Mystery Readers Embrace Thrillers Across Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids survey finds a strong taste for detective fiction with S. S. Van Dine and Agatha Christie leading preferences. Professors Clyde Tull and Millington Carpenter cite thrillers as ideal bedtime reads and mental exercise, while readers like Mrs. Hines and Miss Cook praise tight plots and atmospheric characterization.
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Cedar Rapids
S. S. van Dine
Agatha Christie
Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Earl Derr Biggers
E. P. Oppenheim
Carolyn Wells
Agamemnon
Clytémnestra
Herakles
Hamlet
Macbeth
Richard III
Othello
Julius Caesar
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poe
Stevenson
Andrew Lang
Clyde Tull
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Mr. Chesterton
Millington F. Carpenter
Iowa City
Don Hines
Betty Baxter
Alice Anson
Mrs. Anderson
Mignon paEehars
Kay Cleaver Straan
Leslie Ford
van Dine
Eleanor Cook
Sumner Quarton
Sumner Foster
Leslie Chateris
Helen Reilley
Ed Soboda
Cedar Rapids Fuel Company
Mr. Soboda
Burton H. Saxton
Iowa Masonic Library
Mr. Saxton
Hutchins of Chicago University to Speak at Town Hall Friday
Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins president of Chicago University will deliver the Town Hall address at 8 p m Friday in Memorial Coliseum The topic is The Outlook for Higher Education Hutchins is a noted author and educator with affiliations to Yale Oberlin and several honors and decorations including the Legion of Honor and Croce di Guerra from Italy
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Chicago University
Town Hall
America
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Memorial Coliseum
Dr. Hutchins
Oberlin College
Yale
Yale University
West Virginia University
Lafayette
Hutchins
United States Ambulance Service
Legion of Honor
Italy
Connecticut Bar Association
Chicago Bar Association
Commission On Inquiry
United States Employment Service
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Delta Sigma Rho
Graduate Elizabethan
New York City
University Union. League
Chicago
Quadrangle Commercial Tavern
Law
Central committee set for C S A in P S Hall upcoming meeting
The C S A Central committee will meet next Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the C S P S hall with each lodge represented by five delegates. District organizers will join as members directing local lodge work and supervising the juvenile department.
City council wrestles over police and fire pay raises
Secret meetings between council members, legal staff, and department officials mark ongoing dispute over wage increases for police and fire crews. Election pressure looms as Public Safety Commissioner Benesh’s stance remains unrevealed. formal appearances are unclear.
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Benesh
Schedules For Internal Revenue Staff Assignments Announced
Charles D Huston of Des Moines, collector of internal revenue, releases the deputy collectors schedule to assist in filing income tax returns. Dates span Feb 5 to March 15 at multiple offices and courthouses across Cedar Rapids Decorah Dubuque Elkader Fairfield Fort Madison Grinnell Independence Iowa City Manchester Monmouth Mccoketa Marshalltown Muscatine Newton Osceola Washington Waterloo West Union.
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Charles D. Huston
Des Moines
Internal Revenue
Cedar Rapids
Revenue Office
Decorah
Dubuque
Elkader
Fairfield
Newton
Oskaloosa
Court House
Washington
Waterloo Revenue Office
West Union
Council Reviewed Budget Request From Two Departments
The statement to be issued will come from Benesh after formal confrontation with the two departments. Finance Commissioner L D Burgus, as head of the budget, will be consulted.
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Benesh
L. D. Burgus
Nature
Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Bus Line Transfer Approved
Des Moines AP chair George A Huffman announced the transfer of the Ottumwa-Cedar Rapids bus line certificate to P W Fletcher of Macon Missouri. Fletcher will operate on the same Cedar Rapids Ottumwa schedule with new equipment. The line, owned by Earl Wright and Elizabeth Graham of Ottumwa, carries passengers and freight up to 200 pounds on highway 149.
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Cedar Rapids
Missouri Man
DES Moines
George A. Huffman
State Commerce Commission
P. W. Fletcher
Macon
Huffman
Fletcher
Earl Wright
Elizabeth Graham
Iowa City Man Rescued From Fire in Smoke Filled Room
Iowa City firemen rescued James Lenoch from a smoke filled room after a mattress caught fire. He is believed to have been smoking in bed and fell asleep. Lenoch was overcome by smoke but revived quickly. English rivers discharge over two million tons of solid matter into the sea each month.
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Iowa City
James Lenoch
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