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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1941
Page
7
A 14 member homicide squad searches flophouses and alleyways for the killer of 23 year old Jessica Strieff, a Des Moines bride to be and national defense worker. Rewards totaling 1560 dollars are posted for information leading to the slayer.
Iowa Senator Herring urged the justice department to take immediate drastic action to protect residents of the District of Columbia amid rising violent crimes, citing the brutal murder of a young woman from his state and seeking a conference with the attorney general on federal law enforcement in the federally governed city.
Washington police pursue links between Jessie Strieff slaying and a separate early Wednesday assault report from Maryland in which a 20 year old college girl says a Black man forced entry into her taxicab. Homicide Chief Darnall cautioned the case details were scarce.
Hills couple Mr and Mrs James Dunn announce the engagement of daughter Dorothea to Wilfred Knebel son of Linus Knebel Riverside. The wedding is set for July 8 at St Josephs church Hills with Rev Martin Horan officiating.
The Ma son Lindsey family reunion drew sixty two attendees at North English municipal park. Clayton Center resident and Zion Lutheran Church leader Carl Staack died at his Clayton Center home aged 89, with funeral held at Zion Lutheran Church. Several other notices record weddings, anniversaries, and local births across Keokuk, Marengo, Elgin, Waukon, Norway, Keystone, West Branch, and Toledo, including multiple marriage announcements and a 19 year old cited for DUI in Waukon.
URBANA The Spencer's Grove Methodist church marks its long history with an all day homecoming on Sunday. A 10:30 morning program includes a community song service led by Walter Nellist and address by Hugh Mossman of Vinton. Nellist family provides music. 1:45 afternoon service features song, prayer, and sermon by Rev. E T Gough. Committees named for program, dinner and historical work.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa faces an abnormally warm spell this week with afternoon highs around 90 and possibly 95 in suburbs. The heat dries fields helping corn after a cool wet spell and no rain has fallen in the last 24 hours. Decatur Decorah saw a 54 degree low while Sioux City and Omaha reached 86.
In a candlelight ceremony at First Methodist Wellman Jean Mary McIntosh daughter of Dr and Mrs W S McIntosh wed Paul Hoffman of New York City son of Dr and Mrs P M Hoffman Tipton In a single ring service officiated by Dr Alfred H Barker Ames 250 guests attended. The couple will reside in New York City.
Testimony in Kathryn B. Robertson versus Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York resumes in district court with a panel including Iowa City jurors Lucy Ensign and Margaret Marsh among others. Funeral services held for Charles B. Crain at the First Presbyterian Church with burial at Oakland Cemetery. University of Iowa cadet Chester Bennett departs for Ft Leonard Wood for a year of active duty. Jack A. Boone transfers to Jefferson Barracks for six weeks of Army Air Corps training after passing entrance exams.
Governor George A. Wilson told an interim legislative committee that the state should buy the Abbie Gardner Sharp cabin at the Spirit Lake massacre site if affordable. Owners want 10,000 dollars. house of representatives approved, senate cut to 5,000 dollars as a hard limit. A special committee will inspect the cabin and report back while a joint panel approved a separate 80 acre land purchase near Cedar Falls with a 20,000 dollar appropriation for Iowa State Teachers College division_use and sale of remaining land.
In Iowa City AP three educators at the fifteenth annual state conference on child development and parent education argued the food people eat is inadequate. They called for higher cooking standards, a farm food boost, and a vitamin enriched white bread to aid lower income draftees.
Special to The Gazette Tipton Durant schedules a July 7 hearing on the motion by the town to dissolve a temporary injunction against the Iowa Electric Company of Cedar Rapids. The town sought to restrain electricity sales at rates lower than local ordinance. A municipal light plant election is set for July 9 with a $115,000 cap.
The twentieth annual reunion of the Remington and Cheney schools will gather at the Margaret Schmitz home Sunday. All farmers teachers pupils and friends are invited. Mrs. Ed Burrell presides and Miss Margaret Schmitz serves as secretary.
A stolen car believed tied to two bandits robbing northern Iowa stations was found abandoned at Ogden replacing the car of Cliff Zunkel. Bullet holes in the rear window suggest shots at an Iowa patrolman near Fort Dodge. Sheriff Wilkins collects fingerprints.
In Prairie du Chien Wisconsin voters defeated a proposal to buy the Marquette Prairie du Chien highway toll bridge over the Mississippi 1207 to 944. The measure would have used mortgage bonds funded by bridge toll revenues. The Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel company owns the bridge.
Fire on the third floor of the Hotel Jefferson caused about 2500 in damage. Sparks from a guest smoking likely started the blaze which was confined to the room with some furniture. firefighters extinguished it quickly and patrons were not disturbed.
Final arrangements are complete for Columbus City centennial events. The program includes a 11 a.m. parade, a noon Columbus high band concert, a 1 30 p.m. Wapello band, 2 p.m. addresses by Gov. George Wilson Judge Oscar Hale and others, a 7 30 p.m. Vern Brown band concert with Sioux Indian music, and an 8 p.m. pageant with an antique display available all day.
An 82 year old woman claiming the name Effie C. Cook of New Hartford Iowa was found wandering on Chicago's South Side. She appeared amnesiac saying her last memory was riding with her son Norman near their farm. She had 69 dollars in cash tokens for a Dubuque toll bridge and a Cedar Falls bank book. investigators believe she left home with her son to go to Valparaiso Indiana.
WAUKON Iowa Indian Fred Keith Big Soldier 23 of Harpers Ferry learned of the draft rules at local selective service. He will join the next group leaving Waukon June 27 for military training. Also Julius Ellington of near Waukon plans to depart June 27.
The Iowa legislative interim committee earmarked 25000 for the Iowa commerce commission to participate in a forthcoming federal interstate commerce commission inquiry into freight rates. The panel kept the money available only with interim committee approval, saying the ultimate need is undetermined.
Dr. John T. Hanna, 49, a prominent Burlington physician, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at a downtown hotel Tuesday and was taken to Mercy hospital where his condition was believed to be failing on Wednesday. He was active in Republican party affairs and past president of the Mississippi Valley Medical societies.
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