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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1939
Page
2
A columnist notes about 50 000 watched Iowa Hawks game in Iowa City and many more followed on radio or discussed it as a calming, unifying force during a tense fall. The piece links sports to mental relief and suggests security comes from personal effort rather than state provision.
A Zagreb dispatch citing a foreign attache says German troops fired on workers’ quarters to subdue the Prague revolt. Czech students barricaded the university, repelled Gestapo with desks and missiles, and faced two hours of armored car assault.
A reminiscence on friendship and the art of dialogue through A A Milne's Eeyore and Rabbit. The piece laments hurried chatter and the lack of attentive listening, urging leisure and true exchange in personal talk.
Fort Wayne dispatch reports Jackie Coogan, now 25, says he will wed Harriet Madden in New York City next fall and pursue a stage career after his Hollywood marriage to Betty Grable ends in a divorce final 10 months hence. Miss Madden, 23, has been in pictures three years and now appears in an ice revue at a New York hotel.
Iowa City marked a three day celebration for the 13-9 win over Minnesota's Gophers. A second walkout in two weeks occurred as President Gilmore and deans approved a Sunday program organized by fraternities and sororities. Senator Herring tied Floyd of Rosedale with the blue ribbon, the trophy for the annual game.
The piece notes Hoover’s push to retire Mrs. Roosevelt’s husband to private life and to align with others seeking GOP gains. It mentions possible delegates to next year’s Republican National Convention and doubts Hoover will handle Europe’s refugees before finishing his work for the party.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt urged a single coordinated agency to handle the European refugee problem and indicated former President Herbert Hoover as its head. She pointed to Mr Weaver as the most experienced for such a post, and noted overlapping agencies cause confusion. She did not confirm Hoover but did not name others. She also weighed the third term question and discussed unemployment and youth restlessness.
James Sorenson, 24, of 1701 Sixth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids, was arrested at 3 am Sunday for leaving the scene after injuring Highway Patrolman Harry Cloud directing traffic near Town City after the football game. Cloud, treated at Mercy hospital, was later at home. Sorenson admitted drinking prior to the incident.
The Red Star urged youth worldwide to oppose continuation of the current capitalistic war. It claimed US Britain France and India students are against war while the Soviet position strengthens as capitalism collapses. A Pravda dispatch echoed growing anti war sentiment in the United States citing The Yanks Are Not Coming.
The article reports a cloudy Monday with a slow rise in temperature from a 27 degree minimum at 7 am to 31 at 9:30 am and 36 at 2:30 pm. Sunday saw a low of 31 at 8 am and a high of 46 at 3 pm, 40 at 7 pm, and 33 at midnight, per Chambers Insurance records.
Mrs. Bette Ward 27 widow of Marion Lawrence Ward one of 26 Squalus submarine sinking victims gave birth to a son Sunday in Chicago.
John E. Swanson of Colon Nebraska appeared in Wahoo court as his son Merle Swanson pressed action to have his father legally declared dead after being missing since 1911. Swanson was only narrowly spared a death declaration while still alive Monday.
Cedar Rapids police logged only three accidents and one minor injury over the weekend despite the large football crowd. Traffic Capt. Gordon Hughes praised drivers for courtesy and caution and noted traffic controllers helped route cars after the game. One injury involved Glenn Crouch, 32, who suffered forehead cuts when his car struck a parked vehicle on First Avenue near Nineteenth Street.
The Swiss minister in Berlin protested Germany over violation of Swiss air space after German anti aircraft fire hit a French plane. In Basel, two shoestore salesgirls were wounded by a sidewalk explosion and a six year old girl was lightly hurt. An unexploded shell cap buried in a garden as shrapnel damaged Swiss territory in Richen suburb.
Fritz Thyssen, German industrialist linked to aiding the Nazi rise, declared in a letter to United Press that his opposition to the war and the Reich government policy forced him to leave Germany. He and his family live in Locarno, Switzerland.
Saginaw Michigan reports George Baisch of Detroit, 22, tired from a deer hunt, was taken to a cold storage plant where more than 100 deer carcasses hung. He faced charges of breaking and entering while seeking to avoid punishment for the hunt.
Washington AP Gen Thurman Arnold warned labor unions they face federal anti trust prosecutions when unions use legal rights of association illegally He outlined five example abuses including price fixing extortion forced hiring and destroying collective bargaining and urged fair enforcement to protect legitimate union activity.
Roy E Choate, general chairman for the Community Chest drive, urged workers to raise 16161 in pledges before the Tuesday 6 30 pm drive closing dinner. The campaign uses a football analogy and aims to meet a local fundraising goal in Cedar Rapids.
Archer C. Sinclair of Indianapolis chairs the first two drives as the Community Chest marks a silver anniversary. Cedi Rapids returns as principal speaker for a dinner beginning at 6:30 pm, with a victory banquet and theater outing planned. Labor representatives attend the Monday luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce alongside union and industry members.
London reports say anti air craft batteries and planes repelled a German aircraft that entered the Greater London area. A German reconnaissance plane was fired on near a northern Scottish town and an air alarm briefly sounded with an all clear in about 20 minutes. Authorities say a separate raid on southeastern Scotland near the Forth was driven back by Royal Air Force forces.
Roosevelt has assured aims and plan for preferential tax treatment for manufacturers expanding facilities to support national defense. The Internal Revenue Bureau would grant special treatment under existing authority with no new legislation. Closings agreements with the government would set depreciation and obsolescence rates.
Amsterdam AP reports periodic leaves for Netherlands soldiers canceled November 10 will be restored Tuesday. Soldiers will receive the usual two days off every two weeks as announced by authorities.
President Roosevelt teased reporters at the Roosevelt estate during the cornerstone ceremony for a private papers library. He said he hopes his collections will be open to public inspection by spring 1941, sparking renewed talk about a possible third term and access to New Deal records. He returned to Washington Monday after the event.
Two more British ships and a French steamer were sunk in mine flooded waters off the English coast, British spokesmen said Nazi Germany has resorted to indiscriminate mine laying as a desperate tactic in submarine warfare. The tally reached nine vessels since Saturday near Britain, with the freighter P ensilva and the trawler Wig- in loss.
Berlin report says the German admiralty denies German mines caused weekend sinkings off England. They dispute British claims that submarines sowed mines and question their ability to do so. They cite 10 days of heavy winds preventing mine drift and allege Britain is laying mines to force neutral ships into convoys.
The report notes 177 dead or missing across ten sinkings with the Wilmore's crew drowned and the Pensilva rescued. The Torchbearer held nine aboard at last. The London Evening Standard links the events to a sea blitzkrieg and a feared magnetic mine. Mines drifted ashore at Coxyde causing damage and several ships’ losses are tallied.
Arthur Bugs Back laments Panama’s sudden decline in status as the United States remains skeptical of Panama’s maritime ambitions. The piece contrasts past praise with current doubts about Panama’s merchant fleet and canal influence.
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