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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1941
Page
9
Milo J. Warner, national commander of the American Legion, says the United States must convoy supplies to England. He urges stronger sentiment in support of Britain, noting U S production is key and the war will be won on the assembly line.
Track star Glenn Cunningham, holder of the world mile record, will speak at Hanford Post No. 5 American Legion Father Son Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday March 21 in the Memorial Coliseum. Sokol gymnasts will perform a 35-member exhibition and a catfish dinner will be served. Reservations to Adjutant H. H. Wage by March 18.
Michael Tristan of Cedar Rapids will take new duties with American Bridge company at Trenton New Jersey after serving as a city of Cincinnati structural engineer for a year. He visits Cedar Rapids on leave to see his wife and son at 1244 Lake avenue NE before starting new work. Former Russian citizen born in Prague he came to the US in 1928 and was naturalized. He has lived in Cedar Rapids since then though work has taken him elsewhere.
Iowa figures Clyde L. Herring and Guy M. Gillette are set to address the Iowa Jackson Day Dinner in Des Moines on March 29. The event mirrors last year's Washington appearance by Henry A. Wallace then secretary of agriculture.
Fragmentary card mentions a work titled What Good Little Girls Are Made Of by Sugar and Splice. No clear event, date, or full details available.
Medical society speakers at the Roosevelt hotel urged obtaining vitamins through a balanced diet rather than capsules. Dr Barborka and colleagues stressed prescription use of capsules only for deficiency, with emphasis on protein rich foods, milk, eggs, vegetables, and meat.
John Q. Travis, 46, of Route 3 Marion, suffered cuts when his car collided with a truck on Route 3 near Marion at about 2 30 a m Friday. No report filed with Cedar Rapids police or Linn county sheriff. Travis taken to Mercy hospital by Ambulance Service. During the first 11 months of 1940, 30 980 motor traffic deaths were reported in the United.
Sunday worship at Shueyville United Brethren at 9:30 with Sunday school at 10:30 and junior group at 7:30 p.m. Major Walter A. Meyer funeral set for a meeting at Moon chapel. Ambar Grotto invited to Val Grotto ceremony in Moline. D of H groups plan events at Sokol hall and home activities. Local residents arrive and travel, including naval service notes and Ve rne at Iowa State College with riding academy reopening. Moose drive for 500 new members and St Patrick’s dance planned. DeMolay Devotional Day at St Pauls Church conducted by Rev. Charles J. Bready. Families visit servicemen at Great Lakes while McCalley and Wade families share leave news.
Cedar Rapids based young farm leaders and Junior Chamber of Commerce members gather in Oelwein for a regional conference. Leaders include W P Mortensen Walter Wilcox B M Gile and H W Torgenson with Arthur Brayton as banquet speaker. Local committee is chaired by Byron K Anderson with Del Wilson Leon Drapela and Thomas L Woods.
A 44 member group of Victor High School juniors and seniors plus faculty visited Cedar Rapids on Friday. They toured Wilson and Company Hutchinsons Ice Cream Quaker Oats Petersen Baking City Water Works and Linn County Jail under the supervision of Mrs Bess Wilson and Miss Grace Meyer.
Six men including a Cedar Rapids resident were accepted for enlistment Thursday at the naval recruitment center. The event marks another intake as service branches seek volunteers.
The recruiting office lists new draftees Lee Richard Grubik Edward Alvin Pawlak Carl Owen Beitz George Leasly Wilson John Edward Stratton and Virgil Sheldon Ferguson. They will be stationed at Great Lakes Illinois with addresses in Edward Pawlak Wellman Iowa City Olin.
Miss Nelda Kurtz of Simpson college in Indianola was reelected president of the Iowa Intercollegiate Forensic Association at a Cedar Rapids luncheon. Officers J H Gabriels on Drake and J Dale Welsch Coe college and Mendal Miller Morningside were also reelected. Over 75 students from 13 towns attended the three day tournament at the Montrose hotel with final section winners to be announced at the closing luncheon.
Steven Barwick, Coe College junior from Lincoln Nebraska, will perform on the sixth weekly Daehler radio broadcast with Prof Max Daehler at 4 p m Saturday on WMT. Solo pieces include Liszt Sposalizio and other works by Chaksins Carpenter Ibert Scott and Saint Saens with a Beethoven variation. Ruth Webster, Coe graduate and Van Buren School teacher, assists on the March 22 program.
Twenty five people died and more than 300 were injured when a powder magazine exploded at Sierra de la Guila in Seville’s Proviner suburb. Fifty houses were destroyed in the blast on Friday.
Cairo report states Royal Air Force fighters shot down 14 Italian aircraft with no RAF losses. The Middle East command released the Friday tally detailing the air battle outcome.
Seventh corps area headquarters issued orders Friday transferring First Lieut. Frank S. Tuttle a dental officer from Strawberry Point Ia to Camp Livingston La for a year of active duty beginning March 16.
Capt Herbert C Gee U S Army Engineer Corps, a former Anamosa youth, is named resident engineer for the advance school to be built in Albany Georgia. He recently served in Milwaukee and his wife Mrs Arthur E Crew of Marion plans to join him soon. Gee is a University of Iowa graduate who attended West Point and ranked top in his class as regimental commander.
Captain Gee, brother of Lacey Gee of 2903 C Avenue NE and grandson of Mrs. Edgar Gee of 1921 First Avenue E, received an honor for outstanding academic achievement by cadets.
With two days left to file 1940 federal tax returns the Cedar Rapids office saw a rush. Deputy Collector J C Grinde urged mailing or delivering returns to the Cedar Rapids office and noted it would stay open until 9 pm Friday and Saturday to accommodate filers.
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