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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1940
Page
3
Majority of Iowa representatives oppose compulsory service preferring voluntary enlistment first. Reps Martin Harrington Le Compte Gwynne Gilchrist Goodwin Talle Jacobsen discuss amendments and timing as the bill is considered. Harrington urges volunteers first with potential conscription if short.
Two men Ellis Leehy aged 30 and George Teeple aged 27 were held on an open charge after distributing handbills protesting the Burke Wadsworth conscription bill. The leaflets urged citizens to contact Representative William Jacobsen and oppose the bill. Several hundred handbills signed by the Tri City section of the communist party were confiscated.
Iowa City AP University of Iowa Registrar Harry G. Barnes outlines a six day orientation and staggered registration for over 7,000 students from Sept 23 to 30. Freshmen in liberal arts pharmacy engineering and nursing report Sept 2.
Fred Zimmerman employed on the Wyoming Onslow road was arrested Sunday by Wyoming city marshal Jake Schoff and turned over to Sheriff Henry Eichhorn. He appeared Monday in Justice McIntyre's court, waived to the grand jury, and became a county boarder until the grand jury convenes.
Columbus Junction schools opened with 167 high school and 107 junior high students. R. L. Hibbs becomes superintendent. New staff include W. M. Alsip as principal coach and manual training, Marvin Jedele in vocational training, and Lenora Foreman as second grade teacher.
Bernard E. Manley of the Iowa liquor control commission urged the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association to dedicate a small portion of state liquor revenue to education and control programs. He warned against party politics corrupting liquor departments and framed liquor as a moral and social issue.
Isabelle Mowbray daughter of A G Mowbray of Waterloo married Rev Alvin J Starke of Davenport at Immanuel Lutheran Church Waterloo. The ceremony featured her father reading the nuptial service with maid of honor Dorothy Mowbray and attendants including Eloise Green. The couple will reside in Davenport after Sept 15 with Starke recently ordained and serving in Shellsburg.
The Iowa health department advised cities to keep schools open as infantile paralysis cases rise in August. Dr. C. F. Jordan said exposure occurs outside schools as often as inside and closing schools increases public fear. Through Sept 1, 224 cases were recorded with August totaling 175. September is typically the peak month.
WATERLOO UP Three new cases of infantile paralysis reported in Waterloo bring the total afflicted since August 1 to 33. In nearby Dunkerton a fall festival was canceled as a precautionary measure, though no cases have been reported there.
Election of officers for the Johnson county Tuberculosis and Health association precedes the 1940 Christmas seal drive. Funeral services held for Anna Vodicka and obituaries note Mrs Callie Swords. Roy Flickinger elected to Phi Beta Kappa senate and as north central district chair. Johnson county issued 71 marriage licenses in August. Iowa City Poultry and Egg reports sale of the Chick Hatchery to Keith Wilson and Ralph Litrell.
In Muscatine Iowa a coroner's jury absolved W H Swailes of Lone Tree of blame in the death of Fred Scheetz age 58 who was struck by Swailes car while walking on a country road. Swailes was exonerated by the jury.
Communist party headquarters in Des Moines announces Earl Browder the New York candidate for President will address an event Saturday night September 28 on the topic The American Farmer and the Imperialist War.
Mary Ruth Morris and John Ervin Cook were married Saturday evening by Justice R. C. Turner near Winthrop. They will live on a farm near Winthrop, joined by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Gaffney who attended from Winthrop.
The Marion city council referred a takeover petition for an intake storm sewer on West Eighth Avenue to the sewer committee. Petitioners Ratliff Stark and others seek bituminous paving on Second Avenue from Tenth to Eleventh streets with amended signatures. Citizens seek sewer connections and grade concerns were noted. a large Austin family reunion is listed with attendees.
Mr and Mrs W A Ladd of 973 Eleventh Street celebrate their sixty third wedding anniversary on Labor Day with extended family visiting from Rockford Chicago Canton Toledo Des Moines Morley Anamosa Medford Wis and others. Local notices include sales listings and community events from Marion Iowa newspapers.
Pleasant Grove school No 11 west of Marion opened the new year Tuesday morning with a flag raising program led by Frances Wahl and Jane Reed. The program included Invocations The Americans Creed songs and the pledge to the flag. The event featured readings by the Eighth grade and performances by the school.
Le Roy Cooper and Mrs Phillip Bunting hostesses. Miss Dorothy Greenleaf of Savannah and Mrs Kenneth Greenleaf of Detroit visit Miss Greenleaf’s aunt Mrs Fred M Blakeslee. The Ivanhoe club opens fall season Monday at 2 30 p m at 1700 Eighth avenue with Mrs Andrew P Munson hosting and Mrs Ralph Fitzgerald in charge. The study book is The Black Dwarf and a Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott. Prairie Union A and L club meets Friday at Prairie Chapel church with Mr and Mrs David Hindman hosting. Birthday club gathers Wednesday at the Munson home after Dutch treat dinner to honor Mrs Munson. Hickey family visits Laurens with Harold Ford. Miss Helene Fiedler goes to Pattonsburg Mo to stay with Miss Jeanne Lanning. H H Fiedler and son Harold visit Paul J Fiedler en route to Albuquerque. Volunteer fire department meets tonight at 7 30 at the fire station. E B Castle returns from Mount Vernon after repairing the Munson farm.
Elsa, a German shepherd weighing 65 pounds valued at 1009 dollars, has provided the eyes for Clyde Wilson of Los Angeles for seven years. The dog drew attention in Manchester as Wilson visited his cousin Frank J. Wilson, planning to return to the West with Elsa as guide.
Des Moines Iowa Methodist Ladies Aid groups will merge into The Women's Society of Christian Service following national guidelines. The new body will coordinate home and foreign missions and social activities across 900 Iowa churches, with divisions for home missions foreign missions and Christian social relations. It will organize study groups watch liquor and tobacco issues, and encourage voting.
President Vivian T Smith announced Miss Catherine Dolch of Urbana Illinois is selected as the speech and dramatics teacher at Upper Iowa University to succeed Miss Erickson. Dolch holds a Master degree in speech and dramatics from Michigan and has graduate work at Northwestern and North Carolina plus extensive platform and stage training.
Miss Martha Greenlee and Charles Johnson, both of Cedar Rapids, were married at the Methodist church in Anamosa with a single ring ceremony. Attendants were Miss Grace Flanagan and Don Holmes, also of Cedar Rapids, at the event conducted by the Rev J K Delahooke.
In Waterloo, Hattie Arends Neeley altered her marital status from wife to divorcee and back to wife within ten minutes. The sequence began with a divorce decree for Donald G Arends, followed by a marriage license for James Edwin Neeley. The party reappeared in court with two witnesses for the ceremony.
Four University of Iowa officials will address a freshmen conference September 21 and 22 to discuss problems faced by new students. Acting President Cres ter A Phillips Dean Geerer Stoddard and Dr E E Harper head the faculty speakers at the event.
STATE COLLEGE Pa AP evidence suggests stuttering in children worsens when adults notice it and report it to the American Speech Correction Association. Prof Wendell Johnson of the University of Iowa argues adults’ reaction shapes the disorder, with some children showing repetition for fun rather than true stuttering.
Fayette high school senior Claxton, 16, is recovering in a Color City hospital from a preseason football injury. He received a ruptured spleen after colliding with a teammate during blocking. Three transfusions were needed to stabilize him as his pulse and respiration nearly stopped. Claxton is active in other extra-curriculars and is the son of Mr and Mrs F B Claxton of Fayette.
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