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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1939
Page
27
Americans opened their pocketbooks as retail trade perked up to the best weekly year-to-year improvement for 1937. Manufacturing held at May 1937 levels, with orders extending 3 to 6 months of virtual capacity. war demand and post-recession recovery boosted consumption and inventories.
Rudy W. Weber of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance in Chicago will take sixteen district salesmen to Chicago for the Midwest region fiftieth anniversary celebration on November 16 and 17. The trip honors their half million dollars in new business in the 50 day period ending last Tuesday, with Cedar Rapids ranking fourth among fifty two districts.
For the fourteenth straight week Cedar Rapids bank clearings exceed the year-ago level. A one day loss due to Armistice day closures kept weekly totals under 1.44 million, with the week ending Nov 10 at 1,308,518.24 versus 1,007,863.41 the prior year week ending Nov 12, 1938.
Toddville Iowa farmer O B McClintock credits Natex with lifting chronic fatigue dizziness and headaches. He reports improved digestion steadier nerves and strength to husk corn after using Natex from Podzimek's Pharmacy. He urges locals to consult the representative at 100 Second Ave SE opposite the Post Office.
Local blog records permit activity across the city including new dwellings such as M. Feiereisen at 2014 Mallory street SW and Miss Ruth Whaley at 3000 C avenue NE with costs of 3200 and 3500 dollars. Other items include reroofs additions and remodels at multiple addresses, with firms like City Realty and Krejci Brothers involved in commercial projects.
The document lists quotes and bonds not as firm bids but price ranges from recent transactions. It includes Central States Pt. & Lt. Corp. 7% and Interstate Power Co. 7% with various price points, along with Town Southern Utilities issues and a note on Western Grocer Co. stock. A stray line mentions the Columbia River’s average flow of 280,000 feet per second.
An Iowa Fire Association and Cedar Rapids Insurance Agents forum will convene at the Roosevelt hotel starting at 10 am for Linn and surrounding counties. About 150 to 200 agents are expected with sessions led by George Cockburn Jr and P J Payseur and with remarks by Lieut. Gov. B B Hickenlooper and Cedar Rapids Mayor F K Hahn.
Professor Karl E. Lieb of the University of Iowa will discuss the relation of labor organizations and national income at the Cedar Rapids Association of Credit Men dinner. The talk follows Lieb being cited as a national authority on economics and recent studies of labor problems and national income. The event is at the Lafayette cafe next Thursday night.
Erling Larson, president of Larson Hopkirk and Company, announces the election of Henry Gundling as vice-president. Gundling has been with the Cedar Rapids firm for years after working with The Gazette and serves as treasurer of the Inter-Service Luncheon club council and as past president of the Canopus club. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Madeline Beauty shops celebrate fifteen years with events on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Participants include B. Abraham Opal McCloskey Willa Nash Val Smejkal Lumir Blaylock Violet Sojka Mable Abraham and Beatrice Hookom at locations 1121 Third Street SE 702 Avenue NE and 1510 Mount Vernon Avenue SE.
Conveyances and mortgages recorded in Linn county from November 3 to November 9 are listed by Linn County Abstract Company. 56 conveyances 43 mortgages. mortgages total 106 022 16 dollars. another section cites 466 eas.
The NY market faced two holidays and election news as stocks struggled to surpass prior highs. Traffic turned upward late Friday signaling a possible bottom and potential advance, with the business index also rising except for a seasonal car loadings dip. The week’s most active stocks were:
Washington N L Black retires after 53 years in printing as Frazier and Black sell to Clifford Campbell. Campbell has a decade in printing, starting at Evening Journal, with Wellsman Advance and others. Alfred Bakkum to take over Val Elsheimer meat market November 15. Vera Kruger adds greenhouse expansion. Frank Euler buys O W Sheaffer estate building to reoccupy 1900 site. Free Methodist church moved for Dr C L Clossen to remodel as office across from Sacred Heart.
Captain Fritz Wiedemann German consul general testified that a letter attributed to him is correct. The note says Princess Stefanie Hohenlohe Waldenburg laid groundwork making the Munich agreement possible. The breach suit seeks 5000 pounds yearly for Europe political representation.
A worn pigeon was to be released near Mexico City to track down individuals reporting to a German U-boat. A pigeon found at Lake Texcoco carried three messages including a coast position and a German clipping, with a third in invisible ink. One note bore the signoff Lenz superior captain of the navy and the mark WZ-69.
Seven U S Army bombing planes landed smoothly in Panama City after an uneventful flight from Miami en route to Brazil on a goodwill mission.
Construction of the boiler house for the new Springville school began last Wednesday by local contractor M. Mildenstein, the low bidder among four. His bid was 4749 dollars. The separate boiler house will be finished in five to six weeks.
The U S Chamber of Commerce urged 40 revenue law changes to revive business and curb deficits. Key proposals include cutting the corporate tax to 15 percent, restoring consolidated returns, easing surtaxes to 40 percent, simplifying capital gains, and repealing capital stock and excess profits taxes when feasible.
In London on Saturday crowds gathered along Whitehall to observe two minutes of silence for World War I dead as Big Ben rang 11. A woman shouted hypocrites and ran toward the Cenotaph before a officer escorted her away.
Music lovers in northeastern Iowa will hear the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos at Luther College on February 22. The 90 piece orchestra opens its thirty seventh season this fall and is on its mid winter tour.
Iowa cities and towns used PWA funds to build 83 waterworks projects in six years at a total cost of 3 100 379. The improvements enhanced fire protection and water supply, with nationwide totals of 2 691 projects costing 380 million serving about 25 million people.
Italian historian Dr Gaetano Salvemini, exiled for anti fascist activity, says Mussolini’s reshuffle places the regime’s key organization under pro German control. He calls Italy’s neutrality claim misleading and argues Italy remains Hitler’s military partner by treaty.
CIO United Auto Workers attorneys plan an appeal after the Michigan unemployment commission denied benefits to more than 50 000 Chrysler workers idle for a month. The first step is an appeal to a commission referee with possible further action to a special board, circuit court, and finally the Michigan Supreme Court.
Esther Gadway of Omaha was ordered to appear before District Judge Herbert Rhoades on Tuesday to show cause why she did not pay the second $15 monthly temporary alimony to Harley Gadway. He claimed income from a rooming house funded by their joint savings while he was unemployed. the court had set alimony at $15 monthly. The first payment was made October 8 but the second was missed.
Influential senate democrats discuss delaying controversial issues until after the 1940 election. A high ranking leader notes the political truce on neutrality legislation aided morale and urges a brief next session. Taxation and the reciprocal trade program could be postponed to 1941 to avoid intra party clashes.
Rep. Kent Keller proposes an American army school to train volunteers aged 15 to 18. The program would start with 21,000 youths and grow to 100,000 annually, with up to two hours daily drill and a three year curriculum. About 250 selections per congressional district would be handed to the War Department to operate multiple schools nationwide.
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