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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1940
Page
12
Hawkeye music festival features bands choruses and soloists performing tonight at 8 p m at Hill Park Cedar Rapids with participation by multiple groups and artists from the area.
Richard B Watson of 529 Sixth Avenue SE fined 25 dollars and costs for leaving the scene of an accident and failing to identify. Eugene Sampica of 222 Third Avenue SW fined 40 dollars with half suspended if paid promptly for assault and battery. Harold Kessler of Center Point fined 5 dollars and costs for no license and improper vehicle registration. L C Kaul of 301 First Avenue W fined 85 dollars and costs for no driver’s license. Cases heard by Justice H R Churchill.
Emma Kremendy and Gladys Brady appear before judges in separate cruelty cases. Emma Kremendy, 47, receives title to household goods after March 8 1936 ruling by Judge C J Haas. Gladys Brady, by Judge H C Ring on cruelty grounds awarded custody of four children and support. proceeding noted as occurring in Cedar Rapids on February 4.
The notice lists multiple birth announcements from St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids and Mercy hospital in Cedar Rapids. Names include Bokerney Martin Paul Frasinger Glass Dudley Fisher Allen Wharton Kennedy Rader Strait Oberrenter and their locations Madison Cedar Rapids Marion Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids Monticello Coggon Moline Watkins with birth dates July 11 and July 12.
Frank Shimck of 2410 Ellis Boulevard North is fined 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving. Horace Snow of 310 H Avenue Northwest is fined 10 dollars and costs for speeding.
Camp Good Health in Cedar Rapids aids physically handicapped children from underprivileged homes. Nurses aim to restore weight and health to resist infections, funded solely by donations to The Camp Good Health Fund. The drive seeks $500 more to provide vacations for all recommended children.
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie expressed satisfactory preslice in discussions on Japan's demand to block the China arms supply route through Burma.
Ar DeWitt Mackenzie reports that a German invasion of Ireland would threaten Britain by hampering imports of grain meat and dairy products. The piece notes Ireland’s neutrality, the Allied food crisis, and the tactical difficulties of sea and air invasion while flagging potential risks to shipping along the English Channel and North Sea.
Soviet denial aired on Soviet radio refuting claims of delivering an ultimatum to Turkey. In Manchester funeral services were held for Catherine Kearney 52 former local resident who died in Independence last Tuesday. Survivors include Dennis Kearney and three sisters living in Oakland San Francisco and Cedar Rapids and a sister in Cedar Rapids plus relatives.
Arbieder-Bladet reports Norway’s parliament will appoint a 15 member state council to assume King Haakon's prerogatives and run affairs. King Haakon may renounce throne duties, with parliament likely meeting in July in Oslo's old building flying a swastika.
Hopkins and Byrnes manage the draft. Roosevelt, though not declaring candidacy, is expected to be renominated on the first ballot. Rumors cite party regularity as a price for acceptance. Cordell Hull may be the running mate, with Wagner facilitating a Roosevelt drafted platform resisting foreign war entanglements.
London Britain will recognize Emperor Haile Selassie as the lawful government of Ethiopia and accord it full ally status in the war. Britain and Ethiopian forces will coordinate against the Axis in North and East Africa. Ethiopian minister Co W Martin hailed readiness of 300000 to 400000 fighters with arms.
In Chicago strong anti war commitments are expected in the 1940 Democratic platform. Senator Wheeler says he will back the party nominee if the plank pledges no wars of aggression and no sending U.S. troops to Europe. Senator Clark also supports Roosevelt on foreign policy. Wheeler vows to run unless Roosevelt enters the race.
General Marshall outlined a program to mobilize up to 1.4 million men by next April, including 335,000 regulars, 240,000 guards, and 400,000 new trainees. He urged conscription, warned voluntary enlistment would be too slow, and noted the Burke Wadsworth bill to require universal registration and training.
The United Press reports arms spending across the Army and Navy. Army awards total 46.2 million for guns blankets signal corps and chemical warfare gear while Navy contracts total 136.74 million for air bases and shore establishments, the largest peacetime defense procurement. CCC Director James J McEntee spoke at College Park about converting CCC to a national defense unit with only intensified current activities.
A house military affairs sub committee urged the United States to acquire and fortify fleet and air bases in Nova Scotia and Bermuda and strengthen Atlantic defenses. It called the existing system deplorably weak and proposed new concealed air fields and progressive equipment.
An arrest followed a hit-and-run incident after a truck driver traced the license number. Police detained Watson near a tavern after another motorist reported the plate. Watson admitted involvement and submitted to a chemical test for intoxication while witnesses could not ID the driver of the hit-run car.
Funeral services were held for Mrs Homer Walcott of near Toddville who died after a Tuesday night burn. The service took place at Monahan funeral home at 2 30 p m with Rev M B Green officiating and burial followed in Shiloh cemetery.
The GOP convention featured keynote attacks on New Deal policies, calls for jobs and higher farm prices, and a push for limited government. Proposals included equal rights for women, industrial use of farm products, and restraint on social security expansion while nominating Rankin for attorney general and Reed for commerce commissioner.
Mrs. William Caldwell of 1717 Maple Drive NW resisted a purse snatcher described as a short unidentified man at 1:15 PM Friday after alighting a bus near the island. She alerted police and halted the assailant as she moved toward the city hall plaza.
A woman wrestled with a man who slipped up from behind and grabbed her purse. The struggle tore the purse handle as she screamed, and the assailant fled.
President Roosevelt announced continuation of existing working hours and wage schedules. He released Col. Philip B. Fleming's letter arguing no demonstrated need to raise the hour ceiling as an emergency defense measure, and affirmed maintaining current policy.
L. A. Bottom, 39, of 1050 Tenth Avenue SE, was jolted from his truck onto the pavement after striking a tele phone pole Thursday afternoon. Attendants at St. Luke's hospital said Friday his condition is improved and X rays show no fractures. He cannot recall the cause of the loss of control and veering onto the wrong side of Fourth Street NW at the H Avenue intersection. he was alone in the vehicle.
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