Cedar Rapids Area Birth Notices Report
A series of birth announcements from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas lists several newborns. Families include Mrs. Audrie Miller and a daughter born Oct 14 at Mercy hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Lange with a daughter Oct 14, Carl Knight and a son Oct 14, Milo Hodina with a son Oct 15, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hallquist with a son Oct 12 at St. Luke's hospital, plus a Cedar Rapids route 2 family with a daughter born Oct 13 at home.
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Mercy Hospital
Audrie Miller
A Avenue
Leslie Lange
Vernon Avenue
Carl Knight
Circle Drive
Milo Hodina
N Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Robert Hallquist
Twelfth Street
Charles Janko
Cedar Rapids
Notable Coe and Iowa Art Scene Updates From 1931
Ten to twenty year look back reports Louise Randolph elected battalion sponsor for Coe ROTC. Iowa artists gather for third annual dinner at Iowa State College featuring Edward B Rowan Grant Wood Marvin Cone Arnold Pyle Adrian Dornbush and Carl Flick. Herman Cushman Cedar Rapids figure dies at Walpace Wisconsin. Cedar Rapids Horse Shoe club names William Volz president and C A Fox secretary treasurer. H H Bennett Cedar Rapids elected treasurer of the Iowa Building and Loan League in Dubuque. The Lyman twins perform in The Speculators at Greene's Opera House. George E Crawford becomes president of the Coe College Choral Union with F E Miller as vice president Dorothy French secretary and Mrs M F Seeley treasurer. E E Ball named education professor at the University of Tennessee after prior post at the University of Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Randolph
Coe
Coe Reserve Officers Training Corps
Edward B. Rowan
Grant Wood
Marvin Cone
Arnold Pyle
Adrian Dornbush
Carl Flick
Iowa
Iowa State College
Herman Cushman
Cedar Rapids
Walpace
Wis
William Volz
Lyman Twins
Greene's
Opera House
George E. Crawford
Choral Union
Coe College
F. E. Miller
Dorothy French
M. F. Seeley
E. E. Ball
University of Tennessee
University of Texas
Smulekoff’s Building Remodel Planned With Major Investment
The Cedar Rapids Smulekoff’s Furniture occupies a building to be modernized in a joint project with Sinclair Realty. Expected expenditures total about 100000 dollars. Garrick Construction of Chicago will handle remodeling. Perkins Wheeler and Will of Chicago designed plans. Marks Brothers of Des Moines arranged the lease. The project aims to connect interior floor spaces and upgrade the exterior, with no decision yet on future use of the Smulekoff’s building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair Realty Company
Smulekoff's
Garrick Construction Company
Chicago
Perkins, Wheeler and Will
Marks Brothers of
Des Moines
Smulekoff’s Furniture Company
Cedar Rapids
Community Chest drive totals and luncheon remarks noted
The report lists sub divisions and chairmen with amounts raised against quotas. Lee Winterberg chairs service establishments. E M Pinney leads the professional division. Ervin F Stepanek heads public employes. James L Cooper acts as general chairman for the campaign presiding at the luncheon. Rev George L M Thalassides offered the prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Winterberg
E. M. Pinney
Ervin F. Stepanek
James L. Cooper
Community Chest
George L. M. Thalassides
St. John the Baptist
Medics Urge War Declaration Said by AMA Leader
Dr. Frank Lahey of Boston and president of the American Medical Association urged the United States to declare war immediately to gain moral political practical and psychic advantages from an open statement of our position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Frank Lahey
Boston
American Medical Association
United States
Kennedy visits Cedar Rapids on Collins Radio equipment deal
John A. Kennedy of Charleston West Virginia president and owner of the West Virginia Radio Network was in Cedar Rapids on a business trip to buy equipment from Collins Radio company. Kennedy a former Coe student visited college friends during his stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Kennedy
Charleston
West Virginia
Cedar Rapids
Collins Radio Company
Collings Company
Kennedy
Coe
RAF Drives Push in Europe Prolonged War Aid to Russia
London reports day and night RAF offensives force Germany to keep over half its fighter strength away from the Russian front. Despite bad weather, four British planes were lost in southern Germany. The air ministry touts heavy raids as aiding Russia on a scale few imagine while Berlin says British losses were light and German reporters claim a few British planes were shot down over the English Channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
RAF
Russia
R.A.F
Coastal Command
Norwegian
Frisian
Berlin
English Channel
Greer Submarine Incident Sparks War Debate in Senate
The Greer depth charged a submarine after an underwater contact at 1512 and the attack had an undetermined result. President Roosevelt used the event to push shoot on sight policies while isolationists contrast the navy report with neutrality act concerns and warn against war drift.
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Greer
Stark
Roosevelt
Navy
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
AFL Conventions Urge Action Against Racketeers
The sixty first annual AFL convention in Seattle urged affiliated unions to act against racketeers in their ranks. Resolutions call for amending constitutions to pursue prompt action and for central bodies to expel delegates convicted of serious wrongdoing, adopted without debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
American Federation of Labor
AFL Leaders Top Navy and Justice in Seattle Meeting
At Seattle, AFL metal trades chief John P. Frey attacked Admiral Freeman over union meddling in an internal dispute and called for a Justice Department anti trust probe. Welders threaten a slowdown at Puget Sound shipyards unless the convention backs their bid for an autonomous AFL welding union within eight crafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
American Federation of Labor
Navy
Anti-Trust
Department of Justice
John P. Frey
AFL
Metal Trades Department
C.S. Freeman
13Th Naval District
Frey
Francis Biddle
Thurman Arnold
Justice Department
Freeman
Puget Sound
Daniels Receives Naval Reserve Commission Ensign Rank
Robert L. Daniels 21 son of Mr and Mrs W Daniels 2111 Fifth Ave SE received his commission as an ensign in the naval reserve on October 7 after flight training at the Jacksonville Fla air station Preliminary training was at Glenview Ill He was on leave for Coe College homecoming activities in Cedar Rapids and also attended Purdue University He is visiting a sister in Columbia Mo and will return to Jacksonville Oct 27
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Daniels
Senate set for showdown over ship arming bill
Isolationist leaders plan a staged fight in the Senate as the house backs the measure. Eleven lawmakers met to map strategy including Wheeler Clark Walsh Taft Nye Vandenberg Capper La Follette. They seek open hearings and warn of full debate before a possible 80 to 100 vote passage before week’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Bennet C. Clark
D. Worth Clark
Ida
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
David I Walsh
Mass
Hiram Johnson
Calif
Robert A. Taft
Gerald P. Nye
N D
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Arthur Capper
Kan
Capper
Robert*m. la Follette
Wis
Woodrow Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Argentina and US seal trade pact amid fears of Axis expansion
The United States and Argentina formalized a three year trade agreement granting tariff concessions on 127 products and duty protections on 84 items. The pact aims to curb German influence in South America and fosters hemispheric unity as Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt hailed a peace oriented milestone.
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Argentina
United States
South America
Axis
Roosevelt
Raymond Castillo
Hull
Livestock Group Slams Argentina Tariff Pact
J Elmer Brock president of the American National Livestock Association denounces the tariff reduction on cattle products as a betrayal amid calls for increased domestic supply. He says buying Argentine goodwill should be nation funded, not shouldered by the cattle industry, and questions Wickard's push to market more cattle to curb surplus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaycee
Wyo
Argentina
J. Elmer Brock
American National Livestock Association
Brock
Wickard
Mayo Surgeon Reports Lower Brain Tumor Operation Fatality Rate
Dr. Alfred W. Adson, senior brain surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, said Tuesday night that the fatality rate in brain tumor operations, once considered virtually impossible, has been reduced to eight percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Alfred W. Adson
Mayo Clinic
Von Bernstorff's Widow Returns to Die in New Jersey
Countess Jeanne Von Bernstorff, widow of the German ambassador to the United States, arrives from Lisbon expressing fear of German security services and asks to be called Mrs. She declares she never wants to return to Europe or Germany and plans to spend her remaining years in New Jersey. Her husband, born Jeanne Luckeneyer on New York's 19th Street, is 73.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gestapo
Jeanne von Bernstorff
United States
Lisbon
Germany
Europe
von Bernstorff
Jeanne Luckeneyer
New York
19Th Street
Knot Hole Club invites Cedar Rapids boys to Coe football games
The Y M C A with Coe college sponsors the Knot Hole club for Cedar Rapids boys to see home football games. Membership costs five cents for three games October 18 Homecoming Oct 25 Coe versus Lawrence and November 8 Coe versus Knox. Cards available at Y M C A boys department.
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Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Coe
Knot Hole
Y. M. C. A. Boys Department
Cornell
Lawrence
Knox
Y” Boys
Local youths rescue efforts during cold water incident
Near tragedy occurred as two boys leaped into icy water to aid Davies after a man frantically shouted for help. One boy performed a strip tease before diving, but Davies reached shore safely while the other rescued by rowing with a stalled motor. Police could not identify the two rescuers. Davies suffered no injuries and planned to leave, noting the water was very cold. Herman planned to test his new motor when the water warms next summer.
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Davies
Herman
Thieves Hammer Night Break‑in At Boonville Lumber Yard
Thieves worked through the night at a Boonville lumber yard office smashing the safe and leaving empty handed after a failed attempt. A wallet with the day’s receipts remained untouched on the counter near the safe.
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Boonville
Dr. Van Horn to Retire Next Year as Supt of St. Luke's
Dr. J P Van Horn announced plans to retire as superintendent of St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids effective Oct 1 1942 at the board meeting. He has led the hospital since 1928 guiding debt reduction endowment gains and internal reorganization while expanding services and facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
J. P. van Horn
Upper Iowa University At
Fayette
van Horn
Morris Sanford
Mr. Sanford
Arthur Poe
St. Luke's
Harry A. Palmer
H. N. Boyson
F. L. Pearson
O.K
Rail unions accused of fostering monopoly by craft work rules
CHICAGO. C R Young, Illinois Central personnel manager, told Roosevelt’s fact finding board that monopoly labor practices are growing under railroad brotherhoods. He said current rules cause conflicting interpretations and awards, with unearned benefits and penalties to labor, and that unions aim to crystallize railroad work into narrowly specialized crafts restricted to designated employees.
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Chicago
C. R. Young
Illinois Central Railroad
Roosevelt
Young
Railroad Adjustment Board
Hospital Head Denies Convict Liquor Charges in Iowa Sanatorium
Dr. J. H. Peck, superintendent of the Oakdale sanatorium prison farm, denied trustees’ statements that officials supplied liquor to three convicts who helped drive a state car out of Iowa. He said a paroled convict, Chester Day, may have brought wine, but found no evidence supporting liquor claims.
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Iowa City
J. H. Peck
Oakedale Sanatorium
Richard Peck
Frank C Miller Former Cedar Rapids Resident Dies in Chicago
Obituary notice for Frank C. Miller former Cedar Rapids businessman and Chicago Liquid Carbonic manager dies at Edgewater Beach hospital Chicago after injuries from last Thursday automobile accident. Survived by widow Ruth Phelps Delta Louisiana mother two sisters brother in Delta. Funeral plans not announced. Miller was a Mason Shriner Illinois Athletic Club member and Medinah Country Club member in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Miller
Edgewater Beach Hospital
Chicago
Miller
Cedar Rapids
The
Liquid Carbonic Company
Ruth Phelps
Delta
Tom Phelps
Fourth Street
Shriner
Ilinois Athletic Club
Medinah Country Club
Death of Ned Ambrose Inskeep in Denver
Ned Ambrose Inskeep. brother of Miss Alice Inskeep. 200 Twenty second street NE. died suddenly in Denver Tuesday morning. Born Ottumwa January 6, 1872. former manager of the western division of American Optical Co. Survived by wife, a daughter, a granddaughter, two sisters Louise and Maria, and a brother Theodore of Ottumwa. Funeral services set in Denver Thursday.
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Ned Ambrose Inskeep
Alice Inskeep
Twenty-second Street
Denver
Colo
The
American Optical Company
Ottumwa
Louise
Maria
Theodore
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Hasek Cerny in Janeba home
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Hasek Cerny will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Janeba funeral home conducted by Theodore B Hlubucek and Praha Rebekah lodge with cremation committal. Rebekahs to meet at 1 30 p.m. at the funeral home to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Hasek Cerny
Janeba Funeral Home
Theodore B. Hlubucek
Praha Rebekah Lodge
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Daily Record
Dorothy Carr
Robert Dunlap
Orange City
Madelyn Hertel
Leonard 3. Cerny
Evelyn M. McCloud
Carl H. Larson
Emil Bartosh
Gladys Howland
Robert E. Erlacher
Louise Irene Thompson
Toebday
Washington
Tampa
Bronx City
New Orleans
Mana
Charles City
Os Angeles
Des Noines
San Francisco
Detroit
Bramarck
Davenport
Pittsburgh
Houston
Smulekoff
Navy Department
Gerald P Nge
N. D
Arnold
Naval Reserve
Craemer
U. S
Knot Hole Club
Craemer’s
Suit Shop
Wools
John B. Magee
Mount Vernon
Cornell College
E. T. Gough
Earle A. Baker
Cedar Falls
J. Ralph Magee
Frank Cole
F. T. Plank
Independence
Herbert Temple
Oelwein
Hugh Mossman
Vinton
West Branch
Elmer A. Johnson
O. A. Kearney
Frank C. Waples
Robert Little
S R. Hawkins
William Eckler
Iowa Hospital Association
Trinity Church
Methodist Church
Upper Iowa University
Hospital Board of Directors
Children’s Department
Oasao
Ned Ambrose
New Tumbleweed Jersey
Crepe Persuede
Crepe Mademoiselle
VDD
First Avenue
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