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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1941
Page
8
Jim Scolaro heads Cedar Rapids assessors visiting 16 000 homes to value taxable property for a 3 month campaign. They expect 33 000 rolls, valuing radios furniture rings stocks and bonds at about 65 million dollars. They use a plain questions approach and warn perjury if misstatements are made. The piece notes high jewel values owned by Indian princes as context.
Baron Franz von Werra, a 26 year old German pursuit squadron leader, predicts a German invasion of England in spring and says it should come within a fort night. He described escaping twice from prison camps and a Canada bound train before being recaptured, then ultimately slipping into a snowbound escape into the woods.
A narrator details trudging through deep snow to the Canadian border, hitchhiking toward the United States, crossing the river in icy water with bare hands, and nearly encountering rapids before reaching the American shore near Ogdensburg where a New York plate signaled safety.
Joseph Martinek of the Czech National Council in Chicago will speak March 9 at C S P S hall in memory of Thomas Masaryk. The Ceska Lipa Dramatic Society performs The Country Girl this evening at St Wenceslaus auditorium. Eduard Benes radio farewell address will air noon today. The Bartered Bride returns Feb 4 at Strand Theater. C S A pupils join a Jan 30 dancing revue at C S P S hall. Jan 28 Czech Alliance meeting set. flyout rehearsals for C S A officers on Jan 20. Czech Reading Society meets today at 2 with social hour afterward. Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club meets next Thursday for officers. South Side Civic Club to meet at Z C B J hall Monday.
Tom Collins of Kansas City will headline the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce dinner at the Montrose hotel on Monday Feb 17 at 630 pm. W A Patterson of Chicago president of United Air Lines will speak on Aviation. Collins known as the speaker who is asked back has delivered 2000 talks since 1922 and headlines many banquets. Reservations are through the Chamber.
Sbor Sokolic auxiliary to the Sokols will hold a card party at the Sokol hall Friday Jan 31 at 8 p.m Refreshments and prizes will be provided Attendees should bring their own cards Cedar Rapids lodge 262 Z C B J plans annual banquet for Feb 20 A benefit appearance for Cedar Rapids Boys drum and bugle corps at the C P hall Jan 29 Z C B J board of trustees meeting Jan 29 and park committee Jan 30
In Indianapolis AP reports a cold wave hit the navy and the city hospital treated Walter Fink a 39 year old man for heat prostration suffered in the oven room of a bakery.
James E. Ferrell, a Pearsall cemetery employee, proposes a grave monument with a loud speaker in the headpiece and a record player in the base so a person could record his voice while alive and have it speak after death. He calls it a talking memorial.
An advertisement from McCleary Clinic Excelsior Springs Missouri promotes a 122 page illustrated book on Rectal Stomach and Colon troubles and describes mild institutional treatment. It urges readers to request the free telling and references to avoid delay and suffering.
Visitors to the graveside could play the records and hear his voice again. Ferrell plans to bring his talking tombstone to the meeting and exhibit in Dallas from March 4 through March 7.
Rome reports that Italy and Germany plan to create a single supreme high command for axis land sea and air forces. A fusion of German Italian forces under one command would follow axis air collaboration in raids.
The article notes coordinated Allied and Central powers forces forming joint commands in World War I and discusses strategic movements linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic fronts. It mentions Italian submarine losses, axis counter moves, and German bomber arrivals shaping theater operations.
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