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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1941
Page
21
The Daily Record notes a 9am forecast for shipments in the next 24 to 36 hours with temperature drops of 20 to 32 degrees across regions. In the Police Court Charles Vajert, 45, of 600 First Avenues, was fined 25 dollars plus costs for drunkenness.
Mr and Mrs Harry E Boyd of 450 Forest Drive SE welcome a son on March 28 at St Luke's Mercy Hospital. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Taylor of 515 Eighth Avenue SE announce a daughter born March 27. Mr and Mrs Leonard Brush of 2423 Fruitland Boulevard SW report a daughter born March 28 at home.
Harry Pickeroll Marion and Maude Hollenbeck Cedar Rapids are named alongside James Shaw Masonville and Dorothy Dierksen Manchester in the fragmentary notice. The text lists individuals connected to a regional notice or event.
A midnight conference between Management and the CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee led to a ratified settlement. Meanwhile strikes affected Bethlehem Cambria in Johnstown and three Bethlehem shipyards in New York, tying up 30 ships and involving thousands of workers. Officials in Pittsburgh delayed action to April 8, with a 261000 worker stake across 14 subsidiaries.
Two US cruisers and five destroyers that arrived three days ago in Brisbane for a training cruise sailed Friday for an undisclosed destination. The report notes a notable fact about land animals between the south pole and latitude 60.
A farm truck carrying three live pigs, licensed to C G Batchelder, Alburnett, was stopped at a picket line near the Wilson packing house. After questioning by pickets and PWOC director Lewis Clark, the driver proceeded into the main gate while strikers urged restraint and cooperation. The driver said he did not attempt to evade the lines and resumed only after questions were complete.
Washington AP reports a new German military policy requiring dog owners to register their dogs for military service under penalty of fine and imprisonment. The measure, noted in German newspapers, follows Europe's use of dogs to carry items and pull carts in rough terrain.
Berlin reports in a Friday communique that a lone German flyer sank three merchant ships totaling 15 000 tons during an air attack on a convoy off the southwest coast of Wales. The claim credits Captain Mueller with destroying all three in dive attacks, reversing Thursday’s attribution to multiple bombers.
Detectives worked overnight on a case involving Fenwick a Rock Island railroad conductor found dead in the Cedar Rapids yard area after a cab ride to a caboose. Witnesses said Fenwick complained of illness and declined further help before vanishing. The body was found after the southbound switch engine rolled over it with an attendant trove of questions about the fatal incident.
Troops guard German and Italian legations in Belgrade as many Germans seek refuge inside their legation and fear street patrols. A German broadcast predicted escalating tension as Yugoslavia declines to ratify the Axis pact.
Senator Nye of North Dakota announced a Senate subcommittee removed a restriction on army and navy purchases of Argentine canned beef and other foreign products from a $4 billion supplemental defense appropriation bill. The article also notes a separate claim about global soap use.
Transfer of nine American owned high speed yachts to British ownership and registry was approved Friday by the maritime commission.
Some Clipper planes on the transatlantic crossing carried mail loads up to 13,400 pounds, far above the original plan to carry only 1,600 pounds of mail.
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