Vanderbilt Heiress Custody Fight Draws Celebrities
Hollywood figures join the Gloria Vanderbilt custody battle as Constance Bennett offers to fly to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt. The Marchioness of Milford Haven and other kin prepare to defend Vanderbilt, while Mrs. Vanderbilt plans a public court fight with ongoing testimony and possible private sessions.
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New York
INS
Hollywood
Gloria Vanderbilt
Constance Bennett
Marquis
Vanderbilt
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Reginald Vanderbilt
Harry Payne Whitney
Gloria
Supreme Court
John F. Carew
Rickenbacker envisions sun powered wars and air battles
Col Eddie Rickenbacker told the federal aviation commission that future wars could burn cities with sun focused by giant aircraft sensors. He described aerial artillery, blind flying needs, and armies moved by huge transports. He also urged Pacific air links with Japan and a ten year civilian aviation plan.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Commission
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
United States
Japan
Pacific
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
New Zealand
City Briefs And Personals Roundup
A Cedar Rapids page features local notices including a 8 car CCC train passing through the Rock Island line, a Hi Y meeting at the YMCA with Fred Winter speaking, and a First Evangelical church bazaar Friday at 7 30. Also reports a boy fracturing a left arm after a fall from a tree and a cow causing a left ankle fracture for Mrs Blair.
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CCC
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Two Harbors
Minn
Mound City
Washington
Five Deputies Held On Homicide Charge In Wool Mill Riot
Five deputy sheriffs were held under guard in Norristown after rioting at Bridgeport near Philadelphia. One man was killed and many injured as police used tear gas and bullets to disperse a crowd of 3,000 workers angered by the fatal shooting of Ellwood Quirk. The deputies surrendered under promise of safe hearing in Norristown.
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Norristown
Bridgeport
James Lees and Sons
Ellwood Quirk
Lees Mill
Quirk
Ward Week Sales Event Observed at Cedar Rapids Ward Store
The Cedar Rapids Ward store marks Ward Week an annual sales event to be observed across all 489 stores in 46 states. M J Ellis new local manager says extensive preparations were made months ahead for the observance with special values advertised in The Gazette.
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Ward
Montgomery Ward
Cedar Rapids
M. J. Ellis
Ward's
Radio Number Leads To Player's Arrest
Toronto detective overheard a radio announcer predicting a solo-Craff Hamilton act at the organ and rushed to arrest Hamilton on a fraud charge for obtaining board and lodging. The detective said he had been seeking the suspect all week.
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Toronto
Ont
Richardson
Craff Hamilton
Hamilton
Morgenthau Survey Set to Shape Tax and Bank Policies
Washington reports Secretary Morgenthau will base forthcoming tax and banking policy recommendations on a fourteen man brain trust survey now completed. The group hints at stronger government control over banking and broader sales tax measures, with despite changes in rates, tax method revisions likely to occur.
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Washington
Congress
Morgenthau
Omaha Big Shot Racketeer Slain In Home Ambush
Clarence Hanfelt, a prominent Omaha underworld figure tied to the slot machine racket and Prohibition liquor chains, was shot dead as he entered his home in the early hours. Police said the killer waited in shrubbery for hours, fired two shotgun slugs to the head, and fled.
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Omaha
Clarence Hanfelt
Hanfelt
Nebraska
Hanselt
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Mrs. Vanderbilt
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Paris
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California
Frank H. Mallie
Bazaar
Sale
First Evangelical Church
Robert Shufelt
St. Luke's Hospital
H. M. Gage
Coe College
High Twelve Club
Hotel Roosevelt
First Evangelical Church Bazaar
Adv
W. W. Blair
Blair’s Ferry Road
Mt. Vernon
Weather Review
Mount Vernon
Leonard Hines
F. P. Hines
Seventeenth Street
Hines
Cornell College
Chicago
Wilson and Company
Rude Auto Co
William Rosen
William Z. Rosen
School of Law
University of Colorado
Law Council
City
Cecil R. Augustine
Grant High School
B. H. McKeely
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
First Avenue NE
Gilmore
R. F Judson
Cedar Rapids First
Howard White
Jeffersonville
Robert Pickerton
Cheltenham
Joseph Smith
Harry Hiltebeide
Schwenkville
Wilbur Parker
Abington
Crosley
K.c
A. W. Lowhoy
Model
Woodrow
Westinghouse
Briggs-Stratton Equipped
Standard Tire Company
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