Weather roundup from Cedar Rapids and other cities, July 18 1939
Daily Record reports Monday highs and Tuesday trends across Cedar Rapids Des Moines Omaha and several cities. Noted readings include Cedar Rapids 76 Boston 96 New Orleans 96 Dallas 98 and Seattle 78. A lingering overcast kept temperatures from moving much while a cleared sky arrived late Monday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Boston
Town Falls
Washington
Mount Ayr
Tampa
Sioux City
New Orleans
Omaha
Charlies City
Los Angeles
Des Moines
Disco
LaCrosse
Seattle
Dubuque
Havre
Davenport
Keokuk
New York
Chicago
Dallas
Houston
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Obituaries: Mentzer Ford Leahy Nye Died This Week
Charles W. Mentzer aged 68 died at his home on route 1 Vinton road at 7 45 am Tuesday. John F. Ford aged 62 died at his home 309 I avenue NW at 4 30 am Tuesday. John Leahy infant son of Mr and Mrs Leo Leahy 2312 A avenue NE died in a local hospital at 5 pm Monday. Danver J Nye infant son of Mr and Mrs Jack E Nye 416 First Avenue W died in a local hospital at 1 am Tuesday.
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Charles W. Mentzer
Route 1
Vinton Road
John F. Ford
I Avenue NW
John Leahy
Leo Leahy
A Avenue NE
Danver J. Nye
Jack E. Nye
First Avenue W
Robbins divorce granted on cruelty grounds
Ida Mary Robbins and Marshall Leo Robbins are granted a divorce on cruel and inhumane treatment grounds. Custody and property rights are settled by stipulation. The couple married July 8 1922 in Gloucester Massachusetts.
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Ida Mary Robbins
Marshall Leo Robbins
Gloucester
Mass
Boisen and Treeka Families Welcome Sons on July 17
Mercy hospital reports the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Leo Boisen of Keystone and a son to Mr and Mrs Stanley Treeka of 1103 Ninth Street SE both delivered July 17.
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Mercy Hospital
Leo Boisen
Keystone
Stanley Treeka
Ninth Street
Sign Painter Killed by Train Near Beverly Junction
The sign painter Carter was fatally struck along a railroad near Beverly Junction. Deputy coroner Dr. R. E. Munden investigated. identity to be confirmed by fingerprints. Carter had neck and skull injuries and had recently traveled from Cedar Rapids for paint supplies.
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R. E. Munden
Beverly
Carter
Cedar Rapids
Fairfield
Omaha
Cedar Bluffs
Moon Funeral Home
Ten Pickets Demand Tuesday Closure At Me Too Store
Ten pickets marched before the Me Too grocery on a Tuesday afternoon seeking a store closure aligned with Cedar Rapids Grocers and Meat Dealers association members. Manager M A Parrish said Tuesday closings cut his business, noting the Me Too was not a member of the association.
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Me-Too
Cedar Rapids Grocers and Meat Dealers Association
M. A. Parrish
DC Tax Law Approved by House Exempts Members of Congress
The House adopted a conference report on a new District of Columbia tax law that imposes income taxes on residents but exempts congress members and their employer. The measure now goes to the White House for signature.
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Washington
LLP
House
District of Columbia
Congress
White House
Danzig Coup Prompts Mixed Signals on Peace Solution
Continued from page one, warnings about a Danzig coup evoke speculation on a peaceable solution. Officials insist they will not disclose grounds for optimism and imply the issue may hinge on incorporating Danzig into the Reich.
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Danzig
Reich
Britain denies mediating Danzig talks with Germany
The British foreign office issued a formal denial that Britain is conducting mediatory negotiations with Germany over the Danzig dispute and said it is not aware of any mediation efforts by other governments. It rejected reports of a Munich like appeasement approach and Italy’s Mussolini acting as mediator in the Danzig crisis.
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London
INS
Great Britain
Germany
Danzig
Foreign Office
England
Munich
Hitler
Mussolini
Italy
Britain
Poland
Reich
Pacific
Murphy aides return to report on Harlan violence
Two special assistant U S attorneys, Welly K Hopkins and Henry A Schweinhaut, returned to Washington to brief Attorney General Frank Murphy on conditions in Harlan county Kentucky after a clash between striking miners and Kentucky national guardsmen left two pickets dead. On Monday 260 arrestees faced arraignment on banding charges with most bonds set at 500 dollars. many were released without surety to return home as National Guard units remained on duty.
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Harlan, Ky
U. S
Washington
Frank Murphy
Harlan County
Welly K. Hopkins
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Murphy
Kentucky National Guardsmen
A. B. Chandler
Frankfort
National Guard
Ellerbe Carter
National
Court House News Two bank receivership reports approved
Judge C J Haas approved the nineteenth quarterly report for Iowa State Savings Bank receivership showing cash on hand 65759.89 at June 30 and receipts 9762.63 with disbursements 2246.49. He also approved the twentieth quarterly report for American Trust and Savings Bank receivership with cash on hand 12936.33 and receipts 9606.66 expenditures 3197.83. The American Trust building report rental balance 6939.42 was approved. D W Bates is receiver and J R Drake is examiner in charge for both banks.
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Iowa State Savings Bank
C. J. Haas
Judge Haas
American Trust and Savings Bank
American Trust Building Report
D. W. Bates
J. R. Drake
Elmer Stoneberg Sentenced For Billfold Theft
Elmer Stoneberg a 19 year old Lincoln bellhop of 617 Eighth avenue SE was arrested after a billfold containing 73 dollars disappeared from Clarence Young at the Lincoln hotel. Judge C J Haas gave a one year county jail term with release on good behavior after three months.
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Elmer Stoneberg
Eighth Avenue SE
Clarence Young
Lincoln Hotel
C. J. Haas
Stoneberg
Lincoln
Beardsley contract recission case overruled by judge
Melvin D Clark petitioned through his father to vacate the 1937 decree and grant a new trial in Beardsley contract recission. Judge John T Moffit ruled the request over, upholding the decree that Beardsley purchase the popcorn business from Melvin D Clark. Defense argued minority affected procedure at the time of action.
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Melvin D. Clark
William J. Clark
Edwin A. Beardsley
John T. Moffit
Beardsley
Melvin Clark
Defense moves to dismiss action by Tribune stockholder
Defense motions to dismiss an action filed May 4 by Mrs May G Stewart a Tribune Publishing company stockholder asking salary refund judgments against Joe McCormick Jr and Fred Fitch as executive officers of the Tribune company and McCormick as administrator of the estate of Flora Brown Minert formerly a Tribune company officer were filed with Court Clerk Ed Lundquist Tuesday. The plaintiff challenges salary payments over a several years period as exorbitant. The defendants plead misjoinder of parties and causes of action.
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May G. Stewart
Tribune Publishing Company
Joe McCormick, Jr
Fred Fitch
Tribune Company
McCormick
Flora Brown Minert
Ed Lundquist
Administrators Named in Two Iowa Estate Cases and Divorce Action
Blanche Anderson of Cedar Rapids was appointed administrator of the estate of Lou C. Anderson who died June 29. William Rinderknecht was named administrator of the estate of Del bert E. Wiltsey who died July 13. Theodore Rematas seeks divorce from Faye Rematas on cruelty grounds. The marriage occurred in Cedar Rapids December 20, 1937.
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Blanche Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Lou C. Anderson
William Rinderknecht
Delbert E. Wiltsey
Theodore Rematas
Faye Rematas
City Briefs and Personal Items From Local News
The Wayside prayer meeting is set at Mrs. Roy Forney home 607 avenue NW at 2 15 p m Wednesday. City plan commission regular monthly meeting 7 30 p m at city hall Tuesday. Bankruptcy filed by Lee Hobson Chandler 1126 First avenue E referred to Referee M W O Reiley with assets 1055 exemptions 1055 and liabilities 17850 77. Barber union auxiliary picnic lunch Wednesday 12 30 p m at Daniels park correcting a prior 2 30 p m report.
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Roy Forney
Avenue NW
City Plan Commission
Federal Court
Lee Hobson Chandler
First Avenue E
M. W. O’reiley
Barbers Union
Daniels Park
Newsboys entertained at State theater by Ritz Brothers showing
Gazette newsboys with Alex Fidler were hosted Monday night by Manager Ray Wernimont at the State theater for a program featuring the Ritz Brothers in The Gorilla and Annabella in Bridal Suite. The boys extend their thanks to Mr. Wernimont.
Czech American Alliance to hold council meeting Thursday
The Krajsky Vybor will convene in the Z. C. B. J. hall on July 27 at 8 p.m. instead of this week. Officers will be elected and about twenty organizations are expected to attend.
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Czech-American Alliance
Krajsky Vybor
Z. C. B. J. Hall
Theft of two wheels from car in garage reported
Robert Gillam reports theft of two wheels and tires worth $50 from his car parked in the garage at his home on 1710 First Avenue East. The theft occurred between 1:15 and 7 a.m. Tuesday, Gillam said.
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Robert Gillam
First Avenue E
Gillam
Clark Beems Recalls 5129 Mile Trip and World’s Fair Visit
Clark Beems spoke to the Canopus club at a Roosevelt hotel luncheon about a 5129 mile motor journey visiting eleven states and the San Francisco world’s fair. He noted wearing a winter overcoat with a straw hat at the fair due to cold weather.
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Clark Beems
Canopus Club
Roosevelt Hotel
San Francisco
Morgenthau Urges Timely Loan Plan To Create Jobs
Secretary Morgenthau told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee the President's lending program is timely and needed to provide jobs for at least half a million people and spur private business amid current international political and economic conditions.
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Washington
INL
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Japs Order Foreign Vessels From Three Chinese Ports
Tokyo dispatches report the Japanese naval command ordered all foreign war ships merchant vessels and residents to quit the ports of Santauo Loyian and Shacheng by set times this week. The move aims to tighten Japan's blockade on Chiang Kai-shek’s China.
Waterloo Golfer Wins Cedar Valley Tourney
Waterloo golfer Jack Berry, 21, captured the Cedar Valley tournament at Vinton Country Club after a 117 tied score with Charles Tabor of Independence, forcing a three hole playoff Berry won by three strokes in the playoff and claimed the top flight.
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Vinton
Jack Berry
Waterloo
Cedar Valley
Vinton Country Club Course
Charles Tabor
Independence Youth
Berry
Waterloo Star
Tabor
G. Hall
E. Tabor
Independ
Guy
Barr
Senate approves Walsh Healey act revision
Washington AP reports the Senate approved by voice vote a revision to the Walsh Healey public contracts act. The measure aims to cover smaller contractors and create a government blacklist of Wagner Act violators.
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Washington
Senate
Steel Mills Offer Vast Range of Products and Finishes
Steel mills advertise about five hundred products in one hundred thousand shapes sizes and finishes. The listing emphasizes breadth and variety for industrial buyers seeking specific metal solutions.
School Board Adopts 1940 Budget Details and Hearing Date
The board outlines past and current expenditures from 1931 to 1940, noting tax-based funding and occasional non tax income. It reports a 1940 budget hearing set for August 7 at 7 30 p m in the board of education building.
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Iowa
Board of Education
Burgunder Gets Death Sentence
The elder Burgunder and his wife faced the courtroom as their son Bob Burgunder was sentenced to death after a murder case. Defense counsel C. T. McKinney argued the youth’s troubled upbringing shaped his crimes, noting a different father figure might not have produced a defective brain. The domestic tragedy closed with the two Burgunders clinging to each other in a grim denouement.
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C. T. McKinney
Burgunder
Bob
Washington
Officers Set for CMTC Camp Dinner in Cedar Rapids
Officers of the 1st Battalion 349th Infantry headquarters in the federal building Cedar Rapids will meet at 6 30 p m Friday at the Montrose hotel for a dinner and smoker before attending the CMTC final camp period at Fort Des Moines July 29 to Aug 11 Lieut Col Thomas H Tracey Manchester will command succeeding Lieut Col Robert J Shaw Sigourney as period commandant and an officer of the 349th Infantry Additional orders at army headquarters direct Lieut George H Cockburn Jr to attend the July 29 to Aug 11 camp at Fort Des Moines and Lieut Elmer H Nelson to Fort Snelling Minn July 23 to Aug 5
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349Th Infantry
Federal
Cedar Rapids
Montrose
CMTC
Fort Des Moines
Thomas H. Tracey
Manchester
Robert J. Shaw
Sigourney
Army Headquarters
Federal Building
George H. Cockburn, Jr
Twenty-seventh Street
Elmer H. Nelson
Fifteenth Avenue
Fort Snelling
Minn
U. S. Deficit Off To Flying Start
Treasury figures show the government ran a deficit of more than 22.3 million dollars per day in the first 15 days of the new fiscal year. The 1939-40 year began with a total deficit of 335.39 million dollars July 15, versus 291.74 million after 15 days of the previous year.
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Washington
Treasury
Gov Wilson urges Iowa coal use at state schools
Gov George A Wilson joined the state board of education in Ames to push buying Iowa coal for University of Iowa and Iowa State College. The board delayed coal contract awards pending an attorney general opinion on a 1939 law allowing higher bids to aid Iowa producers. Representative Leo Hoegh accompanied the governor to advocate coal promotion, with tonnage to be split by mine employment type if contracts reach Iowa shaft or strip mines.
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AMES
INS
State Board of Education
Fred Everett
Iowa
DES Moines
George A. Wilson
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
Wilson
Leo Hoegh
Chariton
Iowa Coal Promotion Committee
Triggerfish Camouflage Imitates Tropical Grasses
A triggerfish camouflages itself by mimicking the tropical grasses in which it swims, blending with the seafloor to avoid predators and surprise prey.
Hear McNutt's Job to Sell Third Term
A report cites claims that President Roosevelt favors Paul McNutt for a third term, sees him as the white haired American Legion figure with millions of votes, while doubting Garner Murphy Farley as sellable to broad voters. The piece notes insiders doubt McNutt’s viability yet some say administration intimates push him.
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McNutt
Garner
Farley
Murphy
Paul McNutt
American Legion
Wall
N. Y
Urges Renunciation of Jap Amity Pact
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg introduced a resolution urging the United States to renounce its 1911 treaty of amity and commerce with Japan and seek a new international conference to assess Japan’s alleged violations of the Nine Power Treaty protecting China. The measure was sent to the Foreign Relations Committee.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
United States
Japan
China
Vandenberg
Foreign Relations Committee
Beetles Disrupt Beautician Exams At Connecticut Capitol
In Hartford, six pranksters released hundreds of Japanese beetles in the hall of the Connecticut house during first year hairdressing exams for 147 girls. Janitors used vacuum hoses to clear the beetles after the disturbance. The boys hoped to sell the beetles to the state for lab use, but chemists rejected the idea.
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Hartford, Conn
Connecticut House of Representatives
Capitol
Truck Gardeners On Indian Creek Suffer Flood Loss
Flooding from heavy rains inundated farms along Indian Creek from Kenwood to Cottage Grove avenue SE. Frank Stanek reported 15 acres of string beans and garden damage plus three washed fences. Alois Pospisil’s five acre truck garden near Kenwood was underwater and likely ruined. Bridges on route No. 2 to Squaw creek area were washed out and oats and corn on creek bottom land were badly damaged.
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Indian Creek
Kenwood
Cottage Grove Avenue
Frank Stanek
Frank Novak
Cottage Grove
Wendl
Alois Pospisil
L. J. Brenneman
Marion
Squaw Creek
World Premiere of Gone With the Wind Set in Atlanta
Producer David O. Selznick announced Monday that the world premiere of Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind will be held in Atlanta, the setting for much of the story.
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Hollywood
Calif
Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta
David O. Selznick
Meeting Arranged With Armour Chiefs In Chicago
The Chicago city council labor committee moved to avert a packing industry strike by scheduling a Thursday meeting with Armour officials led by executive VP G. A. Eastwood. PWOC leaders had not been invited after recent testimony to aldermen and await the conference outcome.
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Chicago
Labor Committee
Armour and Company
G. A. Eastwood
Armour
William A. Rowan
Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee
PWOC
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Machine Gun Prop Jitters Chicago Area Officials
A gas station attendant warned police about a car carrying a large prop machine gun headed toward Chicago. Northern Illinois and Indiana authorities issued alerts. The license plate search failed. the owner said the plates were fake and the gun was only a pasteboard prop used in a Hammond theater production of Petrified Forest.
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Gary
Ind
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Robert Enright
Calumet City
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Trip
China Ports
ST. Ludmila
2Nd Street
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Craemers
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Chicago Area
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