City pool at Ellis Park to open Friday at noon
Cedar Rapids opens its new municipal pool at Ellis Park this Friday noon. Features emphasize safety and sanitation with a monolithic concrete design, modern filtration, and separate areas for infants, non-swimmers, and swimmers. A June 22 dedication is planned by the Chamber of Commerce Young Men's Bureau.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis Park
Nevin Nichols
Bayground
Nstead
Young Men's Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Illuminated Pool Hours and Lighting for City Bath
The plan includes a modious lobby and twelve 25 foot electroliers with two 1,000 watt flood lamps each to light the pool. The pool will open daily from 12 noon to 10 pm on weekdays and 1 pm to 10 pm on Sundays. Free periods are set on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 am to noon after school closures.
Bonus Payments Ordered Returned To Firm
New York by the state supreme court Justice William T Collins ordered more than 2 million dollars in bonuses paid to officers of the American Tobacco Company be returned. The ruling follows a seven months suit by minority stockholders filed in 1938 over allegedly erroneous bonuses from 1912 to 1938. George Washington Hill and four vice presidents must repay about 2.168 million dollars, with Hill responsible for roughly a third. Others ordered to refund include Paul M Hahn Vincent Riggio Charles F Retey and George Washington Hill junior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
American Tobacco Company
George Washington Hill
State Supreme Court
William T Collins
Hill
Paul M. Hahn
Vincent Riggio
Charles F. Retey
Estate of John Mentzer Deceased hearing on sale of Cedar Rapids lot
In the Linn County Iowa district court the executor seeks authority to accept an offer to purchase Lot 22 Block 3 Young's First Addition Cedar Rapids Iowa. A hearing will be at the Cedar Rapids courthouse on a date in June 1941. Creditors and heirs are notified to appear if desired. Earl North is executor and attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mentzer
Mie District Court
Linn County
Iowa
Charles W Mentzer
Edna M Howard Grace Hense
Glen E. Mentzer
Joseph Mentzer
Claude E. Mentzer
Clayton Mentzer
Dorothy Mentzer
Marley
Elin Cargin
Dora Cargin
Marcia Caregin
Young
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Court House
Inflate
Earl
North
Warship Lost At Crete Commanded By King's Cousin
London report says the British destroyer Kelly, sunk in the Battle of Crete, was commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten cousin of King George VI. Mountbatten led the ship to a scarred wartime record after being honored earlier for gallantry aboard a destroyer.
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Crete
London
Kelly
Lord Louis Mountbatten
George VI
Admiralty
Mountbatten
Kells
North Sea
Kelly Restored and Ready for Service by December
By last December the Kelly was repaired and ready for service. The note confirms completion of repairs and readiness for operation.
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Kelly
Intern In Hospital Has Best Right To Claim Aching Feet
CHICAGO AP A hospital intern may have a better right than a cop on a beat to complain about his aching dogs Dr Harold L Smiley secretary of the Illinois Association of Chir opody attached pedometers to men and women in different occupations and found these results. A hospital intern walks farther than any other worker averaging 18 miles a day. The policeman on a beat travels about 14 miles A chorus girl dances and walks an average of four and half miles in each show A housewife on a downtown shopping trip may walk as far as eight and a half miles. A salesman who makes calls on foot covers nearly 10 miles a day for a yearly average of 3 500 miles. Stenographers and other office girls do better than eight miles a day for an average of 43 miles in a working week and the railroad conductor a product of the machine agewalks five to 10 miles in going from car to car on each trip.
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Chicago
Harold L. Smiley
Illinois Association of Chiropody
Marmola Tablets Offer Easy Weight Loss Claim
Marmola Tablets promise slimmer faces and figures without dieting or hard exercise. The ad notes over thirty years in distribution, twenty million boxes sold, and targets adults with weight caused by hypothyroidism, advising medical consultation and purchase from a druggist.
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H. R. Green
Garzette
Life Poards
Ford
Rea
NEA Service, Inc
Louie
Americas
Washington
America
Food and Nutrition Committee
National Research Council
Siser
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