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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 07, 1940

Page

5

Rooms and real estate ads fill a city page listing

Classified text shows numerous rooms for rent with furnished options and bills paid, plus a flood of homes for sale or rent across multiple streets and neighborhoods. Listings include apartments with private baths, kitchens, heat, and garages, and various bungalow and brick houses with prices and contact numbers.

U. S. ramping up for rapid total war rearmament

In Washington and across the nation, defense officials and industry push a seven day week effort to expand armament output. Army, Navy, and defense commission plans include large orders, new capacity, and industrial mobilization to reach 50 000 planes a year and a doubled fleet, with $63 000 000 000 in new funding and rapid plant expansions nationwide.

F.C. Daniel Washington United States Joplin Minneapolis Indianapolis Buffalo Bill Knudsen Navy War and Navy Departments Federal Reserve Building Defense Commissioners Commission War and Navy Army Defense Commission Business George C Marshall Staf Industry Congress James H Burns War Department Burns Quartermaster Corps Samuel M. Robinson Baltimore Glenn Martin Milwaukee Kearney and Trecker Capany Atlas Powder Chicago Elgin Watch Detroit

Outstanding Homes In City Suburbs For Sale

In Franklin and Arthur school districts a nearly new two room bungalow with finished rooms and modern bath, gas furnace, insulation, and landscaped lot priced at 6500. Also a Georgian brick on a wooded lot in Vernon Heights with entrance hall, large living room, library kitchen down, four bedrooms and two baths up, recreation room, hot water heat, offered at half replacement cost. Phone for appointment.

Dover Ave Ith A Ave Bath 6Th Ave West Side 2Nd ST West Aide Sth Avalon 2Nd Ave 13Th St Merritt Kitchener Ath Ave Ind Ave 5Th Ave Ard all _Hills 11Th ST Lath St Bedell-Nissen Company Realtors 7Th Ave 3Rd Ave Tait & Wagner CO Bus and School Co MYERS Bever Woods Desire Grande_ave Mt. Vernon Ave Grande Ave Fred E. Collard & Co Nice Ard Ave Doolittle & CO Stephen Para tHolland Furnace Ellis Park Frank Cravena Salz Cleveland Roosevelt School 18Th St Cheay Aays Uptown Real Estate Co Sun Club Heights ford HAROLD A_ PIKERILL CO Kenwood 1St Ave Jarre Lol Us Fred Ee Collard & CO W. Conway & Co Sire “Gustafason Schnare South Boarch Floyd H Knapp Bon Good Hay Conway & Co A . Doolittle, & CO 8Th St U Conwell Marion Eve Arthur Garace Tyke A. F Dotson Randolph Bruce A WEST #& CO Bunralow Franklin Elarton Pranklin Lundquist & Birch 18Th Ave Larke Lot Edge of Town J. Machimes Popular Boulevard Vernon Heishts Laree

Canadian workers renew strike after bonus failure

In Drummondville Quebec Saturday, UP Strikers and non-strikers clashed as Canadian Celanese workers renewed their strike over a promised $3,000 bonus not delivered.

Pdrummondville Que UP

English Refugee Children Find Haven With Ford Chief in Windsor

Twenty seven English refugee children from London arrived at the Windsor home of Wallace R. Campbell, president of Ford Motor Co. in Canada. Ages 4 to 14, they travelled across the Atlantic and Canada, with some staying through the war while others move to Ford executives homes. Additional groups and future arrivals planned. Children enjoyed the Campbell yard as they adapted to blackout limits and wartime life.

Windsor Ont Ins London Wallace R. Campbell Ford Motor Co Canada Atlantic Campbell's Ford Company Rae Peter Lyster Vernon Haggard Campbell Yard

Girl Recovering After Auto Crash as Brother Is Hurt in Blast

In Waltham Massachusetts Mary Lupien age 12 was taken from a June 22 automobile collision and moved off the danger list after doctors called her condition improving. Her parents Mr and Mrs George Lupien visited the hospital yard when a speeding car delivered their other child George Jr 13 badly injured by a dynamite cap blast aimed at or near the hospital. An operation was required to attempt saving the boy’s left eye sight.

Waltham, Mass Mary Lupien George Lupien Lupiens George, Jr Ser Musly

Verdict Finds Two Customs Patrolmen Slew Each Other

In Eagle Pass Texas Justice of the Peace Mata ruled that Customs Patrolmen Claude Boulware and Horace W Ryman died at each other hands after an inquest. Evidence showed the pair had been heard arguing shortly before the gunfire in a car along a highway near Eagle Pass. Federal investigators and customs officials attended the proceedings.

Eagle Pass Tex INS Justice of the Peace Mata Claude TO Boulware Horace W Ryman Border Patrol Boulware Reiman Federal Bureau of Investigation Customs Department

Urges Lawyers To Take Active Part In Public Affairs

Fort Worth Texas AP Justice William Douglas urged lawyers to promote democracy by vigorous participation in public affairs and by battling intolerance in an address prepared for the event.

Fort Worth

Tone. Ler association annual meeting statement on democracy

A four year old group stresses active participation in government and public affairs. Douglas cites the bar's role in defending democracy amid world crisis and warns against domestic fear fueling intolerance that undermines the Bill of Rights.

Tone. Ler Association Yurest Douglas

A Fish Story Ends With A Bass River Row Tale

Parsons Ran AP reports a holiday fishing trip by Mr and Mrs Russell Crawford and Mr and Mrs Bill Thurston yielded no bites until a two pound bass jumped into their boat. The group swears the tale is true and laughs off the dry spell.

City Briefs and Local Notices Span Meetings and Appointments

Townsend elup No 2 to meet in council room Monday at 7 30 pm Dr James Q Keir offers spine analysis via nerve pressure detector. National Association of Retired Railway Employes unit 29 meet Tuesday at 2 pm in Rock Island railroad office assembly room. Petty Officer Kenneth Kirkland on leave from USS Pennsylvania visiting Cedar Rapids mother Mrs Eugenia Kirkland. Krejci ordered to active duty with Army Camp Ripley July 29 to umpire maneuvers. Cedar Rapids Rotary Club meeting Monday noon at Jawa Electric Light and Power site with Roosevelt hotel service and E G Nichols to discuss power generation plans.

National Association of Retired Railway Rock Island Railroad Kenneth Kirkland USS Pennsylvania Cedar Rapids Eugenia Kirkland L Avenue Prairie Philadelphia Frank Krejci C Street Regular Army Camp Ripley Little Falls Minn Krejeci Infantry Reserve Rotary Club Jawa Electric Light and Power Company Linnchean Roosevelt E. G. Nichols

Heat trouble sends Mrs Wehla fainting at Greene Square

Mrs Francis Wehla collapsed while walking through Greene Square with her in law John Paul at about 2 pm Saturday. She recovered at home about a half hour later with Mr Paul aiding her and a squad car bringing them home. Harry Ro Peterson of McKinnellish School was elected to the NEA resolutions committee for 1940 41 in Milwaukee.

Francis Wehla Firth Avenue Greene « Square John Paul Paul Wehla Harry Ro Peterson McKinnevish School National Education Association Educators Careation Milwaukee Peterson Ajora Ann Harald Templeman Frankinrigh Arthur Deamrr Cedar

Cedar Rapids Oliver dealer ad promotes haying machinery lineup

Local notices advertise HAPPEL & SONS Cedar Rapids offering fine Oliver machinery including boxes binders and threshers. Other listings cite KING COAL & IMPLEMENT CO promoting Red Top Hinder Twine and new binder canvas and Plymouth equipment.

Cedar Rapids Keystone Anamosa Williamsbore Manchester I Lowa Dept. of Agr Oliver Dealer Happel & Sons Towa Plymouth Red Top King Coal & Implement CO

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