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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1935
Page
20
A worried mother is advised to let her daughter follow interests she loves, as talents may emerge when she has a home. The piece cites Miss Manners guidance to stop nagging and trusts latent capabilities will surface once the daughter has independence.
Police stopped a car for a lights lecture in Oklahoma City. Scout Robert Steffey saw the driver with a shotgun to his head muttering he would end it. The blotter lists an arrest for threatening and the story notes defective lights saved a life.
Ten year old Willard Walker from Hingham Massachusetts asks doctors to delay his operation so he can enter his cocker spaniel Ginger and pony Topsy in the South Shore pet show. Topsy won a prize last year and Walker hopes for more laurels.
In a 1935 American Whist League tournament Samuel Fry Jr executes a rare Deschapelles Coup against a closed hand. Facing three notrump, he sacrifices a diamond to remove an entry, forcing the declarer to eight tricks two clubs three diamonds and three hearts.
A short humorous verse about a father commenting on his son Joe who lands a job but quits after earning a week’s wages. Joe spends his pay on Saturday night, believing that is enough to plan ahead into the future.
Paramount features Shirley Temple in Curly Top with John Boles and Rochelle Hudson. The Black Room stars Boris Karloff and Marian Marsh. School for Girls stars Paul Kelly and Sidney Fox. The Virginian shows Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, and Mary Brian. Behold My Wife features Sylvia Sidney. Great Hotel Murder co stars Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen. Mysterious Mr Wong with Bela Lugosi and Ken Maynard in Strawberry Roan at Rialto. Olympic presents In Spite of Danger with Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh and Pop Goes the Easel.
CHICAGO UP A few hours before sentencing to life imprisonment Frank Bankes 28 confessed killer of Policeman Jerry Kelma hanged himself in his jail cell Friday This was his second suicide attempt after a prior wire stabbing attempt A note to Margaret Carr 22 asked forgiveness Bankes was one of four men involved in a tavern robbery during which Kelma was slain.
Dr. Benjamin Gruenberg argues in Scientific Monthly that science in some ways raises equality among people yet fails to erase inequality beneath the skin. He notes that powerful voices can travel globally while individual rights remain uneven, and that science cannot equalize inner humanity.
A film review notes Boris Karloff in The Black Room playing dual roles of Gregor and Anton amid suspenseful scenes and stark castle settings. Katherine De Mille shines in a minor servant part, with effective photography enhancing the chilling atmosphere. The second feature School for Girls follows Annette at reform school, where a cruel superintendent is overthrown and she gains a hopeful future.
Serve two dinners each week on porch or lawn in picnic style with paper tables and a cooling Banda. Menu includes IVUVUS Bread Dinner for Six Sliced Tongue Escalloped Vegetables Raspberry Jam Pear Salad Scotch Shortbread and coffee. Instructions cover making white sauce and custard style desserts, plus a miniature matchbox church by Leslie Adams.
A pamphlet by Albert Edward Wissam outlines ten tests to apply to personal problems before acting. The booklet, offered through the newspaper, comes with a self addressed stamped envelope for requests and returns.
The excerpt discusses whether male vices like gambling and dissipation are more frowned upon now, cites Olive Schreiner on social shifts in morals, notes shifts from clergy and elites to rulers indulging openly, and references Knight Dunlap arguing women resemble children in biology and differ from men in skull and hips, implying evolutionary distance from apes.
Christie Cooper, seventeen, grapples with love and loss as she pursues nursing training at St. John's after a broken romance with Gene and a looming family rift. She confronts Aunt Nettie, contemplates a hospital career for children in memory of her father, and faces Adolphus's death.
Noel C Scaffa the private detective known for recovering stolen gems was found guilty on three perjury counts for false grand jury testimony about recovering 185000 dollars in jewelry stolen from Mrs Margaret Hawkesworth Bell a former dancer Sentencing set Aug 13 with possible penalties up to five years imprisonment or 2000 dollars fine per count The case accused him of lying to protect New York racketeers in the Bell robbery tied to a Coral Gables hotel room heist with two suspects later convicted
Oakland police report Anna Moshkowsky, 41, shot herself in her room after repeatedly calling her sons Walter 21 and Leonard 18 to get up. Her husband said she fired a shot into her temple when they would not wake.
Lieut. Franklin L. Shroyer was killed Friday in an airplane crash at Barksdale Field during bombing and ground crew plane training with the twentieth pursuit group.
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