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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1939
Page
3
Lois Evelyn Strait arrived on November 1 1918 near Center Point as news spread that the Armistice would end fighting. Her father Benjamin Strait returned with word peace and the family celebrated a double blessing alongside veterans and a nation hopeful for a peaceful future.
Armis tice day at the treasury reveals a recomputation showing European nations still owe the United States 14 497 161 340 22 in principal and interest. Nations named include Great Britain France Italy Germany Armenia Belgium Czechoslovakia Estonia Finland Austria Greece Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Russia and Yugoslavia with specific amounts listed.
Ronald Terry, 30, of Elmira N Y, exhausted after five days in dense snow laden Adirondack woods, was located Saturday by a search party three miles from his entry point.
In Memphis a 10 year old, Lonzo Dodson, was killed after a man in a car asked him to blow into the exhaust pipe. Lonzo complied and his clothing caught fire when the car backfired. Police found no trace of the stranger and offered no explanation for the request.
Lois Evelyn Strait, 21, widens role from student to homemaker on the John Roup farm near Urbana after marriage. Her parents recall Caldwell No. 7 school era on Center Point Palo road, Linn County roots, Benton line. The piece frames early World War II era anxieties and hopes of a generation facing possible U.S. involvement.
Robert Shaw, state chairman of the American Legion committee on national defense and a colonel in the officers reserve, will address the Hanford post meeting in the armory Tuesday night at 8. A short entertainment program will follow the address.
The Musketeer drum and bugle corps, which placed third at the national junior contest in Boston, will compete next August in Los Angeles with a 48 piece team. Director Jack Fromm announced openings for boys ages 10 to 18. Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at Grace Episcopal church.
Berlin report states Leon Bartoszewski former mayor of Blomberg was executed as the man responsible for Blomberg's Bloody Sunday. DNB News Agency says he ordered mistreatment of the German minority on the Sunday before Germany's invasion of Poland.
Robert Kennedy, 16,Immaculate Conception junior and son of Ralph Kennedy, holds the Cedar Rapids checkers crown and plays mail games with fans as distant as Scotland. He defends his title against 16 club members at the YMCA, stressing patience, concentration, and quiet play.
The article profiles a Cedar Rapids youth who survived an elimination tournament two days after his February birthday to win the city checker championship. He notes checkers build memory and strategy and prefers mind training over sports, enjoying piano in leisure.
Bob Kennedy excels at mathematics, loves checker puzzles, and plays checkers several times weekly with friends and via mail. He exchanges cards with a Scots kingpin and chats with Logan Stingley, a National Oats worker, while his father serves as checker club secretary.
Britain's millionaires increased in the 1936 37 year, the inland revenue commissioners report shows. The number with incomes over $200 000 rose from 529 to 539 while total millionaires grew by ten.
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