1 000 See Program At Franklin School
A luxury salon style show highlighted an excellent all school program at Franklin junior high auditorium drawing about 1,000 attendees with 100 turned away. The event opened with Washington high band selections and included numbers from Arthur Garfield Kenwood Polk schools plus a color play by Arthur, with Indian songs by Kenwood intermediate students and a Patsy story from Polk glee and art groups.
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Franklin Junior High School
Wilson School
Franklin
Betty Cleghorn
Grant Wood
Whistler
Ruth Ann Hasek
Portnaris
Hugo Vander Goes
Esther Thurman
Mrs Siddons
Thomas Gainsborough
Virginia Widick
Washington High School
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Kenwood
Polk
Arthur School
Kenwood School
Change Bill To Put Lighter Insurance Load On Small Banks
Washington AP United States House Banking Committee rewrote the omnibus bill to require annual mandatory FDIC assessments of one eighth of one percent on all deposits. Big city banks would pay on full deposits while small town and rural banks with lower average deposits would pay the same rate on their smaller balances. Affected banks previously paid on only the first 5,000 of larger deposits.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
FDIC
Banking Committee
Roosevelt Refuses Dole On Cotton Tax Fight
President Roosevelt rejects removing the cotton processing tax via relief funds, triggering a clash with cotton textile interests and congressional allies. The industry campaigns to end the tax and push quotas or an embargo to limit cheap Japanese cloth imports.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congressional
Congress
Weather Holds Post Back From Flight
Capricious weather kept Wiley Post from taking off toward New York as the Winnie Mae remained at Union Air Terminal. A midwest pressure area and unsettled conditions to the east rendered the forecast unfavorable for Thursday’s planned stratosphere flight.
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Los Angeles
Wiley Post
New York
Union Air Terminal
Post
Winnie Mae
Middlewest
Evangeline's origins debated by Hawthorne and Longfellow
The note discusses Hawthorne's Notebook detailing how Hawthorne learned Acadian tales from a French Canadian and passed the story to Longfellow who crafted Evangeline. It notes Hawthorne’s claim that Longfellow’s Evangeline is largely imaginative and that the name and final scene were chosen and set by Longfellow.
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Evangeline
Longfellow
Hawthorne
Acadia
Philadelphia
Typhoon Death Toll In Philippines At 139
Manila reports the unseasonal typhoon has killed 139 across four island provinces. Rescue and communications are being restored as 17 bodies wash ashore at Guinayangan Tayabas. Fishermen from Samar Masbate Sorsogon and Albay remain missing with wreckage found along widely separated coasts.
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Manila
P. I
INS
Philippine Island
Guinayangan Tayabas
Gulf of Tagay
Samar
Masbate
Sorsogon
Albay
Hollywood Socialite Found Dead in Apartment
Hollywood police began an autopsy aimed at determining the cause of death for May rene Sloss MacGowan a noted socialite dancer found dead in her apartment. Bruises on various parts of the body and disappearance of a man and woman she left with raise questions about foul play.
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Hollywood
INS
Mayrene Sloss MacGowan
Aquitania Remains Fast On Solent Mud Bank
The Cunard liner Aquitania, 45 000 tons, stuck on a Solent mud bank after a 70 mph gale. Nine tugs failed to free her across two high tides. many passengers waited aboard while the ship rode out the rough passage, with a small number later able to ride ashore in tenders.
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Southampton
England
Cunard
White Star Line
Solent
Morniz
Crow Hunters Plan Final Drive Sunday
Crow hunters prepare for a Sunday final drive in the Waltonian Crow Hunt with a midnight April 15 submissions deadline. Heads must be turned in to official scorers Seth S. Drew Frank H. Drew company and John N. Kucera for prizes awarded by leadership standings at a late April dinner.
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Armstrong’s
Frank H. Drew Company
John N. Kucera
Vernon E. White
Mr. White
Death Stays Granted for Two Men Awaiting Appeals
Ottawa Illinois dispatch reports Arthur Thielen and Fred Gerner, sentenced to die in Joliet penitentiary, granted stays until May 10 pending appeals to the Illinois supreme court. Iowa City item notes 6,000 high school students qualify for the state music festival May 2 to 4 after district meets. Bates receiver case awards 7,350.78 to Citizens Savings and Trust Co. against Lewis G. Mott. Walter J. Barrow appointed receiver.
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Ottawa, Ill
Arthur Thielen
Fred Gerner
Joliet
Minois Supreme Court
Iowa City
Iowa
D. W. Bates
Citizens Savings and Trust Co
Lewis G. Mott
William C. Mott
Harold D. Evans
Evans
Walter J. Barrow
Van Horne pupils stage Twi light Alley operetta
Grade pupils present an operetta at the school on Friday titled Twi light Alley directed by Miss Mildred Corliss.
Sims Chance Dims in Bridge Battle With Culbertson
P Hal Sims trails Ely Culbertson by 13 rubbers with 17 to go in their 150 rubber match. After two days of play the Culbertsons lead 73 to 60 in rubbers and 111 330 to 96 610 in points as Sims faces an almost insurmountable deficit.
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New York
P. Hal Sims
Ely Culvertson
Deal
N. J
Simses
Culbertsons
Clapp Promotes Love of Man and Nature in Life View
Iowa City notes Prof. Philip G. Clapp stressing happiness through harmony with nature. The report cites his views on music and life philosophy as guiding principles.
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Iowa City
Philip G. Clapp
Town Orchestra to perform Chant of the Darkness
University of Town presents a concert of Chant of the Darkness on April 16. Helen Keller authored the poem used in the piece and approved the adaptation. Professor Clapp leads the music department in this large orchestral and choral presentation featuring over 250 musicians and singers.
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University of Town
Helen Keller
Clapp
Miss Keller
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