Ask Working People To Help In New Industries Campaign
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce launches the Forward Cedar Rapids drive urging waitresses, filling station attendants, garage men, and police to aid in attracting new industries. A. L. Taylor plans mass meetings before summer to secure citywide cooperation and may issue pamphlets for travelers as part of the effort to boost local payrolls and growth.
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Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids
A. L. Taylor
United States
Taylor
Chicago
Omaha
Minneapolis
Kansas City
St. Louis
Polling places named for city election
City council designated polling sites for 23 precincts for the March 17 primary and March 30 municipal election. Sites include schools, fire stations, libraries, a city barn, and voting houses across SE, NE, SW, NW and central blocks with exact street locations.
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First—Rude Auto Company
Second Avenue
Second—Fire
B Avenue
Third—India’s
Oakland Road
H Avenue
Benjamin Franklin
Twentieth Street
Fifth—Arthur School
Twenty-seventh Street
Kenwood Park
Seventh—Jackson School
Fourth Avenue
Twelfth Street
Eighth— Voting House
Eighteenth Street
Ninth
Seventeenth Street
Tenth
Bever Park
Bever Avenue
Eleventh
Buchanan
Mount Vernon Road
Twelfth—McKinley
Tenth Street
Thirteenth—Adams
Fifth Street
Fourteenth
Third Street
Fifteenth—Hayes School
Twentieth Avenue
D Street
Sixteenth
van Buren
Fourteenth Avenue
Seventeenth — Taylor School
Fifth Avenue
Sixth Street
Eighteenth—City Barn
Seventh Avenue
H Street
Nineteenth
First Evangelical Church
First Avenue
Twentieth—Harrison School
Eleventh Street
M Avenues
Roosevelt
Thirteenth Street
C Avenue NW
Cleveland
Fifteenth Street
States Require Emergency Lights On Large Vehicles
Eighteen states have laws compelling motor trucks and buses to carry emergency lights for roadside parking at night. The rules mandate placing these lights around the vehicle to improve visibility during nighttime stops.
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States
Salvation Army Campaign Opens at Noon with Fund Goal
The Salvation Army opens its annual fundraising campaign with a noon luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt. The goal is 6000 in pledges, about half of last year’s total. The organization explains that funds stay local, supporting a maternity home in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids placements, with disaster relief and veteran service noted.
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Hotel Roosevelt
Salvation Army
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Red Cross
Army
33-Ounce Baby At Tampa Given Fair Chance To Survive
In Tampa Florida doctors and nurses worked to save Walter Bryant Mansell a 33 ounce infant born March 1 to Mr and Mrs I W Mansell by a hospital in blankets in an orange crate The child weighed 31 ounces at birth and was brought to the hospital Monday night with a stated fair chance of survival.
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Tampa, Fla
Tampa_ hospital
Walter Bryant Mansell
I. W. Mansell
Grace Gillespie Slain In Washington Basem ent Visit
Grace Ellen Gillespie aged 19 died from razor wounds inflicted during an apparent slaying in her Washington home basement while fetching a screwdriver to open a bucket of salted fish. Police sought James McGinnis 47 a miner to question him about the case. The mother says McGinnis accompanied them.
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Washington, Pa
Grace Ellen Gillespie
James McGinnis
Miner
McGinnis
Voliva Predicts Mussolini Will Rule World
Zion Ill AP Wilbur Glenn Voliva on his sixty sixth birthday predicted Benito Mussolini would likely become dictator of the world. The Christian Catholic church overseer and flat earth proponent urged diplomacy would avert a major European war and said Mussolini will get what he wants.
Canadian Evangelist to Conduct Revival
A series of evangelistic meetings will start at 7 30 p m Thursday at the Church of God on L avenue at Eighth street NW. The Rev Edgar L Busch of Saskatoon Canada will lead the revival with fifteen years in U S and Canadian evangelistic work. Films and slides on Biblical moral and scientific topics will be shown as part of the program.
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Church of God
L Avenue
Eighth Street NW
Edgar L. Busch
Saskatoon
Canada
Busch
United States
Well Drillers of Iowa Discuss Water Tests and Standards
Iowa well drillers at the Hotel Roosevelt session heard H R Green urge pre use water testing for purity and minerals He warned deeper wells save pipe damage costs He pressed standard well specs and speakers for young engineers plus a cooperative bulletin from Iowa State College extension to aid education and future textbooks
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Iowa
Hotel Roosevelt
H. R. Green
Green
Iowa State College Extension Department
Two Die in Polish Anti Semitic Riot at Przytyk
In Przytyk near Radom two people were killed and several injured amid anti Semitic rioting. The clashes disrupted businesses belonging to about 600 Jewish tradesmen as reported by AP.
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Warsaw
Przytyk
Radom
Dempsey Kidnaping Scare Declared Hoax
Atlantic City AP reports the Jack Dempsey family departure ending a kidnap scare labeled a hoax. The 19 month old Joan Hannah Dempsey was the alleged victim but the authorities ruled the threat noncredible.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Jack Dempsey
New York
Joan Hannah Dempsey
Roosevelt Aide Attacks Relentless Relief Criticism
In a pointed rebuke, a Roosevelt ally accuses the Liberty League and the Republican National Committee of distorting relief facts. He cites the Wilmington paint for hydrants as an example of alleged petty project criticism and defends aid to artists and writers as essential in peacetime.
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Robinson
Liberty League
Republican National Committee
Baltimore
Wilmington
Delaware
Walter W. Bacam
du Pont
National Committee
Ramsey Delivers Jones County Calf Case in Tipton Talk
Four Cedar Rapids men accompanying J H Ramsey joined him Monday in Tipton for the Tipton Chamber of Commerce monthly banquet where he presented his Jones County Calf Case. Ramsey and Fred Kluss of Cedar Rapids high schools also spoke at a Van Horne PTA meeting, highlighting speakers available to nearby communities via the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce.
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Cedar Rapids
J. H. Ramsey
Tipton
Jones County
Jail former Waterloo slot operator jailed for fraud
Zon Atwood, former Waterloo slot machine operator, began a 15 day term in county jail for defrauding a hotel of 4.10 dollars. A mittimus for 30 additional days for falsely uttering and drawing a check was ordered. Atwood linked to a gambling conspiracy trial involving Attorney General Edward L. O’Connor at Sioux City last fall.
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Waterloo
INS
Zon Atwood
Mittimus
Atwood
Edward L. O’connor
Sioux City
No Immediate War Is Belief In Washington
Washington observers say no immediate war in Europe will follow Germany’s Rhine occupation. France and Britain unlikely to wage preventive war, urging restraint while a potential League of Nations response could trigger broader conflict if sanctions escalate.
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Washington
INS
Europe
Germany
Rhineland
Great Britain
Bri
Tain
Britain
League of Nations
France
Hitler
League
Parsons admits fight in case of slain Dorothy Reedy
Ronald Parsons, 24, sobbing, signed a statement admitting a fight with Dorothy Fee Reedy on a midnight ride. Police say Reedy was attacked and mutilated. Parsons faces a murder charge with a hearing set for later. another man named Charles was cleared.
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Charleston
W. Va
Ronald Parsons
Dorothy Fee Reedy
Finley Cook
Parsons
Charles
Reedy Held After Wife's Death Linked by Boy Caddy
43 year old Reedy questioned in the death of his wife after 13 year old caddy Robert Hoffman identified him as the man seen with the slain woman in a car near a golf course. Reedy denied knowledge of the manner of her death.
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Reedy
Robert Hoffman
Center Point Hosts Dinner Honoring Two Recent Brides
Mrs. Charles A. Hendryx hosted a dinner Friday for two new brides Mrs. Darrel McPeak and Mrs. Frank C. Waldron Jr. Joined by guests including Mrs. A. L. Hendryx Mary Ellen Hendryx Celeste Stauffer Evangeline McKnight Oma Hogland Fern Ralston Frances Colyer Doris Heefner Ruth Wood Agatha Jones and Dorothy Hendryx of Center Point.
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Center Point
Charles A. Hendryx
Darrel McPeak
Frank C. Waldron, Jr
A. L. Hendryx
Mary Ellen Hendryx
Celeste Stauffer
Cedar Rapids
Evangeline McKnight
Walker
Oma Hogland
Fern Ralston
Frances Colyer
Doris Heefner
Ruth Wood
Agatha Jones
Dorothy Hendryx
Fire destroys Rossiter House at Clarkstown Country Club
Twenty two children at a private school were carried to safety by firemen after a blaze leveled Rossiter House, one of the largest structures at the Clarkstown Country Club in Upper Nyack, New York.
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Nyack, N. Y
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