For GOOD of Cedar Rapids and public safety reforms
Obituary notes William H. Stepanek’s lifelong service to Cedar Rapids and its welfare. A civic champion believed to champion wise spending and development. Also reports Police Chief Jim Bailey outlining a permanent eight hour shift system for 27 patrolmen to curb favoritism and boost night protection and daytime traffic work. Political notes on debt ceiling and Wendell Willkie’s England visit. War outlook discusses Nazi air movement toward southeast Europe and Hitler’s possible aims as spring offensive looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
Willkie Provide Warships Dr Gage Resigns Coe Presidency
Dr Gage, after 21 years as Coe College president, resigns to take Lindenwood College helm in St Charles Mo Lindenwood plans to replace the long time friend of Dr Roemer who died last August Gage’s resignation is effective June 15 and he will depart Cedar Rapids with plans to remain connected to Coe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Gage
Coe College
Lindenwood College
St. Charles
Arthur Poe
College
Lindenwood
Gage
John L. Roemer
Roemer
Dr. Gage
Coe
Poe
Golden Eagle Building Sold For 100000 In Cedar Rapids
The old Golden Eagle building at 201 First Avenue E in Cedar Rapids sold for 100000 to Norman P. Clarke assignee of Cedar Rapids Properties Inc. Judge C J Haas approved the sale. John P Harper is president treasurer. George K Dunn vice president secretary. Dunn and Harper bought the stock. Sale by Merchants National Bank Cedar Rapids and Sydney H Diamond executors of Elizabeth H Weeks estate. Building now houses McLellans store. Cedar Rapids Properties Inc is a Des Moines organization.
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Cedar Rapids News
Golden Eagle
Norman P. Clarke
Cedar Rapids Properties, Inc
C. J. Haas
John P. Harper
Purchasing Corporation
George K. Dunn
Brammer, Brody, Chariton and Parker
Dunn
Harper
Merchants National Bank
Cedar Rapids
Sydney H. Diamond
Tallahassee
Fla
Elizabeth H. Weeks
First Avenue E
McLellan’s
Des Moines
W H Stepanek Former Cedar Rapids Mayor Dies
William Henry Bill Stepanek 72 longtime civic promoter city official and state legislator died at home 116 Twelfth Street NW at 5 30 p m Monday after an illness. He served Cedar Rapids as councilman 1906 mayor 1932 34. helped fund Memorial building and courthouse. represented Linn county 1925 27 authoring annexation act. He chaired committees moving county seat to Cedar Rapids and directed good roads campaign. He held multiple local posts including Chamber of Commerce Rotary and public education roles and was active in Western Bohemian Fraternal association Masons ElksShrine.
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Cedar Rapids
William H. Stepanek
Stepanek
William Henry
Bill" Stepanek
Twelfth Street
Linn County
Marion
Old Commercial Club
Chamber of Commerce
Commercial Club
Mercantile Bureau
Board of Education
Lutheran Hospital Association
Rotary Club
Western Bohemian Fraternal Association
Masonic Lodge
el Kahir
el Kahir Temple of the Shrine, the Consistory
Elks Club
The
Peoples Church
Herbert Hoover
Midwest
Ex Red Chief Krivitsky Said Slain by Soviet Agent
Friends of Walter G Krivitsky urged a federal probe claiming he was assassinated by an OGPU agent. Krivitsky, once head of the Soviet secret police in Western Europe, was found dead in a Washington hotel with a gunshot wound as police reconsidered the case and sought a man named Dobertoff tied to notes in the room.
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Washington
Walter G. Krivitsky
Secret Police
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Krivitsky
OGPU
New York City
Louis Waldman
Boris Shub
Krivsky
Charlottesville
Dobertoff
Pro-American Mass Meeting Planned Here For Feb 20
A pro American mass meeting to oppose U S participation in foreign wars is set for Thursday night February 20 in the Memorial Coliseum Cedar Rapids citizens sponsor the event A committee led by Rev Dr Charles J Bready Roy R Downer Joseph A Lattner Joseph McCormick J A Walsh Charles E Byrnes and Rt Rev Msgr J M Molloy will organize the meeting The No Foreign War Committee disclaims official sponsorship and the Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association discussed the plan at its weekly conclave.
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Memorial Coliseum
Verne Marshall
John A. O’brien
Notre Dame University
South Bend
Ind
Cedar Rapids
Charles J. Bready
Roy R. Downer
Joseph A. Lattner
Joseph McCormick
J. A. Walsh
Charles E Byrnes
J. M. Molloy
No Foreign War Committee
Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association
First Presbyterian Church
Policemen Move to Permanent Shifts in City Police Plan
Police Chief Jim Bailey announced a shift to permanent daytime and nighttime shifts to improve efficiency. Twenty seven patrolmen not on the new shifts were asked to sign for eight a.m. to four p.m. and two night shifts, with three regular squad cars from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. and an extra two-man prowl car.
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Jim Bailey
Cedar Rapids
Bailey
Haze and sun mix as Cedar Rapids warm spell continues
A hazy sun and scattered clouds marked Cedar Rapids Tuesday with temperatures fluctuating through a 22 degree 24 hour span. Readings showed 32 at 1 15 pm and a high near 38 between 3 and 4 pm with a low around 18 soon after midnight. By 9 30 the Chambers Inskeep thermometer read 22 as the day closed.
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Cedar Rapids
German troop planes sighted over Hungary amid Balkan tension
Fleets of three engined German troop transports were reported over Hungary speeding southeast toward Romania and Bulgaria. Thirty one flew low over Budapest with clear markings. Observers say the planes ferry parachute troops, a pattern used on the western front. Communications in Balkan capitals showed Bulgaria cut off briefly, then restored, with no reason given. Diplomatic circles fear rapid moves in southeastern Europe after Britain broke relations with Romania and Russia signaled against Bulgarian obstruction. Bulgaria worries as German forces sit across the Danube in Romania, a potential Balkan route to Greece and Turkey.
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Rumania
Bulgaria
Stalin
Balkans
Hitler
Europe
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Budapest
Balkan
Balkans legations ready to flee as records moved to Turkey
British legations across the Balkans have sent all important records and documents to Turkey and are prepared to evacuate staff at a moment's notice, according to reliable informants.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Balkans
Britain to break relations if German troops enter Bulgaria
London sources say Britain would sever diplomatic ties with Bulgaria if German troops wearing uniforms are allowed into the country. The report cites informed diplomatic officials warning of a potential crisis in European security stemming from such a move.
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London
Britain
Bulgaria
Youth Arrested For Robbing Iowa Bank
Herman Peters twenty one was arrested at a Minnesota farm near the Iowa line in connection with the Aetna Savings Bank holdup at McIntire. Authorities say he confessed taking more than $200 and $233 was recovered. Peters faces arraignment in Minnesota and likely waiver of extradition.
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Des Moines
Herman Peters
Minnesota
Towa
Aetna Savings Bank
McIntire
R. W Nebergall
Towa Bureau of Investigation
Peters
Chester
Nebergall
Episcopal Missionaries Advise Departure From Japan
After an interview with Ambassador Grew, Bishop Reifsnider urged American Episcopal missionaries in Japan to withdraw bank deposits and verify passports for a swift exit. In Washington the Dies committee inquiry into un American activities extended to April 1 1942. Turkish paper reports German troops arriving in Bulgaria with aims at the Rostras and Mediterranean.
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TOKIO
INS
Joseph C. Grew
Charles Reifsnider
Japan
Washington
House
Dies Committee
Istanbul
Otrat Politika
Bulgaria
Rostras
Mediterranean
Walter And Mabel Bender Get Life For Boy's Murder
Walter and Mabel Bender both 32 confessed murdering Mrs. Bender's five year old son Ralph Kohlicek in a conspiracy to kill him. Judge H C Ring sentenced them to life imprisonment at hard labor in Cedar Rapids as officials moved them to district court to avoid a mob. They waived time to plead to arson charges tied to the boy's death on November 6. Only ten people, including nine courthouse staff, attended. The judge called the crime the most unnatural he had heard of and said the punishment would trouble their conscience for life. Both pleaded guilty in a quiet room with little emotion. The sentence was pronounced individually.
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Walter
Mabel Bender
Bender
Ring
Why Life Seems Flat for Youth and Adults Alike
A United Feature Syndicate column notes readers under twenty-five and a fifty-year-old describe life as a melancholy bore. They are healthy but spiritually empty, with romance dulled, daily routines grinding on. It urges recapturing wonder and new interests to restore zest.
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DR. Sewton
Thoreau
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Willkie Pleads For War Aid Amid Senate Hearing Tangle
A near riot erupted as nearly 2,000 people pressed into a senate hearing room to hear Wendell Willkie testify. He urged passage of H. R. 1776 with modifications to speed aid to Britain, Greece, and China, calling for a time limit and presidential powers reviewed by Congress. He urged bipartisanship and unity, stressing the need to balance aid with constitutional checks.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Wendell Willkie
Capital
Willkie
England
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Wilkie
Britain
Greece
China
Congress
Willie urges five to ten destroyers monthly for Britain
Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential nominee, urged the United States to provide Britain with five to ten destroyers a month as a cleanup witness before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington. He called for intensified aid to Britain amid mounting wartime pressure.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willie
United States
Britain
Senate Foreign Relations
Gazette Adds Local Cedar Rapids Weather Forecast
The Gazette introduces a daily forecast for Cedar Rapids and nearby areas. United States Weather Bureau data from Des Moines and local observers inform predictions with more precise local conditions and minimum temperatures, as stated by senior meteorologist Charles D. Reed.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Today
United States Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
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Cedar Rantds News
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Voorhees Hall
Huron College
John A. Marquis
Golden Eagle Bldg
W. H. Stepanek
Samuel Ginsberg
Josef Stalin
Saturday Evening Post
J. B. Matthews
Dies
Trotzky
Laddie
Everett Scott
Fort Ord
Calif
Chanute
Kan
John A. O'Brien
Russia
Germany
Sofia
Danube
Romania
Taurkey
America
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