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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1941
Page
36
In Swisher Iowa a clash erupts between Mayor George Chadima and Frank Stangler owner of the Pavilion dance hall over a Sunday dancing ban. Town politics, legal challenges, and arrests accompany the fight as council votes 4 to 1 for the ordinance while Serbousek opposes it.
A justice of the peace jury in Iowa City dismissed a dispute over the town dance pavilion, Swisher's main attraction. The pavilion near the inter urban line draws patrons from Johnson and Linn counties and boosts local business.
Captain Forest Rutgers was promoted to major infantry on May 27 and accepted the commission May 29. The promotion came from Seventh Corps area headquarters in Omaha. Rutgers serves as assistant professor of military science and tactics at Coe College and has a long coaching history including track football and physical education.
Non interventionist members of the House Military Affairs Committee urge President Roosevelt to state future draft plans. They cite limits on training duration, maximum draftees, and restrictions on deployment. They warn draftees automatically enter the reserve after one year and may be called in emergencies. Rep. Martin and Rep. Shafer push for immediate clarification of presidential powers.
The Iowa Bandmasters association opens its fourteenth annual convention in Cedar Rapids with more than 300 bandmasters expected. Highlights include performances by Waterloo East High School 85 member band, Washington municipal band, Coe College band, and Cedar Rapids Concert Band across Saturday and Monday. The event features clinics, banquet, stag party, and address by Karl L. King with Major George Landers honored as life president of the Iowa Bandmasters association.
A committee member urged immediate meeting and insisted the President’s plans be disclosed or powers clearly defined. Shafer pressed for transparent guidance and decisive action.
The American lease-lead law ship unloaded 120000 pounds of Wisconsin cheddar 1000 tons of flour and 4000000 eggs at a British dock. Lord Woolton and W Averill Harriman discussed aid as dock workers sampled cheese and eggs. A surprise box of evaporated milk arrived with a note from Cincinnati tool workers to their families.
The Cedar Rapids Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges schedule a joint memorial service at Trinity Methodist church on Sunday June 8 at 2 30 p m. Lieutenant Governor Bourke B Hickenlooper to deliver the memorial address. The Rebekah service is led by Home Rebekah lodge No 79 with Theta Rho Girls in candlelight rites. Ushering by Thomas Wildey lodge No 2 Junior branch. invocation and benediction by Rev W C Eckler.
A U S embassy official said he would travel to Biarritz to learn why 21 American ambulance drivers were detained while 119 Zamzam survivors were allowed to enter Spain en route to Lisbon. Germans previously cited “bad treatment” of sailors. two drivers were allegedly released by mistake as students.
Coe college to award an honorary doctor of divinity to James W Laurie at the sixtieth commencement on June 9. He is pastor of Second Presbyterian church Wilkinsburg Pa and a 1924 Coe alumnus. Laurie studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University, with European travel and service in New Jersey.
In Nassau Bahamas motion picture director E H Griffith reports Madeleine Carroll and Stirling Hayden are safe after spending the night stranded on Cotton Key. Capt Charles Collar aboard a Douglas amphibian located them after the sloop Kathleen dragged anchor and ran aground overcoming the incident.
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