Model Home Financed by FHA Planned in Local Drive
John Wagner, local realtor, will supervise an FHA financed model home at 435 Longwood Drive NE. The project, supported by Peoples Savings Bank and insured by the FHA, aims to show FHA aided construction with a 20 year loan at 45 dollars monthly. Local firms including King's Crown Plaster and Wisconsin Lumber join in building the dwelling to be opened for public inspection upon completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Housing Administration
John Wagner
FHA
Peoples Savings Bank
Longwood Drive
Wagner
King’s Crown Plaster Company
Wisconsin Lumber Company
Iowa Electric Light End Power Company
The
Chandler Company
Hawkeye Tin Shop
Williams and Hunting
Mark Anthony
South Carolina Legalizes Wines Up To Fourteen Percent
Gov. Johnston signed a bill permitting sale of wines up to 14 percent alcohol in South Carolina aligning with beer rules. The measure passed both houses with little opposition last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
Ohn D. Johnston
South Carolina
Shirley Temple Hosts Birthday Party at Fox Studio
Hollywood INS reporting Shirley Temple, six years old Tuesday, entertained 30 young guests at a birthday party in the Cafe de Paree at the Fox studio. The celebration was postponed due to her sniffles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
INS
Shirley Temple
Fox Studio
Shirley
Death of J. H. Conway at 82 in Cedar Rapids
J. H. Conway 82 of pneumonia died at home 133 Thirty-fifth Street SE Cedar Rapids. Born in La Salle Illinois he was eldest of eleven children. He married Honora Murphy in 1883 and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1916 with family. Survived by wife six children fifteen grandchildren. Funeral plans pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Conway
Cedar Rapids
Thirty-fifth Street
la Salle
Ill
Mr. Conway
Holbrook
Honora Murphy
Kenwood
St. Matthew’s Church
Conway
John P. Conway
William J. Conway
Joseph F. Conway
Leo C. Conway
Miles Fisher
John Horak
Depositors Agreements In Reorganizing Iowa State Savings
Full legal recognition was given to depositors agreements and re organization plans in the Iowa State Savings bank stockholders assessment action filed in district court Saturday by D W Bates state banking superintendent as receiver of the Iowa State Savings stock holders who subscribed a full equivalent of stock in the new bank the First Trust and Savings resulting from the reorganization are thus exempted from any personal judgment in the assessment case. In the case of those who subscribed a portion of their Iowa State Savings quota in the new institution the assessment will be asked only against the unsubscribed portion. The same policy
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Savings Bank
D. W. Bates
Iowa State
Iowa State Savings
First Trust and Savings
Iowa Savings Bank and Trust actions reach stockholders
Assessment actions against stockholders of Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust and American Trust and Savings bank were obtained and filed Saturday. The Gazette omitted the depositors' agreement and reorganization plan recognition relating to the Iowa State Savings case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company
American Trust and Savings Bank
Iowa State Savings
British Wary of German Sub Planes Ahead of Talks
British officials, though anxious, favor continuing naval discussions with Germany, while fretting over Berlin's plan to build 12 small 250 ton submarines for Baltic operations. Britain seeks talks under Versailles limits. Germany hints at proceeding, with Fr anco- British and French discussions likely next week led by Francois Pietri.
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Berlin
United Press
Germany
Baltic
Britain
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Air Ministry
Francois Pietri
London
Bolton Eyres-Monsell
Admiralty
Pietri
Sir Bolton
Sinclair Urges Democratic Reform Over Third Party Plan
In Des Moines AP report Upton Sinclair former California governor candidate urges farmers workers and unemployed to unite behind a new program within the Democratic party rather than forming a new third party. He says democratic action can solve problems without dictatorship or civil war and calls for a refreshed Democratic program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
National Farmers Holiday Association
Upton Sinclair
California
Sinclair
Association
Democratic Party
Dr L Myron Boozer Speaks At Cedar Rapids Presbytery Rally
Dr L Myron Boozer of Des Moines and Iowa state and synod executive will keynote the Cedar Rapids presbytery Young People’s League rally at Westminster Church opening 3 p.m. A 3 30 p.m talk and 7 30 p.m talk share the theme Seeing Jesus in the World and Seeing Jesus Within.
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L. Myron Boozer
Des Moines
Presbyterian Synod of Iowa
Young People’s League of the
Cedar Rapids
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Boozer
Oregon State College
Carnwallis
Ore
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa Synod
Collegiate Presbyterian Church
Synod
Jesus
Presbytery
Coe College Girls' Glee Club
Catherine Adams
Marvin Lacock
Spring Grove
Mabel Harper
Monticello
E. J. Wykle
Cedar Rapids Presbytery
Lyal Ness
Atkins
Central Park Presbyterian Quartet
Eleanor Beatty
Robert McDanes
Place
Tom Bailey
Center Park Presbyterian
Young People's League
Robert Hansen
Kenwood Park
League
Warren Hansen
Horner to Consult Hopkins on Relief Funds Crisis
Gov Henry Horner rushed to Washington to seek private funds and federal help after Illinois faced a shutdown of relief work. The Illinois Emergency Relief Commission ordered 101 counties to close relief stations, while Chicago and Cook County halted only after the county board took control and sold 1.2 million in leftover relief bonds. Hopkins had demanded 3 million monthly from the state before more federal funds could flow.
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Chicago
Henry Horner
Washington
Illinois
State Emergency Relief Commission
Cook County
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Chicago Woman Slightly Hurt In Highway Crash
Mrs. Catherine Simmons of Chicago escaped serious injury when her car struck a concrete bridge abutment on highway No 30 seven miles east of Cedar Rapids. She sustained bruises as the car was badly damaged after a truck from a side road forced her to swerve. A passerby brought her to Cedar Rapids to report the accident to Sheriff James H. Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Simmons
Chicago
Dr Edwin B Frost Ill Of Gall Stones
Dr Edwin B Frost, famed blind astronomer of Yerkes Observatory and University of Chicago scientist, was suffering from gall stone colic at Billings Hospital on Saturday. Doctors said an operation might not be necessary for the 67 year old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Edwin B. Frost
Yerkes Observatory
Billings Hospital
University of Chicago
Mail Clerks Alarmed by Bee Laden Package
In Green Bay Wisconsin postal workers feared a package from Chicago after buzzing noises suggested a bomb. The recipient finally claimed the box which contained a shipment of bees from a Chicago mail order house.
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Green Bay
Wis
Chicago
College Club meeting features play reading and talks
The College club gathered at Edna Barrett Jacksons home for a reading of Galsworthys The Roof led by Mrs Juniata Caldwell Laser. Wendl Andrle and Helen Little Hickman sang four numbers while Mrs Herbert C Ring discussed womens changing political economy.
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Edna Barrett Jackson
Grande Avenue
Jenna Strahan
Juniata Caldwell Laser
Galsworthy
Herbert C. Ring
The
Educational Committee
Otto Schluter
Charles E. Irwin
Marie Schmermund
Wilbur Kennedy
C. C. Flodin
E. E. Schenefelt
David Bleakley
William Rinderknecht, Jr
Wells Peck
O. C. Olney
R. D. Taylor
E. J. North
Midwestern GOP to Hold First Regional Rally in June
A group of midwestern Republican leaders met in Excelsior Springs to draft a 1936 platform and plan a regional conference in the first week of June. Spangler led the unofficial grass roots committee with leaders like Arthur Hyde and John D. Hamilton attending to set venue, date, and tone while avoiding a presidential candidate boom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Excelsior Springs
Grass Roots Committee
Middle West
Harrison E. Spangler
Cedar Rapids
John D. Hamilton
Topeka
Washington
Arthur M. Hyde
Ed Hays
Decatur, II
American Legion
Justus L. Johnson
Aurora
Milnois
Spangler
National Party
Democratic Congress
Middlewest
Dust States Open War On Pneumonia
Southwest dust bowl states launch a preventive campaign against dusty pneumonia as hundreds of new cases emerge. Red Cross officials urge respirator masks while Springfield Colorado reports measles and nine deaths. Beaver Oklahoma hospital reports dust pneumonia sufferers and requests 4,000 masks as winds push grime eastward. air clears with northwest winds.
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Kansas City
Red Cross
Springfield
Colo
Beaver
Oklo
Ralph O. von Thurn
American Red Cross
Relief Administration
Dust Bowl
Middle West
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J. H. Conway
Iowa
Indiana
Pers
van Gamp’s Pork & Beans
Green Mountains
U. 8
Ohios
Malcolm Lady
Harry Kremers
Coe College
George Stone
Robert Little
First Presbyterian Church
Eva Junek
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Helen Burge
Mount Vernon
E. E. Moorhead
Eleanor Galloway
Dorothy West
J. Renwick McCullough
George Dunlap
Philippines
DR. L. Myron Boozer
Horner
Laser
Craemer’s
Craemer's
Gertrude
Gertrudes
Carpenter
First Avenue
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