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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1939
Page
29
Cedar Rapids musician Foy Art Snider, famed as Elzie Zacheis, houses a vast 5 000 record collection that chronicles modern jazz history. He can identify orchestras and soloists by ear and keeps rare discs in his apartment above a makeshift music hall.
The Y M C A Cedar Rapids department notes a busy season with five new building boys work committee members Rev Vernon L S Jones Rev Daniel Kerr M W O Rieley F A Carstens and Dr Leo B Sedlacek. Camp Wapsie Y hosted 436 attendees 274 subsidized totaling 1737 50 with 40 boys referred by social agencies. Seventy two percent of attendees are in the Y program.
Gala Virginia. Herbert Dudasill, a veteran bass fisherman, praises the bronzeback for a perfect cast and savage strike before unexpectedly landing a three-pound James River catfish that rose to his wooden minnow lure.
A survey of recent events across Europe and Asia questions Britain’s status as empire, citing rearmament, potential German gains, and anti British protests in Tokyo and Shanghai. It notes U S and Russia dynamics, Ukraine and Danzig tensions, and domestic U S politics with Taft’s outlook and stalled housing and public works bills.
Zacheis criticizes modern music commerce and sensationalism. He cites Louis Armstrong as the greatest musician of all time and argues that many new tunes imitate older recordings. He claims swing is just jazz dressed up and backs it with his records.
The report notes riots injuring nearly 50 as CIO workers strike at the Fisher Body plant in sympathy with Michigan peers. Other items cover Sayre's stance on Philippine independence, WPA dismissals paused by Col. Harrington, a Civilian Conservation Corps extension, Bridges on deportation, a foiled train robbery payroll haul, Dreher murder unsolved, Hoover labeling Iowa crime, a Cedar Rapids drowning, and Buffalo's first use of an automobile for mail collection in 1899.
Several hundred friends and admirers of the late Iowa poet Jay Sigmund will gather in Waubeek at 3 p.m. Sunday to unveil a bronze tablet in his memory. The tablet will be affixed to a rock from the farm where he was born, placed on the site of the old stone store. Speakers include Grant Wood Iowa artist Dr. H M Gage president of Coe College and Henry Hood and Fred Payner intimate friends.
Stanley Vesely of Coe College has been chosen by the Chicago Tribune to direct the massed bands at the Chicagoland Music Festival on August 19 at Soldiers Field. He also becomes chairman of the band contest held that day at the Lake Shore Hotel.
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