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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
7
Killian's featured Don Roth's orchestra in its tea room on Wednesday afternoon, showcasing fashion for college girls this autumn. The event highlighted velvet trims, tweed coats, variety in checks and plaids, wasp-waist jackets, and colorful ensembles from blue shades to wine and greens, with both casual and formal wear.
Dr. Walter H. Judd will discuss the Far East situation and U S relations during the final Sunday union service at St Pauls Methodist Church at 10 30 a m He is a renowned medical missionary with studies at Nebraska and Mayo Clinic and experience in China history notes his time as a missionary in south and north China and travel during Jap anese advances cooperation from several area churches included.
Gretchen Neumann of Iowa City will sing Come Ye Blessed by John Prindle Scott as part of a Sunday program. The event features a guest soloist and highlights church service music for attendees.
Western Air Express aircraft with crippled landing gear circled for two hours at Union Air Terminal before Captain C. G. McKenzie made a risky one wheel landing on grass. Crowd of 1,000 watched as seven ton craft rolled 200 yards, then toppled on the right side. All aboard unhurt.
Police sought two men who took a used car from Baxter Motors at 829 Second Avenue SE on the pretense of showing it to their families and failed to return, later abandoning the vehicle on A Avenue between Second and Third Streets NE. Leo Smith, the salesman, reported the theft.
Pure Oil offers a Solvenized Tune Up Plan using the exclusive Puresol chemical. The service costs roughly one dollar and claims to remove excess carbon in about half an hour at Pure Oil Dealer stations.
Two men, one claiming to be Frank Davis of Ellis boulevard, viewed a 1933 coupe but did not return on time. They left the car for 20 minutes but vanished, prompting Smith to notify police. Patrolman Parrish found the car abandoned and it was returned to the motor company. A stray plant note is included in the report.
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