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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1941
Page
12
Cedar Rapids hosts a Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau dinner at Hawkeye Downs starting at 6 30 p m with attendees from local business and agriculture circles. Proceedings likely feature remarks and updates from regional leaders.
Miss Carrie E Kramer 77 of 407 Second Street SW Cedar Rapids died at a local hospital at 10 am Tuesday. George W Rubey 93 of 1029 Second Street SW Cedar Rapids died at a local Sursine home at 5 30 pm Monday. Other Cedar Rapids residents J A Groenenboom Hazel Lara Hoyt Kenneth W Fish Genevieve Kelly and Louise Marie Krug are named in the death notice.
St. Luke's hospital reports a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Emmons at 902 B avenue NW and a son for Mr. and Mrs. Pickard at 1547 Washington avenue SE, both May 27. Mercy hospital notes a son for Mr. and Mrs. Harford at 1706 Fifteenth avenue SE the same day. H J Wiley of 1008 Fourth avenue SE fined five dollars and costs for faulty brakes. Dr T F Hersch of 2127 Greenwood drive SE fined ten dollars and costs for speeding 45 with fine suspended. Robert Johnson of 368 Seventeenth street SE surrendered his license for 20 days and paid costs for reckless driving.
John Hoff of 719 Second Avenue SE fined 10 dollars and costs for using a dip net while fishing. Harold Motley of 2009 Cottage Grove Avenue SE fined 10 dollars and costs for failure to yield the right of way. Ivor Green of 509 West Nineteenth Avenue SE fined 5 dollars and costs for operating an automobile without a driver's license. All fines assessed by Justice H. R. Churchill.
The Pardessanna Young Judaea chapter presents two one act plays at the YWCA auditorium Tuesday night at 730. The Family features Evelyne Greenberg Miriam Greenberg and others and The Florist Shop stars Barbara Rapaport Shirley Pinsky and more. Proceeds fund a convention in Cedar Rapids June 19 to 22. The show starts an hour earlier to hear President Roosevelt's 830 address.
Berlin reported that more than 10 freighters totaling about 77,000 tons were sunk by Nazi submarines in recent days off the western African coast. The German declaration came on Tuesday.
At a Monday meeting the South Side Civic club appointed a committee to investigate a city test well in the J street SW area near Hawkeye Downs thought to lower the subsoil water. The group duties, plus a pavement complaint on the Sixteenth avenue bridge, were slated for the next gathering.
Report of the Bismarck and Prince Eugen moving from Bergen and the subsequent engagement with British forces. Hood's destruction and Royal Navy reallocations follow as Britain seeks the German ships. Census inquiries rise as proof of age requests surge.
Reports say the Bismarck was halted after a fatal battle with British forces and that the Hood’s loss, not the Bismarck, marks a strategic turning point. Tirpitz readiness and Luftwaffe air superiority claims are cited amid debate over Luetjens and crew fates.
County Attorney W W Crissman filed an additional charge against H R Stewart 51 held in the county jail for a week on a home robbery near Fairfax. A breaking and entering charge involving the Emil Faltis residence Jan 27 was added after a Cedar Rapids jeweler identified Stewart as the ring thief. Stewart may plead to the first charge Wednesday. Deputies seek his residence as he withholds it hoping to recover more loot. Sheriff Jim Smith suspects Stewart is linked to a dozen or more local break ins in 18 months.
Edina Kin sella and Albert Kinsella divorce decree filed 18 months after order by Judge H C Ring. Decree granted Oct 6, 1939, not filed until threats to set aside. finalization requires filing. Kinsella, convicted of check forgery in April 1939, served 15 years at Fort Madison. married Kin sella in 1938 using alias Howard A Clark. judge restored Edina Sanders.
Ernest Jackson 20 of 915 Ninth Street SE to serve six months in jail after a court on April 29 revoked his suspended sentence. He was held for larceny from a building and window peeping after a Monday arrest around 10 p.m., related to earlier theft of athletic equipment from McKinley High School. Helen Mae Magers files for divorce from Richard Magers, seeking restoration of her former name Helen Mae Burks.
United Press reports Frances Perkins named a three member committee to bridge the defense mediation board and the Labor Department. The move follows congressional criticism that Perkins lagged in certifying disputes for mediation. The goal is to decide which cases should be referred to mediation.
Clarence E. Dykstra of the mediation board and John R. Steelman of the conciliation service are cited as involved with efforts amid a San Francisco shipyards strike. Miss Perkins says she was asked not to certify. AFL and CIO machinists picketed 1,700 workers around yards with $500 million in defense contracts. Six plants show a back to work momentum as Moore Drydock reports half its workforce returning.
The report notes that operations could extend for as long as two months with no machinists, prompting concerns about production delays and manpower shortages.
President requests 3 billion dollars for aircraft to boost the Navy air arm. The Navy earmarks 467 million for planes 15 million for new plant facilities and 47 million for aerial ordnance equipment as part of the wartime expansion plan. Details on total aircraft numbers were not disclosed.
Informed quarters report an accelerated bomber output tempo and a large army plane request likely to be included in the pending army appropriation bill for the next fiscal year starting July 1. The measure totals about 7 billion dollars and the House subcommittee plans to report it next week. The President's supplemental army request was said to be under review.
American coal producers sold their product at an average five cents a ton below production costs in the nine months before minimum prices took effect, the bituminous coal division reported. The report notes the global pattern of high prices and scarce food despite widespread tobacco use for clothing shelter or ornament.
Cairo reports major fires swept Benghazi Libya after a raid by Royal Air Force planes. The Middle East headquarters confirmed the attack and noted Benghazi as a key axis base.
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