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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 01, 1940

Page

30

Women and Men Split Over Purses and Pockets

A photo feature contrasts men and women on pockets and purses. Hawkeye Express president Hugh DeWees shows his many pockets and contents while Gladyce Getz of Guaranty Bank carries a compact filled with personal items. Both argue over where items belong and how to avoid losing belongings.

Hugh DeWees Twenty-second Street Hawkeye Motor Express, Inc Willkie Carl Dueser Omen Gladyce Getz Tenth Street Guaranty Bank Miss Getz

War pressures golfers as workers swap bags for pay

In Pittsburgh area golf clubs face a shortage as defense industry expansion draws older caddies to mills and plants for better wages. Players carry their own clubs hoping younger workers will fill the gap soon.

Pittsburgh Defense Industries

War Headlines Sweep Europe and Beyond in Turbulent Times

The report covers Romania yielding Transylvania to Hungary after earlier concessions to Bulgaria, with ongoing Axis and Allied raids across Europe. It notes German air raids on London and Berlin, Italian bombings near Suez and Haifa, and rising tensions in Greece and China. It also mentions Lin Yutang’s remark in Chungking and political debates in the United States about postwar depor tations and Philippine independence plans for 1946.

Hitler Mussolini Romania Hungary Bulgaria Dobruga Berlin Italy Turin Suez Canal Haifa Palestine Egypt Greece Chungking Lin Yutang George Paish United States Philippine Islands Manuel Quezon Morocco Duke de Guise France

The Dinner Pail Tribute to Workers of Progress

The poem lauds unnamed laborers who span mountains and rivers, forge and mine, lay steel and track, and build infrastructure. It emphasizes their quiet, enduring toil over battlefield fame, celebrating the workers who carry the dinner pail as the true heroes of progress.

Eight fringe schools near Cedar Rapids to open Tuesday

Eight grade schools on the city’s fringe will begin fall term Tuesday, announced County Superintendent Walter A Shupp. Schools include Shaeffer Heights Esther Taber Lone Willow Marie Booth Rose Hill No 3 Monica Sullivan Pleasant Grove No 11 Frances Bah Jane Reed Rosedale Minnie Crew Leone Wyckoff Edgewood No 1 Lorraine Wheelis Edith Kelsey Rachel Baker Marjorie Jacobson Edgewood No 2 Clara Plinsky Edith Olphant Edgewood No 3 Mrs Lelia Korston.

Cedar Rapids Walter A Shupp Shaeffer Heights Esther Taber Lone Willow Marie Booth Rose Hill Rockford Road Monica Sullivan Pleasant Grove Country Club Frances Bah Jane Reed Lorraine Wheelis Edith Kelsey Rachel Baker Marjorie Jacobson Edgewood No. 2 Highway 149 Clara Plinsky Edith Olphant Edgewood No Lelia Korston

Thief Eludes Cop by Entering Bedroom and Stealing

In Rocky Mount North Carolina a thief climbed the porch at night and entered a policeman's bedroom. The intruder removed a flower pot, stole a pistol and $24, and fled while the officer reported the incident to police.

Rocky Mount Cap

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