Births Reported Across Mercy and St Luke's Hospitals
Mercy hospital records show a son for Mr and Mrs Leonard Smejkal on June 13 and a daughter for Mr and Mrs Dick Madison on June 13. Mr and Mrs Donald Echelberger in Mechanicsville add a son on June 13. Edward Fatka and John Arnold families announce sons and a daughter born June 14. Ernest Glass of Delaware Iowa also welcomed a son on June 14.
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Mercy Hospital
Leonard Smejkal
Thirteenth Avenue
Donald Echelberger
Mechanicsville
Edward Fatka
Twelfth Avenue
John Arnold
Fifth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Dick Madison
Center Point Road
Ernest Glass
Delaware
Local marriage licenses issued Friday
A Friday marriage license record lists Neal F Hoover and Rena Jeanette LeMar as a couple, with several other Cedar Rapids and surrounding area pairs named in the Gazette item. The list includes Marvin LeRoy Lundt and Alice Isabel Burton-Willison of Cedar Rapids and others from Mount Vernon Mechanicsville and Chicago.
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Neal F Hoover
Rena Jeanette LeMar
Rena Jeanette Hoover
Marvin LeRoy Lundt
Chicago
Alice Isabel Burton-Willison
Cedar Rapids
Jay Wilson Torrence
Ardis Louise Stinger
Mount Vernon
Robert Thomas Maddigan
Margaret Delores McSwiggen
George Douglas Reid
Ethel C. Thomson
Mechanicsville
Albert William Gasper
Lillian Greenway
Edward Carl Person
Mary Louise Scriven
Canadian Mayor Speech Highlights Law Debate at Dinner
Lawyers heard a talk by a Canadian mayor criticizing reliance on laws and courts. The event featured remarks on simplifying court procedures and a tax planning clinic led by Frederick L. Pearce, noting rising tax consciousness and three main tax types.
Well-Rounded Life Sought For Those At Camp
A health camp offering a well-rounded program for needy children seeks funds to sustain activities. Children practice hymns for Sunday services and participate in opportunities intended to provide a better life. Send contributions to The Gazette Camp Good Health fund, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chadwick Abandons Isolationist Stand at Seattle Speech
Stephen F. Chadwick, former national commander of the American Legion, declared at a Chamber of Commerce event that he is no longer an isolationist. He urged support for Britain and warned that America would be dishonored if it stood alone in the war, saying the stance must change.
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Seattle
Stephen F
Chadwick
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
United States Senate
Britain
America
Cisset
Stalin
Russia
Europe
Ukraine
Rumor dispute over Ukraine aid tests Hitler Stalin
Swiss report says Hitler seeks access to Ukraine and wartime grain control while Stalin aims to delay conflict. Moscow denies imminent war though denials echo the rumor surge. Madrid dispatch notes concessions could yield Reich independence from blockades as tensions rise between Berlin and Moscow.
Streamlining Court Procedure Discussed At Judges Meeting
Iowa judges met at the Montrose hotel with the Iowa District Judges association and the Iowa State Bar association to discuss revising legal procedure. Judge Charles A Dewey endorsed the federal plan for expediting justice and urged adoption of several of its features. Justice Frederic M. Miller noted the supreme court's plans to streamline state courts and an advisory committee of 15 jurists will study reforms. The gathering included roundtable leaders District Judges George W. Wood M H Kepler and P J Siegers.
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Iowa
Montrose Hotel
Iowa District Judges Association
Iowa State Bar Association
Charles A Dewey
Federal District Court For
Southern
Towa
Frederic M. Miller
Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
High Court
Supreme Court
Taxes per bus rise from 1929 to 1939
The average total of special and general taxes on buses in 1939 was 955.38 dollars per bus, up from 673.86 dollars in 1929, indicating a substantial tax increase over the decade.
Hull presses Syrian role in German Near East advance
Hull argues that Germany used France and the Vichy regime to push into Syria and threaten Iraq and the Suez area. He says British action in the Near East aimed to curb German use of Syrian bases while French authorities contest Britain’s moves and defend Syria as a French mandate.
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Syria
Hitler
Iraq
Egypt
Suez Canal
Africa
France
Germany
Near East
Britain
Vichy
Syrian Mandate
England’s
Schmeling Promoted to Sergeant and Awarded Iron Cross
Berlin AP reports parachutist Max Schmeling former world heavyweight boxing champion promoted to sergeant and awarded the Iron Cross second class for bravery in the Crete invasion. He learned of the honors in an Athens hospital where he is recovering from a tropical illness and is expected to rejoin his unit soon.
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Berlin
Max Schmeling
Crete
Schmeling
Athens
Japs Reaffirm Axis Ties Through Mussolini Message
Premier Mussolini received a personal endorsement from Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka praising Italy's axis alignment. The message, delivered in Tokyo, lauds the Italian Japanese alliance and the tri partite pact as unshakeable.
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Rome
Japan
Axis
Mussolini
Yosuke Matsuoka
Matsuoka
Il Duce
Italy
Germany
Ilduce
Tokio
Iowa Lawyers Plan Streamlined System Amid Membership Rise
The Iowa bar reports a surge in membership from 1,300 to about 2,000 as the junior bar gains official standing and a 100 percent membership plan spreads across 18 counties. Judges Dewey and Hale urge streamlined procedure to cut delays amid new courts and administrative bodies.
Fuller Held for Desertion of Four Children
Virgil Fuller, 42, of 126 Fourteenth Street SE, waived preliminary hearing and was sent to the grand jury under $500 bond by Justice H R Churchill Saturday on a charge of desertion and abandonment of minor children. He was arrested Friday by Deputy Harlan Snyder on a complaint by his wife Olive Fuller. The couple have four children and Fuller was held at the county jail for lack of bond.
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Virgil Fuller
Fourteenth Street SE
Justice of the Peace
H. R. Churchill
Fuller
Harlan Snyder
Olive Fuller
French Fleet Would Swing Balance of Naval Strength In Mediterranean
A 1941 assessment notes the Jean Bart and Richelieu led French ships potentially joining Germany against Britain in the Mediterranean. It lists battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines in Toulon and Dakar, totaling 72 warships plus 70 submarines, shaping Axis naval weight if warships switch sides.
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Axis
Britain
Darlan
France
Germany
Jean Bart
Clemenceau
Gascogne
St. Nazaire
Casablanca
Richelieu
Brest
Dakar
Strasbourg
Toulon
Dunkerque
Mers-El-Kebir
Oran
Bearn
Martinique
United States
Commandante Teste
Evence
Raw
Algerie
Duplieux
Foch
Gloire
Marseillaise
Montcalm
George Leygues
Jeanne de Vienne
la Galissoniere
Emile Bertine
Jean d’Arc
Island
Guadeloupe
Lamotte-Picquet
Indo-China
Primauguet
Volta
Lion
la Fantasque
Terrible
L’indomptable
le Malin
le Hardi
Iowa in Brief Recap of Local Obituaries and Events
Funeral services for Benjamin Peters, former Grand Mound resident, were held in Chicago after his death in June. Marriages, anniversaries, school reunions, and public notices follow across Lisbon Wilton Junction Oelwein and Keota with details on attendees, schools, and local institutions.
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Grand Mound
Benjamin Peters
Chicago
St. Casimir Church
Mr. Peters
Calamus
Benjamin R. Peters
Lost Nation
Bernice Wozni
Loretta
Robert
Myra Giebelstein
Esther Peters
Viola Porth
Mildred Grimm
Goose Lake
June Jasper
de Elda Trauffer
Davenport
Arthur
Elmer
Lloyd
Lester
Marvin
William
Clinton
Resurrection Cemetery
U S Seeks Clear Reply on Robin Moor Sinkings Bluster
Secretary of State and President weighed options after the Robin Moor incident as Philip Williams arrives with Linthicum’s report from Pernambuco. Survivors’ accounts describe a German undersea craft and forced lifeboat evacuations. Congress eyes arming merchant ships with naval guns and ammo stockpiles.
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Robin Moor
Hull
American Ag
Roosevelt
Philip P. Williams
Rio de Janeiro
William J. Linthicum
Pernambuco
Brazil
Wilson
Germany
Navy
Congress
CIO Opens Raid on AFL Teamsters
Two CIO leaders announced an organizational drive aimed at the AFL Teamsters, planning to promote membership in northwestern states. The move follows Roosevelt’s warning against inter-union raids and excludes Minneapolis where 5,000 Teamsters recently seceded from the AFL after radicalism charges.
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Washington
Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFL Teamsters
Roosevelt
A. D. Lewis
United Construction Workers Organizing Committee
Lee Pressman
CIO
Pressman
Lewis
Minneapolis
Lewis Friday
AFL
Roosevelt Treated at White House for Sore Throat
President Roosevelt stayed in the White House living quarters for continued treatment of a sore throat. Officials said his condition was about the same with a temperature around half a degree above normal. Dr. Ross Y. McIntire advised remaining away from the office and to do only essential official work.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Ross YT. McIntire
Deaths William Rogers Pioneer farmer of Wapello
William Rogers 72 of Colorado Springs Colo died there after a long illness. He was father of Donald Rogers who leaves tonight for Colorado Springs. Rogers was a pioneer farmer of Wapello Louisa county.
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William Rogers
Colorado Springs
Colo
Donald Rogers
Sixth Street
Mr. Rogers
Wapello
Louisa County
No Strike Pact Sought Across Atlantic Shipyards
The Office of Production Management proposed a two year agreement to prevent strikes and lockouts at 55 Atlantic coast yards from the Canadian border to Florida. The package, with letters from Navy Secretary Knox and other officials, urges prompt consideration before a regional ratification conference convenes Friday.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
Atlantic Coast
United States
Britain
Canadian
Florida
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Emory S. Land
The
Maritime Commission
OPM
Williams S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
High Percentage Of Boys Pass Swimming Deep Water Tests
One hundred ten boys or 76 percent of attendees at the YMCA free swim school passed to swim at least 25 feet. Forty five boys or 31 percent completed the deep water test swimming 60 feet and earned Minnow Club cards and pins.
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Y.M.C
Gurney Day
Kenneth Marsh
Junior Mikas
Robert Veverka
Jack Lewis
Frank Howland
Ray Rompot
Ralph Howland
Pete Lyman
John Hoffman
Mark Hunnicutt
Ral Hale
Gerald Randall
Fourteenth Avenue
Jack Delbridge
Sixteenth Avenue
Paul Minera
L Street
Jim Johnson
C Avenue
Dean von Voltenburg
Idaho Drive
Bob Matteson
First Avenue
Robert Swaney
Jack Koehn
Bill Seigel
Mount Vernon
Milo Loomis
Dick Morrison
E Avenue
Jeene Gaines
Ronald Bauman
George Larson
Guerin Thompson
Seventeenth Street
Lloyd Ewart
Oakland Road
Gilbert Mason
Coldstream Avenue
Douglas Wear
Ely Avenue
Kenneth Stanek
Bob Ford
Waterloo
William Bilsland
Phillip Oaks
Outlook Drive
Thaddus Miller
Fruitland Boulevard
Milton Polcina
Second Street
Philip Miller
J Street
Robert Pierson
Ellis Boulevard
Russell Hamilton
Eighth Street
James Usher
Robert Deason
Sixth Street
Billy Markey
Roger McDonald
Fred Santos
Fifth Avenue
Charles Pazour
Aldrich Polehna
Donald Curtis
Ninth Street
Donald Gaines
Eighteenth Avenue
Knapp Named Defense Chairman of Iowa Junior Chamber
Russell Knapp named chairman of the national defense committee of the Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dale Ross of Charles City and Donald Lemmon of Decorah also named to the committee. Knapp urges local junior chambers to aid organizing smaller towns for the U.S.O. drive as district two chairman.
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Russell Knapp
Iowa
Oil on Fire Reported in Haifa Bay During Raid
A German radio account picked up by NBC said oil spilled in Haifa bay during a raid on harbor and petroleum facilities is still burning afloat and lighting the waterfront.
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New York
NBC
Bay of Haifa
Palestine
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Dover Township
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Viroqua
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Tommy Morris
Gerald Ochs
Elmer Kent
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Kate B. Glover
Walter Stoutner
Poor PA
Claude Callan
John An’ Fay
U. S
Welles
Atlantic
Knapp
Defense
Junior Chamber of Commerce
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