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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1940
Page
23
A diary style schedule at Camp Good Health outlines daily routines. Activities include flag raising at 7 20 a m for well behaved boys sun bath at 9 a m cod liver oil at 10 a m with Miss Irene Aris from the Public Health Nursing association overseeing duties free play at 4 p m and lights out at 8 p m as the day closes.
NYA projects in Linn and nine other eastern Iowa counties idle since June 30 are to be resumed this week. Kenneth Glass says 1940 41 activities were delayed while projects were rewritten and submitted to Washington. Renewals include Y M C A clerical work Chamber of Commerce Community Chest Farm Security Farm Bureau ROTC Red Cross library Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids Marion Bever Ellis parks and recreation work. Counties involved include Tama Benton Foweshick Towa Johnson Mahaska Keokuk Washington Linn.
General Chiang Kai-shek in a message to friendly powers says the United States and Soviet Union have a bounden duty to aid China and halt arms for Japan.
In a The Day interview, Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican presidential hopeful, calls anti Semitism a possible criminal movement and urges national tolerance and religious liberty. He says anti Semites are traitors to the America he loves, and warns against those seeking to import race hatred from Germany or similar countries.
Warrensburg New York residents credit a migrant beaver family on Big brook with nearly doubling the town water supply. A thirty foot dam flooded a bog on the watershed and prompted officials to cooperate, including elevating a highway between Warrensburg and Luzerne to accommodate the new reservoir.
Kansas City and the Midwest enjoy cool, resort like weather as a polar front stays south of usual. Meteorologist J Ross Lloyd cites the unusual position of the front and cannot explain how long it will last, while forecasters warn 100 degree days may return.
Reports from New York say Germany has established an extensive network of radio stations across Europe after annexations. The chain includes Prague Oslo Copenhagen Brussels Amsterdam Paris and more. A Saturday program with an Italian announcer was heard on five short wave stations in Berlin Paris Amsterdam Rome and Belgrade Yugoslavia.
Buffalo AP reports 19 year old undertaker’s assistant on parole for a 1937 slaying confessed to murdering a brother and a sister as they slept Friday night. He said step father goaded him. the suspect will face first degree murder charges.
Policeman Paul Glick who won the last city police shoot drew a one day suspended sentence because his marksmanship was too good. Commissioner Albert Carlson suspended Glick for scoring bull's eyes on the necks of fellow officers at the police school with a pea shooter.
St Paul AP Wendell Willkie outlined his plan to repeal the New Deal at a May 11 Minnesota Republican central committee talk. He argued to ignore foreign policy debates, contrast Roosevelt’s costs and unemployment figures, and press a political stance on radio rhetoric and welfare.
Washington AP Mint officials insist the government will not run out of coins. The mint has never reached a bottom despite two past rushes to meet orders. In Denver Sept, Mark Skinner plans extra shifts to keep up with demand driven by vending machines slot machines phonographs sales taxes and broader spending.
Kathryn Witwer soprano leads the Hawkeye Music Festival program at Hill Park Friday night with a massed band of 300 musicians and a 125-voice chorus. The event, sponsored by Coe College and the chamber of commerce, draws bands from Center Point Palo Norway Tama Marion and Cedar Rapids schools plus Cedar Rapids Industrial League band.
The piece notes coins are durable amid wear and tear and highlights Jefferson’s portrait on the nickel. It praises the cheekbone protection for the nose and eye while humorously noting possible baldness. It also mentions increasing use of silver dollars.
Belfast bank authorities report a fortune in francs seized by the Ulster government. More than 120 bags filled with thousand franc notes were found aboard a vessel from Brest, totaling over 4 million dollars. The money is under armed guard awaiting disposition.
The women's division of the Democratic National Committee announced in Chicago that women will push for 50 50 representation on the resolutions committee at the national convention opening July 15.
Juarez braces as Mexico blocks the Texas border from El Paso to Brownsville to curb cross border movement for the presidential vote. Federal troops assume police duties while bars close in Juarez and firearms are banned until July 15.
The War Department allocated 9,364,275 dollars for construction at 18 army posts across the United States. The funds cover barracks, mess halls and other buildings to support training and housing needs.
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