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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1935
Page
15
British and Chinese forces coordinate to curb piracy by marauding junks along the southern Chinese coast. Radio protection lines monitor pirate movement while land troops press the shoreward drive to force pirates ashore for capture or destruction.
Jerry and Her Baby Grands head the Iowa vaudeville bill with Gold Diggers of 1935 as the screen feature. Starring Busby Berkeley and an ensemble of 300 dancers the show blends romance comedy and musical spectacle with four additional acts and a star praise for lavish numbers.
Paramount features Anna Sten and Fredric March in We Live Again with Charles Bickford and Helen Vinson in A Notorious Gentleman. Iowa presents Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night and Anne MacMahon with Guy Kibbee in While the Patient Slept. Greta Garbo and George Brent star in The Painted Veil. George M. Cohan and Wynne Gibson in Gambling. Palace showcases Henrietta Crosman in The Curtain Falls and Sim Sum merville with Andy Devine in Horse Play. Rialto screens As the Earth Turns with Jean Muir and Donald Woods. Two Gun Man with Ken Maynard and Olympic offers The Westerner with Tim McCoy and Marion Shilling, Born to Be Bad with Loretta Young and Cary Grant.
Eddie Cantor stars in Kid Millions a fifth annual screen musical extravaganza from Samuel Goldwyn. He is a Brooklyn waterfront boy who becomes heir to buried treasure in the land of the Pyramids. The feature opens a double bill with Father Brown Detective starring Walter Connolly Paul Tunas and Gertrude Michael Ann Sothern Ethel Merman Black and Sully George Murphy and Goldwyn girls along the Nile.
Preparations resume preliminary studies for a 32 kilometer tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar linking Europe and Africa. The route chosen favors rock conditions, with Punta Pena Spain and Punta Altars Morocco as ends. The design includes two train capable galleries and a drainage tunnel in solid concrete, aimed to resist high pressure. exploration seeks to assess fault risks in overlying strata.
Cleveland Cleveland Indians manager Walter Johnson has received a new Irish terrier from Charles A Otis president of the Irish Terrier club of Ohio and breeder Thomas F Bolton. He asked fans to suggest a name for the dog and they obliged with many options.
A Rialto presentation features As The Earth Turns as Friday and Saturday’s headline. Jean Muir and Donald Woods lead a farm life drama with strong supporting cast Russell Hardie Emily Lowry George Billings Martyn Knolden Joyce Gray. The bill also includes Two Gun Man with Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan, a Cats and the Fiddle comedy, and the serial Rustlers of Red Dog with Vabhay Mack Brown.
A UT bureau report notes 24 Texas business failures in January, down 7.7 percent from January 1934 but up 14.3 percent from December, indicating a modest month to month rise despite a year over year decline.
Lulu Belle, real name Myrtle Cooper, headlines the WLS Barn Dance at Memorial Coliseum next Tuesday under Midwest Union of All Packing House Workers Local No 1. Born in North Carolina and raised in Kentucky, she captivates radio listeners with mountain songs, yodeling, and a natural flair for hillbilly entertainment.
Will Rogers stars as a country editor in Life Begins at 40 opening Saturday at the Paramount as the first half of a double feature. Rochelle Hudson and Richard Cromwell play a tangled romance while Rogers stirs mischief with humor and a dog calling army.
Keen of wit and quick to seize every chance, she keeps audiences and coworkers laughing. Reserved seats for the show may be obtained by calling 29242 or at Lyman's smoke shop.
Baytown Texas. Cyril Ptacek, a longtime naturalist and Cham ber of Commerce and volunteer fire department member, tends pigeons and other animals. He says male pigeons remain true to mates and take shifts on eggs with the male from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Vincent Montessi aged 63 was declared clinically dead for seven minutes during a George Washington Hospital operation. Dr Frederick Reuter massaged his heart to restart circulation and the patient later awoke without memory of the event or details beyond falling asleep under anesthesia.
Glynn Darnell age 13 joins his three older brothers in aviation. Parents Mr and Mrs R W Darnell of Little Rock assist him in choosing academic training. Gordon Darnell flew mail from Kansas City. Cecil Darnell served in the US Air Corps and studies at Little Rock Junior College. Willis Darnell completed a flying course at the Army Air School in San Antonio.
In Mena Arkansas a state legislative inquiry found nearly every political group at Commonwealth College labor school including Republicans independents farm laborites progressives socialists communists nazis and fascists while Lucien Koch 27 head of the school has never voted.
Gov. E. W. Marland promotes the Oklahoma New Deal to reform the economy and social programs. Despite a large electoral mandate, a Republican minority and a red haired Speaker Leon Phillips lead a House that balks at key measures including an oil production tax hike and funding for new boards. The Senate backs some reforms but stalls on funds and broader programs.
Friends of Ham Willard joined a fall search in Falls City Nebraska for a buckskin glove from a pair worn 25 years ago by Willard.
Vienna reports Julia Wagner-Jauregg, daughter of Nobel laureate Prof. Wagner Jauregg, has completed four Sahara and Hoggar expeditions and collected items for the Vienna Natural History Museum. She plans to proceed to Indo China with her husband following.
A Pueblo Colorado newcomers club was organized with chamber of commerce sponsorship. Active members must have lived in Pueblo under twelve months. Monthly meetings will help newcomers learn about the city and connect with each other.
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