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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1940
Page
24
A column discusses miniature animal collections as decorative, harmless substitutes for real pets. It highlights ceramic figures like dinosaurs fish and aardvarks, noting they entertain without barking or roaming. Aaron the aardvark is praised for its quirky appeal to readers.
A railroad era of harsh measures against hot boxes is ending as improved bearings track conditions and logistics reduce incidents. The piece catalogs terms from railroading slang, naming roles and jargon from hog to old man, trick chief, and reefers, with a vivid anecdote about a misread signal ending in a sharp confrontation.
Dartmouth president Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins says in Europe that German and Italian youth prefer regimentation of thought and desire dictators. He argues Germans lack faith in democracy and have repeatedly fallen for dictators, based on interviews from years ago.
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor says the AFL remains willing to negotiate with the Congress of Industrial Organizations for national labor peace. He responds to clergymen led by Monsignor John A. Ryan who urged resumption of talks with CIO head John L. Lewis, who is away from the city and expected to reply after returning to Washington in about a week.
Congressional irritation rose over British practice of searching and seizing American transatlantic airmail. Senator Van Nuys proposed summons for skippers of planes whose mail was seized to testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senators Schwellenbach and Gillette demanded the State Department question the clipper captains and report back.
Leap year styles favor color and femininity with flower hats and soft lines. Straw, felt, and chamois hats appear in new forms such as hammocked veils, flower toques, and crepe turbans. Extend across face brims and high crowns lead early spring looks with veiled accents and bright color splashes.
Mount Vernon hosts a Pacific defense talk by Lieut. E A Brown of the University of Iowa ROTC. Fifty five Legion members and families attend at Mrs Mae Mitchells home with performers Kay Current Arthur Foster and others. The event was planned by National Defense chair Dana Wilcox and Americanism chair L E Bigger.
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson sent the FBI report on William Dudley Pelley to the Dies committee and urged proper use of confidential material. Pelley, head of the Silver Shirts, testified and faces North Carolina charges. letters forged to link Dies with Pelley prompted a possible grand jury probe.
The funeral for Mr. Gordon, a local resident born on a farm south of town, was officiated at the Community Presbyterian church and burial followed in Postville cemetery. He lived in the area most of his life until hospital admission and is survived by a brother, Edwin.
In Boston based report from the American Orthopsychiatric association meeting Dr Lauretta Bender and Miss Franziska Boss describe use of tom tom drum and gong in Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital New York to stimulate spontaneous dance for insight into children’s inner conflicts Benjamin a boy without a home begins a chicken dance and others enact fear and alienation through dance revealing their issues The method offers new observation and treatment avenues for psychiatrists studying troubled children.
International News Service reports Hitler vows crushing Britain and a new world order free of plutocratic capitalism while demanding Lebensraum and return of colonies. Chamberlain calls for removing the Hitler regime, recreating independent Poland and Czech nations, defeating Nazi domination, and freeing small European nations. Aims outline a proposed peace framework with disarmament and individual freedoms.
Kirvin Jones faced a year in prison for persistently cashing bad checks and for writing a bad check to pay a prior fine. District Attorney L C Youngman stated the pattern included multiple counterfeit payments. Saturn’s nine moons are Dione Enceladus Hyperion Japetus Mimas Phoebe Rhea Tethys Titan.
Noah Jones a 46-year-old miner helped his wife Vivian Taylor Stewart Jones 36 mix strychnine with flour and place capsules for killing marauding dogs. He died convulsing nine hours after the ritual as his wife confessed and implicated Vernon Snow 33 in the murder plot. Snow faces first degree murder charges while Mrs Jones waives preliminary hearing. Bond set at 10000. The incident occurred in Rosiclare near the Kentucky border after dog attacks and an attempted life insurance scheme.
Under sheriff Clyde Knowles said John Ord a 42 year old Tacoma fireman confessed to killing Hale R. Nosler 56 former Washington state Elks president on the couple s honeymoon night. Nosler s wife Myra 36 survived with a bullet wound while King Pomeroy 50 was beaten. Ord allegedly invaded the home and injured the others before being arrested after taking Mrs Nosler to a hospital.
An employee from five John R. Thompson chain restaurants walked out on Saturday demanding a contract and negotiations on hours and wages with the company amid ongoing labor action.
A baby named Sigal was born in an automobile speeding along an outer drive near the Field Museum in Chicago. Mrs. Ruth Sigal, 30, received the infant as the stork delivered him during the Saturday event.
The Steel and Wire Workers Protective association filed charges Saturday before the NLRB against American Steel and Wire company of New Jersey and its parent U S Steel, operators of a plant at Waukegan New Jersey.
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