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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1941
Page
2
Cedar chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star schedules a special meeting Tuesday at 7 45 p m in the Masonic hall. All members are urged to attend for an initiation service followed by refreshments and a program.
Cedar Rapids Camp Fire Girls announce the 1941 birthday project Treasure Trails a cultural heritage study blending art trails citizenship and all year activities. March events include Go-To-Church-Sunday March 16 notable council fire March 22 at Memorial Coliseum with rehearsals across East and West sides culminating in a final March 22 session.
The Mayflower chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its annual Washington birthday luncheon Saturday at the Elks club. New members received colonial bouquets, a flag was presented to the DAR group, and Captain Charles H Obve spoke on army training progress since 1917.
Weekend guests at the home of the Rev Mr and Mrs F G Young on D avenue NE included their son Keen Young and daughter-in-law from Owatonna Minnesota. Keen Young was recently elected secretary of the Minnesota Implement Fire Insurance company and will soon assume duties as general sales manager of the Federated Hardware Mutual and for the Minnesota Implement Fire Insurance company.
Mr and Mrs Robert Rey of 1128 Sixteenth Avenue SW hosted a dinner theater party honoring Mrs Roy’s parents Mr and Mrs John Clark of Elwood Neb on their 36th anniversary. Ten attended the weekend event before the Clarks departed for home Sunday evening.
Ninth grade girl reserves in Cedar Rapids host a 4 p m Tuesday program at the YWCA titled The World at Our Door to celebrate Interracial Brotherhood month. Special guests include Mrs Suerette Cranks and Mary Ellen Dennis presiding.
The Colonial ballet was staged in Coe College women’s gymnasium for 100 College Club members on Saturday afternoon. A preceding business meeting featured Mrs Arbon Chehak introducing Miss Gertrude Nixon who demonstrated with first grade pupils. Guest night announced for March 19 with speaker Clarence Sorenson, the newspaper correspondent, on “Changing Empires in Arabia.”
Mrs Roy S Doty hosted a dessert luncheon at 2403 First Avenue East honoring Mrs Hurley W. Brown who will move to Saint Joseph Missouri this Saturday. Green and white St Patrick color theme featured spring flowers with attendees Mesdames J F Morris E C Torgerson Tom V Brady Charles Taylor RE Chase Richard H Weldhouse and V C Hill.
A surprise housewarming for Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Vesely at 1399 Elmhurst Drive NE Sunday night drew 14 friends. The couple received a gift and cards as the main diversion. guests included Mr and Mrs A J Kopecky, Frank Unzeitig, Milo Seda, J Zachar, August Dohnalek, R Henningsen, and Leona Polansky.
Mrs Dorothy Bridwell of Chicago arrives Friday as weekend guest of Mr and Mrs Truman Hanson at 411 Twenty seventh Street NE. In her honor Mrs Hanson entertains Friday evening with guests Miss Bertha Ainsworth and Mesdames Joe Stephan Harold Perry Harry Steele Walter Nesper and Frank Wells.
Mr and Mrs Steinar Larson of Los Angeles were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs C T Ray at 330 Crescent Street SE and their daughter Miss Dorothy Ray.
Weekend guests of Mr and Mrs L A Eckert at 1816 Fourth Avenue SE were their daughter Lorraine Eckert with Marian Reising Muriel Cheney and Corrine Rusch all from Des Moines.
Mr and Mrs Wilmer J Robison recently moved into 1390 Elhurst drive NE and hosted an open house Sunday 3 to 5 p.m. for May Frick class of First Christian church. Sixty guests attended with assistance from Harold Woodward G W McSkimming Clarence Barber and Cecil Delson spouses.
The quote argues that those who refuse to salute the flag are not the real threat. instead, the danger comes from those who adopt citizenship and pose as devout patriots while meaning harm. It critiques covert threats within society and the rhetoric of loyalty.
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority at Coe College initiated ten members in a Friday ceremony at the Roosevelt hotel with a dinner and awards in the Roosevelt room. Notable honorees include Ruth Kirkpatrick, Gladys Hellman, Rose Marie Blomquist, and Ethel Gamage among scholarship winners.
Mrs George W Koehn Jr of Detroit Michigan arrived Sunday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs H Hallgren at 375 Nineteenth Street SE Cedar Rapids. She will stay two weeks with her son Jimmie accompanying.
Sister Rebekahs of Praha lodge No. 5 held a house warming Friday for Mrs. Thomas Green at 222 Thirty-first Street NE. A picnic and bingo with prizes won by Grace Clendening Mary Menary and Minnie Hermanek preceded a gathering of neighbors and friends.
Winterset resident Miss Nadiine Subotnik hosted a Sunday brunch in the Lincoln room of the Roosevelt hotel. Fourteen guests attended with narcissus and pink snapdragons as centerpieces. Gifts included prize winnings for Miss Meretta Kushner and Mrs Donald F Winters after bridge and mahjong.
Mrs James Edmunds and Mrs Otto Hanzlik entertained Fillmore school kindergarten mothers and teachers with a get acquainted party. A foods and cookery quiz via a pretend radio station followed by a telegram writing memory test. prizes went to Mrs Henry Klein Mrs Henry Tidge Mrs Kenneth Karr and Mrs Harry M Wilson. Refreshments featured a table centered with flags, the Washington hatchet, with cherries and hatchets as favors.
The Kensington gathering of First Christian church 3L class Friday in church parlors was hosted by Mrs. John McKegan and Mrs. Robert Hash. Mrs. W. Cullen led devotions. Mrs. Harry Nehls moving to Minneapolis received a gift from the class as Pastor Rev. Marion H. Williams spoke briefly.
Mrs. George J Starman of 820 Twentieth Street SE will entertain members of the Margaret Botteme circle of the King's Daughters Wednesday at 1 p.m. for a dessert luncheon.
Cedar Rapids travelers come home from winter getaways. Dr and Mrs J T Grayston return from three weeks in Coral Gables Florida. P F Keehn and son David finish a Caribbean cruise and Texas Rio Grande trip. Alvin W Allen returns from Sun Valley Idaho. R P Andreas and others sliced in Miami Beach and Cuba during a Pan American Clipper side trip.
Mr and Mrs Clifford Harris entertained at their home on 1409 E Street SW with a surprise birthday party for Miss Wilma Sparks celebrating her twenty third birthday. Music by Garland Sparks Clifford Wells and Mary Nelson. bingo prizes awarded to Miss Virginia Rogers and Kenneth Daum.
The Twentieth annual Washington's birthday banquet for 140 Cedar Rapids Postal employes and families was held Saturday at the K P hall. In charge of the program were LeRoy Hollan and others with George Youtzy as master of ceremonies. Performances included Ray and Orlie tap dance Syncopating Buddies Negro spirituals Edith Reed Atkinson and others.
A farewell dinner for Pvt Richard Donegan was hosted by his mother Mrs Francis McHugh at 1107 Eighth Street NW before his departure Thursday for Camp Claiborne Louisiana. Attendees included the Walds, the Meyers and Frame families among others.
Mr and Mrs C V Howe prepare to leave for Philadelphia where Mr Howe will join the United States navy. They were honored at the Roosevelt hotel by Metropol itan Supply Co employees and former staff with a red white and blue dinner, anemone centerpiece, and a Progressive social solitaire game. The couple were given a gift.
Members of Tawanka Camp Fire sponsored by Garfield P A met at guardian Mrs D B Alderman 937 Center Point Road NE Saturday afternoon to begin working on ranks. Assistant guardian Elizabeth Barber attended with guest Virginia Satinsky. members present include Phyllis Hladek Delores Barber Mary Louise Anash Esther Wolfe Darlene Bishop Patricia Bowne Betty Louise Hoyt Suzanne Miller Shirley Alderman Delores Stewart Janet Smith.
Mrs Bert Teeters hosted the Ethel Evans circle of the Kings Daughters at a desert luncheon at her 1633 Wildwood Drive NE home. Mrs John Breckle attended as a guest. The circle spent the afternoon working on dish towels.
Louise Leibert circle of the King's Daughters will meet Tuesday at 1 p m for a dessert luncheon at the home of Mrs M J Sopousek 1836 Washington Avenue SE.
Francis J. Brems and his parents receive visitors over the weekend. Weekend guests include Miss Isabelle Wheil and Miss Connie Wheil of Dubuque and George Brems Jr who attends Loras College in Dubuque.
The Queen Esther circle of the King's Daughters met Thursday at Mrs. Neff's tea room for a dessert luncheon. Red Cross sewing and knitting were turned in. Plans for March include Guest Day with Mrs. H. E. Barton leading devotions from George T. B. Davis' The Reconstruction of Palestine.
Irene Douglas circle of the King's Daughters will meet Wednesday at 1 p.m for luncheon at the home of Mrs. W. W. Richards 2117 Washington avenue SE. Assistant hostesses will be Mrs. C. W. Whipple and Mrs. W. L. Jackson.
The Convention Bus circle of the King's Daughters will gather Thursday at 6 30 p m for dinner at 228 Twenty-fourth street drive SE the home of Mrs Harry C Hamer Assisting hostesses are Mrs Henry Hauserman Jr and Mrs Walter Shelquist
The Daughters of Isabella hold a social gathering on Tuesday at 815 p.m. at the Roosevelt hotel. Bingo will be the evening’s diversion.
Members of the Social 50 club will meet Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the home of Mrs. L. E. Blessing 215 Fifteenth Street NE for a picnic luncheon.
Mrs. Dwight Krumholtz will review Skylark by Samson Raphaelson at the YWCA book review group meeting Monday at 7 30 p m at the association building.
Mrs Ellen Doolittle celebrates her 102nd birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 pm hosted by her daughter Mrs D L Castle in Cedar Rapids. The long lived resident reflects on a life spanning 24 presidents four wars activism in suffrage and memories from Conn to Iowa including teaching farming and tales of Lincoln.
The Iowa Probation Association will hold its annual conference in Sioux City on May 1. Lena A. Vogt, Linn County probation officer and president of the state association, announced the event after meetings with Nicholson Sutton, Mrs. Mary Law, and Robert Norris. Prof. Frank Flynn of Notre Dame University is slated as principal speaker. Paul Covert and Mrs. Mabel Evans hold key national roles.
Rob ert J. Boltz a 54 year old attorney and investment counselor admitted bilking blue rib bon clients of more than 1 000 000. In Philadelphia quarter sessions court Judge Eugene V Alessandroni imposed 20 to 40 years on eight of 186 indictments. Boltz heard the sentence emotionlessly.
Professor T. Hew Roberts of the University of Iowa told a Fellowship week audience in the Coe college chapel that America has no reason to go to war. He urged moral obligation and decency to shape a future world and discussed the erosion of treaties and European churches amid war.
Forty six delegates arrived in Cedar Rapids to attend the Iowa Nebraska conference of the Catholic Hospital association at Mercy hospital. The program included talks by Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachran on hospital administration and a panel on nursing education led by Sister Mary Maura and others with a Benedict of the Blessed Sacrament and Mount Mercy College program concluding with a talk by Very Rev H B Crimmins on what makes a Catholic hospital Catholic.
Cedar Rapids water works superintendent F Blomquist said the city’s net annual profit from operating the system is 30 40 thousand dollars, not 250 thousand as a Feb 2 story claimed. Receipts near 250 thousand dollars, with 25 40 thousand dollars in permanent improvements yearly and bond retirement of 50 thousand dollars, plus other expenses.
The SEC took under advisement its course of action on United Light and Power's proposed holding company act compliance. Chairman Jerome N. Frank warned the company may be approaching it backward and urged focus on the overall plan rather than preliminary steps already outlined.
West brook Pegler, a newspaper columnist, told the House Judiciary Committee that federal labor laws push men into unions with no protection from union bosses. He described racketeering incidents in labor unions and urged inquiry into all aspects of the labor situation.
Hank Greenberg asks for a six month draft deferment arguing his unique baseball career and earnings window. He says a two six month service plan lets him return to MLB with minimal disruption while still paying taxes and supporting entertainment. Many players face scrutiny for seeking similar treatment as war mobilization looms.
The discussion turns to defense production as a long term matter with no immediate legislative proposals. Pegler declines to offer concrete bills but urges the committee to hear FBI officials on union racketeering while other officials listen.
Des Moines AP reports 128 sectional survivors enter 16 district tournaments beginning Wednesday for the girls state high school basketball championship. Defending champions Hansen led by Helen Van Houten opens vs Ridgeway. Ottosen Mallard Bode Numa Centerville Seymour top the districts with first round matchups and March 13 14 15 in Des Moines for the finals.
In New York AP reports a charge that many social science textbooks in high schools oppose the American form of government sparked an angry rebuttal. A committee of 10 social scientists was formed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to combat the censorship threat in the textbook investigation.
A forum and district meeting of state officers of the Federation of Post Office Clerks was held Saturday at the Roosevelt hotel. National and state officers present included W. W. Harvey Council Bluffs national second vice president LeRoy Hollan Cedar Rapids state representative of the federation O A Knapp Cedar Rapids secretary treasurer Gilbert Cantwell Mount Pleasant first vice president David Savage Des Moines fourth vice president E H Benson Sioux City fifth vice president and C E Harrington Ottumwa.
Los Angeles report says Hank Greenberg plans to play baseball in 1941 and has not requested draft deferment yet. He notes his number is 261 and could be called midseason, possibly seeking deferment to avoid two-season disruption.
Jug McSpaden of Boston won the Thomasville open with a 54 hole total of 207 nine under par securing first prize of 700. He finished eight strokes ahead of the next trio, with Lloyd Mangrum Chandler Harris and Ben Hogan at 215 and Hogan moving to 4510 in season earnings. Jack Grout took fifth as Jimmy Demaret and Byron Nelson tied for next at 216 and 27.
New York fans await the Knights of Columbus games on March 8 to see Gregory Rice, former Notre Dame athlete, who set three world records in the three mile at the National AAU meet. He received the James E. Sullivan memorial trophy for advancing sportsmanship, presented by Lawrence Di Benedetto, president of the AAU.
In Boston Dorothy O Connor's goodbye to a visiting young man turned tragic when she fell from a third story window. She sustained a fractured left leg, foot, and elbow in the incident.
Seventy six people attended the junior high basketball banquet in Strawberry Point Friday. Allen W. Salisbury gave the toast and Edward Fitzpatrick delivered the response. Rev. Glenn S. Hartong offered the invocation. Team members listed include Bill Morris Richard Peick George Gundacker Edward Fitzpatrick Kenneth Anders Darwin Tinker Lloyd Schuchmann Paul Olson Arthur Pfromimer Arnol Fredrick. Kenneth Allen coaches the team.
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