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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1943
Page
16
Hollywood studios clash over film rights to Henry Bellamann unpublished novel Victoria Grandolet. Jack Warner and Buddy de Sylva contend for the author’s book with bids and fallout involving Joan Fontaine and others as Selznick sources loom amid a swiftly evolving rights dispute.
Ten to twenty years ago a storm off the New Jersey coast left seventy one officers and men dead or missing in the Akron dirigible crash. The Cedar Rapids board of education planned a $60,000 teachers salary cut and outlined further economies for the coming year. Cedar Rapids issued 1,003 building permits in the year ending March 31. Wesley C. Benesh was named Cedar Rapids police chief succeeding L. Morrison. Tourist camp at Riverside park to gain hot and cold water showers and ovens. Cedar Rapids to form a National Aeronautic association branch to promote aviation. Manual training taught in Adams and Tyler schools. Thirty tables and three lathes installed and Prof. LeFevre instructed 265 students on a half day every two weeks. Henry S. Ely spoke to 170 Killian employees at a get-together.
The annual meeting of Central States Electric Company stockholders will be in the 308 Dows Building Cedar Rapids Iowa on Tuesday May 4 1943 at eleven o clock for the election of directors and any other business that may come before the meeting. Woodward Secretary.
In cooperation with Cedar Rapids public schools the Coe college music department will run a 12 week program including piano violin viola cello cornet trumpet trombone french horn flute and clarinet. Lessons include 12 class sessions and two private lessons with faculty Eleanor Houts Joseph H. Kitchin Stanley Vesely and Howard Ellson. Cost is $5 and details are available from the Coe college music department.
A dense feature of poetry lines promoting war bonds and patriotism contrasts with a political byline about the Constitutional Educational League and suspected Nazi connections. It cites Hamilton Fish and a 1941 probe into Fascist finance linked to Juan March and a Canary Islands U-boat base, noting arrests and evasive outcomes.
The piece details Lieut Rudyard Uzzell’s mother Mary Uzzell hosting Bund meetings in Jamaica and introducing Fritz Kuhn to Gen George Moseley. It notes Uzzell’s transfer from Baltimore to Chicago amid questions about his continued intelligence duties and morale protection. It also profiles Essie Burchett, nicknamed Two Gun Bessie, an anti-American propagandist who attended Kyffhäuser Bund events in 1939 and saluted with Nazi symbols. The report ties these ties to a 1939 Philadelphia event and mentions a Romanoff Caviar backer case and a war security act debate amid civil liberties rhetoric.
The Gazette lists today’s showtimes by theater. Paramount presents Happy Go Lucky with a string of short subjects. Iowa State offers The Hard Way and Lets Have Fun. State features He's My Guy and Quiet Please Murder. Palace shows A Yank at Eton and The Devil with Hitler. Rialto presents Tough as They Come and Sons of the Pioneers. Times screens Springtime in the Rockies and Berlin Correspondent. Strand features Birth of the Blues and The Lady from Cheyenne. Marion runs The Navy Comes Through and Lucky Legs.
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