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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1940
Page
15
The Daily Record notes Cedar Rapids weather today and a Chamber of Commerce Farm Bureau dinner at Exposition hall Hawkeye Downs at 7 30 pm. The item highlights local civic event and forecast details for residents.
An array of birth announcements from Mercy hospital and St Luke's in Cedar Rapids lists a list of newborns with their parents and addresses, including a son to Dr and Mrs Richmond K Anderson in Buffalo New York on May 16. Obituaries note the deaths of Horace Edward McNeil and Mrs France Hale Overholt. Local police and fire calls, fines for speeding and license violations are also noted with names and locations.
Newly formed police tavern squads operated for the first time Saturday night into Sunday, reporting an orderly city. No arrests were made as beer taverns closed at midnight and patrols continued. evidence of spiking was found but no bottles or drinks were seized.
Alexander Kirk charge d affaires Berlin embassy traveled to Rome to confer with United States Ambassador William Phillips this week as details emerged Monday about the high level talks between the two nations.
Charles Musil of 1506 Tenth Street SE awoke to a bleating nanny goat and captured a prowler, Jimmy Johnson of 1104 Fourteenth Avenue SE, in a shed. Johnson charged Musil, who struck him with a revolver butt. Johnson was bound with baling wire by Musil’s sons until police arrived. Johnson faced a statutory charge and pled not guilty, failing to post $2,500 bond.
Rome AP reports the British embassy denied a Tele press story that British nationals were advised to leave Italy. The London agency Exchange Telegraph had circulated the claim.
Dublin reports the Irish army will be mobilized to full war footing at once as the government rounds up fifth column suspects and probes IRA links with foreign powers. Reserves and volunteers are being called up to bolster defenses amid neutrality debates led by Eamon de Valera.
German forces pressed new attacks on French and Belgian coastal harbors and blasted Dunkirk amid heavy Allied air losses of 73 planes. Allied bombings targeted non military sites in western Germany with little effect on the southern front. Calais fortifications were strengthened while Boulogne received fresh troops and matériel across the Straits of Dover.
The dispute between the utility and the Bureau of Internal Revenue over a proper figure for earnings was settled at a 305 percent rate. The H R Green Engineering Co appraisal set the 2.23 rate two years earlier. The city council stated that a 7.47 percent return would be used to judge fairness of earnings. On 2.23 basis net profit was 199 345 45 and on 305 rate 175 689 80.
The Iowa Taxpayers association reports Cedar Rapids spent 2.22 per person on municipal capital improvements for 1938 39, down from 2.23. state average is 5.65. Keokuk tops with 40.22, Webster City 16.30, Waterloo 11.89. Receipts per person average 1.37 in Cedar Rapids versus 1.90 prior year. Mason City leads with 2.08. state average 1.59.
The House adopted a Monday resolution to give quick effect to President Roosevelt's transfer of the immigration service to the Justice Department to gain more effective control over aliens.
Republican presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey will speak tonight in Dallas on Wars Foreign and Domestic. The 8 30 to 9 p m CST address will be broadcast over the Mutual network. Tama eighth grade commencement exercises occur Monday evening in the Central school auditorium with diplomas awarded by principal Hazel Thompson. Music includes multiple solos and a vocal duet along with a class play The Lone Eagle performed by named students.
Des Moines, UP. H R Gross, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, denounces an anonymous mailed “contemptible yellow sheet” as a federal offense. He cites a Plymouth county 1933 incident and criticizes state officials as paid political workers using taxpayer funds.
British authorities announce the roundup of 3,300 women in the class B category ages 16 to 60 and the Isle of Man will host a large camp for German and Austrian aliens. Ted Bramley, London communist leader, is detained along with twenty more members of the British Union of Fascists. The British communique says Germans attacked French and Belgian forces as RAF bombers strike enemy lines. no losses are reported for Britain. Channel coast naval bombardment also noted.
German and British wartime claims swirl as official German outlets allege Britain aims to damage the U S steamship President Roosevelt and shift blame to Germany to inflame U S public opinion. The Boston reference and London denials add confusion to the accusation.
In New York, Harry Qaspen Maione and Frank Abbandando, two early members of serious case Inc, were sentenced to be electrocuted the week of July 7 after their convictions. Their paths to trial marked a pivotal moment for organized crime prosecutions.
A nurse described three Cedar Rapids children needing Camp Good Health funded care. Their health improved with better diet and medical treatment, and they await tonsil surgery funded by the Camp Good Health Fund via The Gazette.
Panamanian police reported an uprising scheduled for Tuesday night in Chirqui province. Ten men, including Francisco Arias a supporter of presidential candidate Ricardo Alfaro, were arrested amid raids that yielded 180 home made bombs at a suspected Marxist meeting house.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt used a White House radio address to urge Americans to support a ten million dollar Red Cross war relief drive. She said the nation must give more than ever to ease suffering in war torn Europe and defeat those forces behind it.
New York a district court fined Bausch and Lomb and three officers forty thousand dollars for a secret trade pact with Carl Zeiss of Jena Germany. The agreement limited distribution of vital military and naval equipment for nineteen years in violation of anti trust and tariff laws. They pled nolo contendere to avoid protracted litigation during a government defense program.
Edward R. Keen of Muscatine was sentenced to forty years at hard labor in Fort Madison for the hammer murder of Clarence Cottrell at the state training school for boys in Eldora on March 8. The 19 year old offender received the lengthy sentence after his Monday sentencing.
Director J Edgar Hoover announced the FBI will cancel annual leaves for all G-men as Congress rushes anti espionage legislation. The agency estimates staff average overtime at 100000 hours monthly and plans to add 150 agents at the start of the next fiscal year on July 1.
A second district congressman will speak as Gov. Wilson arrives around 11 a.m. for lunch with south side friends at Bill Dutrt's restaurant. From 2 to 4 p.m. he holds an open house in the Montrose state suite. Carl Hendrickson presides at the evening session. invitees include H. J. Nehls Jr. and Mrs. O. J. Elsenbast.
Paul Satko's homemade Ark of Juneau races toward Alaska with the expectant mother aboard. His wife announced in Nanaimo BC that she is due soon with their eighth child. The 40-foot ark runs on a 12 year old truck engine and tops at six miles per hour, risking arrival before the baby.
Allied and German forces clash as the Lys crossings unfold with the French calling the Battle of Flanders the era’s greatest defensive fight. German advances threaten a possible encirclement while Allied air raids target troop concentrations and rail links.
William Tecumseh Morgan age sixty nine of Twenty sixth street NW shot himself in the right temple with a .32 caliber revolver around 3 pm Sunday. Deputy Coroner R L Munden said the death was self inflicted after reading a note left by Morgan expressing disillusionment at the ingratitude of men he had aided in business deals. Neighbor W H Kelly found Morgan in his yard. Morgan was born in Delaware county and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1905. Survivors include a son William E Morgan.
The granddaughter Catharine Jane Morgan of Cedar Rapids will have the body transported to Maquoketa for services in the Mount Hope cemetery chapel at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Friends may visit at the Rohn chapel.
Army commanders described morale as excellent and equipment satisfactory after war games with 70 000 troops in the southwest. They urged more anti aircraft guns anti tank guns tanks of all sizes heavier field howitzers armored car units war planes new observation planes and new short wave radio sets.
Berlin officials described Roosevelt’s address as mainly domestic in nature. Reich government spokesmen said the president’s words show the United States feels threatened, but not by Germany.
Virgil Jones offered his home to aid his family. James Brandon, a buyer, inspected the unfinished second floor, fell through the ceiling, striking five year old Joseph Jones who died from head injuries. Brandon was not held.
General Maxime Weygand in a Paris radio appeal urged Allied nations to hold out for one month, claiming the military situation was improving and that France and the Allies would soon have their chance to move on to victory amid German breakthroughs and troop readjustments. The message, read on Paris Mondial, noted intensified actions along the Mage and not the Channel front.
In Kansas City Missouri Sergt William Burch and Lonny Simcoe waited half an hour for speeders. A motorist said to go north and learn why. They found a crude sign warning of a speed trap ahead and tore it down. In the next half hour they caught four speeders.
Former President Herbert Hoover will address the nation on NBC radio at 7:30 p.m. CST discussing the need for better organization to achieve real defense.
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