Fear Of New Tieup In Soft Coal Waning
Draft labor contract would end the last risk of stoppages in soft coal production. CIO United Mine Workers and southern operators study terms, delay final action to Sunday. Dairy farmers in New York Vermont and Pennsylvania plan unified action to push milk price to 3 a hundredweight, affecting New York City supply.
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Associated Press
CIO United Mine Workers
Southern Soft Coal
UMW
Appalachian
New York Metropolitan
Dairy Farmers Union
New York
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Owen D. Young
New York City
Farmers Union
YMCA Campaign Ends As Debt Reduction Plan Approved
The YMCA board approved ending heavy debt by raising funds and repeating that the Y is self supporting. Byron K. Anderson led 140 volunteers along with the directors in a citywide effort to fund physical, mental and spiritual activities, leadership and facilities for boys.
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Armstrong
Byron K. Anderson
Six Dutch Political Parties Dissolved Under Occupation
AMSTERDAM via Berlin reports that Arthur Seyss-Inquart dissolved six Dutch political parties for agitating against occupying authorities. The Catholic, social democratic, anti revolutionary, liberal, democrat, and reformer parties were banned.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
INS
Arthur Seyss - Inquart
Nazy
Holland
Pianist Frances Hall Granted Divorce From Rudolph Gruen
Erie Pennsylvania reports pianist Frances Hall, who performed with her husband Rudolph Gruen as a radio and concert stage piano team, was granted a divorce on Saturday. Hall cited financial reasons for the split.
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Erie
Frances Hall
Rudolph Gruen
Soviet War Report Conflicts in Baltic Front and Orsha
Soviet fighters downed a German Junkers 88 near Moscow while Berlin claims large Red Army losses and encirclement of units around Bialystok. Reports note action near Orsha with Stalin line defenses, and disputed Luftwaffe control as Minsk and Dnieper areas see heavy fighting.
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Sad
Moscow
London
Adolf Hitler
Baltic States
Bialystok
Orsha
Dnieper
Berlin
Stalin Line
Maginot Line
Germany
West Wall
Stalin
Minsk
Smolensk
Maginot
Rhine
France
Luftwaffe
DNB
Lwow
German Blitz Strikes Continue As Soviet Push Fights On
Reports from London and Balkan experts note massive German force massing for a Soviet invasion, with 240 divisions and heavy air power. Russian defense holds at a high cost, while Stalin fortifications on the Dnieper remain contested. Fronts across Finland Poland and Bessarabia show German advances and Soviet countermeasures amid widespread bombing and disrupted rail networks.
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London
Sunday Times of London
Balkan
Soviet Union
Luftwaffe
Stalin
Dnieper
Idaho Man Arrested On Bad Check Charge Here For Iowa City
Rexburg Idaho resident Jack Gordon age 37 allegedly forged a check for 2380 dollars using an Iowa City name and cashed it at Montgomery Ward in Iowa City. He was captured by patrolmen Harley Simon and Leonard Stusak after police were notified by Captain Stolba and held at the city jail for Iowa City authorities.
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Jack Gordon
Rexburg
Idaho
Iowa City
Rawlins
Wyo
Cedar Rapids
Stalba
Gordon
Montgomery Ward
Plain Tourists, Not Good Willers, What Latin America Seeks
Washington informants say Pan American cooperation requires plain United States tourists who spend a little money and buy a drink. They reject self styled good will missions seen as patronizing slumming tours. Many visitors fail to speak local languages and push English messaging on radios.
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Latin America
Washington
United States
Rio Grande
Panama
Citizens Object To Swing Band Noise At Chase Hotel
Three Lindell and Maryland Place residents sue over late night sounds from the Chase Hotel roof garden orchestra. Dr Behrens calls it pandemonium not music, noting drums and a Toreador Song that awakens the dead. Judge Thomas L Anderson and Dr McCullough corroborate ongoing disruption well past 2 am.
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ST Louis
St. Louis
Lindell Boulevard
Maryland Place
Chase Hotel
Municipal Opera
Jackass
Carmen
Anderson
Dr. McCullough
The
Opera Association
Behrens
Funeral services for Mrs Jessie Rose Krumm in Mount Vernon
Funeral services for Mrs Jessie Rose Krumm who died Friday at her mother's home in Mount Vernon will be held at 2:30 PM today in the Neff chapel Mount Vernon conducted by Rev Glenn Rowley and Rev Bruce Eyestone Burial will follow in Campbell cemetery.
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Jessie Rose Krumm
Dan C. Kleineck
Mount Vernon
Neff
Mrs Etta Mears Dies in St Louis After Illness
Mrs Etta Mears widow of Harry Mears died at 7 am Saturday at her home in St Louis after a brief illness. Born Feb 12 1863 in Cedar Rapids she was a nurse in early life. Surviving daughter Mrs T M Perry grandchildren and a brother reside in several cities. Funeral services at Turner chapel Cedar Rapids will be at 10:30 am Tuesday with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Etta Mears
Harry Mears
St. Louis
Cedar Rapids
Franklin Bailey
Charles V. Schroeder
Banner Howard
C. E. Hense
F D. Cargin
Sam Taylor
City
Samuel Havens
St Louis
Mears
Methodist Church of
Former Cedar Rapids Resident Dies in Pasadena
W. H. Foster 51 former Cedar Rapids resident died in his Pasadena California home from a heart attack last Friday. He lived in Cedar Rapids until three years ago and is survived by his wife Pauline Svoboda three sons Gerald St William and Charles and a daughter Dorothea. Funeral and burial will be in Pasadena on Monday.
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W. H. Foster
Cedar Rapids
Pasadena
Calif
Rose Foster
Dorothea
A Avenue
Gerald
Galesburg
St. William
Davenport
Charles
Pauline Svoboda
Genevieve Dolly Leonard obituary notice
Relatives in Cedar Rapids received word Saturday of the death of Miss Genevieve Dolly Leonard, 32, who died at 1:30 am Saturday at her Miami home. Born July 25, 1908 in Westfield Ta, she lived in Cedar Rapids most of her life and recently resided in Miami. Surviving are her parents, a brother, a sister, two more brothers, a niece and a nephew. Funeral services will be held Monday at Lithgow funeral home in Miami and burial will follow there.
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Cedar Rapids
Genevieve Dolly Leonard
Miami
Flo Miss Leonard
Westfield
van Buren School
Grant High School
D A Leonard
Harold
A L. Williams
Port Angelus
Wash
Earl J. Leonard
Twentieth Avenue
John M. Leonard
Fourteenth Street
Sandra Jean Leonard
David Earl Leonard
Lithgow Funeral Home
Biscayne Boulevard
Boy Dies After Leap Imitating Superman on Roof
New York report says twelve year old Robert Van Gosig attempted a death defying leap from a tenement roof imitating his comic strip hero Superman. He slipped on a wet ledge and fell to his death on Saturday.
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New York
Robert van Gosig
Superman
Linn County Drives Rush Licenses Renewals Record
Late sheriff figures show 28 710 Linn County drivers applied for license renewals by 4 30 p m Saturday. Saturday saw 1209 applications as the county office stayed open to 4 p m for last minute filings. A nine clerk DPS team handled registrations at the county building, with the heaviest day last Monday at 2113 filings.
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Sheriff's Office
Linn County
State Department of Public Safety
Women To Spend Slaying Anniversary In Solitary
In Chicago on July 6 two women, Blanche Dunkel and Evelyn Smith, sit in solitary confinement to mark the murder of Ervin Lang. Lang, 28, was strangled with a rope, dismembered, and placed in a trunk. Dunkel and Smith were convicted and sentenced to a combined 180 years. each year on the anniversary they must endure solitary confinement.
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Chicago
Ervin Lang Lang
Sunda
Blanche Dunkel
Evelyn Smith
Lang
State Women's Reformatory
Knudsen Optimistic On Arms Effort Progress
Detroit based William S. Knudsen director of the office of production management reports optimism on defense orders. He cites eighteen billion dollars outstanding and notes tooling and machining stage progress. He plans a national plant tour including Minneapolis Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Fort Worth and Wichita.
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Detroit
INS
William S. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
America
Grosse Ile
Knudsen
United States
Minneapolis
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Fort Worth
Wichita
Army Deserters Escape Guardhouse at Scott Field
Three army deserters overpowered the warden at Scott Field Illinois and escaped from the guardhouse hospital ward after locking a steel fence with barbed wire. Florence 22 Dunn 20 and Tucker 18 were held at Fort Wayne Camp Forrest and were aided by Tucker who had a broken leg. They obtained keys from the supply room and fled into the night.
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Scott Field
Walter J. Florence
Fort Wayne
Ind
William H Dunn
Oscar Tucker
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Tucker
Florence
Dunn
Black rust found in winter wheat fields across the Midwest
Crop expert H. C. Donovan reports a sprinkling of black rust in winter wheat fields from northern Illinois to adjoining Iowa and Indiana. He notes heat and short moisture cause kernel shrinkage, but damage not yet severe. Harvesting begins. oats show average yields while corn growth is rapid but may suffer without rain.
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Chicago
H. C. Donovan
Ilinois
Iowa
Indiana
Springfield
Car Stolen From Residence In Midwest Neighborhood
Mrs. Lester Melichar reported to police that her husband’s car was taken from in front of their home on L Street Southwest between 5 and 6 40 p.m. Saturday.
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Lester Melichar
L Street
American girls asked to donate blonde hair for war effort
Washington reports the U S army seeks blond hair from American women for meteorological instruments. Hair must be at least 12 inches and of soft texture. Minnesota and Dakotas states with Scandinavian populations are highlighted as likely suppliers. Both weather and military use require the contribution.
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Washington
Adolf Hitler
Europe
United States War Department
Army
Navy
Weather Bureau
American Weather Reporting Service
Balkans
Minnesota
Dakotas
Cabinet Withholds Facts To Incite War
Sen. Burton Wheeler charged the cabinet with hiding economic and military facts about England and Europe to push America into war. He spoke at a Rochester No-War rally, naming Kennedy Bullitt and Davis as reports kept secret and criticizing Frank Knox for urging war amid unpreparedness.
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Rochester
N. Y
ULP
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
England
Europe
America
Wheeler
Rochester Citizens No-War Committee
Washington
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
Henry C. Bullitt
State Department
W W. R. Davis
Frank Knox
Navy
Reynaud May Give Statement Backing Vichy Government
Reports from VALS-LES-BAINS say former French Premier Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel may prepare a compromise statement in favor of the Vichy regime while interned at Chateau Clement. Both men are under confinement with limited outside contact and comfortable lodging.
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Reynaud
Vichy
Vals-Les-Bains
France
Associated Press
Paul Reynaud
Chateau Clement
Georges
Mandel
Cedar Rapids Weather Station Upgraded for Daily Code Reports
Cedar Rapids changes its weather reporting from a corn and wheat region station to a special reporting station. The Gazette will receive daily coded weather reports from the station at 7 a.m. Des Moines via the local weather office, year round. John T. Wurster operates the station at 2015 B avenue NE.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Department of Commerce
Washington
Des Moines
John T. Wurster
B Avenue NE
Wurster
Holiday Weekend Death Toll 390 And Still Rising
National toll rises to 390 as Fourth of July weekend begins with 239 dead in car crashes 151 in aviation drownings and gunfire. Reports include a stray bullet death in New York state a pyrotechnics worker killed in Indiana and a 12 year old boy’s fall in New York City. Five fireworks fatalities this year versus two last year.
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D. O. Ann
States
Union
New York
Connersville
Ind
New York City
Song Lands Two In Jail On Drunkenness Charge
Two men were jailed for drunkenness after patrons heard them singing in front of a tavern on First Street. Willie Stevens aged 42 of 318 First Street SW and Jim Phillips 49 living near Van Veen Park were arrested by Patrolman Louie Louvar who found them embracing and singing.
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Willie Stevens
First Street
Jim Phillips
van Veehten Park
Old City
Louie Louvar
Convicts Strike Halts Army Footwear Output at Leavenworth
A 1100 convict workers strike at the Leavenworth federal penitentiary halted shoes and brushes for the army. Began July 3 with a sit down protest over extending the prison work week from 39 to 44 hours and demands for higher pay and extra good behavior time.
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Leavenworth
Federal
Army
Bureau of Prisons
Donovan to Accept Key U.S. Defense Post
Col William J Donovan, Buffalo N Y lawyer and World War I veteran with the Fighting 69th, is set for a major federal defense position. The White House confirmed an official assignment would be announced soon, with speculation he may lead a new anti spy agency after European and North African inspections for the Roosevelt administration.
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Washington
William J. Donovan
Federal Defense
Europe
North Africa
Roosevelt
White House
Donovan
Buffalo
N. Y
69Th
Coolidge
Nazis Strike Cyprus In Surprise Bombing
Berlin report says German bombers attacked Cyprus at night injuring two British merchant ships and causing heavy damage. The surprise action occurred Friday night as the DNB agency issued the update.
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Cyprus
Berlin
DNB
Amex Allows Italy Drawdown of 5000 Lire Monthly
Rome IN SUNDAY report says American citizens in Italy may draw up to 5000 lire monthly from impounded funds for living costs starting Monday. The allowance, about $200, reflects new access to blocked funds during the ongoing financial restrictions.
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Rome
INS
American Express Company
Saturday Night
Italy
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Defense Mediation Board
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Rudolph Gruens
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Murmansk
Kandalaksha
Karelian
Leningrad
Poland
Ukraine
Novograd- Volynski
Kiev
Tarnopol
Prut
Dniester
Rivate
Callus
Mrs. Krumm
Uncle Sam
Blal
Okinow
Ny Associated Press
Song
Gazette
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Marion
Cedar Rapids and
Medoor
MOEN
Moon Funeral Home
First Avenue
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