Satan's Last Attack Water Safety Meeting at YMCA
The Red Cross water safety committee led by Dawson E. Grim meets at the YMCA Thursday at noon. Attendees include representatives from Mt. Vernon Marion Coe College and the city playground commission. Kenneth Mennifee Lloyd Marney Cel est Buresh and Donald Witousek returned home after a Chicago weekend to see the Chicago Cincinnati game at Wrigley Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Mennifee
Lloyd Marney
Cedar Rapids
Lester Buresh
Donald Witousek
Western
Chicago
Wrigley Field
A A U W Board To Honor Dr Stevens At Meeting
The A A U W board will honor Dr Samuel Nowell Stevens president of Grinnell College and will host a dinner Wednesday at the Commonwealth tearoom. Guests include Dr and Mrs Koenig Dr and Mrs Macy and Dr and Mrs Hallman with Hallman introducing Stevens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.A.U.W. Board
Stevens
Myron L. Koenig
C. Ward Macy
M. S. Hallman
Hallman
L. M. Ford
Crescent Street
George Lewis
Clyde
Meffert
Palmer Family Visit Precedes Son Drifts to Duty
Dr and Mrs John F Palmer of St Louis with daughter Marjory visit Dr Palmer's parents Mr and Mrs J Frank Palmer at 3536 Center Point Rd NE Cedar Rapids. Dr Palmer, a reserve officer in chemical warfare, left Sunday for active duty. Mrs Palmer and Marjory will stay in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Palmer
St. Louis
Marjory
Palmer
J .Frank Palmer
Center Point Tread
Cedar Rapids
Sixth birthday party hosted at Rimrodt home
Shirlene Rimrodt turned six with a Saturday afternoon party at 311 Nineteenth Avenue SW. Guests included J Neane Odell Carol Karns and several others. Thelma Nelson helped serve. A separate celebration marked Joe Houser and wife’s twentieth wedding anniversary with a mock wedding and gift. Local guests joined from Cedar Rapids Toddville Norway Walford and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirlene Rimrodt
Ernest Rimrodt
Nineteenth Avenue SW
J’neane Odell
Carol Karns
Jean Ann Stulisky
Donna Grimm
Mary Jane Goodyear
Donna Kennedy
Judy Chalupnik
Florence Miener
Arlene Steen
Joan Johnson
Elaine Hereal
Bonnie Nelson
Joan Rimrodt
Thelma Nelson
Rimrodt
Joe Houser
Swisher
Cedar Rapids
William Sediey, Jr
Edward Houser
Joe Marke
Earnie Vasbinder
Martyn Schulte
Joe Becker
Elizabeth Becker
Farewell Tea and Pythian Rites Mark Iowa Event
Mrs. Ben Pohorsky and Mrs. John Robertson hosted a farewell picnic supper and handkerchief shower at 858 A Avenue NE for Mrs. Howard Galbraith. Attendees included Winter temple Pythian Sisters officers and past chiefs. The Iowa Consistory 93rd reunion opened Tuesday, continuing through Thursday with 15th degree at 7:30 p.m. and 17th degree at 8 a.m. daily meals provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Pohorsky
John Robertson
Pohorsky
Howard Galbraith
Winter Temple
The
Pythian Sisters
Iowa
Miami couple ends visit at Diebold home
Mr and Mrs Ward Baker of Miami Florida left Monday for their summer home in Clear Lake after staying with Mr and Mrs A J Diebold at 2207 Grande avenue SE since Friday Weekend guests included their daughter Miss Bonnie Mae Diebold a Mundelein college student in Chicago and their nephew Bob May who attends Tri States college at Angola Indiana
Carol Anne Nilles Celebrates Sixth Birthday Party
Carol Anne Nilles daughter of Mr and Mrs L J Nilles 1914 Grande avenue SE celebrated her sixth birthday Monday afternoon with a party Guests included Barbara Battin Carol Donnelly Susan Langfitt Winnibelle Bryson Charlene Kelly Mary Janet Skelly and Kathleen Moore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Anne Nilles
Mrs Adkins Speaks on Prominent Women in Drama at P E O
Mrs B Adkins reviewed the lives of notable women in drama at Chapter IF P E O meeting Monday afternoon. Guest Mrs George A Hallenbeck FO attended and Mrs William P Whipple hosted the tea table at 2442 Bever Avenue SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Adkins
Chapter
P.E.O
Robert S Prewitt
Bever Avenue
George A Hallenbeck
William P. Whipple
Installation ceremony honors Cedar Rapids VFW Post 788 leaders
More than 250 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliary from Cedar Rapids Iowa City and Grinnell attended the installation ceremony in VFW hall. Ray Harbit was installed as commander and Mrs Emil Erickson as auxiliary president. Mrs Glenn Thomas was installing officer and Mrs Otto Tweed conductress. Other auxiliary officers named include Mrs Anna Sheridan senior vice president Mrs Edith Harbit junior vice president Mrs Ruth Thomas treasurer Miss Zelina Wiese secretary Mrs Margaret Melsh chaplain Mrs Stella Vodoska conductress and several color bearers, historian, trustee, guard, patriotic instructor, flag bearer, banner bearer and musician among the attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Grinnell
V.F.W. Hall
Ray Harbit
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Emil Erickson
V.F.W Auxiliary
Glenn Thomas
Otto Tweed
Auxiliary
Anna Sheridan
Edith Harbit
Ruth Thomas
Zelina Wiese
Margaret Melsh
Stella Vodoska
Blanche Concannon
Viola Foushee
Arlene Beach
Mary Ann Pitts Hasley
Maria Sprynel
Stasia Elgas
Leota Hunter
Neva Sweet
Katherine Ann Brems
Gladys Liausch
Vava Hopkins
Ralph Preckels Concludes Visit
Mr and Mrs Ralph Preckels who stayed several days at the home of Mr and Mrs F W Prekel 716 Sixteenth street SE left Monday for Evans ton Illinois They are working on doctorates at Northwestern University
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Preckel
Mr. Preckel
F. W. Preckel
Sixteenth Street SE
Evanston, Ill
Mrs. Preckel
Northwestern University
St Margaret's Circle Holds Spring Mixer at School Parlor
Members of St Margarets circle of Immaculate Conception church held their annual spring mixer and buffet supper in the school parlors Sunday evening. Guests included the Rev Bernard Collins the Rev John Hemesath Mrs J N Neary and Miss Eileen Melloy of Dubuque. War savings stamps were won in court whist by Mrs Bernard Kragh Mrs Lloyd Connolly Mrs Leo Morrissey Joe Enzler Jack Welch and Russell Torgler. The event was planned by Mines L P Sommerhauser E J Stark William Stark H L Stinson William Stewart Howard Walker and R S White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Margaret's Circle
Immaculate Conception Church
Bernard Collins
John Hemesath
J. N. Neary
Eileen Melloy
Dubuque
Bernard Kragh
Lloyd Connolly
Leo Morrissey
Joe Enzler
Jack Welch
Russell Torgler
Jolly Sixteen Meet Hosted By Mrs Bennett
Mrs. F. H. Bennett of 716 Seventh Avenue SE will host the Jolly Sixteen meeting Friday at 2 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Bennett
Seventh Avenue SE
Jolly Sixteen
Mercy Hospital Alumnae Meet in Library
Mercy hospital alumnae plan a 3 p.m. gathering on Wednesday in the hospital library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital
Playground Commission Gets School Grounds for Summer Program
The board of education granted the playground commission access to additional school grounds for the summer program. The old Harrison school site on Sixth Street between K and L avenues NW was approved for a baseball back stop and a temporary craft shop once plans receive board approval. Leslie Grigg of Roosevelt High will supervise the program amid sites Harrison Roosevelt Taylor Lincoln Van Buren McKinley Buchanan Arthur and Kenwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Playground Commission
Board of Education
Harrison School
Sixth Street
K and
L Avenues NW
Judd Dean
Leslie Grigg
Roosevelt High School
Dean
Harrison
Roosevelt
Taylor
Lincoln
van Buren
McKinley
Buchanan
Arthur
Kenwood
History and Literature Group Concludes Year
At the Cedar Rapids Woman's Club history and literature department meeting officers were reelected for the coming year. Mrs Emil Rasmussen remains chairman with Mrs Arthur Baxter as leader and Mrs Marshall Clark as secretary treasurer. Emma Ellitt spoke on Who's New in Who's Who noting Cedar Rapids' strong representation. McKinley high school's choral reading group, directed by Miss Marjorie Emerson, performed selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Woman’s Club
Emil Rasmussen
Arthur Baxter
Marshall Clark
Emma Ellitt
Cedar Rapids
McKinley High School
Marjorie Emerson
Four Attend Concert in Cedar Falls
Mr and Mrs Harold Spurrier and Mrs Claude Fratchey and Mrs Beulah Kirkham attended a Marian Anderson concert, the Negro contralto, in Cedar Falls Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Harold Spurrier
Gwendolyn Drive
Claude Fratchey
B Avenue
Beulah Kirkham
Eighth Street
Marian Anderson
Convention Bus Circle Postponed to April 30 Meeting
The Convention Bus circle of the King's Daughters postpones its Thursday meeting to April 30 at 6 30 p m at the home of Mrs Tom Termohlen 358 Twenty first street se.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the King's Daughters
Tom Termohlen
Twenty-first Street
Former Hubbard Postmaster Sentenced for Misuse of Funds
Otis T. Newgaard former Hubbard postmaster received 18 months in the federal reformatory at Sandstone Minnesota after pleading guilty to misappropriation of post office funds and false reports. He was linked to a staged January 2 holdup to mask a shortage. A separate motions session saw cases remanded and admissions in federal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Hubbard Post
Farmers Co-Operative Association
Quaker Oats Company
Scott
O’brien County
Bass
Ruff
Rowe Manufacturing Company
Hall Manufacturing Company and
Bachelder
Bachelder Versus the Hoosier Casualty Company
Charles H. Hastings
Grimm, Elliott, Shuttleworth and Ingersoll
War Fragments From Key Leaders Echo United Effort
International News Service quotes Harry Hopkins urging patience and total effort, Ernest Bevin calling for a people’s war and peace, Paul V. McNutt proposing work or fight mobilization, and Archibald MacLeish declaring this the last war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Washington
Harry Hopkins
London
Ernest Bevin
Gas Cooking Stoves Placed Under Retail Freeze Edict
Washington AP reports WPB official W Walter Timmis ruled that gas cooking stoves fall under the government order freezing retail sale of plumbing and heating equipment. The rest of the text references Noah and the dove from the ark, appearing as an unrelated insertion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
W. Walter Timmis
WPB Plumbing and Heating Branch
Travelers Return To Cedar Rapids After Vacations
Cedar Rapids residents greet spring as travelers come back from long weekend trips and vacations. Mrs. Owen T. Barry and Mrs. G. H. Tellier return from Ames after weekend visits, with Tellier’s sister Miss Gertrude Herr and Barbara Barry joining Pi Beta Phi. Other travelers include Mrs Worth Averill from Milwaukee and Three Rivers, Mich, and Mr and Mrs G M Wodtke with daughter Jean returning from a extended South and West tour visiting Lieut Kelley G Wodtke in Arizona and stopping in Los Angeles San Antonio Houston and Galveston on the way home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Owen T. Barry
Ridgeway Drive
G. H. Tellier
Forest Drive
Ames
Tellier
Gertrude Herr
Barry
Barbara
Town State College
Pi Beta Phi Sorority
Earle G. Nichols
Meadowbrook Drive
C. Harve Geiger
Milwaukee
Nancy
Three Rivers
Mich
Worth Averill
Second Avenue
G. M. Wodtke
Crescent Street
Jean
Kelley G Wodtke
Williamsfield
Ariz
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Houston
Galveston
City Briefs Roundup of Local Meetings and Events
Community notices list meetings at St John s hall First Lutheran BB class and Girl Scout activities. Nebraska speak ers evangelists and civic groups schedule events with locations in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Public notices include advertising rates and garden programs as well as funeral attendance.
Clerk on duty for sugar rationing forms May 4
For firms needing sugar rationing forms, a clerk will be on duty from 9 am to 5 pm Thursday and Friday in the basement of the courthouse.
Wounded Americans Balance Plane by Crawling to Save It
AN ADVANCED AMERICAN BASE IN AUSTRALIA. Wounded crewmen recount how they crawled along the fuselage to balance a damaged bomber after a raid near New Guinea. Pilot and navigator were wounded as the Zero fighters attacked. Barrie C. Burnside steered the craft to a safe landing, with the plane riddled by bullets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
United States
Barrie C. Burnside
Janesville
Wis
New Guinea
Burnside
Flimsy Planes Carried Medicine to Bataan
Lieut. Col. William J. Kennard testified that a bamboo fleet of four obsolete American planes flew nightly in the last month of the Bataan siege. The patched planes carried medical supplies to front line hospitals as doctors stayed with wounded soldiers after the resistance collapsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Australia
William J. Kennard
United States Air Corps
Bataan
Kennard
Cripps Returns to England After Mission to India
Sir Stafford Cripps arrived back in England by plane from his failed attempt to secure an agreement between Great Britain and Indian leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sir Stafford Cripps
England
Great Britain
Moffat Opposes New Grain Belt Alcohol Plants
Fraser Moffat Jr head of the chemical branch of the War Production board told a senate subcommittee he would not recommend building new alcohol plants in the grain belt as current facilities suffice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fraser M. Moffat, Jr
Chemical
War Production Board
Senate
Ownership of Strip at Edge Cleveland School Playground Questioned
J C Blodgett opened a board of education meeting by asking who owns a 10 foot strip at the west end of the Cleveland school playground. Residents have planted gardens and some trees along the strip. The board allowed temporary gardens but opposed trees and authorized Blodgett to determine the land’s ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
J. C. Blodgett
Board of Education
Blodgett
Board of Adjustment Grants 2 Applications
The board granted Dale O Reece at 911 Thirteenth Street NW a six foot side yard setback for an attached garage and Carl J Freund at 868 Eighteenth Street SE a garage three feet six inches from the rear of a home. An application by Mrs Frances K Neimeyer at 1030 Seventh Street SE to use a former church building for commercial purposes in a residential district was continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Adjustment
Dale O Reece
Thirteenth Street
Carl J. Freund
Eighteenth Street
Frances K. Neimeyer
Seventh Street
Lucky Man to marry Shenandoah naval wartime hero
Robert Ferrell, who served on the aircraft tender Langley and the rescue ship Pecos and survived their sinking, will wed Miss Helen Wiar in Shenandoah Iowa on Friday. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. I R Raines of Shenandoah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah, Ia
Robert Ferrell
Langley
Pecos
Helen Wiar
Navy
I. R. Raines
Shenandoah
Navy families to get window stickers
M. C. Madson in charge of Cedar Rapids navy recruiting station announced on Tuesday that red white and blue window stickers will be available to all families with men in the navy. The stickers read There is a Man from This Family in the Navy and may be obtained at the recruiting station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Madson
Cedar Rapids
Navy
Madson
Sara Ann Brown Named School Home Economics Supervisor
Sara Ann Brown, a Wilson high school home economics teacher, was named supervisor of home economics for the Cedar Rapids school system by the board of education Monday night. She succeeds Helen McCleery who resigned last fall for Des Moines. Evelyn Coppock and Mary Ellen McLeod were hired to teach in the elementary schools starting next September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Ann Brown
Wilson High School
Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Miss Brown
Helen McCleery
Des Moines
Evelyn Coppock
Marion
Mary Ellen McLeod
Mills College
Credit Men Learn Soldiers Relief Act Limits
Attor ney Charles J. Lynch Jr. told Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association members that the Soldiers' and Sailors' relief act is not a blanket bar on legal action against servicemen. He cautioned relief depends on each case and that service does not excuse obligations. A discussion of specific cases followed his address at the Roosevelt hotel dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Relief
Charles J. Lynch, Jr
Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Lynch
Isle of Man Lacks Snakes or Toads
A note states that the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea has no snakes or toads. It appears to describe the island’s fauna as free from these reptiles and amphibians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isle of Man
Irish Sea
McKinley High Gym Closed To Rifle Range Use
The board of education notified McKinley High School principal Paxson that the small gymnasium must not be used as a rifle range until the board grants authorization. Paxson admitted students had used the room for rifle practice, and the decision followed noise concerns during a citizenship program. The board also approved buying posts to block cars from the McKinley playground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
W. L. Paxson
McKinley High School
Paxson
McKinley Playground
Deamer Gets Go Ahead On Sugar Ration Plans
Superintendent Arthur Deamer was authorized by the school board to supervise sugar rationing card distribution through the schools. Sugar sales end April 27 with rationing registration starting May 4. Deamer will announce plan details later this week. J C Blodgett noted schools would not close during card distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Deamer
Deamer
J. C. Blodgett
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L H Stubbs
Hollywood
Calif
Don Barnes
Nassau Street
Sewing Club
Glenn B. McDonald
Twenty-fourth Street
Drive
Sandee Jordan
Twenty-fifth Street
Joe Cross
Blake Boulevard
Bridge Club
Ingram Bixler
Frank Palmers
Honor Mrs. Galbraith
Stewart-Warner
STORE
Tet “Ave
Mresge’s
Mrs. Adkins
If, P.E.O. Meeting
V.F.W
Ralph Preckels
ST. Margaret’s Circle
Hubbard
Paul V. McNutt
New York
Archibald MacLeish
Office of Facts and Figures
Raven
Noah
Lout
City Briefs
First Lutheran
Order of Ahepa
St John’s Hall
B. L. Wick
Lafayette Club
H. B. Garrison
Third Street
Mary Trevelyan
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mike F. Pfann
Rochester
Minn
Walter L. Neal
Avenue NE
Burlington
Herman M. Brandes
William Hensley
Church of Christ
Eighth Avenue SW
Robert Hemminger
Fort Bragg
B. D. Hemminger
Sixth Avenue
Nadine Kirkland
L Avenue
Cedar Raunds Airways
Aeronca
Davenport
Denver-Chicago
George Fieldhouse
First Avenue SW
First Lutheran Church
St. Wenceslaus School
Bever Park
L. J. Smith
City Garden
Fillmore Garden
St. Patrick's
Fillmore
Knights of Columbus
Don Ford
Lloyd Johnson
Four Square Gospel Tabernacle
First Avenue
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Oxfords
Sport Oxfords
Children’s Saddle
Long Wearings Sales
Cripps
Gracie Allen
George Burns
Paul Whiteman
Lever Brothers Company
Cambridge
MASE
Lucky Man
McKinley High
Java
Montrose
Optical Service
Leonard T. Arduser
C. Chambers Inskeep Optical Company
Third St. SE
Dial
Harry F. Tisher
Pres
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