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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1934

Page

16

Community Players to Have Own Home Playhouse

The Community Players will lease a dedicated home at 104 Fifth Street NE, with a five year term. Remodeling begins next week to ready an auditorium seating under 300, doubling the stage, adding a ventilation system and comfortable chairs for the first October production. Grant Wood and Marvin Cone lead redesign plans with John Carey chairing remodeling.

Community Players Community Playhouse Fifth Street YMGCA Grant Wood Marvin Cone Lael Abbott Abbott Don Hines Playhouse John Carey Gene Pinney Bruce McKay Joop

Loch Ness Monster Sightings Reported In Lake Study

London AP reports Sir Edward Mountain organized a party of 20 observers to prove or disprove the Loch Ness monster. After a month they confirm an unidentified creature with a small head and two or three humps, moving fast and creating a splash, with 21 glimpses recorded. further watch is planned for clearer photographs.

London Sir Edward Mountain Sir Edward Loch Ness

Yellow Hammer Bird Drilled Iron Pipe

In Sullivan Indiana a small bird drilled through a stove with its beak, carving a hole the size of a dollar. Mrs I H Halley heard a drilling noise then found the yellow hammer using its beak to bore out its way free from the stove, a remarkable local oddity.

Sullivan Ind I. H. Halley Ske

Hoover 60 Friday 10 years younger on campus

Herbert Hoover turns sixty on Stanford campus in a quiet birthday observance hosted by Lou Henry Hoover. Guests include Ray Lyman Wilbur and Theodore Hoover as Allan Hoover attends from California.

Palo Alto Calif Ins Hoover Stanford University Herbert Hoover Lou Henry Hoover Mr. Hoover Allan California Herbert, Jr Sierra Madre Ray Lyman Wilbur Stanford San Juan Hill Washington White House Bohemian Grove High Sierras Yosemite National Park Arthur M. Hyde

8000 German Prisoners To Be Freed By Hitler

Berlin reports Hitler announced a sweeping amnesty granting liberty to between 8 000 and 10 000 concentration camp prisoners in memory of President von Hindenburg. Most beneficiaries are expected to be Nazis and some Jews, while high treason or military betrayal cases remain excluded and leaders Ernst Thaelmann and Ernst Torrgler stay jailed.

Berlin INS Germany Reichsleader Hitler Hitler von Hindenburg Ernst Thaelmann Ernst Torrgler

Military Planes Circle Over Area of Arab-Jew Riots

At Constantine Algeria seven military airplanes circled areas after reports of Arab Jewish trouble. Thirty six Arabs were arrested while trying to enter Constantine. Violence had flared with eleven adults and three young girls among the dead as police and troops under Jules Carde moved to restore order.

Constantine Algeria Jules Carde Paris Ain Beida Tebessa

Cuban Government Takes Control of Telephone Company

HAVANA AP The Cuban government seized the troubled Telephone Company a 28 million dollar American investment to end labor disputes. An American president H C Hart protested the act calling it intervention and illegal despoiling. The firm refused to reemploy 256 strike leaders alleging sabotage while a government intervenor ran operations.

Havana H. C. Hart Act of the Republic of

Indian legend foresees very cold winter in 1934

Carson Washington dispatch notes a famous local omen predicting a harsh season, citing an unusual abundance of hazel nuts as a sign. Residents say never before have hazel nuts been so plentiful, signaling a notably severe winter ahead. A separate notice announces the appointment of Administratrix Oliver Johnson for Milo Prancis Kilberser of Linn County Iowa, with claims and debts to be presented.

Carson Towa Linn County Milo Prancis Kilberser Iowa

Piles Go Quick With Internal Hemroid Tablets Ad

Thousands of sufferers with itching bleeding or protruding piles find relief from an internal medicine. Hemroid tablets, discovered by Dr J S Leonhardt, claim to cure piles without salves or cutting, backed by a money back guarantee from May Drug Co.

J. S. Leonhardt May Drug Co

Hitler to Explain Actions in Speech on August Seventeenth

Adolf Hitler will address the German people by radio on Friday August 17 to justify making himself absolute ruler by merging the offices of president and chancellor. The broadcast precedes the August 19 plebiscite and uses giant loudspeakers in public squares with all major stations to carry the speech. Goebbels, his propaganda chief, will open the campaign with a Monday broadcast as part of a large scale effort to unite the nation behind der Fuehrer.

Berlin INS Adolf Hitler Hitler Germany Reich Bavarian Alps Propaganda and Enlightenment Joseph Paul Goebbels Goebbels Reichstag

Fish Gather Along Muddy Banks Of River To Keep Cool

Disgruntled fishermen confirm fish presence along Cedar River as hundreds of fish of various kinds gather at the cool muddy banks near Third Avenue Bridge. Catfish quillbacks shad and crapple common. Old timers note mid stream water is hot while bank mud keeps shallow water cooler drawing fish close to shore.

Cedar River Third Avenue

Backs of Large Finny Fellows Protrude From Water

A brief scene depicts the backs of several large fish sticking above the water as they bask in the shallow area. The wording emphasizes their presence near the surface.

New Discovery Promises Odor Cure With Castile Soap

Science claims body odor comes from stale perspiration and cannot be cured by ordinary soaps. Kirk's Coco Castile soap, a 100 percent vegetable oil product, allegedly cleans deep into pores and removes embedded odor-causing perspiration. The ad touts a large cake and says the price is at a historic low.

Kirk M.S Castile

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