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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1939
Page
4
The Iowa safety department reported 128,319 dollars in fines and fees from motor vehicle law violations in the first half of 1939. The patrol logged 2,476,762 miles with vehicles, issuing 10,507 summonses and 23,064 warning cards. Endorsed figures show 2,886 licenses issues and 1,663 improperly registered vehicles among major violations.
Kurt Schaeffer, a Berlin graduate living at Scattergood refugee home near West Branch, argues that outsiders understand Nazi Germany better than residents. He cites economic strain as Germany’s core problem and says the Nazi regime seeks war and cannot stand for peace.
Special to The Gazette. At the Earl Hoyle home in Marengo two anniversaries were celebrated Sunday. David Kies and wife marked their golden wedding anniversary while Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle observed their silver wedding anniversary. The Kies children and eight grandchildren attended with Mrs Kies born in 1868 at Indian Lake New York. Mr Kies a Grant County Wisconsin native. The Hoyles have four children Guerdon Gladys Lois and James. Mr Hoyle has served 19 years delivering mail on rural routes.
The Marion News reports the Rapids School of Welding beat Gordon Hatchery 7 to 6 with Reed and G. Krog on the Welders, Berlin and Oxley for the Hatchery. Coast to Coast defeated Hallwood’s 11 to 10 as protests and darkness halted play. Managers meet Wednesday to decide next steps.
Winifred and Catherine Whalen of Anamosa nieces of Mrs. Irvin Farrell are guests in the Farrell home as part of a family visit.
Members of the Diana Fret club picnicked on Mrs. Charles Sutliff's lawn Tuesday evening. Guests included Mrs. Clinton Carpenter of Detroit and Mrs. Lucy Pyle of Hollywood Florida. Updates mention travelers, illness improvements, and a birth at South Thirteenth Street.
Funeral services were held at Sacred Heart church in Oxford Junction for Dr. William Breen aged about 50 who died in an Iowa City hospital from uremic poisoning after an appendicitis operation weeks earlier. Dr. Breen practiced medicine in Oxford Junction since graduating from the University of Iowa medical college. His widow survives and his burial was at Monticello.
Judd Page age 89 a longtime foreman for Iowa Canning in LaPorte City died at his Waterloo home Monday night. He moved from Waterloo to LaPorte City in 1868 and later lived in Waterloo with a niece. He never married and helped found Lotus lodge IOCF. A sportsman and fishing enthusiast, his funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in O Keefe and Towne funeral home Waterloo.
A Tuesday evening benefit on the schoolhouse lawn for the Alburnett school band raised 35 dollars from a free will offering after Rex Conn Linn county farm agent showed movies. More than 200 people attended the event.
Gov George A Wilson proposed a three man coordinating committee to align safety education policies for Iowa Public Safety. The plan follows a meeting with W Earl Hall Karl Fischer and others to decide how the $31 000 yearly safety education budget should be spent with disagreement over state department versus State Safety Council control.
Miss Gertrude Prull and Eric Owen wed Wednesday morning at Wayne Zion Evangelical Lutheran church. Rev. F. L. Kehren officiated as Emil Prull played the wedding march. The couple's relatives attended along with Dorothy Prull and Evan Owen. After the ceremony a wedding dinner was hosted at the bride’s home. Mrs. Owen, a Monticello High School graduate, pursued beauty training in Cedar Rapids in 1933 and works in Iowa City. Mr. Owen, Anamosa High School 1933 graduate, hails from Langworthy and Anamosa, where he operates a filling station after a Colorado trip.
Dr. F. E. Palmer and Mrs. Palmer relocate to Batavia New York where their son Eber Palmer serves as superintendent of the New York School for the Blind. They departed Sunday for a Minnesota vacation before heading east. Leslie M. Hayes of Council Bluffs succeeds Palmer at the Iowa School for the Blind.
Special Deputies capture an elephant in Maquoketa at the direction of Sheriff Ronald Cahill to recover about 30 dollars for local merchants who backed Walter A. Gentry’s circus that failed to appear. The advance agent flees, and no arrest is made as no jail space exists for the elephant.
Maynard William P. Sidie aged 80 died Sunday and was buried Tuesday in Woodlawn cemetery Retreat Wisconsin. He is survived by six daughters and two sons including Mrs S E Cox Valley Wisconsin Mrs Hiram Wakefield Janesville Wis Mrs Kenneth Stewart and Arthur Sidie Viroqua Wis Mrs Lena Potts and Irven Sidie Sparta Wis Mrs Burton Eckhart Oelwein and Mrs John H Meyers Maynard.
Des Moines Iowa Wednesday reports that Mark C Reno a Des Moines attorney and Utterbacks secretary has been named executive secretary to Democratic National Committeeman Hubert Utterback. The move signals Utterbacks attempt to resolve the Iowa patronage stalemate amid federal posts openings including postmastercies and U S district attorney and marshal jobs.
Yvonne Puffett ten month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Puffett of Dundee died Monday after being found head down in a pail of water. She died before medical aid could arrive. Surviving are the parents and grandparents Ernest Puffett of Dundee and Carl Schug of Strawberry Point. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Lutheran church in Dundee.
Plans for a Young Democrats dinner dance are under way in Oelwein to honor James McNally of LeMars and Phyllis Sheeley of Oelwein. The event is sponsored by clubs from the Second Third and Fourth districts with Nelson Kraschel Fred Biermann Ed Breen and Kenneth Baldwin among speakers.
Henry T. Asbury and Robert G. Parker were rescued from a wedged position in a box car in the Great Northern railroad yards. A railroad detective heard their cries and found lumber had shifted trapping them. They received 30 day vagrancy terms and were ordered to leave Minneapolis Tuesday.
Iowa auto mobile use tax receipts show a near nine million dollar increase in new car spending in the first six months of 1939 compared with 1938. The semi annual new automobile volume totaled 3 220 158 dollars versus 24 236 332 dollars last year, with June at 5 683 000 dollars. The two percent levy yielded 664 403 dollars in the period, up from 484 726. June receipts were 113 67 dollars against 85 709 last year.
Center Junction C F Lindsey suffered a back injury Monday after falling twelve feet from a building while performing carpentry work and striking a saw horse.
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