Grant Wood Exhibit to Open at Cedar Rapids Art Gallery
Grant Wood’s American Gothic will anchor Cedar Rapids Art Association’s September show from Sept 1 to Oct 1, featuring 30 to 40 locally owned Wood paintings. The exhibit precedes the Chicago Art Institute’s memorial display running Oct 29 to Dec 10, with loans from Cedar Rapids collectors including David Turner and G Stewart Holmes. An attendant will be present daily with lectures planned if interest grows.
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Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Chicago Art Institute
David Turner
Chicago Institute
Art Institute
Demcourier
Demco Library Supplies Company
Mr. Turner
Public
G. Stewart Holmes
van Vechten Shaffer
Chicago
Turner
John Brner
Pioneer
Art Association
Arthur L. Augustine
J. Elliott Davis
J. T. Grayston
Harold N. Graves
B. F. Wolverton
Nazi surface raider sighted off Brazil in Atlantic
Brazilian steamer Araras captain told Bahia arrivals that a Nazi surface raider and possibly a submarine mother ship are operating in the south Atlantic. He said the raider was spotted during the attack on his ship by a submarine, and that another submarine was involved.
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Rio DE Janeiro
INS
South Atlantic
Bahia
Araras
Here
Ray Smucker Joins Heidt Radio Script Team
Ray Smucker a Cedar Rapids entertainer who appeared with Horace Heidt's orchestra has become a regular script writer for the Heidt organization. The Treasure Chest radio program airs Tuesdays at 7 30 p m on NBC. The show will originate in New York for several weeks before moving to Los Angeles for a movie. Smucker once worked with the Heidt orchestra and has since done writing in Arizona and Colorado Springs. Mrs Smucker is the daughter of the F W Tiedemans of near Blairstown. Both are University of Iowa graduates.
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Ray Smucker
Cedar Rapids
Horace Heidt
Heidt
Knights
NBC
New York
Los Angeles
Smucker
Blairstown
Heidt Orchestra
Ariz
Colorado Springs
Forming Class in Machine Shop Work
The United States employment service at 308 Third Street SE accepts applications from men for machine shop training. Requirements include draft deferment, passing industrial physicals, at least eighth grade education, and some machine shop experience. Training runs eight weeks from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily except Sunday.
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United States Employment Service
Third Street SE
Board Selects 46 For C. R. School Custodial Force
The Cedar Rapids school board announced the 1942 43 custodial staff listing 46 men and women in roles from head custodians to part time helpers. Names include Arthur James Benishek Earl Cleveland Frank Stolba Fillmore Salba H. Garfield Ed Bernstorf Kenwood Eric Motejl Theodore Clark Roosevelt and many others with full and part time positions across district buildings.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of
Cinilien
Arthur
James Benishek
Buchanan
Earl
Cleveland
Frank Stolba
Fillmore
Fred Salba
Garfield
Harritoci Ed Bernstorf
Aeries
Kenwood
Eric
C. S. Green
Porter Anderson
Roosevelt
R. Motejl
Frank Valenta
James Slavik
Charles Bohac
Ed Kloubec
Roy Thompson
Roy Otterman
McKinley
O. F. Hood
Joseph Nezerka
M. Williams
Jerry Chalupnik
Turner
Helena Bog
Perfection of Synthetic Rubber Predicted by Firestone Official
Cleveland, UP. Dr. Otis D. Cole of Firestone laboratories in Akron said perfection of synthetic rubber is near. He predicted that once manufacturers learn to handle the material, existing faults in production will be eliminated.
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Cleveland
Otis D. Cole
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Laboratories
Akron
O. Cole
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