Ray Smucker rises from farm boy to Horace Heidt impersonator
Blairstown native Ray Smucker, once a farm boy and department store clerk, impressed Horace Heidt during a Paramount theater engagement. After letters and a telegram, he earns a spot with Heidt’s troupe, joining Jean Fahrney as Heidt discovers local talent. Smucker built his act from early improv with voices like Winchell and Kate Smith. He plans to leave for a month to join the Biltmore engagement.
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Blairstown
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Horace Heidt
Paramount Theater
Ray Smucker
First Avenue E
Heidt
Hal Sheridan
Jean Fahrney
Heidi
Ray
Horace
Winchell
Kate Smith
Edwin C. Hill
Clem McCarthy
Biltmore
Hal
Silo
Blairstown High School
Tony Wons
Union Grill
Ben Bernie
Fred Allen
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aimee Semple McPherson
Fanny Brice
Baby Snooks
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Ted Lewis
Father Coughlan
Bergen
McCarthy
Henry Smucker
Near East Amana
Broadway
Washington High Recalls 83 Years of Championship Glory
A retrospective on Washington High's 83 years notes dozens of national state and district titles in football basketball and track. It honors alumni and staff including Senator James Reed Col Robert Stewart Grant Wood and Martha Prior and recalls 1920 state football triumphs and later school reforms under M S Hallman.
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Sioux City
Iowa State College
Harrisburg
Bob Cuhel
Elmer Marek
Ed Hines
Harold Murrel
Ted Swenson
Elmer Barta
Harrison Barnes
Don Hines
Heinie Jensen
Drake University
Penn
Washington
Emmett Murray
Harriet Sargent
Donald Barnes
Martha Prior
Chicago
West
James Reed
Robert Stewart
Carl van Vechten
Grant Wood
William Shirer
Europe
Orville Wright
Jeffrey Hrbek
Paul Engle
Louise Crawford
Frank Cuhel
Walter Cherry
Merlin Hall Aylesworth
The
National Broadcasting Company
Ella Lownsbery Clancy
Marvin Cone
Helen Hayes Gleason
Paul Josselyn
James W. Good
Willard Mack
John Mokress
M. S. Hallman
Martha Washington
Coe Hosts Invitational High School Debate Meet
The third annual Coe college invitational will draw nearly 150 debaters and coaches to Cedar Rapids on Feb 9 10 11. Schools entering include Ottumwa Burlington Oskaloosa Elgin IA Mount Pleasant Galena IL Sterling MI Bloomfield IA Iowa City Muscatine Newton Fort Dodge East Waterloo West Waterloo Vinton Maquoketa Decorah Manchester Cedar Rapids Wilson and more. The event features high school junior college and after dinner speaking sections plus a three act fantasy Mrs Moonlight on Feb 10 directed by Kent Andrews. Registration 4 to 5 pm Feb 9 in the chapel with a 5 pm assembly. Dinner served at Voorhees quadrangle on first two nights. Debates begin Thursday evening with four rounds Friday and a 9 am final Saturday followed by awards lunch.
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J. Dale Welsch
Coe
Ottumwa
Burlington
Oskaloosa
Elgin
Mount Pleasant
Galena
Sterling
Bloomfield
Iowa City
Muscatine
Newton
Fort Dodge
East Waterloo
West Waterloo
Vinton
Masquoke
Vesper Sermon at Coe College by Rev Henry S Coe
The January Sunday vesper at Coe College in Sinclair chapel at 4 p m features Rev Henry Scherer Coe pastor of First Lutheran Church as speaker on The Singing Heart with soloists Mrs Ruth Ebling Massey and Miss Marybel Jacobson and choirs. Prof Paul S Ray and Andrea Jo Hannsen direct. Eleanor Taylor is organist.
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Coe College
T. M. Sinclair
Henry Scherer
First Lutheran Church
Singing Heart
Ruth Ebling Massey
Cedar Rapids
Marybel Jacobson
Des Moines
Paul S. Ray
Andrea Johannsen
Eleanor Taylor
Bois
Gretchaninoff
Ruth Eb Masseyland
Cala
Honal Aeig
Gal
Osenne E David
Weelkes
Madrigal
Marghbel Jacobson
Vesper
Henry Ever
Wood
Cappella
Stainer
Rheinberger
Tax on Bond Incomes Faces Constitutional Challenge
Dr. Lutz argues a bond tax would raise city budgets and lower property values while doubling interest costs for every tax dollar. He cites 1921 debates led by John N Garner and urges delaying any radical reform through a constitutional amendment until states participate.
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Lutz
House of Representatives
John N. Garner
Texas
Dr. Lutz
Treasury
Oberlin College
Stanford University
Princeton
Washington
Tax Investigating Commission
Commission of “Financial Advisers
Chile
Poland
Tax Investigation Committee
Utah
New Jersey Tax Survey Commission
National Tax Association
Officers Installed By Spanish War Veterans
Cews camp No. 4 United Spanish War Veterans held installation of officers Friday evening in the Memorial Coliseum. Installed were Commander Thomas L. Fegen senior vice commander M. W. Bowman junior vice commander Charles J. Stewart adjutant J. R. Watson quartermaster Dr L. B. Gray trustee D. A. Huene patriotic instructor E. A. Johnson Historian Guy E. Shields surgeon Dr F. G. Murray chaplain Stanley J. Caulder officer of the day James W. Smith officer of the guard George F. Kerns sergeant major Walter L. Leighton quartermaster sergeant James T. Thomas senior color sergeant R. E. Johnston junior color sergeant James Yanda chief musician Joseph F. Janda Julius F. Sorensen was installing officer.
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Cews
United Spanish War Veterans
Memorial Coliseum
Thomas L. Fegen
M. W. Bowman
Charles J. Stewart
J. R. Watson
L. B. Gray
D. A. Huene
E. A. Johnson
Guy E. Shields
F. G. Murray
Guard beer deliveries resume in Detroit after union dispute
Police guard restored beer deliveries in Detroit on Saturday marking the first shipments since Wednesday when a clash between two AFL unions halted trucks from the citys major breweries.
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Detroit
American Federation of Labor
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Herbert Fleming
Carl Miner
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Forrest Chapman
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Medley Whelpley
Lautaro
Teasdale Barney
Robert Downing
Ed Prentiss
Robert P. Butler
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Ralph Tallman
Hughbert Hamilton
Wilbur Tisdale
Rockefeller Foundation
Paris
Frederick Schauwecker
Turors
Conger
Cedar Rapids Business College
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RES. W. Co
Henning
Leni Edev
Henry Scherer Coe Vesper
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