National Camp Fire Worker Visits Cedar Rapids
Ruth Teichmann, national Camp Fire field worker and new national staff member, will visit the Cedar Rapids Camp Fire organization for a training course at First Presbyterian Church. The schedule includes Camparee on Wednesday and Guardians Day on Thursday with meetings at 10 am and 2 pm, plus an older girls program meeting at 7:30 pm. Teichmann previously served as guardian and field worker in Cleveland and as a camp director in Fort Worth and Minneapolis.
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Ruth Teichmann
Cedar Rapids
First Presbyterian Church
Miss Teichmann
Fargo
Teichmann
National
Cleveland
Fort Worth
Tex
Minneapolis
Tea for Bishop H D Longley in Iowa City
Bishop H D Longley of the Iowa Episcopal diocese and his wife will be honored at a tea this afternoon hosted at the home of Rev Richard E McEvoy of Trinity Episcopal church. Parlor and dining room hostesses and presiding tables are named among local ladies.
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Iowa City
H .D. Longley
Towa Episcopal Diocese
Richard E. McEvoy
Trinity Episcopal Church
McEvoy
B. V. Crawford
Robert B. Gibson
John W. Ashton
Percy Bordwell
Kelly Brady
G . Martin
M. B Guthrie
Frank I. Russell
Roscon
Tai-Hsing
Kiangshu
China
Chen Hsing Yen
Tze-Cheng Yen
Jinan
Henan
Willard Lampe
Henrietta Bonnell
Benjamin Bonnell
Eldridge
Milton Zagel
Laramie
Woyo
St. Pauls Lutheran Chapel
Zagel
University of Wyoming
A C. Tester
C. M Uodegraff
Iowa Union
P. J. Seinfelder
Arthur V. O'Brien
White collar tradition hinders youth jobs says Aubrey Williams
Omaha AP report quotes Aubrey Williams national youth administrator on the "white collar tradition" hampering job seekers. He says many youths have developed a "sneaky attitude toward work" and face difficulties finding employment.
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OMAHA
Aubrey Williams
Floods and Flood Fatalities Sweep West Coast
Severe storms lash the Pacific coast causing multiple deaths across Oregon and California. Three to five deaths in northern California and one on the Oregon coast are reported amid rising Sacramento Feather and American rivers. Federal meteorologist warns the situation will be extremely critical as flood stages are exceeded.
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San Francisco
Sns
Pacific Coast
California
Oregon
Sacramento
Feather
American
E. H. Fletcher
R. Fulton
Charles L. Wheeler
City Briefs and Local Happenings
Band Box Millinery moves to new location at Holly's 223 Second Avenue SE. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Jay Bean at 1263 Twenty First Avenue SW on March 29. Trowel chapter 49 Royal Arch Masons meet Tuesday 6 30 p m at Masonic hall for Mark Master degree. Consuelo Holmes to sing at Bethel A E church benefit for Ter mite club Tuesday 8 p m. Mrs Anna Beck improving after pneumonia in Baldwin. son Ralph of Cedar Rapids visiting. Ralph Rowley arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Townsend club No 1 to meet Monday 7 30 p m Memorial building. Mamie Stark of California to sing. Marvin Ampex 19 Negro fined 5 dollars for disturbing the peace and assault. Boy Scout troop 7 at First Lutheran sponsors Ardeen the musician Monday 8 p m. Mr and Mrs William Hepner and son Billy visit from Cincinnati to 117 Sixteenth Street SE. E C Parkhurst 52 Lincoln Neb sentenced 30 days for intoxication. Ballnains morning in Justice Churchill's court.
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Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Hall
E. C Parkhurst
Lincoln, Neb
H. R Churchill
Rotary club cancels meeting for luncheon with Dr Judd
Rotary members will skip next Monday meeting to attend the Inter-Service club council luncheon where Dr Walter Judd speaks Wednesday noon at the Montrose hotel. Four year old Frances Shadle, daughter of Mr and Mrs William E Shadle, was bitten by a dog belonging to Mrs Murphy Ard and treated by a doctor after the incident reported to police.
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Rotary Club
Inter-Service Club Council
Walter Judd
Montrose
Frances Shadle
William E. Shadle
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Murphy Ard
Eighteenth Street
Shadle
License Clerk Seeks DeWitt Clinton Williams Kin
City license clerk Bill Wage seeks help locating DeWitt Clinton Williams or any descendants. The request came from Mrs. Maude Cook Clark of Independence Missouri who says Williams lived in Cedar Rapids.
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Bill Wage
DeWitt Clinton Williams
Wage
Maude Cook Clark
Independence, Mo
Williams
Cedar Rap
Williams family genealogy interest noted by Mrs. Clark
Mrs. Clark states she has a long interest in tracing the Williams family genealogy, seeking records and connections across generations.
Kuning Named Assistant Cashier at Grand Rapids Bank
Clayton W. Kuning a Washington high school graduate and son of Mr and Mrs C C Kuning formerly Cedar Rapids residents now of Chicago has been named assistant cashier of the People's National Bank of Grand Rapids Michigan He studied post graduate work at the University of Iowa and is son in law of Mr and Mrs D P Schwarzentruber of Mount Vernon Road SE
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Clayton W. Kuning
Washington High School
C C. Kuning
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
People’s National Bank of
Grand Rapids
Mich
Kuning
University of Iowa
D. P. Schwarzentruber
Mount Vernon Road
Shoes Charged Fraudulently at Martin Dry Goods
Police investigate a report that a $3.95 pair of shoes was charged March 2 at Martin Dry Goods, 215 Second Avenue SE. The purchaser used the name Grace Anderson, 122 Fourth Avenue SE, who says she did not buy the shoes.
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Martin Dry Goods Company
Second Avenue SE
Grace Anderson
Fourth Avenue SE
Miss Anderson
Missing 1936 Ford Coach Sought After Owner Reports
Harold Smyth of Mount Vernon reported his black 1936 Ford coach left in the Joop district for a friend to collect. Police searched Saturday night after Smyth, via lawyer R N Wolfe, said he could not locate the car and that the keys were left in it when he returned.
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Joop
Harold Smyth
Mount Vernon
Smith
R. N. Wolfe
Wolfe
Smyth
Cedar lake hosts migratory waterfowl on spring stopover
Bird club members report Cedar lake as a gathering site for migratory waterfowl on northward travel. Arrivals include herring gulls ring-billed gulls American mergansers red-breasted mergansers American goldeneye redhead canvas-back scaup ring-necked mallard shoveler gadwall pintail blue winged teal green winged teal great blue heron kingfisher killdeer meadowlark red winged blackbird song sparrow and shrike as they feed before nesting.
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Bird Club
Cedar Lake
Two Czechs sentenced over Nazi slayer hunt
Prague officials condemned Ladislav Vojtech to death and Karl Kuba to ten years in prison for not aiding the pursuit of Jan Smudek, the man accused of killing two German border guards. Police had tried to flush Smudek from hiding as a nationwide manhunt mobilized about 300 officers.
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Prague
Ladislav Vojtech
Karl Kuba
Pilsen
Jan Smudek
Smudek
Vojtech
Kuba
Smudeck
Church Committee Recommends Sanctioning Divorced Marriages
New York The Protestant Episcopal Church's women's auxiliary committee on marriage and divorcee urges permitting remarriage for divorced persons who seek to live Christian lives after two years of study. The report, partly from 99 bishop questionnaires, will go to the commission and then the general convention.
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New York
Protestant Episcopal Church
Women’s Auxiliary On
Church
United States
Anglican Communion
General Convention
MacNider Named County Delegates for State GOP Convention
Cerro Gordo county delegates voted unanimously to let Col. Hanford MacNider name the 32 delegates to the coming state convention. MacNider, former national commander of the American Legion, is a favored son for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Mason City
Cerro Gordo County
Col
Hanford MacNider
MacNider
American Legion
Iowa
Eastern Floods Hit Upstate New York and Pittsburgh
Flooded highways and rising riv ers threaten upstate New York as a heavy rain storm melts ice and snow. In Pittsburgh a flood crest of 28 feet by Sunday evening looms three feet above flood stage at the point where the Monongahela and Allegheny join to form the Ohio. Scranton endures its worst flood with hundreds left homeless Saturday night.
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Rochester
Upstate
New York
Pittsburgh
INS
Monongahela
Allegheny
Ohio
Scranton
Dubuque Man Arrested for Vagrancy after Complaint
A 41 year old man identified as Big Bailey of Dubuque was arrested for vagrancy near 2306 First Avenue FE after a neighbor complained he looked rough and walked with a white man. He denied wrongdoing, threatened civil action for false arrest and said he planned to beg if hungry. Police found no trace of the other man or complainant.
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Big " Bailey
Dubuque
First Avenue FE
Bailey
Marion
Cedar Park
West Union Couple Wed at St John’s Rectory
Leone McCauley and W F Gray were married Saturday at St John’s rectory Waterloo by Rev Lentz Attendants included Bessie Knight and Herbert Sperry Both brides and grooms have ties to Gates business college and local employers in Waterloo Des Moines and Los Angeles. Norway Engagement Announced Thelma Kahle to William Serbousek Jr set for April 17 at St Michael’s Church Nor way. Mount Vernon Engagement Lucille Stinger to Frederick K Stewart plans for fall wedding in Chicago Hinsdale and Iowa ties noted. The couple’s backgrounds include Cornell University Sears Roebuck and the Stewart Credit Service.
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West Union
Leone McCauley
Ray McCauley
W F. Gray
Etta Gray
Hazleton
St John's Rectory
Waterloo
Father Lentz
Bessie Knight
Herbert Sperry
Des Moines
Gates Business College
Los Angeles
Gray
Rath’s
Norway
Herman Kahle
Thelma
William Serbousek, Jr
Swisher
Witwer Grocer Company
Cedar Rapids
St. Michael's Church
Mount Vernon
Lee A Stinger
Lucille Stinger
Chicago
Frederick K. Stewart
R. M. Stewart
Hinsdale
Stinger
Cornell College
University of Iowa
Alpha Chi Omega Social
Phi Gamma Nu Commerce
Sears Roebuck and Company
Stewart
Cornell
A. E. Social
Stewart Credit Service
Hinsdale Flying Club
Stomach Pumped At Hospital Then He Is Returned To Jail
Pat Hamilton 28 of 222 Eighth Street NE was picked up after being found collapsed on First Avenue and Third Street SE. He was treated at Mercy hospital where a doctor had his stomach pumped. Hamilton became violent at the hospital and was returned to the station after attendants requested police watch him.
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First Avenue
Third Street
Pat Hamilton
Eighth Street
Mercy Hospital
Hamilton
Three Schools Win Superior Ratings In Class A Plays
The sixth annual Iowa state high school play festival announced final winners Saturday night. Nevada Jesup and Waverly took superior ratings in Class B while Marion La Porte City Manchester Sumner and Pella earned excellent ratings in Class B. Class A schools Keokuk East High Waterloo and Franklin Cedar Rapids Clinton Burlington Davenport received superior and individual honors went to Margaret Blaine Franklin Arthur Below Meredith Smith Byron Gosdem Muriel Nelson and Calvin Kent field.
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Iowa City
Nevada
Jesup
Waverly
Marion
la Porte City
Manchester
Sumner
Pella
Patty Bates
University High
Edwin Neuman
Norma Riddick
Betty Swinbank
Drowned By Weight Of His Bank Loot
Divers searched the Neches river bottom for a bank robber weighed down by half dollars from a $2,600 robbery. James Stokes of Corpus Christi said a companion drowned while trying to escape, after Stokes aided in the robbery.
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Beaumont
Texas
INL
Neches
James Stokes
Corpus Christi
Kirblyville
Stokes
Plan To Slash Defense Fund By 65 Million
Washington news: a Congress eyeing the 1940 elections moved to cut President Roosevelt’s defense budget by 65 million to offset about 700 million in unbudgeted farm and relief appropriations. The fight centers on war and navy funding while a relief expansion faces possible further b reductions.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Senate
War Department
White House
War and Navy Department
Tobey Abandons His Anti Census Fight
Washington dispatch says Sen Charles W Tobey conceded defeat less than three days before the census as he called the 16th decennial count an invasion of personal liberties He announced he would not answer census questions about income or home and refused to cooperate.
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Washington
Charles W. Tobey
Buena County GOP Straw Vote Chooses Dewey 56 Percent
At the Buena Vista county Republican convention in Storm Lake on Saturday Thomas A. Dewey won 56 percent in a straw ballot for the Republican presidential nomination. Arthur H. Vandenberg received 34 percent and Robert A. Taft 10 percent.
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Buena County
GOP
Dewey
Storm Lake
Thomas A. Dewey
Buena Vista County
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
British Steamer King Edward Sends Distress Call
Mackay Radio received a distress message from the British steamer King Edward a 5224 gross ton ship saying it had lost its rudder and required immediate assistance near New York.
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New York
Mackay
Prenuptial Shower Honors Mildred Carpenter Bride to Be
Earlville social life centers on Mildred Carpenter as she prepares for marriage to August Nieman. A Tuesday prenuptial shower hosted by Mrs. Charles Carpenter drew about 50 guests. Separate gatherings included bridge clubs at the Glenn Charles hotel in Manchester and meetings of local clubs and past matrons.
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Charles Carpenter
Mildred
August Nieman
Eleanor Yelden
Gerald Faust
Cleon Puff
Glenn Charles Hotel
Manchester
George Harris
Anna Ede
Elsie Ortberg
E. O. T. Club
Ruby Carty
Springville Couple Marries in Bethany Missouri
Springville Leida Woodworth daughter of Mr and Mrs A C Newman and Dale Gramling son of Mr and Mrs Mason Gramling married in Bethany Missouri by Rev J W Ward. After a Kansas City trip they will reside in Central City where the groom works for Gramling implement.
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Leida Woodworth
A. C. Newman
Dale Gramling
Mason Gramling
Bethany
J W. Ward
Kansas City
Springville
Central City
Gramling
Blazing Star Circle
A F
A. M
D. M. Beck
Carol Rodman
Lida May Haworth
Mary Dude
Mary Jean Caldwell
Ruth Devorsky
Doris Lundeen
Pauline Wetzel
Mary Elizabeth Reed
June Pollock
Elaine Leaf
Virginia White
Mary Jean Cooper
Mary Dudek
Patricia Gatewood
Mary Reed
G. W. Gearhart
C. L. Leedham
Charles
Robin
Judith
Randolph Field
Texas
Family plans and moves of local medical figures
Dr Merriam Gearhart and wife from Charleston W Va visit for one day while Captain Leedham and family head to Hawaii for a new army air field posting. Gearhart recently elected to the American College of Physicians and will meet Dr and Mrs J V Smith in San Francisco en route.
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Merriam Gearhart
Charleston
W. Va
Leedham
Merria Gearhart
G. W. Gearhart
Captai Leedham
Hawaii
Army Flying Field
American College of Physicians
J. V. Smith
San Francisco
Roosevelt urged to run for a third term
Sen. Ed Win C. Johnson of Colorado said Roosevelt has waited too long to refuse a third term. He argued the president must accept the nomination if he intends to run, warning that abandoning the party could spell disaster for the Democrats.
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Roosevelt
Washington
ULP
Edwin C. Johnson
Colo
Johnson
Democratic Party
Nazis Claim Allied Plane Losses Heavy
Berlin reports the German high command says Britain and France have lost more than four times as many warplanes as Germany. No further details are provided on specific raids or dates.
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Berlin
INL
Britain
France
Germany
High Command
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