Hawkeyes Set To Clinch Big Ten Title In Wisconsin Series
Iowa needs one win to clinch the Big Ten crown as it faces Wisconsin in a pair of 2:30 p.m. games with Alumni and commencement visitors in attendance. Harold Haub and Bob Henrichs lead strong pitching matchups while five Hawkeyes bid farewell to college baseball careers.
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Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Wisconsin
Hawkeyes
Badger
Iowa
Otto Vogel
Hawks
Harold Haub
Rockwell City
Badgers
Moundsman
Bob Henrichs
Madison
Hawkeye
Art Manush
Bill Vogt
Elmer Bratten
Wendell Winders
Ken Reid
Quakers Beat La Plant In 3 To 1 Tussle
Quaker Oats defeated La Plant-Choate 3 to 1 behind Gene Babbitt in the first inning. Kenny Thenhaus allowed only two runs and struck out seven as the Quakers avenged Babbitt’s setback in the M and J league. Moore and Currell led the offense with key hits, while De Woody contributed for La Plant-Choate.
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la Plant-Choate
Gene Babbitt
Gene Bishop
Quakers
Babbitt
Reddy Kilowatts
Harold de Woody
George Moore
Roy Faunt
Ed Bednasek
Moore
Kenny Thenhaus
de Woody
St. Germain
Emil Krumpar
Thenhaus
Bill Currell
Universal Crusher
Quaker Oats
Abhoa Aeros Kinch
Faunt
Currellss
Q' Umattier
Crichite
O'Brien
Then
DeWoody
Currell
Klumpar
J. Thenhaus
Gerwant
Blake and
Michaels
Entry Blanks For Junior Links Meet In Iowa City
Cedar Rapids young golfers may obtain entry blanks for the eastern Iowa junior golf tournament from The Gazette sports department. The event, June 15 in Iowa City under University of Iowa athletics and chamber of commerce sponsorship, caps entries June 14. 36 holes of medal play decide individual senior, junior, and girls championships with age limits 17, 13, and 17 respectively. a four-person high school team title is also awarded along with four trophies and place prizes.
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Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa
Sports Department
the Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa Athletic Department
Chamber of Commerce
Charles Kennett
The
State University
Conesville Nine Defeats Wapello 6 3 in Tuesday Game
Columbus Junction reports Conesville high school baseball team defeated Wapello Louisa County champions 6 to 3 Tuesday afternoon. Conesville were state tournament runners-up at Manson earlier this spring.
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Columbus Junction
Conesville
Manson
Wapello
Louisa County
Lou Fette to Wed Boston Bee Lou Fette to Wed
Lou Fette thirty two pitcher for the Boston Bees will marry Miss Lucille Greer twenty three a school teacher from Alma Missouri Sunday after obtaining a license on Wednesday. Municipal Judge Frank W Tomasello waived the five day waiting period.
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Boston
Lou Fette
Boston Bees
Lucille Greer
Alma
Frank W. Tomasello
Franklin and McKinley Fight for Track Laurels in Quad Meet
The fifth quadrangular track and field meet for four schools runs Friday and Saturday at Cue track. Preliminaries are Friday. main show starts 2 PM Saturday. Franklin and McKinley vie for top honors, with Roosevelt and Wilson contesting third. Coach Dorman of Upper Iowa seeks another championship as his teams maintain long coaching careers.
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Wilson
Roosevelt
Franklin
McKinley
Bears
Paula
Thunderbolts
Upper Iowa Clinches Fourth straight Iowa Conference title
Fayette Iowa Upper Iowa University baseball won its fourth consecutive Iowa conference championship by beating Luther 7 to 6 in Fayette The Peacocks posted a 12 2 record in 14 starts and went 7 2 in conference play The season included strong showings against Gustavus Adolphus Carleton Wartburg Buena Vista Simpson and Loras texts show scattered box scores and standings fragments.
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John
Doc
Dorman
Upper Iowa
Iowa
Luther
Loras
Coe
Fayette
Upper Iowa University
Peacocks
Upper
Gustavus Adolphus
Upper Iowa Fentyson
Upper Town Lot
Platville St. Tehrs
Upper Iowan Gustavus Adolphus
Simpson
Buena Vista
Upper Town
Carleton
Carleton Vreeseeees
Wartburg
Sam Francis to Enroll at Iowa for Master’s Degree
Lincoln Nebraska Sam Francis former all America fullback at Nebraska and 1936 Olympic shot putter plans to leave the insurance business to study for a master’s degree at the University of Iowa He will enroll June 10 and attend through the 1940 summer session He has played football with the Chicago Bears for two seasons
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Lincoln
Neb
Sam Francis
University of Nebraska
University of Iowa
Francis
Chicago Bears
U S Calls World Cotton Conference
The United States proposed a broad long term plan to curb surplus cotton by convening an international conference of cotton exporting countries. The meeting in Washington will start September 5 with invites to Argentina Brazil Egypt India Mexico Peru Sudan Soviet Russia France and Great Britain.
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Washington
United States
Wallace
State Department
Argentina
Brazil
Egypt
India
Mexico
Peru
Sudan
Soviet
Russia
France
Great Britain
LeFebure Named President of LeFebure Corp at Annual Meeting
L T LeFebure was elected president and general manager of LeFebure Corp after purchasing a controlling interest from former president W L Harrison at the stockholders meeting. Officers include John C Greedy as vice president A H Sargent as treasurer and Mrs L T LeFebre as secretary. Directors are John S Broeksmit Samuel Lord and H N Boyson. Business activity has risen since December 1938 with May 1939 sales 42 percent ahead of the prior year.
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L. T. LeFebure
LeFebure Corporation
W. L. Harrison
John C. Greedy
A. H. Sargent
L. T. LeFebvre
John S. Broeksmit
Chicago
Samuel Lord
Owatonna
Minn
Camera Reveals Tragedy at Abandoned Mine Shaft
In Toluca Illinois two weeks after the disappearance of Dominic Valessano 77 a former coal miner state inspectors could not descend the ramshackle shaft. Brothers Jack and Frank Gerardo lowered a camera 421 feet and photographed Valessano's mangled body at the shaft bottom.
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Toluca
Ill
Dominic Valessano
Jack
Frank Gerardo
Valessano
Gazette Want Ads Rise in Popularity in May
The Gazette printed 13 458 want ads in May compared with 12 247 in May 1938, a gain of 1 211. Advertisers increasingly turn to Gazette Want Ads as the economical way to meet daily needs and get results quickly by dialing 2 1121.
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Gazette
City Briefs and Personals Highlights
Dubuque couple Joseph P Plein and Cleo Schmitt wed by Justice H R Churchill. 18 year old Donald F McSpadden heads to Fort Des Moines for 80th Field Artillery training. Townsend club dance set for Friday at Odd Fellows hall. Paul R Kelly returns after Havana trip for Bendix sales award. Auto radiator stolen from 1020 Seventeenth St NE. Robert Anderle, 41, injures shoulder in a scuffle. treated at St Luke's. Mrs Eva Waggener burns arm at Delavan Hotel. treated at St Luke's. Cedar Rapids Fish and Game Club meets Friday at 8 pm. Linn County approves $60 sale of Seventh St Marion lot to T A Barkwill. L R Schrader joins Allen Motor Co. Fire drill at Quaker Oats plant yields calm. Dr Warren Keck to attend Geneva Lake summer school June 24 to Aug 4. Rev Thomas J Hinkin represents Sunshine Mission.
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Warren Keck
Coe College
Geneva Lake Summer School of Natural Science
Williams Bay
Wis
The
University of Chicago
Marquette University 1939 Commencement Honors Miss Nelson
Miss Lillian A Nelson daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Nelson of 1619 Maplewood Drive NE will receive a certificate in public health nursing Friday night during the 1939 commencement exercises at Marquette University. She attended high school in Racine Wisconsin.
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Lillian A. Nelson
Martin Nelson
Maplewood Drive
Marquette University
Nelson
Racine
Wis
Gage to Speak at Belmond High School Commencement
President Harry M. Gage of Coe college will deliver the high school commencement address Thursday at Belmond. On Tuesday he will speak at the University of Wichita's commencement at Wichita, Kan.
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Harry M. Gage
Coe College
Belmond
University of Wichita
Wichita
Kan
Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Picnic Slated at Marion Club
The Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association invites members to its annual picnic next Monday at 6 p.m. at Marion Country Club. Credit Women's Breakfast Club members are invited. Reservations are due by Saturday noon.
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Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Marion Country Club
Credit Women’s Breakfast Club
Man Burned When Tar Catches Fire
C L Young 56 of 1606 Ellis boulevard NW suffered first degree burns to hands arms and face at 105 pm Thursday when a tar pot heated over a gas plate in his basement ignited. Clothing and basement woodwork were damaged. Fire Chief E P Kohout and assistants provided first aid.
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C. L. Young
Ellis Boulevard
E P. Kohout
Supervisors set June 20 hearing on surfacing district 139
Linn county supervisors approved County Engineer W H Behrens report and plat and scheduled a June 20 hearing at 2 pm to establish surfacing district No 139 for 2.3 miles of road from highway 94 through Bertram and Marion townships. The road has been graded for surfacing.
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W. H Behrens
Linn County
Bertram
Marion
Nazi Danish Pact Allows Free Trade With Other Nations
Berlin AP reports the German Danish nonaggression pact released Thursday grants both nations freedom to negotiate trade with other states in the event of war. The agreement omits specific trade bars, signaling broad commercial leeway for Copenhagen and Berlin.
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Berlin
Clergy Delegation Returns From Presbyterian Assembly
The Rev August Cramer pastor of Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian church John Robertson and Dwight Krumholtz of Cedar Rapids and the Rev Joseph Gray of Mount Vernon returned Thursday morning from Cleveland Ohio where they attended the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church.
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August Cramer
Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian Church
John Robertson
Dwight Krumholtz
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Gray
Mount Vernon
Cleveland
Ohio
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Altitude Mark Set By Woman Flyer Grace Huntington
Glendale California AP Grace Huntington the young Hollywood screen writer set a new altitude record of just over 20 000 feet in an aircraft with under 500 cubic inch engine displacement on Wednesday.
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Glendale
Calif
Grace Huntington
Peoples Church Annual Meeting and Trustee Elections
The Peoples church holds its annual meeting on Monday June 5 after a 6 o'clock supper in the church parlors. Reports from organizations will be presented and five new trustees elected. Reservations for the supper are due by Friday with Mrs Henry Hauseman Jr at 8873 or with Mrs George R Dennis at 3 1147.
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The
Peoples Church
Henry Hauseman, Jr
George R. Dennis
Pastor Henry Scherer earns MA from Creighton University
Pastor Henry Scherer of First Lutheran church received his Master of Arts degree from Creighton University in Omaha. His thesis titled College Training Recommended to a Candidate for the Ministry summarizes opinions of 400 Protestant pastors across Baptist Lutheran Methodist and Presbyterian bodies and compares them with college and seminary recommendations for ministerial candidates. Parts of the study have appeared in church publications.
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Henry Scherer
First Lutheran Church Thursday
Creighton University
Omaha
Six Die in London Train Truck Collision
Six people were killed and about a dozen injured when a London bound train collided with a straw laden truck at a crossing. The impact tore the sides from two coaches. the truck driver escaped with a broken arm.
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London
Miss Byers Speaks On Florida Travels Before Waltonians
Former Franklin junior high principal Miss Ruby Byers told Waltonian club members at the Y M C A meeting about her Florida travels. She described Mountain Lake bird haven and Sarasota, winter home of Ringling Brothers circus, sharing travel thrills and nature joys.
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Waltonian Club
Y. M C
Ruby Byers
Franklin Junior High School
Florida
Mountain Lake
Bird Haven
Sarasota
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
Court orders stay on vending case exhibits custody
Judge C J Haas rules original exhibits in the L A Robinson v Main vending machine contract case stay in Linn county custody. Copies may be made. exhibits may not be removed beyond jurisdiction without supreme court directives.
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Haas
Linn
C. J. Haas
W. F Main
Cedar Rapids
L. A. Robinson
Texas
Main
Linn County
Ed Lundquist
Arthur L. Bye
Robinson
Houston
Tex
Bye
Richard F. Mitchell
Iowa Supreme Court
Lundquist
Mitchell
Iowa
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
High Court
District Court
Linn Court
Jennings Sues Watson on Vending Machines
O. D. Jennings and company of Chicago sue M. C. Watson of Cedar Rapids for 53023 on a conditional sales claim for four Cigarolas vending machines placed in Muskogee county Oklahoma with title held by the plaintiff. A second count seeks 8450 for a Good Luck vending machine sold on consignment on Oct 13 1938.
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O. D. Jennings and Company of
Chicago
M. C. Watson
Cedar Rapids
Muskogee County
Oklo
Theft Act Wire Reports Two Defendants in Custody
A wire to Sheriff Jim Smith from Sheriff John C. Bjorklund of Tacoma names two men involved in theft. The other defendant is W H Thomas, jailed at Terminal Island California. Local officials say the pair are expected to be returned here this month.
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Jim Smith
John C. Bjorklund
Tacoma
W H. Thomas
Terminal Island
Calif
Linn County May Term Court Schedule Set by Judge Haas
Judge C J Haas will assign all cases to be heard at Linn County district court May term on Friday at 9 am. The schedule will cover law equity and probate cases.
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Linn County
C. J. Haas
Linn County Denies Langnoff Tire Claim Over Bridge Pit
Ralph Langnoff of route No 3 Marion claimed 87 50 for a ruined truck tire after striking a steel pin on a bridge piling on a road graded five miles north of Marion. Linn County supervisors rejected the claim Wednesday.
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Ralph Langnoff
Marion
Linn County Supervisors
Linn supervisors approve half-year Iowa Employment service overhead
Linn county supervisors set a $420 allotment as half the annual overhead for the Cedar Rapids Iowa State Employment service office with remaining funds from federal sources. Costs cover rent utilities and janitorial services. In a separate action Hannah Flaherty Hurley seeks rents and profits and $375 from Elizabeth Julia and Ellen Flaherty. Receiver Bates authorized to sell a store building on Lighth avenue SW to James Nassif for $2,150.
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Linn
Iowa State Employment Service
Cedar Rapids
Mary Flaherty Hurley
Hannah Flaherty Hurley
Elizabeth Flaherty
Julia Flaherty
Ellen Flaherty
D W . Bates
Town State Savings Bank
C. J Haas
Lighth Avenue
James Nassif
Linn County Home Seeks Refrigeration Bid For Cold Storage
Linn county supervisors will open bids at 2 p.m. on June 6 for refrigeration equipment and machinery as well as insulation and doors for the new Linn county home cold storage building near Marion. Specifications require chill room 34-38 degrees at 3,000 BTU, vegetable room 40-44 degrees at 2,000 BTU, cold storage room 10-15 degrees at 1,400 BTU, and sharp freeze room 8-12 degrees at 2,000 BTU. Insulation completion by July 10 and mechanical work by July 25.
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Linn County
Marion
City Set June 19 Deadline For Beer and Cigaret Licenses
The city council fixed June 19 as the deadline to file applications for beer and cigarette licenses. Applications must be submitted to the city clerk’s office as directed by the council.
Change From Emergency To Welfare Board Not To Affect Relief Work
Linn county's social welfare board learned from a letter to chairman Fred J. Payneer that state relief duties for Linn county transition to the county board as of June 1 under a state policy. The county relief department methods remain unchanged. the Iowa emergency relief administration has supervised the program since 1933 with Benjamin Tait as county administrator.
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Linn County
Social Welfare Board
Fred J. Payneer
Cedar Rapids
King R Palmer
State Social Welfare Board
County
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Benjamin Tait
Adjustment Board Grants Mixed Permits For Dwellings and Sign
The adjustment board waived rear yard requirements to remodel 1580 Third avenue SE into four apartments and allow a new home at 217 Sixteenth street SE. It approved an addition at 916 Sixth avenue SE, denied 1000 H atvenue NW for setbacks, allowed 5 400 square feet lot at H1 avenue and Thirty-sixth street NE, and granted a remodel to face Third avenue with a 10 foot land strip. Library sign at 811 F avenue NW approved.
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Board of Adjustment
O J Elsenbast
Third Avenue
Sixteenth Street
E. E Rivers
Sixth Avenue SE
Charles Bruce
Atvenue
Harold Leaven
H1 Avenue
Thirty-sixth Street
E. R Adams
Twenty-eighth Street
Public Library
F Avenue NW
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U. S
LeFebure Corp
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Cleo Schmitt
Dubuque
H R. Churchill
Donald F McSpadden
Helen McSpadden
J. Avenue NW
80Th Field Artillery
Fort Des Moines
Townsend Club
Odd Fellows Hall
Second Avenue SE
Paul R Kelly
Havana
Bendix Home Appliances, Inc
Godfrey Splichal
Seventeenth Street
Robert Anderle
First Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Eva Waggener
Fourth Avenue SE
Delavan
Seventh Street
T. A Barkwill
L R. Schrader
Allen Motor Co
Quaker Oats Company
Thomas J. Hinkin
Sunshine Mission
Dar Rapids
International Union of Gospel Missions
Charlestown
W. V
Hinkin
Townsend Club No
I. O. O. F. Hall
Dr. Gage
Peoples Church Meeting
Miss Byers
Court House News
Jennings
Watson
John Perona
M. H. Biddick
Wash
Eas
Goodrich
Somat
Silvertown
East Side
Lubegin
Second Avenue
BARTA
Third Street
Howe Tire & Battery
Riverside Garage
Fourteenth Avenue
Ackal Tire
Aid Employment Office
Adjustment Board
Aftir
Jack’s
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