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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 31, 1940

Page

23

Sheik Khalil Of Arabia Visits Cedar Rapids

A visiting Sheik from Saudi Arabia praises American freedom while debunking Hollywood stereotypes. In Cedar Rapids he discusses Arabian marriage norms, monogamy, and the value of family, horses, and coffee as he plans to tour the Rocky Mountain Northwest.

Cedar Rapids Hollywood Sheik Khalil Ben Ibrahime Al-Rawaf Hassan Igram M Avenue NW Sheik Khalil Rudolph Valentino Arabia America Rocky Mountain Northwest Saudi Arabia Arizona New Mexico Abraham Egypt Palestine Shiek Khalil England India United States Sheik Boradah South Arabia New York Madison Square Garden

Manchester Girl Wins Delaware Spelling Bee

Pearl Dorenkamp, 14, daughter of Mrs Lydia Dorenkamp of Manchester, won the Delaware county spelling contest here Saturday. Grace Neal of Delhi won the oral contest and Miss Dorenkamp won the written test. they were paired for the final and Miss Dorenkamp prevailed. She attends Prairie Township School District Two and is taught by Mrs Edna Greener.

Manchester Pearl Dorenkamp Lydia Dorenkamp Grace Neal Delhi Miss Dorenkamp Dorenkamp Prairie Township Edna Greener

Iowa High School Forensic league finals winners listed

In Cedar Rapids the Iowa High School Forensic league finals crowned top honors for 145 schools and 736 students over three days. Hawarden Waukee and East Sioux City high schools earned first place in their events, with Franklin high Cedar Rapids student Dick Vogt among ten high ranking radio speakers.

The Gazette Iowa City Hawarden Waukee East Sioux City Iowa Dick Vogt Franklin High Cedar Rapids

Personal touch in teaching emphasized by Parker

Jessie M. Parker, Iowa's state superintendent, urged teachers to prioritize personal contact with families at a Linn County Rural Teachers event. She warned contests inflate values and urged schools to sustain personality development and home visits, citing Jesus and Socrates as ideals, with Shupp guiding the meeting and several group discussions.

Jessie M. Parker Linn County Des Moines Superintendent of Public Instruction Linn County Rural Teachers’ Association First Christian Church Jesus Christ Socrates Miss Parker Parker Walter A. Shupp Freda Waldemer Harold Taylor Evalina Sampson Jean Moore Helen McCaughey Nelen Hennessey Betty Flitch Rachel Baker Doris Schley Ernest Sixta

Census Enumerators Begin Work Tuesday Across County

Census enumerators start door to door work Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a piecework basis, with two weeks to complete duties. Supervisors Ross Morton, Ralph Funter, and David J Murphy oversee crews in Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Linn County, with rural districts listed by townships and names of enumerators.

North End Ross Morton Ralph Funter Cedar Rapids David J Murphy Dubuque Linn County Blanche Felter Irma Boyle A C. Anderson Marie L. McLaughlin Francis A. Halda Glen Cochran Harry G Mokreis Mark F Collogan William ‘Jt ’Allen J. Basil Healy Mabel C. Wilson Anna Mae Lumir Hasek Louise B van Pelt Horace FE Basley Frank Vlasek Marion Donald B. Christie Helen Hobbs Hutchinson Laura Tripp Burns Bernard J. Mullaly

Any Pole Papers In Nazi Hand Believed Supplied By Soviets

London based Polish sources say that German archives in Nazi hands may have come from Polish foreign ministry files moved east to Lublin Krzemieniec and Kuty before the German advance. They note Warsaw kept few records as flames and warfare surrounded the capital.

London United States Russia Warsaw Foreign Ministry Lublin Krzemienice Kuty Krzemieniec Red Army Foreign Office Berlin

Dies committee nears decisive expose on communists as Kremlin runs Daily Worker

Washington based Dies committee holds guarded evidence to prove the American Communist Party is a direct Soviet agency. It plans to publish material detailing Moscow editorial control and cabled articles printed in New York. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, refused to testify citing a libel suit pending in New York.

Washington INS Dies United States Communist Party Kremlin Daly Worker Moscow Tenn Clarence Hathaway Daily Worker Hathaway New York

Daily Worker Faces Alien Agent Registration Probe

The Daily Worker proprietors may file alien agent registration Monday as the Dies inquiry and a federal grand jury probe into ownership misstatements unfold. Prosecutors note a 500 member claim of party workers in Washington and a hidden party special branch safeguarding identities.

State Department Daily Worker Dies

Father and son die within 24 hours in Dorchester

A double funeral will be held at the Catholic church in Dorchester for Mathew Kells about 75 who died of a stroke Saturday morning and his son Emmett 44 who died Friday in a Wisconsin hospital after flu. Emmett was a rural mail carrier out of Dorchester for 24 years.

Waukon Dorchester Matthew Kells Emmett TaCrosse Wis Lawrence Washington, D. C Emmett Kelly

Lemon Juice Recipe Claims Quick Rheumatic Pain Relief

An advertisement promotes Ru-Ex Compound mixed with a quart of water and the juice of four lemons to ease rheumatic arthritis and neuritis pain. It urges taking two tablespoons twice daily, promising rapid results and a money back guarantee if not improved. The offer is backed by May Drug Company and local druggists.

May Drug Company

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