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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1937

Page

2

Recital by Coe College Music Students In Sinclair Chapel

Music students under instructors Eleanor Houts Kelen Mokrejys Joseph Kitchin Grace Swab Howard Fison Max Dahler perform a Saturday 8 p.m. program in T. M. Sinclair Memorial Chapel. The lineup includes pieces by Beethoven Grieg Fauré Brahms Schubert and more featuring performers Joanne Van Cleve Dorothy Rubins Mary Shatter Diane Marshall and others.

Coe College T. M .Sinclair Eleanor Houts Kelen Mokrejys Joseph Kitchin Grace Swab Howard Fison Max Dahler Kuhlau Joanne van Cleve Evfin Grieg Dorothy Rubins Nondo Beethoven Mary Shatter

Tehel Couple Celebrates 35th Wedding Anniversary

William Tehel and his wife Mrs Tehel marked their thirty fifth wedding anniversary with a surprise dinner at the Twin Towers. Guests included Tehel Bottling company staff and relatives, with out of town attendees from Sacramento Evans ton Chicago Mount Vernon and Fairfax.

William Tehel Mrs Tehel Twin Towers Tehel Bottling Company Tehels Mary Lafranck Sacramento Calif Fred Goodman Evanston Joe Gusick Chicago Frank Pithk Mount Vernon William Behle Frank Tehel Fairfax

Shower Honors Infant Susan Welch at Scannell Home

Mesdames Obie Peal Glen Darrow and Forrest Scannell hosted a baby shower Wednesday evening at 820 First Avenue West for Susan Elaine Welsh infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Welsh. Cards with prizes went to Miss Charlotte Wing and Mrs Everett Shoemaker. Attending were Miss Wing Ann Nichols Marie Schamberger Diane Darrow and Mesdames Joseph Stang Clarence Van Fossen Gerald Fottral Lee Trachta Fieseler Howard Kautz Mary Brooks and Mrs Shoemaker of Mount Vernon.

Glen L Darrow Forrest Scannell Scannell First Avenue Susan Elaine Welsh Fred Welsh First Avenue W Raing Charlotte Wing Everett Shoemaker Misses Wing Ann Nichols Marie Schamberger Diane Darrow Joseph Stang Clarence van Fossen Gerald Fottral Lee Trachta F. B Fieseler Howard Kautz Mary Brooks Mrs. Shoemaker Mount Vernon

Seashore Aptitude Tests Discussed At Phi Mu Alpha Dinner

Richard Simpson of Iowa City and Coe College students attended a Phi Mu Alpha dinner at the YMCA. The event honored seven pledges to Sinfonia including Simpson Witham Stonebreaker ToHerworth Davis Potted and Rees. The fraternity is a national honorary mu tac group.

Carl Seashore University of Iowa Richard Simpson Iowa City Coe College YMCA Seven Hedges Richard Simpson Witham Don William Stonebreaker Walter ToHerworth den PF Davis Robert Potted John Rees Phy Mu Alpha

Junior Harmony Club of Coef Dissolves After Final Meeting

The Coe Junior Harmony Club held its final meeting Saturday at the Seer Hall. Mary Ellen Dennis led the Green Fight group to a victory while captain Mary Ellen Dennis guided the team. Several club members were listed among attendees with names such as Joan Koadays and Allan West among those noted.

Junior Harmony Club COEF Coe Janie Sib Jim Oun Mare Green Fighth Nate Mary Ellen Dennis Jumessy van Tom Sipdeu Lol Wong Joan Koadays Allane West Vaew Toa Carpenter Nudies Ss Cathorne Breakley Doroths Kunis Morrin Kubyas Douelis Taide Branch Ghothotte Fyim Dahe Merman Soba Staints Bane Vitorie Wiles Mors

PTA Meetings Set to Boost Community Involvement

Local PTA plans upcoming meetings on May 8 at 1 PM in Moliets CoP Can velins to out pit. The events involve speakers Copper Mos Geore Tyree and others to discuss school updates and neighborhood concerns.

Court voids two Social Security Act provisions

Boston AP reports the U.S. circuit court of appeals ruled unconstitutional both the unemployment insurance tax and the old age assistance provision of the Social Security Act. Two of three justices held the provisions illegal after a challenge by public utility stockholder George P Davis.

Boston United States Circuit Court of Appeals George P Davis

Bankhead Vocational Bill Advances for Extension Work

Senate agriculture committee approved a Bankhead bill authorizing a $2 80 000 appropriation for vocational agricultural extension work. The measure adds to existing expenditures and would fund a transport plane outfitted as an office for the held headquarters of the US Army Air Corps general staff.

Washington Senate Agriculture Committee Bankhead Ala General Staff of United States Army Arm Corps

Riverside to get new mail route in May plan

The government considers a weekday starting route from Iowa City at 6:30 am to Webster and on to Riverside and Town City with intermediate stops. If adopted the Rock Island line service would replace the current train mail service and could extend to Webster and beyond, changing local mail delivery patterns.

Riverside Rock Island Webster Iowa City Town City Towa City

Tap Dancing And New Variations In Social Dances

A Cedar Rapids Gazette promotion invites readers to improve dancing with a 40 page booklet describing 1937 variations in waltz fox trot tango rhumba and tap steps. It highlights couples Jane and Phil and offers diagrams instructions and payable by 15 cents to Home Institute New York.

Jane Phil Cedar Rapids Gazette Home Institute West 19Th Street New York N. Y

Local and Regional Obituaries and School Updates 1911 Era

Notices detail pneumonia death in Clarence with long-time resident, rest of updates include Clar ence faculty re elected with pay rises, Edna Engelking合同 issue, Mary Martin offers, Buchanan County road program costing 23270.57, and deaths of George A. Nuckels in West Branch and Jessie B. King in Hazleton with survivor details and services.

Clarence Edna Engelking Mary Martin Independence Buchanan County Board of Supervisors Madison Township Liberty, Jefferson Middlefield West Branch George A. Nuckels Friends Church Taylor Guthrie Mr Nuckels Illinois City Wesley Mary Nuckels Annie van Winkle James Hazleton Jessie B. King James M . Sparling D. N King Methodist Church George H. Goodrick Elfreda Freeman

Pickets Hurl Eggs At Deputies At Holabird Plant

Deputies escorting non union workers into the Holabird company plant faced a barrage of eggs from strike pickets. Four pickets were arrested but no charges filed. The firm, with about 220 workers, makes light furniture and novelties. Striking employees demand a 10 cent an hour blanket wage rise and a shorter workweek.

BRYAN Holabird Company

College reports fertilizer boosts in farm fields

Nebraska Agricultural College authorities note super phosphate use on the college farm increases yields. Wheat gains 3 to 4 bushels per acre, oats 4 to 5 bushels, and alfalfa about one quarter more.

Nebraska Agricultural College

Haas Named to Succeed Clark in County Bench

Judge Haas will fill the balance of the four year term ending January 1 1939 after a recount upheld his 43 vote margin over Judge Clark in the 1934 canvass Haas born December 1867 on a Linn county farm near Central City attended Davenport business college and North Indiana law school Valparaiso practiced in Marion since 1896 county attorney 1906 two terms city attorney six years and frequent presider before the state supreme court member Linn County Bar and Masonic lodge.

Sherwood A. Clock Hampton Harold D. Evans Iowa City Clark Judge Haas Linn County Central City Business Davenport North Indiana Law School Valparaiso Ind Haas Marion Voris and

Al Smith Jr Cited For Alimony Payment Contempt

Al fred E. Smith Jr son of former Gov Alfred E Smith is cited to appear before Justice Abram Zoller in Syracuse supreme court on April 22 to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court for failure to pay alimony. Zoller previously ordered $150 monthly temporary alimony and the petition claims about $400 is due to Bertha Gott Smith of Syracuse.

Syracuse N. Y Alfred E. Smith, Jr Alfred E. Smith Abram Zoller Supreme Court Zoller Young Smith Bertha Gott Smith Smith

Army Flyers Land Planes Safely After Mid-Air Collision

At Langley Field Virginia two Army lieutenants Langben and Sexton piloting Martin bombers crashed mid air when Langben cut into Sextons rudder while sextons plane towed a target. They landed safely seventy five miles away and were praised by Colonel Walter H Frank of the Ninth Bombardment Group.

Langley Field Plum Island Thomas Langben Robert L. Sexton Atlantic Largben Sexton Walter H. Frank Ninth Bombardment Group

White man turning black studied by medical profession

William I Morrison a 49 year old White man in Santa Ana California began darkening after a cold weather job. Doctors unable to diagnose until a Los Angeles specialist identified melhanosis a rare disease. The tumor in the liver is said to cause body discoloration.

Santa Ana Calif INS William I. Morrison Morrison Los Angeles

Illinois High Court Outlaws Bank Nights

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that theater bank nights are a lottery and can be prevented by authorities. Justice Shaw said the policy against lotteries is ancient and embedded in the state’s law, marking the scheme as akin to mass gambling. The decision rejected an Iowa ruling and also noted extradition actions involving George Biggs and Joseph Acerra for an assault-to-murder charge.

Springfield Ill Supreme Court Shaw Towa Henry County George Biggs Joseph Acerra Greene County Iowa

Descendants of Church Family Preserve English Pipe History

The Church family, noted for pioneering clay pipe manufacture in England, reportedly holds the world’s largest collection of smoking pipes, highlighting their long standing craft legacy.

Church England

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