Noted intoxication cases before Justice Churchill
E. J. Dunn of 419 First Avenue W fined 10 dollars and costs for intoxication. Carl J. Schwichtenberg of Dubuque given a 30 day sentence with 25 days suspended. Leonard Pfeifer of 1829 L Street SW sentenced to 20 days suspended. license revoked. All cases before Justice H R Churchill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Dunn
First Avenue W
Carl J. Schwichtenberg
Dubuque
Leonard Pfeifer
L Street SW
H R Churchill
Police Court ruling in speeding case
Donald Kurtz of 521 Tenth Street NW was fined $10 and costs for speeding cited at 42 miles per hour.
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Donald Kurtz
Tenth Street NW
Local births recorded in Gordon and Atkins areas
Mercy hospital reports a daughter for Mr and Mrs Donald Vinton of Gordon Nebraska born May 16. Mr and Mrs Orvie Ness of Atkins welcomed a son on May 16. Mr and Mrs Virgil Edaburn of Toddville welcomed a daughter on May 16.
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Mercy Hospital
Donald Vinton
Gordon, Neb
Orvie Ness
Atkins
Virgil Edaburn
Toddville
Divorces and Custody Decisions From Early 20th Century Petitions
Louise Ann Hoffman sued John F. Hoffman for cruel and inhuman treatment with marriage on June 28, 1924 in Galena Illinois. custody of four children and $10 weekly support. Agnes Tesar sued Edward Tesar for cruelty with marriage on March 22, 1930 in Des Moines. custody of two children and $20 monthly support. Agnes’s case overseen by Judge H C Ring and Judge Haas in separate filings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Ann Hoffman
John F. Hoffman
Galena
C . Hans Opal Fuller
Virgil Fuller
Cedar Rapids
Co. J. Haas
Agnes Tesar
Edward Tesar
Des Moines
H. C. Ring
Brammer Kulhavy Fortune Evans Linked in Cedar Rapids Area
Arnold Henry Brammer and Alice Marie Kulhavy of Cedar Rapids appear alongside Marvin Fortune of Atkins and Evelyn Evans of Center Point in a regional notice listing residents and affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Henry Brammer
Alice Marie Kulhavy
Cedar Rapids
Marvin Fortune
Atkins
Evelyn Evans
Center Point
Local deaths in city include three senior women
Catherine Murphy aged 75 died at home on 1616 N street SW at 11 55 p m Thursday Myrtle M Garner aged 64 died at home on 21712 B avenue NW at 11 15 a m Friday Mrs John J Kadlee aged 76 of 1812 T street SW died at a local hospital at 6 40 p m Thursday
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Catherine Murphy
N Street
Myrtle M. Garner
B Avenue NW
John J. Kadlee
T Street
Weather relief after sudden heat wave drenches city
A sudden rain storm ends a heat spell as Cedar Rapids clears wrecked street rubble and outages. Telegraph lines were damaged near locations including Waterloo and Vinton with several wires down. traffic flows remained steady on highways amid light showers and cooling temperatures.
Italy Disapproves New U S Ship Act
Italian officials voiced strong disapproval of guarding French ships in American ports. They called the action contrary to the United States neutral position and noted it as the first public sign of Italian support for France since Italy entered the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
United States
Italy
France
Governor seeks reconsideration of liquor seal contract
Des Moines Iowa Gov George A Wilson asks the state printing board to reopen its decision awarding a 12 million dollar liquor seal contract to Consolidated Decalcomania Corp of Brooklyn The governor cites lower bids from an Iowa firm Wallace Homestead Des Moines and notes prior satisfactory use of the low price seal while high bid seals raised operating costs. He requested reconsideration after receiving reports from the state printer and liquor commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
George A. Wilson
State Printing Board
Consolidated Decalcomania Corp
Brooklyn
Nate
Tom Purcell
Hampton
Liquor Commission
Wilson
Printing Board
Iowa
Wallace- Homestead
Mid-air rescue saves dangling marine lieutenant
A precise two-plane maneuver freed 23 year old Lieut Walter S Osipoff from a fouled parachute after the propeller cut the shrouds. He was pulled into the hell-diver bomber near North Island and landed conscious but injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Marine Corps
Navy
Walter S. Osipoff
W Lowrey
Dallas
Osipoff
North Island Navy Station
Akron
Ohio
Harold A. Johnson
North Island
Lowrey
J. R. McCants
Aviation
Jordan
Mont
Johnson
Lowery
McCants
Blomberg Reports Son Killed in Action in Germany
Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg says Major Axel von Blomberg of the air force general staff was killed in action. He sent the notice from Weisee in upper Bavaria after living in Italy following a marriage to a much younger former secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
INS
Werner von Blomberg
Axel von Blomberg
Air Force General Staff
von Blomberg
Weisee
Upper Bavaria
Italy
von Blombers
Germany
Churchill To Get Full Hess Flight Report Friday
London report says Prime Minister Winston Churchill was to receive the fullest account yet on why Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flew to Britain. Duke of Hamilton and Sir John Kirkpatrick's briefing with Churchill followed Hess’s hospital visit in the north and included dispatch case evidence.
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London
Winston Churchill
Rudolf Hess
Duke of Hamilton
Hess
Vone Kirkpatrick
Foreign Office
Berlin
Churchill
Duke
Kirkpatrick
Alfred Duff Cooper
Information
Hamilton
Air Force
Ministry of Information
Germany
Daily Telegraph
East Iowa students win music honors at regional festival
Iowa high school performers earned top ratings at the St Paul regional national music festival. Bassoon solo earned rating one for Donald Dysart Tipton and Marvel Dulin Cedar Rapids Roosevelt. Rating two recipients included Anna Pickering Iowa City on oboe and Nelson Reeds Iowa City with Dean Stucker Cedar Rapids Franklin. Other categories named multiple students across Cedar Rapids Iowa City Tipton Monona and more including voices violin clarinet and tenor with various ratings and placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Charlotte Trewin
Cedar Rapids
Franklin
Irene Gianedakis
McKinley
Dorothe Lorenz
Don Reha
Richard Selvic
Max K
Melton
Palo
Patricia Miller
Roosevelt Says Congress Must Propose Nondefense Savings
President Roosevelt on Friday told Congress to propose concrete nondefense savings in the record federal spending program. He criticized farm subsidies and soil conservation funding in the pending farm bill, urging lawmakers to craft specific reductions rather than pass the buck.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
White House
Senate approves amended bill expanding OPM power
The Senate on Friday approved an amended House bill granting the Office of Production Management broad statutory authority over the disposition of raw materials and military equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Office of Production Management
Reynolds Approved as Military Attaché Committee Chair
Washington AP reports the Senate approved the assignment of Senator Reynolds ID to chair the military attaché committee, marking a key leadership move. The action underscores oversight of defense and diplomatic military liaison matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Senaror Reynolds
President Roosevelt Appeals to French People in Radio Address
President Roosevelt urged the French people to resist any form of collaboration with Germany in a broad broadcast. He warned that a voluntary alliance would strip France of liberty and undermine the stability of the Western hemisphere, referring to the armistice terms and assurances from the French head of state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
France
Petain
Germany
United States
Atlantic
Iowa Cities Need Parking Lots In Downtown Areas
Waterloo City Auditor Knapp F. Matthews urged Iowa cities with over 5 000 residents to study merging municipal parking lots with metering to improve downtown parking. He cited Waterloo plans for four lots funded by a hair mill levy and noted meters help move traffic and raise revenue for police and upkeep.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Knapp F. Matthews
Waterloo
Iowa Municipal Accounting Officers Association
Matthews
Police Department
Duke Of Spoleto To Be King Of Croatia
Rome reports the Duke of Spoleto will be crowned King of Croatia on Friday or Monday at a conference in Vieritria. The new Croatian state boundaries will be fixed at the meeting and are said to include virtually all Ddlmiatia.
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Rome
Duke of
Spoleto
Croatia
Vieritria
Lable Salitcés
Civilian Defense Plan Nearing Final Approval, Roosevelt Reveals
President Roosevelt announced at a Friday press conference that a broad civilian defense program may receive his final approval and be presented for launching by Monday. He indicated studies on price ceilings are nearing recommendations, with CCC militarization and closer CCC integration to the army training plan under consideration, while FCC restrictions on chain broadcasting were issued without White House prior notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
America
NRA
Mr. Roosevelt
CCC
Defense Army
Congress
Federal Communications Commission
White House
A Avenue Caves In Again at Warded Intersection
A Avenue on the northwest quadrant of First avenue and Third street caved in again, opening a 30 by 20 foot hole that disrupted a water main. Fire and police crews responded after a boy misdialed the police box while trying to call for a squad car. City workmen began shoring the cavern as the streets department plans a new 18 inch concrete base 40 feet down with sand, rock, railroad ties, and a brick cover to stabilize the road.
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First Avenue
Third Street
Walsh
First Streets
Streets
Roosevelt Won't Seek Power To Convoy
Washington reports the Roosevelt administration believes Congress would refuse to authorize convoys now and the president will not ask for authority to convoy. An extended Atlantic patrol may reduce the need for convoys, and isolationists plan no new convoy push before Roosevelt’s May 27 fireside chat.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Atlantic
Mr. Roosevelt
French Officials in Syria Rebuke Vichy Cooperation
Scores of French officials in Syria resigned over Vichy’s proposed cooperation with Germany. High commissioner Henri Dentz reportedly told German sources no action would occur without direct orders from Vichy, sparking consternation among influential Frenchmen in Syria.
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Jerusalem
Syria
Kchy
Germany
Geh
Henri Dentz
Vichy
Toledo Juvenile Home to Host May 27 Graduation
Attorney General John M Rankin announced he will deliver the graduation address May 27 at the Toledo juvenile home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Atlorney
John, M. Rankin
Toledo
Airport site talks move Cedar Rapids plan ahead
CAA division engineer Guy Murray and United Airlines plant manager J D Crichton visited Cedar Rapids to review proposed airport sites and engineering plans with Howard R Green and local chamber officials. They conducted preliminary discussions and planned further meetings. Crichton returned to Chicago and Murray proceeded to Ames.
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Cedar Rapids
Aviation Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Howard R. Green
Guy Murray
Kansas City
Civil Aeronautics Authority
J. D. Crichton
United Airlines
Chicago
John Drabelle
Harold Rowe
Harry Boyd
Chester Myers
A. L. Taylor
Green
Crichton
Murray
Eleven Iowa U students to join Marines July 1
Mike Enich and ten fellow University of Iowa students will be inducted into the U S Marines at Quantico Virginia on July 1. The group includes former Hawkeye captain Enich who had been expected to sign with the Green Bay Packers this fall. Also named are Bruno Andruska Robert Gallagher Robert O Meara John Helkenn Matt Miletich Frank Onstine Louis Baughman Kenneth Kimport and Bruce McGregor.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Mike Enich
Boone
Hawkeye
Marines
Quantico
Enich
Green Bay Packers
Bruno Andruska
Chicago
Robert Gallagher
Des Moines
Robert and
Bruce McGregor
Cedar Rapids Twins
Robert O'Meara
Cedar Rapids
John Helkenn
Holstein
Frank Onstine
Prairie Du Chien Votes to Buy Mississippi River Bridge
Prairie du Chien city council voted 7 to 1 to purchase the $500,000 suspension bridge over the Mississippi River to Marquette. Mortgage revenue bonds will finance the project and be retired by tolls from operation. The bridge span is owned by the Prairie du Chien Marquette company, a Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel subsidiary.
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Prairie du Chien
Wis
Mississippi River
Marquette
Prairie du Chien- Marquette Company
Pittsburgh-Des Méthes Stéel Company
Roosevelt Returns to Executive Office After Illness
President Roosevelt reenters the White House executive offices after a ten day illness. He appears pale yet cheerful and prepared to resume a full working schedule following a Friday appearance at his press conference.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Hail and Wind Strike Blairstown Area Wrecks Farms
Farmers and townspeople in Blairstown report extensive damage from Thursday's hail and wind storm. A barn near Walter Pease farm was destroyed, 70 chicks died at H. J. Grunewald farm, power outages cut for hours, and many homes Schools and businesses suffered shattered windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Blairstown
Walter Pease
Here
H. J. Grunewald
Herman Paulsen
LeRoy No. 4
Benton County State Bank
Weather damage from seven minute hail storm hits Williamsburg
A seven minute hail flurry during a violent rainstorm damaged windows in the high school and wrecked the roof of an oil station in the north end. Hail measured about one inch. Minor scattering of damage across town and streets littered with leaves and twigs. Some gardens washed out by rain.
Wind and hail storm damages Norway area
A half hour wind and hail storm in the Norway vicinity damaged gardens roofs and windows. Hen egg sized hail fell as a rural school bus carrying children was nearly blown off the road, but no injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Severe hailstorms hit central Iowa with high May temps
Severe hail accompanied by rain struck central Iowa on Friday after a warm Thursday. Bondurant, 10 miles northeast of Des Moines, saw widespread window damage. Iowa City reached 93 and Des Moines 91 the May 15 high as rainfall varied across Newton, Marshalltown, Des Moines, Iowa City and Burlington.
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Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Bondurant
Des Moines
Iowa City
Newton
Marshall+ town
Burlington
Hail and Flood Hit Shueyville Deeply Brief Storm
Hail fell in Shueyville for about 20 minutes late Thursday afternoon stripping leaves and light branches from trees. A 20-minute downpour followed flooding numerous fields with no serious damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Shueyville
Your Gift Will Help Child On Road To Health
A fundraising plea notes voluntary donations fund Camp Good Health for 250 needy children in Cedar Rapids Iowa. It costs about five dollars a week to send one child and several weeks are typical. Donations can be sent to The Gazette Camp Good Health Fund Cedar Rapids Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Good Health Fund
Camp Good Health
Care of the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Three Point Landing theme at Coe senior chapel
Robert Dunlop presided over Coe college senior chapel as the third in a four part series. Merle J indsten gave the invocation Drexel Mollison played the organ. Allan Richardson spoke on the curriculum Kathryn Show on faculty support and George Masterton outlined four college life objectives.
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Robert Dunlop
Coe College
Merle J.indsten
Drexel Mollison
Allan Richardson
Kathryn Show
George Masterton
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