Marital dispute knots Linn County court in 1936 case
Mrs. Mary Lou George Koury of Cedar Rapids faces an unsettled divorce from Mike George with a 1936 decree effective only after unpaid costs. Long inactive case was dismissed, new annullment suit filed by Tom Koury claims marriage to Mrs George at Oelwein on Sept 17. Court files and proceedings remain tangled amid missing records and disputed filings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou George-Koury
Cedar Rapids
Mike George
Linn County
Tom Koury
George
Oelwein
Koury
Gazette
E. J. Dahms
Cedar
Orney
Geere
H. C. Ring
New House
Learves
Ed Lundquist
Ringarport
Ring
Dahms
Lundquist
E. J. North
Georges
Youngstown
Ohio
Des Moines
Thousands of Italian Jews Wander Alps Seeking France Help
Paris dispatch reports thousands of Italian Jews barred by racial laws are wandering the Alps above Nice and Mentone seeking entry into France. Many trek for days in exposure and hunger. About two hundred have reached Mentone and received hospital care.
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Paris
Italy
Alps
Nice
Mentone
France
City Briefs And Personals Highlight Local Events
Community notices list a Monday Rotary luncheon at Hotel Roosevelt with Salo Ansbach of East Orange presenting magic, a Knights of Pythias class at Castle hall, and a Star of the West 1 page class. Also details tax office hours, a Cedar Rapids family illness, a Fort Des Moines deployment, and Hanford American Legion meeting with membership card entry.
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Star of the West No
Cedar Rapids
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Castle Hall
Knights of Pythias
Salo Ansbach
East Orange
N. J
Rotary Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Mr. Ansbach
Young Men’s Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Washington High School building preservation meeting announced
The volunteer civic committee for preserving the Washington high school building as a community center will meet Wednesday at 8 pm at the Chamber of Commerce building. Structural and prospective committees will report. All civic committee members are urged to attend and others interested are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington High School
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa National Guard En Campment Set At Camp Dodge
Local units of the Iowa national guard will hold their annual encampment at Camp Dodge from June 11 to 25 inclusive. Maj. Robert G. St. James, regular army instructor for the guard in Cedar Rapids, reported the details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa National Guard
Camp Dodge
Robert G. St. James
Cedar Rapids
Publishing error clarifies status of Mrs Reed’s husband
An Iowa City Gazette international brief misused the word late about Mrs. James Reed as the widow of a Missouri former senator. The correction states he is alive and the edit should reflect his current status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
University Hospital
James Reed
Kansas City
Five Defendants In Oil Case Dismissed
Five defendants in the 1936 price fixing conspiracy case against major oil companies were dismissed on government motion. Named are John A. Brown of Socony Vacuum, D W Harris of Louisiana Oil, Bernard L. Majewski of Deep Rock Oil, R G A van der Woude of Shell Union Oil, and Keith Fanshier of the Chicago Journal of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
John A. Brown
New York
Socony- Vacuum Oil Company
D. W. Harris
Shreveport
Louisiana Oil Company
Bernard L. Majewski
Chicago
Deep Rock Oil Corporation
R. G. A. van der Woude
Shell Union Oil Corporation
Keith Fanshier
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Cedar Rapids To Hold Two Day Family Relations Conference
Cedar Rapids hosts a two day conference on family relations with discussion groups and lectures. Five hundred attendees from last year return to explore topics including adjustment within families mates selection community family ideals and population. Renowned scholars Prof Ernest Burgess and Dr Paul Sayre headline lectures in the chapel Thursday and Friday morning respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Department of Sociology
Coe College
L. E. Garwood
Ernest W. Burgess
Chicago University
Paul Sayre
University of Iowa
Paintings By Pyle And Cone In Illinois Exhibit
Arnold Pyle and Marvin D. Cone, Cedar Rapids artists, are represented by watercolors at the eighteenth annual International Exhibition of Watercolors at the Art Institute in Chicago. Cone’s drawing Stone Fruit and Pyle’s watercolor Landscape are included. The exhibit continues until May 14 and was selected by an art jury.
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Arnold Pyle
Marvin D. Cone
Cedar Rapids
Art Institute In
Chicago
Mr. Cone
Mr. Pyle
Swiss detachment survives avalanche freed by artillery
Survivors of seventy six Swiss army men snowbound for a week in a Bernese Alps hut descended after artillery fired an artificial avalanche cleared a path to the valley. They brought three of four comrades killed in an earlier natural avalanche. the fourth body was not recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenk
Switzerland
Catholic Refugee Sunday Announced by Cardinal O'Connell
Cardinal O'Connell condemned Nazi persecution of Catholics and Jews in Germany and set March 19 as Catholic Refugee Sunday. While in Rome for papal coronation ceremonies he urged American Catholics to show renewed charity in a Pilot communique from Boston.
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Boston
William Cardinal O’connell
United States
Germany
Cardinal O'Connell
Rome
Pilot
Archdiocese of
State backs Pittman plan to build ships for Latin nations
Washington AP An proposal to have U S navy yards build warships for Brazil and other Latin American states won endorsement from the State Department. Acting Secretary Sumner Welles said the department supports the plan’s general aims, with Navy input and forthcoming legislation to allow foreign ship construction at U S yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Brazil
Europe
State Department
Sumner Welles
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Welles
Bee Travel Distance for Honey Questioned in Estimate
An estimate states a bee must fly about 43 799 miles to collect a single pound of honey. The figure reflects the extensive foraging range of worker bees and highlights the energy involved in honey production.
Junior High Girls Stage First Annual Play Day
Fifteen girls from each of Cedar Rapids four junior high schools gathered at Wilson high for the first junior high play day. Miss Opal Dee Porter led with Wilson junior high G A A members assisting. Teams Kites Sailboats Showmen and r eceived ribbons for volleyball soccer baseball hopscotch free throw relay and bean bag throw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Wilson High School
Opal Dee Porter
Wilson
Wilson Girls Athletic Association
G.A.A
Kites
Arleen Dvorak
Jacqueline Bachman
Jean Morris
Jane Watson
Betty Jane Sedenka
Ardith Ebsen
Natalie Kent
Madeline
Wilson G.A.A
Georgia Merrifield
Bessie Livingood
Mary Ann Pavlicek
Mary Jane Melsa
Maxine Woods
Betty Rollins
Wilson G. A. A
Federal Judge declines jurisdiction in Chicago guild strike
CHICAGO UP Federal Judge Michael L Igoe refused to take jurisdiction in a dispute over a strike by the Chicago Newspaper Guild against the Chicago Evening American and Herald and Examiner The union sought to dissolve a superior court injunction against mass picketing scheduled for Monday and negotiations to settle continued.
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Chicago
Chicago Newspaper Guild
Chicago Evening American
Morning Herald and Examiner
Monay
Michael L. Igoe
Guild
Superior Court
Labor Parleys At Old Failure Point In New York
Organized labor resumes peace talks at the same turning point as 1937. AFL offers concessions to industrial unionism in mass production, with CIO agreeing to discuss. Talks suspended until Monday, aim to settle jurisdiction and admission rules before broader industrial organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
AFL
CIO
CIO Plans and Southern Tenant Farmers Union Split
CIO sources say their plan to merge with AFL opponents remains under consideration and will be discussed Monday along with the AFL proposal. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union with 35 000 members voted to withdraw from the CIO in five southern states amid charges against Donald Henderson of communist influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
AFL
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
J. R. Butler
H. L. Mitchell
Donald Henderson
United Cannery, Agricultural Pacing and Allied Workers’ Union
Tenant Farmers Union
STFU
Giant Wadlow Lawyers Seek New Trial in Damages Suit
In St Joseph Missouri attorneys for Robert Wadlow the 8 foot 8 inch Alton giant said they will file a motion for a new trial in a $100000 damage suit against Dr Charles Humboldt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph, Mo
Robert Wadlow
Alton, III
Giant
Charles Humberd
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Bungalow Cooking School
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Sohol Hall
E. J. Whitmer
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Cherry
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Patrick Taggart
G. J. Bondurant
State Income Tax Division
Mr. Bondurant
Richard A. Carpenter
Carl R. Carpenter
Thirty-fourth Street
Fort Des Moines
80Th Field Artilery
August Miller
Federal
Thomas A. Evans
Delbert R. Speth
Rewey
J. Miller
Hanford
American Legion
Memorial Building
Washington High Committee
Reed
Pontiac Ceneral Motors
Pontiac
Mich. S
Pyle
Cone
Tse du
Dept. of State
Waddle
Betty Kutchera
Audrey Pickerell
Margery Kosina
Mary Ann Suma
Barbara Nix
Elaine Dill
Helen Travnicek
Joan Grissel
Joy May
Katherine Barngrover
Dorothy Pollock
Iane Thompson
Pauline Groesgen
Gladys Barnes
Edith Misar
Jane Zadnisek
Helen Tefr
Julianna Freund
Ethel Linkletter
Vivian Wilson
Jane Kohl
Martha Lou Smith
Hickory
Miss Isabella Carr
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Modernet
Luralace Foundation
Junor
Luralace
Princess Chic
Chic
Duranet Foundation
Duranet
Lastex
Camp Fire
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Congress of Industrial Organizations Peace Committees
AFL, Cio and
Independent Railroad
American Congress of Labor
Giant's
ANI
Isabella Carr
Hickory Foundation
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