
Page
5
Des Moines Iowa February survey shows Iowa liquor control commission payroll with 318 Republicans and 311 others. Curtis says 265 Democrats and 46 with no party. goal is 60 40 GOP over Democrats. Officials expect more changes to reach balance and purge nonaffiliated staff.
Government leaders attend dedication of the new 38000 armory for Troop F 113th cavalry in Washington Iowa with Gov George A Wilson as speaker. Event to raise 1500 for equipment includes two ticketed team captains, band, floor show, and on display machine guns. Also Keswick Rebekah lodge installs January 1940 officers.
Constipation relief advertised to also pepsinize the stomach. The syrup pepsin dissolves undigested protein and eases belching and acidity while senna laxative stimulates bowels. Safe for children and sold at druggists.
An advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a 35 cent kidney diuretic for backache and related symptoms. It urges readers to request the genuine product from Haarlem, Holland, warning against substitutes and promising purity.
Marion chapter No 183 OES elects officers led by Mrs Bess Helbig McElwain as worthy matron and Albert Bragg as worthy patron, with plans for early January installation and refreshments for seventy. Lorraine circle past matrons elect a president, vice president, and secretary treasurer at a preceding meeting in the Masonic temple. City council discusses widening a street and milk testing at the high school while other notices cover birthdays, club meetings, visits, and church events across Marion and nearby towns.
Federal social security officials reportedly object to reinstating Joseph Couch son of the Iowa State Federation of Labor leader as intermediate clerk for the Iowa unemployment compensation commission. A Polk county district court order forced rehiring, while officials consider use of commission funds for an appeal to the Iowa supreme court. Couch argues his work was satisfactory, having earned $110 monthly while employed.
A West Union jury of ten men and two women was sworn at 10 45 am Tuesday to hear evidence in the case of Mrs Adolph Vanselow 76 Oelwein charged with murdering her husband. Jurors named include Bert Jellings Carl Stendel Grace Crandall Gladys Grimes Gilbert Anderson Elgin F F Miller Alva Lalone Hawkeye J P Hastings Ralph Gray Fayette Leo Hoffman Arlington Alaya Gerlman Fort Atkinson Fred W Hunseiker Oelwein M M Cooney West Union who withdrew from defense counsel Tuesday morning after serving one day.
Philadelphia report on Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt receiving the 1939 humanitarian award, then donating the $1000 prize to the American Friends Service Committee. She credits the Society of Friends for influence and criticizes the Dies committee’s approach to defining danger.
A federal grand jury indicted 35 individuals eight manufacturing firms three contractors associations two AFL locals and several jobbers under anti trust laws alleging a monopoly in the Detroit tile trade. Federal officials said the case marks the first criminal indictment against all branches of a local industry.
Eleanor Roosevelt states that America must prove humans can govern themselves, make democracy work, and solve problems. Sir John Simon notes Britain understands the Maginot Line as a bulwark of European liberty. Senator H Styles Bridges urges government-business cooperation, warning that no system thrives with hostility from those in power.
Dr Robert Carlton Clark age 62 head of the University of Oregon history department died of a heart attack Monday while lecturing to a class. He is survived by his widow and four children.
London AP reports government eases blackout restrictions to permit window lighting for Christmas displays. The move allows households and stores to illuminate windows during the holiday season, signaling a seasonal relaxation of wartime controls.
Des Moines health officials report November tularemia cases total 52 across Iowa, more than double the 1938 figure. Linn County records nine cases, Des Moines six, Polk four, with additional counts from Appanoose Black Hawk Lee Washington and other counties. Health warns hunters to wear gloves when handling rabbits and to disinfect hands and gloves after cleaning. urges thorough cooking of rabbit meat.
Myron J Welker won the one year presidency of the Iowa City Country Club with E F Bate Francis M Dawson and H L Hands among new officers. Board members include W W Bales Dean C A Phillips and L D Wareham. Community chest seeks 17 850 goal after fall short. A mail drive aims to push from 16 649 56 to the target. City park river course change gains approval from city and university officials. The university reserves rights to use the cut channel for ice or water sports.
Mrs. John Lichtenwalter, 80, died in her Tipton home Monday afternoon by tying bedclothes to a bed post and attempting to hang herself. Coroner A M McCormick ruled suffocation. Survived by husband and one daughter. Born in Jones County June 25, 1859, she had lived in the community many years and had been in ill health for some time.
In Des Moines a five year old boy named Jerry Lee Herteen lit a match while exploring a bureau drawer for Christmas presents. The fire, started when he shut the lid, consumed the bureau and damaged nearby furniture. His mother remarked she hopes he learned a lesson as the burned wreckage of a toy train and other items lay nearby.
Special to The Gazette. Iowa City reports Prof. George R. Davies notes the November upswing in U S business continued after October pause as Europe’s war spreads. He warns only aggressive new fields can prevent a mood decline, with gains seen in bank debits residential building contracts industrial payrolls employment life insurance railcar loadings retail and wholesale activity.
West Liberty high school earned three superior ratings in a preliminary state declamatory contest held Monday. West Branch collected one superior and five excellent ratings, while Springdale had two good ratings. West Liberty’s top scorers were Jean Kelech in oratorical, Dorothy Jean Inghram in dramatic, and Harriett Mae Smith in humorous. Eddie Bowman achieved a superior rating for West Branch in humorous.
Higginbotham of Tama suffered a basal skull fracture and possible left ankle fracture with severe bruises after a timber weighing about a ton rolled onto him at a construction site east of Tama. He was treated by Dr. A J Wentzien and taken by ambulance to Deaconess Hospital in Marshalltown. Employed by E T Snow Construction Company of Chicago, the crew was installing a new water tank for the Milwaukee railroad.
A Des Moines library note sent to Johnson county jail lists Charles Bechcka awaiting arraignment Friday morning on a first degree murder charge. He confessed to killing his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs George Novotny of Shueyville for robbery after failing to return the borrowed book Robber's Roost.
Des Moines AP report says Senator Clyde L. Herring announced federal housing administration approval and guaranteed a $550,000 loan from Prudential Life Insurance for a project of 13 apartment buildings on five acres near Thirty-fifth Street and Grand Avenue. Windsor Terrace Corp to construct. Arthur Sanford of Sioux City president.
Cascade council No 930 Knights of Columbus celebrated its thirty fifth anniversary Sunday. Seventeen candidates were from Cascade eight from vrley and two from Anamosa. The first and second degrees were led by Monticello and Cascade councils with the third directed by Post State Deputy Greg Figse of Os sian. Visiting state officers included Joe Mahone Farley treasurer and William Jo Mc Gowen Dyersville warden. James H Devanes is grand knight of the local council.
The U S post office department issued an order barring delivery of mail to the Iowa Benefit association of Council Bluffs and to its president G W Tyler secretary-treasurer T L Gorman and their officers and agents. Signed by Postmaster General Farley the order states the association engaged in a scheme to obtain money through the mails by false and fraudulent pretenses. Mail addressed to the association must be returned to senders.
Toleda doctors William C. Wagner of Traer and Paul F. Marling of Gladbrook pled guilty in Tama county court to a state narcotics record keeping violation. Each was fined $100 by Judge L J Kirkland. Attorneys said the charges were technical violations of a relatively new law. The arrests followed an investigation into drug sales from their offices.
Henry Frerichs 40, farmer, died Monday at St Luke’s hospital Devonport after weeks of illness. Born nearby to Mr and Mrs Henry Frerichs he leaves wife Helen Peterson and a son Kenneth. Funeral at home southwest of Columbus Junction at 1:30 pm and Cairo Evangelical Church at 2 pm Wednesday with Rev L B Deedrick officiating, burial in Kossuth Cemetery.
Ad promoting retention shields for abdominal ruptures states a public display at Montrose Hotel from 10 am to 4 pm with evening appointments. Claims the product will hold ruptures during exercise and work, is sanitary and waterproof, and targets post operative cases while discouraging trusses.
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