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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1940
Page
5
Ray Buford Newman of Dearborn Michigan and Lora Turner of Marion George F Hanson and Marie A Gallagher both of Hammond are listed among names in a regional society column.
Don Hilton 25 of 204 Fourth Avenue SW pleaded guilty to reckless driving fined 25 dollars and costs. Charles Willits 627 Avenue NW fined 5 dollars and costs for running a traffic signal. Warren Rinderknecht 523 Sixth Avenue SW fined 1 dollar and costs for running a stop sign on a motor bike. Ian Parsons 24 of 515 Eighth Avenue SE fined 100 dollars and costs for intoxication.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Atwood welcome a daughter born July 5 at Merevy hospital. Dr and Mrs Paul Stephen of Manchester greet a son July 5. Mr and Mrs Harold Burgess of Marion celebrate a son July 6. Ronald Dean Roupe, born June 23 at Methodist hospital in Des Moines, son of Mr and Mrs R Vincent Roupe formerly of Cedar Rapids.
Robert L Peck of 821 Second Avenue SE fined 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving on information sworn by Clarence A Berry Oliver Northrup of 1132 Twenty first Street SE fined 10 dollars and costs for driving without a license Justice H R Churchill's court Kenneth Taylor and Ruby Mendel of Cedar Rapids were married Friday by Justice H R Churchill.
Pergy Delight Lee aged 21 of 849 A avenue NE died at 530 p.m. Friday in University Hospital at Iowa City.
Franklin L. Kitzman and Eliz abeth Norman, both of Owatonna Minnesota, are named in a public notice of a forthcoming legal matter. The document lists their hometowns and involvement in the proceedings.
London reports new war material orders totaling many millions of pounds sterling will be handled in the United States by the British purchasing commission. The ministry of supply says the orders are by far the largest ever sent to the United States and Canada.
Inspector H G Long of Oxford Junction warned Iowans against buying untaxed cigarets from other states. Laws in effect levy fines up to 100 dollars or 30 days in jail for possessing more than 40 untaxed cigarets and allow seizure of vehicles used to transport them.
London reports six hits on the docked French battleship Dunkerque as British air raids intensify. Dispatches claim Frondeur sunk off Crete while Toulon reconcentrates French ships. Hitler backs a six day air blitz against Britain with 3,000 planes.
Williams said the national guard is increasingly trained on a paid basis after consulting 22 generals commanding guard divisions adjutants and regimental officers. He noted higher congressional funding this year means more training hours than ever before.
Camp Good Health serves 6 to 12 year olds with physical handicaps. After a month of nourished meals rest sun baths and guided activities many show good improvement and more admissions are planned to keep the camp full as funding from The Gazette keeps the program running.
Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon reports in Washington that a subcommittee met for about an hour and adjourned until 9 am Tuesday. It plans to resume discussions as Willkie agrees on two more members for the proposed 15 member executive committee. twelve had been chosen Friday with names undisclosed.
Presidential nominee Wendell L. Willkie will visit Colorado Springs next week as part of a Colorado vacation. Gov. Ralph L. Carr announced that after several days in Colorado Springs Willkie and his family may travel to Estes Park Grandlake Steamboat Springs or another mountain destination with Mrs Willkie and their son Philip accompanying him.
Hull said the United States has not yet full information on the Latin American crisis near Martinique and would consult with American nations before acting on any blockade or seizure of British and French possessions. He plans to attend a consultative meeting of American republics in Havana on July 20.
Representative Frank O Horton announced Republican members of the house and senate will gather with presidential nominee Wendell L Willkie at an informal dinner in Washington Monday evening. The event is described as a get together and a peace meeting for those who opposed his Philadelphia nomination.
Seven year old Shirley Marcks was slightly injured at 9 30 p m Friday when hit by a car driven by Forrest Martz 30 of 120 Thirtieth street drive SE at First avenue and Twenty ninth streets The girl suffered bruises on her face and knee Martz told police he waited for an eastbound car to pass then turned into Twenty ninth street the girl ran from a hedge into his front fender and was taken home by her parents
Scott H. Stauffacher 58, retired Waterloo postal clerk and brother of Rev George A Stauffacher of Cedar Rapids First Evangelical church, died in Sioux City after falling ill in a hotel lobby. Cause was heart attack. Survived by two brothers Rev C H Stauffacher of Kansas City and Virgil A Stauffacher of Monroe Wisconsin.
London circles refute claims Britain has blockaded Martinique and say no confirmation of any Anglo French diplomatic rupture exists. France and Britain await Vichy instructions and no Washington communique has been received. Unofficial talk links the rumor to French aims to strain US Britain ties amid wider Atlantic policy.
Washington AP reports managers for Vice-president Garner say his name will be presented at the Democratic convention for the presidential nomination.
President Roosevelt kept abreast of European war developments and pressed army and navy officials for detailed estimates on a planned five billion dollar request to Congress to strengthen defenses. He sought confirmation of reports a British destroyer squadron had reached Martinique as a French submarine flotilla guards the island, raising concerns the war may have touched the Western Hemisphere per the Monroe Doctrine.
The Japan Advertiser editorial praised Britain's action off Oran, Algeria. It cites Petain accepting an armistice as astounding and supports the move against French fleet units.
Admiral Harry Yarnell, Iowa native and former Asiatic fleet chief, says enforcing the Monroe Doctrine could disrupt U S balance amid South American threats. He predicts Argentina and others will lean toward Europe, aid Germany and Italy, and that Gibraltar remains a naval challenge.
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell told University of Iowa listeners that Japan seeks Far East domination and that a German victory in Europe aids Japan. He argued China and Europe wars are tied and urged aid to England to defeat Germany to protect U.S. interests and democratic ideals.
District Judge Lou Ladd fixed 9:00 a.m. next Wednesday for hearings in the mandamus action brought by G Scott Davies of Des Moines seeking to compel the state canvassing board to declare him the Republican nominee for Iowa attorney general. The Republican state convention is scheduled for Friday two days later.
Cedar Rapids police investigate two similar counterfeit checks passed for camera purchases at Baldridge studio and Ford Hopkins drug store. A man about 25, 5 feet 6, 150 pounds, used checks for 725 dollars payable to Schweinfus or Schweinbers, signed Schulte Sinclair Service. Both checks were returned marked no account. Waterloo reports note similar frauds earlier. Police pursue the writer.
Washington sources project the national defense bill at over 3 billion dollars annually for the next seven years as the two ocean navy expands by four billion and the army buys planes tanks guns and more. Navy maintenance could hit 1.8 billion and army 850 million yearly once fully equipped with plans for a Panama canal locks expansion and possible Nicaragua canal option. Senator Johnson cites compulsory training at 1.2 billion yearly and opposition grows to Knox and Stimson nominations. Trade with South America rises as a 1 billion hemisphere trade control system is discussed.
The Senate Military Affairs Committee voted to delay all action on compulsory military training until the War Department submits recommendations to Congress. Chairman Sheppard noted the department would administer such a program and that experts worked on a compulsory measure as early as 1920. The committee also tabled a bill recognizing the Johnson semiautomatic rifle as standard army equipment alongside the Garand.
East Central Iowa reports the state hospital employee John Derr’s car, taken June 26 during an escape by Nels Christiansen, has been located in Buffalo Minnesota. A $50 reward was offered for Christiansen who was sent to Anamosa March 27 1939 from Kossuth county on larceny charges.
Detectives filed a charge of uttering a forged instrument against Burnita Welch after a $50 check with no account was cashed at Kilian’s May 4. Welch pled not guilty in district court, posted $3,000 bond, and later admitted writing the check while denying cashing it.
Mrs Armelia Klostermann Wilhelm, 1902 birth in Dyersville, died at Mercy hospital Dubuque at 3 p m Friday after a long illness. She married Edmund Wilhelm July 27 1926 at St Francis church in Dyersville. Survived by husband, son Robert, four brothers Henry Ed Alfred Emil, and sister Alvina, all of Dyersville. Funeral Monday at 9 15 a m at St Francis church with burial there.
The Board of Directors of Bertram Independent School District will meet July 18, 1940 at 8 p.m. at Township Hall Bertram Iowa to hear taxpayers on the proposed expenditures. District Secretary Mrs Katie Black signs the notice.
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