Chaillaux Attacks Communists and Un-American Groups
Homer L. Chaillaux national Americanism director of the American Legion in Indianapolis spoke to about 1,800 Cedar Rapids residents at Memorial Coliseum. He criticized communists fascists and allied groups saying freedom of speech ends when attacks on government begin. He named organizations he charged as subversive and urged Americans to root out foreign influence while praising community action to address juvenile delinquency. The event featured W F Sieverding and local Legion officials with musical interludes by Coe College band.
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United States
Homer L. Chaillaux Indianapolis
American Legion
Cedar Rapids
Memorial Coliseum
Hanford Post No
Chaillaux
American League For Peace and Democracy
Red Forces
Spain
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Red
W. F. Sieverding
Grundy Center
Iowa
Des Moines
Legion
James Franken
Hanford
Lew Clark
Iowa City
Coe College Military Band
Stanley Vesely
Charles Hahn
Charles Houser
Leo Courtemanche
Max Dachler
Coc College
Dokies Host Children’s Show at Town Theater
Members of the Dokies hosted twenty six children from the Home for the Friendless for a showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Town theater. Cedar Rapids City Lines provided bus transportation to and from the venue.
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Dokies
Home For the Friendless
Cedar Rapids
Mooney to Be Questioned by California Assembly
Thomas J Mooney, the long imprisoned labor leader, will be questioned by the California Assembly Thursday morning as part of a resolution seeking his release.
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Mooney
Sacramento
Calif
Thomas J Mooney
California Assembly
Surfacing Plea Sought For Paralta Southwest Road
A petition with twenty nine names asks the county to surface a 25 mile road west and south of Paralta to meet a road from highway 94 southeast of Marion. The Linn county supervisors referred the plan to County Engineer W H Behrens for report and plat as part of the new three year road program. Behrens noted a 15 mile section west from highway 218 near the Johnson county line is local and not in the current program.
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Paralta
Marion
W H. Behrens
Linn County
Behrens
Johnson County
City Briefs and Personal Notices From Local Happenings
Queen of the West Lodge No 2 meets Friday at 2 p.m. in Odd Fellows hall. El Kahir temple Shrine meets tonight at 8 at the temple with refreshments. Northwest horary station 811 F avenue NW closes Thursday afternoon and reopens 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday night. Pancake supper Thursday at St Pauls M E church 3 to 7:30 p.m. Admission 25 cents. Fire department responds to roof fire at Mrs Jola Davis 926 Tenth Street SE at 10:41 a.m. Tuesday. Kiwanis club meets Thursday due to interclub in Waterloo Wednesday. Leonard R Wilson Coe College geology and fencing lecturer to talk History of Dueling at Lions Club lunch at Roosevelt Hotel Thursday noon. two Coe fencing pupils will accompany him.
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Jola Davis
Tenth Street
Leonard R. Wilson
Coe College
Lions Club
Roosevelt Hotel
William McGuire
Leo Tchkowski
Coe
Postponed Olivet group meeting at Olivet church Friday
The Olivet Industrial and Missionary group meeting was moved to Friday at 1 p.m. at the Olivet Presbyterian church with a picnic lunch. Supt. Arthur Deamer of Cedar Rapids schools will address Cub Mothers Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce. Den mothers of Pack 19 will demonstrate handwork. Star of Maine Rebekah Judge hosts entertainment for lodge women Thursday at 7 p.m. at Star of Maine lodge. Officers Belder and Endsley paid $1 fines for overtime parking. Stanley Holte, 22, injured at Maytag store loading a machine. treated at St Luke's.
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Olivet
Arthur Deamer
Cedar Rapids Public Schools System
Cub Mothers Association
Cedar Rapids Area
Scout Council
Chamber of Commerce
den Mothers
Pack No. 19
Star of Maine
Rebekah Judge
Lodge
Maine Lodge of the Odd Fellows
Star of Maine Lodge
H. A. Belder
Second Avenue SE
I Endsley
C Avenue NE
Lenten Service At First Lutheran Seeks Delivered Barabbas
Mid week Lenten service at First Lutheran on Tenth Street and Third Avenue SE begins at 7 30 tonight. Pastor Scherer presents his second meditation on Minor Persons in the Passion Story focusing on Barabbas, Condemned But Delivered. Miss Mariam Dieman to sing Prayer by Gunn. Attendance last week was about one and a half times Ash Wednesday 1937.
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First Lutheran Church
Tenth Street
Third Avenue SE
Scherer
Barabbas
Mariam Dieman
Gunn
Paul Blake Injured in Gazette Mailroom Door Accident
Paul Blake, 32, a Gazette truck driver, suffered a six inch laceration on his right arm when his hand went through a glass panel of a door in the Gazette mailing room at about 8 45 p.m. Tuesday. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
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Paul Blake
Gazette
Gazette Mailing
Blake
Teen given seven stitches after hospital glass cut
A glass cut at St Luke's Hospital required seven stitches for a teen whose artery was nicked but tendons were spared. He was later taken home to 412 Thirty-fourth Street NE.
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St Luke's Hospital
Thirty-fourth Street
Election Voting Machines Prep At County Courthouse
County Auditor Robert M Wesely and Earl Miller organize fifty seven voting machines ahead of the upcoming school and city elections. Assistants will complete setup before week’s end.
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Robert M Wesely
Earl Miller
Miller
Bakery union meeting to be held March 12
Local union No. 365 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers A F of L will hold an open meeting for all bakery employees Saturday March 12 at 1 pm in the Labor temple Ralph H Bruhn secretary invites every employee regardless of position The entertainment committee will serve a Dutch lunch during the meeting
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A. F of L
Ralph H. Bruhn
Taken for $2 robbery reported in Collins beer parlor area
Joe Sampica reported he was taken for $2 after meeting Tom Gibbons and Evelyn Jones. Sampica said he accompanied Gibbons to 305 Eighth avenue SE where they met Miss Jones. The trio drank beer, then Sampica noticed his money missing after leaving the Collins beer parlor in the 810 Third Street SE area.
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Tom Gibbons
Eighth Avenue SE
Evelyn Jones
Tenth Street SE
Joe Sampica
First Street
Sampica
Gibbons
Miss Jones
Collins Beer Parlor
Third Street SE
Aunt Jemima to Visit Cedar Rapids for Three Day Event
Aunt Jemima arrives in Cedar Rapids at 7 am for a three day visit highlighted by a Quaker Oats plant dinner attended by about 1,200 people. Quaker Oats officials from Chicago attend, and events include pancake baking at Armstrong’s window, a noon broadcast, a luncheon at Killian’s, and an open house at Stuart Hall. The tour ends with a Saturday appearance at Syndicate Clothing’s boys’ department, distributing souvenirs.
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Jemima
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Chicago
Douglas Stuart
Robert Laird
L. R. Hawley
The
Allen Motor Company
Roosevelt Hotel
Aunt Jemima
Armstrong’s
Second Avenue
Second Street
Gertrude Stenner
Penick and Ford Vermont Maid
Wilson and Company
WMT
Killian Tea Room
Killian
Stuart Hall
Hawley
Syndicate Clothing Store
Jack Levin
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EL Kahir
F Avenue NW
St. Paul's M. E
Kiwanis
Waterloo
Waterloo Club
Stanley Hotle
Maytag
St. Luke's Hospital
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Thursda
Crew Sox
Paul Whiteman
Lawrence Tibbett
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Deems Taylor
Paul Douglas
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