Coe College Urges Graduates to Build Up Reserves
Dr. Harry Morehouse Gage presided over the fifty fourth baccalaureate and addressed 122 seniors and a large chapel audience. He urged reserves in health property skill knowledge reputation and friendship to face difficulties and to keep law and order as citizens.
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Harry Morehouse Gage
Coe College
Sintclair Memorial Chapel
Gage
Dr. Gage
Harry Kremers
Coe
William M. Evans
Howard Johnston
Faith Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Vesper
Paul Schumann Ray
Catherine M. Adams
City Briefs and Personals Highlights Local Happenings
Community notices include a Penny Supper at Second Christian and a shutdown recovery update for Mrs. W H Larkin. Alumni picnic plans, town garden blooms, and Want Ads promotions share the stage with vagrancy sentencing, playground commission meeting, and town police court fines keywords.
Beck wins Cedar Rapids checker championship finale
A R Beck captured the Cedar Rapids checker championship in a playoff against Percy Woolwine and Bobby Kennedy. Finalists included J Wn W Houser Logan Stingley and Ralph Kennedy with other competitors S G Smith R E McDanel T J Kirkpatrick O P Miller and Ed Abadeely. The Cedar Rapids Checker club organized the event.
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A. R. Beck
Cedar Rapids
Flamingos Fold Their Legs While Incubating Nests
In a new note on natural history the flamingo is shown to fold its long legs under its body when sitting on the nest. Earlier writers who had not observed the bird incubating believed its legs too long to fit beneath. The article discusses this revised understanding.
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Public Leceer, Inc
Wheeler Leads Club, Mrs Bailey Wins Low Women
In Boston the Try Club event saw Mrs Joe Wheeler Jr of Boston win low women score with 104 while Mr Wheeler posted low men 81. The club president is active with University of Iowa students and alumnae. Mrs Wheeler is daughter of Dr and Mrs Fred W Bailey of 1832 Second Avenue SE.
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Boston
Joe Wheeler, Jr
Alice Bailey
Cedar Rapids
Wheeler
University of Iowa
Fred W. Bailey
Second Avenue SE
Deputy Marshal Joe Petrus Heads to Federal Court in Fort Dodge
United States deputy marshal Joe Petrus left Monday to attend a federal court session in Fort Dodge. He returned to Cedar Rapids Saturday from Sioux City where he had been since May 27, except for brief periods delivering prisoners at Fort Leavenworth before returning home.
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Joe Petrus
United States
Fort Dodge
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Fort Leavenworth
Intoxication leads to jail for Herbert Brown police court
Herbert Brown thirty year old of 613 First Street SW was jailed for thirty days after a Sunday arrest on intoxication charges. Police report his mother with a gash in her hand said she tried to take a butcher knife from him. D Cozart twenty three of 615 Avenue NE was fined ten dollars and costs for intoxication.
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Herbert Brown
First Street
Brown
D. Cozart
Musician Delegate Heads to National Convention in New Jersey
J W. Stoddard, delegate from Musicians Union Local 137, leaves Saturday for Asbury Park to attend the national convention of musicians June 10 to 15. He will also visit H J Helms, formerly of Cedar Rapids, in Newark.
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J W. Stoddard
Musicians’ Union
Asbury Park
N. J
National Convention of Musicians
H J Helms
Cedar Rapids
Newark
Hawthorne drive action urged by Stumptown residents
City council notes show a petition to hasten Hawthorne drive completion from C street to Stumptown filed by Stumptown residents. Dave L Williams cites government relief funds and Rock Island railroad negotiations as project delays. A $16000 bond funded an undergrade crossing at Stumptown two years ago. A sewer rental for Troy Laundry was set at 25 a month. Cedar Rapids Gas allowed to lay mains on Fourteenth and Eighteenth streets SE. A sanitary sewer petition on Nineteenth avenue SW drew 29.7 percent assent and was filed without action.
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Hawthorne Drive
C_ street
Stumptown
Cty Council
Dave L. Williams
Rock Island Railroad
Troy
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Fourteenth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Eighteenth Street
Council
J. F. Sage
Nineteenth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Fourteenth Street
Boy's prank leads to parents murder in New York
Nine year old Anthony Fontana's water prank on a dress worn by six year old Josephine Cosentino sparked a family quarrel. Dominick Cosentino shouted then shot Giuseppe and Rose Fontana, Anthony's parents, killing them before surrendering to police. Johanna 16 and Connie 11 witnessed the tragedy.
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New York
Anthony Fontana
Anthony
Josephine Cosentino
Josephine
Dominick Cosentino
Giuseppe
Rose Fontana
Johanna
Connie
Cosentino
Engine Figures in Wild Race Through Brooklyn
Old 34, a 75 ton locomotive, wrecked two buildings during a chase after two men, James Gallo and Anthony Pardine, who urged it to ride to Brooklyn. McClure pursued, a fist fight broke out, and the engine plowed into a brick building before stopping near the water. Gallo and Pardine held on malicious mischief charges.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Louis McClure
Pioneer Street
James Gallo
Anthony Pardine
Pardine
Gallo
McClure
Atlantic Basin
French Radicals and Communists Form Red Ring to Defend Paris
French socialists and Communist flying squads pledged cooperation to shield Paris from a fascist threat. Paul Faure declared the socialist party ready to unite with the Communists to keep the capital impregnable against a nationalist march inspired by Mussolini's Rome attempt.
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Mulhouse
France
Paris
Paul Faure
Socialist Party
Rome
Local Man Nabbed For Drunk Driving
Marvin A Tinkham 28 of 908 Seventh Avenue SE was held for drunk driving after his car struck a parked vehicle on Mount Vernon Avenue SE near Twenty second Street. Nellie Allen 31 of Fairfax suffered head bruises and was fined for intoxication. Bond set at 500 dollars.
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Marvin A Tinkham
Seventh Avenue SE
Mount Vernon Avenue
Twenty-second Street
Tinkham
Nellie Allen
Fairfax
Robert Ringsmuth
Dalewood Drive
Ringsmuth
Allen
John T. Moffit
Gas Wells Supply Room in San Joaquin Valley
Eight wells in the San Joaquin valley supply 15 million cubic feet of gas to the San Francisco Bay area every 24 hours.
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San Joaquin Valley
California
San Francisco Bay Area
The Snow Leopard and the Whipple Syndicate
Karen Sire survives a savage ambush after a dagger wound. Bannister Toole and Whipple confront Brenda and Abbe Bergere as Brenda explains how Jeff Toole and Whipple schemed to steal a magical robe and girdle and profit from Prince Jura Bai’s murder.
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Karen
Bannister
Tade
Abbe
Brenda
Abbe Berger
Whipple
Jeff
Sire
Toole
Prince Jura Bai
Southampton
New York
Miss Sire
Band of Thieves and a Desert Death Plot Revealed
Bannister and Toole recount a killing in the desert where three hundred men died while attempting to reach a remote site. Jeff Whipple remains entranced as Brenda discloses the sordid tale and Karen Sire notes Whipple’s hidden aims beneath her calm exterior.
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Karen Sire
Whipple
Bannister
Toole
Karen
Jeff Whipple
Brenda
Jeff” Whipple
Pop
Will Rogers Film Doubting Thomas Still Showing at Paramount
The Will Rogers production Doubting Thomas remains at the Paramount theater through Thursday. Highlights include Rogers in a garb as a crooner and a 20 minute Technicolor number Star Night in Cocoanut Grove featuring Bing Crosby Mary Pickford Mae West and Gary Cooper. Also shown is a Grantland Rice sports feature with Ted Husing and the latest Paramount sound news.
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Will Rogers
Thomas
Paramount Theater
Rogers
Billie Burke
Cocoanut Grove
Bing Crosby
Mary Pickford
Mae West
Gary Cooper
Ted Fiorito
Railroads Pay Cedar Rapids Taxes, Payroll Totals Cited
Rotary club speaker Craven Shuttleworth notes Cedar Rapids railroad payroll of 1 845 991 and Linn county taxes of about 112 227 annually. He cites 4 000 dependents among 1 236 city railroad workers and recounts the arrival of lines from Chicago and North Western in 1859 and subsequent lines through 1914.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Craven Shuttleworth
Rotary Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Shuttleworth
Chicago and North Western
Clinton
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
Rock Island
Marion
Milwaukee
Ilinois Central
Iowa City
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Northern
Quintuplets in Sound at Town Theater Three Attractions
Exclusive sound pictures headline the Town's triple program starting Tuesday. Dionne quintuplets celebrate their first birthday in one act of the feature. Anne Shirley stars in Anne of Green Gables with O P Heggie and Trent Durkin in a romance and drama. Adrienne Ames and others co star in Gigolette about prohibition era cabarets and a rich melodrama.
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Anne Shirley
Anne of Green Gables
O. P. Heg
Gie
Trent Durkin
Miss Shirley
Heg
Anne
Durkin
Heggie
Adrienne Ames
Ralph Bellamy
Donald Cook
Robert Armstrong
Theaters Listings Across Iowa and Nearby Chippewa
Listings show Bette Davis in The Girl from Tenth Avenue and The Hour with Wallace Beery at Iowa venues Paramount features Will Rogers in Doubting Thomas Star Night in Cocoanut Grove features Bing Crosby Mae West Gary Cooper. Palace features The World Moves On Home on the Range Jackie Coogan. Rialto presents The Good Fairy with Margaret Sullavan and John Wayne in The Texas Terror Olympic shows Love in Morocco and His Greatest Gamble Is Believed in You with Rex Ingram and John Boles Colonial features Chained with Crawford and Gamble.
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Paramount
Will Rogers
Thomas
Cocoanut Grove
Bing Crosby
Mae West
Gary Cooper
Ted FioRita
Richard Arlen
the Ritz
Patricia Ellis
Palace
Franchot Tone
Jackie Coogan
Rialto
Margaret Sullavan
John Wayne
Morocco
Rex Ingram
Richard Dix
John Boles
Crawford
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Maurine
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Public Health Nursing Association
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Memorial Coliseum
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Tenth Avenue
Penick and Ford
St. Luke's Hospital
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Grande Avenue SE
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C Avenue NW
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W J. Buchan
First Avenue E
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Prince Jura
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Whipple Syndicate
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