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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1949
Page
3
Virginia Shaler of 3412 First Avenue NE hosted an open house for her self built doll house. The two section model features seven rooms, custom furnishings, and tiny details like cribs and portraits, with hinged sections for easy viewing.
Washington event organized by Sgt Leonard Bruce featured guests including Post Commander R D Spooner John Greenlee and Bob Brooks as KCRG sports director Rev Louis Wendling and Ralph Mack. Boys Staters Gardiner Dutton McKinley Don Washburn Jack Dennis Doug Hamilton and John Krebs spoke.
Michigan City report says Robert O. Brown aged 37 and Frank Badgley aged 50 were executed in the electric chair on Wednesday for the 1947 killings of two Hammond police officers.
The Milwaukee, a Russian-manned United States cruiser lent during World War II, arrived at Portsmouth England en route home. Renamed Murmansk after transfer to the Soviet Navy on April 20 1944, it is to be exchanged for the Italian cruiser Duca D Aosta and sent back to the United States.
Warden Foss Davis said the Iowa state men's reformatory at Anamosa faces no current benzedrine inhaler craze. He noted past trouble with the nose medicine used to create a cheap drunk and acknowledged guards once smuggled inhalers but deny ongoing smuggling. He warned benzedrine is dangerous and all jails face similar issues.
White-haired Vojta Benes 71 brother of the late President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia arrived from Prague and is en route to the United States He formerly lived in the U S and says he wants to start a new life His remark about Czechoslovakia being a country of the past and hoping his name will be forgotten is noted
Osservatore Romano challenges Budapest to release Cardinal Mindszenty if it seeks a church state deal. It mocks government claims he urged bishops to accept an understanding and notes the regime labeled him a traitor. The paper argues for his freedom or relocation to Rome.
Dr Marvin B Kober pastor of St Pauls Methodist church will address the Cedar Rapids Association of Life Underwriters at their monthly meeting Friday noon at the Montrose hotel. His topic will be How
The article discusses how the service rendered by the life underwriter and clergy relate to solving economic and spiritual issues, outlining the bond between religious guidance and social aid.
Soviet spokesman S. Timofeyev said Russia would be compelled to keep troops in Germany as Western powers refuse to withdraw their occupation forces. This marks a potential shift from six months of promises to withdraw. The move follows the projected establishment of a West German state.
In Los Angeles, officials report a newly developed iron lung could save the lives of about 65 percent of brain polio victims, offering renewed hope where recovery seemed unlikely. Dr. Albert G. Bower credits inventor V Ray Bennnett with the design that auto adjusts to a patient’s breathing and features a nurse alert if a malfunction occurs. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis lauds the device as a vast advance.
Laura Boulton world famous explorer will visit Coe college as a visiting lecturer at 8 15 p m Thursday in the Coe little theater. She will present a color film Arctic Voyage filmed under Canadian government and U S interior department auspices. The film follows two Arctic expeditions showing Skeena River Indians Haida Queen Charlotte islands and Eskimos of the Western Arctic and Hudson Bay area with rhythmic songs and tribal chants. Boulton a veteran of 13 expeditions ethnologist and musicologist has conducted scientific trips to India Africa Central America and the West Indies. Tickets at the door are 1 each. She will also speak at a Coe chapel service at 9 am Thursday at the First Christian church.
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