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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1940
Page
5
Cedar Rapids Fish and Game club built a house boat named Confucius in one day last Sunday at the Upper Palisades. Fifteen members worked from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with George Kosek as chief cook. The 10 by 14 feet cabin will house bunks, radio and cooking facilities. outside it measures 14 by 22 feet with deck and runways.
Hollywood reporters note Helen Wills Moody tops a list of the ten most photogenic personalities outside filmdom, chosen by 209 members of the American Society of Cinematographers. The selections highlight enduring personality over beauty, not posing or angles.
In Cedar Rapids court, Judge C J Haas ruled McCarty holds priority mortgage rights over Kane real estate against Hunting attaching creditor claims. Judge H C Ring ruled for Ruth Seedorf in a divorce from Clarence Louis Seedorf for cruel treatment, the couple married at Marion in 1936. Arlene Lloyd seeks custody of three children in a Cedar Rapids divorce from Orville Lloyd, filed 1934. J C Walker’s $1145.85 case is dismissed as Power and Power claim settlement about October 1, 1932.
Assistant Police Chief Robert Munch ordered a morals squad probe of venues with dance permits where high school students gather after a Friday raid led to one arrest.
The admiralty reported that the British naval trawler Peridot hit a German mine and sank on Friday with no loss of life.
Mount Vernon reports the eighth annual schoolmen's conference to be held on the Cornell campus next Saturday under Dr S J McLaughlin of Cornell College education department. Dr Paul Misner superintendent of Glencoe NL will be the speaker, followed by a panel of school administrators.
Omaha AP reports Joseph Vene ziano, 25, convicted of second degree murder, was sentenced Saturday to 10 years in prison.
President Roosevelt’s undersecretary Sumner Welles met Italian leaders in Rome as he probes belligerent powers for peace terms. Welles conferred with King Victor Emmanuel III, Benito Mussolini, and Count Galeazzo Ciano, planning a Vatican talk Monday amid reports of Hitler’s peace terms being relayed through Italy.
Berlin reports Ambassador Hans von Mackensen met Italian foreign officials on Saturday but did not carry any communication from Adolf Hitler to Sumner Welles on peace prospects. Officials call the visit a coincidence with Welles' trip.
The island of Newfoundland is described as roughly the size of the state of Virginia, indicating a measured geographic comparison between the two regions. This framing suggests an analysis or note on land area scale within a regional context.
Five top communist agents in the United States filed under the Foreign Agents Act within 48 hours after a World Tourists Inc indictment. The move follows state department records and DOJ praise for a nationwide agent cleanup. Amkino and Sovphoto reportedly shut down operations.
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