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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1940
Page
2
The British mine sweeper Sphinx sank while being towed toward port after Saturday German air raids. Forty four sailors survived. 1 officer and 4 men were confirmed dead, with 4 ships sunk in the raid and three German planes shot down.
Cedar Rapids report says Ted Hickey and two Fairfax friends drove onto a dead end D avenue NW and entered the North Western tracks. After their car stalled a tower watchman signaled the San Francisco streamliner to stop while the trio pushed the vehicle off the right of way.
Reports of garage and car break ins rose Sunday as residents describe thefts Saturday night. Victims include Phil Hattendorf at 516 Fifth Street SE, Vernon Hendryx at 1211 Fifth Avenue SE, Charles Emanuel and J M Qodland at Town City, Allan Thompson at 1430 Fourth Avenue SE, and Fred Jones at 1825 Fifth Avenue SE with items stolen including doors, coats, gasoline, clothing, and tools.
Shanghai news report quotes a Japanese army spokesman claiming the Chinese attempt to recapture Nanning was crushed. The spokesman says the offensive was converted into a debacle as Chinese forces suffered a setback in southwestern China west of Canton during winter operations.
A reader, long a factory supervisor and grievance committee member, seeks religious service. The author argues that true service to justice and goodwill can be religious, whether in prayer or daily work, and urges the reader to answer the inner call wherever it leads.
The German vice consul in San Francisco denounced the U S immigration department for canceling shore leaves of 512 sailors from the scuttled liner Columbus. The men were confined on Angel Island after being classified as excludable aliens, ending their earlier distress status and land visits.
Soviet land and air forces pressed the Mannerheim line along the Karelian isthmus and Kuhmo sector as Finnish communiques claimed heavy casualties on both sides. Moscow signals suggested urgency for outside help and possible Allied volunteer involvement, while parachute troops in Finnish uniforms operated behind the lines.
20 year old Harvard sophomore Webster N. Jones Jr. survived 30 hours on Mount Washington after getting lost in a blizzard. Found by searchers in a snow burrow, he walked down to Crawford Notch with Karl J. Sax. He kept awake by singing and was hospitalized at Littleton.
Fred W. Sargent, who retired as North Western president last May after 14 years in the post, died Sunday at Evanston Hospital at 63. Funeral services will be Tuesday at the First Methodist Church in Evanston. He was an Iowa farm owner, Chicago civic leader, and had served as solicitor general and later president of the North Western. He held numerous civic roles including trusteeships at Field Museum, Northwestern University, Rosenwald Museum, Lake Forest Academy, and Cornell College.
A three inch snowstorm hit Cedar Rapids from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon but caused no serious harm. Traffic slowed on streets and highways as crews cleared ice and packed snow. City added 40 snow removal workers while heavy trucks struggled on hills. Temperatures rose from 24 to 37 degrees before dropping to 31. Continued on page 2.
Paul D. Hess, 27, of 117 Eighth Street NE, was fined $50 and costs in police court after a Sunday 1:17 a.m. crash at First Avenue and Seventh Street East. His car struck a truck driven by John Worwald of Farley. Hess was held by Deputy Roy Radebaugh near the scene. police say he had been drinking but was not intoxicated.
General I. M. Reynders steps down as supreme commander of the Dutch army and navy amid disagreements with the government on military matters. Lieutenant-General H. G. Winkelman named as his replacement.
Article critiques the treasury watchdog as merely a pointer not a retriever, arguing no blue ribbons for the treasury watchdog. It notes congressional economy blocs celebrate large spending and a looming referendum, dismissing the watchdog as no longer the top pup of the show.
Mrs Roosevelt attacked John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee for barring speakers and urged inclusion of the American Youth Congress. She cited a Dies Committee finding and invited about 40 lawmakers to a White House meeting with Youth Congress officials as citizenship institute events proceed.
British Roman Catholic authorities grant total dispensation from Lenten fasting amid wartime hardship. London diocese is fully exempt and most dioceses follow suit, though some individuals observe Ash Wednesday or Good Friday.
The Pennsylvania supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the wage tax. The 14 percent levy aimed to raise 18 million dollars to balance Philadelphia’s 1940 budget and went into effect January 1 after employers had withheld payments pending the ruling.
In Detroit Father Charles E. Coughlin vanished from his Sunday program with no comment from him or aides. Archbishop Mooney's appointees may have deemed his manuscripts unsuitable after prior tempering steps. The broadcast featured music and four announcements while Coughlin’s arrest linkage to the Christian Front case loomed in the background.
Eleanor Reilly, 18, sacrificed herself to shield her mother from an oncoming car returning from a wake in New York. She died instantly when the vehicle struck her, while Mrs. Reilly suffered a fractured skull and was rushed to a hospital.
The AFL executive council says a nationwide drive targets organized labor to bow to the federal government. It cites Attorney General Arnold’s anti trust actions against AFL unions and hints at Supreme Court involvement with a CIO union brief. AFL leaders call indictments flimsy and a fishing expedition aimed to harass labor.
BERLIN UP officials weigh blocking further Jewish emigration during World War II fearing escapees may join enemies or supply them with critical information. Jewish military aged barred from Palestine. future emigration papers unlikely to free prisoners at Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. About 700 Polish Jews were there at the war’s start, with roughly 70 dead. Reports of torture in camps denied by Nazi quarters.
Pi lot Richard Gordon, 30, started the pusher plane from Chain O Lakes ice. Passenger Richard Davis, 24, waved to a friend and a propeller severed his finger. Gordon looked away, the craft dove, struck a tree and crashed into a barn. Both men escaped unharmed.
A honeymoon Beechcraft crash in fog near Tangipahoa river killed pilot Don Craig and four wealthy Denver passengers including Elizabeth I McSweeney Powell. The party had left Denver to visit New Orleans and Miami. Craig radioed he would “set her down or crack her up” before the crash.
Vice President Garner and James Farley led the Democratic National Committee as it met to name a site for the 1940 nominating convention. Philadelphia bid $125,000, San Francisco offered $235,000, while Chicago and New York were also discussed. Roosevelt favored Chicago but Philadelphia and San Francisco pressed hard as the committee weighed third term sentiments and fundraising.
New York furrier Richard Jaeckel aged 55 leaped about 100 feet onto a canvas canopy from a ten story fall and survived with a head cut. His brother Hugo said he had recent heart attacks and may have lost balance during a dizzy spell.
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