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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1940
Page
16
A spring luncheon menu featuring lamb pie with lamb shoulder and lima bean filling. Six individual 8 ounce glass deep pie dishes hold the meat and vegetables, topped with a shortcrust pastry baked at 425 degrees F for about 15 to 20 minutes. Parsley garnishes and keeps portions hot in the serving dishes.
Iowa City reports a Writers' workshop group from the university visiting Mr and Mrs Paul Ingle at their Stone City farm this morning. Social events include a tea for Mrs Roy Cook of Independence and other campus faculty hosts later. It notes a high noon wedding for Gene George Keller and Howard Laverne Grothe at St Marys church and related receptions.
The Sentman home north of here hosted by Rev. Lloyd Myers and Rev. Kellogg with Kellogg in charge of devotions. Mrs. Glaspey welcomed the Cinderella club at her north of here home. Five hundred awards were given to Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Musgrave. The True Blue 4-H club met Saturday at the Burdick home with Margaret Burdick and Marjorie Burge assisting.
Opal McKinley a 23 year old Wyoming forged check offender becomes Colorado mother of a seven and a half pound girl and will be pardoned ten days after birth under a governor's promise. The pardon aims to spare the child the stigma of prison life. The case arose after she was jailed in Colorado for forging a $30 check in Douglas Wyoming and transferred for lack of female facilities. Cheyenne society women and Gov Nels Smith backed the pardon plan.
Numerous Grace Episcopal, Calvary Baptist, Kenwood, and First Lutheran groups hold Thursday through Friday meetings. Luncheons, circles, and education sessions are planned with hostesses at homes or church parlors, including notable gatherings at St. Matthew's, Immaculate Conception, and First United Presbyterian.
Mount Vernon report covers a spring dance in Alumni gym sponsored by Cornell freshman class with Jim Hiner in charge. Maypole decor, chaperons include Dean and Mrs King and others. Local social notes follow with bridge luncheons and gatherings at Palisades lodge and Goudy cafe.
NEW YORK INS reports the city records its first psittacosis death in four years. Stella Blair, 44, a Englewood New Jersey bird store owner, was bitten by a love bird from Los Angeles, then fell ill three days later as the bird died. The store is under observation and parrots are quarantined. NYC has banned parrot family birds since 1938.
Iowa City High dominated the first annual University of Iowa high school music festival with top merit awards across solos in violin viola piano harp and wind instruments and in ensembles including a string trio and clarinet quartet. All three Iowa City ensembles earned bronze plaques for outstanding performances while Davenport Muscatine Burlington Newton and Nevada earned multiple recognitions.
Tokyo reports from Domei say Japan opened a major offensive against about 60 Chinese divisions in Hupeh province. Dispatches from Hankow indicate Chinese forces east of the Han River were attacked, with a naval air force leading the assault.
A physician discusses alcohol use and heredity, arguing that dipsomania stems from perceived health inferiority. He notes alcohol is a depressant, not a stimulant, and cites nutrition and vitamin routines as potential aids. He promotes a seven key health program and offers a booklet for twenty-five cents plus return envelope.
AP dispatch from Omaha reports Barbara Ann, a 14 year old in a custody dispute, refused to be returned to her mother Mrs Lonnie Daas, instead sitting in the judge's office. The girl said she would run away, but agreed to go to a proposed new home after discussions with District Judges Sears and Rhoades. The girl had been living with her uncle and aunt in Omaha after Mrs Davis left her with Petersons six weeks prior. Mrs Davis sought custody via habeas corpus, calling the girl “boy crazy” and alleging her mother’s improprieties.
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