Birth Announcements From Local Hospitals
Daily notices report newborns at St. Luke s Mercy University and town hospitals. A daughter to Mr and Mrs W G Heyman Ames July 9. A son to Mr and Mrs Lumir Ceynar 1629 Fourteenth Avenue SW July 9. A daughter to Mr and Mrs George Astrosky 403 Fifth Avenue SW July 16. A son to Mr and Mrs Al Overrenter Watkins July 10. A daughter to Mr and Mrs George Svobodis 705 L Street SW July 10. A son Gerald Jr to Mr and Mrs G C Muskimen 303 Twenty seventh Avenue SW July 6.
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St. Luke's Hospital
W. G. Heyman
Ames
Mercy Hospital
Lumir Ceynar
Fourteenth Avenue
George Astrosky
Fifth Avenue
al Overrenter
Watkins
George Svobodis
L Street
University
Desertion suit seeks name restoration in Cedar Rapids case
Judge C J Haas rules in Josephine Vondra versus Joseph Vondra over name change rights. Marriage noted in Cedar Rapids January 20 1936. Other items include traffic fine for failure to stop at signal and a 30 day floater for a resident described as Negro. Obituaries list John Victorine at 1041 G avenue NW and Russell Redmond at 424 Fifth street NW.
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Josephine Vondra
Joseph Vondra
C J. Haas
Josephine Brokt
Cedar Rapids
Phil Rout
K Avenue NW
Jay Curry
John Victorine
G Avenue NW
Russell Redmond
Fifth Street
Ringling Brothers Circus Workers Ill From Food Poisoning
Fifty nine Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus employees were hospitalized in Montreal on arrival for a two day engagement. all victims are reported non critical and include both performers and workers treated in ambulances.
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Montreal
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
City Hall Notes on Street and Utility Extensions
City council approved water main extensions on Knoll street SE from Mount Vernon road to Dale wood avenue at the company's expense and granted a similar request for O F Wiedersberg to extend a main to 126 Thirty Seventh street. A cigarette permit was approved for A H No wodzky dba Little German Village. Numerous paving petitions were referred or filed covering Eighteenth avenue SW to C street and other streets. A quarter was voted to be drawn on the incinerator construction fund for about 259,8063 to Nichols Framineering and Research Corporation for payment of estimate No 4 on the municipal incinerator project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tait and Wagner Realty Company
Knoll Street
Mount Vernon Road
Dalewood Avenue
O. F. ‘Wiedersberg
First Avenue E
Thirty-seventh Street
Eighteenth Avenue
C Street
Counil
C Avenue
Fifteenth Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Twelfth Avenue
M Street
Othe Encinerator Construction Fund
Te Nichols Fragineerng and Research Cerpor
Canadian Protest Returns to City Streets
Twenty four persons dressed in effort for Canada gathered in city streets. Five were sled and faced youths while others trained and moved along, protesting as a group.
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Toronto
Canada
Desperadoes Die After Colorado Bank Robbery Escape
Two Denver youths linked to the Fort Morgan bank heist are killed in separate encounters during a nine hour car chase across Nebraska Colorado and Kansas. Myron Howen 20 is shot in Garden City Kansas and Kenneth Allen 22 dies in Sidney Nebraska after a gun battle with officers.
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Garden City
Kan
Denver
Fort Morgan
Colo
Myron Earl Howen
Kenneth Allen
Sidney
Neb
Kansas Reformatory
Howen
Allen
S. H Moore
Harvey Vizina
Glen Oldenburg
H. E. Dunlap
Walter Dunn
Gerald Murray
Dunlap
Dunn
Dr. Dunlap
Murray
Wage Hour Revision Sent To Floor By House Rules
Conservative Democrats and Republicans on the rules committee agreed to send the wage hour act revision to the floor. Georgia Democrat Gene Cox said right of way would be granted this week to adopt provisions addressing farm groups complaints. North Carolina Democrat Barden planned to offer a floor amendment reflecting organized farm demands. Previous administration attempts to bring the bill under a lag rule to bar changes were blocked by farm group objections.
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Washington
Gene Cox
Georgia
Barden
N. C
House
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
WPA Shift Mapped In White House Reveal
Washington reports on WPA pay and hour changes that prompted relief workers to strike by thousands. Congressmen on the WPA inquiry say Col. F. C. Harrington presented the idea and the amendment language was drafted at the White House.
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Washington
WPA
Sen
Congress
White House
Representatives
House
Col. F. C. Harrington
WPA Workers Strike Shifts Prompt Threats of Wider Action
New York AFL President William Green warns a wave of strikes could follow if Congress does not restore the prevailing wage on WPA projects. Rep. Adolph Sabath introduces a bill to raise skilled relief wages by replacing the 1940 relief act with security wages. About 100000 WPA workers remain on strike with mass dismissals looming unless they return.
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New York
INS
William Green
AFL
Congress
Adolph Sabath
Sabath
Robert F. Wagner
N. Y
James F Murray
Dubuque WPA Workers Idle Over New Schedule
About 2000 workers on city and county WPA projects in Dubuque stayed idle Monday after a mass meeting on Sunday where unions pledged support against the raised hours schedule.
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Dubuque
WPA
Foreign lending plan curbed and funding allocations outlined
The plan would fund non federal works express roads rail equipment and rural electrification with multi year programs. The treasury RFC and other agencies would monitor progress and report to the President and Congress. Initial year allocations include 150 million for non federal works and 150 million for express roads.
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Export-Import Bank
Commissioner of Public Works
Commissioner of Public Roads
RFC
Rural Electrification Administration
Agriculture Department
Barkley
Treasury
Thurman Arnold Expected to Resign from Justice Dept
Thurman Arnold head of the anti trust division is expected to resign within the year to resume his Yale teaching post. He left Yale Law School to join government service and was anticipated to return at the start of the second semester in February 1940.
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Wew Haven
Animals More Honest Than Men Says Chicago Circus Aide
Al Priddy of Chicago told Rotarians at the Roosevelt hotel that animals think and learn from experience, citing a cat that learned to push through a door after a liver cue. He praised training by kindness and cited elephants as dependable and intelligent contributors to circuses. No Cedar Rapids circus has been booked this summer.
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al Priddy
Chicago
Roosevelt Hotel
Mr. Priddy
Priddy
B. B Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Havelock Ellis Dies World-Famous Sex Writer at 80
World renowned sex psychology author Havelock Ellis died at 80 in Hintlesham near Ipswich after a throat ailment limited his talks. Born in Croydon he studied at St Thomas' Hospital and became famed for studies in sex psychology and his controversial but influential The psychology of sex.
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London
Havelock Ellis
Hintlesham
Ipswich
Ellis
Great Britain
Croydon
Henry Havelock Ellis
Sydney
Australia
Cape Horn
England
St. Thomas’ Hospital
Legion Picnic Tuesday at Sokol park east of Cedar Rapids
Hanford post of the American Legion holds its July picnic Tuesday starting at 3 p.m. with supper at 6 in Sokol park. If rain, event moves to the Memorial building armory. Sally Ann Cerny, 5, Rock Island, suffered severe leg lacerations Saturday after a dog bite in her grandparents’ yard.
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Sally Ann Cerny
E. A. Cerny
Rock Island
Edward Cerny
K Avenue
Corliss Yetter
Elmhurst Drive
Vetter
Northwestern Youth congress of AME church announced
About 150 delegates from Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota will attend the Northwestern Youth congress of the African Methodist Episcopal church to be held Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday this week at Bethel A M church 512 Sixth street SE Rev W R Stewart pastor announced Monday A public reception for delegates and visitors is planned Tuesday evening with public sections each night.
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Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Northwestern Youth Congress
The
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel
Cedar Rapids White Sox Beat Tipton Nine 4-2
The Cedar Rapids White Sox defeated Tipton 4 to 2 on the road. Managers are advised to write to Frank Lasck at 1418 M Street SW. Local box score fragment mentions Sco R. He. Waite and players Woolwine Spout and Kohl.
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Cedar Rapids White Sox
Tipton
Frank Lasck
M Street
Sco
R. HE. Waite
Upton
Mem
Woolwine
Spout
Kohl
Elks Open 75th National Convention in St Louis
Sweltering attendees gathered for the Elks seventy fifth national convention in St Louis where Henry C. Warner of Dixon Illinois was unopposed for election as grand exalted ruler.
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ELKS
ST. Louis
Henry C. Warner
Dixon, IL
Britain Pledges Danzig Status Amid Multinational Talks
In a formal pledge, Britain includes Danzig with Polish and French backing. Chamberlain defends the status quo as German-led administration governs the city while trade with Poland shapes prosperity. US envoy Drexel Biddle visits Danzig, as Nazi leader Foerster signals a future return to Germany. Malta rises as Italy presses appeasement. Bonnet warns France must rely on itself despite American support hints.
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Poland
Danzig
France
Britain
Chamberlain
Germany
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
United States
C. Porter Kuykendall
Warsaw
Albert Foerster
Foerster
Reich
Malta
Mediterranean
Sicily
Italy
Resta del Carlino
Galeazzo Ciano
Spain
Georges Bonnet
Bonnet
Toulouse
America
Boone Names New Auditor After Shortage Found
Boone county supervisors appointed Ralph Hewitt, deputy clerk in the county treasurer’s office for 12 years, as county auditor to replace Charles M Piper who resigned after a $1 382 shortage. A private auditing firm found the discrepancy, also reporting $527 in Carl Lund’s funds, with no connection between the two shortages.
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Boone
Ralph Hewitt
Boone County
Board of Supervisors
Charles M Piper
Carl Lund
Ogden
Piper
Car Union Pickets Force Closing Of Plant In Showdown
United Automobile Workers picketed the Pontiac Fisher body plant in a showdown strike against General Motors. About 700 marchers covered the gates and surrounding streets, with 50 police present to ensure safety. Only a few workers entered, while most remained outside or left. The plant normally employs around 700, and the walkout began Thursday, with 100 working Thursday and 200 Friday. In Detroit, UAW said additional plants closed but withheld names.
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Pontiac, Mich
United Automobille
Pontiac Fisher Body
General Motors Corporation
William P. Edmonson
UAW
Detroit
Bus Crash Kills Six Near Marseille
Six people died and eight were seriously injured when an auto bus overturned and caught fire near Roquevaire outside Marseille on Monday according to INS.
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Marseilles
France
INS
Roquevaire
Two youths plead not guilty in car theft case
Bert Peddycourt and Loren Welch faced district court on larceny of a motor vehicle charges. Bond set at 500 dollars each. they were jailed in lieu of bond. Authorities traced the stolen H C Schutzman car to an incident near Beverly after selling a wheel.
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Bert Peddycourt
K Avenue NE
Loren Welch
Toddville
C. J. Haas
H. C. Schutzman
Beverly
Earl Stanley
Haas
Norway man detained on larceny warrant
Deputy sheriffs Harlan Snyder and Pete Whitte picked up Cree Brosh 22 of Norway around 11 30 am on Monday on a larceny of domestic fowls warrant issued by Sheriff Jim Smith from Muscatine. He was detained in the county jail pending further action.
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Harlan Snyder
Pete Whittemore
First Street
Cree Brosh
Norway
Jim Smith
Fred Nesper
Muscatine
FASTEETH Powder Promises Firmer Dentures
Many wear FASTEETH pleasant alkaline powder that holds false teeth more firmly for easier eating and talking. A sprinkle on plates removes gummy taste and denture odor with no pastey feel. Get PASTEETH at any drug store.
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