Daily Record member 1 1939 high low table data
Daily Record page fragment lists Tuesday highs and last night’s lows with city pairs and numbers. Cities include Washington Cedar Rapids Tampa New Orleans Sioux City Galveston Omaha Des Moines Seattle Lacrosse Havre Dubuque Bismarck Davenport Chicago New York Dallas and Detroit with accompanying high and low values.
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Washington
Cedar Rapids Ss
Tampa
Ayr
New Orleans
Sioux City
Galveston
Omaha
Seattle
Havre
Dubueue
Bismarck
Davenport
Detroit
Chicago
New York
Dallas
Public Auction of Marvin Cone Paintings Scheduled
An auction of Marvin Cone paintings will be held at 8 p.m. in the Art Association rooms on the library’s second floor. The annual Camera sale opens in the art gallery.
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Marvin Cone
Art Association
Mercy Hospital Births for Koury and Naso Families
Mercy hospital reports a daughter born Oct 31 to Mr and Mrs Mike Koury of 1405 Sixth Avenue SE and a son born Nov 1 to Mr and Mrs Leo Naso of 1519 Seventh Avenue SE.
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Mercy Hospital
Mike Koury
Sixth Avenue SE
Leo Naso
Seventh Avenue SE
Frances Pospishil Dies at 70 in Hospital
Mrs Frances Pospishil 70 of 1117 Eighth Street SE died in a hospital at 4:53 a.m Wednesday following illness. She is survived by relatives and friends. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Frances Pospishil
Eighth Street
Richard Chadima Reckles Driving Fine Suspended
Richard Chadima, 16, of 331 Twenty-third Street Drive SE, fined $50 and costs for reckless driving. Fine suspended on payment of costs and surrender of Griver's license for 60 days.
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Richard Chadima
Twenty-third Street Drive
Griver
Fire reported on Oakland Road and Thirty-Second Street NE
At 9 14 am Tuesday a corn stalk fire was seen on the street at Oakland road and Thirty second street NE. The alarm continued for 19 minutes before responders secured the scene.
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Oakland Road
Thirty-second Street
Local Pairings in Notable Marriage Notices
Roderick E. MacDougal of Cedar Rapids and L Mildred Greaves of New York City are listed with partners Jack Wrigley of Marion and Edith See rer of Anamosa, Lowell T. Brown of Oak Park Illinois and Madelyn J. Rath of Chicago in a series of social notices.
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Roderick E. MacDougal
Cedar Rapids
L. Mildred Greaves
New York City
Jack Wrigley
Marion
Edith Seerer
Anamosa
Lowell T. Browne
Oak Park, Ill
Madelyn J. Rath
Chicago
Rumors of German Coalition Rule and Dictatorship Circulate
A Reuters dispatch from Budapest reports rumors of a military dictatorship and a new coalition government in Germany. The agency notes the report is circulated with reserve and has no confirmation.
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London
INL
A_ Reuters
Dispatch
Budapest
Germany
Reuters
Mother testifies of threat against witness in union murder case
Dolly McCuistion Crawford, mother of a Dies committee witness arrested in New Orleans linked to a labor union murder, testified that her son faced dire consequences if he led anti communist actions in maritime work. She said President Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union warned of communist infiltration in the federal government.
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Washington
Dolly McCuistion Crawford
Dies Committee
New Orleans
Maritime Field
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
New York
Curran
Crawford
Sober warnings from INS and college leaders across cities
Helen Keller warns civilization faces a dark future as beauty wisdom and progress retreat before European and Asian insanities. Boston mayor LaGuardia calls for a united American front to defend moral force and people’s right to live happily and safely. Princeton’s Dr Harold W Dodds urges liberal arts colleges to bridge classroom study with real life applications.
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INS
New York
Helen Keller
Civilization
Europe
Asia
Boston
F. H. LaGuardia
Princeton
N. J
Harold W. Dodds
Another Heffelfinger May Be On The Way Up
MINNEAPOLIS Minn UP The cleated shoes of Pudge Heffelfinger, famous for Yale in the 1880s, may be matched by his grandnephews Frank and Mark Heffelfinger on Blake High School in Minneapolis. Pudge, who played 43 years of football, began at Minneapolis Central.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Pudge Heffelfinger
Yale
U. S
Frank
Mark Heffelfinger
Totten Heffelfinger
Pudge
Blake
Minneapolis
Minneapolis Central High School
Census official cites population growth slowing in US
Dr. Virgil D. Reed assistant director of the bureau of census said on Wednesday that the United States population growth has declined four-fifths since 1810 and experts believe it will be static within 40 years.
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Chicago
Virgil D. Reed
Bureau of Census
United States
Wife Sues Charles Morris in Hollywood Divorce Action
One week after separation, Suzanne Morris sue s actor Charles Morris in Hollywood. The case stems from a marital dispute and alleges civil action related issues. Suzanne Morris, formerly stage performer Susannah underae, is the plaintiff seeking legal redress.
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Hollywood
Ins
Charles Morris
Suzanne Morris
Suenderae
Morris Lagae
Attack on vessel near U S shores reported
The Dornach Shipping company vessel, 352 feet long and built in 1936, was described as operating among North American Cuban and European ports when the attack occurred. The report notes efforts to reach the scene sooner and details on the ship’s routes and ownership.
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Dornach Shipping Company, Limited
United States Considers Coalition Action if Neutrality Zone Violated
Washington reports that if the British freighter Coalmore is attacked within the neutrality zone the U S will consult with other American republics on possible steps. The Panamanian president delivers the declaration to belligerents and no official replies have yet been received. The British admiralty and France defer to belligerents while Germany remains unclear.
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Washington
United States
Panama
Halloween Night Patrols See Minimal Vandalism
Police reported limited damage after Halloween celebrations with a few crashes. A driver paid $50 fine with costs and license suspension for 60 days after a 40 mph collision. Log barriers and stone caps were moved or removed to prevent injuries as officers patrolled with an expanded force.
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Rock
Chadima
Moon” Mullin
Second Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Dave Williams
Williams
Harry Johnson
Thomas B. Powell
Bob Vinch
Henry Nemec
al Mikota
Cedar Rapids
Robins
Jim Smith
Winnie Ruth Judd Planned Missionary Life in Mexico
Rev. Paul R. Ankerberg said Winnie Ruth Judd, the 34 year old slayer, told him she planned to flee to Mexico to take up the Lord's work and asked him to hide her in a Phoenix apartment as she prepared to begin religious work.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Ins
Winnie Ruth Judd
Mexico
Arizona State Hospital
Paul R. Ankerberg
Tempe
It’s All Over Says Jolson on Ruby Keeler Divorce
Al Jolson told reporters in Pittsburgh that his 11 year marriage to Ruby Keeler is over. He said he spoke with her at Los Angeles airport before leaving for Washington and called her the finest woman, but added that it is all over. Jolson spoke after a two hour stopover delayed by a storm.
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Pittsburgh
Ali Jolson
Ruby Keeler
Washington
Jolson
Ruby
Los Angeles
Fatal Halloween Prank Causes Fatal Crash in Fort Wayne
Authorities say a Halloween prank deflating tires led to a crash that killed one motorist and injured two others in Fort Wayne. Fred Kramer, 19, and Anthony Karthall, 22, had parked their cars close together while deflating a tire. Charles Dick, 40, drove into the parked vehicles amid the prank.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Fred Kramer
Anthony Karthall
Charles Dick
Kramer
Karthall
Deaths Mrs Frances Pospishil of Cedar Rapids
Mrs Frances Pospishil born April 28 1869 in Parnik Bohemia died after a month long illness at Cedar Rapids hospital. Widow of Hynek Pospishil she moved here 58 years ago and left a son a daughter two sisters a brother seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending at Polansky chapel.
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Frances Pospishil
Eighth Street
Hynek Pospishil
Parnik
Bohemia
Frank
Barbara Unzeitig
Cedar Rapids
Libbie
Ignac
Emil
William Cejka
Josephine Neckville
Paul Trachta
Frank Unzeitig
Zdenka Havlicek Lodge
Zizkov Dub Lodge
Polansky Chapel
Funeral services for Cedar Rapids resident Edward W. Zisko
Funeral services for Edward W. Zisko lifelong Cedar Rapids resident who died at his home 1054 F avenue NW will be held at Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday Reverend George Stauffacher officiating and burial will follow in Cedar Memorial Park cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
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Edward W. Zisko
Cedar Rapids
F Avenue NW
Turner Chapel
George Stauffacher
Cedar Memorial Park
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances V. Vondracek
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances V. Vondracek who died at her Lemon Grove home will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Barta chapel conducted by Rev. Melvin L. Welke. Burial will follow in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
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Frances V. Vondracek
Lemon Grove
Calif
Barta Chapel
Melvin L. Welke
Bohemian National Cemetery
U. S. Debates Embargo Bill to Reconcile House Senate
The administration seeks repeal of the arms embargo while the Senate backs it. a senate-house conference is set to craft a single bill. Debate centers on Shanley’s motion to force an embargo on arms and warlike supplies as existing law. The House voted 237 to 177 to send the bill to conference, with party lines and gag accusations surfacing.
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Senate
House
Senate-House
Rep
Shanley
Pinball Machines Seized as Test Case Moves Forward
Police seize penny and nickel punchboards from grocers in a bid to classify machines with prizes as gambling devices. County Attorney Thompson and Chief Vlach note raids followed complaints of children spending lunch money on chances and prize free games at Belden Hill Cigar store.
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Thompson
Stanley
Belden Hill
Vlach
Brother urges death penalty removal for Winnie Ruth Judd
Burton McKinnell, a civil service employee and brother of Winnie Ruth Judd, appeals to remove the hanging death penalty as a step toward curing her alleged insanity. He claims dementia praecox can be treated with new shock therapies and cites an Arizona court stance on an accused accessory.
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Washington
INS
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona State Asylum
Burton McKinnell
Civil Service Commission
McKinnell
Judd
Arizona
Dietrich Seeks Tax Recheck on 1936 37 Deficiencies
Marlene Dietrich asks the board of tax appeals to redetermine alleged deficiencies totaling 142193 on 464604 for 1936 and 1937. She claims the Internal Revenue Bureau overestimated 1936 income by 124142 and 1937 income by 76373.
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Washington
LLP
Marlene Dietrich
Board of Tax Appeals
Internal Revenue Bureau
Reich Says It Will Not Peril Crew Of Flint
An authorized Berlin source said the American crew of the steamer City of Flint is not in danger from actions Germany might take. The vessel, under a Nazi prize crew, is heading to a German port, with no Berlin news on its crew’s whereabouts.
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Reich
Flint
Berlin
City of Flint
Germany
Cordell Hull
Britain
American freighter City of Flint under prize crew nears coast
Copenhagen dispatches say the captured American freight er City of Flint, with a German prize crew, sails slowly southward near the Norwegian coast close to Bodoe. Norwegian sources report the ship and crew are safe while near territorial waters, protected from British interception until reaching the German coast.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Bodoe
Baltic
Lofoten Islands
Skagerrak
Auction of Marvin Cone Paintings Tonight in Cedar Rapids
Prominent Iowa figures and Cedar Rapids residents are expected to attend a public auction of Marvin Cone paintings tonight at 8. Thirty nine works on display in the Cedar Rapids public library galleries will be sold, with local men and women serving as auctioneers including Arthur Poe Edward Sheehy Don Hines Jack Shepard Donald Barnes and others.
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Grant Wood
Earl E. Harper
University of Iowa School of Fine Arts
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Marvin Cone
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Arthur Poe
Edward Sheehy
Don Hines
Jack Shepard
Donald
Skipper of Captive Ship Defies Nazi Threat
Survivors of the torpedoed British steamer Stonegate report German captors threatened to blow up the American freighter unless the Stonegate officers were kept aboard as hostages. Captain Joseph A. Gainard refused and vowed the City of Flint would not move, saying the Germans could do their damnedest.
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London
INS
City of
Flint
City of Flint
Tromsoe
Norway
England
Stonegate
Joseph A. Gainard
William Keithley
Longshoremen Vote Strike If Wages and Hours Not Restored
The International Longshoremen's Union voted Tuesday night to strike New York within 48 hours unless 10 coastwise shipping companies grant wage increases and shorter hours.
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New York
International Longshoremen’s Union
Disappearance Of Tires Revealed In Marak Steffer Case
The Marak Steffer bankruptcy hearing in Mechanicsville revealed that Harry Enck admitted taking five tires before filing. Two tires valued wholesale $43.50 each and retail $85 were found in Galesburg and Lisbon, with a fifth tire used for a gas bill in Flanagan.
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M. B. O'Leary
Davenport
International Harvester Company
Harry Enck
Mechanicsville
Marak-Steffer Implement Company
Galesburg
Ill
Marak-Steffer
Michael W. O’rieley
Enck
O’rieley
United States
R. L. Whelan
Joseph Petrus
J. D. and
J. C. France
Sanket
Chris Peterson
Lisbon
Flanagan
O'Leary
Harvester Company
Harry Tipton
Marak-Steffer Company
Tuxedoed Newsboy Boosts Newspaper Sales in Pittsburgh
Leo Spinelli, a 23 year old newsboy in Pittsburgh, dresses in a tuxedo with a white shirt and polished shoes and speaks in a refined Oxford accent. He reports his newspaper sales have doubled as theater crowds and diners at supper spots buy papers from his smiling, formal presentation.
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Pittsburgh
Leo Spinelli
Spinelli
Leo
Byrd Cruiser Resumes Journey After Breakdowns
The Ant arctic snow cruiser, freed from a ditch, traveled 12 miles on Wednesday but then failed again. An oil line repair took two hours, and the 75,000-pound craft resumed toward Akron Ohio, with a new motor and wheel to be installed at Erie Pennsylvania and tires to be picked up in Akron on Thursday.
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Lima
Akron
Ohio
Erie
Death recalls feud as Tolbert Hatfield laid to rest
Burial of 89 year old Tolbert Hatfield in Ransom Kentucky recalls the Hatfield McCoy feud near the Kentucky West Virginia border. Hatfield, one of the last surviving witnesses to the feud, died after pneumonia followed a stroke in peace.
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Ransom
Tolbert Hatfield
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tolbert
Pickpockets Target Bank Patron in City Street Stunt
Fred A. Bliss of 524 Fifth Avenue SE said two men jostled him as he left Merchants National Bank Wednesday morning. One bent to pick up dropped glasses, the other bumped Bliss, who later discovered the $44 billfold was gone. Police have no description of the suspects.
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Merchants National Bank
Fred A. Bliss
Fifth Avenue SE
Bliss
U S War Plane Sales Await Arms Ban Repeal
New York and California plants hold about 700 American war planes awaiting repeal of the arms embargo before shipment to England and France. Orders total 5,750 planes from France and Britain with potential investments exceeding 600 million dollars. plants expand, boosting employment as demand grows.
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U. S
New York
Baltimore
California
United States
England
France
Waterlloo Railway to Buy Power From Public Service Co
Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern Railway will stop using its 1912 power plant and purchase electricity from Iowa Public Service. The $235,000 upgrade covers new substations and 60 cycle equipment replacing 25 cycle gear. The line serves Waterloo Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Waverly and operates streetcars in Cedar Falls.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls
New Cigaret Law Yields Dividends in Iowa
Des Moines report from the treasurer shows October 1939 cigaret tax receipts at 168,882 versus 148,754 in October 1938. September 1939 receipts stood at 167,752. Proponents argued the new anti cigarettes tax law could raise up to 800,000 annually.
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Des Moines
INS
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