Symphony Climax at Cornell Festival Mount Vernon
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra closed the Cornell College Music Festival at Mount Vernon with Stock and Lange conducting. Cornell Oratorio Society performed Bach Mass in B minor with 125 singers. soloists Thelma Von Eisenhauer Ruth Pinkerton William Miller and Francis German. Karl Andrist played Lalo in the final concert. Programs featured Sibelius Fourth Schumann First Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain Stravinsky Firebird Suite Honegger Pastorale d Ete and Weinberger Polka and Fugue.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cornell
Mount Vernon
Frederick Stock
Hans Lange
Cornell Oratorio Society
Thelma von Eisenhauer
Ruth Pinkerton
William Miller
Francis German
Mr. Lange
Andrist
Karl Andrist
Cornell College
Lalo
Chicago
Sibelius
Schumann
Moussorgsky
Strawinsky
Honegger
Weinberger
Thefts From Cars Probe At Walker
Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon investigated thefts from automobiles in Walker on Saturday night. A $30 set of auto mechanic tools was taken from Jack Keyser’s car parked in front of his business. An auto jack was stolen from H W McCright’s car and a wheel was removed but abandoned when the car fell on it.
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Larry Condon
Walker
Jack Keyser
H. W. McCright
Snapped By Candid Camera Contest Call
A candid camera contest invites readers to mail 25 cents with the card to The Gazette office for three prints. Selected photos may be published with a free 7x9 sepia enlargement sent to the address of participants shown, including Mrs. Chester D. Salter and Harry Chadima.
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Gazette Office
Chester D. Salter
Knollwood Drive
Harry Chadima
Twenty-third ‘Street Drive
Wilton and Center Junction Hold Separate Commencements
Wilton High School will graduate 30 in the auditorium Thursday with Rev. Loren Thomas of Bloomfield delivering the address. An alumni banquet follows Friday in the gym with guests including Frank Walker, Frank Tufts, and Mrs. Lorena Abbott Whitmer among others. Center Junction held class of 1939 exercises in the gym with Dr. Harry M. Gage of Coe College as speaker and diplomas presented by Supt. C. F. Lindsey. Valedictorian was Hollyce Chase, salutatorian Max Moses, and athletic awards went to Moses and Chase. An alumni banquet honoring 1939 graduates was held Friday in the auditorium. Lisbon, Mrs. John Dunn, 61, dies after long illness. she is survived by husband, three children, mother Sarah McMahon, two sisters, and a brother. Funeral set for Neff funeral home in Mount Vernon Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
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Max Moses
Hollyce Chase
Harry Alyea
Dean McDonald
World of Tomorrow
Chicago
Ben Leber
Oakland
Calif
George Thacker
Maywood, Lll
W. A. McMahon
Reno, Ney
Neff Funeral Home
Mount Vernon
Mrs C F Platner Of Mechanicsville Dies
Mrs Margaret Jane Platner 75 longtime Mechanicsville resident died at home Saturday night She was the widow of C F Platner Born February 11 1864 near Mount Vernon daughter of Samuel and Mary Ellison Married February 21 1883 She is survived by a daughter Mrs John Fry and a son Howard Platner A sister Mrs Marshall Oxley Marion Iowa Funeral services set for 2 30 p m Monday at Horner funeral home with Revs Charles Tyrrell E Winslow Brown officiating Burial in Mechanicsville Cemetery
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Mechanicsville
Margaret Jane Platner
C. F. Platner
Mount Vernon
Samuel
Mary Ellison
Royal Neighbors Lodge
Busch-Dennis Post, American Legion Auxiliary
Platner
John Fry
Howard Platner
Marshall Oxley
Marion
Horner
Charles Tyrrell
E. Winslow Brown
Cedar Rapids
Man Arrested On Charge Of Molesting A Child
Ray Morehouse 44 address 423 Fifth Avenue SE arrested 6 30 p m Saturday by Patrolmen Bukacek and DeVore on a statutory charge under a warrant from Justice H R Churchill. He is accused of enticing a 7 year old girl to his room. He has a prior prison record including a year and a day in Leavenworth federal prison for larceny from a government preserve and prior petty larceny and intoxication arrests.
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Ray Morehouse
Fifth Avenue SE
Bukacek and
DeVore
Justice H. R. Churchill
Morehouse
Leavenworth Federal
Rulers’ Ship Encounters Dense Fog Delays Canada Tour
The Empress of Australia remains halted in the North Atlantic iceberg zone as dense fog and ice slow progress toward Quebec. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth watched bergs from the promenade deck while engineers struggled to keep the liner moving.
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North Atlantic
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Quebec
Canada
United States
E.S.T
Cape Race
Consent To Removal Of Eye To Save An Infant Life
The parents of a five month old baby in Quincy Illinois consented to removing one eye to try to save the child from a glioma tumor after five doctors advised the procedure. The infant had already been blinded and faced possible death, and the doctors planned to study the removed eye before deciding if both eyes must be removed.
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Quincy, Ill
Arthur Grunden
Barry
Quincy
Hopkins Rejoins Church Of Boyhood At Grinnell
The Rev. Charles R. Rowe said Hopkins has been readmitted to the Methodist church of his boyhood in Grinnell. Action followed Hopkins' recent request to reaffiliate with the church.
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Hopkins
Church of Boyhood
Grinnell
Livestock Leaders Protest Roosevelt Beef Remarks
The group led by Mollin and including Gov. Nels S. Smith and President Joe Sneed argues against Roosevelt's view of Argentine beef, contending American beef is superior and urging caution on debt assumptions and foreign involvement in supplies. Gov. Payne H. Ratner also sent a protest to Roosevelt.
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Mollin
Nels S. Smith
Wyoming
Joe Sneed
Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
E. A. Phillips
Montana Livestock Association
Con W. Jackson
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
Roosevelt
Payne H. Ratner
Kansas
Herring defends Roosevelt on Argentine beef remarks
In Des Moines Senator Clyde L. Herring argues Roosevelt’s beef policy is not harmful, saying Navy beef needs are small and Argentine imports pose no danger. He notes only potential harm is the impression that Argentine beef is superior to American.
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Des Moines
INS
United States
Clyde L. Herring
Roosevelt
Navy
Argentina
Herring
Iowa
James A. Farley
Troops Called to Harlan Coal Area
In New York, amid critical needs for utilities hospitals and transportation coal supplies, Miss Perkins urged that collective bargaining offers the solution to labor management differences. She suggested government intervention aims to prevent a coal shortage from harming business revival.
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New York
Ozanic attacks federal pressure on coal contracts
Springfield dispatch reports Joe Ozanic, international president of the Progressive Mine Workers of America, accusing the federal government of pressuring eastern coal operators to sign UMWA contracts. He charges administration backing forced an un-American, illegal agreement. Washington note adds two federal agents are examining civil liberties violations in Harlan County Ky amid possible retrial of the mass conspiracy case. The 12 week trial ended with a hung jury. final retrial decision rests with Attorney General Frank Murphy and AAG Brien McMahon.
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Springfield
Joe Ozanic
Progressive Mine Workers of America
AFL
UMWA
John L. Lewis
Washington
Justice Department
Harlan County
Frank Murphy
Brien McMahon
Adequate Capital and Character Advised for Young Farmers
Elbert S. Brigham of National Life Insurance urges young Iowa couples to balance land purchase with life insurance protection. He suggests a 20 percent down on a $100 acre quarter and $12,000 in life coverage plus a $1,000 reserve fund, totaling operating capital of $1,526 to $3,526 from $8,000-$10,000 savings. He stresses character as the key basis for credit and notes firm’s productive Town farms with 3 percent net after costs in 1938.
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Elbert S. Brigham
National Life Insurance Company of
Vermont
Iowa
Brigham
Mr. Brigham
Life Insurance Company
Cedar Rapids
Harvey C. McClary
McClary
Iowa Land
United States
Federal Land Bank
Towaland
Death notices for Hepker and Bartholmey
Funeral services are set for Mrs Nel lie Hepker of Shellsburg at 2 p.m. Monday in Turner chapel with burial in Shellsburg cemetery. She died at her daughter’s home Saturday. George V Bartholmey 41 a World War veteran will have private services at 3 p.m. today in the Moen family chapel with cremation. Rev Marion H Williams presiding.
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Nellie Hepker
Harry Hepker
Shellsburg
Claire Oxley
E Avenue NW
Turner Chapel
Marion H. Williams
First Christian Church
George V. Bartholmey
Moen Family
Moen
Funeral for Joseph Stolar Jr. in Beatty Chapel
Funeral services for 3 year old Joseph Stolar son of Mr and Mrs Joseph A Stolar Jr will be held Monday at 2 pm in Beatty chapel with Rev J H Blackstone officiating.
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Joseph Stolar
Joseph A. Stolar
Eighteenth Street
Beatty Chapel
J. H. Blackstone
Cash Paying Car Buyers Near a Quarter of Purchases
Records from finance companies show only about 25 percent of people buying autos pay cash. The remainder rely on financing or credit plans, reflecting prevalent loan use in vehicle purchases.
Open Campaign for Camp Good Health
The Public Health Nursing association operates Camp Good Health on a hill site eight miles east of Cedar Rapids. It houses sixty children, with staff quarters, meals planned by a dietitian, and supervised sunbaths and play. The fund relies on voluntary contributions to cover $5 per week per child, with donations sent to The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Health Nursing Association
Highway 30
Cedar Rapids
Philip W. Shive
Public Health Nursing Association
D. M. Hall
Carl Thomas
W. E. Peschau
Henry Ristine
J. H. Bormann
J. M. Ely
L. G. Sweney
Camp Good Health
Camp Good Health Fund
Camp Good
the Gazette
Iowa
Allied bloc test looms as Hitler tours frontiers
The article reports on a Western front inspection plan by Adolf Hitler starting Monday to assess Germany's military positions near France and Poland. It notes Goering's travel from Italy, Brauchitsch's return, Ribbenstrup's Berlin-bound briefing, and hints at a possible propaganda push to pressure Poland over the Danzig issue while probing lifelines along the western border.
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Germany
Foreign Office
Diplomatische Political Korrespondenz
Turkey
Europe
Hitler
Hermann Goering
Munich
Italy
Walther von Brauchitsch
Italian
Libya
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Danzig
France
Maginot
Baltic
Silesian
Poland
Goering
New York Area Highway 1 Named Most Traveled Road
In the New York City region United States Highway No 1 is described as the world's busiest roadway based on traffic volume. Local officials and observers highlight its constant congestion and heavy transit through urban corridors.
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New York City
Utterback Won’t Resign As Iowa National Committeeman
Des Moines Iowa AP Hubert Utterback of Des Moines will not resign as the state's national committeeman. Iowa Democratic Chairman E H Birmingham said Utterback has been ill for months and there is no national committee vacancy.
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Des Moines
Iowa
E. H. Birmingham
Hubert Utterback
Utterback
Iown
Birmingham
Byers To Tell Of State Legislature Work at I O O F Meeting
State Senator Frank C. Byers will speak at Maine lodge No. 643 I O O F on Tuesday evening about the recently ended state legislature session. The 8 p.m. meeting at Maine lodge hall 838 First avenue East includes E U Tuck recounting his Ozarks trip.
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Frank C. Byers
Maine Lodge
First Avenue E
U. Tuck
Ozarks
Wagoner Arrested in Nebraska False Check Case
Sheriff Cahill arrested Elle Wagoner 26 for a false check charge from Gering Nebraska. Wagoner arrived from Texas to visit relatives and is held for Nebraska authorities.
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Maquoketa
Ronald Cahill
Elle Wagoner
Gering
Neb
Wagoner
Texas
Saturday Marks Mixed Scores Across Cities
A scrambled list of finals and scores shows Cedar Rapids 75 New York 54 while other lines reference Washington 52 El Paso 8 Miami, New Orleans 14, and Oakland or Omaha style results. The fragmentary text mentions teams, cities, and unclear numbers with several OCR errors.
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Cedar Rapids
New York
Washington
New Orleans
Bismarck
Oulu
Meerhenadiro
Onla City
Omaha
St. Louis
Williston
Denver
Lake City
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the Prudential Insurance Company of America
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Iowa News
Ivo Ines
F.D.R
Harlan Coal Area
U. S
Harlan
Ray Anderson
Gasette Farm
Mrs. Hepker
Cort’d
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