City Briefs and Personals Highlight Local Meetings and Visits
Community notices list a series of short items including hospital admissions for Betty Lou Rogers and Harriet Cook after appendectomies, with both reported in good condition and receiving visitors. Networking gatherings are noted for General Dodge circle No. 88, Cedar Rapids lodge p. 141 I O F, and Jan Hus lodge No. 51 I C C F, detailing picnics, entertainment, flag drill, and bazaar planning. A navy recruiting office head, Chief Petty Officer Moon, returns from a 36 day California tour with Mrs Moon and Mrs Moats, while Knights of Pythias plan fall activities and a grand lodge report from Waterloo.
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E. Moon
California
F. E. Moats
C Avenue NE
Moon
Navy
Jan Hus Lodge No. 51
I.C.C.F
Waterloo
Birthday of E R Moore Noted at Roosevelt Hotel
E R Moore of 42834 Ninth Avenue SE celebrated his birthday on Saturday. He was 49 years old on the ninth day of the ninth month of 1939 and is employed at the Roosevelt hotel.
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E. R. Moore
Ninth Avenue SE
Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids Dental Society to Hold Clinic at Montrose Hotel
The Cedar Rapids Dental Society will hold an afternoon and evening meeting beginning at 1 p.m. Monday at the Montrose hotel. Dr. Carl T. Osterm of Des Moines will conduct a clinic with a patient on full upper and lower impressions.
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Cedar Rapids Dental Society
Montrose Hotel
Carl T. Osterm
Des Moines
Gas siphoning reported in residential alley
Allen Thompson of 1430 Fourth Avenue SE reported to police that between 9 10 p m Friday and 7 55 a m Saturday someone siphoned five gallons of gas from his parked car in a driveway off the alley behind his home.
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Allen Thompson
Fourth Avenue SE
Front license plate stolen from car on Fifteenth Street
O. L. Foulks reported the theft to police, saying a front plate was taken from his car parked on Fifteenth Street between A and B avenues NE between 8 a.m. and noon Friday, leaving the rear plate intact.
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O. L. Foulks
Tenth Street
Foulks
Fifteenth Street
B Avenues
Navy recruits enlisted from local office Friday
Five men were enlisted in the Navy Friday through the local recruiting office in charge of E. E. Moon and James W. Keene. The recruits include Garner Discus, son of Howard R. Discus of Westwood Acres, Arthur Bain, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Bain of 1516 C Avenue NE, and Lloyd Vandeventer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Vandeventer, among others.
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Navy
E. E.moon
James W. Keene
Garner Discus
Howard R. Discus
Wood Acres
Arthur Bain
B. la. Bain
C Avenue
Lloyd Vandeventer
Peter Vande
Enlistment Plans Reported for September 27
Vinton and Montezuma areas raise four more enlistments as recruiters announce on September 27 that four additional men will be enlisted and several vacancies remain open. The Taylors of Montezuma and the Phillippes of Vinton are named among those connected to the draft.
St. Clair Heads Fishing Trip With GE Delegates
Charles St. Clair proprietor of St. Clair Appliance left Saturday for a week long fishing trip to Stony Point Leech Lake Minnesota. He travels with Ted Haney Cedar Rapids GE representative Al Kies Waterloo GE representative and Ben Allen Minneapolis GE company manager.
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Charles St. Clair
St. Clair Appliance
Stony Point
Leech Lake
Minn
Ted Haney
Cedar Rapids
General Electric Company
al Kies
Waterloo
Ben Allen
Minneapolis
House Scene Of Three Tragedies In Seven Months
Omaha report details three deaths in the same South Omaha residence within seven months. Eugene Rudy, 40, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. February had Dallas Petersen, 35, die after gas was turned on. March saw Petersen’s widow attempt suicide by gas in the now unoccupied house. A long note linked to Petersen’s death was found with Rudy.
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Omaha
Eugene Rudy
South Omaha
Dallas Petersen
Petersen
Rudy
Sarpy County
Nebraska
Local Entries Invited In Gas Model Airplane Contest At Iowa City
Cedar Rapids area gas model airplane builders are invited to enter a gas model contest sponsored by the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce on Sunday September 17 at the Iowa City airport. Contest runs 9 a.m. to 12 noon with no entry fee.
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Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Cupid's Emissary Dies Fittingly in Wellsburg
Harry J. McGrumphy, 49, who built a marriage broker business in Wellsburg West Virginia by handling out-of-town license filings, died suddenly in Brooke County courthouse after requesting a license. He had helped many couples, defying a three day wait law by mailing applications to non-residents and filing early for a fee.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Harry J. McGrumphy
Brooke County
McGrumphy
Gretna Green
U S Red Cross Aids Poland With 50000 Relief Funds
The American Red Cross announced 50000 for Polish relief including hospital tents drugs and blankets to be shipped to Poland. It also advanced 25000 to the American hospital in Paris to meet emergency demands created by the conflict. Norman H. Davis said chapters nationwide would receive contributions to rush assistance.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Poland
Red Cross
Paris
Norman H. Davis
The
United States
Red Cross to Aid European Conflict Victims
The Red Cross plans a $25,000 grant to evacuate American patients from a Paris hospital to Etretat on the French coast and to purchase a 100 bed hospital unit. The American hospital has been designated by the French medical service as a base hospital for wounded soldiers under an agreement with the French government.
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Paris
Etretat
Red Cross
Predict War Will Speed Solution of U S Mexican Row
Washington dispatches indicate European war pressures may hasten settlement of the Mexican American oil expropriation dispute. Officials note German Mexican charter agreements ended, cutting Mexico off from oil shipments while the Anglo French blockade and Germany's war needs disrupt trade and supposed reciprocal shipments.
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Washington
INS
Grist
Mexico
Germany
Atlantic
Berlin puzzled by fleeting Goering reference to U S
Berlin observers debated a brief remark by Hermann Goering during a speech to munitions workers at Tegel near Berlin. He suggested Britain might rely on the United States, while Germany could do without America, citing trade figures and World War I precedent.
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Berlin
United States
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Russia
Reich
America
Goering
Tegel
Foreign Office
Britain
Polish Immigrant Sees No Revolt Against Nazis
A Cedar Rapids Polish Jewish immigrant, fluent in six languages, warns that German oppression under Hitler crushes any prospect of revolt. He describes fear of Nazi surveillance, explains Polish frailty under occupation, and advocates population trade to secure Poland a seaport and economic independence.
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Adolf Hitler
Cedar Rapids
Poland
United States
Poand
Mr. X
Vienna
Paris
Europe
America
Tam
Germany
Col
Josef Beck
Goebbels
Beck
Russia
Plan Cooperation To Keep Prices Stable
Washington officials under President Roosevelt unveiled a government industry cooperation plan to stabilize food prices and curb profiteering. A meeting on September 19 will form policy with farm, merchant, milling, banking and publishing groups and the U S Chamber of Commerce. Prices for nine foods rose sharply Aug 15 to Sept 7 with sugar and lard leading gains. efforts center on a cooperative program aided by potential new legislation to combat unscrupulous traders and the hoarding fear driving shortages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Houston
Portland
Cleveland
Washington, D. C
Los Angeles
Roosevelt seeks retailers help to curb unwarranted price rises
President Roosevelt asked national retailers to cooperate in preventing unwarranted price increases spurred by the European war. He warned such actions would curb consumer purchasing power and slow business growth, while Lew Hahn of the National Retail Dry Goods Association said retailers cannot control production and wholesale pricing and oppose price hikes when possible.
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New York
Roosevelt
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Lew Hahn
Association
Recreation Permit Office Closed in City Hall
The summer recreation permit office in City Hall basement was shut last week and permits are now issued in the Playground Commission Room 501. Marie Miller, permit clerk, reported 279 baseball permits for Daniels and Riverside parks, 9142 tennis permits, and 753 picnic permits. About 12000 people used park facilities monthly.
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City Hall
University Student Grows Flowers for Book Project
Clifford Taylor, a University of Iowa botany major, tended a city lot sized garden near 1915 E avenue NW to study cultivation of annuals for a Midwest book. He tracked germination, blooming, and transplant performance across 150 varieties, discovering browallia outdoors excels and many plants adapt to outdoor spots with careful watering and sun or shade considerations.
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E Avenue NW
Clifford Taylor
William Taylor
Middlewest
Iowa
University of Iowa
Edna Duncan
Pelley Sues Dies Committee For 3 Million
William Dudley Pelley chief of the Silver Shirts filed a federal suit seeking 3.15 million dollars against members of the House committee investigating un American activities and an investigator. He claims the committee publicly charged him as a representative of the German government a racketeer a violator of criminal statutes and a public enemy. Pelleys Silver Shirt group has been under committee scrutiny.
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Washington
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
Federal District Court
House Committee
Asheville
N. C
United States
Americans Stripped at German Danish Frontier Report
London Telegraph reports from Copenhagen that Americans arriving from Berlin say they were partially stripped by authorities at the German Danish frontier. The account cites the Daily Telegraph in London.
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London
INS
Copenhagen
Berlin
London Daily Telegraph
Curious Red-headed Snake Bluffing Its Threat Display
The Cylindrophis Rufus, a nonpoisonous snake, uses a bluffing tactic to deter predators. It lifts its bright tail in a striking motion to appear dangerous, even though no venom is involved.
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Cylindrophis Rufus
Committees Map Plans For County Tuberculosis Survey
Dr H L Van Winkle Cedar Rapids chairs Linn County Medical Society tuberculosis committee as it outlines a 1939 survey with nurse Lucile Christie visiting former sanatorium patients and known cases. X rays and tuberculin tests offered, funds cover those unable to pay. program mirrors state efforts.
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H. L. van Winkle
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Medical Society
Linn County Christmas Seals Association
Hotel Roosevelt
Linn County
United States
Linn
Lucile Christie
Marion
Christie
van Winkle
State Department of Health
L. M. Downing
J. Stuart McQuiston
Man Sentenced Here Held Over for Pennsylvania Warrant
Sheriff Jim Smith said he received from the Pennsylvania state parole department an order to hold Leon Youree alias Martus D. Youree, 44, on a violator of a conditional parole. The request stems from identification records tied to a Philadelphia Eastern Penitentiary parole violation and a one year county jail term for soliciting for immoral purposes on August 12. Youree was to be released after three months for good behavior and leaving the state.
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Jim Smith
Pennsylvania State Parole Department
Leon Youree
Martus D. Youree
Eastern
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
GOP Contributions Reported by Republican National Committee
C B Goodspeed treasurer reports to the House clerk that the Republican National Committee received 299,024 in contributions during the three months ending August 31.
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Washington
C. B. Goodspeed
Republican National Committee
House of Representatives
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Mercy Hospital
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