Cedar Rapids Power Users Get 30 000 Annual Rate Cut
A new rate ordinance will cut power bills for 535 Cedar Rapids users starting May 1, with savings about 30 000 annually. The Iowa Electric Light and Power Co submitted the plan after reducing domestic and commercial rates earlier, with cuts varying up to 50 percent for power customers.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
The
Light Company
E. G. Nichols
Quaker Mts Company
Three Minute Als Company
Wilson
Light R Company
Juvenile role in Cedar Rapids stage hit Winding Road
Sydney H. Spayde guest director for Cedar Rapids Community Players hails Howard Holman as a top juvenile talent. Winding Road won first in the Midwest Playwriting contest and premieres tonight at 8 30 at the Community Playhouse with Holman as a young bond salesman. Performances repeat Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Sydney H. Spayde
Cedar Rapids Community Players
Communnity Playhouse
Howard Holman
Mr. Holman
Community Players
Utility Rate Plan Aims Lower Electric Bills For City
The council heard an ordinance plan by Mr. Nichols seeking to cut electric service rates as generation and distribution costs fall and sales rise. The proposal introduces tiered rates from 6 to 4.5 cents per kilowatt hour with a 2,000 kWh threshold and adjusts minimum charges by horsepower, plus a 10 percent late payment penalty and a 5 percent early payment discount previously offered.
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Nichols
French aviator Maurice Finat killed in Kenya crash
Paris and Madagascar speed record attempt ends with the death of Maurice Finat, French aviator, when his monoplane crashed in mountainous terrain northwest of Mombasa, Kenya Colony. The accident occurred Sunday as he sought the Madagascar to Paris record.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Colony
Africa
Maurice Finat
Paris
Mombasa
Powers Protest To Lithuanians Over Memel Row
Britain France and Italy issued strong representations to Lithuania over Memel the Baltic port area after Germany charged discrimination by Lithuania. Lithuania said Germany blocked a proposed directorate expansion and a deadlock followed as Allies studied Hitler's challenge to the league council on rearmament.
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London
INL
Germany
Geneva
Reich
Britain
France
Italy
Lithuania
Memel
Baltic
League of Nations Council
Hitler
Council
City Briefs and Personal News Section Highlights
City council approved 9112.72 in interest on First Avenue bridge bonds and 28038.75 for waterworks maturities. Bids due April 29 for park concessions. Sea Scout troop helped police at Ellis park and Easter egg hunt. Roof fire limited to shingles at 1335 D Ave NE. Parking fines levied on two downtown violators. Police seek missing 1926 Star coach. 200-signature petition opposes a Ne gro mortuary at Eighth St SE. Recreation staff reappointed for one year. Local doctors attended Iowa Surgical clinic in Des Moines. Lectures by Judge Hill and Yale engineer dean planned. Mrs. Duttweiler travels to Detroit. husband away on business. Desertion cases in court. one defendant remanded for attorney consultation.
Family arraigned Monday before Justice Reed
A family arraigned Monday before Justice Reed and one member released on bond.
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Justice Reed
Fined For Intoxication In Police Court
Ed Makovsky, 31, rural route two, was sentenced to thirty days in county jail for intoxication after an arrest Monday in police court. Fines of 25 dollars and costs were assessed for intoxication and disturbing the peace against Merle Boyle, 35, 1507 N street SW, and Richard Bean, 23, 620 Fifteenth avenue SE, while George Tehel, 38, 310 Fifteenth street SW, also faced 25 dollar fines for intoxication. H. J. Usher, 55, 412 K. avenue NW, paid 10 dollars and costs for intoxication.
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Ed Makovsky
Route Two
Merle Boyle
N Street
Richard Bean
Fifteenth Avenue SE
George Tehel
Fifteenth Street
H. J. Usher
K. Avenue NW
Roosevelt Aims to Finalize Work Relief Allocations
President Roosevelt expects a virtually complete allocation of the 4.88 billion work relief program by week’s end. The division of labor among federal departments will also be finalized, with Roosevelt focusing on this task in the coming days.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
White House
Nazarene Convention Opens in Northeast Iowa
Dr EB Ellyson of Kansas City opened the Church of the Nazarene Sunday school convention in the local church on 400 F avenue NW with a Sunday afternoon address. Delegations are expected from Waterloo Cedar Falls Dubuque Clinton Davenport Muscatine Iowa City. Grace Crozier and C Preston Roberts will also speak. Ellyson urged that church schools combine education religion and Christianity and said Pentecost is the power to carry on Christ work. He will speak tonight and Tuesday.
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EB. P. Ellyson
Kansas City
Church of the Nazarene Church
Iowa
Church of the Nazarene
F Avenue
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Dubuque
Clinton
Davenport
Muscatine
C. Preston, Roberts
Des Moines
Grace Ob. Crozier
Ellyson
Masonry In Action Opens Iowa Consistory Reunion in Cedar Rapids
The eighty-first reunion of Iowa Consistory No 2 and concordant bodies begins Tuesday at the Scottish Rite temple in Cedar Rapids with degrees through the thirty-second to be conferred. Rev. Fred G. Codd of Davenport will speak Thursday night on Masonry In Action, closing the event after a full schedule of degree work and meals.
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Iowa
Scottish Rite
Cedar Rapids
Fred G. Codd
Davenport
Masonry In Action
Mr. Codd
Iowa Grand Lodge Service Committee
Floyd D. Fillmore
Bruce
Knights Rose Croix
Sixth Street
J. R. Treichler
Jess A. Kitterman
Earl O. Coffing
DeMolay Chorus
Christel Palmer
Mr. Fillmore
John H. Cail
Stanley C. Moore
J. F. Ball
John B. Finney
George ‘E. Farmer
Waterloo
F. J. Martin
James W.W. Boling
W. J. Kueneman
W. A. Leefers
H. Adams
Millard H. Douglas
W. H. Stepanek
Harry
W. Dunker
Harry A. Palmer
W. D. Ralston
Floyd Phile Brick
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Electric Company
Linn County
Frank Filip & Co
Investment Securities
Higley
Tru-Art Cu
Gem Laboratories
New York
J. C. Landenberger
First United Presbyterian
First Avenue Bridge
Bever, Ellis, Riverside
Daniels Park
S. S. Kiwanian
Ellis Park
Lions Club
E. L. Bumpas
D Avenue NE
Louis Sanders
First Avenue E
Frank Cook
K Avenue MW
S. A
Hopker
Marion
Eighth Avenue
Louis D
Burgos
Reappoint Play
Clare Nichols
Nevin Nichols
Natalie Schoen
T. Ray Frame
Playground Commission
H. E. Pfeiffer
C. S. Krause
A. R. Zuercher
Roy Alt
Iowa Surgical Clinic
Methodist Hospital
Fort Des Moines
Frederick C. Hill
Los Angeles
First Church of Christ, Scientist
R. E. Doherty
College of Engineering
Yale University
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Detroit
Henry Duttweiler
First Avenue
Mich
Duttweiler
Montgomery
Ala
Speeder Machinery Company
Wesley Ward
Seventeenth Avenue SE
Court of Justice
A. S. Reed
Ward
Eugene Byerly
Church of Nazarene
Atl Ld
Goodrich Gold & Black
Silvertown
Joe Cook
Va Ae Rolfe
Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra
Tim
Irene Phil Duey
Peg LA Centra
Lucy Monroe
N.B.C
Frank Buck
Goodrich
Silvertowns
Silvertown Safety League
Silvertown Stores
Seventeenth Avenue
C Street
Super Service Oil CO
Second Avenue
Eighth Street
T. C. Yarnall
Mgr
Riverside Garage
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Hogan Bros
E Avenue
Fifth Street NW
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