Birthday Tune Ban Sparks Telegraph Office Shuffle
The song Happy Birthday to You lost rights for public performance on Feb 1 with new words warned for meter. Western Union and Postal Telegram adjust by testing texts and using Yankee Doodle or Mary Had a Little Lamb as substitutes. Cedar Rapids offices report busy scramble and a foiled London Bridge plan amid policy shifts.
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Western Union
Postal Telegraph
London Bridge
Cedar Rapids
Pravda Denounces Rumor of Soviet Alaska Invasion
Pravda calls the Alaska conquest claim a delirium tremens fueled calumny spread in the United States. It derides American press and politicians for the bar originated report about joint Soviet and axis action in the Americas and mocks Mexican bar drunken visions as the source.
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Communist Party
Pravda
America
Russia
Alaska
Vera Cruz
Mexico
North
South America
Gaucho Completes 16500 Mile Argentine Trek
Argentine gaucho Marce lino Coule rode from Buenos Aires to Washington covering 16500 miles on horseback. He left Argentina July 27, 1938 and arrived Saturday with plans to present the horse to President Roosevelt and return home by automobile.
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Washington
Marcelino Coule
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Soule
Roosevelt
Franklin 15 Among High Debate Teams
High school debate squads from Davenport Burlington Newton Fairfield Sterling and Franklin in Cedar Rapids were rated superior at Coe college fifth annual tournament. Albert Goss of Muscatine and Robert Farr of Fairfield named superior in after dinner speaking. Orlo Karsten Warren Hayes Louise Hilfman medalists with Hayes and Karsten tying at 44 in men’s division and Hilfman at 45. Additional superior speakers included Tom Grayston Philip Willson George DeWitt Albert Goss Gordon Behrens Duane Wieth and Donald Forbes.
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Davenport
Burlington
Newton
Fairfield
Sterling
Franklin
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Albert Goss
Muscatine
Robert Farr
Kent Andrews
Irving Churchill
Paul Grant
Coe
Aliso
Phyllis Thies
Oelwein
Allen Cutler
West Waterloo
Orlo Karston
Orlo Karsten
Warren Hayes
Mount Pleasant
Louise Hilfman
Hayes
Karsten
Miss Hilfman
Tom Grayston
Philip Willson
George DeWitt
Gordon Behrens
Sterling, Il
Duane Wieth
Donald Forbes
Coe speech winners announced at Friday to Saturday event
The event honored high ranking poetry readers and radio speaking contestants from Ottumwa Eldora Burlington and other towns. Winners include Dorothy Kotteman Burlington Winifred Deyo Oelwein Betty Subotnik Wilson Cedar Rapids Beverly Lieberstein Davenport Doris Goddard Laurens Harriett Hennings Newton. Prof J Dale Welsch announced names after closing luncheon with Dr C Ward Macy giving the closing talk. Roger Hahn Earlville presided at Friday dinner Kathryn Show Newton assisted Saturday noon.
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Ottumwa
Jim Hauser
Eldora
Richard Hudson
Bloomfield
George Elder
Burlington
Norman Toldt
Newton
Bob Hubacek
Wilson
Cedar Rapids
Leo Liffren
Davenport
Jim Dolliver
Fort Dodge
Lloyd Hambleton
Dorothy Kotteman
Winifred Deyo
Oelwein
Betty Subotnik
Beverly Lieberstein
Doris Goddard
Laurens
Harriett Hennings
Ellen van Tiger
Helen Vinson
Kathryn Katschkowsky
Elkader
Bob Williams
East Waterloo
Merritt Ludwig
West Waterloo
Norma Metz
Dick Vogl
Franklin
J. Dale Welsch
Coe
C Ward Macy
Roger Hahn
Earlville
Kathryn Show
Agent Who Insured Bridge Sentenced
Seattle report says Hal Jett R. French, the insurance agent who wrote an $800000 policy on the Tacoma Narrows bridge and kept $1217 in premiums without informing his company, pled guilty to embezzlement and received a fifteen year prison term. The bridge collapsed last fall, revealing the liability of Merchants Fire Assurance Co. French wept as he faced sentence and restitution of $17500.
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Seattle, Wash
ULP
Hal Jett R. French
Tacoma Narrows
Merchants Fire Assurance Company of
New York
French
Trinity Methodist Dads And Sons To Hear Cunningham
Dr Glenn Cunningham, former mile record holder and head of Cornell College health service, will speak at Trinity Methodist Church bond father and son banquet. The program includes Toby and Susie comedy, vocal solos, an 10 piece Roosevelt High School orchestra, and remarks by J W Ensign and Rev Eckler.
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Glenn Cunningham
Cornell College
Trinity Methodist Church
Cunningham
University of Kansas
University of Iowa
Columbia University
New York University
Toby
Susie
William O. Eckler
J. W. Cocayne
Larry Kurth
Gordon Myers
Hillis Hauser
First Presbyterian Church
Roosevelt High School
J. W. Ensign
Y M Annual Dinner to Be Held Friday
The 73rd YMCA Cedar Rapids annual dinner will be Friday at 6 p.m. in the YM gym. S R Hawkins says future years will feature speakers on boyhood issues, with three minute talks by CFP Clark EF Coquillette FE J Wasta and Arthur Poe.
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Ym.c.a
Cedar Rapids
S. R. Hawkins
Cfp. Clark
Telephone growth hits record 20.8 million in U.S.
The United States now has 20,800,000 telephones, up by 846,000 from 1938 figures, marking an all time high for equipment in private and public use nationwide.
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United States
Move To End Great Western Receivership
Chicago committee of the Great Western railroad moved to end federal court receivership that has controlled the company since 1935. The panel asked Judge Charles E. Woodward for permission to file a petition to return control to private hands with a hearing set for February 15.
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Chicago
Chicago, Great Western Railroad
Charles E. Woodward
Woodward
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