Palm Sunday Shrine concert showcases 75 member band
The El Kahir temple Shrine band directed by William F Vesely presented a Palm Sunday concert at Shrine temple Sunday afternoon to a capacity audience. Guest musicians joined the 75 member ensemble for a program including Bach Porter and Ketelbey pieces with solo by Ruth Massey and Juanita Olmstead.
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el Kahir Temple
Shrine
William F Vesely
Shrine Temple
Ruth Ebling Massey
Juanita Olmstead
Jack Parrish
Joe Stoddard
Lucy Bushnell Ambroz
Miss Reeder
Vinton
Jeanne Anderson
Boy 5 Struck by Car Suffers Leg Fracture
Dick Prendergast, five, son of Mr and Mrs G A Prendergast of 300 Twenty-fifth street SE, suffered a fracture of the right leg below the knee at 4 45 pm Sunday after being struck by Rockwell Binghim, 32, of 2210 Grande avenue SE on Twenty seventh street NE between First and A avenues. He was taken to St Luke's hospital.
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Dick Prendergast
G. A. Prendergast
Twenty-fifth Street
Rockwell Binghim
Grande Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
Bingham
St. Luke's Hospital
Cigarettes Stolen In Beer Parlor Breakin
Sergt Dale Cunningham discovered a breakin at Abram's Beer Parlor 114 First Street NE at 12 45 am Monday. A rear door glass was broken and the door half open. Between sixty and seventy packages of cigarettes were taken valued at nine to ten dollars with nothing else missing.
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Sergt
Dale Cunningham
Abram's
First Street NE
Portugal Exports Olive Oil and Other Goods Widely
Portugal ships olive oil canned fish port wine resins turpentine cork tangerines and dried figs to diverse markets. The list highlights major exports reflecting a broad agro industrial base and traditional commodities.
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Portugal
Priest Converts Gunman to Surrender in Palm Sunday Standoff
In New York a 23 year old hold up man Johnny Naumo faced potential life term. Priest Father Francis X Quinn persuaded Naumo to surrender and release an elderly couple used as hostages. Police units surrounded the apartment after a Palm Sunday robbery and gun battle.
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New York
INS
Johnny Naumo
Naumo
Francis X. Quinn
Naomo
Father Quinn
Martin A. Nicholas
Edward Gunther
Gunther
Johnny
Nicholas
Quinn
Deaths of Trachta and Whitney Highlight Cedar Rapids Obits
Joseph Trachta 85 longtime Cedar Rapids resident and former railroad worker dies at his daughter’s home after months of illness. Survived by wife family and six grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at Brosh chapel with Bohemian National cemetery burial. Elizabeth Clark Whitney 83 widow of Charles Whitney dies in Sedalia Missouri after moving from Cedar Rapids. Survived by two sons and two nieces. Funeral in Cedar Falls Wednesday.
Danish Immigrant Mrs Rubek Dies After Snow Rescue
Mrs Frank Rubek 66 died at a Cedar Falls home after being carried over a mile in a snowstorm from College town ship to Palisades river road by four Ambulance Service workers. Illness from flu earlier this year contributed to her death. Born Anna Elizabeth Marie Andersen in Denmark on April 6 1872 she later lived in Chicago before marrying Frank Rubek about twenty years ago. She leaves several Danish siblings.
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Frank Rubek
College Township
Palisades River Road
Cedar Falls
Denmark
Anna Elizabeth Marie Andersen
United States
Chicago
Death Notice Mrs Lavenia Boner 1865 Cedar Rapids
Mrs Lavenia Boner died at home 108 Sixth Avenue SW at 7 20 am Monday after a lingering illness. Born June 17 1865 in Scotch Grove Jones county she lived in Cedar Rapids 22 years. Survived by three sons John of Chicago Walter and Herbert Cedar Rapids. two daughters Mrs Louis Manos St Paul and Mrs H G Harris Cedar Rapids. five grandchildren one great grandchild. two brothers Grant McClain Monticello Isaac Theodore McClain St Paul. sister Rose McClain Monticello. Funeral in Rohn chapel time to be announced. friends may visit chapel Monday evening.
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Lavenia Boner
Sixth Avenue
Scotch Grove
Jones County
Gedar Rapids
John
Chicago
Walter
Herbert
Cedar Rapids
Louis Manos
St Paul
H. G. Harris
Grant McClain
Monticello
Isaac
Funeral services for Mrs Louisa M Newland
Funeral services for Mrs Louisa M Newland who died Saturday at her son Fred E Newland’s home on Midway Drive NW will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p m in the Martelle Methodist church. The Rev Trevor Baskerville will officiate with burial at Linn Grove cemetery. She belonged to Valley Camp and Royal Neighbors of America. Friends may call at Kuba funeral home until noon Tuesday.
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Louisa M. Newland
Fred E Newland
Midway Drive
Methodist
Martelle
Trevor Baskerville
Linn Grove
Valley Camp
Royal Neighbors of America Friends
Kuba
Death notices of Mrs Mary McConnell and infant Charlotte Longfellow
Mrs. Mary Millicent McConnell of Fairfax died at 2 35 p m after a brief illness. She was born May 29 1857 in Zanesville Ohio and is survived by her husband James W McConnell a daughter Mrs Guy Hall of Fairfax and two grandsons Dale and Donnell. Body to be taken to Kenesaw Nebraska for services and burial with calling hours 7 to 9 p m Monday at Beatty chapel. Charlotte Longfellow three month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Murray Longfellow died at University hospital at 530 am Monday. She is survived by her parents a sister Joyce Elaine and a brother Harlan both at home also grandparents Mr and Mrs C E Longfellow Dainsville Missouri and C Van Velkinburg Cedar Rapids. Funeral announcement to follow.
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Mary Millicent McConnell
James W. McConnell
Fairfax
Zanesville
Guy Hall
Dale
Donnell
Kenesaw, Neb
Beatty Chapel
Charlotte Longfellow
Murray Longfellow
Eleventh Street
University Hospital
Joyce Elaine
Harlan
C. E. Longfellow
Dainsville
C van Velkinburg
Cedar Rapids
Five Farm Groups Denounce Wage Plan Amendment
Five national farm organizations led by the American Farm Bureau Federation joined in denouncing a proposed amendment to bring agricultural workers under the wage hour act. The groups warned the plan would hurt farmers and erode protections already provided by the act.
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Washington
Mary Norton
N. J
House Labor Committee
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
National Cooperative Council
The
Agricultural Producers Labor Committee
Nineteen Nations Naturalized at Cedar Rapids Federal Court
Forty nine aliens were sworn in as U S citizens at the April term opening in Cedar Rapids. Of the group 33 were from Waterloo, led by former German nationals. Other new citizens hailed from Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Britain, Greece, Jugoslavia, Russia, and one each from France, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. Several names and changes of names were approved by Judge George C Scott.
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United States
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Denmark
Czechoslovakia
British Empire
Greece
Jugoslavia
Russia
France
Netherlands
Italy
Poland
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Germany
Johan Dietrich Ridder
Shell Rock
Richard Albert Grietnow
Bertha Augusta Griefnow
Herman Meyer
Ise Heil
Helmut Friedrich Wilhelm Doeppke
Rose Lammer
Anna Katharina Muller
Agnes Dorothea Klenzman
Ernst Friedrich Braun
Willi Herman Kohn
All of Waterloo
Rudolf Heinrich Brandt
Elberon
Fred Schnipkoweit
Tipton
Alfons Fahner
New
Vans Jorgen Petersen
Sigfred Kristian Kofoed
Vinton
Carl Nelson
Tracy
Lena Madsen Andersen
Polly Hansen Cloughy
Marinus Nielsen Krogh
Hudson
Joseph Dobias
Mount Vernon Road
John Sotyn
Toledo
August Ondrejka
Charles ‘Kriz
Tama
Caroline Posusta
Joseph Vesely Elberon
Frank Dvorak
Clutter
Esther Agnes Kelford
Williamina Galloway
Harm van der Holt
Parkersburg
John Giuliana
First Avenues
Peter Simon
Amani
Johann Friedrich Kaufmann Coggan
Kole Kote
Springville
George C Scott
James M McWhorter
Chicago
Officers Of Northern District Federal Court Open April Term
Judge George C Scott heads the Northern District federal court session in Cedar Rapids as officers gather for the April term. United States attorney E G Dunn of Mason City and assistants William B Danforth Walter Hutchinson join, along with U S marshal John B Keefe and deputy William E Renshaw. Other officials include county marshals, clerks Bessie Engle and Marcella Moritz, deputy clerks Caroline Cook and Dorothy Colloton, naturalization examiner J M McWhorter, and probation officer Charles F Holly.
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George C Scott
United States Court For
Northern District of
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
E G. Dunn
Mason City
United States
William B Danforth
Walter, Hutchinson
Dunn
John B. Keefe
Sioux City
William E. Renshaw
Joseph A. Petrus
Frank W. Cannon
Frank
Natural Gas Made Into Dynamite Discovery
Purdue University researchers described a method to convert natural gas into a high explosive replacing nitroglycerine in dynamite. The process uses methane or ethane, formaldehyde treatment, and air-derived nitrogen, with Hercules Powder Company manufacturing the explosive.
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Baltimore
Science
America
Purdue University
Hercules Powder Company
Wilmington
Del
American Chemical Society
Henry B Hass
Purdue
Engineer and Fireman quarrel aboard 50 mile dash train
In Nebraska a Burlington passenger train running fifty miles an hour saw an on board fight between engineer A S Johnson and fireman Fred L Whittington. Whittington, hospitalized with cuts, alleges Johnson struck him with a wrench. the two men struggled near Inland eleven miles east of Hastings as the train halted.
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Hastings
Neb
Burlington
Nebraska
Clay County
John E. Sullivan
Fred L. Whittington
Whittington
Adams County
Edmund Nuss
A. S Johnson
Nuss
Johnson
Motorcycle And Car Collision Injures Marion Boy
A 14 year old passenger Paul Mathis suffered cuts and bruises when the motorcycle he rode collided with a car driven by 14 year old Henry Witwer at 1 avenue and Center Point road NE in Marion. Mathis was treated at St Luke's hospital and released. Witwer faced a recommended license suspension and could not obtain a license until age 16 if the permit is suspended.
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Paul Mathis
Marion
Henry Witwer
Cedar Rapids
Center Point Road
Milan Freese
Mathis
St Luke's Hospital
Serrce
Witwer
Highway Patrol
Sergi
Clarence Day
Kiwanis Proposes Whittam Park Wading Pool Aid
The Kiwanis Club asks the city council to authorize a Whittam park wading pool for underprivileged children with an estimated cost near 1000 dollars and the city share not to exceed 500 dollars. Rev Grant F P Anderson urged action at the meeting. Finance Bur gus must find funds.
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Kiwanis Club
Whittam Park
B Avenue
Fifth Street
Linclaw
Riverside
Ellis Parks
Grant FP. Anderson
First Baptist Church
Ed Stefan
Councl
L. D. Burgus
Whitlam Park
Stefan
Belgian fascists crushed in Belgian parliamentary vote
Sunday's election returns show Belgian parties winning in Eupen and Malmedy while German-linked groups failed to win seats. Rex Degrelle's faction lost most seats. Maar tens resigns from the academy amid protests. Leon Frenssen emerges as a noted technocrat with a pacifist platform and a universal language plan.
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Brussels
Eupen
Malmedy
Heimattreu
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Rex Degrelle
Academy of Medicine
Adriaan Maartens
Maartens
Academy
Leopold
Treasury reports March income tax receipts and deficit rise
Treasury data show March income tax at about 505 million dollars, down 25 percent from last March but above expectations. Nine month totals reach 1.744 billion, with the year deficit rising to around 725 million as receipts fall short of forecasts.
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Wasilington
Treasury
Diac Catet
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