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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1939
Page
41
Hawkeye Downs expands parking as 20 000 yards of dirt are moved behind the new exposition hall to add space for 2500 cars. The upgraded site will support larger fairs next year with a higher judges stand and new exposition hall framework nearly complete.
Ethel B. Hart files a partnership dissolution and receivership against Century Cab of Cedar Rapids with partner Leroy Brookman as defendant. She seeks dissolution final accounting and appoints a receiver. hearing set Sept 29 at 9 am. Also filed Cedar Rapids Nash Inc incorporation with officers Leo A. Sullivan Angeline M Sullivan Edwin T Iverson and Frank Healy. Authorized capital 10000. Renewal and substitutes for Hach Brothers Co Inc list officers Adolph Prazak and others with 25000 capital.
Judge C J Haas granted Guaranty Bank and Trust Company as executor of the Edwin S Williams estate a 15769 67 judgment in rem on a secured note alleged to have been made November 1 1927 by Andrew McKin non Charles D Huston John A.
Gilbert McKinnon and Mary M. Huston are named in a township real estate matter. R. C. Moody was appointed receiver for the College township property.
Two divorce actions placed before Judge H. C. Ring involve Emily M. Gantz suing James G. Gantz for cruelty and Verona Burke suing Robert Burke for cruel and inhuman treatment. Gantz seeks custody of a daughter. Gantz and Burke were married in Cedar Rapids in 1934.
Gary Indiana AP The Indiana State Federation of Labor voted Saturday against allowing Tom Mooney to speak at its annual convention in Gary Indiana
Linn county chapter of the American Red Cross will start two standard first aid classes on Monday October 2. The public class for men and women over 17 meets at 8 p.m. in the basement post office building classroom. A separate class for business women begins at 8 p.m. in the YWCA. Red Cross HQ provides public class information and the YWCA handles questions about the women’s class.
Washington UP reports the American Federation of Labor named William P. Carroll of Cleveland as referee in jurisdictional disputes within the building trades.
Elaborate plans for the annual Queen's ball at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night November 3. The regents will be crowned on stage amid cheers after a secrecy reveal. Readers to select royal court reps, with a Oct 14 deadline to submit names to the ball committee.
Frank Mitchell aged 27 and his sister Rosa 25 of Charlotte North Carolina were detained in Palestine Texas by police in connection with the Wilma Melvin kidnapping case from Huron South Dakota. They were arrested after driving the car from which Melvin was freed at McKinney Texas last week. Melvin was abducted September 7 during a Huron carnival.
Washington reports the army air corps expansion may be completed six months ahead of schedule as factories run on double shifts. About half of the more than 3,000 wartime planes are built with extra crews aiming for twice normal speed by year end. The army also recruits 25,139 mechanics and pilots keep pace, targeting an active force of at least 5,500 planes with completion moved up from June 1941 to late next year.
Ontario accounts for 88 percent of Canada’s leather tanneries production, dominating the Dominion’s output. The statistic underscores Ontario’s central role in the industry and its economic impact across the federation.
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