What Now for 1937 Graduates Says Modern Greeley Nine
Nine leaders advised graduates from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas on building success after high school. Dr. Harry Morehouse Gage says diplomas count only with the person, not as a pass. They urge hard work, self knowledge, and choosing a fit career in law medicine banking insurance and food service.
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Horace Greeley
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Harry Morehouse Gage
Coe
Dr. Gage
Gage
America
Stewart Holmes
Linn County Bar Association
Holmes
Frank C. Welch
Iowa Bankers Association
Cedar Rapids Clearing House Association
American Bankers Association
Welch
Peoples Bank
Flying Auto to Make Its Bow This Summer
South Bend notes Studebaker plans to unveil a flying automobile with 125 mph air speed and 75 mph ground speed. Demonstrations will occur in major cities this summer. The craft features a 105 mph cruise, 400 air mile range, 45 mph landing speed, and ground steering like a car.
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South Bend
Ind
Studebaker Corporation
Sumer
Paul G. Hoffman
Hoffman
Engineer Kills Wife Then Shoots Self in Logansport
Oscar Werner 45 a mechanical engineer from Cuyahoga Falls Ohio shot his wife at Logansport State Hospital where he was a patient Saturday then died of his own actions. He left a note to hospital superintendent Dr Williams saying he believed his wife was incredibly ill.
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Logansport
Ind
Oscar Werner
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
Logansport State Hospital
L. Willams
Lay Instructors Club To Meet Monday Night
The American Red Cross Lay Instructors club formed June 2 will meet at 7 o'clock Monday evening in the Town Electric Light and Power company bunga low in the Security building. Allen B. Hird was elected president with Mrs. D. M. Hall as vice president and Emory A. Milliken as secretary treasurer. The club includes twenty three Cedar Rapids and Marion people who recently received first aid certificates and fourteen others who had already passed examinations. An examining board to conduct tests and award certificates will be formed. Plans and policies will be formulated and adopted at the meeting Monday night.
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American Red Cross
Town Electric Light and Power Company
Allen B. Hird
D. M. Hall
Emory A. Milliken
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Du Pont Roosevelt Wedding Attendants Named in Delaware
Attendants for Ethel du Pont and Franklin D Roosevelt Jr at the June 30 wedding were announced at the bride elect’s home. Mrs John Boettiger will be matron of honor, Aimee du Pont maid of honor, with John A Roosevelt as best man. Bridesmaids include Alyse Huneman, Barbara Cushing, Harriet Jackson, and others. ushers include James and Elliott Roosevelt and multiple relatives and friends.
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Wilmington
Del
Ethel du Pont
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
John Boettiger
Anna Roosevelt
Seattle
Wash
Aimee du Pont
Christchurch
Christiana Hundred
Greenville
John A. Roosevelt
Alyse Hunneman
Malvern
Barbara Cushing
New Haven
Conn
Harriet Jackson
Providence
R. IL
C. Porter Schutt
James P. Polk
Glen Head
Long Island
Thomas le Boutillier
New York City
James Roosevelt
Washington
Elliott Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Tex
Eldredge Jackson
Drexel Paul, Jr
Radnor
Percy Pyne
Bernardsville
N. J
Frederick A. Delano
John Clarke
Bala Cynwyd
John Lyman
Boston
Thomas M Bullitt
Louisville
Philip Staples, Jr
Ardmore
Thomas
Chicago
Eugene du Pont
Richmond Va
Nicholas Ridgely du Pont
Munitions Trains Move From Germany Into Austria For Spain
Innsbruck officials confirm reports that ammunition trains from Germany pass nightly into Italy through the Tyrol Brenner pass. On Wednesday night six cars of ammunition attached to an empty German freight train cleared for the Italian border, officials say, though exact contents were not disclosed.
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Innsbruck
Austria
Germany
Italy
Austrian
Tyrol
Brenner Pass
Spain
Beer permit deadlines loom as applications lag
Tait Cummins reports city officials fret as the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline nears with only 26 Class B beer permit applications filed of 82 allowed, raising concerns over lost revenue. Grocers hold Class C permits at $25 while beer parlors face $300 fees, prompting calls to rethink permit structures.
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Des Moines
Sioux City
L. D. Burgus
Harry S. Johnson
Elaborate Reception Planned for Boy in Iron Lung
San Francisco prepares a hospital car at a Dollar line pier to receive Frederick B. Snite Jr. from the liner President Coolidge. The car will carry air conditioning and a respirator to keep the boy in the iron lung breathing as he is wheeled to a dockside hospital.
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San Francisco
Chicago
Dollar Line
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Plan to complete Jean Harlow final film Sara toga
Hollywood reports MGM weighing a plan to finish the late star Jean Harlow in Sara toga using Rita Johnson to fill her role. Lionel Barrymore may announce on screen that another completed the film. Fans have pressed for release, with over $500,000 spent and only three days of shooting remaining.
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Hollywood
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Jean Harlow
Saratoga
Miss Harlow
Rita Johnson
New York
Lionel Barrymore
Jean
Harlow
Demand Probe Of New Deal Funds In Democratic NDC Row
Washington reports accuse Democratic National Committee leaders of corrupt practices in selling Roosevelt campaign books to corporations for 250 dollars each. Rep Snell says Congress should inspect all funds for a half million dollar election deficit and notes bank loans and unexpended balances while senators dispute relief funding and public works extension.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
Rep. Snell
New York
House
Congress
New Deal High Command
Snell
Chase National Bank
Manufacturers Trust Co
Glass
Virginia
Copeland
Byrnes
South Carolina
Tydings
Maryland
Russell
Georgia
Adams
Colorado
McCarran
Nevada
Bankhead
Alabama
Burke
Nebraska
Hale
Maine
Steiner
Oregon
Townsend
Delaware
Bridges
New Hampshire
McKellar
Tennessee
Hayden
Arizona
Thomas
Oklahoma
Overton
Louisiana
O' Mahoney
Wyoming
McAdoo
California
Truman
Mon
Senate
Public Works Administration
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Horace Greeleys
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Lawyer
A. R. Zuercher
Linn County Medical Society
Zuercher
Medical Society
Warren A. Hansen
Woman's Club of
Banker
Kenneth Lindsay
Industrial Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Lindsay
Gertrude Stenner
Business and Professional Women's Club
Quaker Oats Company
Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Association
Rollo S. Pickford
Bankers Life Company
Pickford
Cyril Kegler
Iowa Restaurant Owners Association
Bishop Stoddard Cafeteria Company
Kegler
Mr. Kegler
Mrs
Warren Hansen
Baldridge
H. M. Gage
Tait Cummins
Bezdek’s
Johnson Avenue
West
Holt
Jack Helt
Tim
Jack Heit
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