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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1939
Page
7
Dr. Lin Yutang addressed 800 at St. Pauls Church describing Chinese life as balanced and non riotous. He contrasted Chinese and American views and praised China’s wartime resolve and leadership under Chiang Kai-Shek. He warned Japan cannot win and China will never yield, while modernizing with roads and rivers.
London report on the new session of Parliament the first since the war began. The king delivered the traditional speech and the peacetime pageantry was cut back. He traveled in a closed car while the crown went by automobile under police escort. The queen wore a black hat and silver fox fur as crowds lined the streets.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized Illinois Central Railroad to issue 7.8 million in equipment trust certificates to RFC and Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Pacific to issue 5.08 million. Illinois Central will buy 10 diesel electric locomotives and 2,500 freight cars. Milwaukee will buy 10 high speed steam locomotives for freight and 2,000 freight cars. Commissioner Porter dissented on the Illinois Central approval.
City council approved Christmas kettle placements at five downtown corners from December 2 to December 23. The council also raised the master plumbers indemnity bond from $1000. C A Ainsworth requested a street light at Maple Drive and Seventeenth Street NW due to hazardous disembarking. the request was granted.
The king and queen attended a Monday theater performance for the first time since the war began and joined the audience in singing Run, Rabbit, Run.
Paris reports six German submarine losses over the past ten days as French escorts engage in intensified sea warfare. A fierce ground clash 12 miles east of the Moselle front sees a German column repulsed after an artillery block. Weather limits air activity and the draft begins for men born in 1918.
Former President Herbert Hoover told a Colfax audience that liberty would perish in the United States if the nation entered the European conflict. He argued that entering the war would bring automatic dictatorship and that democracies fail when people accept servitude to escape hardship.
Washington AP reports census workers including supervisors clerical staff and enumerators must resign from public or political offices and abandon all political activity to qualify for federal decennial census work in a presidential year under the Hatch Act as explained by J C Capt assistant to the director.
Pierre South Dakota UP reports W T Girton former director of the state game and fish department was released on his own recognizance Tuesday awaiting a hearing on a charge of hunting deer without a license on November 2. He is also unemployed.
Pictured Panama Canal builder clue list with cross references Across and Down entries include Panama, beam, palm leaf, Irish, cost, bench, negative, female, river, grain, perish, musical note, building site, constellation, uproar, revel, dine, road, square meters, and various terms for objects, traits, and directions. The puzzle references a plural answer and a related previous session, blending mythic and practical terms.
Scout Troop No. 6 sponsored by First Congregational church held its annual Dad's Night led by Scoutmaster George Newland and Assistant Scoutmaster Jack Rice. Highlights included welcome by John Liddle comments by Dads Owen Tisdale and Rollo S Pickford and a look at senior Scout aims. The evening featured a checkers tournament with 42 games. Mr Huntington and Mr Houser split eight games while 12 wins, 4 losses, and 26 draws were recorded for Huntington. Ralph Kennedy won third and H D Mac Gugan fourth in Cedar Rapids event slated for early 1940.
J. W. Houser wins the First Tienay correspondence checker championship after a year long, 16-entry event. In a double knockout format Houser reaches the seventh round to face D. M. Hunt.
Kansas City report says Jean and Jane Lucas five year old twins found a two inch fire cracker. Jean put it in her mouth and was burned superficially while Jane scorched her fingers. Jane said she tried to smoke it and eat it as it pops.
A reader argues workers gain from CIO support while attacks on capital ignore labor’s plight. The writer contrasts CIO with AFL and laments wage and hour abuses, urging support for organized labor. He cites 1929 hardships, Wagner Act tensions, and calls for better treatment of common laborers. The note ends with critique of corn price policy and government subsidies amid large corn stocks.
A feeder warns that current farm prices keep hogs and cattle below cost and the market will worsen. He notes 90 percent of Iowa farmers can seal corn at 57c and predicts mass dumping of hogs and cattle. He argues government purchases will rise, including steel bins, as rail stations await further action.
Hollywood reporters and fans witnessed Alaskan engineer Henry Jones and stunt man Ray Johnson as they used a doodle bug at the Hollywood Bowl to probe a buried treasure tale tied to Juarez. The device unearthed a rusty coin and a watch before the dig paused with hope of deeper riches.
In Minneapolis two 15 year olds tried death by own action using car exhaust on a lonely road. A note said they hoped their father would quit drinking. A passing motorist alerted authorities. deputies freed the car, and the boys were rushed to University hospital in serious condition.
On November 27 1939 the undersigned were appointed and qualified as executors of Cyrenus Cole late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All persons indebted must pay promptly and those with claims should file them with Merchants National Bank Cedar Rapids Iowa and Harold R Trewin executors. Attorneys Trewin Simmons and Trewin.
In Bartlesville Oklahoma Frank Phillips, 66, renowned oil man and company chairman, was the unlikely center of a citywide birthday celebration. Residents filled the town with banners and greetings as a parade would honor his life from pioneer roots to banking and oil success.
CHICAGO UP Chicago seized another prohibition era figure as Judge James F. Fardy ordered George Bugs Moran to county jail for one year. Moran and ally Frankie Parker were convicted May 10 of conspiring to pass forged American Express traveler checks worth $62,000. Parker also faces a one year term after completing a two year federal sentence.
Moran appeared downcast and uncommunicative when jailed after a conviction in another counterfeiting case. He had been free on a $35,000 bond for appellate review, but the time limit expired and a writ of commitment was issued.
Milo Naxera reports to police that for two years ice cream has smeared his bakery windows up to three times weekly. He asks police to station a squad car to watch for the ice cream smearer.
In Omaha AP dispatch Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, predicted the average life span will grow seven years in the next two decades. He cited science and education as tools to fight nine major killers including heart disease pneumonia cancer brain hemorrhage and kidney and birth defects.
Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York said a Wheeling American Legion post asked him to run for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination. He would consider if a real demand arose for a World War veteran who favors isolation from foreign wars but supports cooperation for world peace.
Many sufferers misjudge backache as its true cause. The ad claims tired kidneys release poisons into the blood, causing pains and swelling. Doan’s Pills are recommended for over 40 years to flush waste from kidney tubes and ease discomfort.
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