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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1940
Page
3
Oysters are shipped inland in tight sealed containers and sold in quantities to suit families. A popular oyster stew recipe serves six with blue point oysters, butter, milk, and paprika. A bread case method bakes chopped oysters with butter, flour and milk, then tops with parsley for twelve cases.
Cedar Rapids fire crews battled two early day fires Saturday during a quiet period after a recent heat wave. A chimney fire at Mrs. Daisy Hooke's home 1124 Ninth Street NW damaged roof and attic, reported 1 22 pm and out in 48 minutes by engines 2 5 and ladder No 2. The earlier grease fire at Elmer Leach's home 3868 First Avenue E started 11 31 am and was put out in 19 minutes by engines 3 6 and ladder No 2.
The Miami Herald planned a Sunday story claiming that Justice Department reports on crime and corruption in the Miami area are a smokescreen to obscure a probe into American neutrality violations in nearby waters. Officials say federal agents focus on preserving neutrality amid alleged belligerent submarine activity near the Florida coast.
George Lowther III of New York known as Romeo and Eileen Herrick a 20 year old socialite married in New York after eluding her disapproving parents. The couple honeymooned in North Conway New Hampshire before planning to return to New York to meet her family. Gypsy the dog accompanied them posing as a loving witness to the union.
Washington (UP) Rep. Sol Bloom launches a hunt for the burial sites of 32 Supreme Court justices, four chief justices and 28 associates, as he plans Feb 1 ceremonies for the court's 150th anniversary. He seeks written tips on unknown graves, aiming to honor Jay, Taney, Waite, and Fuller among others.
Kansas City police disbanded the vice squad on Saturday due to no assignments left, ending a long run of special detectives. It marked the first time in memory that there was no vice detail active.
The Refrigeration Equipment Co. of Cedar Rapids received the contract to build a cold storage locker plant in Calamus at the C. W. Swiger property addition. The 175-locker facility will start immediately and be ready by February 1, financed by local stockholders.
Two breakins in which houses were entered but nothing was taken were reported in distant sections of the city Saturday night. Louis Bell of 919 N street SW said a screen was removed from a bathroom window and the unlocked window frame raised. R E Day of 869 Eighteenth street SE reported an entry through an unlocked outside door and a kitchen door bolt broken from inside. Neighbors described a man trying to raise a kitchen window and noted a light in the kitchen. one neighbor said he frightened away the intruder around 4:45 p.m.
Mary Pickford, once America's sweetheart, told Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt she is a better actress after watching Mrs Roosevelt chair a campaign event. The scene occurred during a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis fund drive in Washington.
Washington AP reports the navy high command showed coolness to 65,000 ton super battleships while favoring ships larger than 45,000 tons. Admiral Harold Stark testified cost data on 65,000 tonners. he warned such ships could still lack desired characteristics and carry disadvantages despite advantages.
The American freighter Mormacson detained in London must await examination by contraband control authorities. She will be held to check cargo items not certified, following the disclosure of an American protest note to Britain.
Charles Nagel secretary of commerce and labor in President Taft's cabinet will be buried from Christ Church Cathedral in Saint Louis on Monday according to a Saturday announcement.
In Moscow a Soviet press offensive claims Britain and France seek to draw Sweden and Norway into war, urging a Scandinavian front to attack Germany. The Red Star accuses Allied powers of maneuvering Nordic states with Finnish factions, while Pravda denounces Swedish social democrats.
Harold Pride director of the Iowa State Memorial Union was elected president of the American Association of College Unions at its twentieth annual convention at the University of Florida. He succeeds J. E. Patrick of Indiana University. Paul B. Hartenstein of the University of Pennsylvania and Porter Butts of the University of Wisconsin were reelected as secretary treasurer and Bulletin editor respectively. The next meeting will be at Penn's Houston Hall December 5 to 7.
AP reports a yet unnamed Estonian steamer was bombed and sunk by a belligerent war plane in the North Sea 25 miles off the Norwegian coast. Crew members were machine-gunned as lifeboats formed, two were wounded, and all on board were rescued by a Swedish steamer. The Adrian fishing trawler was damaged in a North Sea collision with an unnamed brig and towed to port.
Roy M. Green, former Kansas State professor and deputy governor of the farm credit administration, was named by the state board of agriculture to succeed Dr. Charles A. Lory as president of the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Fort Collins.
Rep Martin Dies of Texas told a coast to coast audience that the United States government has not been alert enough to uncover subversive activities by un American organizations in the last decade He urged the Justice Department to prosecute without fear or favor and to continue his committee’s investigations claiming it would yield convictions and serve the country despite his health preventing a trip to Washington.
Moscow announces the Russian air force will use an automatic feel alarm clock release for parachutes. Three Doronin brothers, engineers, are credited with the invention and honored for this device said to open chutes automatically after jumps. It is described as infallible and significantly enhancing parachutist safety.
Indictments in Toledo charge 14 CIO Oil Workers officers with extorting 10 initiation fees 2 monthly dues and half salaries from eight nonmembers working in a Gulf Refining plant during a last summer strike. Prosecutor says court must rule on union power to assess nonmembers in struck plants. Union counsel cites conflicting claims.
Bruce Dismuke kept a one cow dairy producing three gallons daily until a Southern railway train halted traffic near his home at 8 10 a m The loss of the train disrupted milk deliveries and the cow’s output dropped to two quarts per day Friends suggest filing complaints with the state corporation commission or state milk commission
Louisville authorities exonerated Jack Woodlock a 23 year old army deserter from Fort Knox as a suspect in the unsolved murder of Bonnie May Robinson aged 30 last November.
Surgeon General Thomas Parran reports 1938 death rate at 10.6 per 1 000, infant mortality 50.9 per 1 000 live births and maternal mortality 4 per 1 000. He cautions epidemics follow wars and notes rising deaths from cancer and heart disease while smallpox rises due to public indifference. The survey covers 800000 families and 3 million people, highlighting widespread rheumatic and vascular ailments.
Ray Wilner Sanderson, dubbed the First Lady of Life Insurance, is described as the best woman in the business. Over 45 years she produced 170 million dollars in policies on about 25 000 lives and became the era’s only female general agent.
Hollywood rumor says Clara Bow era star may reappear opposite Gene Autry in The Oomph Girl and the Cowboy. Rex Bell says Mrs Bell has retired from the screen and will not return as an oomph girl.
Homer Rankin a Wichita Kansas pilot won the Bernarr Macfadden trophy race at Miami Florida with an average speed of 234.097 mph. He flew a twin motor Beechcraft from St Louis to Miami finishing in four hours four hours thirty seven minutes and fifty seconds and earned three thousand dollars. Walter Beech president of Beechcraft accompanied Rankin on the flight.
In the Bronx, two burglars pried at a six foot safe in James Muir's trucking office with crowbars and sledgehammers all night but escaped at dawn with only the outer door knocked loose and $2 reportedly missing from the interior.
Franklin high school debaters finished in second place at a tournament hosted by the state university in Iowa City Saturday afternoon. Maquoketa high school captured first. Franklin team members included Haven Simmons Allen Polasky A J Coburn and Dick Vogl with coach B H Byers. Other Franklin entrants were Perry Woodward Bill Holmes Alan Singer Margaret Yuza Esther Thurman Myron Bonsib and Selma Snupp.
District Judge R G Rodman suspended five year sentences for Edward H Johnson Chatsworth Ia Savings Bank cashier and Kirk Paulson assistant cashier The men pled guilty to making false entries and statements They were paroled to Wilson Geary of Akron Ia at Fort Madison penitentiary
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