School Board Buys 5000 Tons of Coal for District
Three Cedar Rapids firms share a 5000 ton contract at 2.35 dollars per ton plus 2.73 dollars freight totaling 25400 dollars. Ives Frana Haegg and City Fuel supply one third each of Harco No 5 seam coal with bid from eleven firms. delivery spans immediate and future needs.
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Cedar Rapids
Ernest Kosek
Board of Education
Ives-Frana Fuel Company
Haegg Coal Company
City Fuel Company
Harco No. 5
Kosek
Inland States
Dubuque
Negro Turned Loose By Lynch Mob After Claiming Innocence
In Eastman Georgia a mob of about 500 seized Eddie Lee Spivey from jail and hanged him as the sheriff overpowered. Spivey proclaimed innocence before the crowd while white bystanders hurled racial slurs. The mob later returned him to custody unharmed.
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Eastman
Eddie Lee Spivey
J. C. Lewis
Spivey
Russians Kill 4 in Bucharest Raids
Four people were killed and 12 wounded in Russian air raids on Bucharest between 5:30 and 7:14 a.m. on Wednesday. Six houses were destroyed or damaged, bombs hit near the cathedral and the patriarch's home, and explosions woke residents. Several Russian planes were said to have been shot down.
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Bucharest
Romania
Ankara
Gene Tierney Drops Parental Help After Las Vegas Elopement
Gene Tierney, 19, says she no longer needs her parents to handle her affairs. Her elopement with Count Oleg Cassini sparked a family clash with How ard S. Tierney and his wife seeking damages from 20th Century Fox to block a new contract. Leland Hayward will represent Tierney as she navigates the film business.
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Hollywood
Gene Tierney
Boston
Oleg Cassini
20Th Century-Fox Studio
Leland Hayward
Bridgeport
Conn
Howard S. Tierney
Robert L. Munger
Tierneys
Gene
New York
Las Vegas
Nev
Cassini
British planes sink Italian convoy ships off Italy coast
London reports two ships were torpedoed as British Fleet Air Arm attacked a convoy of 20 000 ton transports off the south coast of Italy. One vessel was also hit directly by a bomb.
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London
INS
Fleet Air Arm
Italy
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