Children’s Theater Institute Opens May 18 in Cedar Rapids
The Children’s Theater Institute will run May 18 to 22 at the Montrose hotel under the Junior League of Cedar Rapids. Miss Gloria Chandler of New York will lead sessions and cast a children’s play to be performed Friday in the Crystal ballroom. Local leaders and committees organize production including Mrs. Worth S. Averill as general chair and Mrs. Donald P. Barnes as business manager.
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Children’s Theater Institute
Cedar Rapids Junior League
Junior League of
Cedar Rapids
Gloria Chandler
New York City
Children’s Theaters
Association of Junior League of America
Montrose Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose
Boards of Education
Worth S. Averill
Donald P. Barnes
Eleanor Cook
Elizabeth Carey
Flint Named Methodist Bishop in 1933 Wall Street Journal Style
Dr. C. W. Flint, 19 when he began teaching, became a minister and served at Pocahontas Iowa Bayville Long Island St James Brooklyn Middleton and New York Avenue Brooklyn. He earned a B D Drew Seminary MA Columbia and D D Wesleyan. In 1915 he led Cornell College to new leadership and is noted as a colonel in the Officers Reserve Corps and trustee of the Roosevelt Memorial.
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Toronto
Methodist Episcopal Ministry
Pocahontas
United States
Clara Janette Vetter
Sioux City
Marathon
Bayville
L. I
N. Y
St. James
Brooklyn
First
Middleton
Conn
New York Avenue
Drew Theological Seminary
Columbia
Wesleyan University
James E. Harlan
Cornell College
Officers Reserve Corps
Federal Board of Arbitration
New York State
Roosevelt Memorial
Refrigerated Barges To Get River Test
Inland Waterways Corp will test refrigerated barges for perishables. Major General T Q Ashburn announced beer as the initial cargo with four units carrying 52 barrels each between St Louis and Chicago within six weeks. If successful, broader tests follow.
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Washington
Inland Waterways Corporation
T. Q. Ashburn
St. Louis
Chicago
Guards disperse Spanish rioters at Valencia exchange
In Madrid on Wednesday storm guards dispersed rioting right wing partisans and saved the American owned telephone exchange at Valencia and the Spanish Credit bank building from burning. The mob burned two right wing clubs and two churches.
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Madrid
Valencia
Spanish Credit Bank
18-Year-Old Giant Wadlow Stops Growing At Eight Feet Four
Aston Illinois reports Robert Wadlow 18 year old giant has ceased growing at eight feet four inches tall and 390 pounds weighed the same as three months ago. He attends a pre law course at Shurtleff College in Aston.
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Aston, Ill
Robert Wadlow
Shurtleff College
Traer Man Bound Over on DUI Charge
TOO-Henry Schlichting of Traer was bound over to the grand jury Monday on a charge of operating a car while intoxicated. He appeared before Mayor L. L. Sawyer of Traer and furnished bond of $500.
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Henry Schlichting
Traer
Grand Jury
L. L. Sawyer
Political Bars Fall As Finder Returns Cash to Loser
WASHINGTON AP story says Wootie C Bennett a 23 year department store cashier found 1503 dollars on the street and returned it. The owner Mrs Virginia White Steel a Republican committee member for DC gave a reward. Bennett said she is a Democrat.
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Finder
Washington (Ap
Wootie C. Bennett
Virginia White Steel
District of Columbia
Settle Dispute With Canadian Distillers
Washington officials announced a settlement of the import duty controversy between the U S government and Canadian distillers over back duties on liquor allegedly smuggled into the United States during prohibition.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Kansas 94-Year-Old Twins Aunt of Local Man
Mrs Mary Jane Rector of Pittsburg Kansas one of Kansas 94 year old twin sisters is an aunt of Dr H L Hinton of 112 Third Street NW The two sisters born Christmas Day 1841 have lived in Kansas seventy years Their husbands were Civil War veterans They saw their first movie at age ninety one while watching a newsreel of themselves
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Mary Jane Rector
Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas
H. L. Hinton
Third Street
Dr. Hinton
U S Seeks Japanese Plan To Halt Naval Race
Washington states it would welcome any Japanese proposal to prevent a naval race if based on equality of security. Officials say the US has no aim to expand beyond treaty limits and would only exceed them if another nation first did so.
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Washington
INS
United States
Japan
London
Salesman Hurt When Car Skids From Road
Clark G. Welling a Montrose hotel salesman was injured when his car skidded on wet pavement a mile west of Mount Vernon to avoid a collision. He sustained four broken ribs a leg contusion internal injuries and a cut and was taken to his hotel for treatment. He remains confined there under a physician's care.
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Clark G. Welling
Montrose Hotel
Highway 30
Mount Vernon
Welling
Community club elects new officers
Wapello residents learn the Community club has elected C. K. Allworth as president H. B. Hammer as vice president Ludwig Johnson as secretary and H. L. Davison as treasurer in the new officer slate.
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Wapello
C. K. Allworth
H. B. Hammer
Ludwig Johnson
H. L. Davison
Zioncheck Tours Porto Rico Amid Street Demonstrations
Representative Zioncheck of Washington on a Porto Rican honeymoon faced a nationalist demonstration in San Juan. He dodged thrown stones as police dispersed 800 protesters and sought protection at the U S naval station after island wide attention to his motoring mishaps earlier in the week.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Rep
Zioncheck
Washington
San Juan
United States
Naval Station
Civil unrest and injuries near naval station demonstration
Lieutenant Moore reports on a protest where demonstrators threw stones breaking windows. Police fired two shots and dispersed the crowd as a ten year old boy with scarlet fever had prior misfortunes including being hit by a truck and drowning.
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Moore
Naval Station
Carl Thomas Leads First Presbyterian Church Trustees
Carl D. Thomas was elected chairman of the First Presbyterian church board of trustees at the annual meeting. Les ter C. Chadima became vice-chairman and Mrs. Dwight Krumholtz secretary. New trustees named include Harry O. Cutler Donald R. Lynch Harold R. Mowrey Phillip W. Shive. A carpet for the church auditorium has been ordered and will be laid in August.
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Carl D. Thomas
First Presbyterian Church
Trustees
Lester C. Chadima
Dwight Krumholtz
Harry O. Cutler
Donald R. Lynch
Harold R. Mowrey
Phillip W. Shive
Byron A. Barlow
Yerkes Couple Buy Highland Park Lot in 1936
C Harland Yerkes and his wife transfer ownership to C C Yerkes of a wd lot No 16 in Highland Park Addition for one dollar and valuation, dated April 2 1936.
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C. Harland Yerkes
C. C. Yerkes
Highland Park
Valcon
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C. W. Flint
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Springville
Springville Creamery Co
Springville, Iowa
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Nash-Finch
Waukesha Water
Fauerbach
Nash-Finch Company
Foxhead Waukesha Corp
Waukesha, Wisc
Kutchera & Company
Mount Vernon Avenue
Ilten & Taege, Inc
Fourth Avenue SW
Corn Belt Equipment Co
Pilsener
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Milwaukee Beer
Cee Tean
Lagomarcino Grape Co
Nagle-Eaton Lumber Co
17Th Street
Dial
Standard Tire CO
Burt R. Day Company
S. E
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Dieman Plumbing CO
B Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids Bottling Works
Neon Industries
Bob Harner
Pha
Builders Material CO
Fauerbach Beer
Madison, Wisconsin
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