Three Students Solo Flight At Aviation Country Club
Vernon Henderson aged 24 of 1502 H avenue NE, George Harback 24 from Chelsea, and Lee Knowles 27 of 710 Carroll drive SE each soloed after about eight to nine hours of dual instruction at the Aviation Country club on Blairs Ferry road. Ted Saxon taught them and they used a Taylor Craft plane for solo flights following their training.
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Aviation Country Club
Blairs Ferry Road
Marion
Vernon Henderson
H Avenue
George Harback
Chelsea
la Plant-Choate Company
Lee Knowles
Carroll Drive
Ted Saxon
Judge Explains Jury Selection In Plain Language
Cedar Rapids judge H C Ring outlines the juror selection process in simple terms. The article details the squirrel cage jury box, drawing sixteen jurors, challenges for cause and peremptory challenges, and the oath taken by twelve jurors to truthfully try the case.
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H. C. Ring
Cedar Rapids
Eighteenth Judicial District
Ring
John Doe
Richard Roe
U S Steel plans $80 million for plant modernization
Washington AP reports United States Steel will spend $80 million on plant modernization before Sept 1, using unspent funds from last year. Fairless says about $40 million will be used in Q1 1938 and the rest in Q2 and Q3, with possible additional investments in 1938 if conditions allow. He adds price cuts require cost reductions, notably lower wages. Tower and Holden challenge claims on price rises versus production costs and recession outlook.
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Washington
United States Steel Corporation
B. F. Fairless
Senate
Robert H. Jackson
Fairless
Walter S. Tower
American Iron and Steel Institute
Thomas C. Holden
F. W. Dodge Corporation
Sweigart Abandons Fight Against Indiana Marriage Mills
Crown Point Indiana George W Sweigart Lake county clerk Saturday night abandoned his plan to contest the recent supreme court decision outlawing Indiana marriage mills He was advised by County Attorney George Hershman that the ruling rests on public policy not statutory law ending Sweigarts contest in effect leaving the marriage mills ban in place and the fight concluded
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Crown Point
Ind
Alp
George W. Sweigart
Lake County
Supreme Court
Indiana
George Hershman
Sweigart
Brandysniffing St Bernard Stirs Atlantic City Controversy
A New Jersey man names a St Bernard Barry after the famous hero dog and outfits the pet with a brandy cask to offer drinks on the Atlantic City boardwalk. The state alcohol chief replies that the scheme is not illegal but unwise. The owner plans winter tasting and a reporter’s questionnaire yields odd Q and A about drinks and dogs.
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Barry
Switzerland
L. A. Mathis
Atlantic City
N. J
Mathis
St. Bernard
United States Revenue Authorities
New Jersey Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Great St. Bernard
D. F. Burnett
Alcoholic Beverage Control
New Jersey
Bernard of
Menthon
Wild Life
St. Bernards
Weather Spotlight on Solstice and Sky Movements
The article explains why the coldest period of winter comes weeks after the solstice, detailing the sun’s southern limit, precession of the equinox, and the moon’s drag on Earth's equatorial bulge. It also provides regional weather observations across Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and surrounding states, and answers reader questions on normals, snow, crop outlook, and planetary distances.
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Egypt
Capricorn
Sagittarius
Ancient
Scorpio
Inois
Michigan
Ontario
North Dakota
Montana
Indiana
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Pennsyhansas
New York
Lawrence Valley
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Lower Lakes
Illinois
Nebraska
South Dakota
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Venus
Saturn
Mercury
Earth
Mars
Stratosphere Aids Future Air Transport Explored
Prof Selby Maxwell presents a paper on the stratosphere its weatherless high air and potential for swift future air travel. The Cedar Raunds Gazette offers the paper free to readers who send a stamped self addressed envelope.
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UFPER
Selby Maxwell
Gazette
Iowa News in Brief Highlights Local Arts and Education Plans
Rehearsals for the senior play Old Lady 31 begin in Lost Nation with a chosen cast led by Sara Lou Christensen. In Monticello, two new teachers join the public schools, Geraldine Roberts as speech and English instructor and Frances Jones in physical training. Maquoketa hosts an Infantile Paralysis Foundation benefit dance January 29 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, with Harold Hinckley directing music and Arthur Jansen chairing. Lisbon will welcome Vivian Strand as mathematics and social science teacher from the second semester, while Maquoketa Valley Izaak Walton League sets February 17 for its annual fish fry. West Liberty elects golf club officers for the year led by president W. L. Watters.
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Monticello
Geraldine Roberts
Indianola
Harriet Brindley Stewart
Roberts
Simpson College
Leon
Stratford
Frances Jones
Iowa City
Seymour Kranz
Belle Markovitz
Ralph Gee
Ford Hainer
Arthur Janssen
Lisbon
Vivian Strand
Iowa University
Alice R. Noble
Red Oak
Maquoketa
Maqu
Roosevelt presents plan for 20 percent naval tonnage rise
President Roosevelt finished a draft defense message seeking early Congress approval for a 20 percent increase in U S naval tonnage. The plan calls for 37 ships totaling 237000 tons including three battleships two aircraft carriers six or eight cruisers twenty destroyers and six submarines. The project would require revising the Vinson Trammell treaty navy act and extend over four to five years. Army totals may rise as hearings review a 421459000 budget. expect push in coming weeks.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
National Defense
Congress
United States
House
Senate
Army General Staff
House War Appropriations Subcommittee
Million Dollar Incomes Reach Five-Year High
Washington AP says sixty one individuals paid taxes on net incomes of one million dollars or more last year, the largest count in five years. The breakdown includes one between four and five million, four between three and four, fourteen between two and three, nine between one and two, and thirty three between one and one and a half million. Names not released. 1929 figures far lower and 1932 had twenty millionaires.
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Washington
Treasury
Legion Officials Map Boys States Plans in Indianapolis
Homer L Chaillaux Americanism director for the American Legion says fourteen state officials will gather in Indianapolis to plan next summers boys states where youths elect officers and run model governments. The Legion will also conduct political training for high school boys in twenty states this year with Iowa and Nebraska among the represented states.
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Indianapolis
Homer L. Chaillaux
The
American Legion
Legion
Chaillaux
Iowa
Nebraska
Blame Sunspots In Severe Short Wave Action Disruption
New York AP reports the worst magnetic disturbance in 20 years disrupted short wave broadcasts. Mackay Radio engineers said all connections with Europe broke from 1 to 10 am. Cheltenham magnetic observatory and the coast and geodetic survey termed it a magnetic hurricane. Scientists note the storms began last weekend and peaked Saturday.
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New York
Mackay Radio
Europe
Magnetic Observatory
Cheltenham
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Washington
Earth
Britain Offers Price To Yield On Abyssinians
Britain to recognize Italian conquest of Abyssinia but demands a price. A four power appeasement pact with France Germany and Italy would accompany the move. Eden will seek delay of immediate recognition at the League of Nations while a committee studies the matter.
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London
INS
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
Abyssinia
Italy
Chamberlain
Britain
France
Germany
Benito Mussolini
League of Nations
Anthony Eden
League
Demands Probe Of Beating By Assistant Principal
In Detroit an angry mother urged a probe into a beating her 14 year old son Joseph Kruszewski received from Copernicus junior high school assistant principal Michael Lutomski. The boy suffered a chipped hip bone and vein inflammation and is hospitalized in serious condition. Lutomski said he struck twice with the flat of a paddle and questioned how the hip could be chipped. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea summoned Lutomski for questioning. The report also mentions deep sea fish with bioluminescent organs for prey attraction.
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Detroit
Joseph Kruszewski
D. S. Zbudowski
Duncan C. McCrea
Michael Lutomski
Copernicus Junior High School
Hamtramck
Lutomski
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