Coe Commencement Program Outlined
Coe college prepares for its sixtieth commencement with class day ceremonies June 6 at 3 p.m. and the graduation service June 9 at 9:30 a.m. in Sinclair Memorial chapel. Dr. Robert Glass Cleland will speak on Does Justice Triumph in the End. An organ concert, band performance, and president’s reception cap June 6 activities.
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Coe College
T. M. Sinclair Memorial
Robert Glass Cleland
Occidental College
Los Angeles
Voorhees Quadrangle
Harry M. Gage
Coe
Lindenwood College For Girls
St. Charles
Cedar Rapids
Myron L. Koenig
Stewart Memorial Library
International Relations Club
Gage
Washington High Reunion Bids Reach Africa for Class of 1916
Invitations have been sent to members of the Washington high school graduating class of 1916 for a silver anniversary reunion on May 26 at the Elks club. Teachers from that era are invited. About 150 in the class. Ina E. Benedict is the farthest known member, in Africa. The committee notes possible undelivered invitations but all will be welcome.
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Africa
Washington High School
Elks Club
Ina E. Benedict
E. H. Gundling
Ida Goldberg
Milo A. Chehak
E. E. Shenefelt
Harry J. Chadima
Robert Safely
Eastern Iowans Place In Regional Music Contests
Winners in the regional high school music contest include Lee Smith Waukon with two trombone awards Royal Burkhardt Montezuma two Carmen Ingwersen Wyoming two Richard Brabbitt Cedar Rapids two Dorothy Maley Stanley two and Euphonium baritone Chester Ehrenberger Cedar Rapids two Margaret Huebner Postville one Ville Williamsburg two Clarinet quartet Cedar Rapids Franklin one Iowa City one Postville level entries note class C girls glee club Postville one place in competitions across multiple instruments and ensembles.
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St, Paul
Iowa
Lee Smith
Waukon
Royal Burkhardt
Montezuma
Carmen Ingwersen
Wyoming
Cornet
Richard Brabbit
Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Maley
Stanley
Postville
Chester Ehrenberger
Margaret Huebner
Williamsburg
Franklin
Iowa City
Life Saving Course Opens At YMCA Pool
The YMCA announces a life saving course starting 7 p.m. Monday at the YMCA pool. Leo Baughman will open the session in the boys lobby and introduce instructors Dawson Grim Bob Gibson John Stark Beulah Detwiler Chuck Gibson and Gurney Day. Enrollment is open through 7 p.m. Monday with the listed recruits already enrolled.
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Jane Alexander
Hamilton Bell
Junior Mikas
Lucille Losh
Kenneth Marsh
Ray Rompot
Betty Kutchera
Mark Funnicuit
Clifford Geiger
David McGuire
Tony Vyhnanek
Joe Mikulas
Ruth Garber
Jerry Rosenberger
Hal Hale
Jack North
Bob Mathes
Jim Smith
Gene Moylan
George Shimek
Bob Drake
Earl McAnnally
Leo Beneschek
Jim Stover
Fred Berry
L. P. Lyman
Frank Howland
John Hoffman
Mark Twain Friends To Round Out Works
Rice Twain's physician hosted a New York City visit at Riverdale inviting Mark Twain for a long talk on tales and silences. Ade recalled Twain's grave, restrained manner and masterful suspense in delivery with May afternoon stories and a 1908 letter to Howells later seen in a 193? booklet.
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Mark Twain
Rice
Twain
New York City
Riverdale
Ade
Kipling
William Dean Howells
Brownell
Hidden Middle East Struggle Shapes World War II Alignments
Disputes over Middle East influence surface as Hitler Stalin talks timidly drift toward division of spheres. Hess visit to Britain triggers party responses while propaganda errors surface. Africa sees heavy fighting as British and Axis forces clash along the Egyptian Libyan frontier. Royal Air Force conducts far flung raids into Greece Libya Germany France and Ethiopia as the war widens.
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Turkey
United States
Britain
Paris
Vichy
Dakar
Martinique
Red Sea
Middle Eastern
Rudolf Hess
Labor Party
London
Hess
British Communist Party
Syria
Iraq
Africa
Berlin
Rome
Salum
Fort Capuzzo
Royal Air Force
Greece
Libya
Germany
Ethiopia
Franklin High Stages Our Town With Mature Humor
Franklin high seniors presented Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with a large cast and minimal scenery. Robert Thacker, George Ross, and Robert Jones led the cast with strong performances and sharp comic timing. Marg aret Allen and Patricia Smith received top female honors as the Gibbs and Emily Webb.
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Franklin High School
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
Robert Thacker
George Ross
Robert Jones
George Gibbs
John Colman
Willard
Margaret Allen
Margaret Higdon
Deaths 77 Vemmamaaan andeneaseneecgar
Funeral services for Charlotte Anne Barron set for 10 30 a m Monday at St Patrick s with Rev D J Lenihan officiating Burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery remains to be moved from Tea Henner funeral home to 1116 Tenth Street NW at 1 30 Sunday with rosary at 8 p m The Sanctuc ary guild of St Wenceslaus church to recite rosary Sunday at 7 p m Pallbearers listed including Kadlec and Petska names Friends may call at the funeral home.
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St. Patrick’s Church
D. J. Lenihan
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Teahen
Tenth Street NW
John J. Kadlec
Kuba
St. Wenceslaus Church
Joseph Surovy
St. John’s Cemetery
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Leonard Chadima
Leo Trachta
Harry James
Lester Kadlec
Richard and
Leonard Petska
Taft Says War or Peace Is Nation’s Sole Issue
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio argued that the cry for men will follow the call for convoys and that the central question facing the nation is war or peace. He spoke Saturday night in Washington, stating this is the only issue now before Americans.
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Washington
INS
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Quadruplets Born Near Fairview With Three Deaths
In Horton Kansas three of the quadruplets born to Mrs. Joseph Baker died, two girls and a boy. The surviving fourth baby, a two and a half pound boy, is in an incubator at Horton Hospital. The birth occurred prematurely at the farm home.
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Horton, Kan
Joseph Baker
Fairview
Kan
Horton Hospital
Funeral rites set for Mrs. Frances Kephart
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Kephart, former Cedar Rapids resident now of Mitchellville and Los Angeles California, will be at Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Monday. Dr. Robert Little will conduct. Burial in Oaks Hill cemetery. Friends may visit at the chapel.
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Frances Kephart
Cedar Rapids
Mitchellville
Los Angeles
Calif
Turner Chapel
Robert Little
Oaks Hill Cemetery
Explosion Hits Cooper Products Plant in Portland
An explosion at the Cooper Products agricultural chemical plant in Portland Saturday caused no injuries. Only the blast was reported with no damage to personnel.
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Portland, Ore
Ins
Cooper Products Company
Portland
Navy Opens Emergency Reserve Recruiting At 35 000 Goal
The navy announced an emergency reserve recruiting drive to enlist 35 000 men in six weeks at 300 stations nationwide. Applicants aged 17 to 50 may join the naval reserve and go on active duty during the emergency, with pay from 21 dollars as apprentice seaman to 99 dollars as chief petty officer.
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Naval Reserve
Cedar Rapids
Navy
Towns town events and services listed in city briefs
City briefs outline meetings for Townsend club No 3 and Cub pack 26 at local rooms and Van Buren school. A chicken supper hosted by Townsend clubs Nos 2 and 4 is planned at the Gas company Glow room. The Sanctuary Guild meets after May devotions. a WCTU education institute will be held at the YWCA for teachers.
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Townsend Club No. 3
Superior Court Room
Cub Pack
van Buren School
Chester Dougherty
Townsend
Young Democrats Leaders Travel to State Convention
Marvin Burkholder second vice president of the Iowa Young Democrats and Frank McCarthy president of Linn county join the state young democratic convention in Des Moines today and tomorrow at the Fort Des Moines hotel.
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Marvin Burkholder
Iowa Young Democrats
Frank McCarthy
Linn County
Des Moines
Young Democratic Convention
Fort Des Moines
Hindus Books Added to Bohemian Reading Society Library
Maurice Hindus works We Shall Live Again and To Sing With the Angels join the Bohemian Reading Society library collection and may be borrowed Saturdays after 7 p.m. or Sundays between 9 and 12 a.m.
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Maurice Hindus
Czechoslovakia
Bohemian Reading Society
Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Meet Speaker A L Taylor
The Cedar Rapids Association of Life Underwriters meets at 12 10 p m Monday at the Montrose hotel with A L Taylor secretary of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce as speaker on Salesmanship A group picture will be taken and president Wyatt E Maupin asks all members to be present
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Cedar Rapids Association of Life Underwriters
Montrose Hotel
A. L. Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce Names Health and Fire Prevention Committees
Harold J. Rowe announces the Chamber of Commerce health committee to be led by Dr. B. J. Moon with Arthur Poe Dr. David E. Beardsley and Dr. B. L. Knight as members. Fire prevention chairman A. C. Hoblitzell is joined by Lee Winterberg Emil Kohout L. D. Burkhalter Jr Orrie S. Imes and Frank Powers. The retail merchants bureau special activities committee names M. E. Feiden as chairman with Thomas V. Brady Carl Holstrom Carl Helming Wayne Ross E. J. DeVelin Marshall H. Brebner and Earl Nichols as members.
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Chamber of Commerce
Harold J. Rowe
Chamber
B. J. Moon
Arthur Poe
David E. Beardsley
B. L. Knight
A. C. Hoblitzell
Lee Winterberg
Emil Kohout
L. D. Burkhalter
Orrie S. Imes
Frank Powers
Retail Merchants Bureau
M. E. Feiden
Thomas V. Brady
Carl Holstrom
Carl Helming
Wayne Ross
E. J. DeVelin
Marshall H. Brebner
Earl Nichols
Archbishop Beckman Confirms Nearly 1 000 in Cedar Rapids
Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman presides over general confirmations in four Cedar Rapids parishes this weekend. About 923 Catholics, including 304 at Immaculate Conception and 175 at St Matthew's, receive the sacrament in Ceremonies marking the first large general confirmation here since 1935. The list for Immaculate Conception is published. St Wenceslaus and two other parishes will release their lists later. St Ludmila’s parish does not participate this time.
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Francis Joseph Beckman
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
St. Ludmila’s
St. Wenceslaus
Immaculate Conception
St. Patrick’s
St. Matthew’s
St. Berchman's Seminary
Marion
Archbishop Beckman
Dr. Berger and Three Coe Students to Attend Ames Meeting
Dr. David I. Berger head of the Coe Bible department and dean of the chapel along with Mrs. Berger and three Coe students Lyle Knaupp of Cedar Rapids and Marian Johnson prepare to attend an Ames meeting.
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David I. Berger
Coe Bible Department
Berger
Coe
Lyle Knaupp
Cedar Rapids
Marian Johnson
Iowa Christian conference to explore campus fellowships
Oak Park Illinois and River Forest Illinois students will attend the Iowa Christian student conference at Iowa State College in Ames on Monday. The event aims to develop Christian student fellowships on Iowa campuses with R H Edwin Espy as the outstanding speaker and Dr Berger scheduled to speak at 3 30 p m on From This Conference To Your Campus.
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Oak Park
Ill
Jack Williams
River Forest
Iowa Christian
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
R. H. Edwin Espy
Berger
Coe College Vesper Choir Opera Concert Tuesday
The Coe College music department presents an operatic program by the vesper choir in the chapel at 8 15 p m on Tuesday admission is free Grace Huddle Lockhoff J Forrest West and Harold Reeves headline soloists with Eleanor Taylor conducting and Martha Leksa at the piano The program spans seven composers and features Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana with off stage effects by the choir directed by Paul S Ray.
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Coe College Music Department
Vesper Choir
Grace Huddle Lockhoff
J. Forrest West
Grinnell College
Harold Reeves
Cedar Rapids
West
Maschera
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Gluck
Mozart
Bizet
Massenet
Leoncavallo
Mascagni
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Coe Music Department
Martha Leksa
Cae
Cavalleri Rusticana
Mescagni
Paul S. Ray
A Cappella
Coe College
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