Births Reported at St. Luke's Mercy Hospitals
St. Luke's records show a series of newborns: a son to Theodore and wife at 529 Fifth Street SE on July 30. a son to Steven Cerveny Route 1 on July 30. a son to John and wife in Shellsburg on July 31. Mercy Hospital records list multiple births including daughters to Julius Mueller 1122 C Avenue NW on July 29. Clyde Magarell Route 1 on July 29. Lloyd Achenbach 70014 Seventh Street SE on July 30. sons to Jerry Stufflebeam 901 Eighth Avenue SE on July 30. Floyd Parsons 525 Eighth Avenue SE on July 30. James Doyle Loyola on July 30. Also a son John Linter born July 31 to G. L. Burge and Georgia Linter, former city resident.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Theodore Bean
Fifth Street
Steven Cerveny
John Sass
Shellsburg
Mercy Hospital
Julius Mueller
C Avenue NW
Clyde Magarell
Lloyd Achenbach
Seventh Street
Jerry Stufflebeam
Eighth Avenue SE
Floyd Parsons
James Doyle
Loyola
G. L. Burge
Charles City
John Linter
Burge
Georgia Linter
This City
Ira Niermeyer Dies At 79 At Home
Ira Niermeyer, 79, died at his home on Westwood Drive NW early Sunday. He was a resident of the area for many years and is survived by family and friends. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family.
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Ira Niermeyer
Westwood Drive
Moon
Speeding and Stop-Failure Fines From City Court
Charles Mentzer of 333 Third avenue SW pays 10 dollars and costs for speeding on Third avenue bridge. J H Johnson of 228 Fifth street NE pays 2 dollars and costs for failing to stop at an arterial sign. Andrew Schamberger, 26, route No. 2, pays 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving.
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Charles Mentzer
Third Avenue
Third Avenue Bridge
J. H. Johnson
Fifth Street
Andrew Schamberger
Gervas McGrane Files Suit Over Cruel Treatment
Florence M. McGrane lines up with Gervas P. McGrane in a Monday filing to Judge C. J. Haas. The case centers on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds.
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Floraine M. McGrane
Gervas P. McGrane
C. J. Haas
Farm Alarm After Incident at 326 First Avenue W
Sunday at 3 43 p m a woman identified as Mrs M Shea sounded a general alarm after an incident inside the wall of a barn at 326 First Avenue West authorities reported no injuries or further details at this time.
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First Avenue
Fifty Injured as Strikers Riot at Cleveland Fisher Plant
A clash at the Cleveland Fisher plant left about fifty injured as strikers fought police and scabs with stones clubs and tear gas. A strike leader from Flint, Michigan said he would ask the attorney general to probe police actions.
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Cleveland Fisher
Uaw-Cio
Robert Travis
Flint
Mich
Fisher
Murphy
Vic Brooks
John Mernaugh
Brooks
James E. Granger
Joseph Pataky
Michigan
Cap
Michael Blackwell
A. E. Stevenson
Pickets clash at GM plants in CIO AFL UAW split
At Detroit area General Motors plants CIO and AFL factions of the UAW clash at gates. Pickets try to bar non strikers amid scuffles with police who use teargas and tear grenades. One picket is arrested for intimidation as tensions rise but no serious injuries reported.
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Leonard Treadon
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
AFL
United Automobile Workers Union
Uaw-Cio
Ten Dollars Stolen From Toy Bank at Bond Office
The Harold E. Wood bond company office at 1011 American Trust building was entered Saturday afternoon. Ten dollars was stolen from a toy bank after a window was broken in Dr Earl M Eaton's office and Kane's office entered through an adjoining door. Dr Eaton's office was not robbed.
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Harold E. Wood Bond Company
American Trust Building
E. H. Kane
Earl M. Eaton
Kane
Dr. Eaton
Chambers Urges Passage of New Lending Bill
The United States Chamber of Commerce urged Congress to pass the administration’s $2.8 billion spending lending bill and enact remedial measures to aid business amid a period of strife in Washington.
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Washington
INS
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Japanese Ant-British Moves Raised at Shanghai Area
Japanese officials report contacts with the Soviet consulate in Shanghai to exchange information while planning surprise attacks on airfields and depots in the Shanghai Nanking region. London and Washington deny ties and warn of wartime moves as British forces in Egypt double their established strength.
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Japan
Shanghai-Nanking
Chinese Communist Party
Far Eastern
India
Egypt
Far East
George VI
Viscount Halifax
Buckingham Palace
Balmoral Castle
War Office
China
Electric Clock Will Relieve Police Of Lamp Lighting Job
City council approves 275 dollars to install electric time clocks at City Hall to control boulevard lights on the B First Second and Third Avenue bridges and connect other bridges to the street light system. Police currently switch lights manually causing delays and wasted fuel. the move aims to save gas and oil and free officers for other duty.
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City Hall
Second
Third Avenue
Public Safety
Wes Benesh
Coure
Congress Enmeshed in Lending and Housing Battle
The Senate supports the housing measure boosting the United States Housing Authority borrowing power to 800 million dollars and may skip wage hour amendments this session. The House treads carefully on adjournment with a Republican-Democrat coalition, awaiting Roosevelt's guidance. Taft presses to cut bank loan authorization from 100 million to 25 million, arguing 125 million suffices. President Roosevelt arrives late to the White House after a fishing trip yielding notable catches by Hopkins and others.
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Congress
House
Senate
United States Housing Authority
Barkley
Roosevelt
Taft
Ohio
Jesse H. Jones
White House
Quantico
Potomac
Jack
Groups join in J. W. Tolson rites
Men who worked with James W. Tolson for 33 years as Milwaukee railroad special investigator joined in his funeral service at Turner chapel Monday. Delegations from the railroad Cedar Rapids police department FBI Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias attended. Tolson died after a prolonged illness. Burial followed at Cedar Memorial park.
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James W. Tolson
Milwaukee Railroad
Turner Chapel
Railroad
Cedar Rapids Police Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Tolson
United States
Mr. Tolson
Clyde A. Tolson
Washington, D. C
Hillary Tolson
Santa Fe
N. M
National Park Service
Richard V. Clearwaters
Calvary Baptist Church
Cedar Memorial Park
Aging marksman Allen eludes posse after Kentucky siege
Romeo Allen, 70, escapes a barn siege as 150 possemen fire rifles and tear gas at Cynthiana. He proclaims fearlessness and intent to return. Evelyn Castle, 15, is arrested after admitting involvement and detailing trysts with Allen over more than a year.
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Cynthiana
Allen
Marksman
Evelyn Castle
Victor Roth
Roth
Court House News Sale Notices In Cedar Rapids
Sale of 80 acres on Rockford road SW to W J Hughes June 15 for 6637.50 by State Superintendent of Banking D W Bates as receiver for Cedar Rapids Savings Bank recorded in district court. Papers filed by Bates as receiver for Iowa State Savings Bank for sale of front half of lot 5 block 34 Carpenter's fifth addition to Cedar Rapids to John J and Elma Rose Hartl for 1000.
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Rockford Road
W. J. Hughes
D. W. Bates
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
Bates
Iowa State Savings Bank
Carpenter
Cedar Rapids
John J
Elma Rose Hartl
Ed Fordyce Seeks Extradition in Check Forgery Case
Assistant County Attorney Ed Fordyce traveled to Chelsea to obtain papers for extraditing Joe Williamson formerly of Chelsea from Illinois. Williamson, now in Cairo, Illinois, is sought for allegedly writing a bad $277 check to the Eastern Iowa Livestock Exchange.
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Ed Fordyce
Chelsea
Joe Williamson
Illinois
Williamson
Cairo
Ill
Eastern
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Charge of writing bad check dismissed in Omaha case
A. J. Conner, 43, of Omaha, had a false uttering of a check charge dismissed Saturday on a motion by County Attorney G. K. Thompson. Conner was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Radabaugh at 11 30 a.m. Friday.
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A. J. Conner
Omaha
G. K. Thompson
Conner
Radabaugh
District court term extended to August 2
The May term of district court will not be adjourned until Wednesday, Aug. 2 due to routine matters requiring action, as stated by Judge C. J.
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C. J
Retiring Northwestern Mutual cashier Kennedy to pursue hobbies
J Y Kennedy 79 of 2018 Fourth Avenue SE retires after 37 years as cashier at the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance agency. Elmer C Bergmann of Montpelier Vermont will replace him. Kennedy, born in England to Scottish parents, plans photography and cane making along with possible insurance sales and a trip to visit a daughter in California.
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Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
J. Y. Kennedy
Fourth Avenue SE
Elmer C. Bergmann
Montpelier
Kennedy
Bergmann
National Life of Vermont
Mr. Kennedy
England
Scotland
United States
Red River
Minnesota
Cedar Rapids
Northwestern Mutual
Divorce petition filed for cruel treatment in Mrstik case
Walter F. Mrstik filed Monday for divorce from Ethel A. Mrstik on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Haas announced Monday and the adjournment date had been set for Tuesday.
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Haas
Walter F. Mrstik
Ethel A. Mrstik
FBI Chief Warns Gangsters Hit Iowa and Espionage Rise
FBI Director Hoover says gang activity in Iowa and espionage by foreign agents burden the bureau. He notes new offices in Alaska Puerto Rico and Hawaii to combat crime and stresses police must professionalize. He praises Linn County deputy Sheriff Larry Condon and criticizes Cedar Rapids officials for not sending more officers to FBI training.
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Alaska
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Hoover
Larry Condon
Linn County
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Tolson
Bureau
Tom Condon
Mr. Hoover
Mr. Tolson
Guy Hottel
Washington, D. C
Earl Williams
Des Moines
Millard Shaeffer
Kenneth Pridestine
R. C. Coulter
Iowa
Miami
Fla
Chicago
New York
Forge Expansion of Airship Lanes
Pan American Airways applied for federal permission to open passenger mail and express service between the Pacific coast and New Zealand. The proposed route would place Auckland as a New Zealand terminal, about 49 hours from Los Angeles, expanding United States control of global air lanes.
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Washington
INL
Pan-American Airways
Pacific Coast
New Zealand
Auckland
United States
Los Angeles
War nerves rise as Britain and France plan joint Moscow talks
Chamberlain outlined a British French military mission led by Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernie-Erle-Drax to coordinate naval and land actions with a view to a political agreement. 12,000 naval reservists reported for duty as the home fleet readied for war stations along the Scots coast while neutrals Finland Sweden and Denmark voiced cautious neutrality.
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Chamberlain
Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernie- Erle-Drax
Joseph Doumenc
Britain
Charles Burnett
Thomas G. Heywood
Hugh Dalton
Laborite
The
House
Moscow
Eleanor Rathbone
Chatham
Devonport
Plymouth
George
A. K. Calander
Finland
Richard I. Sandler
Sweden
Europe
P. R. Munch
Denmark
European Review
Germany
Grand Jury Urges LSU Board Resign
In Baton Rouge the parish grand jury urged members of the LSU board of supervisors who served under ex-President James Monroe Smith to resign. The report cites gross negligence contributing to the university’s financial mess amid ongoing graft probes. Dr. Smith resigned June 25, fled to Canada, was arrested, and later indicted for embezzling about $100,000 of university funds.
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New Orleans
INS
Federal Grand Jury
Louisiana
Parish
St Baton Rouge
Charles A. Holcombe
Board of Supervisors
James Monroe Smith
Peter Pan bakery stale bread room for the needy sparks questions
Reader asks who counts as the needy and whether day old bread should be sold through grocers with scrip. He questions Cedar Rapids focus, proposes grocers nationwide dispose of stale bread at reduced price, and asks if wholesale houses accept spoiled bread waste.
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the Gazette
Peter Pan Bakery
Cedar Rapids
Walt Pose
Ninth Street
Thoreau Quote on Concord Farm Distress and Deeper Causes
A reader from Edgewood Iowa cites Henry David Thoreau’s Walden to illustrate long standing Concord farmers’ debt and encumbrances. He argues modern hardship stems from deeper roots than Hoover Roosevelt cars or machinery.
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the Gazette
America
Great Britain
Concord
Mass
Henry D. Thoreau
Walden Pond
Walden
Concord Bridge
Thoreau
Hoover
Roosevelt
John McDonough
Edgewood
Iowa
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Waterloo
Daniel E. Kerr
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