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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1941
Page
3
Des Moines AP reported Safety Commissioner Charles F. Triplett warned the public that the city would not see wide open gambling during the ordnance plant building boom. He said operators had approached him for bribes and cited past pockets of sneak poker and liquor sales, while distinguishing casual games from dangerous bootleg operations.
State officials join Woodbury County Attorney in a grand jury inquiry to determine if Sioux City requires a vice cleanup. Assistant Attorney General Jens Grothe and County Attorney M. E. Rawlings vow a thorough investigation into a potential vice lord and payoffs. Safety Commissioner T. N. Sturgeon resigned after al leged links to Jack Okie and faces defamation suits.
Hector Lazo executive vice-president of Co-Operative Food Distributors of America urged housewives at a Des Moines dinner to reduce delivery trips. He advised ordering in larger quantities to conserve gasoline while noting wholesale price increases and expected further retail rises since the war started.
Federal game agent F H Davis reported a Sunday sighting of Canadian geese over Anamosa, the first reported flock in Iowa this year according to Des Moines AP.
Charles W. Kelso of Vinton and Donovan Goodyear of Marion are among 224 cadets who received silver wings and commissions at Kelly Field Texas on Friday. After 30 weeks of training the graduates received traveling orders from Washington and completed ten weeks each of basic primary and advanced flying training. Goodyear departed Tuesday for Hamilton Field near San Francisco. Michigan led Class 41 6 with 30 graduates followed by Illinois 23 Iowa and Indiana 16 each and Texas with 10 graduates.
Monticello mourns 15 year old Maxine Bader who died in a local hospital after a Sunday crash. Robert Schneider 27 also died. Leslie Leggett 19 and John Meyer injured. Leggett drove the other car. Meyer drove the car with Schneider. Leggett faces suspended license after a July reckless driving conviction. charges to be filed later.
A surprise party Sunday honored Mr. and Mrs. Donald Atwater on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. About 45 friends attended and presented a silver chest. Recipients and guests hailed from Marion Vinton Cedar Rapids Walker Springville and other nearby towns.
Ralph D. Stanton, 50, of Iowa City, was found dead on Rock Island railroad tracks near Marengo depot Tuesday morning. Coroner C. E. Van Dyke held an inquiry with no witnesses. Stanton, a World War II veteran, was found by Jasper Bowie.
Mrs Hope M Spence of Ames travels to Washington on Thursday for the premiere of the film based on Hartzell Spence's One Foot in Heaven The movie chronicles the life of her late husband Reverend William H Spence an Iowa Methodist minister.
Des Moines, INS, quotes State Safety Commissioner Karl W. Fischer praising Iowa's no-limit speed law with a required careful and prudent speed at all times. He argues that a maximum speed limit does not reduce fatalities and notes Ohio's higher traffic deaths. Fischer cites Iowa’s 417 motor vehicle deaths so far this year versus 372 last year.
Des Moines Iowa the state health department moved to appeal to the state supreme court seeking to revoke the embalming license of Ervin R Moen Cedar Rapids funeral home director. The issue centers on Moens claim of making his own caskets and whether that constitutes manufacturing under the law.
Extended forecast from 6 30 p m Tuesday Sept 30 to 6 30 p m Saturday Oct 4 shows temperatures near or slightly above normal with seasonable mid week warming and above normal Thursday and Friday. Precipitation expected to be moderate and increase toward the end of the period.
Conservation Director F T Schwob reports 25 to 50 petitions for a longer pheasant season. Petitioners from Des Moines Mason City Fort Dodge Dubuque and Manson urge a weekend addition or a seven to ten day season as birds are counted at 580 in 20 miles of driving. The commission may extend the season if bird supply warrants.
Governor George A Wilson proclaimed October 5 to 11 as fire prevention week in Iowa. He noted Iowa’s first six months fire loss total of 1 957 083 with 842 642 from farm and town dwellings and urged residents to reduce fire hazards and cooperate with Iowa firemen to save lives and property.
Lynn A. Stambaugh national commander of the American Legion urged the deportation of Harry Bridges the west coast CIO leader. He followed a justice department examiner’s recommendation that Bridges be deported for his communist party affiliation and said Attorney General Biddle should act.
Dale Carnegie says funding national debt to 500 billion dollars may be necessary to preserve liberty. He vows to join such measure and would rather return to farming than live under Hitler. Carnegie is conducting a five day salesmanship school in Des Moines.
Thomas H. Tracey of Manchester Iowa American Legion commander told a defense school in Waterloo that the Legion's endorsement of the administration policy expresses the will of the rank and file and of the country over.
Mason City reporter says 22 year old Mrs. Sam Bruner shot and killed her husband during a morning argument at their farm home seven miles west of Mason City. The weapon was a .45 pistol from beneath his pillow. Bruner, 26, died from two bullet wounds. authorities note she was afraid of him and had several prior disputes. His parents and five brothers survive.
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