Weather and court notes from Cedar Rapids area May entries
Mild spring weather continues in Cedar Rapids with a low of 46 and a high near 68 on Thursday. Local court records list fines for intoxication speeding faulty brakes and leaving the scene of an accident. Births reported include a son to Mr and Mrs Milo Castek Center Point and a birth at St Luke's Hospital for Mr and Mrs Fred Fisher Jr.
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Tacrsday
Washington
Tampa
Mount Avrah
New Orleans
Sioux City
St Galveston
Omaha
Los Angeles
Charles City
Chambers Inskeep Company
Mercy Hospital
Milo Castek
Center Point
St. Luke's Hospital
Fred C. Fisher, Jr
First Avenue E
Legal notices of marital actions and custody rulings
Hilda Prasil and Ella Kerkman were granted divorces by Judge H C Ring on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds. Property rights settled by stipulation. Paul Kerkman, 25, Iran, and Vivian L Norman, 38, were divorced by Judge Ring with custody awarded to Mrs Norman of four children and child support. Florence Swanson and Melvin Swanson were divorced by Judge Ring under stipulation with custody of a son and property rights settled. Marriages noted: Prasil in Cedar Rapids June 11, 1933. Kerkman in Anamosa Oct 30, 1939. Norman at Marion in 1923. Swanson at St Joseph Mo April 15, 1933.
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Hilda Prasil
Harold J. Prasil
Cedar Rapids
H.C. Ring
Paul Kerkman
Iran
Ella Kerkman
Judge Ring
Anamosa
Vivian L. Norman
Harry E. J. Norman
Ring
Norman
Marion
Florence Swanson
Melvin Swanson
Meuse Battle Echoes Across Allied Front
Reports describe German use of collapsing columns to disrupt rear areas as Churchill visits Paris and RAF air raids target German lines. Observers warn the Meuse engagement could rival Verdun in length while King George calls for a national day of prayer. Roosevelt’s armament push draws wide attention as the war widens.
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France
Churchill
Paris
Meuse
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Germany
The
Verdun
George
Rooseelt
United States
War Office
Marne
Roosevelt calls citizens to arms amid growing world crisis
The Daily Telegraph reports Roosevelt recognizes the war now threatens American interests and argues only the strength of the British and French empires can stop Hitler, urging widespread enlistment as war risks escalate.
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Roosevelt
Hitler
Daily Telegraph
Foreign Office
German Offensive Advances In Western Front Report
German high command claims Allies retreating in the Louvain sector with a plan to swing north toward the English Channel to trap Allied forces. French tanks west of Dinant are defeated and German air, tank, and infantry push on Brussels and Antwerp while Saar front activity continues. Four bullet points note prisoners, counterattacks on the south wing, reconnaissance on the Saar frontier, and French artillery actions.
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Louvain
Brussels
Maubeuge
Sambre
France
Belgium
Carignan
Sedan
Paris
Dyle
Antwerp
Dinant
Meuse
Montmedy
Longwy
Saar
Rastatt
Hagenau
Erich Ludendorff
Germany
Subdued Tholan Island and Allied Air Strikes Report
The island of Tholan capitulated as air forces destroyed rail and road sections in France and Belgium. Berlin boasted of beating the enemy and suggested the German high command would delay specifics, warning that victory cannot be declared in days or weeks.
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Tholan
France
Belgium
Berlin
Germany
Brother In Sweden Tells Hanna Wall Hitler Not Coming
Miss Hanna Wall of Cedar Rapids spoke by transoceanic telephone with her brother Nils Wall in Sweden. He said he is in active service while twin brother Wilhelm Wall serves with the army ski patrol in northern Sweden. The call, delayed by static, lasted 615 minutes and ended after she sought 12 minutes.
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Gothenberg
Sweden
Hanna Wall
Bever Avenue
Nils Wall
Wilhelm Wall
Wall
Arid Davidson
Marshtown
Klavesholman
Miss Wall
Hitler
Cedar Rapids
Roberta's Gain In Health Aids Camp Fund Drive
Roberta’s gain in health illustrates the value of Camp Good Health. Readers of The Gazette have supported the Camp Good Health Fund, the sole income for operating the camp run by the Public Health Nursing association for physically handicapped children from Cedar Rapids' poor and low income families. Send donations to The Gazette care of The Camp Good Health Fund Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Camp Good Health
The
Gazette
Camp Good Health Fund
Roberta
Public Health Nursing Association
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Conquer Or Die Gamelin To Troops
German forces launch three new attacks as daylight returns while Paris is proclaimed a full army zone. Churchill meets Reynaud and Daladier as fighting along the Maginot line remains intense north to Sedan.
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Gamelin
Winston Churchill
Paris
Paul Reynaud
Edouard Daladier
Maurice Gamelin
Montmedy
Basel
Switzerland
Sedan
Two More Anamosa Convicts Escape
Anamosa reformatory faces escape concerns as two more inmates flee and are pursued. A state board considers outside guard towers after four jailbreaks in a week, with two recaptured by Warden Foss Davis and ongoing manhunt efforts.
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Des Moines
INS
Anamosa Men's Reformatory
State Board of Control
Foss Davis
Japan to Respect Indies Status Quo Promise
Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi said Japan will honor the Dutch East Indies integrity as long as the status quo holds. He told Secretary Hull after a 40 minute conference that Japan will not deploy troops to establish protective custody unless another power intervenes militarily.
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Washington
INS
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Kensuke Horinouchi
Hull
Horinouchi
Dutch Islands
Move Many British Children To Wales
In anticipation of a German attack thousands of London school children now in Suffolk county are being re evacuated to safer positions in Wales beginning Sunday.
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London
Suffolk County
Wales
Allied bomb near Cologne reported by Koerner Zeitung
Koerner Zeitung said Allied aircraft bombed the Cologne vicinity Wednesday night. The report appears in Berlin and cites wartime activity over Germany.
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Berlin
Koerner Zeintung
Cologne
Five Fronts In War Outpaced By Five and Tens Says Baer
War correspondent Bugs Baer argues the conflict has many fronts as Greeks push into Albania and Turks toward the Balkans while Egyptians head to Arabia. He notes Roosevelt asked Mussolini to stay aloof, but Mussolini prefers fighting, and the broader war may escalate.
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Baer
Albania
Balkans
Arabia
Match Pieces Of Glass In Probe Of Auto Accident
Police seek to link glass fragments from a fog light to a hit and run on the west end of the avenue bridge. A car owned by Merle Armstrong was found with damage and evidence the vehicle had been moved. A second car linked to Leo Baird was found with a broken fog light and smashed fender after he said he drove into a tree.
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Carruthers
Avenue Bridge
Merle Armstrong
F Avenue NW
Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Leo EK. Baird
Outlook Drive
Baird
Marion
Iowa high schools shine at St Paul music festival
Iowa entries dominate the national school music competition opening in St Paul with top ratings in Class C orchestra and several choral and instrumental events. Participants from Mt Vernon Toledo Williamsburg Traer Mason City Story City and more scored high as the event attracts 1500 Iowa North and South Dakota Wisconsin Minnesota musicians.
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ST. Paul
Story City
Iowa City
Dick McKibben
Newton
Paul Garry
Ledyard
Robert Hudson
Pocahontas
Duane Schroeder
Postville
Eugene Spry
Fairfield
Lester Taylor
Robert Swisher
Doris Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Margaret Wardle
East Waterloo
Jean Taylor
Towa City
Ann Mercer
Tuba
John Gear
Towa Falls
Dorothy Kleinert
West Liberty
Gordon Flynn
Jerry Lukensmeyer
Hampton
Charles Birmingham
Marion
Norman Peterson
Sioux City
Central
Ernest Morann
Osage
John Donahue
Waukon
James P Murphy
Sumner
Herbert Penningroth
Darlene Picht
Lohrville
Mr. Walker
Jeanne Atwood
Ogden
Cy Harris
Roy Doggett
Corydon
Merle Bean
Yale
Herbert Cobb
Clear Lake
Dorothy Becker
Waverly
Helen Pearson
Burlington
Pierce la
Local notes list performers and places in regional meet
Main Moravia Wor oars Geisler Mason City Class C hand Tipton Ta Mable Minn and Flandreau D one Soprano solo Devonne Fraser Tipton lIa three.
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Main
Moravia
Geisler
Mason City
Tipton
Mable
Minn
Flandreau
Devonne Fraser
lIa
Army expands forces as Congress moves to speed funding
Congress edits emergency plans into regular bills to grow the Army and Navy. A Senate push recalls a navy appropriation to add 250 million dollars in cash for the navy, while House Chairman Andrew May introduces a 326.6 million army expansion bill. The package includes Panama defenses, Alaska air base work, 15,000 more regular troops, anti aircraft stocks, and 7,000 more army air pilots.
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Army
Navy
Roosevelt
House
Andrew J. May
Military Affairs Committee
Panama Canal
Anchorage
Alaska
Kaiser Will Return to Germany to Settle in East Prussia
Former Kaiser Wilhelm likely to return to Germany and settle on his East Prussian estates. He would reside there as a private citizen, under a pledge to live away from public life.
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Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
East Prussia
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Marvin Drake
Chariton
Dwight Allen
Linn Boulevard
Robert Campbell
Fifth Avenue SE
Ralph Gearhart, Jr
Twenty-first Street SE
Justice OF Peace Courts
Bob Sherratt
H. R. Churchill
Manuel Ferguson
Tenth Street SE
Deanna Durbin
Paramount Theater
Sala
Stad
Jn Holand
Zeeland
Hanna Wall Hitler
Eld
Counnns
Coffee Sales Co
Cedar Ranids
Byala
General Electric
ST. Clair Appliance
First Avenue
General
Electric
Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Mussolini
Benito
Kaiser
Ath
Lorraine Charmant
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