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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1939
Page
2
Fragmentary data lists several prices and numbers across entries including 003.25 and 5.70 3.00 1.10. References to MARION appear with 4.30 and 2.25. No coherent event or人物 identified. content appears to be a partial price ledger or catalog snippet.
The piece criticizes Britain and France for shunning action over Czechoslovakia and argues the United States should not be drawn into collective security unless dictators threaten directly. It urges readiness to respond if dictators step on American interests, warning against naïve intervention.
The AP reports Prof Einstein proposes a unified field theory linking gravitation magnetism and matter under one mathematical concept though details remain sparse. The piece notes the theory has evolved over years and speculates on the daily workings of the famed physicist and his analytical methods.
A collage of opinions on Chamberlain's Munich decision, Hitler threat, and fallen defenses across Europe. The writer argues for swift democratic awakenings, critiques pacifism, and contrasts Britain's and England's preparations with Germany's prowess while touching on domestic issues and absurdities of contemporary politics.
The passage questions how great thinkers like Einstein arrive at conclusions rather than what they conclude. It suggests reporters miss the method behind insights and hints at a human interest angle about the thinker’s daily process and environment.
The town is urged to support a booster ticket campaign to sustain league baseball as a community asset. It stresses that even nonfans value clean entertainment for teens, a local attraction for the trade area, and Cedar Rapids' image as a live, socially minded city, with each dollar tied to a ball game.
Charles Driscoll recalls Harold De Becker and family notes from The Lambs, while Bruce Evans works on a biography of John Noble and reflects on the painter’s genius and excess. A near-ghostly 332 West Forty Fourth Street scene and a Rockefeller Plaza puppy sale interrupt midtown life as a coal truck crashes through a plank roadway on Sixth Avenue at Forty eighth Street.
A six hundred strong crowd gathered along curbs to watch a subway collapse repair. Police controlled the scene while a traveling crane hoisted the damaged truck back to the intact roadway. Workmen prepared to replace broken planks and continue traffic.
The Washington high school pupils performed The Vagabonds at the Benjamin Franklin auditorium with Frances Norton Robert Chapman Melvin Swanson John Metcalf Nevin Nichols David Elderkin John Hockaday Lois McBroom Rosemary Roth Virginia Hageman Donald Grout Marjorie Voigt Miles Sutera and Howard Sams in the cast. The play will be repeated tomorrow. Leo Novak former Washington coach and now head coach at West Point has been named a captain in the army reserve corps. Mr and Mrs A L Haldeman returned from Florida. Joseph Kitchin Miss Grace Meloney and William Vesely left for Washington Ia to judge a sub district contest.
W. O. Reed of Cedar Falls, a former banker and state bank examiner, has been elected cashier of the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank succeeding W. J. Elliott who has moved to Philadelphia. Arthur Hurtt is named as the third member of the permanent arbitration board under the Cedar Rapids adjustment plan for labor disputes. other members include Cy- and additional names.
Renus Cole and Judge Frank F. Dawley are noted. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mitten relocate to Charles City to establish a new home. New Cedar Rapids residents include Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fay Coggan Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Brooks Mount Vernon and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ellenberger Lone Tree.
Louis W. Holloway a North Western switch man injured a foot while making a coupling near Qua ker Oats mills. W L Crissman leaves for Cheyenne Wells Colo. Workmen uncover a moulding block with a dated note from Amos Leonard a carpenter aged forty two in 1873 describing family and home details.
Kentucky and West Virginia claim complete jurisdiction along the Ohio river from their shores to the low water mark on Ohio Indiana and Illinois banks. Normally river centers mark state boundaries between states separated by a river.
In Holland Vermont Mrs Basil Whittier kept an orphaned fledgling robin in a cage after finding it last summer. The bird stayed indoors as birds left for warmer weather, refusing to leave its cage and calmly observing the snow covered hills while subsisting mainly on raisins.
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