National police radio network eyed to fight crime
The FCC will study a nation wide police radio network that would link local stations into a unified emergency message system. Key stations in each zone would control traffic and relay messages across regions. Trials are under way in St Louis Kansas City Davenport Detroit New Orleans Minneapolis and Indianapolis.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Commission
Association of Police Communications Officers
International Association of Chiefs of Police
E. K. Jett
FCC
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jett
St. Louis
Kansas City
Davenport
Iowa
Detroit
New Orleans
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
Asking Bids and Slam Prospects in Bridge
In The World Of Bridge by Josephine Culbertson explains how Asking Bids enable exploring slam possibilities without overreaching. South is dealer and both sides are vulnerable. A free bridge booklet offer details how readers may obtain "Bridge Rules and Etiquette" by Culbertson through The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Bridge
Josephine Culbertson
The
Gazette
Culbertson
Cedar Rapids Gazette
North
South
Brain Twister and Local Play Offerings in South Side
The column previews a bridge brain twister and a school play The Garden of Love and Peace by Bohemian pupils at C S P S hall on May 10. It notes the maestros and participants, plus a Manchester death notice for George A. Coon a Delaware County real estate and insurance man.
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Bohemian School
M. Zivny
Pavla Hromadka
Helen Melsa
Georgia Kopecky
Elsie Tauber
Libbie Machacek
Libbie Cerveny
Lillian
Bohumil Gesmacher
Joseph Chmelicek
Marie Chmelicek
Vinc Kadlec
Frank Rys, Jr
Marie Janeba
Helen Masha
Martha Leksa
Elsie Volak
Viola Bohac
Manchester
George A. Coon
Delaware County
Brown Chapel
J. Frank Moore
Harry
Spirit Lake
Clarence
Cherokee
John
Red Oak
Emma Moyle
Sherrill’s Mound
Locust Horde Forecast Across Eastern United States
Dr. Z P Metcalf of North Carolina State College predicts seven teen year locusts will swarm across the eastern United States this spring from Massachusetts to Iowa and from Michigan to northern Georgia and Alabama. The brood, the largest in 17 years, hatched in 1919 and will emerge this season as winged adults. They will mostly harm young orchard trees but cause little other damage.
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Raleigh
N. C
United States
Z. P. Metcalf
North Carolina State College
Metcalf
Massachusetts
Iowa
Michigan
Georgia
Alabama
Plans for a 100 Hour Non-Stop Run in Pontiac Six
Police headquarters finalize route mapping for a 100 hour non stop test in a stock Pontiac six cylinder two door sedan sponsored by Unzeitig Motors. Ed Clark will drive the car for the duration with wife Mildred Clark taking night shifts and Gordon Hughes supervising traffic. Three judges will monitor fuel and a sealed system while two nurses provide twelve hour passenger shifts. The event runs Tuesday 11 am to Saturday 3 pm from Second Street and Second Avenue SE.
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Ed Clark
Gordon Hughes
Police Traffic Bureau
Milroy Unzeitig
Unzeitig Motors Company
Mildred Clark
Clark
Iowa
Second Street
Second Avenue SE
New Books At Public Library Offer World Topics
The Public Library lists new books and a season ending May 24 with the Bohemian Dramatic Association presenting Secret Love a three act comic operetta. Julia Vyskocil and Frank Sykora lead a cast. New titles include Farewell to Revolution by Everett Dean Martin American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow edited by Horace Kallen and Sidney Hook Anatomy of Personality by Howard W. Haggard and C. C. Fry and more.
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Bohemian Dramatic Association
Ochotnicke Druzstvo
Milos Simacek
B. Rajska-Smolikova
Rudolf Frey
Julia Vyskocil
Frank Sykora
Everett Dean Martin
B. C
Horace Kallen
Sidney Hook
United States
Howard W. Haggard
C. C. Fry
Play directed by Vacla Picek showcased with Czech cast
The production featured Milada Chmelicek Gustav Subik Frank Chramosta Pepa Lebeda and director Vacla Picek guiding the stage. The ensemble highlighted a notable theatrical presentation.
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Cludes Milada Chmelicek
Gustav Subik
Frank Chramosta
Pepa Lebeda
T. B. Hlubucek
Vacla Picek
Majory Venecek Sokol May Dance at Hall This Thursday
The annual May dance by the local Sokol association will be held Thursday May 21 at the Sokol hall. For years this event has been regarded as an outstanding social occasion, limited to members and a few intimate friends.
Z C B J Circle to Present The Maid of Chernov at Clutier
The Z C B J Dramatic Circle travels to Clutier on May 24 to stage The Maid of Chernov, sequel to The Green Kingdom, which was shown at the Clutier hall last Sunday.
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Z. C. B. J. Dramatic Circle
Clutier
Clutier Z. C. B. J. Hall
Dance books reviewed by critics praise motion and memory
The review highlights Lincoln Kirstein’s Dance for social expression and history, Adrian Stokes Russian Ballets with analysis of eight ballets, and Henry Seidel Canby Alma Mater recalling early 1900s American college life. The emphasis is on how dance survives moral and economic shifts and its fusion with music, art, and theater.
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Lincoln Kirstein
Adrian
Canby
American College
Describing College Life and Far Northern Lands
The article reviews works on college influence and a survey narrative, praising Yale context and Nesbitt’s engineer’s account of surveying in the Orinoco basin for an American oil firm. It also highlights Agnes Rothery’s Finland as a rising, well-ordered nation admired for culture and economy.
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Yale
L. M. Nesbitt
Orinoco Basin
Venezuela
Finland
Agnes Rothery
Europe
Sweden
Red Cross Representative to Inspect Life Savers in Cedar Rapids
A. T. McCue national Red Cross representative will visit Cedar Rapids May 7 8 and 9. He will meet Linn county first aid chair Joe Carberry to inspect highway first aid facilities. Evening sessions Thursday and Friday will review life saving examiners at the YMCA pool. An examiners luncheon at the YMCA is planned for May 8 to discuss life saving methods.
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A. T. McCue
Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
Joe Carberry
Linn County
al Keyes
YMCA Life Saving School Opens May 6
The YMCA life saving school of instruction will begin May 6 for women and girls with all men and boys’ classes starting the week of May 11. Swimmers are urged to earn a life saving award and join efforts to reduce drowning deaths.
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