Cedar Rapids Chamber Presses Forward Cedar Rapids Plan
A. L. Killian of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce urged cooperation at the Real Estate board luncheon to advance the Forward Cedar Rapids campaign. He called for unified effort, fundraising, and proactive leadership to attract new business and support existing firms. New firms come from past community building, he said, and progress requires bold vision and action.
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A. L. Killian
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board
Montrose
Cedar Rapids
Killian
Rev R J MacDanel Chosen Pastor Of Spirit Lake Church
The Rev. Robert J. MacDanel, son of Mr and Mrs R E Mac Danel of 118 Eighteenth Street NE and former pastor at Clarence Presbyterian church, has been named pastor of Spirit Lake Presbyterian church. He graduated from Coe College in 1930 and the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1934, and was ordained in June 1934 at Central Park Presbyterian church.
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Robert J. MacDanel
R. E. MacDanel
Eighteenth Street
Presbyterian Church
Clarence
Spirit Lake Presbyterian Church
Mr. MacDanel
Coe College
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Central Park Presbyterian Church
Charles Hunt Reviews Three Rings at Rotary Luncheon
Charles Hunt, grand secretary of Iowa Masons, reviewed Lessing's Three Rings at a Rotary lunch, illustrating the Rotary motto Service Above Self. The tale follows a father who splits a priceless ring into three, prompting a judge and a sultan to weigh faith, family, and friendship, ending with a call for wisdom beyond wealth. Vernon Guttenfelder opened with a piano solo.
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Nathan
Vernon Guttenfelder
Franklin School
Shaw Urges Honesty And Frugality In Government
Robert Shaw of Sigourney, candidate for the Republican nomination as attorney general of Iowa, told the Republican club in the Montrose hotel that honesty and frugality in government and unrestricted business expansion are key. He attacked New Deal policies, urged lifting restrictions, and criticized food production limits while hunger persisted. the program closed with a musical satire by Dave Turner.
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United States
Robert Shaw
Sigourney
Iowa
Republican Club
Montrose Hotel
Shaw
Dave Turner
Life Underwriters Of Iowa State Convention Slated
The Iowa Association of Life Underwriters will hold its annual convention in Cedar Rapids May 22 and 23 with about 500 attendees. Hotel Roosevelt serves as headquarters, as arrangements were finalized in Des Moines by Martin Selzer and William S. Catlow.
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Life Underwriters of
Iowa
Iowa Association of Life Underwriters
Cedar Rapids
William S. Catlow
Hotel Roosevelt
Des Moines
Martin Selzer
Auto And Accessories Reported Stolen
L G Vogel reports a 1931 Chevrolet roadster stolen from 721 Third avenue SE. Harry Gardner says radiator cap and cigar lighter were taken from a car at First avenue and Eighth street E. Bettie May Lavar cites a radio and clothing worth 42 dollars and a 500 dollar diamond ring taken from her room. detectives dropped the case after she declined charges. Mrs Lane reports a package with 8 dollars worth of women's clothing stolen from her car in the business district.
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L. G. Vogel
Third Avenue SE
Harry Gardner
Magnus
First Avenue
Eighth Street
Bettie May Lavar
B Avenue NE
Three-Year-Old Boy Survives Dust Storm Ordeal
Three-year-old Steve Benson wandered from his parents Sunday and spent the night in a ferocious dust storm. More than 500 searchers converged on the Two Buttes area before he safely appeared at a farm house six miles from his disappearance. He was in good condition after exposure to near freezing temperatures and dust. he was hospitalized in Lamar.
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Two Buttes
Colo
Steve Benson
Dewey Fetters
Lamar
Colorado
Fetters
E. W. Benson
Destitute Mother Tries To Give Two Little Girls Away
In San Francisco AP report, Linda Jones 22, a destitute mother who had separated from her husband seeks strangers to adopt her two daughters. She explains poverty, hunger, and a dark basement threat driven her actions. Kathleen Elder, a neighbor, sought foster parents and the incident emerged when a passerby noted a woman offering a baby in a park.
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San Francisco
Linda Jones
Einar Simonsen
Tobacco and Cotton Exports Proportion in U S
About 39 percent of tobacco and 44 percent of cotton grown in the United States are exported, highlighting a strong export orientation in these crops and the nation’s agriculture sector.
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United States
City Briefs Cover Local News At A Glance
Miss Lillian Carney returns home from Mercy hospital after a three week stay. Robert Simpson punished for reckless driving with $5 fine and costs by Justice Reed. highway patrolman Rhoades made the arrest. A roof fire at R O Bodell home on Mount Vernon avenue SE and a grass fire at B avenue and Twentieth street NE both drew fire crews. Iver Neilsen, 29, of 1128 Brown avenue SW, treated at St Luke's hospital for a fractured right foot after his motorcycle fell on it. he left hospital afterward.
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Robert Simpson
Justice A. S. Reed
Kermit Rhoades
R. O. Bodell
Mount Vernon Avenue
B Avenue
Twentieth Street
Iver Neilsen
Brown Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
The Stones Cry Out Stereopticon Lecture
A stereopticon lecture on archaeology titled The Stones Cry Out will be presented at 7 45 this evening at Trinity Lutheran church located at First avenue and Fourteenth streets An offering will be collected during the event.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
First Avenue
Fourteenth Streets
Poets to be Discussed at Cedar Rapids Negro Institute
The weekly session at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Room 200 McKinley High School will study poems by Dunbar Hughes McKay Alexander and War ing Cuney. Attendees receive notebook reference sheets on the progress of the Negro race. Sponsored by the Y M C A with a committee headed by Arthur Taylor.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Lewis Alexander
Waring Cuney
Cedar Rapids Negro Institute
McKinley High School
Arthur Taylor
Floods Recede Across New England and Atlantic States
Flood waters that surged over river banks for four days in New England and the middle Atlantic states receded by Monday. The disaster claimed at least twenty eight lives and left Massachusetts highways damaged by about one million dollars according to George H. Delano, chief engineer of the state public works department.
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New England
Middle Atlantic
Canada
George H. Delano
Massachusetts Department of Public Works
Seventeen Station Insull Radio Chain Planned
Samuel Insull announced final plans for a 17 station midwestern radio chain with start between April 15 and May 1. Stations listed include WRJM Racine WCLO Janesville WHBY Green Bay WOMT Manitowoc KFIZ Fond du Lac WHBL Sheboygan WDGY Minneapolis WCLS Joliet WJBL Decatur WTAX Springfield WHBF Rock Island WIL St Louis WWAW Hammond WTRC Elkhart WLBC Muncie WBOW Terre Haute WEOA Evansville.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
WRJM
Racine
WCLO
Janesville
WHBY
Green Bay
WOMT
Manitowoc
KFIZ
Fond du Lac
WHBL
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
WDGY
Minneapolis
WCLS
Joliet
WJBL
Decatur
WTAX
Springfield
WHBF
Rock Island
Illinois
WIL
St. Louis
WWAW
Hammond
WTRC
Elkhart
WLBC
Muncie
WBOW
Terre Haute
WEOA
Evansville
Indiana
Suspect Caught On Indian Reservation Not William Mahan
Reports that a suspect in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping was arrested at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation stirred brief interest. Officials later announced the man was not William Mahan. he gave the name Harry Hosten, was questioned and released after fingerprinting.
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Pine Ridge
S. D
George Weyerhaeuser
Department of Justice
William Mahan
Mahan
P. H. Jennings
Werner Hanni
Aberdeen
Jennings
Harry Hosten
Hanni
Mule causes wreck. magistrate awards damages
Flashes of Life from Gaffney reporting Frank McCluney's mule bolted from its stable and charged Henry Lemaster's car. The collision damaged the automobile and a magistrate's court awarded Lemaster $70.96 in damages.
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Gaffney
S. C
Frank McCluney
Henry Lemaster
Lemaster
Judge Conducts Sunrise Wedding in Bennettsville Home
Probate Judge Julian G. McLaurin married a nervous couple at his Bennettsville home in a sunrise ceremony. The groom paid the judge with cash tucked in an old stocking, including one dime forty nickels and 290 pennies.
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Bennettville
N. C
Julian G. McLaurin
Store owner says welfare office closing ends sales
D C Odom of Raeford North Carolina states he can see the welfare office from his shop and will close when it stops giving away aid. He notes that once the office closes late in the day there is nothing left to sell and he will shut up shop.
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Raeford
N. C
D. C. Odom
Coronado sword inscribed with honor and restraint
In Topeka a museum sword once carried by a Coronado captain bears a Spanish inscription to not unsheathe without cause and not sheath without honor. A Mexican boy translating the lines quipped that one side reads do not take me out unless they jump on you and the other do not put me back until you beat them.
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Topeka
Kan
Coronado
Man injured by falling limb while bystander helps
In Oklahoma City a man named Foote sustained leg and hip injuries after a tree branch fell on him when a passerby Carl Foote paused to assist workers cutting the branch. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Oklahoma City
Foote
Carl Foote
Cagney Wins Suit Over Film Contract
Jimmy Cagney won a suit to cancel a $4 000 weekly contract with Warner Brothers. Superior Judge Charles L Bogue ruled the studio violated the contract by failing to give Cagney star billing in his pictures.
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Los Angeles
INS
Jimmy Cagney
Warner Brothers
Motion Picture Studios
Charles L. Bogue
Cagney
DeMolays Observe Obligatory Sunday in Cedar Rapids
More than seventy DeMolays and the advisory board of Cedar Rapids chapter No. 10 attended morning services at First Evangelical church in a body. Rev. George A. Stauffacher spoke on Names. James Ratlston sang solo with Mrs. Weston D. Ratlston accompanying. George Stone gave prayer.
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Cedar Rapids
Order of DeMolay
First Evangelical Church
George A. Stauffacher
James Ralston
Weston D. Ralston
George Stone
Yeggs Net Nearly $400 In Spirit Lake Theater Raid
Spirit Lake patrols search for the same gang suspected in a January 13 county treasurer’s office break. The New Royal theater safe was blown Sunday night, taking Saturday and Sunday receipts totaling about $400. Thieves entered the projection room to access the loot.
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Spirit Lake
SNS
Yeggs
New Royal Theater
Bonds Declared Fraudulent In Iowa-Wisconsin Bridge Case
Judge J W Kindig ruled that 172875 dollars of Iowa Wisconsin Bridge Co bonds held by John A Thomson Phoenix Finance System were fraudulently procured and invalid The decision was filed Monday and the case was heard in federal court in Des Moines and Mason City Iowa Wisconsin Bridge Co was involved with Thomson as holder.
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Mason City
J. W. Kindig
Iowa-Wisconsin Bridge Company
John A. Thomson
Phoenix Finance System, Inc
Des Moines
St. Petersburg
Fla
Penetro Cold Salve Promises Fast Relief
Penetro claims deep seated cold symptoms such as congestion and body aches fade quickly with its mutton suet based medicated salve. The advertising notes higher medication content than rivals and promotes nasal relief after applying to nose throat chest and back with various size options and trial offer.
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Penetro
Franklin Benesh Sentenced for False Check Charge
Franklin Benesh, 23, received a one year county jail term from District Court Judge A B Clark for false uttering of a check. On state recommendation he may be released during good behavior after six months served. He allegedly gave a bad $28.77 check at Louie’s clothing shop on Feb 29. The defendant withdrew a not guilty plea and pled guilty.
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Franklin Benesh
A. B. Clark
Benesh
Louie
Kohl denies guilt in gas system regulation case
Otto A. Kohl of 127 Thirty Fifth Street NE pled not guilty in district court before Judge A B Clark after indictment by the March term grand jury for alleged failure to comply with state regulations on installation and maintenance of compressed gas systems. State Fire Marshal J W Pyle and Deputy A Lubberden reported that a gas tank and regulator had been found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto A. Kohl
Thirtyfifth Street
A. B. Clark
J. W. Pyle
A. Lubberden
Equipment installation questioned in Cedar Rapids basement
A Cedar Rapids residence basement was reported to house equipment allegedly not specially constructed to comply with state law, stirring scrutiny of building and safety standards.
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Cedar Rapids
Essex man held on suspicion after county arrest
Ervin Scott, 32, of Essex, was lodged in the county jail for investigation at 2 p.m. Sunday by Sheriff James H. Smith and Deputy Sheriffs Larry Condon and Dick Payn. Officers believe Scott may be wanted elsewhere and complete fingerprint and identification records were taken.
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Ervin Scott
Essex
James H. Smith
Larry Condon
Dick Payn
Scott
Levin seeks $5,000 in district court damages
Charles Levin files a district court action against William P. Goldman and Bros., Inc. of New York City seeking five thousand dollars for alleged wrongful termination under a sales representative employment agreement dated November 15, 1935, claimed breached February 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Levin
William P. Goldman and Bros., Inc
New York City
Levin
Ins. Suit To Jury Involving Swanson Estate
Judge A B Clark consigns a 536.67 suit of Edward Swanson as administrator of the Elizabeth A estate. Proceedings involve an insurance action and the administrator’s role in settling claims. Details remain sparse in the fragmentary report.
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A. B. Clark
Edward Swanson
Elizabeth A
Swanson Estate Vexes Prudential Insurance Trial Starts
In district court a jury weighs a $500 life policy claim on Elizabeth A. Swanson who died Jan 8 1934. Swanson estate argues policy valid while defense says policy void due to insureds health.
A Nod for Brunettes in Garden of Allah Casting
Hollywood reports the Garden of Allah film colony seeks 300 Arab look alike actors who can speak Arabic. The casting bureau, focused on blondes, found only 80 genuine Arabs among 17,000 extras on file.
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Hollywood
Garden of Allah
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