On Broadway with Walter Winchell profile of a sheltered starlet
A long narrative portrait of a New York society girl, detailing her views on marriage, style, and fame. The piece notes her skepticism of movie mags, preference for mass, charity, and theater etiquette, and her guarded, principled image amid Broadway circles. It cites her routines, tastes, and social quirks with numerous named references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lucius Beebe
Madison Square Garden
Stand By Order to British Yachtmen
The admiralty asked river and tidewater craft sailors including yachtsmen to hold themselves in readiness for up to six months with tours of duty up to four weeks, as Britain prepares for potential invasion. The call extends to those with motor and steam boat experience, aiming to use their services for Royal Navy operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Yachtmen’s Navy
Britain
Dunkerque
Admiralty
Royal Navy
Louis Armstrong Heads to Danceland Ballroom Cedar Rapids
Louis Armstrong and his orchestra visit Danceland ballroom in Cedar Rapids for a one night engagement on Thursday. The trumpet king of swing leads a full band featuring Velma Middleton and Joe Garland with a $1500 trumpet. The ensemble has appeared in movies on stage and radio with Bing Crosby Jack Benny and Dick Powell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Armstrong
Cedar Rapids
Armstrong
Velma Middleton
Joe Garland
Bing Crosby
Jack Benny
Dick Powell
Clark Silver Star Awarded for Sinking Eleven Vessels
Lt Comdr James S Clark of Cedar Rapids received the Silver Star for outstanding leadership that aided the destruction of 11 hostile ships and damage to another. He served as torpedo and gunnery officer on a Pacific submarine with four patrols and twice voyaged to Corregidor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comdr
James S Clark
Cedar Rapids
Navy
Hawaii
Comdr. Clark
Atherton Clark
Clark
Palo Alto
Calif
Corregidor
Pacific
Toddville Man Injured When Car Skids Off Viaduct
Wilbur Eldred, 41, of Toddville, was treated for a head cut and body bruises after his car skidded on icy pavement on a viaduct over Milwaukee tracks near Louisa four miles north of Cedar Rapids on highway 150. He said he lost control, went through the guard rail, and down the embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Eldred
Toddville
Louisa
Cedar Rapids
Eldred
Sheriff's Office
Iowa Manufacturing Seeks New Loading Outlet Solution
The Iowa Manufacturing company asked the city council for permission to remove curb and repave parking on IT avenue NE from Seventeenth street to the alley to gain a better loading outlet. The request was referred to the city engineer and the police traffic department for recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa Manufacturing Company
Seventeenth Street
Police Traffic Department
Wallace Defends Minority Groups Speech in Boston
Vice-president Wallace spoke at a Greek Independence Day gathering in Boston saying no man should fear being a minority and that everyone has a right to earn a living and live in good surroundings. He warned of demagogues akin to those who inflamed Germans against minorities.
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Boston
Wallace
Germany
Yorkshire Miners End Coal Walkout
London AP reports sixty thousand Yorkshire coal miners ratified a wage agreement with the fuel ministry and mine owners, ending the walkout and returning to pits. However twenty five thousand miners remained away from pits in the Doncaster area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Yorkshire
Fuel Ministry
Doncaster
Freeman Family News from Wartime Letters and Transfers
Mr and Mrs E L Freeman of 854 Seventh Street report their son Pfc Kenneth Freeman and cousin Pfc Robert Burk of Cedar Rapids met in England after being assigned to the same barracks Tech Sgt Lloyd Freeman enrolled in a tank mechanics course at Fort Knox Kentucky and Virgil Freeman apprentice seaman transferred from Camp Dodge to Farragut Iowa
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Freeman
Seventh Street
Pfc
Kenneth Freeman
Robert Burk
Cedar Rapids
England
Lloyd V. Freeman
Fort Knox
Virgil Freeman
Camp Dodge
Farragut
Community notices and enlistment era updates in Cedar Rapids
Local items include Red Cross sewing room hours and need for workers, hospital patient updates, garden club meeting and seed exchange, livestock for sale and trade, Midweek Lenten services, consumer ads, and multiple family visits and military assignments among Cedar Rapids residents.
Weekend Guests At Mahaska Hospital Ties
Miss Helen Hamm stayed with Mary Doris Russell a nurse at Mahaska hospital in Oskaloosa. Merce Stanley of Grinnell, soon to join the navy nurse corps at Great Lakes, also visited. They were classmates at St Luke's training school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Hamm
Mary Doris Russell
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
Merce Stanley
Grinnell
Navy Nurses' Corps
Great Lakes
St. Luke's Training School
Local notices list speakers and personnel changes
Dr. James Pirie Cedar Rapids veterinarian will speak Tuesday at 6 15 PM at the Lions club dinner meeting. The club will send a boy to Hawkeye Boys State at Grinnell in June. Cpl John Knapp Jr transferred from Camp Swift Texas to New York and Capt James W Putnam of Chicago will leave for foreign service after visiting his aunt Mrs J W Bowman here.
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James Pirie
Cedar Rapids
Lions Club
Hawkeye Boys State
Grinnell
Cpl
John Knapp, Jr
Camp Swift
Texas
New York
James W. Putnam
Chicago
Foreign Service
J. W. Bowman
Waverly Captains Gift Ball After Auction Surprise
Bill Fletcher of the Thunderbolts presented the game ball to Waverly after Linn county’s bid fell short. Fletcher praised the Waverly squad as clean and deserving, then handed the ball to star guard Jim Strotman as five captains stepped forward. Shuttleworth and Fletcher spoke of pride in the Waverly team and their uplifting comeback.
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Bill Fletcher
Thunderbolts
Shuttleworth
Fletcher
Waverly
Brayton
Jim Strotman
Howard Jones
Iowa
Bill
Franklin Cage
Notice of Appointment Administrastirator of Linn County Town
Notice is hereby given that on the 25th day of March 1944 an administrator has been appointed to manage and settle the estate of David Clark late of Linn County Town ceased. All persons indebted to said estate must pay promptly and those with claims must file them authenticated with Lee Clerk of Linn County District 1. Merchants National Bank Cedar Rapids is named as administrator. Donnelly Lynch Anderson & Lynch Attorneys.
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Linn County
David & Clark
Lee
Iowa
Twenty two Linn men enter service in three groups
Twenty two men from Linn County boards enter the armed forces Sunday and Monday. Nine from board No. 1 travel to Camp Dodge, ten go to Des Moines for Navy service, and three from board No. 3 report for Navy duty. Names and addresses of all volunteers are listed.
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Cedar Rapids
Armed Forces
Linn County Board No. 1
Camp Dotge
Leo DeVerne Porter
Center Point Road
Anton Lorenz Naso, Jr
Seventh Avenue
Jerome Joseph Navratil
George Michael Jandl
Fifth Street
Lloyd Hewitt Redfern
First Street
Leland Richard Strait
Zika Avenue
Roger Paul Robertson
Fifth Avenue
James Herbert Pickford
Upland Drive
Wayne Arthur Campbell
First Avenue
Des Moines
Navy
John Miller Stearns
Park Avenue
Lawrence Raymond McBurney
H Avenue
Louis Joseph Balik
Sixth Street
Donald Aloysius Taylor
Seventeenth Street
Ilo Clell Kriese
Delta
Robert George Chadim
C Street
Raymond John Meyer
Thirty-third Street
Howard Cecil Johnson
Sixteenth Street
Howard William Custer
Fourth Avenue
Louis Harald Wickham
Seventh Street
Linn County Board No. 3
Charles Albert Truve
Eighth Avenue
Marion
James Leo Davin
Leonard Leo Snenicka
Courthouse Youth Receives Suspended Sentence for Forged Check
Francis Candler 25 of a local hotel address pleaded guilty to uttering a forged instrument in Judge G K Thompsons court. He received a suspended sentence up to 10 years in the Anamosa state reformatory with a $4000 appeal bond. Candler allegedly forged a check on I Bert Cardler and cashed it at First Avenue tavern for 30 in goods and cash. Deputies Snyder and Radebaugh arrested him on March 18.
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Francis Candler
State Men’s Reformatory
Anamosa
G. K
Harlan Snyder
Roy Radebaugh
Society forms to establish Czech school in Cedar Rapids
Articles filed in County Recorder Dempsy Jones office announce the Damsky Sbor Matice Skolske a Czech school society. It aims to establish support and maintain a Czech school in Cedar Rapids teaching branches of study to preserve language and culture for American Czech children with Pearl Trusty as president Anna Bohac as vice president and Marie Machovsky as recording and financial officer.
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Dempsy Jones
Damsky Sbor Matice Skolske
Cedar Rapids
Pearl Trusty
Anna Bohac
Marie Machovsky
Local Board Names Officers And Trustees In Session
Anna Paidar appointed secretary with Pavla Hromadka and Zdenka Rompotl serving as trustees while Pavla Hromadka and Zdenka Rompotl share treasurer duties in the meeting record.
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Anna Paidar
Pavla Hromadka
Zdenka Rompotl
Linn 2nd in State for Homestead Tax Credit Total
Linn county has received 300 624 89 from the state tax commission for the first half of 1943 homestead credits. The county ranks second in the state with a total valuation of property on which credits are allowed at 24 697 766. Polk county led with 650 494 64. Merchants National Bank named administrator for the estate of David E. Clark who died March 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
State Tax Commission
Frank F. Bates
Iowa
Polk County
Merchants National Bank
David E. Clark
AFL CIO Accord on Building Trades Signed
New York AP reports an accord creating a joint AFL and CIO committee to settle jurisdictional disputes in the building trades industry. The agreement was signed Sunday by officials from both labor organizations.
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New York
AFL and
CIO
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Harlem
Tommy Manville
Stork Club
Dixie Tighe
Macoco
el Morocco
Europe
Dwight Fiske
George Abbot
Coney Island
Tony’s
Dan & Bradstreet
2Nd Ave
Joan Crawford
Oscar ‘Levant
Brenda Frazier
Ernest Hemingway
Aroyan
Stein
Dali
Toscanini
Kostelanetz
Clive
India
Buck
Sheila Barrett
Harold Bell Wright
Peter Arno
Emily Post
Dorothy Parker
Miss Parker
Vicks di
the Gazette
Paramount
The
Shuberts
Palace
Dr. Gillespie
ETA Es Bauer & Black
Kendall Company
Danceland Ballroom
E Iowa Manufacturing
David Bruce
Grace McDonald
Saarch
Red Cross Production
Red Cross
Louis C. Ross
Frank Ozburn
Tenth Street
St. Luke's Hospital
North Marion
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Carl S. Krog
Mennen
Owen
Eugene Newlin
Barbara
Pvt. Newlin
Mrs
Fred C. Newlin
Sorosis Club
Miss Nevah
Commonwealth Apartments
T M Holland
Nettie Stobaugh
W S. Winter
Don Herron
Marquette
Mary Taylor Kyle
Silver City
Perron
John Gibney
John Gibney, Jr
Seaman
Naval Hospital At
Charleston, S. C
Gleaners Division
Methodist
Elmer Seevel
A. J. Kline
H . Klines
E E. Kline
Ruth
Clinton
Neal de Wees
Camp McCoy, Wis
L. B de Wees
Philip de Wees
Frank B Travis
Marysville
Travis
Camp Beale
Louisiana
Maneuvers
H. F. Lambertsen
George A. Kindler
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Charles Logan
Vernon Blietz
Columbia, SC
H. M. Howe
Patty Howe
Chicago University
Howard Howe
Alfred Voss
Sioux Falls
S. D
J. W. Frazee
W. C. Dubbs
Carroll
Hayward
Star-Oright
Loader
Parade
Columbia
Charles Coburn
Marguerite Chapman
Pirie
Town
Donnelly Lynch
Anderson & Lynch
Thomas Mitchell
Jasper
Paia d
Sreresiese Picture Inodustryg
Cooee Ee
Franz Aarne
Pat O’brien
Ruth Warrick
Iron Major
Elyse Knox
Donald Woods
Linn
Gajette
Gazette Company
3Rd Ave
Associated Press
United Press International News Service
Total News
Rusta
Allen-Klapp Company
Michigan Avenue
New Center
Detroit
Em Ee Sy
Media Records
A.N.P.A
Peet Og
Senshi Ina
Starsoar
Joan
Marsha Hunt
Alexander Knox Henry Travers
Erik Rolf Crohn
Ann Miller
Joe Besser
Costello Hutthe
Sen
Ginny Simms
Patric Knowles
Tlysu Knox
Joaney Lomg
WANT
Se Trades Ce Council
Candler
Afl-Cio
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
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