Eight Knuckle Way To Final Round Of City Marble Meet
Cedar Rapids marble championship district prelims reduced field to eight district champions and runners up. Judd Dean estimated about 4000 spectators for four district tourneys overseen by city playground and recreation department. Finals set for Reed Park at 9 30 a m Saturday with 40 plus eliminations. Winners listed: Harold Hora Neil Hamilton Norbert Horak Milton Horak Jack Schloemann Lyle leans Bob Jennings Bob Lynxwiler. Each winner received a softball prize.
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Cedar Rapids
City Playground and Recreation Department
Judd Dean
Reed Park
Agates
Harold Hora
H Avenue
Neil Hamilton
Eighth Street
Norbert Horak
Thirteenth Avenue
Milton Horak
Jack Schloemann
Twelfth Street
Lyle Leans
Sixteenth Street
Bob Jennings
Fifth Avenue
Bob Lynxwiler
Fourth Avenue
Mumps Continue as Most Prevalent in Cedar Rapids
Mumps remained the leading illness in Cedar Rapids per the weekly placardable diseases report by Tony Trusty assistant health officer. The past week saw 21 new mumps cases.
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Cedar Rapids
Tony Trusty
Measles and Chicken Pox Totals Rise in Week
New weekly health bulletin reports 10 new measles cases, lifting the total to 14, while six additional chicken pox cases bring the overall count to 55 placarded houses.
Indications Japs Harder Pressed Than is Realized
RALPIE JORDAN reports from Australia that downed Nipponese airmen show cheaper clothing than Hawaii victims, and second line aircraft are used in Darwin raids. The lack of protection on Japanese planes contrasts with better armored Allied fighters, implying greater pressure on Japan than believed.
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Australia
INS
Hawaii
Darwin
Wartime style cycling thief robs man in Seattle
I W Cobb told police a tall man on a bicycle approached him, struck him on the head, and rode off with his billfold containing $2. The incident marks Seattle's first wartime style hit and run robbery.
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Seattle
I. W. Cobb
Housewives Urged To Turn In Junk
Washington dispatch says housewives can aid the war effort this spring by turning spring cleaning into a nationwide search for discarded junk. The War Production Board urges digging out obsolete plumbing heating equipment and broken tools from attics cellars and backyards to sell for scrap for war production.
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Washington
Wide World
War Production Board
Brand Named Vice-President of Elevator Society
Herbert C. Brand of the Quaker Oats Co was named second vice-president of the Society of Grain Elevator Operators at the annual Omaha convention. He received a trophy for 88,667 man hours without an accident or loss of time. Gilbert Lane was elected president and R. B. Pow of Fort William Ontario Canada also listed.
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Herbert C. Brand
Quaker Oats Company
Society of Grain Elevator Operators
Omaha
Associated Press
Brand
Memorial Drive
Gilbert Lane
Society
R. B. Pow
Fort William
Ontario
Canada
Chicago Named Site for 1943 Convention
The report states that an individual was named first vice president and that Chicago was selected as the site for the 1943 convention, highlighting the organizational leadership change and venue decision.
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Chicago
St Pauls Church Burns Mortgage Wednesday Night
St Pauls Methodist church hosts a Burning of the Mortgage dinner and program at 6 15 p m on Wednesday. A ceremony marks the mortgage payoff along with a pioneer quartet and C A Laurance speaking on reminiscences of early days. Attendees may wear old time costumes and prizes will be awarded. Reservations at the church office dial 29126 byMonday.
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St. Paul’s Methodist Church
C. A. Laurance
They’ll Practise Air Raid Drills In Sunday Best
Topeka residents and their families will attend a practice air raid drill today wearing their Sunday best. The exercise uses sacks of flour as dummy bombs to simulate bombardment and test readiness procedures.
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Topeka, Kan
Cedar Rapids collects 28 tons of waste paper in salvage drive
Linn county civilian defense salvage committee reports 56,088 pounds of paper collected by April 10 in Cedar Rapids, about one pound per resident. Totals include mixed paper, newspapers, corrugated and magazines. Saturday collections expected to raise the total. Scouts visit homes weekly to collect remaining paper.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
E. W. Wickham
Wickham
Salvage Committee
Consistory Reunion Set For April 21 23 Cedar Rapids
The 1942 spring reunion of Iowa consistory and its concordant bodies will be held at the Scottish Rite temple in Cedar Rapids from April 21 to 23. A Victory class will stress Americanism with degree work across the three days. A patriotic pageant Spirit of America closes the thirtieth degree on April 23, followed by a 6 o'clock banquet and performances by the Cedar Rapids Masonic male chorus.
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Iowa
Kilwinning Lodge of Perfection
Bruce Chapter
Rose Croix
St. Andrews
Soloist Karl Andrist to play rare Gobetti violin with Cedar Rapids Symphony
Karl Andrist, Cornell violin professor, appears as soloist with the Cedar Rapids Symphony in their fourth concert of the season at Memorial Coliseum. He will perform Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor on a 1718 Francesco Gobetti instrument from the Partello collection. The program opens Brahms Academic Festival Overture and includes Wagner Dreams, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 excerpts, and tribute to Miss Alice Inskeep. The concert is free to the public.
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Francesco Gobetti
Karl Andrist
Cornell College
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Memorial Coliseum
Andrist
Mendelssohn
Leopold Auer
Mr. Andrist
Eugene Ysaye
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
United States
Paris
Canada
Minneapolis Orchestral Art Society
Quebec Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony
Cornell
Venice
Partello
Smithsonian Institution
Brahms
University of
Alice Inskeep
Cedar Rapids
Richard Wagner
Beethoven and Tschaikowsky Featured in Iowa Symphony
The Iowa Symphony under Prof. Joseph H. Kitchin presents a program highlighted by a famously brilliant last movement of Beethoven amid notes of intense mental strain. Mr. Andrist performs Mendelssohn concerto after intermission, with Tschaikowsky Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy closing. Helen Bartholomew Schroeder accompanies. The orchestra, in its twentieth season, is Iowa’s oldest of its kind with about 60 players.
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Beethoven
Andrist
Tschaikowsky
Juliet
Joseph H. Kitchin
Helen Bartholomew Schroeder
Rist
Iowa
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Fred Ross
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Palmolive
H. C. Brand
Elevator Society
St. Paul's Church
Salvation Army
Symphony
Beethoven Symphony
Newman’s
Mary Miles
Newman's
Newmans Fur Department
Hollywood
Hollywood-Maxwell
Newman's Corset Dept
Engravures
Newman
Phoenix
Canyon
Cuba
Manhattan
Rio
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