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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1940
Page
4
A reader asks how to handle staying out late and seeking permission while a teen. The column replies to apologize when at fault and explain remorse to repair the relationship with the boyfriend and avoid harming reputation.
London authorities rejected German claims that 1 841 Allied planes were destroyed and said Britain had lost 302 airplanes since May 2, eight days before the blitz began. They argued the British air force was more active than the French, making German totals unlikely.
Northeast Nebraska floods left seven dead and several missing across Homer Winnebago and surrounding counties. Rescues and relief formed as residents recounted harrowing escape scenes and communities organized aid amid widespread homelessness and damage.
City wants readers to use Gazette Want Ads for selling cut flowers and more. A packing workers union meets Wednesday evening at Z C B J hall. Clyde Ayres reports a lost billfold with 30 dollars and 8 in checks during deliveries. Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association hosts picnic and dinner Thursday at Maron Country club. Mrs R L Rink and Miss Mary Hesselman host St Therese circle meeting at St Matthew's church with Caroline Schichtl reporting on From Union Square to Rome. Don A Dunn Equipment Co. sale triggers county board approval for a heavy trailer to haul equipment. total 1421.50, old trailer discarded.
Linn county chapter Reserve Officers Association will hold a dinner and show at the Montrose hotel at 8 p m Thursday. Admission is by membership card. Vaudeville acts including dancers singers musicians and a magician are planned.
Mexican naval units patrol waters off the Pacific coast and in the Gulf to stop arms smuggling into Mexico, a defense official said on Wednesday.
Irving S. Olds, 53, a New York lawyer, was elected chairman of United States Steel Corp. succeeding Edward R. Stettinius Jr., who resigned to devote time to the national defense commission. Olds has served as a director and on the finance committee since Oct. 27, 1936, and is a partner in the White and Case law firm.
An official news agency dispatch from Dunkerque says three Allied generals are among prisoners captured during the fall of Dunkerque. The harbor was destroyed, numerous small craft damaged, and twenty larger ships beached.
In the house of commons Geoffrey Shakespeare said the government is urgently considering evacuating British children to Canada and Australia. He noted a statement on the subject is expected soon and replied to a written question in parliament.
Washington AP reports informants say the FBI is investigating alleged fifth column activity among 351 000 Indians. Foreign fostered groups and domestic groups are said to be stirring dissension by stressing grievances against the government.
John W Barry of 210 Twenty third street SE received an invitation to exhibit in the Eighth annual International Salon at Zagreb Jugoslavia. A note urged sending prints by Italian ships via Genoa despite assurances of safe postal traffic. Barry's photograph Sunday in Amana was hung at the Marshall Field salon and chosen for U S Camera magazine publication.
In Durham North Carolina Roger Upchurch a 13 year old with a 22 rifle and his dog Zip chased and brought a burglar to police after he fled a window. The incident followed reports of multiple house break ins and roger led the man back to the street.
Three secondary road districts were established by Linn countys supervisors. District No 1541 covers 361 miles from Viola Brown township to Springville Whittier road with extensions to trunk road J and beyond Viola. District No 154 covers 188 miles from Ely Putnam township with extensions east and south. District No 154 extends 1.84 miles from Bertram Bert ram township. A report and plat were referred to County Engineer W H Behre for a district map covering 3681 miles in Boulder and Jackson townships starting near Prairieburg and extending into Jackson township.
A massive market bust of King Leopold near Belgium's pavilion entrance at the New York world’s fair has been removed on orders from the refugee Belgian government in France.
United Press war expert J W T Mason analyzes Germany's drive along the Somme front in a bid to outflank Paris. The Somme river fortress and Weygand line give the Allies strong entrenched positions on the south bank, forcing a prolonged battle while the Germans test strength and seek a break elsewhere if the river crossing holds.
Lumir Pfeiffer 29 of 1829 L Street SW went to the police station at noon Tuesday asking why officers told the state liquor commission not to issue him a liquor permit. At 4 40 he returned with patrolmen, charged with intoxication, answering his own question. His record shows eight drunkenness arrests since 1935.
An old advertisement claims the liver should pour two pints of bile daily to aid digestion. It touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as the solution to constipation gas and a sour, tired feeling, urging readers to ask by name for 10¢ or 25¢ pills.
Washington dispatch reports high New Deal sources say President Roosevelt would accept a third term and resign the presidency after victory in the war if reelected. The plan would elevate the vice presidential nominee to the presidency upon a Roosevelt reelection and war ending within four years.
Lawrence A Jump, a driver with the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps in Europe who had been reported missing, is now listed by the AVAC as being in a German prison camp at Stuttgart.
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