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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1940
Page
12
Albert Edward Wigg am presents expert Q A style excerpts on fighting instinct in children and the role of circumstantial evidence in crime. It discusses worry and irritability as factors in accidents and cites studies from 2000 fights and the Cleveland Street Railway data.
Mrs. R. T. Lubbock was elected president of the Woman’s club yesterday, succeeding Mrs. J. T. Taylor. Estelle Johnson hosted a farewell party for her brother Kenneth who departs for Santa Monica, California. Lee Horsley left for Ottumwa to begin as boys’ work secretary at the YMCA. I. B. McGladrey spoke in Iowa City today on an unspecified topic.
Lieut Gov E R Moore spoke to the Masonic study club in Davenport. Dr A W Erskine returned from New Orleans after the Radiological Society of North America meeting. Archer Sinclair hosted Miss Alice Hopkins of New York. Sam Miskimen, a blind man, suffered a fatal stroke at the Arthur school auditorium while collecting for pencils and offering to sing for teachers.
C. C. Inskeep has sold his Second Avenue home and will move with his family to reside in California. Mrs Ed Carey and her son accompany him as they plan the relocation.
Harold travels to Denver for health. Central States Warehouse Men's Club meets in Cedar Rapids with delegates from Oklahoma Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado and the Dakotas. The group was founded in Cedar Rapids two years ago by I L Mitchell and others. Mr and Mrs H H Boyson, long-time Owensboro residents, have moved to Cedar Rapids.
Detective A E Wilson confronted a man in Kent's Furniture store on First Street NE who claimed to be the newly named police chief. The suspect offered to sell two wire brushes and a box of files, gave a dubious origin for the merchandise, and fled across Fast Street into heavy traffic after leaving the store while being questioned. The man identified himself as Jim Bailey.
Bob Ladage took first place in the Cedar Rapids Motorcycle Club endurance run on a 25 mile four lap course with three points. Ade Crew finished second with four points and Ivor Dillon third with six. Two minor incidents occurred among ten entrants, one engine trouble DNF and a rider fall in a sandy rut near Marion.
A dense schedule listing morning to late night radio broadcasts across multiple stations including WMT WOI WGN WCCO WSUI WHO KFJB KFJB KEIB and more. It catalogs programs by time slot with show titles hosts and musical acts such as Lew Diamonds Frankie Masters Kate Smith Guy Lombardo and Julia Blake, reflecting a midcentury Midwest radio lineup with varied entertainment news and farm programming.
Atlantic City AP report says the general conference overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to form a ten member committee to draft a statement on the church's stance toward official U S Vatican relations. Dr W F Ryan of Huntsville Texas had sponsored the measure noting bishops had protested Vatican ties.
Rudolph Block age 69 died after a long illness. Writing as Bruno Lessing for fifty years he gained fame in literary and newspaper circles. His travel column Vagabondia reached millions of readers.
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