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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1934
Page
7
Tony Sedlacek contacted police at 2 am Friday to report a holdup attempt in his rear yard. The thief, believing money was in the house after Sedlacek left for a moment, fled when Sedlacek slipped out to call police. The suspect wore a black fireman's cap brown sweater and blue overalls and spoke broken English.
Chicago police report the bodies of Harry Fxyail, 52, and Frank Schieble, 34, were recovered Friday from the Oakley building wreckage where a 40,000 gallon water tank collapsed, killing five men earlier in the week.
Five Coe college men forming the Coe Collegians dance orchestra will tour Europe for 48 days aboard the Berengaria and the Caledonia. They sail from New York June 16, visit France Belgium Germany and the British Isles, and return August 8 to New York. Members include Richard Preston DeWayne Moore Walter Mechal Willard Larson and Duane Peterson with Vesely Daehler connections noted.
The Coe college military band directed by Stanley Vesely will perform the Memorial Sunday concert Sunday at 8 a.m. at St Pauls Methodist church. The program features eleven patriotic sacred and classical numbers open to the public with no admission fee and invitations sent to veterans and patriotic groups.
Edgewood Memorial Sunday services will be in the Methodist church with Rev F O Winslow delivering the sermon It is a union service The Memorial day program at the cemetery includes invocation by Rev J P Hamill W R C service at the Soldier's monument The Unknown by George Hagensick music by male quartet address by Rev F O Winslow benediction by Rev T R Gray Flags and wreaths will be placed on fifty nine veterans graves led by F E Sharp of Elkader former Edgewood resident and WWI veteran Marengo American Legion pool opens Saturday for the 1934 season
M. H. Morrison announces a new billing plan by Northwestern Bell in Cedar Rapids dividing subscribers into ten groups with bills dated the first, tenth, or nineteenth of each month. First under the plan are June 1 for numbers 4000–9999, June 10 for 92-0000 to 2-4999, and June 19 for 2-5000 and 3-1000 or higher.
The charge names Roland White head lifeguard Vette Kell assistant lifeguard David Carlton caretaker and substitute lifeguard Mrs Maude Bishop cashier and Irene Bishop assistant cashier. All but Mrs Bishop are Red Cross lifesavers.
The Chicago and North Western Railway earned first place in the annual safety contest among class A railroads at a Chicago dinner. G. B. Vilas, its general manager, received the plaque marking the fourth straight year leading in employe safety. In 1933 the railway reported five fatally hurt and 89 injuries, down from 15 fatally hurt and 101 injuries in 1932.
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