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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1935
Page
19
The Schell Brothers wrap up their run with a lively program at 8 15 tonight on Twelfth Avenue and Fourth Street SW. Audiences meet dancing elephants, riders, a flying trapeze duo, and a skilled wire performer Manuel Macias. Tickets at city stores with 25 cent purchases.
Dick Bannister and Karen Sire become entwined in the leopard robe mystery as detective One-Armed Toole explains the Whipple Syndicate aims to recover the clasp and girdle. Suspected killer and danger loom while Bannister confronts guilt over the robe.
Cedar Rapids bets on a Frontier day celebration to be held in July after a meeting of 100 business men saw more than 66000 subscribed to underwrite the enterprise. Mrs. M. E. Teeter of Cedar Rapids won second prize for her book selling article at the American Booksellers convention in Chicago. Lawrence Hartford suffered a head bruise after a fall from a box car while watching a medicine show. Mr and Mrs J W Stoddard depart on an extended eastern trip as he serves as a convention delegate.
Cedar Rapids will send a six man Sokol team to St. Louis for the semi centennial celebration. Frank Jirasek and Rudolph Novak will represent Cedar Rapids. Vic and Charles Hugo presented 320.77 dollars to the Gazette for park concert band funds from circus receipts. Roy T. Guerney was named general agent for the Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern railway in Cedar Rapids. Seventy girls met at the Y W C A to form a Commercial club with Amy Burr as president. Joseph Tomlinson, noted bridge designer, died at his home. Clavier Piano School of New York to hold summer session at Coe College. Roy Boyd departed for Holley Idaho. B. T. Jackson elected VP of state retail grocers in Council Bluffs.
The listings note Mary McCormic opera and four other acts on stage at the Iowa theater. On screen Paul Muni in Black Fury, Paramount features Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in Naughty Marietta, with Merle Ober in Thunder in the East. George O'Brien stars The Cowboy Millionaire and Charte Chase in Something Simple. Palace shows Wagon Wheels with Randolph Scott and The Ghost Walks with John Miljan. Rialto presents Tim McCoy in Fighting Shadows and Marian Marsh in Daring Daughters. Olympic offers Rocky Rhodes with Buck Jones and Success at Any Price with Genevieve Tobin.
Melton Geones of Davenport Indiana risked his life in South Bend Indiana to save a federal building district court room. He climbed a scaffold and tore down burning cloth from a chandelier then jumped 24 feet to the floor and extinguished the flames with water.
McGregor county agent Roy Combs found four chinch bugs on a Farm Bureau office window sill. State Entomologist G Decker says few bugs have appeared in the county and windborne spread has moved chinch bugs north into Iowa.
The belief that commercial musk comes from muskrats is mistaken. Musk is produced by the musk deer in a sac under the abdomen. Males possess the scent glands and long tusks, and the musk is harvested for use in perfumes.
B C Forbes, in the June Cosmopolitan, urges that prosperity depends on relief from overbearing government. He criticizes bureaucratic crackdowns on employers, warns that taxation dims recovery, and calls for officials to cut waste and avoid duplicating facilities that rival established firms.
In Sioux City the marshal issued a statement rebutting police charges of intimidation surrounding Nile Luke. Luke reportedly arrived after a subpoena to the grand jury, delaying his appearance and prompting questions about his presence and cooperation with the jury.
Arizona cowgirls Jo and Jean of the WHO Barn Dance Frolic join the Pla-Mor cast for Sunday matinee and night shows. Jo was Miss Arizona at the Chicago Century of Progress last year. The duo perform with two guitars and sing prairie songs in a unique yodeling style.
Public safety commissioner Dan Kruide nier announced the city market will open Thursday May 16. Joe Thill will again serve as marketmaster.
Will Rogers remarks about missing Midway Islands and aircraft, noting a correction by Frank Hawkes who claims a Buenos Aires to Los Angeles flight time of 39 hours not 48. He comments on Brazil's air force, and accuses England and France of selling older planes to South American nations while the U S supplies the latest models.
The Barn Dance Frolic lineup features Jo and Jean with additional cast members Lem and Martha the famous comedy pair Grandpa Jitters Perkie's Huskers Louisiana Lou the Four Lumberjacks and Windy Brown the one man harmonica act all well known to Barn Dance fans.
A national statistic shows that the typical American student misses about thirteen school days per year. The figure reflects patterns across varied regions and school types and highlights ongoing attendance challenges.
Bartnett headlined at the Biltmore in Los Angeles and Cocoanut Grove, Lincoln Tavern, and Black Hawk Cafe in Chicago. The act features the Biltmore trio, lyric tenor Stanley Hickman, and Red Hodgson, famed comedian.
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