County party conventions set for Linn county Saturday
County conventions of three parties occur at Linn county courthouse at 11 a.m. Democrats Republicans and farmer laborists select delegates to state conventions and hear party leaders. Officers are elected by county central committees. Republicans will seat 202 delegates from 48 precincts, ratio one to every 100 votes or major fraction for the presidential nominee in 1932. Farmer-labor delegates listed for Rapids and Fayette. Democratic delegates appear in Friday's Gazette. Local party chairs named: Carl Hendrickson Democrat Dr D L Morrissey Republican Mrs Velma Burwinkle Farmer-Labor.
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Linn County
Farmer-Laborites
Carl Henddrickson
D. L. Morrissey
Velma Burwinkle
Youth Counselor To Talk To Knights Of Columbus
R. F. Carne, youth counselor with the Iowa state employment service, will address Cedar Rapids council No. 909 Knights of Columbus at the club rooms Monday. The meeting opens at 8 p.m. with the talk at 9. Carne will describe employment help for high school and college grads and youths ages 16 to 25. He represents the National Youth Administration.
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R. F. Carne
Iowa State Employment Service
Cedar Rapids
Knights of Columbus
Mr. Carne
National Youth Administration
Eclipse Studies Reveal New Theory
Moscow report says preliminary eclipse results point to ultraviolet radiation shaping the earth ionosphere. Professor Boris Gerasimovich, head of the Soviet eclipse expeditions, announced indications of UV influence from Friday's observations.
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Moscow
Boris Gerasimovich
Sunday School Camp Drive Supports Good Health Fund
Seventeenth annual Church-in-the-Woods event at Bever park opens the Camp Good Health Fund drive for Cedar Rapids aiding physically handicapped children. Activities include a 6 am service, noon luncheon, visiting hours, stories, singing, a surprise, and a short hike with a picnic. Contributions to The Gazette Camp Good Health Fund help sustain the program.
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Church-in the-Woods
Camp Good Health Fund
Bever Park
Church-in-the-Woods
The
Peoples Church
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Association
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
the Gazette
Baldwin blames U S for lack of oil ban on Italy
London Prime Minister Baldwin told a Wishaw rally that the United States bears responsibility for the absence of oil sanctions on Italy. He argued Americans would not embargo oil and warned against hollow measures for show. He urged U S participation in the League of Nations for collective security.
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Baldwin
U.S
Italy
London
United States
Wishaw
League of Nations
Japan
Germany
Judge Moffit Receives Michigan Honorary Law Degree
Judge John T. Moffit of Tipton Iowa in his twenty second year on Iowa's Eighteenth Judicial District received an honorary Master of Laws from the University of Michigan at commencement in Ann Arbor. He was a fifty year class secretary and served as a major and lieutenant colonel in the Spanish American War. The citation praised his loyalty to the university and public service.
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John T. Moffit
Tipton
Iowa
Linn
Jones
Cedar
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Moffit
Law School
Aolumni Association
Michigan
Military career timeline of Moffit spans Iowa Guard ranks
Moffit served with the Iowa National Guard advancing from sergeant to lieutenant, captain, and major before the war. At outbreak he received a commission as lieutenant colonel reflecting a rapid rise in rank.
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Moffit
Iowa National Guard
Plan Fund To Fight Dismemberment Of M. And St. L. Line
Minneapolis defense committees announced a drive to raise 5000 dollars to support the fight against the Minneapolis and St. Louis line dismemberment. The fund backs hearings in Minneapolis Fort Dodge Iowa and Washington following testimony by Frank B Townsend director of the Minneapolis Traffic association before an interstate commerce commission hearing.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis and St. Louis
Fort Dodge
Washington
M. and
St. L
American
Alameda Airbase Measure Cleared by Senate
The Senate concurred in House amendments to the Alameda airbase bill and sent it to the White House for signature.
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Washington
Alp
Senate
Alameda Airbase
White House
Honduras Quits Nations League Withdrawal Follows Guatemala
TEGUCIGALPA Honduras an executive decree announced Honduras withdrew from the league of nations on Saturday following Guatemala’s lead the move marks a formal exit by the Central American nation.
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Honduras
Tegucigalpa
League of Nations
Guatemala
Nationalist Group Storms Paris Restaurant in Strike Clash
A group of 20 men led by former Deputy Raoul Sabatier stormed a Paris restaurant during an occupation strike, throwing seven strikers into the street. Sabatier called it the beginning of a counter revolution and stayed to keep the strikers from returning.
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Paris
Raoul Sabatier
Sabatier
Nose Can Detect Minute Mercaptan Odor Level
A human nose can sense mercaptan at one two-billionth of a milligram, a pungent chemical used as an odorant to flag gas leaks and other smells.
Police Round Up Girls at Brooklyn Navy Yard
A squad of sixty plainclothes officers and fifteen policewomen rounded up 110 girls aged 16 to 18 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard area. Younger girls were released to parents after admonitions. those with no relatives were sent to a welfare shelter for the night. Affected youths will undergo physical examinations before release. An angry crowd of sailors and Marines gathered outside police HQ but were dispersed.
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New York
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Gideons Open Their 37th Iowa State Convention in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids hosts the Gideons International Iowa state convention Friday through Sunday at multiple hotels. About 100 Gideons will attend with sessions led by A H Harper and M K Long of Fairfield, and state officers will preside. The program includes devotions, discussions, a Bible hour, officer reports, a banquet, public prayers, and a Sunday service lineup at several churches and hotels.
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Cedar Rapids
Gideons of
Iowa
Gideons
Christian Commercial Men’s Association of America
Sunshine Mission
A. K. Harper
Fairfield
M. K. Long
Montrose Hotel
Gideon
David P. Smith
H. D. Treimer
C. R. Miller
Ivar Johnson
Richard V. Clearwaters
E. G. Nelson
Sioux City
Harry D. Clarke
Chicago
Billy Sunday
C. H. Hook
J. A. Smith
Waterloo
Roscoe Beedee
Davenport
Frank B
Convention City
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Montrose
Sev
A. A. Brooks
St. Luke’s Hospital
Roosevelt
Allison, Pullman
Lincoln
Magnus
Trinity Methodist
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Milesses
R. C. Coutts
Fred Jebel
Edward A. Kopp
A Turner
Arthur Walbrand
Fred Operhagen
Otto Slapnicka
Mary
A. M. Dunlap
B. F. Currell
A. G. Kampmeier
George H. Burrows
Leo J. Custer
W. C.irchbeck
Mae Ohmann
Pourth
J. P. Winn
Jessie D. Wurster
Tomas Powell
Fred Canfield
Emma Lou Staley
Frank L. Williams
F. A. Mueller
Hamilton
Oneath
B. L. Knight
Sutherland C. Gov
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Fred H. Kubicek
F. Mitral
Clark A. Beems
David G. Bleakley
Elizabeth Chase
Imogen Emery
Stewart Hotel
Scott McIntyre
Floyd Philbrick
G. Thompson
H. R. Trewin
Risvenihy
Harriet Ballard
B. Bickenlooper
Everett Goanche
E. R. Gore
C. F. Clark
J. J. Hail
John L. Berger
Louis Buregus
Rs. K. E. Cornell
Red Fitch
Alex Mpson
Ed Stefan
James Yuill
Frank Pratt
William H. Gates
Jack Weiland
Bess Randa
Maude A. Hovorka
O. Feiereisen
Lottie cLeod
Louis Pochobradsky
Robert Vesely
Arastny
Richard Payn
Chester Myers
Uth Schorr
R. J. Hurka
Henry An
Bertram
P. G. Anderson
George Kramer
Boulder
Tretz Pod Fy
Rowley
Boteetine Weof
Wiley
Levsen
V. Patten
J. Bro Viola
Clarence Petty
Harry Newlin
W. D. Stoddard
James Wolmaington
T. A
John Wiley
Ese
Millie Revs
Fairfax
Ieccitaabe Shear
L. E. Parkyn
Fayette
E. M. Mallie
Maine
Flower S. Phillips
Millie Hoff Man
Frank Yates
Vern Brown
Marion Township
Cc. O. Secrist
E. T. Brockman
H. F. Ives
Marion
Frank Ozburn
Elmer Leavell
Mary Snyder
Grace Bieskly
J. Lewis Pes
Marie Strader
W. K. Lothian
John H. Pazour
Margaret Leming
A. R. McElwain
U. G. Stitzel
Elda Kemp
Anna Switt
Monroe
J. ¥. Hopker
W. UH. Kimper
Creek
Dave McCreery
M. M. Ran
Farmer-Labor
E. J. Hawks
Velma Twinkle
Frank Basker
Carl Desere
Vina Desere
P. W. Burgess
Max Schmeling
Joe Louis
Detroit
Judge Moffit
Michigan University
St. L. Line
Leee Ty
RETEX
Dial
Jack Rohrer
Ellis Blvd
Patricia Ann Slade
A Ave. N.W
U RO
Meth
RYD
Kitterman’s
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Ion Cece
Nationalist Group
Storms Restaurant
Iowa Theater
Dick Powell
Marion Davies
BROOK
le Carecuin’s
Legionaires
Frontier Park
Hanford Post
Legion Post
Henry Haegg
Henry DeYoung
Louis Dvorak
Howard Neff
Brooklyn Navy Yard
A. B. T. Moore
S. E. Hill
Beloit
Wis
E. W. Newburg
Rockford, Jr
Cook
Robert Edwards
SEARS
Department of Agriculture
Third Avenue SE
Ipiedipiliess Groceries A Ud Markets
Wwe
CERTO
Kellogg’s Wheat
Bae Large
Omar
Lady Betty
Bbc
Penick
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