Free speech urged by Jersey auxiliary leader
Mrs. Winifred Toussaint of Jersey City told the state convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary that free speech should be allowed for every citizen and that objections to remarks should prompt action, while noting gaps in federal law to curb subversive groups. The session included greetings from allied groups, reports on funds for the National Home for Widows and Orphans, and awards for large donations. More than 200 women from 55 auxiliaries attended the Iowa event with a program of meetings, entertainments, and memorial services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hague
Norman Thomas
Jersey City
Winifred Toussaint
State Convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ladies Auxiliary
Toussaint
V. F. W. Auxiliary
Jersey
Cedar Rapids
Carl D. Thomas
Mayflower Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Nora Hollom
Ladies of the
Bertha Hillerege
Daughters of Union Veterans
Helen Lowe
Women's Relief Corps
Evit Kisinger
Etta Lefebvre
Mae Repstein
Women’s Relief Corps
National Home For Widows and
Eaton Rapids
Mich
Addie Campbell
Davenport
W. F. Hathaway
Des Moines
Montrose Terrace Room
Lloyd C. Graves
Alex Miller
Iowa
I. C. Fellers
Hazel Miller
Agnes Hendershot
Omaha
Department of Nebraska
Campbell
Metta Burd
American Red Cross
Carrié Hanscom
Widows and Orphans Home
Burlington
Clinton
Mason City
Jane Delano No
Spanish American War Veterans Auxiliary
Hill Park
Montrose
Dempsy Jones
Zelina Wiese
Essie Barrett
Marie Nolan
Blanche Concannon
Estella Vodoska
LaVerne Siebert
Sylvia Francis
Velma White
James Roosevelt At Mayo Clinic Again
James Roosevelt oldest son and secretary to President Roosevelt arrived in Rochester Minnesota by plane and was taken to the Mayo Clinic for examination. A police guard escorted him and he declined to be interviewed. Doctors planned tests to decide if surgery would be needed. his condition was described as very good after a prior visit revealed a small gastric ulcer. The article also notes Robert Morrison as the first Protestant missionary to China.
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Rochester
Minn
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Mayo Clinic
Young Roosevelt
George B. Easterman
Business Department
China
Robert Morrison
London Missionary Society
Canton
VENERABLE EDUCATOR 1 8 Pictured American educator
Puzzle fills with labeled clues across and down many items from 14 to 61 including drug from the poppy 14, Chinese food staple 59, and Harvard president 62, testing vocabulary and general knowledge across disciplines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Teachers Must Correct Status For Pay Changes By Aug 1
Cedar Rapids school board set August 1 as the deadline for teachers to update their status for pay changes. No work after May 1, 1938, will count toward the 1938 39 status. summer school will affect 1939 40 status. The board also approved fire insurance reductions for Dairy Dale schools, shifted funds, and named Peoples Savings Bank as a larger depository. The back tax waiver on a lot behind Tyler school was granted to aid Community House purchase. St Paul’s Methodist request for continued mission classes was not acted on.
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Cedar Rapids Classroom Teachers Association
Charles Penningroth
Dairy Dale No. 1
Dairy Dale No. 2
Dairy Dale
Cedar Rapids
Peoples Savings Bank
Tyler School
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Big Springs
Blame Boys For Theft And Stripping Of Car
Earl Stanley, chief of detectives, links theft and stripping of two cars to a group of unidentified boys. Harry Oakley’s car, stolen Monday morning from the La Plant Choate company lot, was found Monday evening abandoned near the Aviation Country club with two tires missing and tools gone. Mrs C W Smith’s car, taken Monday afternoon from Second street and Second avenue SE, was found abandoned on First avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets SE Tuesday. Patrols Ahring Walters Stearns investigated both cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Stanley
Harry Oakley
Tenth Street
Marion
F A. Ahring
Oakley
Aviation Country Club
Stanley
la Plant Choate Company
C W. Smith
Avenue NW
Second Street
Second Avenue NW
Second Avenue SE
Walters and Stearns
First Avenue
Fourth and
Fifth Streets
Court Home News: High Court Affirms Dam Abatement Action
District Court Clerk records that the state Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed Judge F O Ellison's finding for Mrs Julia Rowley in a case to compel the state conservation commission to abate backwaters from a WPA dam at Coggan. The water reportedly flooded several acres of her property. Ellison's finding dated April 30, 1937, and a stay was issued during appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Ed Lundquist
Supreme Court
High Court
F. O. Ellison
Julia Rowley
State Conservation Commission
Coggan
Three Trees Court Case Ends in Settlement
The district court case known as The Three Trees was settled Monday before Judge C. J. Haas. John Sanket sued Rose Binko, filed Sept 5, 1935, alleging trees on Binko premises at 1327 C Avenue NE extended over Sanket's lot, shading buildings and clogging gutters. Under the agreement Binko will remove the overhanging limbs and the case will be dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
C. J. Haas
John Sanket
Rose Binko
C Avenue NE
Woman gets year's term on liquor count
Mrs Bessie Jones aged 50 of 931 Hull avenue SE pled guilty before District Judge H C Ring to illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. She was sentenced to one year in county jail but may be freed after thirty days for good behavior. Officials say she promised to leave the state after being arrested Sunday for selling half a pint of whisky for 1.50, found pouring liquor from a bottle with an Iowa stamp into a pint bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Jones
Hull Avenue SE
H. C. Ring
Jones
Estate administrators deny joint tenancy claim in Hubbard property
Iowa and Colorado estate administrators contest a Denver claimant Thanette Hubbard Hebert and her sisters Natalys Hubbard Napier for a decree of joint tenancy in Cedar Rapids downtown real estate. They seek an undivided two fifths interest as estate property, alleging a 1923 conveyance and a 1932 trust as basis for joint tenancy, while administrators deny that joint tenancy was consummated.
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Answers
Iowa
Colorado
Alice Cooper Hubbard
Thanette Hubbard Hebert
Denver
Natalys Hubbard
Sarah Katherine Napier
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Third Street
Hubbard
N. M. Hubbard, Jr
Mrs. Hubbard
Tenancy in common dispute seeks quieting title
Mrs Hebert petitions to quiet title in joint tenancy while noting no authority to sue. Perfection Building Company moves to dismiss in a mandamus action filed by C H Albers as receiver of Phillips State Bank and Trust Co of Chicago alleging Albers lacks authority to sue in Iowa courts. Plaintiff seeks transfer of 18614 shares of stock under judgment in rein in litigation with John F Taft identified as prior owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perfection Building Company
C. H. Albers
Phillips State Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago
Perfection Concern
Albers
Illinois
Iowa
John F. Taft
Will of Dr Harry Kremers admitted to probate
Dr Harry Kremers emeritus professor and former member of Coe College was named in a district court probate Tuesday with Minnie Kremers his widow as beneficiary. Lawrence E. Kremers son was appointed executor. The will dated May 3 notes the death in Kansas City Missouri on June 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Kremers
Coe College
C. J. Haas
Minnie Kremers
Lawrence E. Kremers
Injunction Case Settled in Rubek Fealty Matter
Net tie Hildebrand Earl Hildebrand and Hattie Jones obtained an injunction Jan 30 1937 over rights to fixtures in a deed of fealty possession dispute with Louie Rubek and Rose. Rubek matter settled before District Judge C J Haas. By Monday entry motion to vacate the injunction was dismissed and mutual waivers were made. Defendants and judgments in note suits include D W Bates receiver Wapsie Valley State Bank Central City $955 20 and Adellah Pike $599 62 C J Mentzer seeks $280 55 against Ralph Nash Nash Transfer. Joseph Falt denies desertion grounds for divorce action by Agnes Fair married Cedar Rapids Jan 3 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Hildebrand
Earl W. Hildebrand
Hattie Jones
Louie Rubek
Rose
Rubek
C. J Haas
D. W. Bates
Wapsie Vallley State Bank
Central City
Charles Rech
Adellah Pike
C. J. Mentzer
Ralph Nash
Nash Transfer Company
Joseph Falt
Agnes Falr
Cedar Rapids
Kiwanians Tour Conservation Projects Near Indian Creek
Kiwanis club members families and guests tour local conservation sites around Indian Creek Tuesday starting at 5 pm ending at Jordan's Grove church for supper and a program. Clark Beems will speak on Kiwanis and Its Objectives. Ervin Moen leads the agriculture committee and E A Zack superintendent of the Indian Creek project will join with engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Indian Creek
Jordan's Grove
Clark Beems
Kiwanis Agriculture Committee
Ervin Moen
E. A. Zack
Marriage Licenses Recorded For Potter Forsyth Toombs Woodson Woodson DeLay Conley Hannum Willett Smith McCormick
Marriage licenses were issued to Hubert I Potter and Leola Forsyth of Walker Anthony W Conner and Mabel Sproston of Mount Vernon William H Ray and Mabel B Woodson of Cedar Rapids Marcus M DeLay and Marjorie M Conley of Cedar Rapids Gertrude M Hannum and Ward A Willett of Kewanee Robert B Smith of Iowa City and Eleanor Maxine McCormick of Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert I. Potter
Leola Forsyth
Walker
Anthony W. Conner
Mabel M. Sproston
Mount Vernon
William H.,ray
Mabel B. Woodson
Cedar Rapids
Marcus M. DeLay
Marjorie M. Conley
Gertrude M. Hannum
Ward A. Willett
Kewanee
Robert B. Smith
Iowa City
Eleanor Maxine McCormick
Funeral services for Mrs Mary E Humphreys held in Waterloo
Funeral services for Mrs Mary E Humphreys widow of Ansel Humphreys were to be held at 2 p m Tuesday from the O Keefe and Towne chapel in Waterloo with burial in Fairview Cemetery There were three daughters and a surviving husband two more deaths followed including Mrs Lucille Gorup in Cedar Rapids and the Cedar Rapids based Praha Rebekah lodge member who died after a short illness Funeral services for Mrs Gorup were to be at the Janeba and Brosh chapel at 2 p m Wednesday with burial in the Bohemian National cemetery Friends could call at the chapel Tuesday evening
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Humphreys
Ansel Humphreys
Harry A. Peddycourt
Mount Vernon Avenue
O'Keefe and Towne Chapel
Waterloo
Fairview
Humphreys
Mount Carroll
Jacob
Susan Meyers
Fort Dodge
Cedar Rapids
Welch-Cook Company
Wylma Humphreys
Harry Peddycourt
F. L. Heidemann
Lucille Gorup
John C. Gorup
Maplewood Drive
Linn County Abstract Company
Rose Pazdernik
Richard Pazdernik
Cicero
Ill
Louis Pazdernik
Mary Dusck
Praha Rebekah Lodge
Janeba and Brosh
T. B. Hiubuceck
Praha Rebekah
Bohemian National Cemetery
Mrs Lizzie Munson Dead In Chicago Arrival Cedar Rapids
Mrs Lizzie Null Munson wife of F A Munson and mother of Ellen Munson Hawkins died in Chicago. Her body will arrive in Cedar Rapids early Wednesday and be taken to Turner chapel for brief grave services at Oak Hill cemetery at 10 a m. Friends may call at the chapel until 9 a m Wednesday. The Bororos a South American people are reputed tallest in the world with an average height of 6 feet 4 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Null Munson
F. A. Munson
Ellen Munson Hawkins
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
Oak Hill Cemetery
City Briefs And Personal Notices In Cedar Rapids
Haircuts offered by 2K Hanna Barber Shop on Second avenue. Cedar Rebekah lodge 494 will meet at 7 pm in KP hall with a short business session and a note of time change. Free archery instruction for adults 16 and up begins 6:30 pm Tuesday at Ellis Park range, sponsored by the playground commission and Waltonian archers. A reception for 100 new Westminster Presbyterian members will follow the 7:30 pm prayer meeting Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Walters and Dr. L F Kubela returned from a two week fishing trip in northern Minnesota and Canada. Fire at 412 Twelfth Street SE caused by a blow torch damaged siding. firefighters worked 45 minutes. Ben Fletcher, 38, was sentenced to 30 days for panhandling with a suspended sentence if he leaves the city. Detective Tom Condon noted additional alleged misconduct. In merchandise charges, Mrs Wilma Barnes, 24, faced continued case for cheating by false pretenses over $50.42. she posted bond and was released.
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Cedar Rebekah Lodge
Hall
Ellis Park
The
Playground Commission
Waltonian Archers
George Walters
Second Avenue SE
Minnesota
Canada
L.F. Kubela
Chelsea
Ben Fletcher
Fletcher
Tom Condon
Wilma Barnes
H. R. Churchill
Barnes
Gas fire at First avenue station sparks minor blaze
A gas hose leaked onto a driveway at a gas station at First avenue and Fifth streets. Two boys started a small fire after midnight Monday but the fire department put it out before reaching the pump. The pair fled the scene and were gone when police arrived. The station was closed.
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First Avenue
Fifth Streets
President Roosevelt Signs 36 Bills and Vetoes 7
In Hyde Park Roosevelt, refreshed by salt air, signed 36 measures and vetoed seven. Approvals include 52 rivers and harbors projects costing about 37.1 million and Army Engineer surveys for 66 more projects not to exceed 0.5 million. He vetoed two veteran benefit bills, one costing an initial 5.18 million to raise monthly aid from 30 to 40 dollars.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Veterans Bills on Disability and Spanish War Veterans
The President vetoed two veterans bills. One would liberalize total and permanent disability criteria for some veterans not service connected. The second would treat about 15,000 Spanish war veterans in the Philippines as discharged and sent home at government expense, costing an estimated 6 to 8 million dollars. He also refused to sign a measure to put the commerce foreign service on par with the state department, favoring omnibus coordination by next Congress.
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Philippine Islands
War Department
Department of Commerce
Foreign Service
State Department
Congress
Wisconsin Justices Rule Narrowly on Little TVA Plan
Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed its prior ruling voiding Philip K. La Follette's Little TVA plan but kept limits. The decision allows the Wisconsin Development Authority to educate the public about power districts and cooperatives while prohibiting assistance to municipalities or cooperatives in acquiring or building plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Philip K. la Follette
Little Tva
Wisconsin Development Authority
Soviet Transport Wreck Off Japanese Coast Reported
Japanese officials quoted by the news agency TORIO said a Soviet transport may have wrecked off the Japanese coast near Mombetsu Ohma. The dispatch described 300 military uniforms 500 army caps 400 pairs of boots and a strong box with Soviet bank notes washed ashore. No bodies found.
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TORIO
INS
Mombetsu
Kitami
Ohma
Credit War Looms Between U S and Britain Over Japan
Washington reports a potential U S British credit war aimed at curbing Japan’s economic influence in the conquered Chinese provinces. Officials say both powers plan drastic limits on commercial credits unless Japan relaxes financial and economic restrictions.
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Washington
Far East
United States
Great Britain
Japan
China
United Press
Siberian
Yangtze River
President backs planning agency gains support at conference
President Roosevelt endorsed forming a permanent national planning agency to aid state, interstate, and regional planning. The report The Future of State Planning was sent to the President May 17 by the national resources committee and urges active state planning boards with mainly technical advisory aid.
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Minneapolis
Woman Is Freed In Boy's Cliff Death
Alpine Texas AP Frances Marion Black Jr freed on charges she aided in shoving 13 year old Marvin Noblitt from a mountain bluff. State seeks jury for her 25 year old husband charged with topping the boy from a 400 foot cliff during an outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine
Tex
Frances Marion Black, Jr
Marvin Dale Noblitt
Roy Jackson
2000 Applaud Drum Corps In VFW Contest At Hill Park
More than 2000 spectators watched nine drum and bugle corps perform at Hill Park in the VFW convention event. Jack Fromm of Des Moines led the massed finale while Wayne Smith of Newton won best baton twirler. Judges and organizers list many participating units from Boone, Johnson County, Newton, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and Charleston.
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V. F.W
Newton Man
Hill Park
Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention
Jack Fromm
Des Moines
Wayne Smith
Newton
V.F.W
Boone Scottish
Boone Spanish Musketeers
Johnson County
Newton Vfw. Post
V.F W
Cedar Rapids
M.C
Cedar
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Lucille Gorun
Hanna Barber Shop
Second Avenue
Westminster Presbyterian Church
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Twelfth Street
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New York City
Joe Louis
Max Schmeling
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New York
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Twenty Third Street
Emma J. Neal
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Christian Churches of Iowa
Parsons College
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Miss Hammond
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