Beauty and Popularity Winners Find Marriage Fame in Cedar Rapids
Four to six former queens wed in Cedar Rapids as beauty and popularity contest prizes yield marriages and homes. Former winners include Miss Josephine Scolaro now Mrs. August Gureno with daughter Mary Jo Ann, and Miss Pauline Heaton Canaday, Mrs. Wilber Canaday. Other brides include Alice Smith Jacobsen and Jo Ann Sonka, each tied to new domestic life after prize fame.
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Naomi Doebel
Cedar Rapids
Josephine Scolaro
Bermuda
August Gureno
Third Street SE
Gus
Ocean Motion
Scolaro
Memorial Coliseum
Mary Jo Ann
Kolaches
Wilber T. Canaday
Carol Lee
Third Avenue
E. E. Jacobsen
Alice Smith
Hollywood
Cedar Rapids National Bank
Merchants National
Cedar Rapids National
Jacobsen
Alice
Tenth Street
Jo Anne Sonka
Swisher
Wills His Wealth To Wife Who Left
Albert Sardo named his estranged wife as sole heir on the back of an unsigned farewell letter. He died in an automobile crash February 25. The will lacks date and witnesses under district law, prompting a court challenge to its validity.
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Washington
Ins
Albert Sardo
Here
Pittsburgh
Sardo
Red Cross First Aid Drive Reports Record Year
Dr. R M Muirhead told Y M C A lay instructors that the American Red Cross first aid service set new records amid expanded accident prevention work. He cited a El Paso fleet of thirty trucks with no accidents in eighteen months and urged active promotion of life saving training and aquatic schools for camp and beach leadership. The program notes a hundred percent rise in youth camps with Red Cross life saving courses.
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First Aid Service
American Red Cross
R. M. Muirhead
St. Louis
Muirhead
Kenneth E. Cornell
First Aid
el Paso
Tex
Red Cross
Rotary Club names seven directors for Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Rotary Club announced the election of seven directors at the Monday Ladies Night banquet. Named are Joseph H. Ainsworth, Dr. J. H. Calder, Gus H. Cornwell, C. W. Cottingham, Carl C. Kesler, Morris Sanford and David Turner. The new board will meet soon to choose officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Rotary Club
James F. Keevers
Joseph H. Ainsworth
J. H. Calder
Gus H. Cornwell
C. W. Cottingham
Carl C. Kesler
Morris Sanford
David Turner
Opponent of War to Speak at Union Service May 5
Dr. Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City will address the union services on Fascism Bolshevism and Democracy at St Pauls Methodist Church May 5 at 730 p m. The meeting open to the public. Jenkins a longtime pastor editor and author has opposed war and supported new internationalism.
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Burris A. Jenkins
Kansas City
Linwood Boulevard
Kansas City Post
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
First Congregational
First Baptist
First Presbyterian
St. Paul’s Methodist
Jenkins
Bethany College
Harvard University
Indianapolis University
Kentucky University
Kansas City Church
Russia
Germany
Sherwood Eddy
Americans Flee Chinese Province to Chungking
More than 100 foreigners including 52 Americans flee bandit infested Sichuan province escaping to Chungking. Refugees travel by air river and ground under martial law as Chiang Kai-shek's forces maneuver and missions evacuate.
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Shanghai
Shechwan
China
Chungking
Yangtze
Kialing
Chengtu
Anwhei
Shensi
John C. Stam
Anhwei
S. C. Frencham
Ningkiang
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanking
China National Aviation Corporation
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Lucille Stodola
Stodola
Floyd Philbrick
Palace Theater
Tallie Samuelson
The
Gazette
Paramount Theater
Elmer Frejka
Elmer F. Cejka
Turner Company
Cejka
Craemer’s
Samuelson
Los Angeles
Mary Brian
Thompson
Lillie Samuelson
Pauline Heaton
Montieur
Tru-Art
Montleur
Hf. G. Fussell
Okinow
Ave
Eudar Rapids, Ta
Pioneer Mfg. CO
Oakland Ave
Cedar Rapids, Ia
Rotary Club
DR. Burris A. Jenkins
Chinese Province
Gen. Chiang
Ares
Firestone Tires
Mur
Irestone
Firestone
Quaker State
Second Ave
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