Mercy Hospital to open Nursing School at St Berchmans Seminary
Mercy hospital will establish a Mercy School of Nursing at the former St Berchmans Seminary for boys in Marion. Remodeling will provide study rooms laboratories and lodging for over 100 student nurses with the year opening planned for September. Faculty will come from Mercy hospital colleges and professionals. The move ends nearly 50 years of St Berchmans as a boys boarding and day school once attended by Don Ameche.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital
Mercy School of Nursing
Berchman’s Seminary
Marion
Sisters of Mercy
St. Berchman’s
Cedar Rapids
Don Ameche
Summer Stock Opens At The Barn On June 21
The Barn Cedar Rapids launches its summer season June 21 with Murder at Rehearsal. Directed by Catherine Petrick, the play runs six nights in a renovated barn at 2501 Fifth Avenue SW. Outdoor seating and single tickets are on sale at Kilian's department store and Enzler's luggage store.
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Cedar Rapids
Catherine Petrick
Fifth
Killian’s
Enzler
Grinnell Institute to Host International Relations Lectures
Freda Utley and Hans Kohn will head the Grinnell Institute of international relations lecture program June 15 to June 24 1942. The eighth annual conference covers postwar Europe Russia and world cooperation with area based discussions and a final general observation period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grinnell
Freda Utley
Burke
World Organization
Manchester Guardian
China
Japan
Russia
Russian Communist Party
England
Hans Kohn
Central
Europe
Reich on home stretch of death by own action trail
Attorney General Francis Biddle told the Tennessee Bar Association that the Reichstag’s April 27 vote gives Hitler power to punish all Germans and destroy their duly acquired rights. He warned this marks the last ugly phase of self enslavement and despotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Reichstag
Adolf Hitler
Francis Biddle
Tennessee Bar Association
Biddle
Hitler
Objections Placed Before Roosevelt On Gas Rationing
A five member congressional panel prepared for a White House conference with President Roosevelt to oppose nationwide gasoline rationing to save tires. Opposition grew as a plan to issue an order was delayed amid talks of hearings and ongoing scrap rubber campaigns. Senators Thomas and Connally pressed Nelson for public hearings on rationing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
White House
Kieberg
Texas
Lea
Calif
Holmes
R-Mass
House
Congress
Sen. Thomas
Okla
Sen. Connally
D. Tex
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Thomas
Distribution of Medical Care is a Grim Problem
Atlantic City AP reports the United States faces a grave rationing challenge in distributing medical care as thousands of physicians enter military service. AMAs leaders warn shortages will strain defense and peacetime needs, with estimates showing only 30,000 to 60,000 doctors may remain to serve 4.5 to 5 million soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
United States
American Medical Association
Army Medical Corps
Oren A. Oliver
Nashville
Tenn
American Dental Association
Cians
Association
Army
Hitler Gains No Satisfaction From Finland Request
London dispatches report Adolf Hitler gained no satisfaction when he urged Finland to shift from defensive to offensive actions on the Russian front. Hitler visited Helsinki to honor Field Marshal Mannerheim but was told nothing and would consult Finland's leaders. Germany plans a summer attack in Russia and seeks a joint Finnish drive.
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London
INS
Adolf Hitler
Finland
Stockholm
Hitler
Carl Gustav Mannerheim
Germany
Russia
Mannerheim
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ST. Berchman’s Academy
Nurses’ School
Grinnell Institute
Haridas Muzumdar
Ghandi
T. Hew Roberts
University of Iowa
Bertram Pickard
Pickard
Friends’ Center
Geneva
United Kingdom
Carl Scholz
University of Pennsylvania
Kurt Schaeffer
Berlin
Schaeffer
Enrique de Lozada
Williams College
Rockefeller Office of Inter-American Affairs
Duncan Aikman
Office of Inter- American Affairs
Western Hemisphere
Midwest
America
Percholesy
Stanford Kingsley C
Hotel Roosevelt
Florentine
Montles
caTe
Natl Banker
Coinn Sone Paramount
Pharmacy
Theatry
Reich
Suicide
Biddle Les
F.R
United States War Bond
Earl Hilton
Ellis Boulevard
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Charles Kroluse
16Th St
Paul Morokoff
B Ave
W. W. Fye Vinton
Iowa
Jerry Bys
D Ave
Cedar Rapids, Lows
Joy Ann Noblett
St. Des Moines
Howard
Graham
Ave
Stephen J. McDonouge
Axminster
Pia
Smulekoffs Corner
Third Avenue
First Street
3Rd Ave
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