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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1933
Page
7
The Coe College military band had its group photo taken on the White House grounds under President Franklin D Roosevelt. It marked the first time a band was photographed before the south portico and one of the few portraits ever allowed there. Plans were underway Monday to further events.
A caption notes Lenore Ulrich and a band posing with President and Mrs. Roosevelt on Monday. The group could not stay in Washington due to a return concert schedule and a funeral in Senate Walsh's honor delayed plans.
A fragmentary report notes an event extended by an hour beyond expectation and that a photo opportunity with the band could not be arranged as scheduled.
Boy Scouts of Troops 5 and 23 sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Parent Teacher Associations gathered over 1000 pounds of vegetables for charity in a drive that began Saturday. Ray Dubber is scoutmaster.
A hungry homeless fox terrier was marooned on a Cedar river island north of the Quaker Oats plant after neighbors alerted police. Officers, dog catchers, and a city physician responded. The dog was captured after a chase in which two pursuers were bitten, and Dr Suchomel treated them. The dog is sheltered at the Humane Society.
The Lions club will show four reels of Olympic track and field highlights from Los Angeles at Thursday noon lunch meeting. Iowa coaches Ossie Solem George Bresnahan Otto Vogel and Rollie Williams were invited to attend and Bresnahan will answer questions and explain the footage. Lunch at 1210 pm with films starting at 1240 pm.
A series of reflections asserts that truth spans art, science, and daily life, from the explorer’s climb to the homemaker’s duties to the scientist’s search. It cites Dean Seashore’s work in musical psychology and defends Platonic love as a lofty, nonsexual friendship between like-minded minds.
Grant high school won first in oratory and dramatics with Florence Bock and Betty Rapoport taking top honors. Washington claimed humor through Elmer Rosenbaum, while Earl Vondracek and Madge Jones placed second. Judge was Miss Helen Langworth of Iowa, and Lester Bizek of Grant performed a French horn solo.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Svoboda and family hosted Georgia Svoboda’s fifteenth birthday in Solon with an evening of cards and refreshments. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kloubec and Edna, Mr. and Mrs. John Louvar and Georgia, Richard and Ernest, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Skala, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Merta and Lumir, Leona, Eleanor and Emil, Emil Votroubek, Margaret, Helen, Dorothy, Robert and George, plus Tillie Detert.
At the regular school board meeting on Monday no formal action was taken. After the session, several members discussed privately how the budget could meet the proposed 25 percent tax levy reduction now before the state legislature.
Gazette farm editor Ray Anderson and the Y Men's club discussed agricultural economic history and its relation to the current financial crisis. Fifteen attendees participated as the editor moderated a two and a half hour session stressing civic group responsibility in agricultural welfare.
Dr W C Cleworth will give an illustrated talk on character building through Christian education titled The Greta Stone Face at Trinity Methodist church during the fellowship supper and family night on Wednesday at 615. Mrs W E Gorham is musical program chairman. Leta Bauman and Vivian Shakespeare and Mrs Gwen Gabriel and Don Gabriel will present duets.
An old time physician warns that poor complexions stem from intestinal stasis and poisoned blood. Adlerika is pitched as a safe cleansing tonic that removes waste, strengthens digestion, and prevents recurrence, with a free trial offer via mail.
Police report a break in at Drummey grocery located at 317 Center Point Road NE. A basement window was broken but burglars did not enter the store room and nothing was disturbed. A separate car theft claim notes a stolen motometer from a vehicle on Third Street and A Avenue NE.
Five quarantineable disease cases were recorded in Cedar Rapids during February per a city report. Four were scarlet fever and one cerebro-spinal meningitis. Placardable diseases included thirty chicken pox and twenty whooping cough. Forty six deaths occurred and board of health expenditures totaled 2469.49 dollars.
An ortho pedic gummed paper violin with tonal softness akin to Italian wood crafted instruments was shown in Austria. The unusual instrument drew attention for its comparison to traditional violin makers and highlighted experimental craft.
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